of the foreign postage received is to be stated on the letter in red. If the letter is unpaid, the United States postage, in black, is to be stated.

11. Dead-Letter Office.*

The number of dead letters returned quarterly is estimated at 450,000. In the disposition of these letters five clerks are engaged. One compares the letters with the dead-letter bills returned by the postmasters; two then open the letters and hand over those containing articles of value to two other clerks, who register and send them out to postmasters to be delivered to the right owners. The dead letters not containing inclosures of value are packed, and burned at the end of each quarter under the inspection of one of the clerks. The money, consisting usually of bank paper, is converted and deposited with the funds of the department, subject to future claims. From the reorganization of the department in 1836 to the 30th June, 1847, there was deposited the sum of $10,329.28, accruing from the conversion of unclaimed money and the sale of miscellaneous articles. 12. Dead Letters containing Money registered and sent out for Delivery during the two Years ending June 30, 1847.

13. Dead Letters containing other Articles than Money registered and sent out for Delivery to the Writers or Owners during the two Years ending June 30, 1847.

The other articles were 268 deeds or papers relating to land titles; 11 land certificates; 6 articles of agreement; 7 pension papers; 26 passage certificates; 11 patent papers; 96 court papers; 5 policies of insurance; 25 certificates of stock; 45 miscellaneous packages; and receipts amounting to $876.65. The number of letters sent out was 2,158; number of receipts received for letters delivered, 1,799; number of letters returned unclaimed, 308; number not returned, 541.

*This office is under the immediate superintendence of John Marron, Esq., Third Assistant Postmaster-General.

X. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

[From a Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, December 8, 1847.]

1. Statement of Duties, Revenues, and Public Expenditures during the Fiscal Years ending June 30, 1846, and June 30, 1847.

The receipts into the Treasury were as follows:

From customs, viz : —

During the first quarter,
During the second quarter,
During the third quarter,
During the fourth quarter,

Total customs,

From sales of public lands,
From miscellaneous sources,

Total receipts, exclusive of loans, &c.,
Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1845 and '46,
Total, exclusive of loans,

Avails of Treasury-notes issued under act of
July 22, 1846, less $1,931,000 funded,
Avails of Treasury-notes, issued under act of
Jan. 28, 1847, less $1,221,850 funded,
Avails of loan under act of July 22, 1846,

Year ending

June 30, 1846.

Year ending June 30, 1847.

$8,861,932.14 $6,153,826.58

4,192,790.77 3,641,192.22

7,357,192.51 6,319,041.48

6,300,752.45 7,633,804.38 26,712,667.87 23,747,864.66 2,694,452.48 2,498,355 20 92,126.71 100,570.51 29,499,247.06 26,346,790.37 7,658,306.22 9,126,439.08 37,157,553.28 35,473,229.45

5,506,800.00

11,149,300.00

4,888,149.45

Avails of loan under act of Jan. 28, 1847, less $40,350, funded.

4,134,950.00

25,679,199.45

61,152,428.90

Total under direction of the Navy Dep't, 6,450,862.70 7,931,633.68

Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1846 and '47, 9,126,439.08 1,701,251.25

2. Statement of Duties, Revenues, and Public Expenditures for the 1st Quarter of the Fiscal Year from the 1st of July to the 30th of September, 1847 (agreeably to warrants issued, exclusive of trust funds).

From Customs,

Sales of public lands,

RECEIPTS.

Miscellaneous and incidental sources,

Treasury-notes issued under act of 23d of July, 1846,

66

66

66 act of 28th Jan., 1847,

Loan of July 22, 1846,

Loan of Jan. 28, 1847,

Army proper, &c.,

8,717,583.60

Fortifications, ordnance, arming militia, &c.,

577,980.67

Indian department,

691,795.05

Pensions,

583,332.36

Naval establishment,

2,384,805.45

Redemption of Treasury-notes, and interest,

2,385,329.63

Redemption of 3 per cent. stock,

257.04

Reimbursed registered debt,

234.17

Interest on public debt,

11,196.28

Total,

$16,469,194.69

3. Statement of the Debt of the United States on the 1st of December, 1847.

Of the principal and interest of the old funded and unfund

Certificates of the Mississippi stock,

Debt of the corporate cities of the District of Columbia,
Outstanding Treasury-notes of issues of 1837 to 1843,

Loan of 1847 at 6 per cent. (less notes funded issued before
1845),

Five per cent. stock issued in payment of Mexican indemnity,
Military bounty land, at 6 per cent., per act of Feb. 11, 1847,
Outstanding Treasury-notes per act of 22d of July, 1846,
66 per act of 28th of Jan., 1847,