No. 19. Comparative statement of the value of stamps and stamped envelopes issued during the last three years. Statement of money letters received for the year ending June 30, 1862. The number of letters received containing money, which were registered and sent out for delivery to their owners during the year ending June 30, 1862, was 10,475, containing $46,538 89; being 105 letters and $7,027 01 less than for the year ending June 30, 1861 The increased number of money letters outstanding is attributable to the disturbed state of the mails in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Western Virginia. It may be well to state that at least one-quarter part of the valuable letters have to be sent out twice before they are delivered, and not unfrequently some are sent three to four times before they reach their owners. VOL. IV -13 No. 21.-Statement of "minor dead letters" containing papers of value other than money registered and sent out to the writers or owners thereof, from the 1st of July, 1861, to the 1st of July, 1862. 1 Bills of exchange, drafts and letters of credit, bonds and Deeds, mortgages, conveyances, and land titles... Miscellaneous papers.. Reasons assigned for the non-delivery of letters origi- Held for postage.. Misdirected... Mails suspended. Refused.. Name of post office omitted.. Missent...... 9.763 8,973 86 $2,189, 450 463 161 95 269 1,050 1, 402 326 26 86 64 27 6,782 Person addressed deceased.. Not called for, not known, and cannot be found.. Postage charged on minor dead letters delivered to the writers or owners thereof from the 1st of February to the 1st of November, 1862. Number of letters... Postage on same.. 6,261 $668 18 No. 22.-Causes of the non-delivery of 21,493 valuable letters. No. 23.-Reasons assigned for the return to the department of 139,580 letters sent out for delivery to the writers. No. 24.-Statement of the foreign department of the dead letter office, of dead letters returned to foreign countries during the fiscal year 1861-'62. No. 25.-Statement of dead letters received from foreign countries during the fiscal year 1861-'62. Statement showing postal revenue and expenditures of the United States, in toto and per capita, according to population, at eight successive decades, from 1790 to 1862, inclusive.. NOTE.-The population from 1851 to 1862, excepting the year 1860, is estimated by the standard ratio of increase. AUDITOR'S REPORT. No. 28. OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR OF THE TREASURY SIR: With regard to the financial affairs of the Post Office Department, and the operations of this bureau, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862, as exhibited by the books and accounts of this.office, I have the honor to submit the following report: The subjoined tabular statements exhibit, in detail, the nature and extent of the receipts and expenditures of the department, and the results of our postal intercourse with foreign nations. The tabular statement numbered 1 exhibits the receipts of the department under their several heads. That numbered 2 exhibits the expenditures under their several heads. That numbered 3 exhibits the postal receipts and expenditures in the several States and Territories. That numbered 4 shows the number of letters, circulars, newspapers, and pamphlets received and delivered by carriers, and the amount received and paid out for carriage in the cities named therein. That numbered 5 shows the amount of letter postage on British mails received in and sent from the United States. That numbered 6 shows the amount of letter postage on Prussian mails received in and sent from the United States. That numbered 7 shows the amount of letter postage on French mails received in and sent from the United States. That numbered 8 shows the amount of letter postage on Belgian mails received in and sent from the United States. That numbered 9 shows the amount of letter postage on Bremen mails received in and sent from the United States. That numbered 10 shows the amount of letter postage on Hamburg mails received in and sent from the United States. That numbered 11 shows the number of letters and newspapers exchanged between the United States and the United Kingdom, in British mails. That numbered 12 shows the number of letters and newspapers exchanged between the United States and the kingdom of Prussia, in closed mails. That numbered 13 shows the number of letters and newspapers exchanged between the United States and France. That numbered 14 shows the number of letters and newspapers exchanged between the United States and Belgium. That numbered 15 shows the number of letters and newspapers exchanged between the United States and Bremen. That numbered 16 shows the number of letters and newspapers exchanged between the United States and Hamburg. That numbered 17 exhibits the revenue to the United States, also to the United States Post Office Department, by Cunard line. That numbered 18 exhibits the closed mail account. That numbered 19 exhibits the receipts and disbursements in closed mails between the United States and Prussia. That numbered 20 exhibits a statement of letters and newspapers, with the several postages, conveyed by various lines of ocean steamers. That numbered 21 exhibits the amount of postages on mails exchanged between the United States and the British provinces. |