Below's shown the amount of tonnage employed in the cod and mackerei íshenes, with the per centum of each State. This shows a slight increase during the year. The tonnage employed in the whale-fisheries is given below: Of the above over 87.5 per cent. belongs at New Bedford. Faller tables, showing the various classes of tonnage, will be found in the appendix to this report. DIVISION OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES—J. H. BEATTY, CHIEF OF DIVISION. The following statement exhibits the work of this division for the year ending June 30, 1875: The number of warrants registered during the year for civil, diplomatic, misceliness, internal revenue, and public debt expenditures and repayments In the preceding year........... Decrease..... The number of warrants registered for receipts from customs, lands, internal rereane, direct tax, and miscellaneous sources was..... In the preceding year.... Increase..... The number of warrants registered for payments and repayments in the War, In the preceding year.......... Increase... The number of drafts registered was... In the preceding year........ Increase.... 22,250 24,548 2,289 13, 156 11,946 1,210 12,564 12, 249 315 40,046 641 The number of journal pages required for the entry of accounts relating to the civil, diplomatic, internal-revenue, miscellaneous, and public-debt receipts and expenditures was..... In the preceding year...... Increase..... The number of certificates furnished for settlement of accounts was...... 14,972 11,302 Increase..... 3,670 23,538 26,579 3,041 The number of accounts received from the First and Fifth Auditors and Commissioner of the General Land-Office was...... In the preceding year.................. Decrease.... In the appendix will be found a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Government, as required by the standing order of the House of Representatives of December 30, 1791, and section 237 of the Revised Statutes; also statements of the amount of money expended and number of persons employed, and the occupation and salary of each person, at each custom-house, as required by section 258 of the Revised Statutes. I have the honor to remain, with great respect, your obedient servant, JOHN ALLISON, Hon. B. H. BRISTOW, Register. Secretary of the Treasury. REPORT OF THE SOLICITOR OF THE TREASURY. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR OF THE TREASURY, Washington, D. C., November 18, 1875. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith seven tabular statements, exhibiting the amount, character, and results of the litigation, under the direction of this Office, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, so far as the same are shown by the reports received from the United States attorneys for the several districts. These tables embrace respectively 1. Suits on custom-house bonds. 2. Suits on transcripts of accounts of defaulting public officers, excepting those of the Post-Office Department, adjusted by the accountingofficers of the Treasury Department. 3. Post-Office suits, embracing those against officers of the Post-Office Department, and cases of fines, penalties, and forfeitures for violation of the postal laws. 4. Suits for the recovery of fines, penalties, and forfeitures under the customs-revenue and navigation-laws. 5. Suits against collectors of customs, and other agents of the Government, for refund of duties and acts done in the line of their official duty. 6. Suits in which the United States is interested, not embraced in the other classes. 7. A general summary or abstract of all the other tables. An examination of this summary will show that the whole number of suits commenced within the year was 2,734, of which— Of the whole number of suits brought, 653 were decided in favor of the United States; 12 were adversely decided; 537 were settled and dismissed; in 5, penalties were remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury; leaving 1,527 still pending. Of those pending at the commencement of the year, 450 were decided for the United States; 124 were decided adversely; 701 were settled and dismissed; and in 20, penalties were remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury. The entire number of suits decided or otherwise disposed of during the year was 2,502; the whole amount for which judgments were obtained, exclusive of decrees in rem, was $1,290,503; and the entire amount collected from all sources was $621,950.11. The collections in suits for violation of the customs and navigation laws during the year, it will be noticed, are very much less than in the preceding year. The accompanying tabular statement, based upon returns from the principal customs-districts of the country, will give you a comparative view of the collections from this source for the years 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875, showing in the districts mentioned a falling off, in comparison with the collections of the preceding year, of $359,500.53. As the disbursement of the $125,000 appropriated for the prevention of counterfeiting and other frauds upon the Government has been made largely under your direction, and always with your advice, I have not deemed it proper to include in this report a detailed statement of the operations of this Office predicated upon that appropriation. If, hereafter, it is thought desirable, a special report in the premises can be made to you. It is, perhaps, proper to remark that, in addition to the ordinary operations for the detection, prevention, and punishment of counterfeiting, a large portion of the fund has been used in what has proved to be a successful movement against corrupt combinations and conspiracies to defraud the United States of its internal revenue. In this connection I should also state that a portion of the fund has been used, under your direction, in a like successful movement against a similar combination to defraud the Government of its customs-revenue at the port of New York. I am, sir, very respectfully, Hon. B. H. BRISTOW, Secretary of the Treasury. BLUFORD WILSON, Comparative statement of collections in suits for violations of customs and navigation laws. SIR: On the 1st day of January, 1875, I assumed the duties of the Office of the Supervising Architect of this Department, and have the honor to submit herewith a report of the works under its charge during the past fiscal year, and their present condition; the progress of the work during the first six months being determined from the records and files of the Office. BUILDINGS IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION JANUARY 1, 1875. BOSTON, MASS., POST-OFFICE AND SUBTREASURY. That portion of this building for which plans were prepared by the late Supervising Architect was nearly completed when I took possession of the Office and is now finished, partially furnished, and is occupied by the post-office and the office of the assistant treasurer. In consequence of the order making the subtreasury at Boston a place of deposit for silver coin, it was found necessary to increase the strength of the flooring sustaining the vaults to carry the additional weight, which was accomplished at a small cost. Total amount appropriated for that portion of the building already erected...... Total amount expended thereon to September 30, 1875..... CHARLESTON, S. C., CUSTOM-HOUSE. $3,017, 085 08 3,017, 085 08 The stone-work of this building and the approaches may be said to be completed. A portion of the iron-work of the roof is received and is ready to be put in place, and contracts have been entered into for the completion of the iron-work. The building will be ready for ocen pancy before the close of the present fiscal year. The amount appro priated at the last session of Congress is sufficient to meet all the expenditures anticipated on account of the work. Total amount expended to September 30, 1875.. Total amount appropriated for completion of building on modified designs..... $698,915 43 510,791 17 Balance in Treasury. 188,124 26 CHICAGO, ILL., CUSTOM-HOUSE, ETC. As soon after taking charge of the Office as my duties would permit, I visited Chicago, Ill., to inform myself as to the condition and progress of the work, and, upon inspection of the building, I discovered serious cracks in the walls and defects in the stone, which excited considerable anxiety in my mind as to the stability of the foundations and the fitness of the materials used in the construction of a building of its magnitude and character, and upon my return, as soon as the condition of the ground would admit of an examination of the foundation, I directed two of my assistants to visit Chicago and make an examination as to the cause of the cracks and the apparent unequal movement in the walls. The result of this investigation confirmed my fears; and, upon your attention being called to the matter, work was suspended in accordance with your directions, and a commission of three experts, not connected with the public service, was appointed to make a thorough test of the foundation and an examination of the materials used in the construction of the building. The report of this commission substantiated that made by the officers of the Department above referred to. Upon the publication of this report, the mayor of Chicago, in compliance with a resolution of the council of that city, appointed a commission of seven local architects and engineers to perform similar duties to those assigned to the commission appointed by you and to report to him their finding. A copy of the resolution of the city council was forwarded to this Department, with the request that permission might be given to these gentlemen to make the necessary examination and tests, which permission you granted. The report of the local commission differing essentially from that of the gentlemen appointed by the Department, a third commission, equal in number to the second, consisting of engineers, architects and builders, was appointed by you, and upon the receipt of their report resumption of the work was directed by you, and it is now in progress. Copies of the reports of these commissions, and the indorsements thereon, are hereunto appended. (See Appendix A.) The condition of the building at the date of the suspension of the work, May, 1875, was as follows: The stone-work of the first story, on the Adams, Dearborn, and Jackson streets fronts, had been set and backed up with brick backing, and the entire iron-work of that story set in place. The first story of the Clark street front was nearly finished, and the cutting of the stone for the second story was nearly completed. Total amount appropriated for this work..... Total amount expended to September 30, 1875........ Balance in Treasury September 30...... CINCINNATI CUSTOM-HOUSE, ETC. $4,300,000 00 3,322, 293 08 977, 706-92 On June 30, 1874, a site was acquired and the excavation commenced, but very little work had been done thereon. Since that date the excavation has been completed, concrete foundations laid, and the basement and area walls carried up to their full height. The red granite with |