EXHIBIT NO. 21.-List of post-offices at which special-delivery system has been established.
EXHIBIT NO. 22.-Statement of operations of special-delivery system in month of October,
1885..
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF THE MONEY-ORDER SYSTEM.
General summary of business, 769; number of money-order offices, 769; issues and payment
of domestic money orders, 770; issues and payments of postal notes, 770; war claims
paid in, 770; duplicate money-orders, 771; drafts and transfers, 771; remittances of
surplus money-order funds, 771; lost remittances, 772; erroneous payment of money.
orders, 773; revenues, and expenses, 773; the international money-order business, 773;
statistics of same, 774; revenue from same, 775; general financial results, 775; recom-
mendations, 777.
APPENDIX A.-Tabular statement showing operations of domestic money-order system
during each year since its establishment.
APPENDIX C.-Statement of money-orders lost in transmission 1, 780; same recovered, 780;
same referred to Assistant Attorney-General for consideration, under act of March
17, 1882, 781; same improperly paid. 783; same recovered, 783; same paid proper
payee, 784; same charged to paying postmaster, 784; same charged to Department, 785;
same charged payee or order, 786.
Convention with Sweden for exchange of money-orders
Convention with Japan for exchange of money-orders
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE FOREIGN MAILS.
General statement of operations and business, 817; total weight of mail sent from United
States for year by sea, 818; cost of foreign mail service, 818; statement showing trans-
Atlantic lines and occasional sailings, mail sent, weight, &c., 821; same, showing mis-
cellaneous foreign lines, and occasional sailings, mail sent, weight, &c., 821; same,
showing American vessels, statement of net revenues on mail matter sent to
foreign countries during fiscal year, 834; foreign mails, statistics, 824; appropriation
required therefor, 825; arrangements made for carrying same, 826; extension of the
Postal Union, 829; International Postal Congress at Lisbon, 830; memorandum of
changes made by acts of Lisbon, March 21, 1885, 830.
Appendix: Universal Postal Union, additional acts of Lisbon of March 21, 1885, 835; final
protocol, 864.
REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT UPON
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REPORT OF THE AUDITOR OF THE TREASURY FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT TO THE POST-
MASTER-GENERAL
Revenue account of the Post-Office Department, 901; general revenue account, 902; letter
postage, 903; mail transportation, 904; Pacific railroads service, .905.
STATEMENT No. 1.-Exhibiting quarterly the receipts of the Post-Office Department under
their several heads.
STATEMENT No. 2.-Statement exhibiting quarterly the expenditures of the Post-Office
Department, under their several heads, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885
STATEMENT No. 3.-Statement, by States, of postal receipts and expenditures of the United
States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885.
STATEMENT No. 4.-Statement showing the condition of the account with each item of the
appropriation for the service of the Post-Office Department for fiscal year ended June
30, 1885
STATEMENT No. 5.-Statement in detail of miscellaneous payments made by Post-Office
Department during fiscal year ended June 30, 1885, and charged to miscellaneous items,
office of Postmaster-General............
STATEMENT No. 6.-Same, charged to miscellaneous expenses, office of the First Assistant
Postmaster-General.
STATEMENT No. 7.-Same, charged to miscellaneous items, Second Assistant Postmaster-
General.......
STATEMENT No. 8.-Same, charged to miscellaneous items, office of Third Assistant Post-
master-General
STATEMENT No. 9.-Comparative statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Post-
Office Department from July 1, 1836, to July 30, 1885.....
STATEMENT No. 10.-Gross receipts, expenses, and net revenue of Presidential post-offices
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885.
STATEMENT No. 11.-Statement showing the transactions of the money-order system offices
of the United States for fiscal year ended June 30, 1885.....
STATEMENT No. 12.-Showing the number and amount of international money-orders issued,
paid, and repaid, and fees collected, during fiscal year ended June 30, 1885
STATEMENT No. 13.-Showing the receipts and disbursements of the money-order offices of
the United States during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885
STATEMENT No. 21.-Weight of letters, newspapers, &c., sent from United States to Eu-
ropean countries during fiscal year
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL,
Washington, D. C., November 21, 1885.
SIR: The annual report upon the affairs of this Department-which I have the honor now to submit to your consideration-undertakes, according to usage, to exhibit especially the past year, ended with June, and the lessons suggested by its experiences, the pending operations of the current year which require any particular mention, the estimates for the coming year to begin with next July, and such discussion of special topics and recommendations of legislation as its officers think may tend to improvement of the service.
has witnessed three persons at the head of administration of the Department. It was, when the year begun, under the charge of the Hon. Walter Q. Gresham, who resigned this office on the 24th day of September, 1884, to assume the duties of Secretary of the Treasury. To him succeeded the Hon. Frank Hatton, whose service as PostmasterGeneral commenced on the 14th day of October, 1884, and terminated, upon the acceptance of his resignation, on the 7th of March last, at which date, by virtue of your commission, I took the office. The exposition of the transactions of the year must therefore be in the greater part derived from the books and records, which imposes the risk of a less satisfactory presentation of the affairs in which I had no part than my distinguished predecessors would have given for themselves-a risk lessened by their able administration and faithful records.
The Financial Summary of the year shows a considerable increase in the deficiency of the postal revenues to sustain the cost of the postal service. This deficiency has now attained to a large figure, and it will contribute to an understanding of the causes for its existence and of the manner in which they have operated their effects to state the general exhibit of the past year in contrast with similar showings of the two
preceding years. The following condensed statements derived from the Auditor's Office and the nuance division of the Department show the expenditures for the two first years, not as, in part, estimated in the annual reports, but corrected according to subsequent facts; while the cost for the past year is necessarily in small part the subject of estimate only.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1883.
Deduct amount credited Pacific Railroad companies for transportation of mails.....
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1884.
Revenue: Ordinary postal.....
Expenditures: To September 30, 1884 .............. $46, 404, 960 65
From October 1, 1884, to September
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