TABLE OF MAIL-SERVICE IN THE FOLLOWING STATES AND TERRITORIES FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 20, 1861, AS EXHIBITED BY THE STATE OF THE ARRANGEMENTS AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR. [The entire service and pay are set down to the State under which it is numbered, though extending into other States, instead of being divided among the States in which each portion of it lies.] Miles. Maine...... 4,446 New Hampshire..... 1,797 Vermont...... 2,215 Massachusetts.. 2,726 Rhode Island.. 363 Connecticut... The Baltimore, Wilmington and Philadelphia Railroad is under a Maryland number. This includes steamboat-service from Louisville to Cincinnati. 508.875 5,818,329 Total annual cost. TABLE OF MAIL-SERVICE IN THE FOLLOWING STATES, AS IT STOOD ON THE 31ST OF MAY, 1861, DISCONTINUED UNDER ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVED FEBRUARY 28, 1861. STATEMENT OF DEAD LETTERS CONTAINING MONEY AND OTHER ARTICLES OF VAlue registerED AND SENT OUT FOR DELIVERY TO THE WRITERS OR OWNERS THEREOF, FROM JULY 1, 1860, TO JULY 1, 1861. Aggregate amount of money in letters returned unclaimed and filed..... 4,782 99 296 Aggregate amount of money in letters outstanding... 1,902 65 Number of letters in disloyal States included in letters outstanding... 238 Aggregate amount of money in letters outstanding in disloyal States..... 1,005 35 58 297 30 Number of letters sent out containing other articles of value............. 10,235 Number of letters delivered..... 9,552 Number of letters unclaimed.... 475 Number of letters outstanding..... 208 Contents of letters sent out: Bills of exchange, drafts and letters of credit, bonds and notes of hand, checks, orders and treasury warrants, certificates of deposit, &c........ $2,436,546 00 Deeds, mortgages, conveyances, and land titles...... 600 Powers of attorney, contracts, and articles of agreement.. 257 Certificates of stock, land warrants, patent and pension papers.......................... 132 875 NUMBER OF MAIL ROUTES, MAIL CONTRACTORS, ROUTE AGENTS, LOCAL AGENTS, AND MAIL MESSENGERS AT THE CLOSE OF THE CONTRACT YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1861. 1853.. 1854 1855 1856.. 1857. 1858.. 1859. 1860.. 1861.. 1862.. 1863... Years. STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES OF THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT FOR NINE YEARS, FROM 1853 TO 1861, INCLUSIVE, AND ESTIMATES FOR 1862 AND 1863. TOTAL OPERATIONS OF APPOINTMENT OFFICE FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1861, ARRANGED BY STATES. Alabama.. Arkansas.. California Colorado Terr..... Connecticut. Dakota Terr. Delaware..... Dist. of Columbia Florida.... Georgia.. Illinois. Indiana... Iowa Kentucky... Kansas..... Louisiana. Maine.... Maryland Massachusetts.... Michigan. Minnesota. Nerada Terr.. New Hampshire. New Jersey.... New Mexico Terr Rhode Island...... NOTE. The following items of revenue are not embraced in the above statement, viz. :Receipts on account of emoluments...... Miscellaneous receipts..... Receipts on account of fines......... Total...... Excess of expenditures over receipts...... Add amount paid for foreign mails and expenses of Government mail agents....... Supply of special offices and mail messengers.......... Ship, steamboat, and way letters...... $766,621 37 342.775 62 269.268 13 12,007 06 $94,563 45 3,834 82 20.00 $98.418 27 $3,721,633 37 Amount carried forward.......... $1,390,672 18 $3,721,633 37 |