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Financial and business conditions...

Cotton and Government deposits.....

Government deposits offered to Federal reserve banks in the West and North-

west...

United States notes (greenbacks).

Gold reserve fund...

Trust funds...

Sinking fund....

Condition of the Treasury June 30, 1915..

Cash in the Treasury June 30, 1915..

Comparison of receipts, fiscal years 1914 and 1915..

Comparison of disbursements, fiscal years 1914 and 1915..

Estimates...

Estimated receipts, fiscal year 1916.

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Estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year 1917 as submitted by the

Summary of estimated results to the close of the year 1917.

Comparison of estimates for 1917 with appropriations for 1916..

Exhibit of appropriations for 1916.....

Exhibits accompanying the report on the finances.

Exhibit A.-Summary of general business conditions, R. G. Dun & Co....................

Exhibit B.-Statement of business conditions, Bradstreet's..

Exhibit C.-Business situation in the United States, Babson's Statistical Organ-

ization..

Exhibit D.-Letter of Secretary of the Treasury transmitting to the President

proceedings of the Pan American Financial Conference..

Exhibit E.-Proposed amendments to income-tax law..

Exhibit F.-Division of Customs....

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Abstracts of reports of bureaus and divisions.

Treasurer of the United States.

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District of Columbia..

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Comptroller of the Currency.

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Capital of national banks with outstanding circulation secured by United

States bonds, etc...

Summary by States, geographical divisions, etc., of national banks organ-

ized from March 14, 1900, to June 30, 1915..

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National banks reporting September 12, 1914, and number of banks making

application for additional circulation..

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Summary by classes of national banks organized March 14, 1900, to June 30,
1915..

Reserve cities..

Mint Service..

Number of banks and the bond and circulation accounts, March 14, 1900,

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Deposits, income, expenses, and employees, by institutions.

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Internal revenue..

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Receipts from internal revenue, fiscal years 1914 and 1915.

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Production of spirituous and malt liquors..

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Buildings..

Income tax....

Emergency revenue law..

United States cotton futures act.

Tax on railroads in Alaska..

Oleomargarine...

Adulterated butter.

Tobacco....

Denatured alcohol..

Fortified wine.

Work done by revenue agents..

Bureau of Engraving and Printing....

Division of Special Agents....

Office of the Supervising Architect..

Statement of appropriations made during fiscal year 1915.

Summary of acts carrying appropriations for the fiscal year 1916.

Public Health Service....

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Table A.-Statement of the outstanding principal of the public debt of the

United States, June 30, 1915...

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Table B.-Statement of the outstanding principal of the public debt of the

United States on the 1st of July of each year from 1856 to 1915,

inclusive..

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Table C.-Analysis of the principal of the interest-bearing public debt of the

United States from July 1, 1856, to July 1, 1915..

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Table D.-Statement of the issue and redemption of loans and Treasury notes

and of deposits and redemptions in national-bank note account

(by warrants) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915..

Table E.-Sinking-fund account for fiscal year 1915....

Table F.-Population, ordinary receipts, and disbursements of the Govern-

ment from 1840 to 1915, exclusive of postal, and per capita on

receipts and per capita on disbursements...

Table G.-Statement showing the ordinary receipts and disbursements of the

Government by months; the legal-tender notes, net gold, and

available cash in the Treasury at the end of each month; the

monthly redemption of legal-tender notes in gold and the imports

and exports of gold, from July, 1896, to June, 1915, inclusive....

Table H.-Statement of the balance in the general fund of the Treasury,

including the gold reserve, by calendar years from 1791 to 1842,

and by fiscal years from 1843 to 1915..

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Table I.-Receipts and disbursements of the United States..

Table J.-Internal and customs receipts and expenses of collecting, from

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1858 to 1915..........

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