35TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1st Session. Ex. Doc RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING A statement of the receipts and expenditures of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1857. DECEMBER 18, 1857.-Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, SIR: I have the honor to forward herewith statements prepared by the Register of the Treasury, with a copy of his letter transmitting them to this department, exhibiting an account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1857; stated in pursuance of the standing order of the House of Representatives of 30th December, 1791, and an act of August 26, 1842.. I am, very respectfully, Hon. JAS. L. ORR, HOWELL COBB, Secretary of the Treasury. Speaker of the House of Representatives. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Office, December 17, 1857. SIR: I have the honor to transmit the account of the receipts and t expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1857, stated in pursuance of the standing order of the House of Representatives of 30th of December, 1791, and an act of August 26, 1842. This account contains First. A general account of the receipts and expenditures of the side refer to the detailed expenditures under the specific heads of appropriation. Second. The expenditures and repayments under each head of appropriation, showing the aggregate amount paid to, and repaid by, each individual during the year. Third. Statements of the appropriations made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1857, including the balances on the 1st of July, 1856, the payments during the year, the several sums carried to the surplus fund, and the balances unexpended at the end of the year. Fourth. Statements of the balances due by, and in favor of the supervisors, collectors and others, of the late direct taxes and internal revenue. Fifth. Statements of the operations of the several land offices in the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1857. Sixth. Statements in relation to the customs. Seventh. Statements of the emoluments of the officers of the customs as far as received at this office. The balance will be included in the next year. The account of the receipts and expenditures would have been completed and transmitted at the time prescribed by law but for the sickness of the principal clerk in charge of this business. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. HOWELL COBB, Secretary of the Treasury. F. BIGGER, Register. AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1857. Stated in pursuance of the following standing order of the House of Representatives of the United States, passed December 30, 1791, viz: "Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to lay before the House of Representatives, on the fourth Monday of October in each year, if Congress shall then be in session, or, if not then in session, within the first week of the session next following the said fourth Monday in October, an accurate statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public moneys down to the last day, inclusively, of the month of December immediately preceding the said fourth Monday in October, distinguishing the amount of receipts from each State or district, and from each officer therein; in which statement shall also be distinguished the expenditures which shall fall under each head of appropriation; and shall be shown the sums, if any, which remain unexpended and to be accounted for in the next statement of each and every of such appropriations;" And of "An act to define and establish the fiscal year of the treasury of the United States," passed August 26, 1842. A. F. Parlin, collector, Machias, Me T. D. Jones, collector, Frenchman's Bay, Me............ R. H. Bridgham, collector, Penobscot, Me.. G P. Sewall, late collector, Bangor, Me..... E. K. Smart, collector, Belfast, Me... E. Wilson, late collector, Waldoboro', Me.... John Babson, late collector, Wiscasset, Me.. C. N. Bodfish, late collector, Bath, Me.... J. Berry, collector, Bath, Me... Ezra Carter, jr., late collector, Portland and Falmouth, Me. A. A. Hanscom, collector, Saco, Me.. John Cousins, collector, Kennebunk, Me Zenas Clement, late collector, Portsmouth, N. H.. A. Jenkins, collector, Portsmouth, N. H.. D. A. Smally, late collector, Burlington, Vt.. I. B. Bowdish, collector, Burlington, Vt..--- E. F. Miller, late collector, Salem and Beverly, Mass... 12,400 31 286 31 109 12 834 05 1,273 92 16,464 52 1,408 02 64 08 34,086 21 2,070 00 228,214 81 23 00 16 89 5,412 48 867 19 4,340 24 58,540 56 106,651 47 28,050 00 274 68 6, 107,096 06 1, 134, 134 31 296 11 C. H. Peaslee, late collector, Boston and Charlestown, Mass. 398 79 ----- 2,460 15 1,268 71 4,787 98 2,346 74 67 67 428 78 49,531 81 14,326 10 5,784 24 4,405 72 265,969 70 836 74 286 92 J. H. Reynolds, collector, Bristol and Warren, R. I.. C. K. Loomis, late collector, Sackett's Harbor, N. Y.. A. V. E. Hotchkiss, collector, Niagara, N. Y. 11 95 321 30 398 57 4,985 05 22, 196 50 132,457 64 151 19 5,105 67 4,406 75 7, 178 73 United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1857. 106 Clerks to committees and President pro tempore, draughtsmen, messengers, &c., for the Senate 106 Congressional Globe, and binding the same for the Senate 106 Binding documents for the House of Representatives 107 Fuel, oil, and candles for the House of Representatives 107 Horses, carriages, and saddle horses for the House of 107 Newspapers for the House of Representatives 315,364 04 1,200, 631 02 76, 622 71 79,377 52 16,000 00 79,600 00 4,000 00 56, 000 00 27,600 00 30, 197 44 3,000 00 52,045 00 74,894 00 125,678 00 1,459 57 5,000 00 12,500 00 3,000 00 3,937 71 310 32 8,038 86 10,000 00 108 Printing required for 2d session of the 34th Congress 108 Principal and assistant librarians and messengers. 108 Expenses of procuring apparatus for warming the 70, 122 32 190,500 60 144, 946 74 108,719 49 149,814 27 9,000 00 2,500 00 9,000 00 1,300 00 400 00 4,000 00 2,000 00 |