Receipts and expenditures for certain years from 1800 to 1910-Continued. Annual expenditures, by items, for the years 1900 to 1910, inclusive. Annual expenditures, by items, for the years 1900 to 1910, inclusive-Continued. NOTE. In addition to the foregoing there were certified to the Secretary of the Treasury certain claims of government-aided Pacific railroads for transportation of domestic mail. These amounts, which were not charged to postal revenues, and therefore are not included in the foregoing statement, were as follows: Other statistics for certain years from 1800 to 1910. 751,099. 69 None. 1830. 903 20,817 2,300 36, 406 5,592, 652 4,500 72, 492 8,450 115, 176 14,500,000 1840. 1850. 1860. 1870. Other statistics for certain years from 1800 to 1910-Continued. City letter carriers.. Domestic..... 11,361,090, 610 12, 255, 666, 367 13,173,340,329 14,004,577, 271 14, 850, 102, 559 24,577 26,352 27,620 28,715 37,582 39,143 40,499 40,997 40, 151, 797 40,539,545 42,053, 574 13, 145, 172 11,997,325 12, 545, 133 International.. For a more detailed account of the operations of the several branches of the postal service during the year attention is invited to the annual reports of the four Assistant Postmasters General. To avoid repetition and secure brevity certain matters formerly included in the report of the Postmaster General have been omitted this year because of their full presentation by the officers mentioned. Respectfully, FRANK H. HITCHCOCK, Postmaster General. REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910: By the postal regulations this office is charged with the duty of hearing and considering cases relating to lotteries and the misuse of the mails in furtherance of schemes to defraud; the giving of opinions to the Postmaster General and others upon questions of law arising in the postal service; with the consideration of all claims of postmasters for losses by fire, burglary, or other unavoidable casualty, and of all cases of proposed compromise of liabilities to the United States, and of remission of fines, penalties, and forfeitures; the consideration of applications for pardon, and of all questions as to the mailability of alleged indecent, obscene, scurrilous, or defamatory matter; the examining and drafting of contracts; and the determining of questions as to the delivery of mail the ownership of which is in dispute. During the year just closed the volume of work in certain branches has not been so large as in the year immediately preceding, but this decrease has been offset by a corresponding increase in other parts; so that diligent and persistent effort alone has kept the work of the office up to its present satisfactory condition. FRAUDULENT SCHEMES AND LOTTERIES. By section 3929 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the acts of September 19, 1890, and of March 2, 1895, and section 4041 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of September 19, 1890, the Postmaster General is authorized, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or concern is engaged in conducting a scheme for obtaining money or property through the mails by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or for the distribution of prizes dependent upon lot or chance, to issue what is now commonly known as a "fraud order," the effect of which is to prevent the further delivery of mail and payment of money orders to such person or concern. This office is charged with the duty of considering the evidence in cases of alleged violations of these laws; conducting hearings in such cases, and recommending to the Postmaster General the issuance of fraud orders when the evidence warrants such action. By section 213 of the Penal Code of March 4, 1909, which went into effect January 1, 1910, and which superseded section 3894 of the Revised Statutes, letters, cards, circulars, certificates, and other matter concerning lotteries, gift enterprises, or similar schemes in which prizes are offered dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance are declared unmailable. Postmasters are required to exclude or withdraw from the mails matter declared unmailable by section 213 of the code, and the proper enforcement of this statute necessitates a constant correspondence between this office and postmasters throughout the country. The table below shows the number of citations to appear and make answer to charges of illegal use of the mails sent out during the year ended June 30, 1910, and also the number of fraud orders issued during that period and their character: |