Statement of accounts of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for internal revenue stamps (adhesive) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875. DR. To amount of stamps in hands of Commissioner June 30, 1874. To amount of stamps ordered from printer... To amount of stamps returned by agents To amount of stamps received for redemption.. To amount of discount withheld in exchange $105 26 6, 675, 478 39 35,932 69 23,661 04 2.26 6,735, 179 64 Statement of accounts of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for internal revenue stamped foil wrappers for tobacco, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875. Statement of amounts paid for engraving and printing stamps, and for stamp paper, &c., for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875. Statement of amounts paid for the redemption of internal revenue stamps during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875. $26,926 76 142 50 4,701 05 31,770 31 Statement of stamp agents' accounts adjusted during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875. Number.... A nount involved 476 $10, 242, 671 05 REPORT OF THE SIXTH AUDITOR OF THE TREASURY. OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR OF THE TREASURY October 20, 1875. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the business operations of this Office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875. My aunual report to the Postmaster-General, now in course of preparation, will exhibit in detail the financial transactions of the Post-Office Department during the past fiscal year. A comparison of the tables of the present report with those contained in the report made by my predecessor for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1874, will show a large increase of business in each division. EXAMINING DIVISION-BENJAMIN LIPPINCOTT, CHIEF OF DIVISION. This division receives and audits the quarterly accounts-current of all post-offices in the United States. It is divided into four subdivisions, viz: the opening-room, the stamp-rooms, the examining corps proper, and the error-rooms. 1. The opening-room.—All returns, as soon as received, are opened, and if found in order, according to regulations, are entered on the register, carefully folded and tied, and then forwarded to the stamp-rooms. The number of quarterly accounts-current received during each quarter of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875, was as follows: Third quarter, 1874....... Fourth quarter, 1874... Second quarter, 1875. Total.... Increase over last fiscal year, 6,289. 33, 63 34, 642 34, 946 35, 855 139, 076 2. The stamp-rooms.-The quarterly returns received from the opening-room are divided alphabetically among eight stamp-clerks, whose duties consist in comparing the stamp-statements of the postmasters in the accounts-current with their own books, and the returns made to them from the stamp-division of the finance office, whence stamp-orders are issued and receipts for the same received and forwarded to the stampclerk. The returns thus approved or corrected are passed to the examiners. All accounts from offices of the first and second classes are passed through the various subdivisions of the Office in advance of other returns, so that they may reach the chief of division and his assistants with as little delay as possible. The number of accounts examined and settled by the stamp-clerks for each quarter of the fiscal year was as follows: |