I tnrtj on ^03 Duke University Libraries Report of the p Conf Pam #334 fl^F THE \ POSTMASTER GENERAL. PoST-OFFfCE Df.PARTMKNT, jRkhmtnd, December 7, 1SC3. Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report of the opera- tions of the Post-office Department for the fiscal year, from the Ist of July, 1862, to the 3()th of June, 1863. The revenues derived from postages were three millions three hun- dred and thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-three dollars and one cent, (f 3, 3 37,853 01 ) The expenditures of the D partment were two million six hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hun Ired and four dollars and fifty-seven cents, ($2, 662, 8U4 57.) The excess of receipts over cx;)enditures was six hundred and seventy-five thou- sand and forty-eight dollars and forty-four cents, (675,(148 44,) thua ahowiug the gratifying fact that the Department has been brought within the requirement of the Constitution, thut its expenses shall be paid out of its own revenues after the Ist of March, 1863. This presents a striking contrast when compared with the receipts and expenditures of the preceding year, and of the last year under the government of the United States. The receipts of revenue derived from postages for the year which ended June 3 •, 1863, were one mil- lion nine hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and eighty- nine dollars and five cents, ($1,911,189 05.) The expenditures for that year were two million nine hundred anl-l7 76 9,338 18 756 75 21.068 31 20,539 69 12.572 78 Making, $S,'2Sd 319 49 Exeesfl of receipts over expenditures of all kinds, in- cluding the amounts paid on account of service performed prior to June I, 1861, and for traus- portation for the year whicli ended June 30, 18t)2, 98,533 52 Or excluding all payments not made on account of the service of the current year, $675,048 44 The foregoing information is shown in detail by the report of the Auditor of the Treasury for the rost-Office Department, hereto ap- pended, marked [I]. On the 12th. of February last, I submitted detailed estimates of the receipts and expenditures of the Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863, and asked for the appropriation of two million eight hundred and sixty-nine thousand and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-six cents, ($2,869,099 96,) of the accruing revenues of that year, derivable from postages. This appropriation v/asnot then made. The actual expenditures of that year, as now ascertained, arc set forth in the foregoing detailed statement, and amount to the sum of two mil- lion seven hundred and thirty-seven thousand three hundred and txro dollars and thirty cents, ($2,737,302 30,) excluding the sum of five hundred and two thousand and seventeen dollars and nineteen cents, (502,017 19,) paid on account of services rendered prior to the 1st of June, 1861. I, therefore, ask that the sums specified in the foregoing detailed statement of expenditures for that year be now appropriated, less the sum of $502,017 19. This will leave the sum of six hundred thousand five hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-one cents (§600,550 71) of the accrued rev- enues of th;it year unappropriated. It is respectfully I'equested that this sum be appropriated in bulk, so that it may be covered into the Treasury for the future use of the Department. DETAILED ESTIMATE of Receipts and Expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1864. RECEIPTS. The actual balance in the Treasury to the credit of the Post-Office De- partment, after the appropriations above requested shall have been made, on the 1st of July, 1863, will be $2,385,664 46 Estimated receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864, based on the actual receipts of the preceding year, " 3,337,853 01 Amount of balance to the credit of the Depatment, and estimated receipts, lES. $5,723,517 47 EXPENDITUI Transportation, Compensgrtion of Postmasters, $2 ,157,846 43 862,873 57 Compensation of post-office clerks, Ship, steamboat and way letters. 116,352 66 771 41 Advertising, 12,915 62 Mail-bags, Office furniture. 7,309' 85 1,460 00 Blanks and printing. 74,047 76 Wrapping paper. Mail-locks, keys and stamps, 29,338 18 756 75 Mail depredations and special agents Miscellaneous payments. Postage stamps. 26,068 31 20,539 69 '27,572 78 $3,537,853 01 Leaving an estimated excess of means over the estimated expenses of the year, of 2,385,664 46 In the foregoing estimates, it is assumed that the receipts of the Department for this year will be equal to those for the precoiliiij year. And an increase of expenditure is estimated for in the items for trans- portation of the mails, compensation of clerks in post-ofhces, blanks and printing, wrapping paper, postage stamps, mail depredations and special agents, and mail-bags, on account of the increased cost of the items enumerated. As we have no more reliable data than those herein presented, on which to base estimates of the receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 50, 1865, it is assumed that the receipts of that year will be the same as for the year which ended June 30, 18G3, as hereinbefore stated, and that the expenditures will be the same as those estimated for the year ending June 30, 1864. I, therefore, respectfully request that an appropriation, the same in items and amounts, be made for the year ending June 30, 1865, out of the rev- enues arising from postages, as is above requested, for the year ending June 30, 1864. I have, heretofore, asked for an appropriation of the sura of two hundred and seventy-six thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-three cents, ($276,355 23,) of the revenues of the Depart- ment, derived from postages, for the year which ended June 30, 1862, to enable the Treasurer to close the accounts of the Department for that year. I repeat the request for that appropriation, it not then having been made. Though the sum standing to the credit of the Department, at the end of the last fiscal year, is considerable, and the estimates for this and the succeeding year do not contemplate its reduction, it is to be remembered that we cannot foresee the contingencies which, during the war, may again reduce the receipts below the expenditures, and that, if this should happen, and we should not have a suffi cient sum in reserve, we should be compelled to reduce the postal service to an amount which the receipts would pay for, as no future appropri- ations can be made from the general treasury for the use of the Post- Office Department. It is also believed that the restoration of peace will, when it occurs, reduce the receipts of the Department, by re- ducing the amount of general and official correspondence, to which the existence of our armies and the absence of so many of our people from home and friends have given rise ; and that, when this shall take place, it will be important to have a sufficient balance in the Treasury to meet the deficiency, until it can be supplied by the revival of trade and the general business of the country. For these reasons, it is be- lieved that any reduction of the rates of postage would, at this time, ^e impolitic. CONTRACT BUREAU. Mail Letiings during the year ending June SQth, 1863. On the 3l8t of December, 1862, advertisements were published, in- viting proposals for carrying the mails of the Confederate States in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia ar.vl Florida, from the Ist of July, 1863, to June Sdth, i867, the propo- sals to be received until 3 P. M., March 31, 18G3, and decisions to be m.ade and contracts awarded by April 3()th, 1863. The number and lineal length of routes, thus advertipcd and open to competition of bidders, were as follows, viz : In Virginia,. 5iO routes; lineal length 8,183 3-4 miles. In North Carolina, 213 " '' " 7,Gol1-4 " In South Carolina, 131 '* " " 3,887 3-4 " In Georgia, 19i) '« " '♦ 5,165 1-4 ** In Florida, 43 ^' " '' 2.173 1-2 '* Total number of routes, 887 Ag'te-of lineal length, 27,OGl 1-2 ** Owing to the fact that Congress had, on the 1 1th of October, 18^2, repealed an act, approved 21st of April, 1862, which exempted froni the perforrannce of miltary service all persons engaged in the trans- portation of the mails, the number of those proposing to become con- tractors for the incoming term of four years became very limited ; and on the 1 1th of March, within twenty days of the expiration of the time specified for receiving proposals, only 1 14 bids had been received at the department, being 773 loss than the number of routes open to competition. This condition of affairs made it manifest that the department would be unable to obtain contracts for mail-service in those States without the aid of an act of Congress, exempting contractors anddrj^'ers of post- ccaches and hacks from tlie performance of military duty. Hence, on the 14th of March, 1863, I felt it to be my dutv to bring this serious embarraseraent which threatened the postal service of the country to the attention of the President. On the 1 1th of April following. Congress, by the passage of a joint resolution, authorized the Postmaster General to extend the time for receiving bids for transportation of the mails in these States until the first day of May, 1863; and on the 14th day of April, 1S63, that body passed f\ie following act of exemption, viz : ** An Act. to exempt Contractors for carrying the. mails of the Confcdercti States and the Drivers of Pat Coaches and Hac/c^ from Military Ser- vice. *' The Congress of the Confederate/States of America do enact, Th -t the contractors for carrying the mails of the Confederate States ^hall be exempt from the performance of military duty in tlie armies of the Confederate States, from and after the passage of this act, during the time they are such contractors ; provided, that no more than one contractor shall be exempt on any loute, and that no more than one member of any firm of contractors shall be exempt, and no contractor on any route of less than ten miles in length, apd on which the mail is carried on horse, shall be exempt under this act; and if one or more members of any such firm be exempt from age or other cause from 8 tt» perforiTiance of military duty, the other member, or members of 8UcL firm, shall not be exempt by this act on account of bting mail contractors : and provided further, that no person to whom a contract for carryln<: the mails may be transferred, with tlie consent of the Post-Oftice Department, after the passage of this act, shall be exempt frojp military ncrvicc on that account. " Sr.c. f2. That drivers of post coaches and hacks for carrying the inaiL'i on all routes where the weight of the mails requires that they fihoii'id be carried in coaches or hacks, shall be exempt from m.litary service in the armies of the Confederate States from and after the passage of ihis act, so long as they continue to be employed as such drivers : provided, the contractor, by whom any such driver is em- jdoyed, shall take and subscribe an oath to be furnished to the en- 1 oiling officer, that the weight of the mails on his route requires the use of coaches or hacks for their conveyance, and that he has not a greater number of drivers employed in his service than are indispen- salle to enable him to fulfill his contract for carrying the mai!^, and that he will not, while a contractor, employ a greater number of driv- ers than may be indispensably necessary for that pur[)ose; and that he will give notice to the enrolling oflicer when any such drivers cease* to be in his employment, "Approved Apni U, 1SG3." The greatest available publicity was given to these acts of Con- gress, and, in the meantime, the proposals already received at the De parttnent wore retained unopened until the 1st of May. Although the extended time was too limited to give as general public notice as was desirable to secure an enlarged competition, yet numerous proposals were received; and a number of those on routes over ten miles in length, and on which the mails could be carried on horseback, were remarkably low. The whole number of routes let to contract under the advertise- ment, and the aggregate cost per annum of service thereon in each State, were as follows, viz : ^ In Virginia, 253 routes ; actual cost of service, $98,367 &3 In North Carolina, lOf) " " ♦* " 90,135 02 In South Carolina, 124 " " " " 49,930 00 In Georgia, 173 " " " " 78,8^2 05 InFIoiida, 3(i '• '< •« " 28,652 00 Total No. of routes 785 And anu 1 ag'tc of cost $3.J2,466 68 The number of routes not let to contract was, in Virginia, 51, on 38 of which there were no bids Submitted; on 17, the bids were re- garded as too extravagant for acceptance ; whilst 2 were omitted as unnecessary. In North Carolina 14, on 10 of which there were no bids submitted ; on 3 the bids were deemed extravagant; whilst on 1, action has been suspended. 9 In South Carolina 7, on 2 of which there we no bids submitted ; whilst on 5 action has been deferred. In Georgia 17, on I of which there was no bid sumbitted ; on 1 1 the proposals were regarded as extravagant, whilst 5 were omitted as unnecessary. The total number of lineal miles length of routes, and of annual transportation of the mails, let to service in these States, independent cf railroad routes, is as follows, viz : In Virginia, 7,062 lineal miles, and an'l transp'n thereon, 1, •387,640 mtJes In North. Carolina, 7,026 1-4 lineal miles, and an'l transp'n thereon, 1,181,440 *' In South Carolina, 3,787 1-4 lineal miles, and an'l transp'n thereon, 593,684 " In Georgia, 3,859 1-4 lineal miles, and an'l transp'n therecn, 956,426 ** In Florida, 1,735 lineal miles, and an'l transp'n thereon, 297,544 " Total number, 23,459 3-4 of lined miles, and of an'l transp'n thereon 4.416,740 " The average cost of service for one trip a week in these States for each lineal mile length of route, on which mail service is performed, and for each mile of actual transportation, per annum, is as follows, viz : In Virginia, for each lineal mile per annum, $7 41, and for trans- portation about 7 cents per mile. In North Carolina, for each lineal mile per annum, $3 46, and for transportation about 8 cents per mile. In South Carolina, for each lineal mile per annum, $3 65, and for transportation about 8 1-5 cents per mile. In Georgia, for each lineal mile per annum, $'/ 58, and for trans- portation about 8 1-4 cents per mile. * In Florida, for each lineal mile per annum, $10 01, and for trans- portation about 9 3-4 cents per mile. The cost, per annum, of railroad service in the foregoing States is, In Virginia, $157,662 00 In North Carolina, 77,864 00 In South Carolina, 130,327 00 In Georgia, 160,475 25 In Florida, 27,777 50 Total, $560,105 75 Add cost of routes let to contract, as above, 352,466 68 Total cost in these States, $912,572 43 Add cost of transportation in the other States of the Confederacy, let to contract during the previous year, on routes other than railroads, 800,891 00 1% Amount brought forward, $1,713,463 43 And on railroads, 444,602 50 Total copt of transportation per annum, $2,l58,n65 93 The number of mail contractors in Virginia, is 240 The number of mail contractors in North Carolina, is 167 The number of mail contractors in South Carolina, is 112 The number of mail contractors in Georgia, is 145 The number of mail contractors in Florida, is 31 The number of mail contractors in Tennessee, is Gl The number of mail contractors in Alabama, is 131 The number of mail contractors in Mississippi, is 8S The number of mail contractors in Louisiana, is 43 The number of mail contractors in Arkansas, is 86 The number of mail contractors in Texas, is 124 Total number, 1,253 Of this number 147 obtained contracts upon bids for a nominal rate of compensation per annum. By the act of April 14th, 18G3, hereinbefore copied, contractors for carrying the mails on post-routes of more than ten miles in length, and the drivers of post-coaches and hacks for carrying the mails, were exempted from military service during the contliiiuance of their con- tracts, or their employment as such, on the terms specified in the act. The Department has encountered much difficulty, and has been sub- ject to no little embarrassment, on account of the action of the mili- tary authorities charged with the execution of the law of conscription. I recognize fully the necessity of calling into the military service all who are capable of bearing arms, and who can be spared from other employments. But, under this law, the number to be exempted was too small to affect materially the military operations ; nnd yet the exemption of that snmll number, under the circumstances which induced the adoption of the policy, was necessary to keep in successful opera- tion the postal service, and to satisfy the demands of the public by the proper and speedy transmission of intelligence. RAILROAD SERVICE. The ])epartment has omitted to advertise for proposals for mail ser- vice on railroad routes, because of the fact that it is authorized, under existing laws, to make contracts with railroad companies without advertisement ; and as there can be no competition for such service, the effect of an advertisement Avould simply lie to invite proposals for an increase of compensation, which could not be granted unless the postal facilities furnished by the route should have so increased as to change the classification of the road, under the act approved Mav 9th, 1861. Most of the raiload presidents have executed contracts with the Department for the transportation of the mails from the.lst of July, 11 1863; but there are some who refuse to execute contracts, although they are offered the maximum rate of compensation for the first-class roads. At the same time they express their entire willingness to carry the mails, but are ftnwilling to place their roads, and mail ser- vice on them, under even that limited control of the Department, which is necessary to give regularity, certainty and security to the service. The only remedies for the evils which must result from the trans- portation of the mails without the restraining influence of contracts for its faithful performance, which the Department can apply, are, 1st, to withhold payment for services performed without contract; and, 2d, if they still refuse to contract, then, to withdraw the mails from such roads and endeavor to obtain some other mode of convey- ance. In view of the requirements^ of the law upon this subject, it will be my duty to apply these remedies to all roads, whose presidents per- sist in their refusal to comply with the requirements of the Depart- ment in relation to contracts ; for, although the practice has existed, to some extent, of permitting the mail service to be performed on railroads without contracts, and paying for such service by what are termed " Orders of Recognition," such practice was clearly a viola- tion of the law which forbids payment for mail service, until contracts shall have been executed according to law and the regulations of the Department. Wealthy corporate monopolies should not be permitted to occupy such a position in relation to the postal service of the country, on the great trunk lines of mail communication, as would place such service completely within their control, not only upon the main lines, but, also, upon the numerous minor mail-routes leading therefrom ; for of what avail wouhl it be for the Department to enforce, on the part of the contractors upon these latter lines, a strict compliance with the terms of their contracts in relation to schedules of arrivals and de- partures of the mails, if railroad lines are permitted to carry the mails at pleasure without the obligations of contracts to compel their observance of fixed schedules, which are the essential element in a great net-work of post-routes ? It would be unjust, if the law would tolerate it, to relieve them of conditions which are required of all other contractors. The Department has never possessed, or attempted to exercise, any other authority over the schedules of arrivals and departures of mail- trains upon railroads than that necessary to require them to run in conformity with schedules " agreed 07i " between them and the Depart- ment ; and these schedules have usually been arranged in conventions held by the officers of connecting lines so as to obtain the uniform and close schedules of connection required by their own interests. If any road, forming part of a through line between important points, be permitted to carry the mails without executing proper con- tracts for the faithful performance of such service, the Department will not have the power to prevent them from adopting any schedule they may deem best suited to their local business, without regard to 1« their effect upon the regularity of the mails on their own lines, or of their proper connections with others. APPOINTMENT BUREAU. The whole number of post-oflficcs is 8,287 Number filled by Presidential appointment, 88 Number of postoffices established from July 1st, 1862, to June Sftth, 18G3, 137 Number discontinued, 4U0 Number of resignations of postmasters, 602 Number of postmasters removed, €2 Number of postmasters who died, 93 Number of postmasters appointed, 1,480 Number of postmasters commissioned, l,22o Which is shown by States, and in detail, in tabular statement marked (2). The number of requisitions made by postmasters for postoffiee blanks, wrappino; paper and twine, all of which were filled, from the 1st of July, 1862, to the 3()th of June, 18G3, was, 10,646 Post bills firrnished, 234,6 1 1 sheets. Accounts of mails received, 119,140 Accounts of mails sent, 77,186 Accounts current, 39,533 Accounts of newspapers, 16,683 Accounts of prepaid matter, 889 Signature post-bills, 236,760 Accounts of mails received for distribution, o,080 Accounts of mails sent from distributing offices, 16,970 Wrapping paper, 628,320 Cotton twine, 373 pounds Hemp twine, 250 *' Which is shown by States, and in detail, in tabular statement, marked (3). Whole number of special mail agents, 10 Number appointed from July 1st, 18G2, to Juno 30th, 1863, 3 And one resigned, and one was removed during the year. Whole number of route agents 87 Number appointed from July 1st, 1862, to June 30th, 1863, 28 Number removed, 9 Number who resigned, 10 Number who died, 3 Number of marking and rating stamps sent out during the year, 109 In reporting the operations of this bureau, which is cliarged with the procurement of paper, printing, and the furnishing cf postmasters with blanks, wrapping paper and twine, it is proper to refer to the difficulties weich have been encountered during the present fiscal year in obtaining material for thes3 purposes. The amount of paper thus used is very large, and has risen in price from ten cents per pound, the rate at which it was furnished to the Department in 1861, 13 to one dollar a pound now ; and some of the railla are asking more than this. At these rates it has been found impossible, from its scar- city, to procure what was needed to supply the post-office. On account of the policy, which resulted from the necessity of our situation, of refusing to exempt postmasters, except those appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, from military service, many changes have been made, and new and inexperienced postmas- ters have been appointed in the place of those more familiar with the duties. This has been, and is, producing some irregularity in the business of postoffices, and delays in the transmission of mail matter; and from the difficulty of obtaining final settlements with the out-go- ing postmasters, suddenly called into the military service, it will pro- bably result in some pecuniary loss to the Department. In all appointments of clerks of this Department, route agents and postmasters, during the last and present; fiscal years, they have been limited to persons exempt from military duty by being over the age required for the army, or on account of having been disabled by wounds, or from other causes. On account of the great number of men who have been called into the military service, we h;ivc made frequent appointments of females to be postmasters in the class of smaller post-offices ; and they have been generally found faithful and efficient in the discharge of their duties. FINANCE BUREAU. The report of the chief of the finance bureau shows that the balance in the Treasury and its branches, to the credit of the Postoffice De- partment, on the 1st of July, 1862, was $1,5U5,U83 77 The amount deposited by postmasters in the different depositories of the Department, from July 1st, 1862, to June 30th, 1863, was 984.583 78 Amount of appropriation by act of September 22d, 1862, to pay con- tractors for services rendered prior to the 1st of June, 1881, $800,000 00 Amounts appropriated by acts of Oc- tober 9th, and October 13th. 1863, in aid of the revenue of the Depart- ment for the months of December, 1862, and January, 1863, 261,214 78 Amount appropriated by act of 31st December, 1861, making additional appropriations to defray the expen- ses of public printing, 16,000 00 1,077,214 78 Making the amount in the Treaasury and its branches, from all sources, to the 30th of June, 1863, $3,566,882 33 14 Amount brought forward, §3,566,882 33 The number of warrants on the Treasury, issued from July Ist, 1862, to June 3(Jth, 1863, was 2,'IGI, amounting to 1.4o7,G44 40 Leaving in the Treasury and its branches on the 30th of June, 18G3, §2,109,237 93 AVhich was distributed as follows: Richmond, §1,379,094 G7 Charle!-ton, 47L394 57 Kew Orleans, 110,020 10 Augusta, 15,981 04 Galveston, 93,107 43 Lictle Rock, 4,65G 2i Savannah, 28,556 53 Selma, * 5,527 37 '■ $2,109,237 93 The number of warrants issued from July 1st, 1862, to June 30th, 1863, as above stated, was 2,i)61, amounting to $1,457,644 40 The number of drafts issued during the same period was 3,109, amounting to 481,335 62 Amount paid by warrants and drafts, $1,938,980 02 The number and denomination of postage stamps supplied to post- masters from July 1st, 1862, to June 30th, 1863, were as follows: Number of 2 cent stamps, 557,200 value $11,14400 " 5 «* 87,953,977 1,897,698 85 " 10 " 10,417,700 1,041,770 00 «* 20 *' 95,100 19,020 00 Making 49,023 977 $2,969, 632 85 The number of dead letters opened, and containing $13, 7(H) 93 in money, registered and sent out for delivery from July 1st, 1862, to June 30th, 1863, was 1,618 Number of dead letters opened and filed, contain- ing $15,357 23 in money, not sent out during the year, was 794 Number of dead letters, containg drafts, checks, bills of exchange, and other enclosures of value, amounting to $691,567 75, registered and sent out for delivery, 1,313 Total number of dead letters containing money and valuables, 3,725 15 Number of unpaid letters held for postage and re- turned to the dead letter oflSce, 31,395 Number of drop letters held for postage and re- turned to the dead letter office, 1 1,816 Number of dead letters, 475,1 16 Total number of dead letters opened from July Ist, 1862, to June 3()th, 1S63, 518,327 The number of quarterly returns received and passed to the Audi- tor from July 1st, 1862, to June 3()th, 1863, were as follows : For the quarter ending September 30th, 18G2, 5,751 " " December 31st <♦ 5,660 " " March 31st, 1863, 5,252 " " June 3Uth, " 4,336 Total returns for the year, 20,999 The large number of 31,395 letters for transmission through the mails, and of 11,816 drop letters, that is, letters for delivery from the office at which they are mailed — making in all 43,2 11 letters, which were sent to the dead letter office because the postage was not pre-paid on them, as required by law, will serve to show how many persons were, in that way, disappointed by the non-delivery of these letters, and may have attributed their disappointment to the defective organization or management of the postal service, when it was attribu- table to a failure, on the part of those sending them, to comply with the requirements of the law by pre-paying the postage on their letters. There are a number of letters filed in the " Dead Letter Branch " of the Department, which contained funds amounting to $6,413 71, for the return of which to the proper parties the finance bureau has made repeated, but ineffectual, efforts. In order to secure the several sums for delivery to the owners thereof, at some future time, I have caused accurate lists to be prepared of these letters and their contents, and have deposited in the Treasury of the Confederate States, to the credit of the "Dead letter Fund," $6,400 in treasury notes, and $13 71 in specie. MILITARY TELEGRAPHING. The number of agents and operators of Military Telegraph Lines in service on the 1st of July, 1862, was 17 The number appointed July 1st, 1862, to June 30th, 1863, 44 Total number employed during the year, 61 Number who resigned during the year, 26 Number who were dismissed during the year, 2 — 28 Leaving in service June 30th, 1863, 33 Number of watchmen in service July 1st, 1862, 3 Number of watihmen appointed from July Ist, 1862, to June 30th, ^863, 7 16 Total number employed during the jear, i»I Number of watchmen whose services were discontinued, 1 Leaving in service June 30th, 1863, 9 Number of military telegraph offices in operation July l8t, 18G2, IG Number established from July let, 1862, to June 3()th, 1863, SO Total number in operation during the year, 46 Number discontined, 13 Leaving in operation June 30th, 1SC3, 33 Number of miles of military telegraph lines in opera- tion on the Ist of July, 1862, 211 Number of miles built from July Ist, 1862, to June 30th, 1863, (at an average cost of $4S per mile,) 238 Total number of miles in operation during the year, 449 Number of miles taken down, 27 Leaving in operation June 30th, 1863, 422 Cost of agents and operators from July 1st, 1862, to June 3i!th, 1863, $13,480 16 Cost of watchman, 2,964 50 Total cost of agents, operators and watchmen. $15,444 66 Cost of instruments and materials furnished to the va- rious offices from July ".et, 1863, to June 30th, 1863, 12,546 00 Cost of repairs of lines for same period, 313 75 Cost of military lines built during same period, 1 1,-125 41 Cost of military lines built prior to July 1st, 1862, but paid for in this year, 2,304 03 Cost of incidental expenses during same period, 634 66 Total cost of building and operating Military Tele- graph lines during the year, $4i,668 51 Receipts from offices for private dispatches during the year, 3,153 15 Excess of expenditures daring the year, $39,515 '36 Value of property on hand, in use, June , 30th, 1863, $125,040 00 Instruments and material, 34,229 86 Total value, $159,2 69 86 Heretofore, all messages sent over the military telegraph lines on the business of the Government, including messages relating to mili- tary matters, have been sent free of charge, and the receipts from offices on these lines have been limited to sums charged for the trans- mission of messages on private business. If the usual ratc;^ ha'l been chargeil on messages sent over these lines for the Government, it ia believed they would have more than repaid the expenditures, by which they have been built and operated. TRANS-MISSISSIPPI SE^.VICE. In May, 1862, after the^fall of New Orleans, anticipating difficul- ties in keeping up the postal service on routes across the Mississippi river, I sent instructions to Special Agents Blair operating on tho East, and Talbot on the West, of that river, directing them to be vig- ilant in their efforts to keep up that service, giving them special in- structions as to how they wore to proceed, and authorizing and direct- ing them, v>'hen the mails could not be carried by the usual routes and moles of conveyance and by existi-ng contracts, to make temporary contracts for carrying them by any other routes and modes of con- veyance, which could be made available. Congress, acting on the supposition that this service might be im- proved by the appointment of ad-litional agents, emcted the law of 'October 6th, I8G3 authorizing the Postmaster General to employ additional Mail-Agent« to euperintond the transportation of the maiU -across the Mississippi river; and, on the 14th of the same month, 'R. A. Hundley and Charles Ayliff were appointed as additional Special Agents for that purpose, and Averc furnished with similar in- structions to those abo/e mentioned as having been given to Special Agents Blair and Talbot. They were all directed to co-operate with each other in carrying out these instructions, and in the procurement of all information necessary to their execution. After the fall of Vicksburg, renewed instructions were sent out to »11 of these Agents, urging on them the importance of increased vigilance and energy in the performance of their duties, and giving them such additional directions as were required by the new emergen- -cies. And theVate of pay to Contractors, carrying the mails on such routes as were still in operation, leading to and from the river, was greatly increased, after tho service on the mute between Vicksburg -and Monroe had been interrupted by the enemy, on account of tho increased weight of the mails thrown on them, and as an additional inducement to the successful performance of that service. Previous to the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, communication across the Mississippi river and Valley had been rendered irregular and uncertain by the military operations of the enoni}'. Pince tlunr fall and occupation by them, we have had no reliable postal servico across that river. This interruption of t'; '• mails, in addition to the injury and inconvenience resolting from the hindrance of the cheap, rapid and regular transmission df intelligence on social and business pubjects, has prevented the Government from employing this means of conveying its dispatches and official correspondence to officers west of that river, and receiving communications from them. And it has 18 prevented that communication, which was necessary to secure the evidence of the performance of service by contractors for carrying the mail:*; and, in consequence of this, they have not recently been regularly puid, and many of them have not been paid at all for the performance of this service, as recent payments became due. This conditinn of things must be changed, or th:re is danger that the postal service in the States west of the Mississippi will be broken up. lleccntly, contracts have been made with parties of enterprise and means, by which I am led to hope that postal intercourse will be S'?oured with those States with more or less regularitiy, though fixed ft«)hedule3 of arrivals and departures of the mails have not been se- cured, and that we may obtain the forwarding of the back mails each way. Uut 1 am fully persuaded we cannot rely upon any seivice, which can now be performed across that river, for the means of keep- ing the postal service beyond it in successful operation. This will be better und rstood when it is remembered that contractors for carrying t.'tf mails Ciwiiiot be paid until evidence is furnished to the Department, from each end of any route, that the service lias been performed. This evidence is usually forwarded through the mails. As a means of paying contractors and, at the same time, collecting frouk postmas- ters the m )ney3 in their hands belonging to the Department, a collec- tion-order is sent out to the contractor on each route, authorizing him to collect the funds of the Department in the hands of each postmaster on his route, or so much thereof as may satisfy his claim tor service. Then, each postmaster is required to take duplicate receipts for all payments made to contractors, and to forward one of them to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department. After these receipts are returned, the evidence of his perforn)ance of the service furnished, and after the balance due the contractor has been ascertained, a warrant on the Treasury, or some one of its brinches, or a draft on some draft-office, is sent to him to secure his final payment. The Department sends letters of appointment, removal and instructions, and all blanks, wrapping-paper, postage stamps, mail-locks and keys, &c.. to posmasters through the mails ; and receives quarterly returns, evidence of the performance of service and of the payment of contractors, &c., from them. And besides these, an ex- tensive correspondence is all the time kept up with posmasters, con- tractors and the agents of the Department, in relation to changes and irregularities in the service. These facts are presented to show that the Department cannot rely on the uncertain communication, which we may expect across the Mississippi, to keep up the service west of that river. In order to preserve to the people of that portion of the Confederacy the neces- fearj postal f:i('il,ities, I recommend that Congress authorize the appoint- ment of an officer, to be employed west of the Mississippi, and who ahall be vested by the Postmaster General, and, if necessary, by the President, from time to time, with sttch powers, and charged with such duties as will enable him to appoint, remove, and instruct postmasters ftad subordinate agents of the Department; make new contracts or *aaul existing ones, if need be, as authorized by law ; receive returns 19 in relation to the service ; make preliminary settlements with con- tractors, and make to them partial or full payments, as directed by instructions ; distribute postage stamps, post-oflBce blanks, wrapping paper, &c. ; and to perform, generally, all such duties as may be required of him, in conformity with law, tok^eepupthe postal service. All his acts to be subject to the final revision and approval of the Postmaster General and of the proper accounting officers and, where necessary, to the approval of the President. Before disposing of this subject, it is proper for me to say that, among the means recently adopted for securing mail service across the Mississippi, was the establishment of an express mail line, under the authority of " An act authorizing the establishment of express mails," approved May 1, 1863, and the making of a contract with a party represented to have ample means of carrying it out, for the con- veyance of letters and packages, twice a week, between Meridian, Mis- sissippi, and Shreveport, Louisiana. On all letters or packages sent by this line, the postage to be pre-paid, is at the rate of forty cents for each single letter of one-half ounce in weight, and forty cents for every additional half ounce, or fraction of a half ounce. Public advertisement has been made, giving directions for the manner of transmitting letters by this line. APPOINTMENT OF AN ADDITIONAL AUDITOR. Your attention is respectfully called to the necessity for the appoint- ment of an additional Auditor. The First Auditor is now charged with the settlement of the accounts of the State, Treasury, Navy, and Post-office Departments, and of the Department of Justice. The Second Auditor settles the accounts of the War Departmeint. The duties of the First Auditor are believed t) be so great as to render it physically impossible for him to give them that personal supervision, which is necessary to the correct and speedy settlement of the numerous accounts which are now required to be settled in his bureau, and to secure systematic accuracy in his books, and a convenient arrangement of the files of his office for present use and future reference. Indeed, the rapid growth of the duties of this officer, in connection with the accounts of the other Departments, has made it necessary for him to remove his office, and that of his chief clerk and other clerks engaged in the settlement of those accounts, to another building somewhat remote from this Department, rendering it inconvenient for its other officers to obtain his advice and direction in the adjustment of it8> accounts. ^ Leaving out of view the number of accounts he is required to audit for the other Departments, he was required, during the last year, to settle the quarterly accounts of six thousand one hundred and forty- one postmasters, and one thousand five hundred and thirty-four regular and special contractors for carrying the mails; the monthly accounts of ten special mail agents and eighty-seven route agents ; and the monthly accounts of forty-eight telegraph agents, o[ erators, and' watchmen — making in all thirty-three thousand four hundred andi forty accounts annually. to In addition to the settlements of these accounts, the amount of cor- respondence between the Auditor's office and the various postmasters and contractors is very large, embracing frequent instructions to both, relating to the correction of accounts and the payment of balances by postmasters; in sending out collection orders to contractors ; receiv- ing and preserving the evidence of payments made on them ; and in transmitting warrants and drafts to pay contractors, and orders for the collection of balances in the hands of postmasters for transfer to draft and deposit offices, &c. Under the government of the United States, the clerical force en- gaged in auditing the accounts of the I'ost-Office Department was greater than that engaged in the Department proper. The proportion must, of necessity, be about the same here. 1 mention this to show the amount, as well as the importance, of the business of auditing for this Department. The importance of the duties entrusted to the Auditor's office will be more readily comprehended by an examination of the act, approved May 16, 18GI, "to provide for auditing the accounts of the Post-Uffice Department." The mode of settlement of the accounts of this De- partment differs materially from that used in connection with all other classes of public accounts, in this particular: that, while all other accounts are subjected to the revision of a Comptroller of the Trea- sury after they have passed through an examination in the Auditor's office, the arcounts of this Department arc fully and finally adjusted and closed by the Auditor, except in cases of appeal. All suits and legal procet dings for the collection of sums due the Department, and ■correBpoiidence with District Attorneys and Marshals, are conducted by the Auditor, instead of being done by the Department of Justice, &B is the case in regard to the other Departments. These marked distinctions, in conjunction with the number and magnitude of the accounts of the Department, and the necessity for a prompt adjustment of them, and a close collection of its revenues to ineore its ability to meet the requirement of the (.Constitution, that it ehall pay its expenses out of its revenues, make it important that an Auditor should be provided, who can devote his entire attention to the adjustment of these accounts, and to the vigorous collection of the revenues of this Department; and I would respectfully suggest that the efficiency of the Department, and the interest of persons engaged in its eervices, would be greatly promoted by the appointment of a Third Auditor, to be charged with the duties in connection with tie Post- Office Department, now performed by the First Auditor, and I reoom- uvend the passage of a law for that purpose. COMPENSATION TO BUREAU OFFICERS AND CLERKS. It is my duty to call your attention to the inadequacy of the com- rpensation of the bureau officers, clerks and employees of this Depart- ment, for some time past, owing to the depreciation of the value of oar currency, and to the high prices of all the necessaries of life. Their present compensation, which would be ample if it would com- inand the means of living at the ordinary rates, is not safficient to pay their board, leaving out of view their necessary clothing, lodgings, fuel, and such medical attentions as they may happen to require. This condition of affairs has caused several of the clerks, whose services ■were valuable to the Department, to resign their places, and seek other employments to obtain a support. Others of them have con- tinued in the discharge of their duties, under circumstances which do credit to their patriotism. It is necessary, in justice to their situa- tion, as well as to secure the good of the service, that they should be paid enough to defray the ordinary expenses of living. This may be done either by the improvement of the currency, or by furnishing the necessaries of life in kind, or by an increase of their salaries. I have the honor to be. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOHN H. REAGAN, Postmaster General. . The President. e:stii^^- For rent, from Ist of January to 30th June,* 1804, 3,(M»0 00 For fuel, * 8110 00 For gas-li^ht, 2,2(10 $I4,000_0«_> Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JOHN II. REAGAN, Fust master (kneral. The pRRSiDENT. Post Opkick DtPARXMtNT, ) Richmond, Nov, 7th, 18G3. ) Sir : 1 submit the following estimates of appropriations for the com- pensation of agents, operators and watchmen, and for the cost of ma- terials, construction, repriiring and operating railit:ir3'' telegraph lines for six mjuths from the 1st of January to the 3i)th of June, 1804, under the provisions of the act " relative to telegraph lines of the Confederate States," approved May 11th, 1861. The actual expenditure for these purposes, for the six months A'hich ended Scpt'jmber 3')th, 1803, were as follows: Amount puid agents and operators, $9,945 76 " watchmen, 2,356 66 " " office expenses, 77 95 " " office material, . 13,273 lO " " construction, 11,204 44 '* " repairs of lines and instruments, 576 13 *' " ini^idental expenses, 456 15 Total cost, $37,950 37 Taking the foregoing as a basis and allowing 25 per cent, increase on the amounts paid agents, operators and watchmen, and lOU per cent increase on the amounts paid for ofiice material and construction in consequence of the scarcity of material, and the advance in price, the probable cost for the six months, ending June 30th, 1804, will be For agents and operators, $12,432 18 3-4 For watchmen, 2,945 82 1-2 For office expenses, 77 95 Amount carried forward, 15,455 96 1-4 25 Amount brought forward, 15,455 96 1-4 For office material, 26,546 38 For construction, 22,528 88 For repairs cf lines and instruments, 576 13 For incidental expenses, 456 15 Total cost, $65,563 50 1-4 I, therefore, respectfully request that the sura of eixty-five thousand five hundred sixty-three dollars and fifty cents ($05,563 50,) be ap- propriated for the purposes above named, Very respectfully, Your obed't serv't, JOHN H. REAGAN, Postmaster General. APPENDIX POSTMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT. Auditor's Office, Post Office Department, ) November 26th, 1863. \ Hon. J. II. Rf.ag.kvi, Postmaster General: Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report of the finan- cial operations of the Department during the fiscal year, ending June 3(1, 18G3 ; and, in this connection, subjoin tabular statements marked A, B, and C, exhibiting in detail the nature of the receipts aud expen- ditures. TIEVENUE ACCOUNT OF THE POST-OFFICE DEPART- MENT The balance standing on the books of this office to the credit of the revenue account of the Department on the 30th June, 1862, was $1,209,916 IC The receipts from 1st July, 1862, to 30th June, 18G3, shown in tabular statement A, were 3,337,853 01 The amounts placed in the Treasury for the use of the Department, being grants in aid of the revenue, under acts of Congress, were,- under act No. 340, ap- proved Dec. 31, 18GI, "for printing blanks for the Post-Office Department," $ 1 6,000 00 Under act No. 59. approved Sept. 27, 1862, " to pay deficit in the Post-Office Department under the provisions of an act to provide for the payment of sums ascertained to be due for postal service to citizens of the Confederate States by the Postmaster General," $800,000 00 Amounts carried forward, 816,000 00 4,547,769 17 27 Amounts brought forward, 816,000 00 4,547,769 17 Under acts approved the 9th and 13th Oct. 1862, "to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office Department for the months of December, 1862, and January, 1863," 261,214 78 1,077,214 IS Making the aggregate of revenue and grants, 8^,624,983 95 The expenditures of the Department from 1st July, 1862, to June, 1863, inclu- ding arrearages of the previous fiscal year, paid during the last fiscal year, as shown in tabular statement B, were, 3,239,319 49 Leaveing to the credit of the revenue ac- count on the Ist July, 1863, ~ $2,385,664 46 The postal revenue for the fiscal year, as per table A, being 3,337,853 01 And the expenditures for the same period per table B, 3,239,319 49 Les the sums paid on account of United States indebtedness to mail contrac- ors assumed by the Confederate States, amounting to 5(12,017 19 And Confederate States transportation, which accrued prior to July 1, 1862, and remained unpaid as per last re- port, on 30th Septem- ber, 1 862, amounting to 233,644 50 735,661 69 2,503,657 80 The excess of revenue over adjusted expenditures was 834,195 21 Deduct from that excess the balance of transportation due and unpaid on 3()th September, 1863, viz: 159,146 77 And the excess of revenue over all expenditures incur- red as exhibited in statement C, was $675,048 44 The net revenue of the Department from postages, being the aggre- gate amount of balances due the Confederate States by postmasters on the adjustment of their quarterly accounts to 30th June, 1S63, after retaining their compensation and deducting tbe expenses of their offices, was, For the quarter ending September 3»), 1862, $510,411 93 For the quarter ending December 31, 1862, 543,648 51 For the quarter ending March 31, 1863, 53H,?36 23 For the quarter ending June 30, 1863, 740,999 15 And the total net revenue from postage, $2,325,295 8i The amount of letter postage paid in money was, during the Quarter ending September 30th, 1862, 184,164 88 Quarter ending December 31 St, 1862, 185,326 13 Quarter ending March 31 9t, 1863, 183.330 72 Quarter ending June 3iith, 1863, 200,248 01 Total, $753,069 84 The number of accounts audited during the year, and on which the foregoing sum was ascertained, was, for the Quarter ending September 30, 1862, 5,350 Quarter ending December 31, 1862, 5,187 Quarter ending March 31, 1863, 4,810 Quarter ending June 30, 1863, 4,418 Making the total number audited, 19,766 It was discovered in auditing the above number of accounts that errors, amounting to fifty cents and upwards had been made against the Confederate States in 6,675 of them; and copies of that number of accounts current showing the errors were prepared and transmitted to the respective postmasters with proper instructions. The gross amount of postage stamps sold during the year, was, $2,392,332 63 The amount used in the pre-payment of postage and cancelled was, 1,857,798 41 Leaving afloat and principally employed as currency, 534,534 22 CONTRACTORS ACCOUNTS. The average number of contractors accounts settled in each quarter, was. On regular mail routes, 1,534 On special mail routes, 223 Of route and express agents, 128 Of mail messengers and local agents, 124 Making the total number each quarter, 2,009 And the whole number of settlements during the year, 8,036 The amount charged to " accrued transportation" and placed to the credit of mail contractors and others for mail transportation during the year, was, For services on regular mail lines, $1,653,903 00 For tlie supply of special officers, 24,379 10 For salaried of route agents, 80,477 74 Total, $1,758,759 84 The amount credited to " accrued transportation" and charged to contractors and others forovcr credits and damages, $6,564 54 Of fines imposed upon contractors, 1,030 84 Of deductions from contractors' pay, 136,312 97 143,908 35 Leaving the net amount to the credit of contractors and others, $1,614,851 49 Add balance due to contractors and others and remain- ing unpaid on the 30th September, 1862, ' 233,644 50 1,848,405 99 Deduct amount actually paid for mail transportation, excluding U. iS. claims during the year, 1,689,349 22 And the balance remaining unpaid September 30, 1863, is shown to be, 150,146 77 The amount of the appropriation to provide for the payment of sums due citizens of the Confederate States for United States postal ser- vice performed prior to June 1, 1861, was, $8 '0,000 00 The aggregate of United States claims settled by drafts and warrants to September 30, 1863, was, 502,017 19 Leaving an unexpended balance of, 297,982 81 COLLF.CTION OF 1 HE REVENUE OF THE DEPARTMENT. The number of Post-offices in operation during the fiscal year was 6,141. The following Post-offices, twelve in number, were made *' deposi- tories," and were authorized and directed by the Postmaster General to receive and retain, subject to drafts from the Department, the reve- nue of certain adjacent offices, as well as the revenue of their own : Atlanta, Ga. Greenville, S. C. Columbus, Ga. Knoxville, Tenn. Cuthbert, Ga. Mobile, Ala. Columbia, S. C. Macon, Ga. Columbus, Miss. Raleigh, N. C. Grenada, Miss. Spartanburg, S. C. 30 125 are " draft offices," and with the foregoing "depositories" paid during the year, 3,192 drafts issued by the Postmaster General, and countersigned, entered, and sent out by the auditor, for sums amounting in the aggregate to, $5(18,779 71 112 are "depositing offices," and turned over to the Treasurer, Assistant Trea<5urer, and other Confed- erate l>tatcs Depositories, during the year, (exclu- sive of amounts deposited at Galveston and Little Rock) during the last quarter, 1,047,782 49 5,546 are "collection offices," and p;iid during the vear, on orders issued by the auditor^to mail con- tractors, ' 480,1C2 40 346 are ''special" and " mail messenger office?," do- riving their supplies chieiiy from the revenues of this class of offices ; the cost of this supply was, 24,879 10 Showing the amount paid into tlic Treasury, and fjr the uses and purposes of the I'opt-Office Department by the postmasters, after deducting their compensa- tion, and the incidental expenses of their offices to have been, $2,061,043 70 1,890 treasury warrants were issued by the Postmas- ter General, and countersigned, charged, and sent to the Treasury by the Auditor for sums amounting to, $1,26 9,960 9S With great respect, Your obedient servant, J. W. ROBERTSON, Acting Auditor. SI (A.) STATEMENT ejchibiting the Receipts of the Post- Office Department under their several Heads for the Fiscal Year ending June 30?A, 1863. 3d quarter, 1863. 4th quarter, 1862. let quarter, 1883. 2d quarter, 1S5J. Total under each head. Afirg rebate amount. Letter poBtngo N e w 8 II a pnra and parniihletB P^slHge BlaQipo sol d $184,164 83 45,245 24 487,754 48 24 00 |IS6,326 23 44,901 42 542 194 86 ♦183,330 72 46,211 10 659,857 48 $200,248 01 52,304 76 822,525 81 3,761 02 $ 753,069 84 188,665 52 2,392,332 63 3,7S5 OJ Surplus of emolu m.-nt8 $U7,191 60l $772,422 61 1769,399 30 $1,078,839 60 $3,337,858 01 (B.) STATEMENT exhibiting the Expenditures of the Post-Office De- partment under their several Heads for the Fiscal Year ending June SQth, 1863. Transportation Componsat'n of pa]{ • M V S tD '■a«aadx^ ■poiiiooy uoim iHJod*,i«jx 8Q or. ra '^ aa u: I COO W I- ^ ^ ( O M — CO o 00 .rt : c< o wa 1 - a. ri o . 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OS pH CO 3 1 rrJ H H 00 . ^' J- ....... .0 l^i \ :':■:.: --t ■ ' • • -^ . • • * ft» 5'-.oc« s'g-S^g -iii a — £ >£ 3 — II n •5:2 33 A TABULAR STATEMENT, showing the number of Post-Offices in existence, also the number established and discontinued, and the number of resignations, removals, deaths and appointments of Postmasters, and the number of commissions issued to Postmasters from July \st, 1862, to June SOth, 1863, inclusive. H STATES. Alabama Arbansas Floridn Georgia Louisiaua Misaissippi North Carolina South Carolina, Tennessee Texaij Virigiuia o ° 5 il a O . ® o ail 3 > o a M V, fl a ? 1^5 ^A !^ « 5 ft fc 7fi8 28 81 'J9 15 234 619 2 8 17 4 27 167 9 11 22 3 4 48 815 14 40 92 8 13 184 307 1 26 32 5 3 49 568 18 50 57 •6 8 89 1.070 23 37 62 6 12 322 576 8 25 37 2 12 121 95.^ 4 9 34 7 4 66 710 14 47 61 13 2 89 1,732 16 66 89 7 16 251 8,287 137 400 602 62 93 1,480 213 17 47 169 31 73 256 92 53 52 222 1,225 Respectfully submitted. B. N. CLEMENTS, Chief of Appointment Bureau. Post-Office Department, Appointment Bureau. 34 f pH8.5