Amount of Fractional Currency estimated as lost or destroyed..... 5,340 00 8,375,934 00 $312,924,016 00 .$2,117,917,132 57 Total Cash in Treasury, at date........ 2,089,336,099 42 2,046,027,065 94 2,027,414,325 79 2,016,049,722 83 1,915,594,183 00 1,778,285,340 00 .1,742,729,369 00 1,607,543,676 00 $64,623,512 00 Bonds to Pacific Railway Companies, Interest payable in Lawful Money. Principal outstanding....... 'Interest accrued and not yet paid.. Interest paid by the United States.. Interest repaid by Transportation of Mails, etc. By Cash Payments 5 per cent. net earnings. Balance of Interest paid by the United States.. 1,938,705 00 55,344,683 00 15,123,860 00 655,199 00 38,565,623 00 Balance of Interest paid by the United States, $38,565,623. *In the summer of 1881, all the 5 and 6 per cent. Bonds due at that time were made payable at the pleasure of the Government at 3 per cent., or paid at maturity. The Bonds returned to the holders at 8 per cent., amounted to $560.957,400. These have since been refunded into 3 per cents., or paid off, till, at this time, January, 1883, there are only 99,323,200 of the 3 per cent, extended Bonds out standing. 'PUBLIC DEBT AT ITS MAXIMUM-CURRENCY AT ITS COIN VALUE. The public debt reached its maximum on August 31, 1865, when it amounted to Of these obligatioms $684,138,959 were a legal-tender in the payment of all debts, public and private, except customs, duties and interest on the public debt. The amount of legal-tender notes, demand notes, fractional currency, and national currency, and national bank notes, outstanding on August 31, 1865, and annually thereafter, from January 1, 1866, to January 1, 1883, are shown by the following table, together with the currency price of gold, and the gold price of currency, at each date: 382,000,000 72,317 46,390,598 354,128,250 782,591,165 112 50 88 89 88 69 26,348,206 321,595,606 714,064,358 107 00 93 40 17,764,109 321,672,505 689,443,922 102 87 97 21 16,211,193 322,460,715 685,414,989 100 25 99 75 7.098.129 861.220.003 | 715,054,108 |100 00 7,065,878 1361 14 786 714,821,555 100 00 7,022,074 | 362,727,747 716,490,132 | 100 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 PAPER MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES. The amount of Legal Tender notes, Demand Notes, Fractional Currency, and National Bank Notes outstanding on August 31, 1865, and annually thereafter, from January 1, 1866, to December 1, 1882, and the amounts outstanding January 1, 1883, are shown by the following table, together with the currency price of gold and the gold price of currency at each date, prepared by the Comptroller of the Currency: Date. Aug31,1865... Jan. 1, 1868. Jan. 1, 1869. Jan. 1, 1870. Jan. 1, 1871. Nov. 1, 1878. Jan. 1, 1879. Nov. 1, 1879 July 1, 1880.. April 1, 1881.. March 1, 1882...... $69 32 144 50 69 20 75 18 687,504,279) 689,866,110 $432,757,604 $402,955 $26,344,742 $176,213,955 $635,719,266 $144 25 From the organization of the U. S. Government to the 30th day of June, 1861, that day being the close of the fiscal year, the U. S. Government had called into its Treasury from the people the following sums from the following sources: The following sums have been paid out as interest on Bonds for the past 22 years for the fiscal years ending: |