The transportation of the mail exceeds the income of the Department this quarter, 34 84 By this statement it appears that the Department falls in debt thirty-four dollars and eighty-four cents, exclusive of the expense of the General Post Office, in the quarter ending the 1st January, From Boston to Providence, New London, and New Haven, Wilmington to Duck creek and Dover, Richmond to Williamsburg and Norfolk, and Suffolk to Portsmouth, is an expense to the Department about five hundred and twenty dollars per annum. ditto, ditto, eight hundred dollars ditto. Hartford to Windham, Norwich, New London, and Providence, New York to Albany, the contractor receives the postage for carrying the mail. one hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The main road from Edenton, in North Carolina, to Savannah, in Georgia, is an expense to the Department of about four thousand dollars per annum. SAMUEL OSGOOD. GENERAL POST OFFICE, New York, April 24th, 1790. 2d CONGRESS.] No. 4. [1st SESSION. LIST OF POST OFFICES, AND THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 5, 1791. COMMUNICATED TO CONGRESS, BY THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, DURING THE SESSION OF 1791-2. Return of Post Offices in the United States, showing the amount of Postage collected in each, the Incidental Expenses, Compensation to Deputies, and Nett Revenue from October 5, 1790, to October 5, 1791. The sum total collected in all the Post Offices, from October 5, 1790, to October 5, 1791, Sundry incidental expenses, Compensation to the Deputy Postmasters for services, $442 58 9,336 94 $42,255 14 10,548 87 $31,706 27 Clerk, 500 00 Incidental expenses of the General Post Office, viz: books, Comptroller's bills, post bills, and stationary for the deputies' office, rent, and wood, 611 37 3,611 37 $26,207 76 Nett revenue from October, 1790, to October, 1791, $5,498 51 The amount of postage at several of the small offices, for the quarter ending October, 1791, is estimated in the above statement, the accounts not having come to hand, but they cannot differ much from the estimate, the quarter estimated being set at the average of the three preceding quarters. Expense of transporting the Mail, agreeably to contracts made for the year 1791. |