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,
1790. The accounts from the principal offices for the quarter ending the 1st instant are received, by which it appears that the money collected this quarter will exceed the last about five hundred dollars.
It may be observed that the money collected in the offices on the cross roads, is not all that is produced from those roads; the postage of such letters as return back to the main road is received
in the offices on the main road, and cannot be exactly ascertained. The following estimate is as accurate as the nature of the business will admit:

From Boston to Providence, New London, and New Haven,
Philadelphia to Pittsburg,

Wilmington to Duck creek and Dover,

Richmond to Williamsburg and Norfolk, and Suffolk to Portsmouth,
Hartford to New London, by Middletown,

is an expense to the Department about five hundred and twenty dollars per annum.

ditto,
ditto,
ditto,

ditto,
ditto,
ditto,

eight hundred dollars
ditto.
one hundred and twenty dollars ditto.
three hundred dollars

ditto.

Hartford to Windham, Norwich, New London, and Providence,
Wilmington to Chestertown and Easton, Eastern Shore of Maryland,
Baltimore to Annapolis, clears about

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,
There has been paid for ship letters,

Sundry incidental expenses,

Compensation to the Deputy Postmasters for services,

$442 58
769 35

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.