Montserrat and the Virgin Islands), Belgium, Portugal, Tasmania, the Hawaiian Republic, Sweden, Japan, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Bahama Islands, the colony of Trinidad and Tobago, Austria, Hungary, British Guiana, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Bermuda, and the colony of South Australia, Salvador, Hong Kong and Republic of Honduras. The fees for International Money-Orders are as follows: For sums not exceeding $10.. Over $10 and not exceeding $20). Over $20 and not exceeding $30 Over $30 and not exceeding $40 10c 20c 30c 40c ....... 50c 60c 70c 80c 90c .$1 00 FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR 1896. The expenditures of the postal service for the year are shown by items in the following statement: Special-delivery service.... Mail bags and catchers. Mail depredations and postoffice inspectors.. Manufacture of postal cards... Transportation of the mails-special facilities, etc. Manufacture of postage stamps. Balance due foreign countries.. Miscellaneous expenses for post-offices, including furniture. Registered package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes Stationery for post-offices. Wrapping paper... Expenditures under 18 smaller items of appropriations...... Total expenditures...... The postal revenue from all sources was as follows: Sales of stamps, stamped envelopes, letter sheets, and postal cards.. Box rents Ordinary money-order receipts. Receipts from unclaimed money orders more than a year old.. 7,420,647 92 5,836,221 38 3,134,992 72 1,509,250 17 1,174,356 26 845,360 78 752, 958 09 605, 299 51 388,606 22 318,008 92 STATEMENT OF AMOUNT OF MAIL MATTER HANDLED. The following information relative to the amount of matter carried in the mails of this country during the year ending June 30, 1896: Number of letters and other pieces of first-cass matter mailed during the year at letter rates of postage.... Number of letters and other fisrt-class matter on official business, free..... Total letters paid and free..... Number of postal cards mailed... Number of newspapers and periodicals mailed by publishers and news agents, paid. Number of newspapers and periodicals mailed free in the several "counties of publication Number of newspapers and periodicals mailed by others than publishers and news agents.. Total pieces of second-class matter... Number of pieces of third-class matter mailed-books, pamphlets, circulars, etc.... Number of pieces of fourth-class matter mailed - packages of merchandise, etc., including seeds, plants, etc.... Aggregate of pieces of all classes mailed... 2,535,666, 300 94,544,300 2,630, 210, 600 524,820, 150 1,216,986,055 523,482, 970 90,653, 517 1,831, 122, 542 649,951,000 57,614,900 5,693, 719, 192 |