Statement showing the results of the business of the money-order division-Continued. Canadian international lists of orders of United States issue received, examined, registered, and checked 448 British international lists of orders of United States issue received, examined, registered, and checked $226,047,98 168 German international lists of orders of United States issue received, examined, registered, and checked 804, 363 79 200 Swiss international lists of orders of United States issue received, examined, registered, and checked. 732, 067 33 Canadian international lists of orders of Canadian issue received, exam. ined, registered, and checked British international lists of orders of British issue received, examined, registered, and checked.... 305,598 75 192 German international lists of orders of German issue received, examined, registered, and checked. 405, 725 82 Swiss international lists of orders of Swiss issue received, examined, reg. istered, and checked International accounts of money-order transactions between the United States and the Dominion of Canada received, examined, registered, adjusted, and settled. International accounts of money-order transactions between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland received, examined, registered, adjusted, and settled.. International accounts of money-order transactions between the United States and the German Empire received, examined, registered, adjusted, and settled.. International accounts of money-order transactions between the United States and Switzerland received, examined, registered, adjusted, and settled.. Money-orders withdrawn from the files for examination and investigation Advices of money-orders sent for, examined, compared, and returned. Number of money-order accounts, and amount, prepared, entered, and Letters written and transmitted ANTE-BELLUM CLAIMS. Congress at its last session incorporated in "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1877, the following clause: That the sum of three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated to pay the amount due to mail-contractors for mail-service performed in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, in the years eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and before said States respectively engaged in war against the United States; and the provisions of three thousand four hundred and eighty of Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be applicable to the payments therein authorized: Provided, That any such claims which have been paid by the Confederate States Government shall not be again paid. This clause of the act having been submitted to you for instructions as to the date to which payments could be legally made, I received a letter, under date of March 26, 1877, in which you state: I inclose a copy of the opinion of the Solicitor of the Treasury, which has my approval, that a State can be said to engage in war only when the people of the State in convention decide to engage in a war by some public act done by them. This act in the States in question, by which, in the language of the act, they engaged in war against the United States, was the act of secession of each State. The date of this act of secession, therefore, is the date to which payment can be made under the provisions of this statute. Your attention is called to the limitation of the appropriation to three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The appropriation should not be drawn upon in excess of accounts stated in your office, and payable under the provisions of the law, nor should any money be paid out of this appropriation until the whole of the claims are received and adjusted; and if the appropriation is insufficient, they shonld be paid pro rata. Circulars of instructions have been sent to the claimants under this act, but a very small proportion of the claims has been perfected. No payments have, therefore, been made, and no portion of the appropriation has been drawn from the Treasury. In conclusion, I am gratified to report the work of the bureau, in all its branches, in a very satisfactory condition; and I am pleased again to acknowledge the valuable co-operation I have received from Mr. F. B. Lilley, the deputy auditor, from the chiefs of divisions, and from other efficient and faithful clerks. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Hon. JOHN SHERMAN, J. M. MCGREW, Auditor. Secretary of the Treasury. II. Balances and movement of moneys of the General Treasury, United States.. III. Balances and movement of moneys of the Post-Office Department... VII. Explanatory statement of differences between balances..... VIII. Balances to the credit of the United States disbursing-officers and agents.. IX. Statement, by classes, of United States disbursing-officers and agents.. XXVI. Gold-certificates issued, redeemed, and outstanding, 1866 to 1877. XXVII. Currency-certificates issued, redeemed, and outstanding XXVIII. Seven-thirty notes issued, converted, redeemed, and outstanding 385 |