3. The governors of States may send free the laws, records, and documents of the legislature, to the governors of other States. 4. The Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Navy; Attorney-General; Postmaster-General and Assistants Postmaster-General; Comptrollers, Auditors, Register, and Solicitor of the Treasury; Treasurer; Commissioners of the different Offices and Bureaus; Chiefs of Bureaus in the War and Navy Departments, General in Chief and Adjutant-General, may send and receive free all letters and packages upon official business, but not their private letters or papers. 5. The chief clerk in the State Department may send free public and official documents. 6. Deputy postmasters may send free all such letters and packages as may relate exclusively to the business of their respective offices; and those whose compensation did not exceed $200 for the year ending the 30th of June, 1846, may also send free, through the mails, letters written by themselves, and receive free all written communications on their own private business, not weighing over one-half ounce, but not transient newspapers, handbills, or circulars. 7. Exchange newspapers between editors pass free. Public documents are those printed by the order of either House of Congress, and publications or books procured or purchased by Congress, or either House, for the use of the members. 10. Postage by the New York, Southampton, and Bremen line of Steamers. The following are the rates of postage prescribed by the act of the 3d of March, 1845, for mailable matter sent by this line to Europe: For all letters and packages not exceeding half an ounce in * weight, 24 cents. For all letters and packages over half an ounce and under one ounce, For every additional half ounce, For every letter, newspaper, pamphlet, and price current, The United States postage will be charged in addition to the above upon all mailable matter sent through the mails of the United States to New York, whence the ship sails for Bremen. All mailable matter addressed to England, Ireland, or Scotland, will be left at the British post-office in Cowes or Southampton; and all for France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Portugal, and Africa, will be sent to Havre, in France; a separate bag will be made up for Hamburg and delivered at BremenHaven. Prepayment of the postage will be required at the office from which sent, upon all mailable matter directed to those countries. Upon mailable matter sent to other countries on the eastern continent, prepayment will not be required. It will be mailed for Bremen, where all unpaid postages will be collected for the United States by the Bremen office. 48 15 3 * IX. PUBLIC LANDS. [From the Land Commissioner's Report for 1846.] The sales of public lands during the year 1845 amounted to 1,843,527.05 acres, producing $2,470,298; and in the first, second, and third quarters of 1846, 1,728 408.71 acres were sold, amounting to $2,222,920. A comparison of these exhibits with those of several of the preceding years shows that the sales have been regularly increasing; not stimulated, it is believed, in any degree by speculation, but keeping pace only with the increase of population, and made mainly for the purposes of actual settlement and cultivation; most of the entries being in small subdivisions, and many under the preemption privilege. During the present year, the aggregate quantity of public lands in all the States and Territories proclaimed for sale, amounts to 12,535,878 acres. In Ohio, all the public lands have been brought into market, except a few small islands in the Miami river; and in Illinois, the public lands have all been surveyed and opened to sale, except about 28,000 acres, and some unfinished surveys on the principal rivers. In the northern peninsula and Lake Superior copper region, 1,719,678 acres are ready for sale. States and Territories. 1. Exhibit of the quantities of Public Land (exclusive of the sixteenth, or school sections) in each State and Territory advertised for sale in the year 1846; the quantities, the plats of survey of which have been returned to the General Land Office; the quantities prepared for market not yet ble quantities which will be prepared in the advertised; and the proba year 1847. Ohio, Michigan, Quantities advertised for Acres. 279,048 Wisconsin, 1,281,761 1,181,123 Quantities, the plats of sur- Prior to the Since the er's last an- Acres. 444,624 463,026 290,640 529,056 591,617 Iowa, Missouri, 3,143,368 2,134,956 Arkansas, 3,811,193 1,998,493 Louisiana, Mississippi, 1,574,040 Alabama, Florida, Acres. 58 1,256,652 752,705 827,806 1,387,232 2,756,303 66,919 711 Quantities prepared for Acres. 444,682 1,719,678 27,859 481,205 1,574,040 67,854 1,263,585 1,126,417 318,978 Total, 12,535,878 9,703,688 7,383,631 4,551,441 the plats of survey of Estimated quantities, which are expected to be returned in the year 1847. Acres. 445,000 1,250,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 238,300 378,820 1,500,000 500,000 943,603 2,000,000 1,500,000 9,195,000 2. Quantity of Public Land sold, and the Amount paid for it in each year, from 1833 to the third quarter of 1846. Dollars. Years. Acres. Years. States and Territories. Acres. 1833 3,856,227.56 4,972,284.84|| 1841 1843 1838 1846* 1839 1840 Ohio, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, * Embracing only three quarters of the year. Total for 13 years and three quarters. 3. Statement of Public Lands sold, and of Payments into the Treasury, on account thereof, in the year 1845. Amount received in Cash, Treasu- States and 1,164,796.11 1,463,364.06 1,129,217.58 1,417,972.06 1,605,264.06 2,016,044.30 1,754,763.13 2,207,678.04 1,843,527.05 2,470,303.17 1,728,408.71 2,222,920.77 4,976,382.87 6,464,556.79 Total,† 66,609,055.83 84,605,466.45 2,236,889.74 2,789,637.53|| Lands sold, after de- entries. 110,252.24 $285,954 $282,425 78,562.90 98,260 96,377 486,576.66 609,366 605,178 247,572.61 309,994 303,408 77,895.14 97,369 96,888 28,235.58 35,294 35,194 88,830.80 117,107 115,742 25,016.47 34,069 34,069 36,240.83 45,302 45,147 20,053.84 25,067 22,517 209,636.76 262,146 262,046 Wisconsin, 434,653.22 550,370 550,073 Total, 1,843,527.05 2,470,298 2,499,064 Acres. Cash. Pur chase Cash. money. Ohio, 54,587.68 $116,716 $116,257 Missouri, 113,778.31 142,312 141,586 Alabama, 37,238 30,045.97 37,558 73,707 27,307 43,920.14 55,151 38.451 Treasurer's Receipts. 34.558 212,582 391,980 Mississippi, Louisiana, Michigan, 18,648.24 25,379 25.379 21,734 17,384 Arkansas, 17,387.60 34,558 Iowa, 170,055.96 212 582 Wisconsin, 318,027.32 400,821 Total, 1,202,744.15 1,557,666 1,461,705 · $50 Forfeited land Treasury stock Notes. and military land scrip. Treasurer's Receipts. 4. Statement of Public Lands sold, and of Payments into the Treasury, on account thereof in the first and second quarters of the Lands sold, after de- Amount received in Cash, Treasurer's Receipts, Treasury Notes, ducting erroneous and in forfeited Land Stock and Military Land Scrip. year 1846. entries. $413 6,185 200 $9,655 $269,745 10,184 102,798 33,511 532,285 20,217 33 111 11,818 10 517 6,843 28,209 14,146 118,3 6 5,539 25.4 4 55,751 2,550 18.4 7 10,816 237,13 134 162 21,932 535,99 184 9,930 11,117 158,338 2,363,745 265 155 9,759 $3.529 1883 3,7:3 400 282 100 1,100 100 50 Dollars. 2,750 6,091 16,506 12,352 Amount Amount Amount paid into Amount 5. Statement of Public Lands sold, and of Payments into the Treasury, on account thereof, in the third quarter of the year 1846. During the first quarter,· Legislature, Total customs,⚫ From sales of public lands,. From miscellaneous sources,⚫ Treasu- Receipts. Forfeited Treasury stock $862 Total receipts, exclusive of loans, &c.,.. Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1844 and '45, Grand total,. The expenditures, exclusive of trust funds, were as follows: Civil List. Governments in the Territories,· Commissioner of the Public Buildings,. Secretary to sign patents,· Total civil list,. $50 50 1,475 100 100 300 100 X. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. [From a Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, December 9, 1846.] 1. Statement of Duties, Revenues, and Public Expenditures during the fiscal years ending June 30, 1845, and June 30, 1846. The receipts into the treasury were as follows: From customs, viz: Amount paid into Amount the treaof inci-sury dudental ring the expen- Year ending third quarter of the Year. 12,481 2,138 1,586 5,667 1,316 5,661 2,097 1,931 940 4,060 5,916 116,138 9,791 316,064) 4,621 Year ending June 30, 1846. |