Ex. Doc. No. 46.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

ESTIMATES OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

LETTER

FROM

THE POSTMASTER GENERAL

SUBMITTING

Specific estimates of the sums of money expected to be required for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1848.

MARCH 2, 1848.

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.

....

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, February 17, 1848.

SIR: In obedience to the second section of the act of Congress changing the organization of the Post Office Department, approved July 2, 1836, I have the honor to submit, herewith, "specific estimates of the sums of money expected to be required for the service of the department" during the fiscal year commencing July 1,

1848:

For transportation of the mails. within the United States $2,540,700
For transportation in the four steam ships, to be in ope-
ration between New York and Bremen, according to
the contract made originally with Edward Mills ....
For compensation to postmasters.

For ship, steamboat, and way letters.........
For wrapping paper

For office furniture, (in the offices of postmasters)..

For advertising..
For mail bags..
For blanks..

400,000

1,075,000

25,000

18,000

3,000

35,000

25,000

18,000

For mail locks, keys, and stamps....

For mail depredations and special agents

For clerks for offices, (in the offices of postmasters)...
For miscellaneous....

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, C. JOHNSON,

Postmaster General.

Hon. ROBERT C. WINTHROP,

$5,000

12,000

230,000

55,000

$4,441,700

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Ex. Doc. No. 47.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

PASSENGERS ARRIVING IN THE UNITED STATES.

LETTER

FROM

THE SECRETARY OF STATE,

TRANSMITTING

Statements of the number and designation of passengers arriving in the United States during the year ending September 30, 1847.

MARCH 3, 1848.

Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, March 3, 1848.

SIR: Agreeably to the act of Congress of March 2, 1819, regulating passenger ships and vessels, I have the honor to communicate herewith tabular statements showing the number and designation of passengers who arrived in each collection district of the United States, during the year ending September 30, 1847, compiled from the returns made to this department by the collectors, in conformity with the provisions of said act.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

JAMES BUCHANAN. To the Hon. SPEAKER of the House of Representatives.

STATEMENT

OF THE

NUMBER AND DESIGNATION

OF

PASSENGERS ARRIVING IN THE UNITED STATES,

On shipboard, during the year ending September 30, 1847.