Show the expenditures of the governments I 1 ern ments ment the amount a ma lint ot of expedit expenditures ures of the goi govern emment eminent within the fiscal year ending on the ulta alt were w ere in in round numbers while hile the appropriations of that 3 ear were but as in practice a portion of what is is appropriated for a fiscal ear car la is not expended until after its expiration the aly only way ay of deer determining mining hat are real expenditures tures res is i ty by taking the yearly at notions by congress these are alt all spent lott or last be they great or a sal As A before stated the app appropriations for tie is last fiscal year ear were while I 1 ahe he receipts have been considerably less than those from customs for the la latt lait tt three quarters of the year have hae been or just a bout about the he figure estimate m oy by wv cobb tie he was not quite as exact in b his s estimates during darlng g the panic of 1857 is riot not strange stange since that lie he was fresh in the position of c Secre secretary tarr of the treasury sal 1 of course could not ll t foresee all the disasters to trade precipitated by a general explosion of paper money institutions As the receipts from customs for the last fiscal year are it is reasonable to suppose that they will be for far the f fiscal year now flow entered upon at least sales of lands ac will carry that sum up above sixty millions leaving from fifteen to twenty millions applicable to the redemption ot of treasury notes noles since that the appropriations definite and indefinite to for the present fiscal year are not above a As A it has been generally a dated through reports hence that salaries of postmasters throughout the country co antry and of their clerks with other expenses would be defrayed fro from accruing hostages po stages after june alt it is proper to say that no such view is ig countee alced at the department on the contrary it is held that not a dollar can be legally expended expanded until congress meets and makes IT appropriation on post air offie ize ac accorn corint W what hat is received by postmasters after the tilt is held to be in the treasury and cannot be paid out for any purpose they were in effect treasur treasury y officers and an d the amount that will accumulate in their hands before janu av ary next will be at least in specie |