Transportation of mails on railroads.................

$36,195,116.18

Compensation to postmasters

21,631,724.04

Free-delivery service

19,337,986.00

Compensation of clerks in post-offices.................

17,140,651.11

Railway mail service...........

11,228,845.75

Rural free delivery........

8,011,635.48

Transportation of the mails on star routes.............

6,561,819.35

Railway post-office car service......................

5,033,464.22

Transportation of foreign mails...................................

2,427,160.36

Rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third-class post-offices.......................

2,360,968.91

Compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second-class post-offices ..

1,622,730.12

Mail-messenger service.....

1,091,259.98

Transportation of mails - regulation, screen, or other wagon service...........

828,707.93

Manufacture of stamped envelopes................

724,787.37

Transportation of mails on steamboats....................

634,957.08

Mail depredations and postoffice inspectors................

543,976.55

Transportation of the mails, electric and cable cars. . . .

440,420.41

Manufacture of postage stamps................

336,437.10

Mail bags and catchers.....

274,219.71

Miscellaneous items at first and second class offices .. .

256,620.98

Canceling machines................

195,803.46

Manufacture of postal cards.

$188,865.98

Balance due foreign countries.....................

153,539.82

Registered package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes.................

150,754.82

Pneumatic-tube service ....

142,867.04

Payment of money orders more than one year old. . .

141,390.68

Wrapping twine...........

132,635.47

Transportation of the mails, special facilities.........

122,347.18

Blanks, blank books, etc., for money-order service . .

112,179.20

Stationery for postal service.

68,760.66

Postal laws and regulations .

51,826.48

Printing facing slips, slide labels, etc..............

46,862.47

Postmarking and rating stamps......................

42,572.95

Mail locks and keys........

42,534.33

Wrapping paper...........................

39,835.04

138,316,264.21

Expenditures under 24 smaller items of appropriation.......................................

175,202.06

Total expenditures for the year...................

138,491,466.27

Add expenditures during the year on account of previous years ..................

293,021.70

Total expenditures during the year..................

138,784,487.97

Excess of expenditures over receipts................

4,560,044.73

Receipts.....................................

$134,224,443.24