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I am satisfied also that the practice of certifying checks, even when funds are in the bank to the credit of the drawer of the check, is fraught with evil, and that it ought to be entirely prohibited.

The following statement exhibits the receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869:

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The following statement exhibits the receipts and expenditures for

the quarter ending September 30, 1869:

300,000 00

321, 490, 597 75

49, 453, 149 46

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The estimated receipts and expenditures for the three remaining quarters of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870, are as follows:

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Estimated receipts and expenditures, based upon existing laws, for

the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871:

209, 250, 000 00

76, 750,000 00

Customs

Internal revenue

Lands...

Miscellaneous sources

Total ..

RECEIPTS.

EXPENDITURES.

Civil service and miscellaneous...... $60, 000, 000 00

$185, 000, 000 00

175, 000, 000 00

5, 000, 000 00

28, 000, 000 00

393, 000, 000 00

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Estimated receipts in excess of expenditures .. 102, 000, 000 00

The foregoing estimates of receipts are made upon the assumption that the laws now in force relating to customs and internal revenue will not be so changed as to materially affect the revenues, and the estimates of expenditures are based upon the expectation that no extraordinary appropriations will be made.

Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE,

GEO. S. BOUTWELL,
Secretary of the Treasury.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Statement of the indebtedness of

Acts authorizing loans, and synopsis of same.

Acts of July 21, 1841, and April 15, 1842.

Act of Jan. 28, 1847.......

Authorized a loan of $12,000,000, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per annum, and reimbursable at the will of the Secretary, after six months' notice, or at any time after three years from January 1, 1842. The act of April 15, 1842, authorized the loan of an additional sum of $5,000,000, and made the amount obtained on the loan after the passage of this act reimbursable after six months' notice, or at any time not exceeding twenty years from January 1, 1843. This loan was made for the purpose of redeeming outstanding treasury notes, and to defray any of the public expenses. Authorized the issue of $23,000,000 in treasury notes, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per annum, with authority to borrow any portion of the amount, and issue bonds therefor, bearing interest at a rate not exceed ing 6 per cent., and redeemable after December 31, 1867. The 13th section authorized the funding of these notes into bonds of the same description. The act limited the amount to be borrowed or issued in treasury notes and funded as aforesaid to $23,000,000, but authorized the funding of treasury notes issued under former acts beyond that amount. The excess of the $23,000,000 is made up of treasury notes funded under the 14th section. Authorized a loan of $16,000,000, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per annum, and reimbursable at any time after twenty years from July 1, 1848. Authority was given the Secretary to purchase the stock at any time. Act of Sept. 9, 1850... Authorized the issue of $10,000,000 in bonds, bearing 5 per cent. interest, and redeemable at the end of fourteen years, to indemnify the State of Texas for her relinquishment of all claims upon the United States for liability of the debts of Texas, and for compensation for the surrender to the United States of her ships, forts, arsenals, custom-houses, &c., which became the property of the United States at the time of annexation."

Act of March 31, 1848.

Old funded and un-
funded debts.
Acts prior to 1857

Act of Dec. 23, 1857..

Consisting of unclaimed dividends upon stocks issued before the year 1800, and those issued during the war of 1812.

Different issues of treasury notes.

Authorized an issue of $20,000,0.0 in treasury notes, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per annum, and receivable in payment of all public dues, and to be redeemed after the expiration of one year from date of said

notes.

Act of June 14, 1858.. Authorized a loan of $20,000,000, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum, and reimbursable at the option of the government at any time after the expiration of fifteen years from January 1, 1859.

Act of June 22, 1860.. Authorized a loan of $21,000.00), bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per annum, and reimbursable within a period not beyond twenty years, and not less than ten years, for the redemption of outstanding treasury notes, and for no other purpose.

Act of Dec. 17, 1860... Authorized an issue of $10,000,000 in treasury notes, to be redeemed after the expiration of one year from the date of issue, and bearing such a rate of interest as may be offered by the lowest bidders. Authority was given to issue these notes in payment of warrants in favor of public creditors, at their par value, bearing 6 per cent. interest per annum. Act of Feb. 8, 1861.... Authorized a loan of $25,000,000, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per annum, and reimbursable within a period not beyond twenty years, nor less than ten years. This loan was made for the payment of the current expenses, and was to be awarded to the most favorable bidders.

Act of March 2, 1861. Authorized a loan of $10,000,000, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per annum, and reimbursable after the expiration of ten years from July 1, 1861. In case proposals for the loan were not acceptable, authority was given to issue the whole amount in treasury notes bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum. Authority was also given to substitute treasury notes for the whole or any part of the loans, for which the Secretary was by law authorized to contract and issue bonds at the time of the passage of this act, and such treasury notes were to be made receivable in payment of all public dues, and redeemable at any time within two years from March 2, 1861.

Act of March 2, 1861.

Acts of July 17, 1861, and August 5, 1861.

Authorized an issue, should the Secretary of the Treasury deem it expedient, of $2,800,000 in coupon bonds, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per anuum, and redeemable in twenty years, for the payment of expenses incurred by the Territories of Washington and Oregon in the suppression of Indian hostilities during the years 1855 and 1856.

Authorized a loan of $250,000,000, for which could be issued bonds bearing. interest at a rate not exceeding 7 per cent. per annum, irredeemable for twenty years, and after that redeemable at the pleasure of the United States; treasury notes bearing interest at the rate of 7.30 per cent. per annum, pay. able three years after date, and United States notes without interest, payable on demand, to the extent of $5,000,000, (increased by act of February 12, 1862, to $60,000,000,) to bonds and treasury notes to be issued in such propor tions of each as the Secretary may deem advisable. The supplementary act of August 5, 1861, authorized an issue of bonds bearing 6 per cent. interest

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Loan of 1842...20 years After Dec. 31,6 per ct. per Par.. $17,000,000 $8,000,000 1862.

annum.

$6,000 00

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Statement of the indebtedness of

Acts authorizing loans, and synopsis of same.

Acts of July 17, 1861, and August 5, 1861 -Continued.

per annum, and payable at the pleasure of the United States after twenty years from date, which may be issued in exchange for 7.30 treasury notes, but no such bonds to be issued for a less sum than $500; and the whole amount of such bonds not to exceed the whole amount of 7.30 treasury notes issued. Act of Feb. 25, 1862... Authorized the issue of $500,000,000 in 6 per cent. bonds, redeemable after five years, and payable twenty years from date, which may be exchanged for United States notes. Also,

June 30, 1864.
January 28, 1865.

Act of Feb. 25, 1862...

Act of July 11, 1862..

Resolution of Congress, January 17, 1863.

Act of March 3, 1863.

Authorized the issue of not over $11,000,000 additional of similar bonds, to meet subscriptions already made and paid for.

On hand unsold in the United States or Europe.

Authorized the issue of $150,000,000 in legal-tender U. S. notes, $50,000,000 of which to be in lieu of demand notes issued under act of July 17, 1861. Authorized an additional issue of $150,000,000 legal-tender notes, $35,000,000 of which might be in denominations less than five dollars; $50,000,000 of this issue to be reserved to pay temporary loans promptly in case of emergency. Authorized the issue of $100,000,000 in United States notes for the immediate payment of the army and navy, such notes to be a part of the amount provided for in any bill that may hereafter be passed by this Congress. (The amount in this resolution is included in act of March 3, 1863.)

A further issue of $150,000,000 in United States notes, for the purpose of converting the treasury notes which may be issued under this act, and for no other purpose. And a further issue, if necessary, for the payment of the army and navy, and other creditors of the government, of $150,000,000 in United States notes, which amount includes the $100,000,000 authorized by the joint resolution of Congress, January 17, 1863.

Act of April 12, 1866.. Provided, That of the United States notes, not more than ten millions of dollars

may be retired and canceled within six months from the passage of this act, and thereafter not more than four millions of dollars in any one month: And provided further, That the act to which this is an amendment shall continue in full force in all its provisions, except as modified by this act.

Act of Feb. 25, 1862... Authorized a temporary loan of $25,000,000 in United States notes, for not less

March 17, 1862.

July 11, 1862..

Act of June 30, 1864..

Act of March 3, 1863.

Act of June 30, 1864..

than thirty days, payable after ten days' notice, at 5 per cent. interest per annum. (This was increased to $100,000,000 by the following acts.)

Authorized an increase of mporary loans of $25,000,000, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum.

Authorized a further increase of temporary loans of $50,000,000, making the whole amount authorized $100,000,000.

Authorized the increase of temporary loans to not exceeding $150,000,000, at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent.

Authorized a loan of $300,000,000 for this, and $600,000,000 for the next fiscal year, for which could be issued bonds running not less than ten nor more than forty years, principal and interest payable in coin, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per annum, payable in bonds not exceeding $100 annually, and on all others semi-annually, the whole amount of bonds, treasury notes, and United States notes, issued under this act, not to exceed the sum of $900,000,000. And so much of this act as limits the loan to the current fiscal year is repealed by act of June 30, 1864, which also repeals the authority to borrow money conferred by section 1, except so far as it may affect $75,000,000 of bonds already advertised.

Act of March 3, 1863.. And treasury notes to the amount of $400,000,000, not exceeding three years to run, with interest at not over 6 per cent. per annum, principal and interest payable in lawful money, which may be made a legal-tender for their face value, excluding interest or convertible into United States notes. Secretary may receive gold on deposit and issue certificates therefor, in sums not less than twenty dollars.

Act of March 3, 1864.. Authorizes the issue of bonds not exceeding $200,000,000, bearing date March 1, 1864, or any subsequent period, redeemable at the pleasure of the government after any period not less than five years, and payable at any period not more than forty years from date, in coin, bearing interest not exceeding 6 per cent. yearly, payable on bonds not over one hundred dollars annually, and on all other bonds semi-annually, in coin.

Act of March 1, 1862.. Authorized an issue of certificates of indebtedness, payable one year from date, in settlement of audited claims against the government. Interest 6 per cent. per annum, payable in coin; and by

Act of March 3, 1863.

Act of July 17, 1862.

Payable in lawful currency on those issued after that date. Amount of issue not specified.

Authorized an issue of notes of the fractional parts of one dollar, receivable in payment of all dues, except customs, less than five dollars, and exchangeable for United States notes in sums not less than five dollars. Amount of issue not specified.

Act of March 3, 1863.. Authorized an issue not exceeding $50,000,000 in fractional currency, (in lieu of postage or other stamps,) exchangeable for United States notes in sums not less than three dollars, and receivable for any dues to the United States less

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