The report of the Postmaster-General contains a full and clear statement
of the operations and condition of the Post-Office Department. The
ordinary revenues of the Department for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1877, including receipts from the money-order business and from official
stamps and stamped envelopes, amounted to the sum of $27,531,585.26. The
additional sum of $7,013,000 was realized from appropriations from the
general Treasury for various purposes, making the receipts from all
sources $34,544,885.26. The total expenditures during the fiscal year
amounted to $33,486,322.44, leaving an excess of total receipts over
total expenditures of $1,058,562.82, and an excess of total expenditures
over ordinary receipts of $5,954,737.18. Deducting from the total
receipts the sum of $63,261.84, received from international money orders
of the preceding fiscal year, and deducting from the total expenditures
the sum of $1,163,818.20, paid on liabilities incurred in previous
fiscal years, the expenditures and receipts appertaining to the business
of the last fiscal year were as follows: