Post OnTcc Department.
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The Postmaster General has transmitted to the
House of Representatives letter, accompanied with
an estimate Of the appropriation necessary for the
Post Office Department for the fiscal year commencing
on the lst of July. 1S46, amounting to si4l6.OOO,
divided into the following items:


For transportation, S3.O5O. 900
For compensation Of pos.masters, LOCO 900
For ship, steamboat and way-ettcrs, 1900
. Wrapping paper, 10000
Furniture for the post Offices, 4.CO0
Advertising, 5000
Mail bags, 20,CO0
Blanks, 1900
Mail locks, 1000
Mail depredations and special agents, 13,CGO
Clerks for post Offices, 2C0,OOO
Miscellaneous, $4,000


sI,4I6.GO0


ihe expenditures of the Department for the year
ending June 80, ls45 were 8, ,320. 1872
The estimates for the Department for The years
ending June 20, 1s45 1876 1s47 as placed in COM
parison, are


For 1916, $3.50, eco


For 1876, 41I6 OOO


For 1917. 4l6 C00


The Postmaster General states that the expense of
tran sPortation in New York and New England was
reduced at tie lettings in the Spring past about 81 per
cent or about S25OO00, from the former prices and
that II Is probable there will be further reduction al
the lettings the ensuing spring, in the northwestern
SeNhOhs III tue Gust Vi OF OU
cent upon the amount now pad-naking in all re-
ducton of near S4CO,u00 in the of transporta-
ton Tor the next year. The estimates are, noiwh.
standing, continued the same as last year. because Of
the increased service required by the of the last
Congress, in putting into operation the new routes in
the new States, and the additional service that will be
required to extend the mail service to Texas which
will probably increase the cost of transportation as
much for the next year as the reduction expected
from placing the contracts under the act Of Sd March
last.


He further states that special agents, as regular
officers OF the Department have beer dispensed WITH
and the services required of them will hereafter be
performed by the principal postmasters and officers of
the Department. Yet there will be occasionally
necessity for the employment of special agents, but
their time will be limited TO the performance of the
particular service required. These agents and other
expenses cost the Department 81 $40 as each quarter
OF the last year, whilst the expense for that service
for the last two quarters ending Both September and
31st December last, averaged g, ,5S5 SO each quar-
ter The estimate for this service for the next wear
has been reduced to Sl3.C0O.


If 1t be the pleasure Of Congress TO continue the
Magnetic Telegraph between Washington and Balti.
more under the control of the Post Office Department
and the income received from it be applied its ex-
pendItures, the Postmaster General saws that the ap.
preparation required for its maintenance for the COM
ing year commencing lst February, 1916. and ending
3lst January. lS47, may be reduced TO S6UC0 being
$4,000 less than the preceding year.