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258 are obtained, and the classification of the expenditures; quantity and value of articles manufactured under the internal revenue laws, like liquors and proprietary medicines—everything, in fact, relating to the financial condition of the country.

The publications of the Treasury Department bearing upon social questions are chiefly statistical in their character, and from what has been said it is easily seen that they can be divided into two classes, relating, first, to finance, and, second, to commerce, navigation, and immigration.

The annual report of the secretary embraces the reports of the various bureau officers in the department. These comprehend:

a. The report of the Treasurer, in which are to be found the receipts and expenditures of the government, the condition of the various funds, the amount of money in the treasury, and kindred facts.

b. The report of the Register of the Treasury, whose contributions relate to the condition of the national debt and the details of the expenditures and receipts of the government.

c. The report of the Comptroller of the Currency, in which are to be found all the facts relating to the number and condition of national banks, state banks and savings banks, and the amount of money in circulation. In the report for 1873 there was given to the public the first general information relating to the condition of banking institutions other than national. Pursuant to an act of Congress of that year (February 19, 1873), the comptroller of the Currency has since then collected information relating to banks of various kinds; that is, savings, state, or private banks, and loan and trust companies. The information thus collected is valuable, so far as it goes, but not complete.

d. The report of the Director of the Mint, which gives the amount of money coined, the amount of gold and silver exported and imported, the stock of gold in the various countries of the world, the value of foreign coins, etc. One of his most valuable reports is a special one, relating to the production and consumption of gold and silver in the United States.

e. The report of the Commissioner of Navigation, which gives information concerning our merchant marine and the wages and condition of seamen.