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POPULATION, NET REVENUE, AND NET EXPENDITURES OF THE UNITED STATES, VARIOUS YEARS, 1840 TO JUNE 30, 1898, AND PER CAPITA OF THE REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES

Per Capita Per Capita Year Population Net Revenue on Revenue Net Expenses E.vpondi- 1 11 res 1840 . 17,069,453 $19,480,115.00 $1.14 $24,317,579.00 $1.42 1850 28,191,876 4;-!,6( �8,-ti9.00 1.88 39,548,492.00 1.71 1860 81,44:3,:321 56, 064, 60S. 00 1.78 6:3,1:30,598.00 2.01 1870
 * 38,558,371

411,255,47!5.00 10.67 309,653,561.00 8.03 1880 50,155,783 333,526,611.00 6.65 267.642,95s.0 5.:34 1890 62,622,250 403,080,982.00 6.43 a318,04O,71O.O0 5.07 1891 6:3,975,000 392,612,447.31 6.14 &365,778,9ur..;i") 5.71 1892 65,516,000 354,987,7^.24 5.42 345,0L'8,:3;;(i.r>s 5.27 1893 66,946,000 385,819,628.78 5.76 383,477,951.49 5.78 1894 68,397,000 297,722,019.25 4.37 367,525,27it..S] 5.37 1805 69,878,000 313,:390,075.11 4.48 356,195,298.29 5.10 1 ^96 71,390,000 326,976,200.;38 4.58 352,179,446.08 4.93 1M>7 72,937,000 347,721,705.16 4.77 365,774,159.57 5.01 1898 . c 74,522,000 405,82 1,:3:35. 20 5.41 443,:36S.5S2.80 5.95

a This includes $20,304,224.06 of " premiums on purchase of bonds." b This includes $10,401,220.61 of " pi-emiums on purchase of bonds." c Estimated. Note. — The net revenue and expenses and per capita on revenues for 1891 were errone- ously stated by the Register of the Treasury in his reports for 1891, 1892, and 1893. (See Finance Reports for those years, pp. 845, 767, and 906 )

INTERNAL AND CUSTOMS REVENUE AND EXPENSES OF COLLECTING, VARIOUS YEARS, 1860 TO 1898

Internal Revenue Customs Revenue Year enoiiifj June 30— Revenue Expenses of Col- lecting a Revenue Expenses of Col- lecting & 1860 1870 1880 1890 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 Dollars (c) 184,899,756.49 124,009,373.92 142,606,705.81 147,111,232.81 14:3,421,672.02 146,762,864.74 146.688.574.29 170,900,641.49 Dollars (c) 7,253,439.81 8,657,105.10 8,780,950.41 8,749,029.22 3,7.>1,9:35.45 3,846,887.55 3,606,798.85 8,705,256.95 Per cent (c) - 3.92 2.95 2.65 2.55 2.62 2.62 2.46 2.17 Dollars 53,187,511.87 194,538,874.44 186,522,064.011 229,668,584.57 131,818,5:30.62 152,158,617.45 160,021,751.67 176,554,126.65 149,575,062.35 Dollars 3,387,188.15 (5.2:38,747.68 6,(128,253.58 6,S59,9S6.09 6,791,872.86 6,780,690.92 7,237,796.40 7,075,372.05 7,152,276.58 Per cent 6.27 3.20 3.23 J.98 5.15 4.48 4.52 4.01 4.78

a The cost of collecting the internal revenue embraces the following items : Salaries and expenses of collectors, including pay of deputy collectors, clerks, etc., and including expenses incident to enforcing the provisions of law taxing oleomargarine ; salaries and expenses of revenue agents, surveyors of distilleries, gaugers, storekeepers, and miscellaneous expenses ; jiaper for internal-revenue stamps, and expenses of detecting and punishing violations of internal-revenue laws. b The expenses of collecting the revenue from customs includes all sums drawn from the appropriation made by Congress for that purpose. The money is expended for salaries, rents, labor in weighing, gauging, and measuring imported merchandise, revenue boatmen, repairs, and other expenses incident to rented buildings, stationery, and the travelling ex- penses of special agents, but does not include expenditures for revenue cutters, fuel, lights, water, furniture, janitors, etc., for buildings owned by the Government^ nor expenditures fur erecting new buildings, all of which are paid for from specific appropriations made for those purposes. Tile expenses of collecting internal and customs revenue do not include the expenditures for salaries, etc., incident to auditing these accounts in the Departments at Washington. c No data.