It is interesting to note that the number of letter carriers and collectors newly appointed during the year ended 31st July, 1892, and supplied with uniforms, was 47; the number deceased, retired or dismissed 23; and the total number of carriers and collectors, permanent and temporary throughout the Dominion, to whom uniforms were issued during that period 443, distributed as follows:--

GENERAL SUMMARY of payments made for Printing, Stationery, Mail Bags, Stamping Material, Scales and Weights, Letter Carriers' Uniforms, &c., supplied to the Department at Ottawa, and to the different Provinces of the Dominion, through the Printing and Supply Branch, Post Office Department, from 1st July, 1891, to 30th June, 1892.

Stamping material, scales and weights, &c.

30,398 98

Street letter boxes, and miscellaneous items of Post Office expenditure.
Letter carriers' uniforms....

7,715 21

3,282 86

14,330 67

Total..

120,562 06

a b Not shown above

Printing, &c., for Money Order Branch (inside service) obtained by requisi-
tion from that Branch direct to Queen's Printer.
Stationery for Money Order Branch (inside service) obtained by requisition
from that Branch direct to the Stationery Office !...

SIDNEY SMITH,
Superintendent.

209

931 13

246 66

1,177 79

WILLIAM WHITE,

Deputy Postmaster-General.

STATEMENT showing the transactions in connection with Printing, Binding, &e., from 1st July, 1891, to 30th June, 1892.

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Issued to the Department at Ottawa 471,885 852,362 2,577 81,690
different provinces.... 13,483,526 1,704,319, 43,672 3,715,521
Total issued......
13,955,411 2,556,681| 46,249 3,797,211

Obsolete articles destroyed..

18,158

4,575

555

270.00

Balance in stock 30th June, 1892.. 5,557,827 1,274,548 56,340 972,512

*June account, 1891, for printing amounting to $6,254.37, paid from this year's appropriation, thus making the total expenditure for printing for 1891-92, $48,304.39.

SIDNEY SMITH,
Superintendent.

WILLIAM WHITE,

Deputy Postmaster-General.

STATEMENT showing the transactions in connection with Stationery, from 1st July, 1891, to 30th June, 1892.

Balance in stock, 30th June, 1891.
Stationery received during the year

Issued to the Department at Ottawa
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Balance in stock, 30th June, 1891 Stationery received during the year