The  receipts  into  the  Treasury  from  all  sources,  including  loans  and
balance  from  the  preceding  year,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  on  the  30th
June,  1862,  were  $583,885,247.06,  of  which  sum  $49,056,397.62  were
derived  from  customs;  $1,795,331.73  from  the  direct  tax;  from  public
lands,  $152,203.77;  from  miscellaneous  sources,  $931,787.64;  from  loans
in  all  forms,  $529,692,460.50.  The  remainder,  $2,257,065.80,  was  the
balance  from  last  year.
The  disbursements  during  the  same  period  were:  For  Congressional,
executive,  and  judicial  purposes,  $5,939,009.29;  for  foreign  intercourse,
$1,339,710.35;  for  miscellaneous  expenses,  including  the  mints,  loans,
Post-Office  deficiencies,  collection  of  revenue,  and  other  like  charges,
$14,129,771.50;  for  expenses  under  the  Interior  Department,  $3,102,-
985.52;  under  the  War  Department,  $394,368,407.36;  under  the  Navy
Department,  $42,674,569.69;  for  interest  on  public  debt,  $13, 190,324.45;
and  for  payment  of  public  debt,  including  reimbursement  of  temporary
loan  and  redemptions,  $96,096,922.09;  making  an  aggregate  of  $570,-
841,700.25,  and  leaving  a  balance  in  the  Treasury  on  the  1st  day  of  July,
1862,  of  $13,043,546.81.
It  should  be  observed  that  the  sum  of  $96,096,922.09,  expended  for
reimbursements  and  redemption  of  public  debt,  being  included  also  in
the  loans  made,  may  be  properly  deducted  both  from  receipts  and  ex-
penditures, leaving  the  actual  receipts  for  the  year  $487,788,324.97,  and
the  expenditures  $474,744,778.16,


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Other  information  on  the  subject  of  the  finances  will  be  found  in  the
report  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  to  whose  statements  and  views  I
invite  your  most  candid  anji  considerate  attention.
