the Treasurer of the United States, subject to the order of the Postmaster-General. In the office of the superintendent of the money-order system in Washington a force of twenty-five clerks, messengers, and laborers is at present employed, at an expense of $35,000, and in the money-order division of the office of the Auditor a force of eighty-five is employed, at an expense of $95,000 per annum. The cost of blanks, books, printing, and stationery furnished in Washington is about $60,000 per annum. New York, as before stated, is the international exchange office, on the part of the United States, for the exchange of money-order lists with all foreign countries. In this office an average force of twentythree clerks is employed exclusively on international exchange business, at an annual expense, at the present time, of $29,000. In the case of Canada only, owing to the extreme length of frontier bordering on the United States, additional exchange offices are in operation. Seven such have been designated, viz, Bangor, Me., Boston, Mass., Buffalo, N. Y., Detroit, Mich., Ogdensburg, N. Y., Portland, Oreg., and Saint Paul, Minn. ON THE PARTICIPATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1876, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, PA. By WILLIAM SAUNDERS, ESQ., WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1884. |