Excerpt from Decisions of the First Comptroller in the Department of the Treasury of the United States, Vol. 4: 1883

Forty-eight thousand postmasters now render accounts current quar terly to this ofiice. These accounts embrace ordinary revenues and all disbursements for ofiice expenses proper. Each account is examined by the examining division, and reviewed and registered by the registering division. From the registers the balance is carried to a general account kept on the ledgers of the bookkeeping division, and also, more in de tail, on the stating division. The surplus quarterly revenue is sent long distances, at the postmasters' risk, to a postal depository, there being but ninety-six for the whole country. On the receipt of the certificate of deposit the postmaster mails it to the Third Assistant Postmaster Geueral, in whose ofiice it is examined and registered. When it finally reaches this office it is compared with the weekly account rendered by postal depositories, and, if found to agree therewith is posted to the gen eral account. Quarterly accounts of disbursements to letter-carriers, postal railway clerks, mail-messengers, special carriers, and for weigh ing the mails, and for temporary mail service are also rendered, these being audited on separate desks of the pay division. From the regis ters made up on these desks the items are posted and stated to the gen eral account. Miscellaneous payments, not included in the account cur rent, may be audited on either the examining, registering, stating, pay, or collecting divisions, this last division having charge of the general correspondence for the collection of debts and the final closing of post masters' and contractors' accounts. Miscellaneous items reach the gen eral account through the journals of the bookkeeping division. In the adjustment of a quarterly account, correspondence may arise on each desk dealing with an item thereof, the result being confusing to a post master, who regards his account as a unit.

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