OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF NOVEMBER 1, 1907. INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Consols of 1930, 2 per cent............ $646,259,150.00 63,945,460.00 118,489,900.00 30,000,000,00 Aggregate of interest-bearing debt.. $858,685,510.00 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE Aggregate debt on which interest has ceased since maturity... $6,930,955.26 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. CLASSIFICATION OF DEBT NOVEMBER 1, 1907. Interest-bearing debt... $368,685,510.00 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity. 6,930,955.26 Debt bearing no interest............... 400,837,184. 26 $1,266,453,649,54 Certificates and Treasury notes offset .1,225.777,869.00 National bank 5 per 53,282.50 National bank otes: Redemption ac drafts. 47,239,336.50 cent. fund... Outstanding checks and Disbursing officers' bal $20,408,539.24 13,191,472.59 ances 71,772,294.63 Post-Office Department account Miscellaneous items.. 7,675,991,48 115,278,234.72 237,227,019.18 .$1,728,283,122.90 $237,227,019.18 Principal of the Public Debt. Statement of outstanding Principal of the Public Debt of the United States on January 1 of each Year from 1792 to 1842, inclusive; on July 1 of each Year from 1843 to 1886, inclusive; on December 1 of each Year from 1887 to 1892, inclusive, on November 1, from 1893 to 1907, inclusive, except December 1, 1906. 1794 ** 1796 ** .$77,217,924, 66:1831 Jan, 1 ...... 78,427, 404, 77 1833 80,747,587.391834 1801 83,038,050, 801840 5,250,875, 54 1879 1802 ** 2,340,567,232.04 86,712,632, 251841 13,594,480. 73 1880 2,128,791,054.63 1803 77,054,686, 301842 26,601,226. 28 1881 2,077,389,253 58 1804 86,427,120, SS 1843 July 32,742,922, 001882 1,926,688,678.03 1805 82,312,150, 501844 23,461,652, 501883 1,892,547,412.07 1806 75,723,270.66 1845 15,925,303, 01 1884 1,838,904,607.57 1807 69,218,398.641846 15,550, 202, 97 1885 2,678.126, 103.87 1906 Dec. 1. 2,611,687, 851.19 1907 Nov.1...... 2,132,373,031.17 2,151,585,743.89 2,175, 246,168.89 2.218,883,772.89 2,304, 697, 418.64 2.293,846, 382.34 2,429,370.04, .54 2,492, 231, 518, 54 1,872,340,557.14 1,783,438, 697.78 1,664, 461,536,38 1,680,917,706,23 1,617,372, 419.53 1,549,206,126.48 1,546,961,695.61 1,563,612,455.63 28,699,831, 851896 Public Debt of the States, Cities, Counties, AND MINOR CIVIL DIVISIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. Continental United States..... 1,864,195,826 234,314,190 1,629,881,636 1,137,918,868 1,123,278,647 23.79 18.171 22.40 Minor civil divisions included in the third column above embrace villages, towns, townships, precincts, fire districts, irrigation districts, poor districts, school districts, etc. *Combined funded and floating debt in 1902. SINKING FUND ASSETS OF STATES, 1902. The following States in 1902 maintained sinking funds to the amounts attached: Massachusetts, $18,304, 730; Rhode Island, $444, 452; New York, $2,545,116; New Jersey, $172,550; Pennsylvania, $4, 432,024, Delaware, $7,658; Maryland, $1,974,587; Virginia, $3,176,040; South Carolina, $517,648; Florida, $160, 200, Ohio, $254,569; Indiana, $61; Michigan, $86, 237; Minnesota, $365,966; Missouri, 8520, 204; North Dakota, $1,116; South Dakota, $46,737 Kentucky, $324,548; Arkausas, $65,580; Montana, $111,483; Idaho, 431,306; Colorado, $164,953; New Mexico, $123,277; Arizona, $1,002; Nevada, $18,494; California, $419,630. Total, $34,670, 265. Endebtedness and Finances of Nations. (From Summary prepared by the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.) (a) Included in budgets of States. (b) Exclusive of $14,771.300 contributed to the Imperial Treasury. (c) Exclusive of $131,466,154 transferred by the Imperial Treasury to the various States. (d) Internal debt only; the foreign debt has been taken over by Chile. (e) Exclusive of the railroad debt. (f) A part of which is guaranteed by the home government. The returns are for the fiscal year 1907, except when otherwise indicated. (a) Fiscal year 1906. (b) Fiscal year 1905. (c) Fiscal year 1903. (d) Fiscal year 1902. (r) Including railroads, (s) Floating indebtedness, $230,660. (1) October 10, 1906. (v) Net debt, $562,901. (w) Net debt. (a) Exclusive of railroad, telephone and telegraph property. 423,842,680 4.00 24,363,795 573 070,528 60 6.70 1,000,000 850,000,000 80 .85 Noue. 1,384,580,755 75 11.27 64,419,178 33 6.501 List of Appropriations by Congress, 1902-1908. 1904. 24,594.968.85 25,396,683.20 27,598,653.66 28,558.258.22 29,136,752,06 29,684,919.30 32,126,333.80 6,747,893.00 5,053.993.00 6,898,011.00 652,748.67 973,947.26 673,713.38 1,664,707,67 1,929,703.42 Indefinite. Indefinite. Indefinite. Indefinite. Indefinite. 138,250,100.00 1 40,245,500.00 146,143.000.00 1,968,2:0.69 2,020,10,69 2,123,047.79) 3,091,094.17 3,092,333,72 5.978,160,00 5,902.040.00 6,8-2,690.00 9,930,440.00 9,447,290.00 8,638,097,00 11,018.540.00 9,801,197.62 10.232.102.16 10,440,598.63 3,025,064.95 2,60,828.52 5,139,545.21 40,172,757.57 1,079.289.19 1479,365,667,55,486,439,306,68 464,846,770.57 467,159,617.08 489,241,777.30 549,434,246,55 555,739,443.78 THE Fourth International Fisheries Congress will meet by the special invitation of the United States at Washington in 1908. Congress in February, 1907, appropriated three thousand dollars toward the expenses. UNITED STATES BUREAU OF FISHERIES. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. THE work of the Bureau of Fisheries comprises (1) the propagation of useful food fishes, including lobsters, oysters and other shellfish, and their distribution to suitable waters; (2) the inquiry into the causes of decrease of food fishes in the lakes, rivers and coast waters of the United States, the study of the waters of the coast and interior in the interest of fish-culture, and the investigation of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources and the development of the commercial fisheries; (3) the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, Office, Sixth and B Streets, Washington, D. C. The official force of the Bureau is as follows: Commissioner, George M. Bowers; ·Deputy Commissioner, Hugh M. Smith; Chief Clerk, I. H. Dunlap, Assistants in Charge of Division: Inquiry Respecting Food Fishes, B. W. Everman; Fish Culture, John W. Titcomb; Statistics and Methods, A, B. Alexander; Architect and Engineer, Hector von Bayer. The American Endian. THE annual reports of the agents of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1905 showed that the Indian population was 284,079, distributed in the several States as follows: Of the 274,706 Indian population in 1904, 116,333 wore citizen's dress and 43,602 wore a mixture of Indian and civilized clothing. Those who could read numbered 63,147 and 69,209 could carry on an ordinary conversation in English. INDIAN POPULATION IN DETAIL IN 1905. The total Indian population of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, numbered 284,079 in 1905. The expenditures of the United States on account of the Indians in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1907, were $15, 140, 292; The expenditures froïa 1789 to 1907, inclusive, have been $454,787,382, The appropriation made by Congress for Indian schools for the fiscal yearending June 30, 1907, was 89.405.199, 98. The Government supports 115 boarding schools, and 146 day schools. incidentally under the Indian office, and self-supporting: Indians The five civilized tribes, Indians and colored-Cherokees, 36.782; Chickasatvs. 10.767; Choctaws, 25,116; Creeks, 15,923; Seminoles, 3,049. Total Indians, 71,018; total colored. 20.619; grand total.. 91,637 Pueblos of New Mexico.. 8.874 Six Nations. Saint Regis, and other Indians of New York. 5.295 Indians under control of the War Department, prisoners of war (Apaches at Ft. Sill, 1,455 298 |