Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1882 — The Bureau of Printing and Engraving. [ARTICLE]

The Bureau of Printing and Engraving.

The annual report of CoL Irish, Chief of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, shows that during the year there were completed and delivered 7,041,108 sheets of notes and securities of a face value of $309,857,709; 34,261,459 sheets of internal revenue and custom*! cigar stamps, containing 987,221,149 stamps; 649,019 sheets of checks, drafts, etc. The aggregate expenditares for the year were $9:16,760. Of this amount there was expended in the execution of work for the various bureaus of the Treasury Department and other departments, and reimbursed by them from proper appropriations under their control, $588,950. The aggregate expenditures of the year, over those of the preceding year, deducting from the expenditures of that year the amounts paid for paper and expenses thereon, which, this year, were paid by a separate appropriation, were a little less than 12 per cent., and the Increase in deliveries was a little over 20 per cent. The increase in the number of employes was about 10 per cent. At the close of the war the regular force of the bureau consisted of about 1.000 employes.