Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1883 — NATIONAL FINANCES. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL FINANCES.

The Monthly Public-Debt Statement. The follojying is a recapitulation bf the debt statement issued, on the 2d inst: Interest-bearing debt— Three and one-half per cents. I 99,320,200 Four and one-balf per cents. 250,0m.00t) Fonr per cents. 1 738.956 55a Three per cents :. - 288,661,950 Refunding certificates. * 4 75<> Navy pension fund. 14,000,000 Principal , $1,832,245,450 Interest ....? 12,067,188 Matured debt— Principal. 14,887,015 Interest 446,814 Debt bearing no interest— Old demand and legal-tender notes. 846,740,311 Certificates of deposit 9,585,000 Gold and silver certificates 137,468,500 Fractional currency 16,393,006 Less amount estimated lost or destroyed 7,022,014 Principal .....$ £00,815,885 Unclaimed Pacific railway Interest.. 6,889 Total debt— Principal +. $1,907,948,350 Interest 12,619,342 TotaL $1,920,467,60S Cash In treasury 312^24,016 Debt, less cash in treasury— Jan. 1,1883 $1,607,543,676 Deo. 1, 1882 1,622,956,899 Decrease of debt daring month. 16,413,223 Decrease of debt since June 30,1882.. 81,370,783 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid 1,498,913 Debt on which interest has ceased... 14,887,016 Interest thereon 446,814 Gold and silver certificates 137,463,500 United States notes held for red emotion of certificates of deposit.... 9,585,000 Cash balance available Jan. 1,1883.. 149,037,773 Total. $ 812,924,016 Available assets— Cash in treasnry 312,924,016 Bonds issued to Pacific Railways— Principal outstanding.... 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States 65,344,683 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service 16,123,860 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 666,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 88,365,623 Statement of the Comptroller of the Currency. The following is the statement of the Comptroller of the Currency, showing the amounts of national-bank notes and of legaltender notes outstanding at the dates of the passage of the acts of June 20, 1874, Jan. 14,1875, and May 31,1878, together with the amounts outstanding Jan. 1,1883, and the increase or decrease: NATIONAL-BANK NOTES. Amount outstanding June 20, 1874... .$349,894,182 Amount outstanding Jan. 14, 1875 351,861,450 Amount outstanding May 31, 1878.... 822,>65,965 Amount outstanding at date*. 861,9>1,460 Increase during the last month. 129,291 Increase since Jan. 1, 1 82 437,856 LEGAL-TENDEB NOTES. Amount outstanding June 20, 187 1. ...$382,000,000 Amount outstanding Jan. 14, 1875.... 382,000,000 Amount retired under act of Jan. 14, 187 s to May 31,15-7 35,318,984 Am unt oatstanding on and since May 31,1878 846,681,016 Amount on deposit with the Treasurer of the United States to redeem notes of insolvent and liquidating banks and banks retiring circulation under act of June 20, 18 4 39,940,815 Increase in deposit during the last month 1,550,401 Increasein deposit since Jan. 1,1882.. 10,404,873 •Circulation of national gold banks not incladed in ihe above, $729,709.