Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1874 — Public Debt Statement. [ARTICLE]

Public Debt Statement.

The public debt statement for January 1 is as follows: Six per cent, bonds $1,218,128,150 Five per cent, bonds 501,478,800 Total coin bonds $1,722,208,950 Lawful money debt * $13,878,000 Matured debt... Legal-tender notes 378,58',389 Certificates of deposit 38,720,000 Fractional currency Coin certificates 37,^43,308 Interest.. 42,54 1, 025 Total debt $2,291,792,287 Cash In Treasury— . _ C0in........ $91,479,10* Currency 4,277,861 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit as provided by 1aw.,,..,,.,.............. 38,720,000 Total In Treasury. $132,476,981 Debt, less cash In Treasury $9,159,315,328 Increase during month...., 8,453,272 Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 61,823,519 Interest accrued and not yet paid ' 1,988,705 Interest paid by United States....;.. 90,417,986 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc.... 4,886,054 Balance of interest paid by United States. v 15,781,931 —The 13 flouring mills of Minneapolis, with if 6 run of stone, have manufactured since Jan. 1,1873, 555,900 barrels of flour, using 2,585,950 bushels of wheat. —Another thing we got by getting Alaska—got to make a coast survey of the 26,000 miles of sea front that, oompaeees that lefeWsrjg.