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DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



• The following table sliows the geographic extent of this work, as 

 well as the increase over the distribution of the previous year: 



" Including rural free delivery 

 EQUIPMENT AND INSPECTION OF VOLUNTARY STATIONS. 



The inspection of voluntary stations was undertaken on a more 

 extensive scale than in any previous year in the history of the Bureau, 

 and for the first time an allowance for this purpose was made each 

 section, 11,940 having been apportioned among the several sections 

 according to their needs. It became necessary, however, before the 

 end of the year to cancel the authority to use the unexiiended balances 



