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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



and societies iu this country which have so long enjoyed the benefits 

 of the system. 



Liberality of Transportation Companies. — Thanks also to the liberality 

 of the principal steamship companies, the packages of the Institution 

 are still carried free of freight, a cqucession amounting to several thou- 

 sand dollars a year in value. Acknowledgments are due to the follow- 

 ing companies and firms for this voluntary service : 



Am. Colonization Society. Washington, D. C ; Anchor Steamship 

 Co. (Henderson & Bro., agents), N. Y. ; Atlas Steamship Co. (Pirn, For- 

 wood i& Co., ag'ts), N. Y. ; H. B. Bailey & Co., N. Y. ; E. K. Biddle, 

 Philadelphia; Thomas Bixby & Co., Boston, Mass.; Thomas Bland, N. 

 Y. ; B. E. Borland, N. Y. ; R. W. Cameron «& Co., N. Y. ; Compagnie 

 Generale Transatlantique (L. de Bebian, ag't), IST. Y. ; Cunard Royal 

 Mail Steamship Line (Yernon H. Brown & Co., ag'ts), X. Y.; Dallett, 

 Boulton «& Bliss, N. Y. ; Thomas Denuison, N. Y. ; Hamburg- Ameri- 

 can Packet Co., (Kunhardt & Co., ag'ts), IST. Y. ; luman Steamship Co., 

 N. Y. ; Merchants' Line of Steamers, N. Y ; Monarch Line (Patton, 

 Vickers & Co., ag'ts), N. Y.; Munoz y Espriella, N. Y. ; Murray, 

 Ferris & Co., N. Y. ; Netherlands-American-Steam Navigation Co., 

 (H. Cazaux, ag't), N. Y. ; New York and Brazil Steamship Co., N. Y. ; 

 New York and Mexico Steamship Co., N. Y; North German Lloyd 

 (Oelrichs & Co.), N. Y., (Schumacher «& Co., ag'ts,) Baltimore; Pacific 

 Mail Steamship Co., N. Y.; Panama R. R. Co., N. Y.; Red Star Line 

 (Peter Wright «& Sons, ag'ts), Philada. and N. Y.; Spinney, Joseph, 

 S., N. Y. ; Steamship Lines for Brazil, Texas, Florida, and Nassau, N. 

 P. (C. W. Mallory & Co., agents), N. Y.; White Cross Line of Antwerp 

 (Punch, Edye & Co., agents), N. Y. ; Wilson & Asmus, N. Y. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Company have continued their concessions of reduced fares, and the 

 freight steamer lines between Washington and New York have also 

 made liberal concessions, which have been of very great value. 



Acknowledgments are also due to the foreign ministers and consuls 

 of the various Governments for their assistance iu taking charge of the 

 packages intended for the countries which they respectively represent 

 and transmitting them with care to their destination. 



The following tables will give the statistics for 1884 : 



RECEIPTS. 



Purpose for which received. 



Weight. 



1. For foreign distributiou ... 



2. For domestic distribution.. 



3. For Government exchanges 



Representing an increase over 1883 of about 1,500 packages. 



