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REPORT ON THE OPERATIONS OF EXCHANGES. 



of other important duties— by the assistants of the respective depart- 

 ments to whom such incoming parcels are referred, and it is from 

 these considerations that the suggestion is now renewed and urged 

 that this branch of the service be phiced in charge of an assistant, while 

 an additional clerk be employed to prepare, under his supervision, the 

 then remaining only mechanical portion of the foreign exchanges, the 

 shipping. 



TRANSMISSIONS. 



1. Foreign transportations. 



An unusual number of boxes have been shipped during the year, 

 the increase over last year being 120, while from 1882 to 1883 an in- 

 crease of 70 boxes onl^'^ was noticed. The following table furnishes a 

 comparison with former years : 



The distribution in 1884 was made as follows : 



