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REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



I)loye(l in this division. The work performed by them during the pres- 

 ent year is shown in the following statement : 



Description. 



Foreign cards in nse: 



Societies 



Individuals . 



Domestic cards in use: 



Societies - -- 



Individuals 



Foreign entries made 



Domestic entries made 



Invoices written 



Letters recorded 



Acknowledgments recorded 



Number. 



3, 6(54 

 2, 523 



849 



817 



Total. 



6, 187 



1, 666 



7, 8.53 

 52, 324 

 28, 546 

 14, 217 



1,049 

 10,930 



Foreign Excliaiuje Divismi. —The operations of this division during 

 the year exceed those of any previous year, the receipts being 1)4,093 

 packages, with a weight of 195,404 pounds. These wore shipped in 

 7G4 cases, representiug a bulk of 5,208 cubic feet. A detailed state- 

 ment will be given in the general statistics, but a condensed table of 

 the receipts and transmissions in this division may not be without in- 

 terest : 



The above table shows almost a doubling of the receipts and trans- 

 missions since the beginning of the present decade. 



The work of this division is performed by two clerks and one packer. 

 Two temporary clerks have been employed so as not to interrupt the 

 regular transmissions during the sending off of the annual reports for 

 1883, but their services were discontinued upon accomplishment of the 

 work for which they were detailed. 



Domestic Exchange Division. — In this division, too, an increase of 

 about 20 per cent, over the work of the past two years is noticeable, the 



