REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



45 



The following table shows the number of packages of exchanges handled and the 

 increase in the number of correspondents each year from 1893 to 1899: 



N umber of packages received 



Weight of packages received lbs 



Ledger accounts: 



Foreign societies 



Foreign individuals 



Domestic societies 



Domestic individuals 



Packages to domestic addresses 



Cases sliipped aliroad 



101,063 

 200, 928 



6,896 

 8, 554 

 2,41-4 

 5,010 

 29, 454 

 878 



97, 969 

 2:35, 028 



0, 991 

 8, G19 

 1,620 

 2, 993 

 32, 931 

 905 



107,118 

 326, 955 



8, 751 

 9, 609 

 2, 014 

 3,034 

 29,111 

 1,364 



268, 731 



8, 022 

 10,878 



2,115 



3, 899 

 34,091 



1,043 



81,162 

 247, 444 



9,414 

 12,013 



2, 445 



4,136 

 23,619 



1,300 



81, 208 

 301,472 



10, 165 

 12, 378 

 2, 533 

 4,382 

 21,057 

 1,330 



1898-99. 



97,835 

 317,883 



10, 322 

 13, 378 

 2,596 

 4,673 

 30, 645 

 1,500 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



The record of exchange correspondents at the close of the year contained 30,969 

 addresses, being an increase of 1,511 over the preceding year. The following table 

 gives the number of correspondents in each country, and also serves to illustrate the 

 scope of the ser\'ice, whose utility is becoming every year better and more widely 

 appreciated : 



Number of correspondeids of the International Exchange Service in each countrij on 



June 30, 1899. 



Countrv. 



AFRICA. 



Algeria 



Angola 



Azores 



Beira 



Canary Islands 



Cape Colony 



Cape Verde Islands 



Congo Free State 



Egypt 



French Congo 



Gambia 



Gold Coast 



Goree-Dakar 



Lagos 



Liberia 



Lorenzo Marques 



Madagascar 



Madeira 



Mauritius 



Morocco 



Mozambique 



Natal 



Orange Free State 



Reunion 



St. Helena 



Sierra Leone 



South African Republic. 



Tunis 



Zanzibar 



Correspondents. 



Libra- Indi- 

 ries. viduals 



Total. 



Country. 



AMERICA (north). 



Canada , 



Central America: 



British Honduras. 



Costa Rica 



Guatemala 



Honduras 



Nicaragua 



Salvador 



Greenland 



Mexico 



Newfoundland 



St. Pierrc-Miquelon 



United States 



West Indies: 



Anguilla 



Antigua 



Bahamas 



Barbados 



Bermuda 



Buen Ayre , 



Cuba 



Curasao 



Dominica 



Grenada 



Guadeloupe 



Haiti 



Jamaica 



Martin i(iue 

 Montscrrat 



Correspondents. 



Libra- Indi- 

 ries. viduals 



4 

 23 

 37 



8 

 10 

 12 



2 



129 



10 



1 



,596 



6 

 24 

 48 

 22 

 21 



8 



1 

 lOS 

 10 



2 

 4,673 



1 

 4 



10 

 9 



12 

 1 



82 

 3 

 6 

 5 

 5 



15 



28 

 3 



Total. 



10 

 47 

 85 

 30 

 31 

 20 



o 

 237 

 20 



3 

 7,269 



1 



S 

 12 

 15 

 13 



1 

 116 



3 



