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pared with 'last year, $4,688,399, against $3,- 

 277,308, will attract attention, and results main- 

 ly from an increase of foreign trade. 



The official returns of the internal duties for 

 the San Francisco district gave $969,447, of 

 which $351,943 was for incomes. The tax on 

 manufactures indicates that the production has 

 doubled in the year. The disbursements of the 

 Government were as follows : 



FOR THE ABUT. 



Quartermaster's Department $5,844,526 



Paymaster's Department 1,700,000 



Commissary Department 609,494 



Total army $1^54,020 



FOR THE MAVY. 



Coast squadron, estimated 



FOR THE REVENUE SERVICE. 



1,000,000 



Custom-house, light-house, and marine hospital, ) 



estimated ) 



Cost of collecting internal revenue, estimated. .... 



FOB POSTAL SERVICES. 



Transportation of mails on this coast not ) 



including overland route to Atlantic V $210,000 

 States), estimated J 



Compensation expenses of officers, esti'd. 65,000 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Mint Department, gross, estimated $301,511 



Judicial Department, estimated 25,000 



Land offices, estimated 10,000 



240,000 



$275,000 



$866,511 



Total disbursements $9,885,581 



The duties are all collected in gold, amount- 

 ing to $4,688,399, and which is sent to the At- 



lantic States for nse, while all the payments 

 of the Government are in notes. Those re- 

 ceived by the Government officials, contractors, 

 &c., are paid out to the extent of nearly 

 $10,000,000 ; but they will not circulate, the 

 receivers sell them to the brokers, who re-sell 

 to taxpayers, and for shipment to the Atlan- 

 tic States. The price at which they sell under- 

 goes fluctuations. In January it was 68 and 

 72 cents per dollar ; in March.the rate had fallen 

 to 50 cents ; in July it had risen to 80 cents, and 

 subsequently declined to 70 and 68 cents. The 

 California merchants profited largely from the 

 paper currency at the expense of their Eastern 

 creditors. This was emphatically the case in 

 1862, when paper receded from par to ahout 30 

 per cent, discount. Parties who were in debt at 

 that time to Eastern creditors, or who purchased 

 merchandise on credit at any time during the 

 year, were enabled to meet their obligations 

 fully and satisfactorily with remittances that 

 cost much less in gold currency than tho 

 amount of their indebtedness or their invoices 

 The debtor classes and credit huyers were ben- 

 efited largely. Meantime the value of most 

 articles of merchandise at the East, according to_ 

 the gold standard, underwent but little change. 

 The treasure exports of California in the last 

 year were as follows, also the value and des- 

 tination of treasure shipments from San Fran- 

 cisco during the past ten year* 1 1854 to 1863 : 



Including the exports of treasure, the entire 

 exports of the productions of the State, during 

 the past three years, may be classified as follows : 



The following are the returns of treasure at 

 San Francisco from the interior, and coastwise 

 through regular channels, the records of which 

 are accessible ; also importation from foreign 

 countries during the past three years: 



Included in the last year's receipts from the 

 north coast is the sum of $1,411,387 from Brit- 

 ish Columbia. The total receipts from that 

 quarter for the year just closed, are estimated 

 at not less than $7,000,000. 



From the silver districts (included in the 

 northern mines), the total receipts for the past 

 year were $12,433,915, against about $6,000,- 

 000 in 1862. They were divided as follows : 



Total disbursements $9.<!S5.581 



From Washoe $11,846,915 



From Esinuralda 687,000 



$12,438,916 



The receipts from the south coast in 1863 

 amount to $110,322 through regular channels, 

 and probably as much more by private hands. 

 From all the new mining localities the propor- 

 tion of private receipts is much greater than 

 from the older ones. Over all the established 

 routes through the interior of this State, and 

 from Nevada Territory, very little treasure 

 comes in the hands of individuals. (See AKMY, 

 UNITED STATES, and SANITABY COMMISSION.) 



