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Statistical IRotes on 



EARNINGS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE POST-OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH 

 SERVICES DURING THE LAST TWENTY-SEVEN FISCAL YEARS, FROM 

 JULY I, 1869, TO JUNE 30, 1896. 



1 The totals and averages per annum in the colums marked u Earnings" and " Total Earnings" 

 only embrace seventeen years, as the returns for the first ten years being very incomplete are not 

 computed. 



