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eral courts, gives a suggestion of what might be accomplished 
in the state and local courts, especially if it is borne in mind 
that the business of the Federal courts is insignificant, when 
compared with the aggregate business of all other courts. 
CHAPTER VI. 
REVENUE FROM FEES. 1 
A. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 
Federal fees are the only ones of which anything like com¬ 
plete accounts are kept, and even here the reports are not de¬ 
tailed enough to make an exhaustive treatment possible. A 
special report made by the secretary of the treasury to Con¬ 
gress, stating the receipts and expenditures of the Federal gov¬ 
ernment for the year 1882, is the basis of the following table, 
which contains the aggregate of all the fees, excluding postal 
fees, collected by Federal officials for that year: 
Consular fees... $613,422 22 
Steamboat fees. 279,889 36 
Registers’ and receivers’ fees. 1,107,671 61 
Marine hospitals. 406,103 59 
Weighing fees. 48,638 17 
Customs officers... 480,728 69 
Emoluments (customs). 368,822 74 
Emoluments (judiciary). 25,315 39 
Patent office fees ... 917,897 14 
Passports. 20,115 00 
Copying (general land office). 8,247 90 
Copyright fees. 15,753 04 
National health laws. 1,647 68 
Total..... 2 $4,564,390 85 
1 The statistics on which this chapter is based cannot be considered ab - 
solutely accurate; but they are accurate enough to show the general results 
indicated. Many of the receipts classed in some tables as fees should, no 
doubt, were all the particulars known, be classed as taxes; while others at 
present considered taxes, should have been included in the fee tables. 
2 [The sum of the amounts given is $4,294,252.53.— Editor.] 
