Valuable dead Letters returned from Dead Letter Office for special delivery, FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. AVERAGE QUANTITIES OF MAIL MATTER DISPOSED OF IN ONE WORKING DAY DURING THE 170,961 3,976 Pouches despatched to 205 Post Offices and 119 Routes, at an average of 7 lbs. each,.. NEWSPAPER MAIL-2D, 3D AND 4TH CLASS Matter. Sacks of matter received for distribution at an average weight of 70 lbs. each,. Sacks of matter despatched to 420 Post Offices and 295 Routes, at an average weight of 3 lbs. each,... CASH STATEMEnt for the Year Ending DECEMBER 31ST, 1886. This decrease is due to reduction in postage of 50 per cent. on July 1, 1885. TRANSACTIONS OF THE NEW-YORK CLEARING HOUSE. THE New-York Clearing House has been in operation thirty-three and a quarter years. Its aggregate transactions during that period, ending December 31, 1886, amount to $822,709,283,258 51. It was organized on the 11th of October, 1853, and at the present time consists of sixty-three banks and the Assistant Treasurer of the United States. The aggregate yearly transactions since its organization to January 1st, 1887, are as follows: CLEARING HOUSE TRANSACTIONS FROM OCTOBER 11TH, 1853, TO JANUARY 1ST, 1887. The average currency exchanges per day during the years 1884, 1885 and 1886, were as follows: Ending October 1st, 1884,. $111,048,981 55 82,789,480 38 109,067,588 94 Statement showing the Clearing House Transactions for each month, from January 1st to December 31st, 1886, with the Loans, Specie, Legal Tenders and Liabilities of the Associated Banks, and the Per Centage of Specie and Legal Tenders to Net Liabilities. Total for the year,...... $33,676,829,612 32 November,. 16,242,600 358,892,000 4.52 21.57 December,..... 18,583,100 Total Exchanges for the year ending December 31, 1886, Total Transactions, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1886, 368,953,800 $33,676,829,612 32 1,510,991,265 21 $35,187,820,877 53 |