TABLE I-ANNUAL REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES OF THE UNITED STATES. Receipts of the Government from July 1, 1865, to July 1, 1876, inclusive Net Revenue by Fiscal Years. 1869 180,048,426 63 158,356,460 86 765,685 61 4,020,344 34 13,755,491 12 13,997,338 65 370,943,747 21 1870 194.538,374 44 184,899,756 49 229,102 88 3,350,481 76 15,295,643 76 12,942,118 30 1871 206,270,408 05 143.098,153 63 580,355 37 2,388,646 68 8,892,839 95 22,093.541 21 1872 216,370,286 77 130,642,177 72 2,575,714 19 9,412,637 65 15,106,051 23 411,255,477 63 383,323,944 89 374,106,867 56 1873 188.089,522 70 113,729,314 14 315,254 51 2,882,312 38 11,560,530 89 17.161,270 05 333 738,204 67 1874 163,103,833 69 102,409,784 90 1,852,428 93 5,037,665 22 17,075,042 73 289.478,755 47 1875 157.167.722 35 110,007,493 58 1,413.640 17 3,979,279 69 15,431,915 31 288,000,051 10 1876 148,071,984 61 116,700,732 03 93,798 80 1,973,589,621 26 1,826,185,813 61 9,947,330 84 1,129,466 95 22,790,357 60 4,029,280 58 17,456,776 19 287,482,039 16 167,037,384 39 193,083,293 64 4,192,633,801 34 MONETARY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. Revision of all Laws in 1873; Coinage Laws; Laws Authorizing AND REFERENCE TABLES: Tables of Prices for 54 years; Tables of Values of Coins and Monetary Units of all Nations; Table of the Average Annual Price of Gold from 1862 to 1876; Table of the Value of United States Notes with Gold at any Price. REVISION OF ALL THE PERMANENT LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1873. BY Y an act of Congress, June 27, 1866, the President was authorized to appoint three commissioners, "three persons learned in the law," "to revise, simplify, arrange and consolidate all statutes of the United States, general and permanent in their nature." This act was "revived" by the act of May 4, 1870, under authority of which the President appointed the three commissioners. This commission prosecuted its important work by striking out all that was obsolete and all that had been repealed down to December 1, 1873, and then brought the parts of the various laws relating to the same subjects together under their respective new titles. This work was presented to the forty-second Congress, and adopted by act of June 20, 1874, which repealed all general laws in existence prior to December 1, 1873, as follows, viz.: (SEC. 5596) All acts of Congress passed prior to said 1st day of December, 1873, any portion of which is embraced in any section of said revision, are hereby repealed, and the section applicable thereto shall be in force in lieu thereof; all parts of such acts not contained in such revision having been repealed or suspended by subsequent acts, or not being general or permanent in their nature; provided, that the incorporation into said revision of any general and permanent provision, taken from an act making appropriations, or from an act containing other provisions of a private, local, or |