Book excerpt: Excerpt from Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Third Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress The receipts into the treasury from all sources, including loans, and balance from the preceding year, for the fiscal year end ing on the 3oth June, 1862, were 06, of which sum 62 were derived from customs; 331 73 from the direct tax; from public lands $152, 203 77; from miscellaneous sources, 64; from loans in all forms, 50. The remainder, 82, 80, was the balance from last year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.