JAMES K. POLK.

WASHINGTON, _January 25, 1847_.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:

I communicate herewith a report of the Secretary of the Treasury,

accompanied by a statement of the Register of the Treasury prepared in

compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th

instant, requesting the President "to furnish the House with a statement

showing the whole amount allowed and paid at the Treasury during the

year ending 30th June, 1846, for postages of the Executive Departments

of the Government and for the several officers and persons authorized by

the act approved 3d March, 1846, to send or receive matter through the

mails free, including the amount allowed or allowable, if charged in the

postages of any officers or agents, military, naval, or civil, employed

in or by any of said Departments." It will be perceived that said

statement is as full and accurate as can be made during the present

session of Congress.

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