From customs — $57,402,975.67 — $137,597,024.33

From internal revenue — 29,662,078.60 — 90,337,921.40

From sales of public lands — 2,932,635.17 — 5,067,634.83

From tax on circulation and deposits of national banks — 1,557,800.88 — 1,542,199.12

From repayment of interest and sinking fund, Pacific Railway companies — 521,059.51 — 1,478,940.49

From customs fees, fines, penalties, etc. — 298,696.78 — 901,303.22

From fees—­consular, letters patent, and lands — 863,209.80 — 2,436,790.20

From proceeds of sales of Government property — 112,562.23 — 167,437.77

From profits on coinage, etc. — 950,229.46 — 3,149,770.54

From deposits for surveying public lands — 172,461.31 — 327,538.69

From revenues of the District of Columbia — 256,017.99 — 1,643,982.01

From miscellaneous sources — 1,237,189.63 — 2,382,810.37

Total receipts — 95,966,917.03 — 247,033,082.97

The actual and estimated expenses for the same period are: 

Object — For the quarter ended September 30, 1883 (actual) — For the remaining three quarters of the year (estimated)

For civil and miscellaneous expenses, including public buildings, light-houses, and collecting the revenue — $15,385,799.42 — $51,114,200.58

For Indians — 2,623,390.54 — 4,126,609.46

For pensions — 16,285,261.98 — 53,714,738.02

For military establishment, including fortifications, river and harbor improvements, and arsenals — 13,512,204.33 — 26,487,795.67

For naval establishment, including vessels and machinery, and improvements at navy-yards — 4,199,299.69 — 12,300,700.31

For expenditures on account of the District of Columbia — 1,138,836.41 — 2,611,163.59

For interest on the public debt — 14,797,297.96 — 39,702,702.04

Total ordinary expenditures — 67,942,090.33 — 190,057,909.67

Total receipts, actual and estimated — $343,000,000.00

Total expenditures, actual and estimated — 258,000,000.00 —

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State of the Union Address
Chester A. Arthur
December 1, 1884

To the Congress of the United States: 

Since the close of your last session the American people, in the exercise of their highest right of suffrage, have chosen their Chief Magistrate for the four years ensuing.

When it is remembered that at no period in the country’s history has the long political contest which customarily precedes the day of the national election been waged with greater fervor and intensity, it is a subject of general congratulation that after the controversy at the polls was over, and while the slight preponderance by which the issue had been determined was as yet unascertained, the public peace suffered no disturbance, but the people everywhere patiently and quietly awaited the result.