Reports:

To Congress

Requested reports.

Suggestive reports.

To the Director of the Budget

Requested reports on engrossed bills..

Requested reports on proposed or pending legislation To the Postmaster General-Report of the financial condition of the Post Office Department at the close of the fiscal year 1936 (sec. 4, act of July 12, 1876, 19 Stat. 80, and sec. 304, Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, 42 Stat. 24).. To the Civil Service Commission-Data for General Accounting Office for inclusion in the Official Register (sec. 2, act of Mar. 3, 1925, 43 Stat. 1105, and sec. 10 of Executive order of June 10, 1933).

Miscellaneous inquiries:

From Members of the Congress..
From the President..

Total....

COLLECTIONS OF AMOUNTS DUE THE UNITED STATES

Amount of indebtedness to the United States collected during '1937 through efforts of the General Accounting Office, $5,187,819.79, as follows:

Office divisions through which collected and character and amounts of collections:
Office of chief of investigations-

Collections from United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation of
items to which exception taken in audit..

$326, 828. 64

948. 09

49, 026.80

1,874. 04

635.75 329.51

76, 065. 21

6,876. 51

85,781. 02

Office divisions through which collected and character and amounts of collections-Continued.
Claims division-Continued.

$122, 280.67
39, 389.02

161, 669. 69

Accounting and bookkeeping division, through recovery on account of
suspensions and disallowances in accounts-

Collections made prior to settlement of accounts.
Collections made subsequent to settlement of accounts..

Total.

Post Office Department division

Open accounts of postmasters

For fiscal years 1916 to 1936, inclusive..
For fiscal year 1937.

$257, 684.59
27, 472. 55

$285, 157.14

Offsets of amounts otherwise due to common carriers for the trans-
portation of the mails during 1937 by the payment thereof to the
Treasurer of the United States toward liquidation of indebtedness
to United States Railroad Administration or under Transportation
Act of 1920, as amended...

2 18, 712.92

$5, 877.31

437, 124.00

443, 001. 31

2,055, 470. 01

5, 648. 09

154, 647.82

894, 344. 59

3, 110, 110. 51

3,856, 981. 88

$17.25
170.70

$187.95
25

188. 20

$17, 679.92
309.52

17,989. 44

35, 187, 819. 79

1 In addition, payments of earnings were suspended on account of said indebtedness at close of 1937 of $25,114.92.

In addition, payments of earnings were suspended on account of said indebtedness at close of 1937 of $11,811.02.

3 There remained on hand June 30, 1937, on the books of the General Accounting Office (debtors' card index) 175,147 claims of the United States, aggregating $526.690,575.20 of reported indebtedness, a gain of 33,104 claims and of $25,229,671.64 of such indebtedness over 1936.

SUITS INVOLVING THE UNITED STATES

The General Accounting Office, during 1937, referred 69 cases to the Department of Justice for collection of indebtedness to the United States through suits, aggregating $349,086.83, an increase of 22 cases over the number referred in 1936, and a monetary decrease of $223,795.56.

The names of the debtors, the dates referred for suit, and the amount of the indebtedness of each, are as follows:

Office of general counsel, General Accounting Office, volume of work for 1937

Office of chief of investigations, General Accounting Office, volume of work for 1937

INSPECTIONS, SURVEYS, ETC.

Office of chief of investigations, General Accounting Office, volume of, for 1937, including territory covered

The States, Territories, foreign countries, and United States vessels in and on which surveys, or miscellaneous investigations, and inspections of accounts were made, places at which made, number of offices and accounts inspected, and number of reports rendered are as follows: