Leaving a surplus revenue of $145,543,810.71, which, with an amount drawn from the cash balance in the Treasury of $20,737,694.84, making $166,281,505.55, was applied to the redemption—­

Of bonds for the sinking fund — $60,079,150.00

Of fractional currency for the sinking fund — 58,705.55

Of loan of July and August, 1861 — 62,572,050.00

Of loan of March, 1863 — 4,472,900.00

Of funded loan of 1881 — 37,194,450.00

Of loan of 1858 — 303,000.00

Of loan of February, 1861 — 1,000.00

Of five-twenties of 1862 — 2,100.00

Of five-twenties of 1864 — 7,400.00

Of five-twenties of 1865 — 6,500.00

Of ten-forties of 1864 — 254,550.00

Of consols of 1865 — 86,450.00

Of consols of 1867 — 408,250.00

Of consols of 1868 — 141,400.00

Of Oregon War debt — 675,250.00

Of old demand, compound-interest, and other notes — 18,350.00 —

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State of the Union Address
Chester A. Arthur
December 4, 1883

To the Congress of the United States: 

At the threshold of your deliberations I congratulate you upon the favorable aspect of the domestic and foreign affairs of this Government.

Our relations with other countries continue to be upon a friendly footing.  With the Argentine Republic, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Hayti, Italy, Santo Domingo, and Sweden and Norway no incident has occurred which calls for special comment.  The recent opening of new lines of telegraphic communication with Central America and Brazil permitted the interchange of messages of friendship with the Governments of those countries.

During the year there have been perfected and proclaimed consular and commercial treaties with Servia and a consular treaty with Roumania, thus extending our intercourse with the Danubian countries, while our Eastern relations have been put upon a wider basis by treaties with Korea and Madagascar.  The new boundary-survey treaty with Mexico, a trade-marks convention and a supplementary treaty of extradition with Spain, and conventions extending the duration of the Franco-American Claims Commission have also been proclaimed.

Notice of the termination of the fisheries articles of the treaty of Washington was duly given to the British Government, and the reciprocal privileges and exemptions of the treaty will accordingly cease on July 1, 1885.  The fisheries industries, pursued by a numerous class of our citizens on the northern coasts, both of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, are worthy of the fostering care of Congress.  Whenever brought into competition with the like industries of other countries, our fishermen, as well as our manufacturers of fishing appliances and preparers of fish products, have maintained a foremost place.  I suggest that Congress create a commission to consider the general question of our rights in the fisheries and the means of opening to our citizens, under just and enduring conditions, the richly stocked fishing waters and sealing grounds of British North America.