1905 Ret'd and 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. Total. On hand. Destroyed. $1.00 received 7,500 15,000 2,400 100 ... 25,000 ... 94 issued 5,830 16,771 3,599 500 ... 26,700 $2.00 received 7,500 5,000 ... 6,000 6,500 25,000 ... 66 issued 5,830 4,334 888 7,225 8,775 27,052 $3.00 received 7,500 5,000 ... 500 1,000 14,000 2,650 1,835 issued 5,830 4,044 591 1,700 1,250 13,415 $4.00 received 7,500 5,000 ... 500 2,000 15,000 3,050 2,013 issued 5,830 3,945 640 1,675 1,775 13,865 $5.00 received 7,500 5,000 ... 500 3,000 16,000 2,100 1,240 issued 5,830 3,844 689 2,075 3,325 15,763 Comment:--The three highest dollar values were apparently never delivered to their full requisition--25,000 each. All but the 1 dollar were issued in goodly numbers in 1901,--four years after their first appearance! The 1 and 2 dollar stamps were both issued to an amount of about 2,000 more than were received from the manufacturers, but this excess is easily explained by the reissue of stamps returned by postmasters and placed again in stock. The entire issue drops out of sight with the 1901 Report, but the 1905 Report suddenly presents the figures given for the three high values still on hand, and records 30 of the 5 dollar stamps turned in for destruction. Once more, in the 1909 Report, we find 1,783 of the 3 dollar, 1,954 of the 4 dollar and 1,151 of the 5 dollar stamps returned for destruction, so that allowing for the total number destroyed and the amount on hand (which may be) we have for the actual issue of the three high values, instead of 25,000 each, but 9,515 of the 3 dollar, 9,937 of the 4 dollar and 12,660 of the 5 dollar stamps. CHAPTER XII THE "MAPLE LEAF" ISSUE OF 1897 Rumors of a new issue, as we know, had been "in the air" ever since the change in the contractors for supplying stamps had been announced. Of course the Jubilee issue was a special affair, and for a time sidetracked other considerations. A new permanent series was not forgotten, however, and under "Ottawa Notes" in the _Weekly Philatelic Era_ for October 9, 1897, we find the following advance information concerning it:--