1 cent, old plate, blue, 1,748,378,900 1 " altered " " 1,872,063,600 2 cents, old " brown 176,830,300 2 " " " vermilion 661,829,150 2 " new " red-brown 4,370,788,300 3 " old " 4,986,505,600 3 " altered " 629,537,100 5 " Jackson 80,390,500 5 " Garfield 14,454,640 6 " old plate 76,726,850 6 " altered " 8,013,300 7 " 3,349,100 10 " old " 79,126,690 10 " altered " 81,307,910 12 " 3,272,125 15 " 16,136,380 24 " 716,975 30 " 6,134,410 90 " 436,150 The paper provided for in this contract is the soft porous paper, which according to Mr. Sterling was introduced in 1883. It is not stiff and hard like the previous paper, and seems to have been adopted about the time of the change in the dies, the fall 1882. All the values employed since are to be found on it. It may be noted that the fifteen and thirty cents on this paper are with the imprint of the American Company. The fifteen is again a deep orange and the thirty a full black. ISSUE OF 1883, ETC. Same colors, values and designs, soft porous paper, perforated 12. 1 cent, ultramarine blue. 2 cents, red-brown. 3 cents, green. 4 " dark green. 5 " " brown. 6 " cochineal. 10 " brown. 15 " orange. 30 " black. 90 " carmine. ISSUE OF JUNE 15TH, 1887. The following circular explains itself: POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Office of the Postmaster General. _Washington, D. C., May 23d, 1887._