This amount does not include expenditures made under special appropriations for the years 1836 and 1837, for milling and coining by steam power; and for extensive improvements in the assaying, melting, and parting rooms, and machine shops, amounting to $28,270. It may be proper to mention that the Mint building is on the best street in the city, is of large dimensions, with the whole exterior of marble, and two Ionic porticos; and that the machinery and apparatus are of the best construction. The cost must therefore be considered as very moderate. The new Mint lately erected by the British India Government at Calcutta, cost 24 lacs of rupees, or about $1,138,000. The Director receives per annum $3,500 Treasurer 2,000 Chief Coiner 2,000 Assayer 2,000 Melter and Refiner 2,000 Engraver 2,000 Second Engraver 1,500 Assistant Assayer 1,300 Treasurer’s Clerk 1,200 Bookkeeper 1,000 Clerk of the weighing room 1,200 Director’s Clerk 700 ------- Total for salaries $20,400 ======= No expenses are allowed, beyond the above sums, to any officer, assistant, or clerk, for the performance of his duties. As all the gold and silver brought to the Mint is purchased at the nett Mint price, there is no expense, properly so called, incurred on this account. R. M. PATTERSON, _Director of the Mint_.