SAVINGS BANKS AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

An Account of the Gross Amount of all Sums Received and Paid by the National Debt Commissioners on account of Savings Banks and Friendly Societies in Great Britain and Ireland from their commencement (August, 1817) to the 20th of November, 1865, inclusive.

[Transcriber's Note: Column headers for table, below:]
A. From August, 1817, to 20th November 1865.
B. Gross Amount of all Sums received from Trustees, including Interest up to 20th Nov. 1865.
C. Gross Amount of all Sums paid to Trustees, including Interest.
D. Amount of Money, Principal and Interest, due to the Trustees (Nov. 1865), including £302,030 8s.5d. due on account of the separate Surplus Fund.
E. Value of the Securities held by the Commissioners (Nov. 1865), at the Prices of that day, to provide for the Money due to Trustees.

A.B.C.D.E.
£  s. d.£  s. d.£  s. d.£  s. d.
Savings Banks.
Great Britain
& Ireland.		90,179,614 18 951,142,506 15 039,037,108 3 936,010,477 4 7
Friendly Societies.
Great Britain
& Ireland.		5,509,975 4 33,594,271 4 111,915,703 19 41,071,198 3 6
Total.
Savings Banks and
Friendly Societies.		95,689,590 3 04,736,777 19 11 40,952,812 3 137,081,675 8 1
Balance Deficient3,871,136 15 0
£40,952,812 3 1

POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS.

An Account of the Sums due to all Depositors in Post Office Savings Banks throughout the United Kingdom on the 31st March, 1865; of the Expenses of Management of the Post Office Savings Banks to the same date; of the Amount standing to the Credit of the Post Office Savings Banks, on the same date, in the books of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt; of the Balance in the hands of the Postmaster-General at the same date; and of the Amount of any Loss sustained by the Post Office Savings Banks from the Frauds committed in the Transmission of Deposits, or otherwise.

Liabilities.
£  s. d.£  s. d.
Total amount of deposits, from 16th September, 1861, to 31st March, 1865, of the interest allowed and added to principal on 31st December, 1861, 31st December, 1862, 31st December, 1863, and 31st December, 1864, and of the interest allowed and paid on closed accounts up to 31st March, 18659,217,809 8 7
Deduct—
Repayments to depositors, from 16th September, 1861, to 31st March, 18663,851,889 14 6
Total sum due to all depositors in the Post Office Savings Bank in the Savings Banks in the United Kingdom on the 31st March, 18655,365,925 14 1
Surplus of assets over liabilities41,000 2 1
5,406,925 16 2
Assets.
£  s. d.£  s. d.£  s. d.
Total amount of the sums paid by the Postmaster-General to the National Debt Commissioners for investment, and of the interest received on such investments, from 16th September, 1861, to 31st March, 18655,487,728 6 10
Deduct—
Amount which has been repaid by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, on account of 108,506l. 12s 11d,[220] being the amount paid for the expenses of management of the Post Office Savings Banks from 16th September, 1861, to 31st March, 186591,848 7 4
Amount of sums transferred from Post Office Savings Banks to Savings Banks5,255 19 5
97,104 6 9
5,390,624 0 0
Balance remaining in the hands of the Postmaster-General to be paid over for investment29,147 15 9
Deduct—
Amount of loss through the defalcations of a former postmaster of Beverley1,093 14 1
Amount of loss by the frauds committed by J. W. Thorne94 0 0
Amount of expenses of management paid by the Postmaster-General during the quarter ended 31st March, 1865; not recovered from the Post Office Savings Bank Fund at that date11,658 5 7
12,845 19 8
16,301 16 1
5,406,925 16 2

[220] According to the Parliamentary Paper No 523, 1861, it was estimated that the cost of each transaction would be 7d. The actual average cost of each transaction has been 6⅞d.