Two of the runs were unearned, bringing his season total of such runs to six.
When the total of such gifts exceeds $675,000 during the giver's lifetime, the gift tax kicks in.
"I have always disliked myself at any given moment," he writes, "the total of such moments is my life".
But campaigners say that this, a 6% rise on 2011, is only a small fraction of the total of such crimes.
The total of such remittances is expected to top last year's, $5.5 billion, one of the world's highest per capita rates.
Chris Kotowski, an analyst at Oppenheimer, noted that the $22.7 billion figure was more than double the total of such claims in the second quarter of 2011, when they stood at $9.9 billion.
It was the first month in which the total of such loans surpassed the precredit-crisis peak of $1.609 trillion, in July 2008, two months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers caused a sharp tightening of lending standards.
To invest in the current government offerings as well as some coming from the private sector, more than 100,000 have set up depository share accounts in the last few weeks, bringing the total of such accounts to nearly one million in the last year.
Under the policy, the compromise that resulted from the Joint Chiefs' furious resistance to Mr. Clinton's effort to carry out his promise, the total of such discharges last year was 787, the lowest number since 1995; that compares with 906 in 2002 and 1,273 in 2001.
The total of such lodgings is really far larger, in fact; Smith has a separate category for 48 midscale chains with restaurants attached that also have daily rates under $80 a night, and it encompasses some biggies: Clarion, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Select, Howard Johnson's, Ramada and Quality Inn.
Correction: May 19 , 2001 Saturday Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about political contributions in the New York mayoral campaign from real estate partnerships associated with Charles J. Kushner, a New Jersey developer, referred incorrectly in some copies to the total of such donations last June to City Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi.
