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Vol. I. READ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON MONDAY LAST. Treasury Department, January 23, 1792. .IjiHAVE the honor to fend herewith a Report, pursuant to the order of the House of Representatives of the 19 th injiant, and to be with perfect respect, Sir, , , Your mo ft obedient and humble ftrvdTit, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, The Speaker of the House of Rcprefentatives. The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the order ©f the House of Rc prefentatives of the lqth inft. refpeftfully makes the following r REPORT. AT the close of the year 1790, there was a considerable furpius of revenue bevond the objects of expenditure which had required a provihon to thai period ; 'which furpius, by an ast of the 12th of August, in that year, was appro priated to the reduction of the public debt. The statement (A) herewith submitted, will shew, in one view, all the iums, which according to the establishments heretofore made, and corresponding ap propriations, have required and will require to be defrayed, from the beginning of the year 1 791, to the end of the year 1792, amounting together to ieven mil lions and eighty-two thousand one hundred and ninety-seven dollars, anu le venty-four cents. in.rti.i- -..u The statement (B) will alio (hew, in one view, the net produtt of all the pub lic revenues for the fame period, according to the best calculation and estimate ■which can now be formed of it, amounting to seven millions and twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars, and twenty-fix cents. The statement (C) exhibits a summary of the total annual expenditure of the United States, in conformity to existing establishments, amounting to three mil lions fix hundred and eighty-eight thousand and forty-three dollars, fifty cents. The statement (B) includes a view of the probable produtt during the yeai 1792, of the exiftingirevenues of the United Statas, amounting to three million. feveu hundred thousand dollars. . From these statements will result substantially the information which is deli red by the House of Rcprefentatives, as far as it is now in the power ot the Se eretary to give it. One or two matters however, may be proper to be aaded, with a view to grea t er accuracy. , . There are certain instances, in which the efhmates for appropriations have exceeded and will exceed the (ums actually expended. Hence,, the apparent cess of the expenditure as exhibited in the statement (A) beyond the produtt o the revenue, as shewn in the statement (B) will probably not be fountl real. Bu the amount of these furplufles, or over-estimates, is not stated, because it is not and in some cases, cannot now be ascertained, and it is likely to be very conh derable ; and because also if it should do more than counter-balance the excel alluded to, it will be fafeft tofct off the furpius against those contingent demand; which from time to time occur. No deduction has been made from the annual interest, on account of the eleb purchased. This has proceeded from a supposition that it will be deemed expe client by the legislature, to appropriate inviolably the interest of any part of thi debt which shall be at any time extinguifhe?d, towards the exunttioa of the re mainder. This point will be more particulariyfubmitted in a report on thi fubjeft of the public debt. All which is humbly submitted. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Secretary of the Treasury. Treafu-ry Department, Jan. 23d, 1 792. "W STATEMENT of EXPENDITURES, made and to be made, pursuant to appropri ations heretofore made, in conjormity to the exijiing ejtabtifliinents «/ the United States from the beginning of tkeyear 1791 to the end of the year 1792, viz. Dots. Cts AMOUNT of monies appropriated by an attof the 1 ith of Febru ary, 179 1 ; making appropriations for the support of government during the year 1791, and for other purposes, . 740,53261 Sum appropriated by an ast of the 3d of March, 1791, towards ef feftmg a recognition of the treaty with the emperor of Morocco, 20,000 Sum appropriated by an a£l of the fame date, for railing another re giment, and making a further provision for the protection of the Irontiers, ... . 312,686 2c Amount of monies appropriated by an ast of the 23d of Dcccmbcr laftpaft, making provision, among other things, for the support of government, for the year 1792, . . 1,059,22 a 8: Sum to be advanced pursuant to the ast making provision for defray in<nhe intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, 40,000 13 2,172,141 6l Amount of one year's interest on the public debt, fo reign and domestic, during the year 1791,* 2,060,861 40 Amount of one year's interest on the public debt, fo reign 2nd domestic (including that of the .relpec tive ftatcs assumed) during the year 1792, 2,849,194 73 4:9 1 0J056 1J Total expenditures to the end of the year 1792, Dollars 7.082,197 74 Treasury Department, Jdnuary 23, 1792. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Secretary rf the Treasury. (B) ESTIMATE of the nett product of the PUBLIC REVENUES, during the year. 1791 and 1792. Import Duties for 179 1. Dots. Cts. QUARTER ending the 31ft March f 314,881 11 Quarter ending the 30th of June . . (A) ■<[ 1 >345>3°3 4<; Quarter ending the 30th of September . . 919,570 66 Quarter endisg the 31ft of December . (B) 6oo ; ooo By PHILIP FRENEAU THURSDAY, January 26, 179 s - Total nett products for 1791, of imports - • f 3,179,755 Duties on homemade fpirits,'from the Ift of July to the < December L S; ° Total nett revenue, 1791 * • 3,3 2 9>755 2^ Duties on imports for the year 1792, estimated at (D) 3,300,000 Dutieson homemade l'pirits for the fame year, eltima- tcdat ' • v ; !!!_!!_ 3 . 700;000 Total of nett revenue for the years 1791 and 1792, Dollars 26 NOTES. (A 1 The produce of these three quarters may be considered as aicertained.— Tho «eh returns have not been received from all the ports for the entire period ; yet so many have been received (including the principal ports) as to have ad mitted of a calculation with regard to the reft, not liable to materia error. Ihe produco for the year 1790, has lerved as a guide, in refpeft to the ports from ivhich returns have not been received. ... , . . , (.%) The sum here stated, is altogether upon eft.mate : the time which has ■lapsed fincc the end of the quarter not admitting of the proper documents. It -xcecds the produce of the fame quarter, for the preceding year, fifty-five thou arid seven hundred and seventy-three dollars and nineteen cents If the ratio of noreafe of anv preceding quarter, during the year 1791, had been app .ed to his quarter, the lum would have been considerably greater, hut it is believed, hat this would not furnilh a just rule It is understood that the importations tor the last quarter of 1790, were much mcreafed to avoid the additional dut.es ivhich were to take place on the firft day of the year 1791. And tho ,gh the idditional duty on dift.lled spirits, might at firft view be expected to add to the product for the quarter in quest.on, yet it is far from certain that this was the ■ffect of it. Extraordinary exertions were made to import distilled spirits prior : o July, when the additional duty took effect, which may be supposed to have ieflened the quantity afterwards-fo as to leave it a qucftion whether this arti cle was more or less productive in that quarter, than in the fame quarter of the former year. Making allowance for these circumstances it does not appear pro 3able, that the last quarter of 1791, will exceed the last quarter of 1790, in so .freat a proportion, as any of the preceding corresponding quarters (CI This sum is materially Ihort of the originally estimated product, but from •he returns hitherto received, it does not appear likely to be greater This is DW.ne partly taa decreased dift.llation of (pints f.om foreign materials in con of a sudden rife in the price of molasses, and partly to the obstacles which have retarded the complete exccut.ono. the law. (D~| The sum here estimated, cannot, in the nature of the thing, be accurate. It nc udesacompromife of opposite considerations First, it contemplates an additional sum for the additional duty on imported spirits, which will be ful y operative during the present year. Secondly, it contemplates the poffibdity that the disturbances in Hifpaniola may tend to diminifti the supply of leveral articles which are objects of considerable duties, and may proport.onab y dim,- mlh the revenue. Hence about one-third of the prooable encreafe of the du ties on spirits is added to the produce of the year 179! and the aggregate is ta ken as the produce of the year 1792, abating two-thirds of that encreale as an Equivalent for other deficiencies. . . V) The fame disturbances in Hifpaniola may be expected to dimmish the product of the duties on homemade spirits, by considerably reducing the iupply as molasses ; which added to the obstacles already alluded to (and which u wil require yet some time completely to surmount) cannot fail to render the real product ofthefedut.es, in the course of the present year, materially less than P he estimated product. Accordingly an abatement of about one-third is made in the present eftiinate. 1 rtc.Ja.ry Depa.,ls JiR. HAMILTON, Secretary of the, Trea.Jv.ry. TcT ESTIMATE of ANNUAL EXPENDITURE, on the ground of -exifing ejla- J blijhments, viz. Dots. Cents. FOR the support of the civil establishments of government, in eluding 40,000 dollars for foreign ahairs, • • 3 , 53 o Stated expenditure of the War Department, including 25,000 dol lars for Indian affairs, , • * 3 q"' 7 § 1 r' Pensions to Invalids, . <V>4 fe 3 °o 838,848 77 Interest on the public debt, foreign and domestic, including the amount of the state debts assumed, . • • 2 )°49,'94 73 Total annual expenditure, . • • Dollars 3,688,033 50 Treasury department, January 23, 1 79 2 - ™ ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Secretary of the Treasury. ] UTHENTICk so offending, lhall be deemed guilty of ' (Never before printed.) manslaughter and upon conviction atttc thereof, lhall be punilhed as at the COPIEb OF THE LA Wo common law hath heretofore been u fed Passed in the an( j accustomed : Provided neverthe- TERRITORY of the UNITED STATES, lefs# that if any person in the just and North-weft of the River Oh 10, necessary defence of his own life, or the By the Governor and Justices thereoj, an y o ther person, (hall kill or Agreeably to the Ordinance of Congress of July fl a y another person attempting to rob 13, 1787, and made out from the Original Re- or murt Jer in the field or highway or to cords in the Office of the Secretary for the said into a dwelling house, if he can- Territory. not w i t h fafety to himfelf, otherwrfe A LAW refpccting Crimes and purajh- fclon Qr a{Mant Qr bring hi;n ments. Faffed September, t. \ t . t Q justice he lliall be holden guiltless. (Continued.) ARSON . MANSLAUGHTER. If any person or persons, shall wil- IF any person (hall wilful- fully and maliciously burn or cause to ly kill or flay another person without be burnt, or lhall be wilfully and mali malice aforethought, he, fhej or they, cioufly aiding and af&ftiag in burning Numb. 26.