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By EDGAR SNOWDEN._
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REPORT
Of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of
the Finances.—[concluded.]
Treasury Department, )
December 2nd, 1834. i
In substantial conformity to the proposition
* made last year by this Department, it would
now seem still more imperative on Congress
to provide that the money, whether principal or
interest, drawn from the Treasury and placed
in the Bank and its branches as Commission
ers ofLoans, and which shall not be called for by
the public creditors before the close of the en
suing year, should be repaid into the Treasury
and held under notice to creditors to receive it
there- that the office of Commissioner ofLoans
be abolish© l, the duties of the Commissioners of
the Sinking Fund, and the provisions as to the
fund itself suspended—and such power devolv
ed on this department as may he necessary to a
settlement of that part of the debt which may not
th m have been demanded: and as the Bank
chirter s >on expires, to provide further that
»he b inks and other papers connected with
public debt should be returned, and de
p > si ted here to enable the Treasury to guard
,, mist mistakes and frauds. The whole amount
4 1 . ii-‘i| in possession of the Bank on account
of the public iiebt has been reduced to $232,
51 4 ,d til ei jli about to be augmented by the
rran-f-r of a sufficient sum to meet the whole
residue of the ouistanding debt, it will proba
bly not remain much larger at the close of the
ensiling year
With a little legislation of this kind, every
thing will be done by Congress which is deem
ed necessary to close up, it is hoped, forever all
the once large public debt of the United States.
By the payment of the whole of it with punctu
ality and fidelity, it is gratifying to reflect that
our public credit as a nation has been taised to
a high standing, and a large stock ot confidence
acquired fiom others, which in such luture exi
gencies as are likely to happen sooner or la
ter. in all countries will aid us to procure am
ple and seasonable loans without ruinous dis
counts or delays. In pursuing this honoiable
course, the government of the Union has not
only shown good faith abroad to its friends and
allies; those who lent assistance when most
needed; but it has redeemed, whether at home
or abroad, the entire debt of both the revolution
and the late war, paid the purchase money for
Florida and Louisiana, and with the most scru
pulous sense of moral as well as political obli
gation, administered in various ways to the
wants and atoned for many of the losses of those,
who perilled life and fortune in the struggle for
independence, in which our public debt had its
sacred origin. It is an additional source of gra
tification, that this has been effected without im
posing heavy burthenson the People, or leaving
tiieir I’rea-ury empty, trade languishing and
industry paralised; but, on the contrary, with al
most every gre.it interest of society flourishing,
with taxes reduced, a surplus of money on hand,
valuable s’ocks and extensive lands still owned
by die government, and with such various oth
er fi lancial resources at command as to give to
our country in this respect a very enviable supe
riority. ... r
When it is considered, that this has been ef
fected by a young and at first not very nume
rous people, within about half a century, and
who. during the same period, have provided
such other and ample means to sustain their
useful system of Government, and to build up
gre at and prosperous communities, we may
well be proud of the illustration our country af
fords of the financial ability of free institutions,
and of the high destinies in various respects, not
appropriately noticeable on this occasion, but
which may await our preservation of these in
stitutions m their original vigor, purity, nnd re
publican simplicity.
From the views before taken of the probable
wants during the ensuing year for expenditures,
and of the probable receipts to meet them, it has
been stated, that on the l*»t January, 1836, it was
estimated that there will remain a surplus of
available funds of about §3,902 690. This re
sult has been attained by considering the una
vailable portion of our funds then and now on
hand, at the reduced sum of about §1,150.000.
instead oi §1,100 000. as heretofore reported.—
But it may be desirable to Congress to know,
that there is a prospect, during tne ensuing year,
of collecting some further portion of these funds.
This will be accomplished, it is anticipated, by
the appointment of some more active agents— |
bv new compromises—and by more rigorous
requirements in collections where property ex i
i*ts, so as to reduce farther the whole amount
fro n S30 000 to $ 100,000, and if this hope be re
alized, the above named avauaoie oaiance win
to that extent be increased. A minute analy
sis and examination of these unavailable funds
have recently been completed, & will be submit- j
ted in the supplement report,soon to be laid before
Congress, on the present mode of keeping and
disbursing the public revenue. But on the other
hand, enlarged somewhat as this balance may
happen to be from any causes, it should be re- j
membered that on the 31st day of December,
1933. another reduction of 10 per cent, must, by
the existing laws, be made from a part of the
present tariff, and if the surplus in the Treasu
ry, by a year from next January, should prove to
be increased to two millions, it could not, with
safety, be regarded as too great for meeting,
with, a reduced rate of imposts on importa
tations, the probable wants of A. D. 1936. At
all events, such is the uncertainty on that sub-,
ject at this distance of time, that though some
thing unusual in the latter part of A. D. 1S36
may. in the way of final dividends on our por
tion of the capital ofthe bank stock, be received;
yet is not now possible to foresee the contin
gencies that may check either the present large
importations of merchandise or large sales of
land, and consequently reduce the revenue de
rived from them, or that may require an increase
in our army or navy expenditures, arising from
those unfortunate collisions to which all na
tions are liable, that feel disposed to sustain the .
faith of treaties, vindicate their public, rights,
and protect, efficiently, their commerce and
citizens. No further reduction of the tariff, un
til that already provided for at the close of the
ensuing year, would, therefore, seem to be pru
d<The reduction or increase ofthe Tariff is now
referred to with a view to revenue alone, and
not with a view to questions so much agitated
heretofore, of protection, countervailing regula
tions, and the proper national policy to be pur
sued, as to the imported luxuries and necessa
ries of life. On those points, it is considered far
better for the real manufacturers themselves,
not engaged in mere speculative investments,
as well as for commerce, agriculture, and the
revenue, that a policy should be selected, not un
just to either great interest or either great sec
tion of the Union, and when once established,
that frequent changes should be avoided, and
the occasional increase or reduction of revenue,
which may sometimes become proper for finan
cial purposes should be connected with articles
wholly detached from the question of protection
to manufactures. The Tariff as to these trou
blesome points, is regarded as now adjusted, by
the act of March, 1833. till the year A. D. 1842,
except in respect to such new regulations us may
be required from time to time, for the due en
forcement of the spirit of that act, or such other
changes as new occurrences may satisfy the
great mass of the community, are rendered pro
per for earlier modifications, without a depart
ure from the spirit of the compromise then in
tended among the friends of free trade and of
high protection.
A separate Report, on certain subjects rela
ting to the due enforcement of the present Ta
riff being in preparation, only one of them will
now be adverted to. It is the evasion of the
present duty on silks front beyond the Cape of
Good Hope, by their being first landed, and oc
casionally re-colored, or re-stamped, in Europe,
before imported into this country. In this way,
and by the present discrimination in favor of
European silks, the revenue loses a very large
amount. As some illustration oi me loss ny
sucli discriminations, the recent one in favor
of French silks.alone amounted to over !$300,
000 a year; and that now in favor of French
wines amounts to nearly $200,000 more; making
a loss of over half a million a year on these
two articles with only one nation.
But, while on the other points, independent
of the spirit of the compromise of 1833, legisla
tion may be regarded as still fairly open, it cer
tainly ought not to be attempted on so delicate
and difficult a subject, unless imperative causes
for it shall occur, whether combined or not with
any increase or reduction of the tariff that may
become necessary as a mere question of reve
nue by the actual condition of our receipts and
expenditures. So far from any increase being
necessary at present, or prospectively, the bal
an e now on hand in the Treasury, and the ac
accruing revenue under existing laws, will, in
the opinion of the Department, prove amply
sufficient to answer all ordinary demands, and,
united with our other resources, to answer any
unexpected demands of no very extraordinary
amount.
As appears by the documents annexed, the
Government lias about $t>,313,400 subject to ge
neral use, invested in the United States Bank
stock, and the sum of $1 882,500 invested in dif
ferent canal stocks; and the proceeds of the
sales of which, if authorized in any unexpected
deficiency, would, in most cases, prove amply
sufficient, without any resort to an increased ta
riff'. On the contrary, neither of the available
balances estimated to lie on hand in 1835 or
1836, after deducting what will be wanted for
outstanding appropriations, cun probably ex
ceed a million. Should the surplus, without
that deduction, prove to be about six millions,
as estimated, the undersigned respectfully sub
mits that it will require no legislation, as that
amount has been about the average usual ba
lance retained on hand for many years—a bal
lance that has furnished great facilities in meet
ing all claims, even at the remotest points, with
punctuality and good faith, afforded much sta
bility and elevation to our public credit, by pro
viding seasonably the means for a punctilious
fulfilment uf contracts, and yielded s<> great se
curity against sudden evils of every kind in fi
nancial attairs, as to render one ot near that
amount provident and economical; and espe
cially so at this moment, when any surplus which
may exist, will accrue under a permanent com
promise of the Tariff, that contains within it
self a provision to reduce still further the duties,
and undoubtedly the whole amount of our re
venue after the close of the coming year.
It is a source of sincere congratulation, that
Irom the general prosperity of our commerce,
and from the peace, industry, and abundance
which so widely prevail over our fortunate coun
try, under its admirable institutions, that re
searches are obliged to he directed, rather to
the due reduction or disposition of any occa
sional surplus that may happen to exist in the
Treasury, than to obtain sufficient for public
purposes by taxation and other burthens. But
under our altered system as to duties, and the
public debt, it will be prudent to calculate that
deficiencies, as well as surpluses, may happen
ofiener than formerly. In the opinion of the
undersigned, however, neither can be soon an
ticipated so as to require immediately legisla
tion. But should Congress think differently, no
harm could arise from vesting a power in the
Treasury Department, in case of an unexpected
deficiency occurring in the revenue from any
cause whatever, to sell such portion of our pub
lic stocks as may be necessary to supply the
public wants growing out of actual appropria
tions. In a contingency of that kind, against
which, in the present system of our revenue, and
without a large ordinary surplus to be applied
as it can be spared or not, for the payment of a
public debt, in the manner heretofore practised,
it is difficult to guard efficiently, against its usual
evils, a delay, if not great embarrassment and
injury to public crcdbors, and a violation of our
plighted faith. At the same time, it might he
expedient to provide, that whenever the collec
tions of the revenue, permanently authorized,
should prove to be in an excess not immediate
ly needed, or useful as a proper surplus in the
Treasury, that the Department should either ob
tain interest for it, of the Banks where the larg
est amounts are long deposited, or invest it tem
porarily in some safe stocks, till needed, or till
the tariff is again changed. This would proba
bly secure a due interest on it, while retained,
instead of the present and past modes of obtain
ing interest on any occasional surplus, by apply
ing it in discharge of the public debt, and which
mode since the payment of the latter, can be no
onger pursued.
Should facts occur, which appear to require
egislation, such an arrangement, like a regu
ator in some large or complicated machinery,
remedying any occasional irregularities, might
operate more beneficially as to gny considera
ble excess or deficiency, than yearly changes
bf the tariff, made to meet yearly vibrations
nour revenue, or to meet yearly reductions or
augmentations in our expenditures. This sub
ect of interest from the deposite Banks, at some
rate, and under some circumstances, was
adverted to in a report by a committee in one
Bouse of Congress the last session, and would,
it this time, be more fully examined in connex
on with that report, and the subsequent intima
ion of the U nited States Bank, of its claim for
iamages on account of the late removal of the
leposites, connected, it is apprehended, with the
idea of a profit or interest derived from them,'
were it supposed that either point could, m the
present condition of things, he considered o
any practical importance. But the balance ot
money at present on hand, as before lemarktc,
is merely the usual and convenient amount lor
current fiscal operations, and most of it is lia
ble at any moment to be withdrawn to meet ex
isting appropriations. M hile the intimation ol
the Bank, resting, as it probably must, on an
impression that the bonus was paid instead ot
interest on the public deposites, is not believed
to be supported by the language or spirit of ttie
charter, which required the bonus “ for the ex
clusive privileges and benefits conferred by tins
act on the Bank,” and which exclusive favors,
whether termed privileges or benefits, consisted
principally in the sole right of banking lor twen
ty years, and for which alone, Mr. Madison, in
his veto of 1815, and Mr. Dallas, in his letter,
Dec. 24, 1815, thought “that a bonus should be
paid to the Government.” The latter further
observed, that, “ independent of the bonus here
“ proposed to be exacted, there are undoubtedly
“ many public advantages to be drawn from the
“ establishment of a national bank, but they
“ are generally of an incidental kind, and as in
“ the case of the deposites, and di.stribn|jion of
“the revenue, may be regarded in the light of
“ equivalents, not for the monopoly of the char
“ ter. hut for the reciprocal advantages of a fis
“ cal connexion w ith the Government.”
1 If the reasons should ever be presented to this
Department in support of the late intimation ol a
demand for damages for the removal of the de
posite--, in a case where the bonus was cmimed
and paid on the above grounds, and where the
right to remove the deposites was expressly re
st ived in the chartei to the officer removing them
—it will then probably be in season to enter more
fully into this collateral queston; or should the
balance in the possession of the State Banks,
at anv time, become much larger than current
demands existing against the I’reasury, it will
if Congress do not earlier think proper to act
on it prospectively, nor to authorize any tem
porary investment of it, be then considered ne
cessary and proper for the Department to exa
mine in what cases, and under what circum
stances, on what stiplu$e$, and at what rate, in
terest could equitably he demanded, in addition
to the useful duties performed by the selected
I Banks in behalf of the Treasury. On these
points, however, it is hoped that tins Department
will not be understood as recommending that
taxes should ever be imposed with a view to
permit a large surplus, any more than a defi
ciency, to occur; but that, when the former un
expectedly and unintentionally happens, an in
come should b>* realized front it, by interest or
an investment, until, at the end of every few
years, a thorough revision of the tariff would, in
the pursuit of this policy, be made, and so gra
duated, as, during the next succeeding term, to
he likely to correct any great irregularities,
whether excesses or deficiencies, that had hap
pened during the preceding term, and to lead to
the sale and use of any interest or investments,
which, in the mean time, had accumulated.
Those other questions, naturally connected
with the present deposite Banks, and, indeed,
with our whole existing system of finance, so
far as regards the keeping and disbursing of the
public money, might here he appropriately con
sidered. Yet, without any desire to avoid, but
rather from a wish to submit that full and frank
discussion of them which their acknowledged
importance and (lie existing interest in them de
mand from the fiscal department of the Govern
ment, they will be postponed to a separate sup
plemental report, which will be confined exclu
sively to their consideration, and will soon be
presented to Congress.
it appears to the undersigned, that a change
in the commencement of the fiscal year, and of
the time at which the annual appropriations be
gin, would he a great improvement in the finan
cial operations of the Government. If the year
was to commence after the last day of March,
instead of September, and the annual appro
priations begin from the same date, many de
lays and embarrassments would be avoided,
and the information on the condition of the le
ceipts and expenditures of the previous year, to
be laid before Congress each session, could be
much more full and accurate.
Upon the subject of the new coinage of gold,
and the operation of the actsof the last session
relating to it, and the value and tender of fo
reign coins, this Department does not, until fur
ther experience is had. contemplate offering
many recommendations for new legislation. A
particular suggestion, deemed proper, is that the
one dollar gold coin, originally embraced in the
late act, should be autlioiized. If found on tri
al to he convenient, as small gold coins have
been found, some of less and some of little
larger amount, in Portugal, Russia, Spain, Tur
key, and Switzerland, it does not seem to com
port with tlie interest and welfare of the com
munity to prevent here its coinage and circula
tion; ami ,f not found on trial to be useful, the sa
gacity of self interest will soon lead to the aban
donment of its coinage, by making no demand
for it. Thus the community can in no event
sustain much, if any, injury from it; while the
facilities of the public, by having a coin of ei
ther metal, gold or silver, as small as one dol
lar, may lie greatly increased. 'I bis kind of le
gislation with a view to provide a full supply and
variety of coin, instead of hills below five and
ten dollars, is particularly conducive to the se
curity of the poor and middling classes—who,
as they own hut little in, and profit but little by
Banks, should be subjected to us small a risk as
practicable by their bills.
The wealthy and commercial, for whose be
nefit chiefly banks are instituted, will then chief
ly use tln-ir bills, and suffer by them, if forged
or depreciated; while the laboring classes, and
men of small property will by the justice and
paternal care of the Government generally
be provided with a currency of hard money,
not exposed to any risk of failure, and to be
used for all dealings of such an amount as
their daily or weekly wants may in most cases
require.
The new coinage has as yet been confined
principally to the half and quarter eagles, and
has equalled in all about S3.114.OHO—or in four
months more than four times the annual average
coinage of gold for many years past. The de
mand^ for other coins has also been promptly
met throughout the year. To aid in carring the \
new law into efficient operation, this Depart
ment last August placed in the hands of the Di
rector of the Mint, under the act of April 2d,
1792, twenty thousand dollars, and ten thousand
more in Sept., as it was needed, and could he j
without inconvenience spared from the Treasu
ry. By this course, many have been enabled J
at once to realize funds from their deposite of
bullion or coin, and the mint to continue its op
erations uninterruptedly, and to supply prompt
ly where desired coinsalready prepared for cir
culation. The strong disposition of the public j
to use the new coinage, has been observed with j
pleasure; and the liberal aid of many of the !
Deposite Banks, in assisting to increase its cir- j
culation, has proved very useful, and deserves j
commendation. As the new coinage com-1
menccd nearly in the middle of the year, and
the date till next January could not by law, he
altered, so as to distinguish the new from the old
coin, such other alterations were adopted by the
Director of the Mint as the low permitted, and
as were calculated to aid the community in rea
dily discriminating between them.
After the next year begins, the new date
alone will enable the public to distinguish the
new coins; and such modifications only will be
made in the former emblems as taste and conve
nience may in the opinion of the Director, and
without an omission of any thing required by
Congress, appear to demand. His reports
which it is expected will soon be received and
presented, will, probably furnish every further
particular connected with the concerns of the
mint that may be interesting. But it is consid
ered proper to invite the attention of congress
to a change in the law respecting the organiza
tion of the Mint establishment, so as hereafter
to prevent its operations in refining and coining
i for others, from being a tax on the Treasury,
' and any longer swelling the large amount of
■ our annual expenditures. This could easily be
i effected by imposing a duty or seignorage of
about one per cent, on the prompt coinage of
silver, and one-fourth per cent, on that of gold;
the present coinage of copper now defraying its
own expense. This would be no more burthen
some to the persons holding bullion, than the de
lay now allowed for the recoinage, and which
delay of forty days [or half per eent discount if
delivered in five days,] and consequent loss of
interest could with such a seniorage, and the .ad
vantages now authorised from the Treasury, be,
without inconvenience, reduced to e'ght or
ten days, and the whole establishment ne thus
sustained bv its own earnings, without much, if
any, increased cost to either individuals or the
public.
i But, in such case, if the cost should ever be in
creased to individuals, some additional induce
ment will be held out to prevent either the ex
portation or melting of our coin, which have
been so great hitherto before the late change in
the law, as to have left in deposite and circula
tion in this country an amount of it not exceed
ing that struck in two or three out of the forty
1 years during which the Mint has been in opera
tion. The expenses and labors of the Mint
equalling, on an average, about 20,000 dollars
a year, or 800.000 dollars in all, excludingbuild
ingN have thus, except for about two years, been
eiiTirely lost to the country.
It has been deemed desirable to attempt some
improvements in the Revenue Cutter Service.
With such a view, all its regulations have been
revised and republished. By th ise, it has been
endeavored to promote the cause of temperance,
and thereby to increase the health and efficiency
of the crew’s, and the safety of the public prope: -
ty and the public interests in this branch of ser
j vice, by holding out a similar inducement to that
now existing in the Navy, to discontinue the use
of spirits on ship-hoard, dealer security lias
been provided for the prompt payment of their
wages, and for official accountability. It has
j further been deemed expedient, not only to stop
any contemplated increase in the Cutters, but
i to reduce the number of them, and of the per
sons employed in this service, as rapidly as the
diminished temptation to smuggling will safely
permit.
By several resolutions appropriations and acts
of Congress, at the last and previous sessions, a
j variety of other subjects, not yet reported on,
' has been confided to the attention of this Depart
I ment, such as the erection of a number of cus
tom houses, the building of a bridge over the
Potomac river in this L)i>tricf, a compromise of
the suits pending against the firm of Thomas
H. Smith & Son, an opinion <>n the validity of
some private land titles in M ss >uii. a report on
certain piovisions in the tariff act of July 14• h.
1S32. some statements as to the marine hospital
money, a re organization of Treasury Depart
ment. and a revision of the subject of salaries
and fees to custom-house officers.
These have received careful attention, and
will form the subjects of separate reports to Con
gress early in the present session.
In the report on the last of them, it is contem
plated to offer such suggestions, by way of ad
dition to this communication, as are appropri
ately connected with that inquiry, as would
otherwise have been mentioned here in re<pr( t
to some changes deemed suitable in the whole
amount of compensation to various custom
house officers, and in the number of such offi
cers, at various ports, and in relation to other
changes in the system, which the great altera
tions in the existing duties seem to indicate as
j required by sound economy and the public con
wnience.
A few remarks concerning hospital mon< y
will also he postponed, and annexed to the state
ments requested in relation to that subject.
In the preparation of new weights and mea
sures, on the authority given in the act of 2d
! March, 1799. and on the principles set forth in a
report from this department, of June 20th, 1S3J.
I coupled with the provision on this subject in the
constitution, some progress has been made since
the date of that report. But the difficulty in pro
curing the most suitable materials from abroad,
has retarded the completion of the work, and
the present engagements of the distinguished
gentleman specially employed to superintend i
this business, and which engross most of his
time, in a survey of the coast, may, with the cir
cumstance before named, prevent the final ac
complishment of this desirable object another
year. But is hoped that then, either at the arse
nal in this city or at the mint, the most natural
and appropriate place, the new weights and
measures will he satisfactorily finished, and
greater uniformity and accuracy attained on a
subject in which, both as to revenue and com
merce, it is much needed, and will prove emi
nently useful to the public.
The survey of the coast before alluded to, has.
since the last annual report, been transfer red to
the charge of the Navy Department, with which j
it seems to he more intimately and appropriate- i
ly connected. With this survey, the situation
and utility ofour light houses, already being 199
in number, besides 20 light-boats, and the neces
sity for others from time to time, would seem to
be, in some degree, fitly associated. As a mea
sure likely to lead to economy, in not extending i
the establishment of lighthouses heyond the real j
wants of the country, and in fixing their exact j
localities, so important to the safety of our na- j
vigation and navy, it is respectfully recommend
ed. that in the survey now in progress, Congress ,
should require the latitude and longitude of eve '
ry light house to be carefully ascertained and !
published the importance of its position to be j
inquired into, and that no new one be hereafter
erected, till a report is made in respect to its
public benefits by the two collectors and the
commander of the Navy Yard nearest the pro
posed site.
The rebuilding of the Treasury edifice, on or
near its former location, with the dimensions of
the building enlarged so as to meet the wants of
the Department, and rendered fire-proof for the
security of its papers, seems indispensable to its ,
convenient operations, and to the safety of some |
of the most valuable records conr*„» ,
public archives. ' *■ ei' *ith (c
The report from the Commissioner r
neral Land Office bannexed, m'i - ° H
gestions are highly important arui'*X
recommendatious, as to changes in trof£
of the collection of the public mo. “Si
spectlully. though earnestly ur*-ed art>.
deration of Congress. ° ’ ninf(onfi.
The Indian titles having of jate
more extensively extinguished, tin* , ^
valuable lands brought into inarko* KUantit? ^
j ed in amount, so as'to place in tl
I over three millions annually, instead
one million, as was the ca*e twenty
! Within the same period, the Land
; been augmented in number from abom**1^
to fifty-three, in actual operation in lS3i y'1
: circumstances liave added much to ii,
! ness of that Bureau, and should clearly I N
| corresponding increase in its Clerk* ’, *•!
ration from it of some of it> present lab*' as>*
ties; as the diminution in other bu«-ine*«n0#s<>
other Bureaus, might lead to reducrinni"^
number ol their Clerks, to the extent
in the plan soon to be submitted, on t'le^ '^
: nizationof the Treasury Department 'o'1*1
have been made, during the past year * *
! success, to simplify tin* mode of ni'.Li!*11 ^
' in the General Lain) Office of ffi,S"*™*
I some difficult and long delayed qU,.stj)' 'rrc,:ti
i counts have been dec ided; greater local ° *
modations end facilities furnished to j; ?ct£
and increased convenience and prompt!.,,. ’
fir as practicable with the present forced,*
Bureau, have been introduced in the a*c. ^
rnent of titles, and in the collection andd-a,^'
mentof the large amount of revenue t.1*'
from this source. But new legislation cap -
give entire relief, in the present condition ft*
enlarged duties, and at least *30f)00 a year f
ten years, will be required to be expends ’
addiiional Clerk-hire, to dispose of (1‘e" 5
ing in arrear, and that may he hereafter
ed necessary by the additional sales of !an(i
It gives me great pleasure to state, that
more than fifty offices and one bundled Rfc.’
ers and Registers connected wit), t|le
system of land sales, amenable to the {5P|.rrt '
of the Treasury, and under hi* control a> *
their collections, notone, during the |a>|Ve‘
has proved to be a defaulter, ultlmugli
collected and paid over has probably
four millions.
All which is respectfully submitted.
LEVI WOODHL’RY,
Sec!ry of the Tiea^rj.
We are requested to announce Phiup \
Amiss as a candidate to represent the Ci-unti j
Rappahanock in the next General i cf
of Virginia.
m31 U'e are authorised to announce to tit
voters of the Congressional District con,;..*!
of the counties of Westmoreland, Riclunooi,
Northumberland. Lancaster, King (ieonreSt?
ford and Ptince William, that John Tau»uii
Esq., has, in compliance with the wi-h<>f antr
voters, consented to become a candidate attii*
next election of a Representative for that lb
trict in the Congress of the Cnited State.-.
FANCY AND ORNAMF.NTAh JOB
IN A GREAT VARIETY OP COLOBJ
NEATLY EXECUTED
jit I ms or Fin:.
DR A ir.S THIS DA Y
Grand Consolidated Lottery, Class 23 for Nil
To be drawn at the City Rail, in the City S
Washington, on Tuesday, December?
HIGHEST PRIZE $12,000.
Tickets S') 00, halves 2 50. quarters 1 25.
On sale in great variety hy
.IAS. EIOKDVV.
tCJ* Uncurrent Notes and Foreign Gold pur
ch -ed.______
1)RA HVV THIS DA Y
Grand Consolidated Lottery, < las-23 for F3t
To be drawn at the City Hall, in th* City o
Washington, on Tuesday, December?
HIGHEST PRIZE $l2.ouo
Ticket 85 Oil; halves 2 50; quarters. 125.
For sale, as usual, in great variety,by
JOS. II. ELAIIKE,
(Sign of the Flag of Son ft mol dnhl. I hinft
Alexandria. IM .
Drawn numbers in the Virginia Lottery.1 *av“
37 36 47 30 56 12 51 17 3 2*5 13
DR A US THIS DA )
Grand Consolidated Lottery, (lass 2-1 for W’
To be drawn at the City ll.dl at Washing^
on Tuesday. Neceiliher 0
HIGHEST PRIZE $12,000’
Tickets 85 On, halves 2 50, quarter.- 12*
To be had in a variety of numbers «l
J. \\. VIOI.I TT,
Lottekv AM) Exchange Ueoke*.
Wear the corner oj hnig mol I mj- n> f
Alexandria. D _
nn.\ it * v ///•> *»
Grand Consolidated Lottery.< I-'1'' ,
To I,e drawn at the City HalL «" ^
Washington, on Tne-day. *
HIGHEST PRIZE W\. «
Tickets $5 00; halves 2 5<>; quaftei
To be had in a variety of mind * ,"‘
J. COItM.
Lottery* Exchance linker.
Drawn numbers in the Virginii f- '
37 30 17 30 56 13 a I jT.jilllJ
G ROCK KIES, kf,p
rpHE subscribers have, and cor.«wj(j;.
A on hand, a general assortniv*1 " ' ^
RIES: consisting of Brown aim jV* 0*„*fea»
Gunpowder, Imperial, and ■ , porku
Coffee; Molasses and Spices; r(• |0vef
barrels; Family and Common 'ford*
and Timothy Seed, (fresh and fine},^ (
and Corkwood, suitable for seines ^
and Cotton Yarn; Salt, in Si,r0 haters-^
and Paints—fn quantities to *“'• Pf®? • x
Cash. B. WHEAT* -
M Who wish to rent the HOt s a
iUcious LOTS now occupied by
ated on Pitt streets, opposite St. 1«« ^
for terms of w hich please appiy , ^jn
dec 1—eo6t_B- W.
LOST, . nf)f
Yesterday, on Washington ^ ■ (
tween Washington and H'-nr) •
King street, a black /iumbaztne J ■«»
a black Circassian long shawl, i
be suitably rewarded by returning •
dec 4 WILLLIAM D.
HOUSE SERVANT WAXTE& o(,
a.lOR the ensuing year, a colored . 3
A to 16 years of age, who has been ^
?d to house work, and can bring g°f-‘
nendations from his last place,
dec 4—tf