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sum of expenditure cannot render necessary the destruction of this institution.

I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
JOHN STANLEY.

WASHINGTON, MARCH 1803.

LIST OF ACTS passed during the second session of the Seventh Congress of the United States of America, beld at the city of Washington, from December 6, 1802, to March 4, 1803.

1. An act for the relief of Charles Hyde.

2. An act authorising the sale of a piece of land, parcel of the navy yard belonging to the United States, in Charlestown, in the state of Massachusetts, to the proprietors of the Salem turnpike road and Chelsea bridge corporation.

3. An act for the relief of Henry Messonnier. 4. An act for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Portsmouth.

5. An act to provide for the granting of clearances to ships or vessels owned by citizens of the United States, lying in the river Miss.ssippi, south of the southern boundary of the United States; and therein to amend an act, intituled "an act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage;" and for other purposes.

6. An act in addition to an act, intituled "an act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States."

7. An act supplementary to the "act concerning consuls and vice-consuls," and for the further protection of American seamen.

8. An act to provide an additional armament for the protection of the seamen and commerce of the United States.

9. An act to prevent the importation of certain persons into certain states, where, by the laws thereof, their admission is prohibited.

10. An act in addition to an act, entituled "an act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States."

11. An act for continuing in force a law, intituled "an act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes."

12. An act for the relief of Moses White.

13. An act in addition to an act, intituled "an act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels of the United States," and to the act entituled "an act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage."

14. An act supplementary to the act, intituled "an act providing passports for ships and vessels of the United States."

15. An act making an appropriation for the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and three.

16. An ac making appropriations for the sup

port of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and three.

17. An act in addition to the act, intituled "an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia."

18. An act concerning the salt springs on the waters of the Wabash river.

19. An act concerning the insurance of buildings, goods and furniture, in the county of Alexandria, in the territory of Columbia.

20. An act in addition to and in modification of the propositions contained in the act, intituled" an act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory north-west of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes."

21. An act to make Beaufort and Passamaquody ports of entry and delivery; to make Easton and Tiverton ports of delivery; and to authorise the establishment of a new collection district on Lake Ontario.

22. An act more effectually to provide for the organization of the militia of the district of Columbia.

23. An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia.

24. An act to prolong the continuance of the mint at Philadelphia.

25. An act in addition to an act, intituled " an act to amend the judicial system of the United

States,"

26. An act making appropriations for the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and three.

27. An act to revive and continue in force an act in addition to an act, intituled "an act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen;" and for other purposes.

28. An act authorising the transfer of the duties of supervisor to any other office.

29. An act concerning the city of Washington. 30. An act for the relief of Joshua Havey, and others.

31. An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the state of Tennessee.

32. An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the state of Ohio. 33. An act to alter the time of holding the court of the United States in Kentucky district.

34. An act to alter the time for the next meeting of Congress.

35. An act directing a detachment from the militia of the United States, and for erecting certain arsenals.

American Official Documents, presented, at various times, to the Congress of the United States, concerning the Revenues, Expenditure, Public Debt, Trade, Tonnage, Seamen, and Fisheries, of those States.

REPORT laid before the House of Representatives, on the 16th of December 1802, by the Secretary of the Treasury, concerning the Revenue and Expenditure of the United States.

Act to establish the Treasury Department, the Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits the following Report.

In obedience to the directions of the act The permanent revenues of the United supplementary to the act, entituled, "An States, exclusively of fees, fines, and preal

ties, which, in a general view of the subject, may be omitted, consist of duries on mer. chandize and tonnage, proceeds of the sales of public lands, and duties on postage.

and which exceeds, by twelve hundred thouland dollars, the aggregate beretofore collected, in any one year, on account of both the impost and the internal duties, repealed by an act of last session.

This excess, which had not been calcu

The duties on postage, which were, in the annual report of last year, estimated at 50,000 dollars, have, during the year end--lated upon, is considered alone as amply ing on the 30th day of September last, yielded 50,500 dollars. The decrease of ship letters, the extension of the establishment through unproductive roads, and the acceleration of the progress of the mail, may, however, cause some defalcation in the receipts of the ensuing year.

sufficient to cover any possible defalcation which might, during the next and ensuing year, reduce that branch of the revenue below last year's estimate, of nine millions five hundred thousand dollars. Such defal. cation is not, however, apprehended; for although there are not yet sufficient data preThree hundred and twenty-six thousand 'cisely to ascertain the effect of peace on the and fifty-two dollars and eight cents have amount of duties, those which are in the been received during the same year, on ac- possession of this department tend to cor. count of public lands, of which sum, 17,162 | roborate the presumption, that that sum at dollars and 50 cents were paid in the Trea- least (cine millions and a half,) will hereafter sury, in evidences of the public debt, and, be annually received. The statement (B.) 179,575 dollars and 52 cents specie; the which exhibits a comparative view of that local situation of the land offices not having revenue for each quarter during the two last yet rendered it practicable to draw the years, shews that the amount of duties acbalance from the receivers of public monies. crued, during the nine first months of the Three hundred and forty thousand acres present year, exceeds eleven millions three of land have been sold for six hundred and hundred thousand dollars; and after deducteighty thousand dollars, during the yearing three millions five hundred thousand dolending on the 31st day of October last; of lars, amount of debentures issued during which quantity near ninety-seven thousand the same period, on account of the re-exacres were sold on account of pre-emptions claimed by purchasers under John Cleve Symmes, and two hundred and forty-three thousand acres are the result of Current Sales. The annexed statement (A) de. signates the quantities respectively sold in the several districts, and the annual pay ments receivable on account of the balance of nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars due on these and on the preceding

sales.

From those several results it appears pro, bable that the annual receipts under this head will not, on an average, fall short of the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, at which they have been estimated.

San

portations of foreign goods, leaves for those three quarters a balance of more than seven millions eight hundred thousand dollars, sub, ject to no other deduction than the expences of collection; and from the knowledge al ready obtained of the comportations during the present quarter, as well as from the gra dual diminution of re-exportations, no doubt remains that the net revenue, accruing during the whole year, will exceed the estimate,

From present appearances, the whole of the permanent REVENUES of the UNITED STATES may therefore be reasonably com, puted at ten millions of dollars...of which sum, seven millions three hundred thousand dollars are appropriated for the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt, and two millions seven hundred thousand dollars are applicable to the current expences of government.

Although it had been anticipated that the receipts in the treasury, on account of duties on merchandize and tonnage, could not, for the present year, be affected by the restoration of peace in Europe, yet the sum According to the estimates for the year actually paid has exceeded the most 1803, those expences will, exclusively of a guine expectations; twelve millions two sum of 180,000 dollars, wanted to cover hundred and eighty thousand dollars have the navy deficiencies of the years 1801 and been during the course of the year 1802, but including sundry permanent apending the 30th day of September last;propriations, which make no part of the an a sum larger, by two millions of dollars, nual estimates, amount to 2,660,000 dol than the amount received for the same du- lars, to wit; ties during the preceding or any other year,

For

For the Civil Department, and all Do-
mestic Expences of a civil nature,
For expences attending the intercourse
with Foreign Nations, including prize
causes, and Barbary powers,
For the Military and Indian departments,
For the Naval establishment, calculated
on a supposition that six frigates shall
be kept in constant employment,

Dolls.

680,000

250,000
830,000

900,oco

Dollars 2,660,000 Neither the payments due on account of the convention with Great Britain, and which will, for three years, amount annually to eight hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars, nor the installments and interests due on account of the 200,000 dollars loan obtained from the state of Maryland, for the city of Washington, are included in that calculation, as they may be defrayed out of the following resources, which make no part of the permanent revenues, viz.

1st, The surplus of specie in the treasury, which, as the whole amount there will not at the close of the present year, fall much short of five millions of dollars, far exceed the sum which it is prudent to keep.

2dly, The uncollected arrears of the rect tax, estimated at four hundred thousand dollars;

formity to the provisions of the said act, applied towards discharging an equal amount of that part of the debt which had become due to the bank before or during the year 1796; and the purchaser of the stock sold, at the same time, to the treasury, an equal sum in bills on Holland at 41 cents per guilder; the securing of which large amount at that rate was the inducement on the part of government to dispose of the bank stock on those terms. As the dividend usually received on the bank stock sold, and the an. nual interest payable on the debt due to the bank, thus extinguished, were nearly equal, the July half yearly dividend on the stock was in fact the premium paid for the purpose of effecting the remittance; and government has hereby been enabled to obtain, without raising the price of exchange, the whole amount wanted to meet the payments due in Holland till the month of September 1803.

Exclusively of, and in addition to, the debt of 1,287,600 dollars thus paid to the bank out of the proceeds of the sales of bank shares, a sum of eight millions three hundred and thirty-four thousand, seven hundi-dred and fifty-seven dollars, and eighty-nine cents, has been paid out of the treasury during the year ending on the 30th day of September last, on account of the principal and interest of the public debt, and the payments in part of the principal of the debt, made during the same period, have been as follows:

And 3dly, The outstanding uncollected internal duties, amounting to near seven hundred thousand dollars.

1st. The payments on account of the principal

The only embarrassment experienced during the course of last year, arose from the difficulty of procuring remittances necessary to meet the large installments of the debt due in Holland. The impossibility of obtaining bills on that country, to the amount wanted by government, and the loss which, Leaves a sum applied to the disbursement of

and interest of the domestic debt, have
been

doils. 4,628,105 39

From which deducting one year's interest on
the same

the principal of the six per cent, and defer-
red stocks, of

2d. Paid to foreign officers, and for the regis
tered debt,

on account of the rate of exchange, must
be incurred, by remitting circuitously
through England, induced the secretary of 3d. Principal of domestic loans, (exclusively

the treasury to recommend, in a report to
the commissioners of the sinking fund
(marked C.) a recourse to bank stock as the
most favorable mode of remitting.

of the 1,287,600 dollars paid out of the
proceeds of bank shares)

4th. Evidences of public debt paid for lands,

5th. The payments on account of the princi-
pal and interest of the foreign debt have
3,310,874 34

been

From which sum deducting one
year's interest and charges,
equal to
462,734
And on account of the
different rates at
which bills have been
purchased, and of
sundry bills returned
for non payment, &
now in suit, a farther

sum of

82,284 94

Of the five thousand shares in the stock of the bank of the United States, originally subscribed by the United States, 2,780 shares had been sold in the year 1796 by virtue of the act, intituled " An act making provision for the payment of certain debts of the United States;" and for the purpose of discharging a part of the debt due to the bank. The remaining 2,220 shares were now, under the same authority, Amounting altogether to four millions, one sold at 45 per cent. advance; the 1,287,600 dollars which they produced were, in con.

Leaves applicable to payment of
the principal,

3,470,259 75

1,157,845 64

9,603 18

202,400 d 17,162 50

545,015 94

2,765,858 34

4,152,809 66

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The balance of specie in the treasury, which on the 1st day of October 1801, amounted to 2,949,718 dollars and 73 cents, had encreased on the 1st October 1802 to the sum of 4,539,075 dollars and 57 cents, making a difference in favor of the treasury of 1,500,956 dollars and 84 cents, which last sum, added to the above-mentioned payment of 4,152,869 dollars and 66 cents, made out of the treasury on account of the principal of the public debt, makes an actual difference in favor of the United States, of more than five millions seven hundred. and forty thousand dollars, during that year.

The payments on account of the princi. pal of the public debt, from the 1st day of April 1802 to the 30th day of September 1802, exclusively of, and in addition to, the bark debt, discharged out of the proceeds of bank shares, amounts to 5,339,886 dollars 44 cents, viz.

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present limits, there does not appear any necessity for excreasing the pable revenais. All which is most respectfully submitted By ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. Treasury Department, Dec. 16, 1802.

STATEMENTS A. B. AND C. accom-
PANYING THE REPORT OF THE SE-
CRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

purchase.
DAY 15,

feitures.

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Periods of Payment for the Instalments due, per the above Statement.

Districts where payable.

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(A.) STATEMENT of LANDS sold in

Amount of pur- Amount of S. Amount paid on An int due offAmount of forthe Districts of Cincinnati, Sicul cuville, Chilicothe, and Marietta, showing the

monies paid thereon, and the amount due, on the 1st November 1802.

purchase.

33.218 06
56,008 60
113,116 25
17.212 25
1,252

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Nov. 1801.1 Nov. 1802. 12 months.
Sales when made.
From
ditto.

Period.

Quantities
of land.
dores. Haths.
47,506

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50

193.379

Dols. CH.
1,415 45
451

Dolls,

Steubenville,

ditto.

ditto.

Chilicothe,

ditto.

ditto.

Marietta,

ditto.

1 July, 1802.

ditto.
ditto.
8 months.

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̈ (B.) A STATEMENT exhibiting the Amount of Revenue accrued on account of Duties on Importations, for each quarter, from the 1st day of October, 1800, to the 30th day of September, 1802.

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(a) This column shews the true amount of gross revenue accruing during each quarter after deducting from the total amount of duties, the amount of debentures, bounties, and allowances granted for, or in lieu of drawback on the re-exportation of foreign articles,) and subject to no other deductions but the expences of

(b) The accounts of several small

ports,

for these three quarters, are on estimate.

collection.

3,769,828

3,208,883

12,081,392

2,763,694

2,661,067

3,515,242

10,670,822 | 2,098,669

(C.) STATEMENT giving an account of

the proceedings of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund.

At a meeting of the commissioners of the sinking fund, on the 7th of June 1802, present, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General of the United States;

The Secretary of the Treasury reported to the board, that provision has already been made to meet nearly all the demands which will become due in Holland, during the course of the present year, but, that it is necessary to make immediate provision for the payments on account of principal and interest which fall due there, during the first five months of the year 1803, and amounting to four millions, four hundred and thirty-nine thoufand eight hundred and thirty guilders, and payable at the following periods, viz.-1st January, 872,700 guilders; 1st February, 986,350 ditto; 1st March, 601,000 ditto; 1st June, 1,979,780

ditto.

That from the great diminution of trade between this country and Holland, he has ascertained during his late excursion to New York and Philadelphia, that it is impracticable to obtain bills on Holland to that amount: That the rate of exchange is al ready forty-one cents per guilder; and that any attempt on the part of the Government to procure the large amount now wanted, would indubitably raise considerably the rate of exchange: That if it shall be attempted to remit by the way of England, the loss will be also considerable, the present rate of exchange with that country being now above par, and rising, and would indubitably be enhanced, should Government come into the market for large purchases; and the rate of exchange between England and Holland, being by the last advices ten guilders eight stivers per pound sterling, nor likely to become more favour. able, which supposing the whole amount in bills on England to be procurable (which is not believed to be the fact) at 168, would, including the commission of one per cent. in England, amount to forty-three and a half cents per guilder: That the Bank of the United States having been applied to, has refused to undertake to contract for making the necessary remittance: and that the two only considerable offers made to the Secretary are now submitted to the

Board,

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