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37TH CONGRESS,
5RESS, )
3d Session
ion.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
REPRESENTATIVES,
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REPORT
OP THE
SECRETAEY OF THE TREASURY,
ON THE
STATJ& OF. THE FINANCES,-
THE Y E l R ENDING JUNE 30, 1862«
W;ASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT.
PRINTING/OFFiCE.
1863.
IN THB HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 8,
1862.
Resolved, That ten thousand extra copies of the Annual Report of the Secretary of the
Treasury on the state of the Finances be printed for the use of the present House.
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The Secretary's report...
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Statement No. 1, of the receipts iand expenditures for the .year, ending June 30, 1862 , 31
Statement No. 2, of duties, revenues, and public expenditures during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1862, agreeably to warrants issued, exclusive of trust funds.
37
Statement No. 3, of the receipts and expenditures for the quarter of the fiscal year
1863 ending September 30, 1862
,
43
Statement No. 4, showing the amount of the public debt on July 1, 1862
44
Statement No. 5. Annual report of the director of the mint for the fiscal year end^
ing June 30, 1862, and accompanying tables
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45
Statement A. Report of the First Auditor on the operations of his office.
77
Statement B. Report of the Second Auditor on the operations of his office..
78
Statement C. Report of the Third Auditor on the operations of his o f f i c e . . . . . . . . .
80
Statement D. Report of the Fourth Auditor on the operations of his office
90,
Statement E. Report of the Fifth Auditor on tbe operations of his office.
92
'Statement F. Report of the Sixth Auditor on the operations of his office...
120
Statement G. Report of the First Comptroller on the operations of his office
121
Statement H. Report of. the Second Conaptroller on the operations of his office
123
Statement I. Report of the Treasurer on the operations of his office
127
Statement J. • Report of the Solicitor on the operations of his office
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130
• Statement K. Report of the Register on the operations of his office
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139
Statement L. Statement of the Commissioner of Customs on the operations of his •
office
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147
Statement M. Report of the Light-House Board
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147
Statement N. Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey......
- . . . . ' 153
Statement 0. Annual, report of supervising inspectors of steamboats for the year
ending June 30, 1862
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158
Statement No. 6. Amount due under treaties with various Indian tribes, payable
on t i m e . . i . . .„,..-...
172
Statement No. 7 exhibits the gold and silver coinage at. the mint of the United
States, annually, from its establishment, in 179,2, and including the coinage
of^the branch mints and the assay office, (New York,) from their organization
until June 30, 1862
184
Statement No. 7J exhibits the amount of goods in warehouse On July 1,1861, and on
\ ; the first of each succeeding month, until June* 30, 1862
186
Statement No. 8 exhibits a synopsis of the returns of the banks in the different
States at the dates a n n e x e d . . . . .
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189
Statement No. 9 exhibits a comparative view of the condition .of the banks in differ- .
ent Eections of the Union in 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1 8 6 2 . . . . . . .
196
Statement No. 10 exhibits a general view of the condition of the banks in the United
States on or about January 1, 1851, to 1862, inclusive . . . . . . „.
201
Statement No. 11 exhibits a general statement of the condition of the banks, accord- .
ing to returns dated on or about January 1, 1862 _
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202
Statement No. 12 exhibits the amount of moneys in the United States treasury,
amount of drafts outstanding, amount subject to draft, amount of receipts,
and amount of drafts paid, as shown by the Treasurer's weekly exhibits, rendered during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862
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Statement No. 13 exhibits a list of bidders to the 7.30 loan authorized by acts of
July 17 and August 5, 1861, under notice of the 10th November, 1862 ; the
amount of each bid, the premium thereon, the amount of those accepted and
those declined . . . . . i .
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205
Statement No. 14 exhibits the amount of the public debt on the first day of January
' in each of- the years .from 1791,to. 1842,. inclusive, and.at various dates in
subsequent years,.to July 1, 1862
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Statement No. 15 exhibits the payments made annually oh account of the interest
and reimbursement of the domestic diebt, interest on the public debt, and
redemption of the public debt, from the 4th of March, 1789, to June 30,1862 . 214
Statement ^No. 16. Value of exports of the growth, produce, and. manufacture of
the TInited States during-the fiscal year.ending June.3.0, 1 8 6 2 ^ , , . . . , . - . . . . . .
216
Statement No. 17 exhibits the revenue collected from the beginning of the government to June .30, 1862, under the several heads of customs, direct tax,
^ public lands, and miscellaneous sources, including loans and treasury notes ;
also the expenditures during the same period, and the particular tariff and
price of lands under which the revenue from those sources was collected.„.
219
Statement No. 18 exhibits the quantity and value of cotton exported annually from
1821 to 1862, inclusive, and the average price per p o u n d . . . . .
222'
Statement No. 19 exhibits the quantity and value of tobacco and rice exported annually from 1821 to 1862, inclusive..
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224
Statement No. 20 exhibits the imports and exports of specie and bullion ; the imports entered for consumption, and specie and bullion ; the domestic exports
and specie and bullion ; the excess of specie and bullion exports over specie
and bullion imports ; and the'excess of specie and, bullion imports over specie
and bullion exports.,
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-226
Statement No. 21 exhibits the amount of coin and bullion imported and exported
annually from 1821 to 1862 inclusive ; also the amount of importation over
exportation, and of exportation over importation, during the same y e a r . - . . , 227
Statement No. 22 exhibits the gross value of exports and imports from the beginning
of the government to June 30, 1862
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228
Statement No. 23 exhibits the. amount of the tonnage of the United States annually
from 1789 to June 30, 1862 ; also the registered and enrolled and licensed
tonnage employed in steam navigation each year
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230
Statement No. 24 exhibits the value of manufactured articles of domestic> produce
exported to foreign countries from June 30, 1846, to June 30, 1862 . . . . .."^.
232
Statement No. 25 exhibits the value of foreign merchandise imported, re-exported,
and consumed annually from 1821 to 1862, inclusive, and also the estimated
population and rate of consumption jjcr capita during the same period . .
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236
Statement No. 26 exhibits the total value of imports, and the imports consumed, in
the United States, exclusive of- specie, during each fiscal year, from 1821 to
- 1862 ; showing also the value of foreign and domestic exports, exclusive of
specie, and the tonnage employed during the^same period
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237
Statement No. 27 exhibits a summary view of the exports of domestic produce, &c.,
of the United States annually from 1847 to 1862, inclusive
Statement No. 28 exhibits the value' of foreign merchandise and domestic produce
exported annually from 1821 to 1862, inclusive
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Statement No. 29 exhibits the value of imports annually from 1821 to 1862, inclusive
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Statement No. 30 exhibits the aggregate value of breadstuffs and provisions exported annually from 1821 to 1862
239
240
242
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Statement No. 31 exhibits the receipts and expenditures of the marine hospital fund
for the relief of sick and disabled seamen in the ports of the United States
for the,fiscal year ending June 30, 1862 .,...«.«....... .... ........
Statement No. 32 exhibits the amount of moneys expended at each custom-house
in the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862, per act of
March 3, 1849 — — ...>._>->..>,-.-._- ._
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Statement No. 33 exhibits the number of persons employed in leach district of the
United States for the collection of customs during the fiscal year ending June
30, 1862, with their occupation and compensation, per act of March 3, 1849
No. 34. Regulations concerning internal and coastwise intercourse, to which is ap^
pended the accompanymg orders of the Secretary of War and. the Secretary
of the Navy . . - - . . . ' . . « - . . . • . « . . . . . . . . . . . . .
o-....-»...,„...•...»....,
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250
253
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EEPORT
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
DECEMBER 5, 1862.—Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, December 4,
1862.
SIR: In obedience to the act whicli reqnires the Secretary of the
Treasury to prepare and lay before Congress, at the commencement of
every session, a report on the subject of finance, embracing estimates
of receipts and disbursements and plans of revenue, he submits,
respectfully, the following views and statements:
The breaking out of the existing rebellion, soon after the incoming
of the present administration, demanded the employment of all necessary means for the preservation of the territorial integrity of the,
republic, and for the maintenance of the constitutional supremacy of
the whole people, through their national government, over every
State and every citizen.
To authorize and prescribe the employment of these means was
the peculiar province of Congress; to call forth and direct the armed
force, which might be authorized, belonged to the President, and,
under him, to the Departments of War and of the Navy; while to
provide the means to meet authorized expenditures in its employment
devolved, under the legislation of Congress and the direction of the
President, on the Secretary of the Treasury.
Varying exigencies have required adapted measures and demanded unanticipated expenditures. Estimates, correct when made,
have been rendered inaccurate by changed circumstances. Such conditions always attend war, whether external or civil, and we could not
hope to escape them.
It is not, therefore, matter*of surprise that the estimates submitted
in July, 1861, for the year ending on the SOth of June, 1862, were
exceeded by the actual expenditures, or that those. submitted„ in
December, for the year which will end on the SOth of June, 1863,
will probably be, in like manner, exceeded.
The estimates of the Secretary must, necessarily, be derived
chiefly from information furnished by other heads of departments:
and this information, adjusted to existing and probable circumstances,
cannot possibly anticipate all the vicissitudes of war or of legislation.
Thus, the estimates for the last fiscal year, submitted at the July
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session of 1861, were based on estimates from the War Department
for an army, including regulars and volunteers, of three hundred,
thousand men; and from the Navy Department, for a naval force
quite inconsiderable in comparison with that afterwards found to be
indispensable. Congress, thinking the proposed military force inadequate, provided for a volunteer army of five hundred thousand
men, besides regular troops and special corps, numbering, together,
over fifty thousand, and also for considerable additions to various
corps, and a large increase of pay and rations. The estimates of
July required, of course, correction in December.
So, also, the estimates for the current fiscal year, submitted at the
last session, were framed in substantial accordance with information
furnished by the several departments. The necessities of the war,
however, rendered it expedient, in the judgment of the Executive
and of Congress, to call for three hundred thousand additional volunteers, and make a draft of three hundred thousand men in addition to these. The estimates, of course, must again prove inadequate.
The increase of the army, however, did not greatly affect disbursements between the date of the December report and the close of the^
then current fiscal year. The increase of debt, therefore, did not
exceed the December estimate. On the contrary, while the estimate
anticipated a public debt on the SOth of June, 1862, of $517, S72,802 93,
its actual amount on that day was $514,211,S7l 92. This amount, of
course, does not include unascertained claims, but only that debt, the
evidences of which exist in the treasury, upon its books, or in the
form of requisitions in favor of creditors or of disbursing ofiicers. It
is not probable, however, Ihat at the date named these claims much,
if at all, exceeded the balance in the treasury, namely, $lS,043,54t) 81.
But while the public debt on the 1st of July, 1862, did not reach the
amount anticipated by the estimates, there is no room for the pleasing hope that the results of the current fiscal year or the next will
exhibit a similar proportion. On the contrary, the estimate of the
public debt on the 1st of July, 1863, heretofore submitted, must now
be advanced, in view of the unexpected increase, of expenditures,
authorized and incurred or likely to be incurred, to $1,122,297,403 24;
and on the supposition that the war may be continued with undiminished disbursements until the 1st of July, 1864, the debt likely
to have been then incurred must be estimated at $1,744,685,586 80.
It has been the care of the Secretary to reduce the cost of the
debt, in the form of interest, to the lowest possible amount, and it
is a source of real satisfaction to him that he has been able, thus far,
to confine it within very moderate, limits. The first loans, being
of a magnitude hitherto undreamed of in our market, were necessarily made at an interest which he regarded as high,, though
lenders strenuously insisted on higher; but large amounts are now
obtained at five and four per cent., while the circulation of United
States notes constitutes practically a loan from the people to their
government without interest. The average rate on the whole loan
is thus reduced to 4f per cent. Whether a similar result may
attend future loans must be determined partly by the legislation
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of Congress, partly by the conduct of the war, a^^d partly by the condition of the markets for money.
The statements of the actual and estimated receipts and expenditures for the last and the current fiscal year, in comparison with those
of the December report, must undergo modifications similar to those
of the public debt. Both receipts and expenditures for the current
and the following year will be increased: the former by the operations of the augmented tariff and of the internal revenue, and the
latter by the exigencies of the war.
The aggregate receipts for the fiscal year 1862, from all sources,
including the balance of $2,257,065 80 in the treasury from the preceding year, weie $583,885,247 06; and the aggregate expenditures
$570,841,700 25; leaving a balance in the treasury on the 1st day.of
July, 1862, of $13,043,546 81. From the receipts and from the expenditures should be deducted the amounts both received and disbursed within the year on account of permanent and temporary debt,
amounting to $96,096,922 09; leaving the total of receipts not applied
inpayment of debt $487,788,324 97, and the total of current disbursements $474,744,778 16. As the amount of debt, so also the amount
of the expenditures for the last year falls short of the estimates.
The actual receipts for the first quarter of the fiscal year 1863,
commencing July 1, 1862, appear from the books of the treasury;
the receipts for the three remaining quarters can only be estimated
on the basis of appropriations made and asked for by the several
departments. They have been and are estimated as follows:
For the 1st quarter the actual receipts from customs,
internal duties, direct tax, lands, and all other
sources, excluding loans, and including the balance, from last year, of .$13,043,546 81, Avere- •
For the 2d, 3d, and 4th quarters the estimated receipts from all sources, are
<.....
Making the total of actual and estimated receipts,
from ordinary sources and from the direct tax,
during the year 1863
•
To this sum must be added^ sums
already realized froni loans in all
forms, which amounted, during
the 1st quarter, t o . . . $114,458,82102
And during the months of October
and November, estimating for
some of the last days of November, to
'
85,670,895 99
Making an amount already obtained from loans to
the 1st of December, and applied in payment of
current expenditure and principal and interest
of public debt, of
$37,208,529 02
143,286,816 58
180,495,345 60
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200,129,717 01
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And there must be added, also, the amount which
will probably be hereafter realized from loans in
all forms, under existing laws, namely • •. • »• • • $131,021,197 35
Making the total of receipts, actual and anticipated,
under existing laws —
•
511,646,259 96
On the other hand—
For the 1st quarter of the fiscal year 1863 the
actual expenditures were • •«.
For"the 2d, 3d, and 4th quarters the actual and
estimated expenditures, under existing appropriations, including interest on public debt, are
And additional appropriations are asked for by the
several departments, to meet estimated deficiencies, to the amount of
•
Making the whole amount actually expended or
estimated
To which must be added the estimate for payment
of principal of public debt during the year, of* •
Making an aggregate, for all purposes, of • • •.
It is necessary to observe, however, that in the
present state of the law the estimates of the departments always largely exceed expenditures.
The law forbids the transfer of any part of an appropriation for one object or class of objects to
another. Consequently, when any appropriation
happens to be exhausted, expenditures for the ob- .
jects of it, however important, must be arrested
until a further appropriation can be had. Such
an occurrence during the recess of Congress might
occasion great public inconvenience and injury.
Hence it has become usual to make every estimate
large enough, to cover all possible requirements
under iJi till a session of Congress shall afi'ord an
opportunity of providing for any deficiencies which
may thereafter occur. Hence there is always a
large balance of unexpended appropriations at the
end of every fiscal year, which, after two years
from the making of them, are carried to the credit
of what is called the surplus fund.
It may be safely estimated, therefore, that, of the
appropriations made and asked for, there will
remain unexpended on the SOth June, 1863,
111,084,447 40
672,843,841 78
109,418,032 30
893,346,32148
95,212,456 14
988,558,777 62
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and should, of course, be deducted from the apparent aggregate of expenditures, not less than $200^,000,000 00
The deduction of this sum will leave as the true
aggregate of expenditures for the year • • • • <> •«•
But of this sum, as already
stated, there has been received
and may be expected from customs, internal duties, and other ordinary sources
$180,495,345 60
And from loans in allforms
331,150,914 36
788,558,777 62
Making an aggregate of realized and anticipated
resources, to be deducted from the sum of actual
and anticipated expenditures for all purposes, of
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511,646,259 96
And leaving yet to be provided for the current year
by the action of Congress
276,912,517 66
The estimates for the fiscal year 1864, commencing on the 1st day
of July next, and ending on the SOth day of June, 1864, must, in the
present circumstances of the country, be, in great part, conjectural.
The estimates of expenditures have been framed by the several
departments on the supposition of the continuance of the war—a
supposition which, though very properly assumed as the basis of
estimates intended to cover all contingencies, is not, it may be
confidently hoped, destined to be realized. The estimates of receipts are based upon the operations of recently enacted laws, the
working of which cannot be accurately foreseen.
The estimates of expenditures are as follows:
For the civil list, including foreign intercourse and
miscellaneous expenses, other than on account of
the public d e b t . . .
For the Interior Department, Indians and Pensions
For the War Department
...
For the Navy Department
•.
For interest on public debtFor principal of public debt
$25,081,510
10,346,577
738,829,146
68,257,255
33,513,890
19,384,804
08
01
80
01
50
16
895,413,183 56
To which sum should be added the expenditures
for which appropriations made are estimated as
remaining undra%vn on the 1st July, 1863
•.
200,000,000 00
Making the aggregate of expenditures to the 1st
July, 1864, for which appropriations are made
or a s k e d . . . . .
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. . . . 1,095,413,183 56
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From which should be deducted tbe probable amount
of appropriations which will remain undrawn on
the 1st of July, 1864.
$250,000,000 20
Making the true ainount of probable expenditures during the fiscal year, 1864
»
845,413,18
The estimates of receipts are as follows :
From customs
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•
$70,000,000
From internal duties
150,000,000
From lands
25,000
From miscellaneous sources
3,000,000
Making the aggregate of receipts for the fiscal year
1864 to be deducted from the aggregate of expenditures
223,025,000 00
And leaving the amount of expenditures of the
fiscal year 1864 to be provided for
622,388,183 56
The whole amount to be provided by Congress, beyond resources available under existing laws,
iuay, therefore, upon the supposition of the continuance of the war, be stated as follows:
For the fiscal year 1863
For the fiscal year 1864
276,912,517 66
622,388,183 66
Making an aggregate of
899,300,701 22
A tabular statement is submitted with this report, and as part of
it, exhibiting clearly the details of the receipts and expenditures of
the financial years 1862, 1863, and 1864.
Another table is also submitted, in which may be seen of what
particulars the existing debt consists, in what years it was contracted,
and when and in what amounts it will become due.
The other tables required by law also accompany this report.
In order to the formation of sound opinions as to the measures required for meeting the demands disclosed by the estimates and yet
unprovided for, it may be useful to review, briefly, in connexion with
their actual and probable results, the measures already recommended
and adopted, or yet under legislative consideration.
With a view to the necessary provision for the expenditures then
anticipated, the Secretary proposed to Congress, at its last session,
such measures as seemed to him best adapted to the attainment of
that object. These were (1st) an increase of duties on various imports ; (2d) an increase of the direct tax ; (3d) the levying of internal
duties; (4th) a limited emission of United States notes, convertible into
coin ; (5th) the negotiation of loans, facilitated by the organization
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of banking associations, whose circulation should consist only of notes
uniform in character, furnished by the government, and secured, as
to convertibility into coin, by United States bonds deposited in the
treasury.
At the time these recommendations were submitted, the banks had
not suspended specie payments, and there was reason to believe that
economized expenditure and decisive military action would secure the
means required for the suppression of the rebellion without serious
sacrifices oil the part of, the government, and without resort to any
other currency than that of coin and equivalent notes.
Unexpected military delays, however, increased expenditures,
diminished confidence in public securities, and made it impossible for
the banks and capitalists, who had taken the previous loans, to dispose
of the bonds held by them except at ruinous loss, and impossible for
the government to negotiate new loans of coin except at like or
greater loss.
These conditions made a suspension of specie payments inevitable.
The banks of New York suspended on the SOth of December, 1861.
Their example was followed by most-of the banks throughout the
country, and the government yielded to the same necessity in respect
to the United States notes then in circulation. ,,
These changed circumstances required a change of measures. The
expenditures had already reached an average of nearly, a million and
a quarter of dollars each secular day; while the revenue from all sources
hardly exceeded one-tenth of that sum. It was necessary, therefore,
to raise by loans in some form about thirty millions a month, or sixty
millions every, sixty days.
Careful inquiries satisfied the Secretary that the first $60,000,0,00
•could not be had, in coin, at better rates than a dollar in bonds for
eighty cents in money; and that each succeeding loan would involve
submission to increasingly disadvantageous terms. To obtain the
first $60,000,000 would require, therefore, an issue of bonds to the
amount of $75,000,000, and, of.course, an increase of the public
debt by the same sum; the next $60,000,000 would require, perhaps,
$90,000,000 in bonds and debt; and the next $60,000,000, if obtainable at all, would require, perhaps, $120,000,000. It was easy to
see that on this road utter discredit and paralysis would soon be
reached. The adoption of a plan of finance involving such consequences was not compatible with the Secretary's ideas of public dat}^
There' remained but one other possible way of riaising money by
the negotiation of bonds in the usual mode. That way was, to receive in payment of loans the notes or credits of the banks in suspension.
•
To ascertain what w^ould have been the consequences of a resort to
this expedient, it is necessary to remember that the bank circulation
of the loyal States amounted, on the 1st day of January, 1861, to
$150,000,000; that it had been reduced to $130,000,000 on the 1st
day of January, 1862; and that this circulation was diflused throughout the country in all the channels of business. In these circum-'
stances the collection by loans of sufficient, amounts to meet the de-'
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rnands upon the treasury in season for prompt payments would be
extremely difficult. The negotiation of such loans to the extent required by the public exigencies, would create a demand for the notes
which would involve the necessity, at first, of sacrifices not greatly
inferior to those attendant on coin loans. If subsequent negotiations
should become practicable at seemingly better rates, it would be because the government demand had stimulated the making and issuing of
bank notes to an extent far beydnd the ordinary needs of business. The
increase of circulation thus stimulated wo.uld be unlimited, except by
the possibility of obtaining interest on loans of it; or, in other words,
by the possibility of obtaining credit for it with the community and
the government. This limit, certain to be finally reached by all
banks improvidently managed, would not, however, be reached immediately, or at the same time by all institutions, or by the same
rate of progress in all parts of the country. But an excessive circulation would surely be thrust upon the community, forming a currency, everywhere, but irregularly depreciated, destined in part to
become avorthless, and certain to tax and derange, beyond measure,
, the business of the people, and to embarrass, if not arrest, the operations of the government. Loans negotiated in this circulation would
be simply exchanges pf the debts of the nation, bearing interest and
certain to be paid, for the debts of a multitude of corporations, bearing no interest and certain, in part, never to be paid.
This is but a partial representation of the consequences apprehended from the receipt of bank notes for loans to the government.
Their character made it impossible for the Secretary th recommend,
such negotiations, and wholly improbable that Congress would
authorize them, if recommended.
No other mode of providing, with any tolerable degree of promptitude, for the wants of the army and navy, and the necessities of other
branches of the public service, seemed likely to effect the object with
so little public inconvenience and so considerable public advantage
as the issue of United States notes adapted to circulation as money,
and available, therefore, immediately in government payments.
It was not necessary that the Secretary should recommend this
plan to Congress. In his report at the commencement of the session
ho had pointed out the inconveniences and dangers of a circulation
of government notes, even though convertible into specie, and had
dwelt especially on the probability that such a circulation would
idtimately sink into an irredeemable paper currency. At that time
he expected a continuance of specie payments, and hoped that a
banking system would be authorized which would at once furnish a
sound circulating medium and afford a firm support to the public
credit. Neither the expectation'nor the hope, however, had been
realized; and a choice was now to be made between a currency furnished by numerous and unconnected banks in various States and a
currency furnished by the government which the government could
and would, except in a very improbable, not to say impossible, con*
tingenc}^, amply provide for and protect. With these alternatives
before him, the Secretary had already declared his unhesitating
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preference for a circulation authorized and issued by national authority. But the enlightened senators and representatives who
composed the financial committees of the respective houses required
no new statement of his views on this subject. They saw clearly the
necessities created by the suspension, and at once adopted the measure demanded by them. The Secretary, concurring entirely in their
judgment, had no duty to perform except that of giving such information and such aid as they called for and he could supply.
An emission of $50,000,000 had been authorized by Congress at
the July session, 1861, not with the design of furnishing a general
currency, but for the purpose of making good any differences between
the amounts obtained by loans and the sums required by the public
service. Of these notes. $33,460,000 were in circulation at the time
of the suspension. Up to that date every note presented for payment had been promptly redeemed in coin. After the suspension an
additional emission oif $10,000,000 was authorized, on the 12th of last
February. Both these issues, amounting together to $60,000,000,
were made receivable for all public dues, including customs.
It now became the duty of Congress, not merely to provide the
means of meeting the vast demands on the'treasury, but to create a currency with which, until the close of the war at least, loans and taxes
might be paid to the government, debts to individuals discharged,
and the business of the country transacted. Nothing less would
satisfy the need of the time.
This duty Congress partially performed by authorizing an emission
of $90,000,0t)0 in United States notes, in addition to the $60,000,000
previously authorized, making $150,000,000 in all. The $90,000,000
last issued were made receivable for all national loans and dues,
except customs, payment of which was required in specie or notes of
the two first issues.
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At a later period of the session, in view of the withdrawal of the
sixty millions receivable for duties from circulation, and of the expediency of providing a permanent resource for meeting all demands
upon temporary deposits in the treasury. Congress authorized a further issue of $150,000,000, of which, however, $50,000,000 were to
be reserved from issue until actually required for payment of deposits.
At a still later date Congress, upon the recommendation of the
Secretary, authorized the use of postage and revenue stamps as a
fractional currency, preferring this expedient to metallic tokens or
coins reduced in value below existing standards.
These various acts, taken together, authorized the emission of two
hundred and fifty millions of dollars in United States notes, and a
further emission of fifty millions, if needed, for the payment of deposits. Of these emissions, the sixty millions receivable for customs
were not available as circulation^ but might be replaced, as paid in,
by notes of the new issues which were thus available, so that, in the
end, a total circulation of two hundred and fifty millions might be
reached, and, in an improbable contingency, increased by fifty millions more. An emission of fractional currency, as just stated, was
also authorized.
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. In- aid of these provisions for public payments, the Secretary recommended, and Congress, by different enactments, authorized, the
receipt on temporary deposit, at an interest not exceeding five per
cent., of such gums as might be offered, not exceeding, in the whole,
one hundred millions of dollars, and the payment, to such creditors as
might choose to receive them of certificates of indebtedness, payable in one year and bearing six per cent, interest. Congress also authorized the issue of national bonds to the amount of five hundred
millions of dollars, into which the United Statgs notes issued might
be converted at the will of the holder. It was provided that these
bonds should carry an interest of six per cent, in specie, and b a r e - ,
deemable after five and payable in twenty years. They have received the name of five-twenties or five-twenty-sixes.
These measures have worked well. Their results have more than
fulfilled the anticipations of the Secretary. Had other urgent demands on the attention of Congress permitted the consideration and
adoption of the suggestions which the Secretary ventured to submit
in favor of authorizing the formation, under a proper general law, of
banking associations, issuing only uniform notes prepared and furnished by the national government, and of imposing a reasonable tax
on the circulation of other institutions, no financial necessity would,
perhaps, now demand additional legislation for the current year, except such as experience might suggest for the perfecting of measures
already sanctioned.
A short statement will exhibit the practical workings of the laws
actuall}'' enacted.^
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To the 1st day of July, 1862, $57,926,116 57 had been received
and were remaining on deposit. United States notes to the amount of
$158,591,230 had been issued and were in circulation; $49,881,979 73
had been paid in certificates of indebtedness; and $208,345,291 86.
had been paid in cash. Not a single requisition from any department upon the treasury remained unanswered. Every audited and
settled claim on the government, and every quartermaster's check for
supplies furnished, which had reached the treasury, had been met.
And there remained in the treasury a balance of $13,043,546 81.
The reverses of June, July, and August, affected, of course, injuriously this financial condition. The vast expenditures required by
the large increase of the army, -authorized by Congress and directed
by the President, inade exhausting demands on all available resources.
The measures of Congress, however, enabled the Secretary to provide,
if not fully yet almost fully, for the constantly increasing disbursements. The actual payments, other than for principal of public
debt, during the quarter ending on the SOth of September,' were
$111,084,446 75 ; during the month of October they were
$49,243,846 04; and during the month of November, $59,847,077 34;
while the accumulation of requisitions beyond resources amounted
to less than the fourth of the aggregate of these sums, namelv,
to $48,354,701 22. ^
It remains to.consider what further resources for satisfying the debt
now existing in the form of requisitions, and meeting other present
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and prospective demands upon the treasury, may be provided under
existing legislation; and what additional measures may be beneficially
adopted for the improvement of the revenue and for the sure establishment of the public credit, by the discharge, with the greatest
possible promptitude and punctuality, of all public obligations.
The whole power to borrow money under the act of Jul}^, 1861, to
authorize a national loan is now exhausted. The only important laws
under which means for meeting demands on the treasury can be had
are those enacted or modified by Congress at its last session.
These are of two general classes, namely, those which provide
revenue from duties and taxes, and those which authorize the ob. taining of money by loans in various forms.
The laws of the first class are, (.1st,) the several acts imposing
duties on imports, and (2d,) the act to provide internal revenue.
The laws of the second class are, (1st,) the act authorizing the
issue of United States notes, and of six per cent bonds of the United
States, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years, to the
amount of five hundred million of dollars; (2d,) the two acts authorizing the issue of certificates of indebtedness and the purchase of
coin; (3d,) the act authorizing ,an additional issue of United States
notes; and (4th,) the act authorizing payments in stamps.'
The laws of the first class have been too recently enacted, and
their practical operation and results are affected by too large a variety
of circumstances, to warrant any very confident opinions either as to
the particulars in which amendments may be required or the amount
of revenue which may be expected from them. The year which will
elapse before the next regular session of Congress Will allow sufiicient
time for practical tests, and will doubtless suggest beneficial modifications. It seems already probable that some taxes imposed may be
either repealed or reduced in rate at that session, without injury to
the public service or the public credit. Possibly, also, some com-.
paratively unimportant changes may be indicated as useful before the
clo$e of the present session.
The actual and estimated receipts under these laws for the current
fiscal year, as already stated, will amount under the tariff act to
$68,041,736 59, and under the internal revenue law to $85,456,303 73.
The receipts for all other sources, exclusive of loans, as estimated,
will reach $13,953,758 47, making a general aggregate, including
$13,043,546 81, balance from last year, of $180,495,345 60, and
leaving to be provided from loans, in some form, $608,063,432 02.
The laws of the second class limit the issue of United States notes, •
exclusive of the contingent reserve for deposits, to $250,000,000;
limit the amount receivable on temporary deposit to $100,000,000;
and limit the issue of five-twenty sixes, to $500,000,000. The issue
of certificates of indebtedness and of fractional currency is unlimited
by legislation.
The amount of United States notes, including notes receivable for
customs, already issued and in circulation or in the treasury to the
credit of disbursing officers or of the Treasurer, was on the 1st instant $222,932,111. There yet remains, therefore, under the law
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an authority to issue the further sum of $27,067,889. The amount
received on deposit, including coin and estimating for the last day of
November, is $79,798,650. The further sum of $20,201,350 may
therefore yet be received. The issue of fractional currency has
reached the sum of $3,884,800. The best lights lead to the estimate
that before specie payments can be resumed not less than $40,000,000
will be required by the wants of the community. The sum of
$36,115,200, not yet issued, may therefore be counted on as an additional resource. It is not easy to determine what further payments
can be made in certificates of indebtedness, but it seems probable
that pavments in that form may be safely carried to the amount of
$100,000,000. These payments have already reached $87,363,241 65,
and the additional sum of $12,636,758 35 may therefore be paid in
that way. What can. be justly expected from conversions under the
act authorizing the issue of five-twenty sixes, that is to say, from
exchanges by holders of United States notes for these bonds, at par,
cannot be stated with much certaintjr. The amount received from
this source from the date of the act to the 1st instant, estimating for
part of the last week in November, is $23,750,000. It may reasonably be expected that thirty-five millions will be received, if the act
remains unmodified, during the remainder of the fiscal year. The
aggregate of all these sums, namely, $131,021,197 35, constitutes
the total of resources available for the current year under existing
laws, except through sales, regarded as impracticable under the act
authorizing their issue, of the five-twenties at their inarket value.
These credit resources, with the actual receipts from like sources,
added to revenue in all forms may supply the treasury with
$511,^646,259 96. There remains a balance of disbursements of
$276,912,517 66 to be provided for. .
How?
The easiest mode doubtless would be an issue of the required
amount in United States notes ; but such an issue, especially in the
absence of proper restrictions on corporate circulation, would, in
the judgment of the Secretary, be as injurious as it would be easy.
The addition of so vast a volume to the existing circulation would
convert a currency, of'which the benefits have thus far greatly out-,
weighed the inconveniences, into a positive calamity. Its conse-.
quences would be inflation of prices, increase of expenditures, augmentation of debt, and, ultimately, disastrous defeat of the very purposes sought to be attained by it.
To a certain extent, however, and under certain circumstances, a
limited additional issue of United States notes may perhaps be safely
and advantageously made.
The Secretary does not concur in the opinion entertained b}^ some,
whose ability and experience command deserved respect, that the
aggregate currency of the country, composed of United States notes
and notes of corporations, is at this moment greatly in excess of
legitimate demands for its employment. Much less does he concur
in another opinion, not unfrequently expressed, but expressed, in his
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judgment, without due consideration,-that any actual excess is due
to the issues of United States notes already in circulation.
It is true that gold commands a premium in notes ; in other words^
that to purchase a given amount of gold a greater amount in notes is
required. But it is also true that, on the suspension of specie payments
and the substitution for coin of United States notes, convertible into
six per cent, specie bonds as the legal standard of value, gold became
an article of merchandise, subject to the ordinary fluctuations of supply and demand, and to the extraordinary fluctuations of mere speculation. The ignorant fears of foreign investors in national and State
bonds and other American securities, and the timid alarms of
numerous nervous individuals in our own country, prompted large
sacrifices upon evidences of public and corporate indebtedness>in our
markets, and large purchases of coin for remittance abroad or hoarding at home. Taking advantage of these and other circumstances
tending to an advance of gold, speculators employed all the arts of the
market to stimulate that tendency and carry it to the highest point.
This point was reached on the 15th day of October. Gold sold in
the market at a premium of 37f per cent.
That this remarkable rise is not due wholly," or even in greatest
part, to the increase of the currency, is established beyond reasonable
doubt by considerations now to be stated:
First, The whole quantity of circulation did not, at the time, greatly,
if at all, exceed the legitimate demands of payments. On the 1st
day of November, 1861, the circulation of United States notes, including credits to disbursing officers and to the Treasurer of the
United States, was $15,140,000. On the 1st day of November, 1862,
it was, with like inclusions, $210,104,000. Of corporate notes, on the
1st of N=pvember, 1861, the circulation in the loyal States was, according to the best estimates, $130,000,000; on the 1st of November, 1862,
it was $167,000,000. The coin in circulation, including the coin in
banks, was probably not less, on the 1st of November, 1861, than
$'210,000,000. On the 1st of November, 1862, the coin had been
practically demonetized and withdrawn from use as currency or as a
basis for currency, and is therefore not estimated. The aggregate
circulation of the loyal States, therefore, was, at the first date,
$355,140,000; and at the second, only $377,104,000. .
Secondly. Th0 whole, or nearly the whole, increase in the volume
of the currency which has taken place was, it is believed, legitimately demanded by the changed condition of the country in the year
between.the two dates. The activity in business which, ,at the close
of that year, had taken the place of the general stagnation which
marked its beginning, and the military and naval preparations and
movements which had vastly augmented the number and amounts of
payments to be made in money, have, it is believed, legitimately,
demanded nearly or quite the whole of it.
That siich is the case may be reasonably inferred from the fact that
the prices of many of the most important articles of consumption
have declined or not materially advanced during the year. Wheat,
quoted at $1 38 to $1 45 per bushel on the 1st of November, 1861, was
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quoted at $1 45 t o $ l 50 on the 1st of November, 1862. Prime mess
pork, on the iSt of November, 1861, was quoted at $15 to $15 50 per
barrel, and on the 1st.of November, 1862, at $12 50 to $13. Corn
sold on the 1st of November, 1861, at 62 to 63 cents per bushel, and
on the 1st of November, 1862, at 7 r t o 73 cents. A comparison between the prices of hay, beef, and some other staples of domestic
produce at the two dates, exhibits similar conditions of actual depression in price or moderate rise.
Thirdly. It is, perhaps, still more conclusive against the theory of
great redundancy that on the 15th day of October, when the aggregate actual circulation,national and corporate, was about $360,000,000,
the premium on gold was S7f; whereas, on the 29th day of November,
when the circulation had increased by more than twenty millions, the
premium on gold was 29 to 30 per cent.
But if the fact of considerable redundancy in circulation be conceded, it by no means follows that it is the circulation of United
States notes which is redundant.
It must be remembered that the law confines national payments and
receipts to coin and notes of the United States. Officers of the treasury, officers of the army and navy, all officers of all departments, must
observe and enforce this law. For all payments to be made in behalf
of the United States, in case of inability to obtain, coin. United States
notes must be issued. It is, indeed, the duty of the legislature to see
that the purchasing power of these notes is kept as nearly as possible
equal to the purchasing power which gold would have had if specie
payments had been maintained; but the issue and use of the notes is
unavoidable, and the government can resort to borrowing only when
the. issue has become sufficiently large to warrant a just expectation
that loans of the notes can be had from those who hold or can obtain
them at rates not less advantageous than those of coin loans before
suspension. The difficulty which the takers of the recent/loan of
$13,613,450 found in obtaining United States notes with which to
meet 'their engagements to the treasury is very instructive on this
head. It points, indeed, directly to the conclusion that loans of United
States notes, in sufficient amounts to meet the disbursements of the
government, could not now be obtained at rates which a due regard
to the interests of the tax-payers would permit the Secretary to accept. Whatever may be said of the aggregate circulation, it cannot,
then, be successfully maintained that the circulation of United States
notes is excessive. When extended to the limits ^authorized by existing laws, it will be no larger than the wants of the people and the
government imperatively demand.
If there be a considerable redundancy then; if there be a considerable real depreciation of the circulation—which is by no means admitted—what has caused the redundancy and the depreciation ?
The cause of all that exists is easily found in the statements of
the banking corporations. The circulation of corporate notes increased during the year ending on the 1st of November, 1862, from
$130,000,000 to $167,000,000. During the same time the volume of
deposits, which answer very many of the purposes of circulation, had
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swelled from $264,000,000 to $344,000,000. The greater portion of
this increase took place v/ithin the last seven months.
The augmentation of deposits always accompanies increase of circulation. Together they stimulate loans, and are, in turn, stimulated
by the desire of the interest derived from loans. As might have been
anticipated, loans increased, though not equally, with the circulation
and deposits. From $607,000,000 on the 1st day of November, 1861,
they had grown to $677,000,000 on the 1st day of November, 1862.
Here is an obvious and sufficient explanation of whatever undue
expansion may have taken place. The Secretary has already expressed the opinion that the circulation is not greatly redundant, and
that no considerable depreciation of currency has actually occurred.
He thinks it sufficiently proved, however, that whatever there may
of either is fairly attributable not to the increase of United States
notes, but to the increase of bank circulation and deposits.
It is to be observed that no law compelled andno public necessity
required any enlargement of the volume of currency by the banks.
On the contrary, there are, in some of the States, positive enactments
by whieh the increase of circulation during suspension is prohibited;
and the principle embodied in them is so obviously just that wellmanaged institutions, when obliged to suspend, almost invariably,
witho-ut the constraint of any law, reduce their circulation instead of
augmenting it. In obedience to this principle, a reduction of bank
circulation actually took place after the suspension in December. I t
was only when United States notes, having been made a legal tender,
were diverted from their legitimate use as currency and made the
basis of bank circulation, thai,t the great increase of the latter began.
It was purely voluntary; prompted, doubtless, by the desire of extending accommodations to business as well as by the expectation of
profit. No practical limit upon this increase has as yet been proposed b}^ the parties interested in it.
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The Secretary has already shown that the case was far otherwise
with the circulation of United States notes. A condition had been
created by the suspension which made loans of coin impossible.
Loans of corporate notes, objectionable in themselves, were positively
prohibited by a law not likely to be repealed. The extension of the
United States note circulation, until sufficient in amount to enable the
Secretary to obtain it from holders by way of loans, was e'qually inevitable. A practical limit on its increase is imposed by the judicious
legislation of Congress, which makes the notes receivable for loans,
and requires that the interest on bonds for loans shall be paid in coin.
Under these circumstances, the path of wisdom and duty seems
very clear. It leads to the support bf a United States note circulation, and to the reduction of the bank note circulation. ' A comparatively small reduction of the latter will allow ample room for the
whole increase of the former, authorized by existing laws ; and
as the reduction proceeds the increase may be extended, never,
however, passing the point which admits the negotiation of loans
at reasonable rates; The Secretary has heretofore advised the imposing of a moderate tax on corporate circulation, and now renews
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the recommendation as the best means of reduction and gradual substitution. Such a tax involves no hardships. Notes circulating as
money cost nothing beyond the expense of production and supervision, and yet form a highly accumulative species of property. The
necessities of the war have caused the taxation of almost all forms of
value. Can there be a sound reason for exempting that which costs
the proprietor least and brings him most?
It may be properly added that this desirable substitution of a circulation, uniform in description and value, for a circulation varying
widely in both, may, perhaps, be more easily and beneficially effected
now than at any other time. The circulation of United States notes
may greatly facilitate the payments to the banks through which their
own notes must be withdrawn ; and thus, not only protect the community from the inconveniences, but the banks from the losses which
might otherwise attend reduction.
It may also be added that when the substitution shall have been
accomplished, and, perhaps, if circumstances favor, at an earlier
period, payments in specie of 'United States notes may be resumed
with less cost and less injury to business than would attend a like
resumption in payment of corporate notes. With comparatively
trivial sacrifice, the government can, whenever its expenditures are
reduced to its revenue, provide, by loan or otherwise, all the coin
needed to commence and maintain the resumption.
While the Secretary thus repeats the preference he has heretofore
expressed for a United States note circulation, even when issued directly by the government, and dependent on the action of the government for regulation and final redemption, over the note circulation of
the numerous and variously organized and variously responsible
banks now existing in the country; and while he now sets forth,
more fully than- heretofore, the grounds of that preference, he still
adheres to the opinion expressed in his last report, that a circulation
furnished by the government, but issued by banking associations,'
organized under a general act of Congress, is to be preferred to
either. Such a circulation, uniform in. general characteristics, and
amply secured as to prompt convertibility by national bonds deposited
in the treasury, by the associations receiving it, would unite, in his
judgment, more elements of soundness and utility than can be combined in any other.
A circulation composed exclusively of notes issued directly by the
government, or of such notes and coin, is recommended mainly by
two considerations:—the first derived from the facility with which it
may be provided in emergencies, and the second, from its cheapness.
The principal objections to such a circulation as a permanent system are, 1st, the facility of excessive expansion when expenditures
exceed revenue ; 2d, the danger of lavish and corrupt expendituro,
stimulated by facility of expansion ; 3d, the danger of fraud in management and supervision ; 4th, the impossibility of providing it in sufficient amounts for the wants of the people whenever expenditures
are reduced to equality with revenue or below it.
These objections are all serious. The last requires/,some elucida
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tion. It will be easily understood, however, if it be considered that
a government issuing a credit circulation cannot supply, in any given
period, an amount of currency greater than the excess of its disbursements over its receipts. To that amount, it may create a debt
in small notes, and these notes m a y b e used as currency. This is
precisely the way in which the existing currency of United States
notes is supplied. That portion of the expenditure not met by revenue or loans has been met by the issue of these notes. Debt in this
form has been substituted for various debts in other forms. Whenever, therefore, the country shall be restored to a healthy normal
condition, and receipts exceed expenditures, the supply of United
States notes will be arrested, and ^ must progres.sively diminish.
Whatever demand may be made for their redemption in coin must
hasten this diminution; and there can be no reissue; for reissue, under
the conditions, necessarily implies disbursement, and the revenue,
upon the supposition, supplies more than is needed for that purpose.
There is, then, no mode in which a currency in United States notes
can be permanently maintained, excejpt by loans of them, when not
required for disbursement, on deposits of coin, or pledge of securities,
or in some other way. This would convert the treasury into a government bank, with all its hazards and mischiefs.
If these reasonings be sound, little room can remain for doubt that
the evils certain to arise from such a scheme of currency, if adopted
as a permanent system, greatly overbalance the temporary though
not inconsiderable advantages offered by it.
It remains to be considered what results may be reasonably expected, from an act authorizing the organization of banking associations, such as the Secretary proposed in his last report.
The central idea of the proposed measure is the establishment of
one sound, uniform circulation, of equal value throughout the country, upon the foundation of national credit combined with private
capital.
Such a currency, it is believed, can be secured through banking
associations organized under national legislation.
It is proposed that these associations be entirely voluntary. Any
persons, desirous of employing real capital in sufficient amounts, can,
if the plan be adopted, unite together under proper articles, and,
having contributed the requisite capital, can invest such part of it,
not less than a fixed minimum, in United States bonds, and, having
deposited these bonds with the proper offieer of the United States,
can receive United States notes in such denominations as may be desired, and employ them as money in discounts and exchanges. The
stockholders of any existing banks can, in like manner, organize under
the act, and transfer, by such degrees as may be found convenient,
the capital of the old to the use of the new associations. The notes
thus put into circulation will be payable, until resumption, in United
States notes, and, after resumption, in specie, by the association
which issues them, on demand; and if not.so paid will be redeemable at
the treasury of the United States from the proceeds of the bonds
pledged in security. In the practical working of the plan, if sancE x . Doc. 1
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tipned by Congress, redemption at one or more of tiie great commercial centres, will probably be provided for by all the associations wliich circulate the notes, and, in case any assoeiation shall fail
in such redemption, the treasurer.of the United States will probably,
under discretionary authority, pay the notes, and cancel the public
debt held as security.
It seems difficult to conceive of a note circulation which will combine higher local and general credit than this. After a few years no
other circulation would be used, nor could the issues of the national
circulation be easily increased beyond the legitimate demands of
business. Every dollar of circulation would represent real capital,
actually invested in national stocks, and the total amount issued could
always be easily and quickly ascertained from the books of the
treasury.. These circumstances, if they might not wholly remove
the temptation to excessive issues, would certainly reduce it to the
owest point, while the form of the notes, the uniformity of devices,
the signatures of national officers, and the imprint of the national seal
authenticating the declaration borne on each that it is secured by
bonds which represent the faith and capital of the whole country,
could not fail to make every note as good in any part of the world ks
the best known and best esteemed national securities.
The Secretary has already mentioned the support to public credit
which may be expected from the proposed associations. The importance of this point may excuse some additional observations.
The organization proposed, if sanctioned by Congress, would require within a very few years, for deposit as security for circulation,
bonds of the United States to an amount not less than $250,000,000.
It may well be expected, indeed, since the circulation, by uniformity
in credit and value, and capacity of quick and cheap transportation,
will be likely to be used more extensively than any hitherto issued, that the demand for bonds will overpass this limit. .Should
Congress see fit to restrict the privilege of deposit to the bonds
known as five-twenties, authorized b y t h e act of last session, the
demand w^ould promptly absorb all of that description already issued
and make large room for more. A steady market for the bonds would
thus be established and the negotiation of them greatly facilitated.
But it is not in immediate results that the value of this support would
be only or chiefly seen. There are always holders who desire to sell
securities of whatever kind. If buyers are few or uncertain, the
market value must decline. But the plan proposed would create a
constant demand, equalling and often exceeding the supply. Thus a
steady uniformity in price would be maintained, and generally at a
rate somewhat above those of bonds of equal credit but not available
to banking associations. It is not. easy to appreciate the full benefits
of such conditions to a government obliged to borrow.
Another advantage to be derived from such associations would be
found in the convenient agencies which they would furnish for the
deposit of public moneys.
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The Secretary does not propose to interfere with the independent
treasury. It may be advantageously retained, with the assistant
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treasurers already established in the most important cities, where the
customs may be collected as now, in coin or treasury notes issued directly by the government, but not furnished to banking associations.
But whatever the advantages of such arrangements in the commercial
cities in relation to customs, it seems clear that the secured national circulation furnished to the banking associations should be received everywhere for all other dues than customs, and that these associations will
constitute the best and safest depositaries of the revenues derived
from such receipts. The convenience and utility to the government
of their employment in this capacity, and often, also, as agents for
pa3^ments and as distributers of stamps, need no demonstration. The
necessity for some other depositaries than surveyors of ports, receivers^
postmasters, and other officers, of whose responsibility and fitness,
in many cases, nothing satisfactory can be known, is acknowledged
by the provision for selection by the Secretary contained in the internal revenue act; and it seems very clear that the public interest will
be secured far more certainly by the organization and employment of
associations organized as proposed than by any official selection.
. Another and very important advantage of the proposed plan has
already been adverted to. It will reconcile, as far as practicable,
the interests of existing institutions with those of the whole people.^
All changes, however important, should be introduced with caution,
and proceeded in with careful regard to every affected interest.
Rash innovation is not less dangerous than stupefied inaction. The
time has come when ^a circulation of United States notes, in some
form, must be employed. The people demand uniformity in currency, arid claim, at least, part of the benefit of debt without interest,.
made into money, hitherto enjoyed exclusivel}^ by the banks. These
demands are just and must be respected. But there need be no
sudden change; there need be no hurtful interference with existing
interests. As yet the United States note circulation hardly fills the
vacuum caused by the temporary withdrawal of coin; it does not, perhaps, fully meet the demand for increased circulation created by
the increased number, variety, and activity of payments in money.
There is opportunity, therefore, for the wise and beneficial regulation of its substitution for other circulation. The mode of subr
stitution, also, may be judiciously adapted to actual circumstances.
The plan suggested consults both purposes. It contemplates gradual
withdrawal of bank note circulation, and proposes a United States
note circulation, furnished to banking associations, in the advantages
of which they may participate in full proportion to the care and
responsibility assumed and the services performed by ^them. The
•promptitude and zeal with which many of the existing institutions
came to the financial support of the government in the dark days
which followed the outbreak of the rebellion is not forgotten. They
ventured largely, and boldly, and patriotically on the side of the
Union and the constitutional supremacy of the nation over States; and
citizens. It does not at all detract from the merit of the act that the
losses, which they feared but unhesitatingly risked, were transmuted
into unexpected gains. It is a solid recommendation of the suggested
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plan that it offers the opportunity to these and kindred institutions
to reorganize, continue their business under the proposed act, and
with little loss and much advantage, participate in maintaining the
new and uniform national currenc}^
The proposed plan is recommended, finally, by the firm anchorage
it will supply to the union of the States. Every banking" association
whose bonds are deposited in the treasury of the Union ; every individual who holds a dollar of the circulation secured by such deposit;
every merchant, every manufacturer, every farmer, every mechanic,
interested in transactions dependent for success on the credit of that
circulation, will feel as an injury every attempt to rend the national
unity, with tbe permanence and stability of which all their interests
are so closely and vitally connected. Had the system been possible,
and had it actually existed two years ago, can it be doubted that the
national interests and sentiments enlisted by it for the Union would
have so strengthened the motives for adhesion derived fro^m other
sources that the wild treason of secession would have been impossible?
The Secretary does not yield to the phantasy that taxation is a
blessing and debt a benefit ; but it. is the duty of public men to extract good from evil whenever it is possible. The burdens of taxation may be lightened and even made productive of incidental benefits
by wise, and aggravated and made intolerable by unwise, legislation.
In like manner debt, by no means desirable in itself, may, when circumstances compel nations to incur its obligations, be made by discreet
, use less burdensome, and even instrumental in the promotion of public and private security and welfare.
The rebellion has brought a great debt upon us. It is proposed to
use a part of it in such a way that the sense of its burden may be
lost in the experience of incidental advantages. The issue of United
States notes is such a use; but if exclusive, is hazardous and temporary. The security J)y national bonds of similar notes furnished to
banking associations is such a use, and is comparatively safe and permanent; and with this use m a y b e connected, for. the present, and
occasionally, as circumstances may require, hereafter, the use of
the ordinary United States notes in limited amounts..
No very early day will probably witness the reduction of the public
debt to the amount required as a basis for secured circulation. Should
no future'wars arrest reduction and again demand expenditures beyond
revenue, that day will, however,, at length come. When it shall arrive,
the debt may be retained on low interest at that amount, or some
other security for circulation may be devised, or, possibly, the vast
supplies of our rich mines may render all circulation unadvisable
except gold and the absolute representatives and equivalents, dollar
for dollar, of gold in the treasury or on safe deposit elsewhere. But
these considerations may be for another generation.
The Secretary forbears extended argument on the constitutionality
of the suggested system. It is proposed as an auxiliary to the power
to borrow money; as an agency of the power to collect and disburse
taxes; and as an exercise of the power to regulate commerce, and of
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the power to regulate the value of coin. Of the two first sources of
power nothing need be said. The argument relating to them was.
long since exhausted and is well known. Of the other two there is
not room nor does it seein needful to say much. If Congress can
prescribe the structure, equipment, and management of vessels to
navigate rivers flowing between or through different States as a
regulation of commerce. Congress may-assuredly determine what
currency shall be employed in the interchange of their commodities,
which is the very essence of commerce. Statesmen who have agreed
in little else have concurred in the opinion that the power to regulate coin is, in substance and effect, a power to regulate currency,
and that the framers of the Constitution so intended. 4 t may well
enough b e admitted that while Congress confines its regulation to
weight, fineness, shape, and device, banks and individuals may issue
notes for currency in competition with coin. But it is difficult te
conceive by what process of logic the unquestioned power to regulate
coin can be separated from the power to maintain or restore its circulation, by excluding from currency all private or corporate substitutes which affect its value, whenever Congress shall see fit to
exercise that power for that purpose.
' The recommendations, now submitted, of the limited issue of United
States notes as a wise expedient for the present time, and as an occasional expedient in future times, and of the organization of banking
associations to supply circulation secured by national bonds and convertible always into United States notes, and after resumption of
specie payments, into eoin, are prompted by no favor to excessive
issues of any description of credit money.
On the contrary, it is the Secretary's firm belief that by no other
path can the resumption of specie payments be so surely reached
and so certainly maintained. United States notes receivable for
bonds bearing a secure specie interest are next best to notes convertible into coin. The circulation of banking associations organized
under a general act of Congress, secured by such bonds, can be most
surely and safely maintained at the point of certain convertibility into
coin. If, temporarily, these associations redeem their issues with
United States notes, resumption of specie payments will not. thereby
be delayed or endangered, but hastened and secured; for, just as soon
as victory shall restore peace, the ample revenue, already secured by
wise legislation, will enable the government, through advantageous
purchases of specie, to replace at once large amounts, and, at no distant day, the whole, of this circulation by coin, without detriment to
any interest, but, on the contrary, with great and manifest benefit to
allinterests.
The Secretary recommends, therefore, no mere paper money
scheme, but, on the contrary, a series of measures looking to a safe
and gradual return to gold and silver as the only permanent basis,
standard, and measure of values recognized by the Constitution—•
between which and an irredeemable paper currency, as he believes, .
the choice is now to be made.
No country possesses the true elements of a higher credit—no
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countiy, in ordinary times, can maintain a higher standard of currency and payment than the United States.
The government is less costly than that of most other great
powers. The expenditures of the current fiscal year, excluding those
of the War and Navy Departments, can hardly equal those of the
last year, which amounted to $24,511,476 66. Estimating those of
these departments at double the expenditures of the last year before
tho, rebellion, they would for the current year, had t h e war ended
before last midsummer as was anticipated at the date of the last
report, amount to the sum of $55,845,834 48. The interest on. the
public debt is for the current year estimated at $25,041,532 07, and
will not probabl}^ go over that sum. The whole expenditures of the
government for the current year, on the supposition of peace, would,
therefore, not exceed $105,371,843 21. This aggregate must be
increased hereafter by the addition of interest on the loans of the
current and future years and by pensions, the precise amount of
which cannot be foreseen. Estimate the former at fifty, and the latter
at ten millions a year, and the total annual expenditures in peace will
reach, omitting fractions, to $165,000,000. The expenditures of Great
Britain during the year ending March 31, 1862, were $364,436,682;
those of France for 1862, according to French official estimates, will
reach $421,823,900, and the annual expenses of Russia, according to
the best accessible information, do not fall short of $230,000,000.
^To meet our annual expenditures, and to assure beyond contingency
the punctual discharge of the interest of the public debt, and the
creation of a sinking fund for its reduction. Congress has provided
a revenue from customs even now reaching nearly seventy millions
a year, and a. revenue from internal duties which will not probably
fall short of one hundred and. fifty millions a year.
Without reckoning any other resources 4han those already provided, the revenue, therefore, will annually exceed the expenditures
b}'- fifty-five millions, which sum may be used for the reduction of the
public debt. If, then, the war shall be continued, contrary to hope
and expectation, to midsummer of 1864, and- the public debt shall
reach the utmost limit now anticipated of seventeen hundred and
fifty millions of dollars, the excess of revenue will reduce that debt,
during the first year of peace, more than three per cent.
But the American republic possesses immense resources which
have not yet been called into contribution. The gold-bearing region
of the United States stretches through near eighteen degrees of latitude, from British Columbia on the north to Mexico on the south, and
through more than tw^enty degrees of longitude, from the eastern
declivities of the Rocky mountains to the Pacific ocean. It includes
two States, California and Oregon; four entire Territories, Utah,
Nevada, New Mexico, and Washington; and parts of three other Territories, Colorado, Nebraska, and Dakota. It forms an area of more
than a million of square miles, the whole of which, with comparatively
insignificant exceptions, is the property of the nation. I t is rich not
only in gold, but in silver, copper, iron, lead, and many other valuble minerals. Its product of gold and silver during the current year
will not probably fall very much, if at all, short of 1100,000,000; and
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it must long continue gradually, yet rapidly, to increase. If this
product be subjected to a reasonable seignorage, as suggested by
some, or if. as suggested by others, the mineral lands be subdivided
and sold in convenient parcels, with proper reservations in favor of
the miners now in occupation of particular localities, a very considerable revenue may, doubtless, be obtained' from this region
without hardship to the actual settlers and occupiers.
And there are other mines than those of gold or silver, or copper
or iron, in the wide territory which includes the public lands of the
Uniteid States. Every acre of the fertile soil is a mine which only
waits for the contact of labor to yield its treasures; and every acre is
opened to that fruitful contact by the Homestead Act. When the
opportunities thus offered to industry shall be understood by the
working millions of Europe, it cannot be doubted that great ntmbers
will seek American homes, in order to avail themselves of the great
advantages tendered to their acceptance by American law. Every
working man who comes betters the condition of the nation as well
as his own. He adds in many ways, seen and unseen, to its wealth,
its intelligence, and its power. It is difficult to estimate the contribution which immigration, properly encouraged by legislation and
administration, will make to revenue; but, directly and indirectly, it
cannot be reckoned as less than that which may be expected from the
metallic products of the gold-bearing region.
With such resources a t t h e disposal of the republic, no one need be
alarmed lest the United States may become unable to pay the interest
on its debt, or to reduce the principal to whatever point the public
interest may indicate. The republic is passing through the pangs of
a new birth to a nobler and higher life. Twice already she has paid
off' a national debt contracted for the defence of her rights; the obligations of that which she now incurs for the preservation of her
existence will be not less sacredly fulfilled.
But while resources are thus ample, it is not the less the dictate of
prudence and of good faith to a generous people that the greatest
pains should be taken to reduce the public burdens to the lowest
point compatible' with justice to honest public creditors. Prodigality
may exhaust the amplest resources and impair the firmest credit.
To retrench superfluity; to economize expenditures; to adjust accurately measures to objects; to infuse resolute vigor and a just sense
of responsibility into every department of public activity are not
less important to cre.dit and revenue than to general success in administration.
It has been alread}^ stated that the amount to be provided, beyond
resources available under existing laws, is, for the current year,
$276,912,517 66, and for the ensuing year, $627,388,183 56.
To provide these amounts loans in some form must be negotiated.
The Secretary has already expressed the opinion, with great deference to the superior wisdom of Congress, that it will be unwise, unless conditions greatly change,, to authorize the increase of United
States notes beyond the limit now fixed by law. Should any vacuum
be created by the withdrawal of bank note circulation, that vacuum
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should, doubtless, be filled by United States notes. Should Congress adopt the measures proposed by the Secretary, it is not improbable that an additional issue of fifty millions may be required for that
purpose within the year, and an equal additional issue during the following year. And it may well be hoped that military successes, reestablishing the-.authority of. the United States in large districts of
the insurgent region, will call for further issues to supply the place of
the worthless currenc}'' which the rebellion has forced upon the people. Should it be deemed expedient to invest the Secretary with
any discretionary power, in view of these contingencies, it should be
so limited as to allow no increase of aggregate circulation beyond
the clear demands of real business.
A considerable additional sum may probably be obtained by removing the limit on temporary deposits. The. ainount of these deposits
has steadily increased, notwithstanding large repayments to depositors. The treasury of the government has been made the savings
bank of the people. Should the restriction be removed, there is
reason to believe that twenty-five millions may be received beyond
the maximum now fixed, during the year.
But the chief reliance, and the safest, must be upon loans. Without any issues of United States notes beyond the amount now authorized-, it seems certain that loans for the whole amount required for the
current year can be readily obtained at fair r a t e s ; and it may be
confidently hoped that before its close the resources of the country
will be so well understood, and the restoration of its territorial integrity so well assured, that capitalists will not hesitate to supply
whatever may be needed for the subsequent year.
But in order to the advantageous negotiation of loans the action
of Congress is necessary.
As an important element of. facility in negotiation, the plan for
banking associations has been already considered. Little direct aid
is, however, to be expected from this plan during the present, nor
very much, perhaps, during the next year. The operation of associations organized under it must, at first, be restricted mainly to
investing United States notes in bonds; issuing a circulation based
on these bonds; and transacting ordinary business. As the notes
received for the bonds cannot be reissued without injurious inflation
of the circulation, they must necessarily be withdrawn and cancelled.
The aggregate circulation of government United States notes withdrawn will be replaced by the amount of national circulation furnished
to the associations. The immediate advantage to the government
will be found in the market created for bonds, and the support thereby
given to the national credit. The more general advantages which
have been described must attend the gradual organization of banking
associations, and will only be fully apparent when the national circulation furnished to them shall become the established and sole note
circulation of the country.
Other legislation is therefore needed.
The actof last session authorized the Secretary to issue bonds of
the United States, already often mentioned as five-twentieSj to the •
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amount of five hundred millions of dollars, and to dispose of them
for coin or United States notes at the market value thereof. In the
same act authority was given to issue $150,000,000 in United States
notes, which authority was afterwards enlarged to $250,000,000; and
it was provided that any holder of such notes to the amount of fifty
dollars, or any multiple of fifty, might exchange them for five-twenty
bonds, at par.
The effect of these provisions was to make negotiations of considerable amounts impossible ; for considerable amounts are seldom taken,
except with a view to resales at a profit, and resales at any profit are
impossible under the law. Negotiations below market value are not.
allowed, and if not allowed the taker of the bonds can expect no advance, unless a niarket value considerably below par shall become
established. The act makes advance above par impossible, by authorizing conversion of United States notes into bonds at that rate.
The Secretary respectfully recommends the repeal of both these
provisions. The first imposes, it is believed, a restriction which
Congress did not intend; and the second has been followed by the
inconveniences which were feared, rather than by the benefits which
were expected. Convertibility by exchange at will is of little or no
advantage to the holder of the notes; for the clauses which secure
their receivability for all loans make them practically convertible.
Whenever the volume of notes reaches a point at which loans can be
effected at rates fair to the country and desirable to takers, loans will,
of course, be made, and ample opportunities for conversion offered.
Should Congress, however, be of opinion that these clauses should
be retained, it wdll be necessary to provide for other, loans, at rates
more favorable to the takers than convertibility into five-twenties.
This can be done either by authorizing bonds at longer time, or byincreasing the rates of interest offered.
The Secretary cannot recommend either course except as an alternative to no provision at all.
As such an alternative he would prefer the issue of 7.30 three
years bonds, convertible into five-twenty sixes at or before maturity,
and of smaller notes bearing an interest of 3.65 per cent., as proposed
in his first report.
A discretionary power may, perhaps, be advantageously conferred
on the Secretary, to be exercised as exigencies may require or allow.
He does not covet the responsibilities belonging to such a power, but
would not shrink from such exercise of it as, in his best judgment,
the public good would require. He believes it, however, to be unnecessary. He believes t h a t t h e time and rate of the five-twenty loan
authorized were judiciously determined, and he believes that if the
suggested changes are made in the law, the needed supplies can be
obtained through these loans. No prudent legislator, at a time when
the gold in the world is increasing by a hundred millions a year, and
interest must necessarily and soon decline, will consent to impose on
the labor and business of the people a fixed interest of six per cent
on a great .debt, for twenty years, unless the necessity is far more
urgent than is now believed to.exist. The country has already wit
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ness-ed the results of such measures in the payment, in 1856, of more
than lour and a half millions of dollars for the privilege of paying a
debt of less than forty-one millions, some twelve years, averaged time,
before it became due.
The general views of the Secretary may therefore be thus briefly
summed.He recommends that whatever amounts maybe needed beyond the
sums supplied by revenue and through other indicated modes be
obtained by loans, without increasing the issue of United States notes
beyond the amount fixed by law, unless a clear public exigency shall
demand it. He recommends, also, the organization of banking associations for the irnprovement of the public credit and for the supply
to the people of a safe and uniform currency. And he recommends
no change in the law providing for the negotiation of bonds except
the necessary increase of amount and the repeal of the absolute restriction to market value and of the clauses authorizing converti- •
bility at will.
If Congress shall concur in these views, the Secretary, though
conscious of the great difficulties which vast, sudden, and protracted
expenditures impose on him, ventures to hope that he may still be
able to maintain the public credit and provide for the public wants.
The report of the director of the mint contains the usual information relative to the coinage for the past year, and makes several suggestions, to which I respectfully invite your attention.
The net amount of bullion received was $45,423,231 01. The
amount coined was: of gold coins, $45,532,386 5 0 ; of silver coins;
$2,812,401 50; of cent coins, $116,000 ; of gold bars, $16,144,190 05;
and of silverbars, $418,680 01; makingatotal coinage of $65,023,658 06.
Of the bullion deposited, $26,188,863 87 was received at the assay
office in New York. Of the gold-bars $16,094,768 44, and of silver
bars $415,633 57, in value, were stamped at the same office.
At the branch mint in San Francisco the gold deposits w^ere
$16,136,622 96, and the silver deposits and purchases $749,114 14,
in value. The value of the gold coined was $15,545,000; of silver
coined, $641,700 ; and of silver bars, $1,278 65.
•
Soon after the authority of the Union was re-established at New
Orleans a special agent was appointed to examine the condition of
the branch mint in that city, and its machinery. The machinery
proved to have been greatlj?- injured, and portions of it were found
distributed and secreted in various parts of the city. The portions
were collected and replaced in the mint, and the necessary repairs
are in progress. The operations bf the branch mint, however, have
not been, and for the present, at least, will not be, resumed.
By the act of April 24, last, a branch mint was directed to be
established at Denver, in the Territory of Colorado, and an appropriation of $75,000 was made to carry the act into effect. A mint
had already been established there by individuals engaged in assaying and stamping, on private account, the bullion produced in that
region. A commission was appointed to ascertain and report as to
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the value of this. establishment and the comparatis^e expediency of
purchasing it or erecting a new one; and, upon their recommendation,
the existing mint, with all its apparatus, was purchased for $25,000.
The Secretary respectfully commends to the consideration of Congress the expediency of establishing an assay office or branch mint
at some convenient point in Nevada Territory.
. In his last report the Secretary took occasion to invite the attention of Congress to the importance of. uniform weights, measures,
and coins, and to the worth of the decimal system in the commerce
of the world. He now ventures to suggest that the present demonetization of gold may well be availed of for the purpose of taking one
considerable step towards these great ends. If the half eagle of the
Union be mcide of equal weight and fineness with the gold sovereign
of Great Britain, no sensible injury could possibly arise^ from the
change; while, on the resumption of specie payments, its great adVantages would be felt in the equalization of exchange and the convenience of commerce. This act of the United States, moreover, ,
might be followed by the adoption by Great Britain of the federal
decimal divisions of the coin, and thus a most important advance
might be secured towards an international coinage, with values
decimally expressed.
Under the provisions of the several acts of "Congress relative to
trade and commerce between the loyal States and those States and
parts of States declared to be in insurrection, general regulations
have been issued prescribing the conditions under which that trade
and commerce, to a limited extent, may be conducted. This trade
has been authorized only with sections of the country in which, since
the proclamation of the President, the authority of the government
has been re-established by military occupancy. No licenses or permits have been granted for commerce with inhabitants of insurrectionary districts beyond the limits of such occupancy. Under the
provisions of the fifth section of the act of July 13, 1861, special
agents have been appointed whose cduty has been to carry out the
authorized instructions of the department, and it is anticipated that
the expenses of their agency will be defrayed from moderate charges
for permits granted under their supervision.
The collection of cotton, rice, and other abandoned property, and
the superintendence of laborers and plantations which, at the date
of my last report, was committed to agents of this department, has
since been transferred, as more properlv belonging to his department, to the control of the Secretary of War.
The report of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the suggestions
made by him,, are entitled to consideration.
During the last session the Secretary had the honor of transmitting the draft of a bill for the detection and prevention of fraudulent entries at the custom-houses, and he adheres to the opinion
that the provisions therein embodied are necessary for the protection'
of the revenue. That invoices representing fraudulent valuations of
merchandise are daily presented at the custom-houses is well known,
and for the past year^the collector, naval officer, and surveyor of New
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York have entertained suspicions that fraudulent collusions with
some of the customs-officers existed. Measures were taken by
them to ascertain whether these suspicions were well founded. By
persistent vigilance facts were developed which have led to the
arrest of several parties and the discovery that a system of fraud
has been successfully carried on for a series of years. These investigations are now being prosecuted under the immediate direction of
the Solicitor of the Treasury for the purpose of ascertaining the extent
of those frauds and bringing the guilty parties to punishment. It is
believed that the enactment at the last session of the bill referred to
would, have arrested, and that its enactment now will prevent hereafter, the frauds hitherto successfully practiced.
The increased and increasing labors and responsibilities devolved
upon the collector at New York suggest the expediency of appointing an additional officer at that port, to be denominated the assistant
collector and authorized to act for the collector, during his necessary
absence, and to perform such other duties as may be prescribed or
approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. Proyision should be
made that his authentication of any lawful document shall entitle it
to the same effect in the courts and elsewhere as the signature of the
collector, and that his acts shall not impair the responsibility of the
collector or of his sureties, to the government. .
The Exchange building in the city of New York, leased for three
years for use as a custom-house, has been altered, and for some time
partially occupied. The complete removal to it of the customs-officers
will soon be accomplished. The whole of the old custom-house
building will be required by the assistant treasurer; and it will be
necessaiy, therefore, either to purchase the rented building or to
erect another for custom-house purposes. It is believed that it would
be impossible to purchase an equally eligible site and erect an equally
suitable edifice for the price fixed in the lease of the Exchange; and
it is therefore recommended that the option to purchase at that price
be availed of.
The administration of the hospital fund has been looked to with
great care, and the expense of its distribution, it is believed, reduced
to the most economical point. As has been before reported, the
number of hospitals is in. excess of the legitimate requirements df
the seamen, and the Secretary repeats his recommendation of December last, that those least advantageously situated be disposed of
on the most favorable terms. During the past year all the hospitals
under the control of this department have, in whole or in part, been
placed at the disposal of the War Department for the use of sick and
disabled soldiers. This use, not originally contemplated, has.been
most opportune and beneficial.
Under the act authorizing payments in stamps an arrangement was
made with the Postmaster General for a supply of postage stamps to
be distributed, for use in such.payments. It was soon discovered,
however, that stamps prepared for postage uses were not adapted to
the purposes of currency. Small notes of equal amounts were therefore substituted, and the Secretary assumed the charge of preparation and distribution. With utmost efforts it was found impossible to
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keep pace with the public demand for this currency; and, although
the daily issue has been rapidly increased to $100,000 and is being
extended as fast as practicable to twice that amount, the supply is
yet largely deficient. The whole demand, however, will be fully met
as soon as possible.
With a view to test the practicability and economy of engraving
and printing United States notes at the department under the act of
July 11, 1861, the Secretary has contracted for paper, and has authorized the preparation of small notes as substitutes for revenue
stamps, substantially like the small notes now substituted for postage
stamps, and indulges the hope that results will commend his action to
the approval of Congress, and t h a t t h e necessary modification of the
provisions relating to stamps and engraving will receive its sanction.
Some difficulties have been encountered in the practical execution
of the act of last session, directing the monthly instead of quarterly
rendition of disbursing officers' accounts, and their direct transmission to the accounting officers of the treasury, without preliminary
examination b y t h e chiefs of the administrative bureaus; and these difficulties, though not insuperable, may require some further legislation
for their removal. But the reform sought by the act is important,
and the purpose of accomplishing it should not be relinquished.
Statements in detail of the operations of the department will
be found in the reports of the heads of the several bureaus, to
whom the Secretary gladly acknowledges his obligations for most
faithful and assiduous labors, by which the multiform business under
his general charge, increased tenfold in consequence of the insurrection, has been carried on with a degree of success hardly believed
to be attainable. The unprecedented increase in the volume and
variety of accounts must necessarily require naore clerical force and
more room in order to the prompt settlement indispensably necessary
to the protection of honest creditors, and to the security of the .government from fraud. These great objects, it is believed, may also
be promoted by a modification of the existing arrangement of the
bureaus, so as to bring all the accounts of each department into one
bureau instead of dividing them between several, as is now directed.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue has been organized under the act
of last session, and is now actually engajged in the labors assigned to
it. Collectors and assessors have been appointed in all the districts
of the loyal States', and the revenue from the duties imposed by the
law is steadily and rapidly increasing. In the absence of any statutory directions, he has assigned the settlement of the accounts of the
bureau to the Fifth Auditor and First Comptroller.
The Secretary invites particular attention to the remarks of the
Third Auditor relative to payments for property lost or destroyed in
the military service. He also respectfully suggests that authority be
given to the Secretary to appoint commissioners to examine and
audit the claims of the several States now referred to that office for
settlement.
The favorable consideration of Congress is respectfully invited to
the requests of the Treasurer and of the Register of the Treasury
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for the appointment of a deputy in each of their bureaus. Of the
necessity for such appointments no doubt is entertained.
The action of the supervising inspectors pf steamboats, collectively
as a board, and individually in their respective districts, merits the.
approval of Congress. Their-report, to which the Secretary invites
attention, gives evidence of the value of their labors, while the comparative immunity from accidents, secured by their vigilance attests
the wisdom of the act under which their work is prosecuted.
The regulations directing the examination of applicants for appointment in the revenue cutter service, and making certificates of
competency from the board of examiners xjre-requisites to commissions, tend manifestly to the improvement of the service, and will
be adhered to. This service has become an essential arm of tho department in the execution of the laws. Its highest vigor and activity
will especially be demanded so long as the present high rates of duty
shall be required by the exigencies of the country. The Secretary
hopes to be able to place it on a footing of the utmost efficiency,
without permitting its cost to exceed appropriations already made.
The great, demand by other departments for shipwrights and machinery has not, as yet, permitted advantageous contracts for the additional revenue steamers authorized by Congress. Careful specifications, however, have been prepared, and the work will be proceeded with as soon as practicable.
Full details of the operations of the Coast Survey will appear in
the report of the Superintendent. The services by which its great value was strikingly illustrated
during the earlier months of the rebellion have been continued with
undiminished zeal and fidelity to the present time, and its general
work has been prosecuted with as much activity and success as the
peculiar demands made upon it by the circumstances of the country
would allow.
Within the year 43,000 copies of maps and charts have been furnished for naval vessels, and 2,000 to captains and pilots of government transports on their personal application.
Its accustomed vigilant superintendence has been exercised by the
Light-house Board over the light-houses, light-ships, beacons, and
buoys on the northern and Pacific coasts, and especial attention has
been directed to the restoration of those destroyed by the rebel enemies of the country. Numerous lights and beacons have been reestablished on the coast of the insurgent region, and the re-establishment of others will keep pace with the progress of the fleets and
armies of the republic. A confident expectation is indulged that
along the whole coast will soon shine the old unbroken chain of lights
for the guidance of the mariner and the security of commerce.
All which the Secretary most respectfully submits to the indulgent
consideration of Congress.
S. P. CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury
Hon.
H. HAMLIN,
^
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate*
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
31
. No. 1.
R E C E I P T S AND E X P E N D I T U R E S
For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
RECEIPTS.
;^
The total receipts, including a balance on hand July 1, 1861, of $2,257,065 80
were $583,885,247 06> as follows :
From customs.
$49, 056, 397 62
From lands
152, 203 77
From miscellaneous sources
931,787 64
From direct tax
1, 795, 331 73
$51,935,720 76
From loans—
For 3 years 7.30 bonds.
122, 037, 585 34
For. 5.20 years 6 per cent, bonds
13, 990, 600 00
For Oregon war bonds
1, 000, 700 00
For 20 years' bonds, 6 per cent., at par,
for $50,000,000 7 per cents
46, 303, 129 17
For 2 years' treasury notes, under act of
June 22, 1860, and March 2, 1 8 6 1 . . .
14, 019, 034 QQ
For 60-day treasury notes, under act of
March 2,1861
12, 896, 350 00
For treasury notes, under acts February
8 and March 2, 1861 3, 500 00
Under loan act February 8, 1 8 6 1 . . . . . .
55,.257 50
For United States notes, acts J u l y 17
.
and August 5, 1861, and February 12,
1862...:
60, 030, 000 00
'
For United States notes, act February
25, 1862
98, 620, 000- 00
From temporary loan, act February 26,
1862
Q>Q^, 479, 324 10
From certificates of indebtedness, acts
March 1 and 17, 1862
49, 881, 979 73
From temporary loan, in anticipation of
popular subscription
:
44, 375, 000 00
,
529,692,460 50
Aggregate receipts
Balance in treasury
'
Total resources
...
•
'
..-..,.
581, 628, 181 26
2,257,065 80
583, 885, 247 06
EXPENDITURES.
The aggregate expenditures were
$570, 841, 700 25
From which, to show the actual current expenditures of tho
government, should be deducted the payments oi principal
of the public debt, the repayment of temporary loans, and
substitution of Unitecl States notes, under acts February
>
25, 1862 ; for United States notes, under acts July 17 and
,
32
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
August 5, 1861, and February 12, 1862, retired from circulation, amounting, altogether, to
$96, 096, 922 09
Which leaves, as current expenditures for the support of the
government and of the war, including the interest on the
public debt, in all forms, the aggregate sum of
474, 744, 778 16
More fully stated, as follows:
For the civil l i s t . . - , . . $21,408,491 16
For pensions and Indians
3, 102, 985 50
For interest
13,190, 324 45
For the War Department
For the Navy Department
1.
...
Aggregate current expenditures
And on account of public deht and
loans, deducted as above:
Old funded debt
Redemption of purloined treasury notes,
act April 10, 1846
Redemption treasury notes, under acts
prior to July 22, 1846
Redemption treasury notes, under acts
December, 1857, December, 1860, and
March 2, 1861
Repayment of temporary loan from banks,
made in anticipation of popular subscription
:
Repayment on account of temporary loan,
under acts February 25 and March 17,
1862
•-......
United States notes, act July 17, 1861,
retired by substitution
$37,701,801 11
394, 368, 407 36
42, 674, 569 69
$474, 744, 778 16.
3 06
51 50
50 00
43,110,000 00
44, 375, 000 00
8, 553, 207 53
..
Leaving balance in treasury July 1, 1862, of
58, 610 00
-:
96,096,922 09
...
570,841,700 25
13, 043, 546 81
583,885,247 06
R E C E I P T S AND E X P E N D I T U R E S
For the year ending June 30, 1863.
T h e r e c e i p t s and e x p e n d i t u r e s , as s u b m i t t e d for t h e c u r r e n t year,
show t h e actual transactions for t h e q u a r t e r e n d i n g SOth S e p t e m b e r
last, and are estimated for t h e t h r e e r e m a i n i n g q u a r t e r s . T h e b.asis
of estimated e x p e n d i t u r e s is t h e a p p r o p r i a t i o n s already made and
those asked for. F r o m t h e a g g r e g a t e amount is d e d u c t e d t h e p r o b able balance t h a t will remain u n d r a w n on t h e 1st J u l y next, b y which
t h e amount actually r e q u i r e d d u r i n g t h e y e a r is more accurately
shown t h a n it would otherwise b e .
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
33
RECEIPTS.
Actual, first quarter, and estimated f o r three quarters of the year ending June
30, 1863.
From custom's:
First quarter, (actual)
$23, 041, 736 -59
Second, third, and fourth quarters,.
'
(estimated)
45, 000, 000 00
\
i
• • '^-.
• • . - . - $68,041,736 59
From lands;
Actual, one quarter
22, 181 .04
Estimated, three quarters
.66, 543 12
. \
.
'
.
. 88,724 16
From miscellaneous sources:
•;
'. . . .
Actual, one quarter
561, 079 08
Estimated, three quarters
1, 683, 237 24
•
2,244,316 32
From the direct tax :
•
Actual, one quarter. .•
83,681 7 7 .
Estimated, three .quarters .,....^...-.
11,537,036 22
,——
11,620,717 99
From internal duties:
,
' .
Actual, one quarter.
456, 303 73
Estimated, three quarters .•
85, 000, 000 00
;
85,456,303 73
Aggregate receipts, actual and estimated, from all sources
other than from loans for the year
' 167, 451, 798 79
Balance in treasury July 1, 1862..
......
13, 043, 546 81
180, 495, 345 60
EXPENDITURES.
"^
The estimates being based upon appropriations made and asked for the cur
rent year, and including the balances of former appropriations unexpended on
the 1st July last:
For the civil service, foreign intercourse, and miscellaneous : '
First quarter, (actual)
..•.'...
$4, 436, 907 32
Second, third, and fourth quarters,
appropriated
27, 697, 497 94
. Appropriations asked for,(deficiency)
677,137 97
$32,811,543 23
For Interior Department, pensions and Indians :
First quarter, (actual)
1, 046, 906 42
Second, third, and fourth quarters,
appropriated
v 4, 925, 350 88
Appropriations askedfor,.(deficiency)
,10,649 13
5,982,906 43
Ex. Doc. 1
3
34
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
For the War Department:
First quarter, (actual)
1......
Second, third, and fourth quarters,
appropriated
Appropriations asked for,(defiGiency)
$90, 869, 850 88
547, 759, 732. 90
108,730,245 20
$747,359, 828'98
For the Navy Department:
_
First quarter, (actual)
Second, third, and fourth quarters,
appropriated..^
For interest on public debt:
.
First quarter, (actual)
Second, third, and fourth quarters
required
•---•,
I
•
V
10, 076, 353 91
72,101,156 86
—^.
82, 177, 510 77
4,654,428 87
20, 360, 103 20
—
Aggregate from all sources other than for principal of public
debt.
.>.
Of this amount of $893,346,321 48 it may be safely estimated that there will reniain undrawn on-the SOth of June
next the sum of
25,014,532 07
893, 346, 321 48
200, 000, 000 00
Making the estimated aggregate amount required during the
year, ending June 30, 1863, for the support of the government and of the war, the sum of.
693, 346, 321 48
Add for public debt due and becoming
due during the year, as follows :
*'
Treasury notes, under various acts
\
.Loan of 1842
Certificates of indebtedness
Temporary loan
IT. S. ^notes, act Feb. 25, (retired)
Three years' bonds
•.
U. S. notes, act 17th July, (retired)
$2, 849, 111 64
2,883,364 11
49, 881, 979 73
9, 913, 510 .66
2, 000, 000 00
2,- 000 00
27, 682, 490 00
•
'
95,212,456 14
Aggregate for the year
Deduct actualand estimated receipts from all sources other
than loans for the year
788, 558, 777 62
And there remains to be provided
1
In addition to the sum of $180,495,345 60, the actual and estimated receipts for the year from sources other than loans,
. there has been received from loans and applied to current
expenditures and payment of public debt during the .quarter ending September 30, 1862:
For 2 year 6 p. c. treasury notes, under act
March 2 , 1 8 6 1 . . . . . .
$1,500 00
For 3 year 7.30 bonds. 3, 550, 000 00
For 5.20 year 6 p. cent,
bonds.....
2,539,803 45
608, 063, 432 02
180, 495, 345 60
.
.
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
^
35
For Oregon war bonds.
$145,050 00
For U. S. treas'y notes,
.
.
a c t F c b . 25, 1 8 6 2 . . . 72,436,000 00
For temporary loan, act
February 25
. . . 22,813,843 14
For .certificate indebt'ss 12, 184, 824 43
For fractional currency
787,800 00
. .
r - $114, 458, 821 02
And during October and November:
.
ForS year 7.30 bonds.. 13, 613, 450 00
For 5.20 year 6 p. cent
bonds
' 7, 219, 596 55
For U. S. notes, under
'
act Feb: 25, 1 8 6 2 . . . 21,587,211 0 0 ' .
For fractional currency. 3,097,000 00
For certif's indebt'ss . . 31, 181, 437 39 '
For temporary loan
8, 972, 200 95
85, 670, 895 99
3,129,717 01
Leaves still to be provided
The estimated additional receipts from sources under existing
laws are..
407, 933, 715 01
131, 021, 197 35
Showing a deficiency of
276, 912, 517 66
With the interest accruing on that sum.
R E C E I P T S AND E X P E N D I T U R E S
'
• o
As estimated for the year ending June 30, 1864.
RECEIPTS.
From
From
From
From
customs
lands
miscellaneous sources
internal duties
-
:,........
....'.
"
,
Aggregate.
$70, 000, 000
25, 000
3, 000, 000
150,^000, 000
00
00
00
00
223, 025, 000 00
EXPENDITURES.
Balance of former appropriations estimated to be unexpended
July 1, 1,863
,
For civil service, foreign intercourse, and miscellaneous...
For Interior Department, Indians, and pensions
For the War Department.
For the Navy Department.1
'
'
For interest on pubhc debt
1....
Principal of public debt
$200, OOOj OW
25-, 081, 510'
10, 346, 577
738, 829, 146
68, 257, 255
33, 513, 890
19, 384, 804
00
08
01
80
01
50
16
1, 095, 413, 183 56
36
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
Of this amount of $1,095,413,183 56, it may be safely estimated that there will remain undrawn on the SOth June,
. 1864, the sum of
1
Aggregate for the year
The estimated receipts, as before stated, for that year are
placed at
'
\ ..
Leaving to be provided for by loans the sum of
$250, 000, 000 00
845, 413, 183 56
223, 025, 000 00
' 622, 388, 183 56
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
37
• ,No.. 2.
Statement o f duties, revenues, a n d p u b l i c expenditures d u r i n g the fiscal y e a r
ending June 30, 1862, agreeably to w a r r a n t s issued, exclusive of trust f u n d s .
The receipts into the treasury during the fiscal year ending June 30,
. 1862, were as follows :
From customs, viz:
During the quarter
During the quarter
During the quarter
During the quarter
ending
ending
ending
ending
September 30, 1861.
December 31, 1861..
March 31, 1862
June 30, 1862
$7,198, 602
8,309,066
14, 618, 558
18, 930, 170
65
47
44
16
.
$49,056,397 62
Froni direct tax, viz :
During the quarter ending June 30, 1 8 6 2 . . .
1,795,331 73
From sales of public lands, viz : '
During the quarter ending September 30, 1861During the quarter ending December 31, 1861..
During the quarter ending March 31, 1862-,---During the quarter ending June 30, 1862
From miscellaneous aud incidental sources.
35,967
39, 658
27,019
49,558
-
Total means
152,203 77
931,787 64
•X
.'
From loans, treasury notes, and certificates of indebtedness, viz :
Loan under actof February 8,1861
55,257
Loan of November 16, 1861
46,303,129
Stock for the Washington and Oregon war debt1,000,700
^% years bonds, per act of Pebruary 25, 1862"_-.
13, 990, 600
Three years bonds, at 7 ^Q per cent
. - 166,412,685
Temporary.loan, per act of February 25, 1862..
66,479,324
Treasury notes issued under act of Juiie 22, 1860,
as authorized by act of March 2,.1861
14,019,034
Sixty days' treasury notes issued per act of March
2, 1861
12,896,350
United States notes pa^^able on demand..,
60,030,000
Treasury notes issued per acts of February 8 and
March 2, 1861
-..
3,500
Treasury notes issued per actof February 25,1862.
98, 620, 000
Certificates of indebtedness authorized by acts of
March l a n d 1 7 , 1 8 6 2 - . - - . - .
49,881,979
Total receipts..-^.
-.-.
Balance in the treasury on July 1, 1861-
03
46
74
54
50
17
00
00
34
10
'
66
00 '
00
^
00
00
73
: 629,692,460 50
------c-
-
681,628,181 26
2,257,065 80
583,885,247 06
The expenditures during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862, were as follows :
•
'
> /
LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, JODICIAL, &C.
For Congress, including books.-$2,516,852 76
For executive
-1,958,410 96
For judiciary
...-' 958,464 56
For governments in the Territories
216,785 78
For officers of mint, branch San Francisco, and assay
office. New York
^
90,925 00
For assistant treasurers and their clerks
48,104 02
For supervising and Igcal inspectors, &c---67,756 08
For surveyors general and their clerks.
91,710 13
Total civil list.
5,939,009 29
38
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
FOREIGN INTERCOURSE.
For salaries of ministers
--•
---.
For salaries of secretaries and assistant secretaries of
legation-..1
.----.For salaries of secretaries of legation to China and
Turkev acting as interpreters-For salaries of consuls
For salaries of interpreters to consuls in China
.
For salaries of marshals for consular courts in Japan,
&c
-.
L
For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of consulates in Turkish dominions
'
For intercourse with the Barbary powers
.--«
For contingent expenses of all missions abroad
.
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse.,.--.
For loss by exchange on drafts of consuls and commercial agents
For office rent to those consuls who are not allowed to
trade
_-.
For purchase of blank books, stationery, &c., for
consuls
•
.--.---_-.For preservation of the archives of the several consulates
For relief and protection of Arnerican seamen
For bringing home from foreign countries persons
charged with crime ,
For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, &cFor bringing from Sidney eight seamen belonging to
the ship " Junior," charged -with the crimes of
mutiny and murder, &c----For expenses in acknowledging the services of mas-ters
and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American
citizens from shipwreck
For defraying the expenses of the Japanese embassy.
Forexpensesincidenttothe execution of the neutrality
act:
,
For carrying out stipulations, &c., in the treaty between the United States and Hanover
-..
For compensation of commissioner, &c., to carry into
effect convention between United States and re*
publics of New Granada and Costa Rica
For compensation of commissioner, &c., to run and
mark boundary between United States and British
possessions bounding on Washington Territory
For expenses of the representation of the industrial
interests of the United States at the exhibition of
all nations at London in 1862
, For awards under the convention between the United
States and republics of New Granada and Costa Rica.
Total foreign intercourse
$326,950 14
41,697 83
.
1,130 60
352,829 39
6,139 47
'
2,583 05
1,965
345
50, 275
79,303
27
38
31
96 .
14,976 37
21.981 14
27,672 75
3,747 62
166,233 48
5,188 36
4,239 36
^
12,770 46
4,000 00
259 017 50
44,497 06
8,499 92
^
^
15,029 00
,
2,000 00
.
,
146,387 92
._
'
MISCELLANEOUS.
For mint establishment
.
•
For contingent expenses under the act for the safekeeping of the public revenue
-For compensation to persons designated to receive and
keep the public revenue
-For compensation to special agents to examine books,
&c., in the several depositories
--'--..
For building vaults as additional security to the public
funds in 66 depositories
For expenses of engraving, &c., treasury notes and
certificates, of stock
For defraying the expenses of a national loan, &c
. ,
526,116 75
48,120 33
938 65
2,128 23
1,281 96
39, 239 '69
607,318 67
$1, 339, 710 35
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES:
For premium on the purchase of coin
$9, 312 50
For survey of the Atlantic. and Gulf coasts of the
UnitedStates
•...
199,9-00 00
For survey of the western coast of the United States.
i l l , 000 00
For survey of the .Florida reefs and keys
18,000 00
For fuel and quarter^ of officers of the army serving
on coast survey
1,000 00
For publishing observations made in the progress of
the survey of the coast of the United States
6,000 00
For pay and rations of engineers of steamers used in
•
the coast survey-.!
...8,000 00
For repairs of vessels used in the coast survey
..10, 000 00
For running a line to connect the triangulation on the
Atlantic coast with that on the Gulf of Mexico
1,000 00
For completing the works of the exploring expedition.
1,220 05
For putting the plates of the exploring expedition in
order for preservation
1,600 00
For paying arrears due authors and artists of exploring expedition.
:
4,796 51
For payment for horses and other property lost or
destroyed in the mill tary service of the United States.
9,819 67
For claims not otherwise provided for..
2,645 01
For expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, per act
of August 10, 1846
„
30,910 14
For mail services performed for the several departments of government, per 12th section act of March
3,1847
----200,000 00
^
For further compensation to the Post Office department
for mail services performed for the two houses of
Congress, &c., per act March 3, 1851
..250,000 00
For supplying deficiencies in the revenues of the Post
Office Department
,
.2,932,596 43
For transportation of mails between the United States
and foreign countries
65,382 12
For carrying the mails from New York, via Panama,
to San Francisco
113,750 00 "
For continuation of the Treasury building.
'
294,511 46
For building post offices, court-houses, &c., including '
purchase of sites
22,454 85 • For public buildings in the Territories7,217 20
For expenses of collecting the revenue from customs.
3, 284,724 63
For repayments to importers the excess of deposits for
imascertained duties
w
-_.
1,642,940 35
For debentures or drawbacks, bounties or allowances.
637,224 20
For debentures and other charges, per act October
16,1837
-..
. .
6,918 05
For salaries of special examiners of drugs and medicines
.-' 4,122 41
Foradditional compensation to collectors, naval officers,
&c
6,355 89
For refunding duties on fish, &c., under reciprocity ^
,
treaty with Great Britain...
--_--..... ^
2,609 88
For refunding duties on arms imported by States - . . .
65,173 50
For support and maintenance of light-houses, &c
"
621,675 81
For building light-houses, &c., and for beacons, buovs,
&c
..-..
.'.- ^
42,59968
For life-boats, compensation of keepers of stations...
16,935 29
For marine hospital establishment.-.,'
290,447 41
For building marine liospitals, including repairs
6,226 78
For building custom-houses, including repairs..26,066 26
For expenses of collecting revenue from sales of public lands
170,912 22
For survey of the publiciands.!
-^^
92,480 03
For survey of public and private land claims in California
^
12,985 20
3W
• .
40
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES,
For resurvey of lands in States where the offices are
closed.-..
:
For services of special counsel, &c,, in defending the
title to public property in Californiii
—
For rent of surveyors general's offices, &c
For repayment for lands erroneously sold
For indemnity for swamp lands sold to individuals...
For distribution of the proceeds of the sale of public
lands
:
For supplying newly created offices, &c., with full sets
of Statutes at Large
-.-.....'
For running and marking the boundary line between
the United States and Texas
For suppression of th)2 slave t r a d e - - - - - For expenses of taking the eighth census
For United States Capitol extension
„..
For new dome of the United States Capitol
For Patent Office building
For alterations and repairs of public buildings in Washington, improvement of grounds, &c
-For. compensation of public gardener, gate-keepers,
laborers, watchmen, &C-For salaries and other necessary expenses of the metropolitan, police
For lighting the President's House, Capitol, &c. with
gas..
1...
For fuel, &c., for P-esident's House
For refurnishing President's House
For collection of agricultural statistics
-L
For asylum for insane of District, of Columbia and
army and navy of the United States
i
For Columbian Institute for deaf, dumb, and blind of
District of Columbia
For support and care of transient paupers in the District of Columbia
".
For penitentiary in the District of Columbia
Fci' Potomac and Eastern Branch bridges, compensation of draw-keepers, &c
.;...
For patent fund
"..
For expenses of packing and distributing congressional
journals and documents.
'.
For preservation and distribution of the collections of
exploring expeditions--.
For making cases, &c , in Patent Office building to receive copyright books, &c
For the relief of sundry individuals
For sundry items
For preparing unfinished records of public and private
surveys, to be transferred to the State authorities-^ Total miscellaneous
;
$1,978 01 ,
3, 365
15.781
30,33^
138,404
03
56
39
40
41,657 00
•
2,90125
.
5,312
^ 222,528
657, 386
30,000
35, 000
17,530
•
68
39
00
00
00
97
31,124 99
^
23,659 98
85,530 00
'
54,942
2,874
19,359
70,000
40
25
14
00
62,61100
,
9,034 10 .
4,381 15
36,696 14
37,327 13
168,340 26
'
20,000 00
8,000 00"
.
.
'
4,200 00
21,453 53
18,192 24
5,435 72
1
$14,129,771 52
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTlilENT.
For
For
For
For
Indian department
,..
pensions, military
pensions, naval
relief of sundry individuals..
-.-.•
Total under Interior Department
^- . $2,223,402 27
,
731,693 68
....
118,388 28
29,501 27
;..__-_____._
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THB WAR DEPARTMENT.
For.army proper, &c
-...
.--^-- $13,-32'9,.477 97
For transportation of the army, volunteers and regulars
46,942,407 W
3,102,985 50
.REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
For clothing of the army, volunteers and regulars
$56,724, 952
For purchase 0^ horses for cavalry, &c.., volunteers and
regulars
:
i.
13,748,297
For quartermaster's department, &c., volunteers and . ' .
regulars.--...
.^2,875,758
For medical and hospital department, volunteers and •
regulars
2,309,112
For purchase of arms, ordnance, and ordnance stores,
volunteers and regulars
.,
27,499,238
For pay and subsistence of volunteers and militia, &c. 175, 918, 867
For Military Academy
^
117,717
For armories, arsenals, ordnance, &c
,
-7,658,936
For fortifications and other works of defence
3, 558, 884
For construction of roads, bridges, &c
-«
22,967
For improvement of rivers, harbors, &c
...
39,318
For gunboats on western rivers
.—.
..
'2,089,422
For relief of sundry individuals and miscellaneous
1, 533, 047
41
05
" '
79
76
58
36
34
30
68
84
79
95
69
04
Total under War Department
,
$394,368,407 36
f _
UNDER THB DIRECTION OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
For pay and subsistence of the navy, &c
- « - - - $11, 246, 091 87
For contingent expenses
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1,888, 231.48
For increase, repairs, &c
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—13,009,393 52
For six first class steam-frigates
-50,176 42
Forfive sloops-of-war,
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64,106 '83
For seven sloops-of-war, second class
. 1,946,011 10
For twelve side-wheel steamers1,172,349 58
For armored ships and floating batteries
.1,596,562 56
For seven steam-sloops and one side-wheel steamer...
85, 021 93
For temporary increase of the navy
3,000,000 00
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms
5,148,294 71
For fuel
I.
1,349,763 75
For hemp
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300,458 53
For Naval Academy
47,584 32
For navy yards.
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535,719 50 . ^.
For magazines
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.29,587 31
For hospitals-7,330 61
For marine corps, including marine barracks
920,174 54
For relief of sundry individuals and miscellaneous...
277,711 13
Total under the Navy Department
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Total expenditures, exclusive of the public debt
PUBLIC DEBT.
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For old funded debt
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$3 06
For interest on public debt, including treasury notes13,190, 324 45
For reimbursement of treasury notes, per act prior to
July 22, 1346
60 00
For redemption of treasury notes which have been
purloined
51 60
For payment of treasury notes, issued per act of December 23, 1857
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^ 2,567,700 00
For payment of treasury notes, issued per act. of December 17, 1860
9,936,150 00
For payment of treasury notes, issued per act of March
2, 1 8 6 1 . . . .
30,606,150 00
For reimbursement of temporary loan, per acts of July
17 and August 5, 1861
.--44,375,000 00
42,674,569 69
461, 554,453 71
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For reimbursement of temporary loan, per acts of February-25 and March 17, 1862
. —For redemption of United States notes, issued under
actof July 17, 1861
$8,553,207 63
68,610 00
Total public diebt-.1
$109,287,246 54
Total expenditures
Balance in the treasury July 1,1862..'
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570,841,700 25
1
13,043,546 81
L. E."CHITTENDEN, i^e^w^.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, i?e^t5fer's Oj?ice, iVbvewier.29,1862.
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No. 3.
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Statement o f the receipts a n d expenditures of the United, States f o r the quarter
ending September 30, 1862, exclusive of trust f u n d s .
RECEIPTS.
From customs."
'________..___From sales of public lands
.
From direct tax
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From internal revenue
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From incidental and miscellaneous sources
From two years' 6 per cent, treasury notes, per act of
March 2, 1861
J
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From 1^^ three years' coupon bonds, per acts of July
17 and August 5, 1861
,...
.......J--.
From United States notes issued per act of February
25, 1862
From 5% years' bonds, per act of February 25, 1862 - .
From certificates of indebtedness, per acts of March 1
and 17, 1862
From temporary loan, per acts of February 25 and
March 17, 1862
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From stock for Washington and Oregon war debt
From United States postage stamps--
.
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$23,041,736 59
' 22,18104
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83, 681 77
456,303 73
561,079 08
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$1,600 00 ,
3,550,000 00 "
72,436,000 00
2., 539, 803 45
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12,184,824 43
22,813,843 14
145,050 00
787,800 00
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114,458,821 02
138,623,803 23
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EXPENDITURES.
Civil, foreign intercourse, and miscellaneous
Interior, (pensions and Indian)
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War
Navy
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Interest on the public debt, including treasiiry notes.. $4, 654,428 87
Reimbursement of ^treasury notes, per act prior to July
22,1846
-— - .
60 00
Payment of treasury notes issued per act of December
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23,1857.--.
,;
14,300 00
Payment of treasury notes issued per act of December
17,1860..-.4,500 00
Payment of treasury notes issued per act of March 2,
1861
.22,550 00
' Redemption of 7 ^ coupon bonds, per act of July 17,
18612,000 00
Redemption of United States notes issued per act of
July 17, 1861.
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27,682,490 00
Redemption of United States notes issued per act of
February 25, 1862.
- 2,000,000 00
Redemption of certificates of indebtedness, per acts of
March 1 and 17, 1862
5,885,000 00
Reimbursement of temporary loan, per acts of.February 25 and March 17, 1862
9,913,510 66
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$4,436,907
1,046,906
90,869,850
10,076,353
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156,608,847 41
L. E. CHITTENDEN, RegisieT.^
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Statement shdioing the amount of p ^ M i c deht qf the United States on J u l y
1, 1862.
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Loan of 1842
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Do-..1847
DO---1848
•DO---1858-..
D0---I86O
•Do_-,1861,.act of February 8, 1861
. D0--.I86I, actof July 17, 1861
DO---1862...
Texan indemnity
Oregon war debt
Texasdebt
Old funded and unfunded debt
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Treasury notes issued under acts prior to 1857
Treasury notes issued under actof (December 23, 1857Treasury notes issued under act of December 17, I860Treasury notes issued under acts of June 22, 1860,
4nd February and March, 1861, 2 yearsTreasury not^s issued under act of March 2, 1861, 60
days
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$2,883,364 11
9,415,250 00
8,908,34180 .
20,000,000 00
7,022,000 00
18,415,000 00
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50,000,000 00
9,907,850 00
3,461,000 00
998,600 00
112,092 59
114,115 48
.
- $ 1 3 1 , 2 3 7 , 6 1 3 98
104, 611 64
18,500 00 6, 300 00
2,716,700 00
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3,000 00
2,849,111 64
Three years' bonds, dated August 19, 1861, issued
under act of July 17, 1 8 6 1 - .
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Three years' bonds, dated October!, 1861, issued
under act of July 17, 1861
United States notes issued under acts of July 17,
1861, and February 12, 1862
United States notes issued' under act of February
25, 1862
_
63,004,300 00
69,832,250 00
_
122,836,550 00
63,040,000 00
96,620,000 00
149,660,000 00
Temporary loan under act of February 25,^March
17, and July 11, 1862
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Certificates 0^ indebtedness issued under act of March
1, 1862 . - . ^ .
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67,746,116 67
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No. 5.
M I N T OF THE U N I T E D S T A T E S ,
Philadelphia, October 27, 1862.
S I R : I have the honor to present the following report of the operations of
the mint and its branches for the fiscal year ending June .30, 1862 :
The coinage of the mint aiid branches for that period has been large, but not
eq,ual to that of the preceding year. Various causes contributed to this reduction ; the principal one being the disturbed condition of our country, which not
only affected the financial and comrnercial relations of tbe nation, but embarrassed
and retarded operations .in the mining districts, and limited the supply from
these sources. The quantity of foreign coin and bullion deposited was not large,
amounting only to $11,268,710 71.
The amount of bullion received at the mint and branches during the year was
as follows: Gold, ^^67,118,544 56; silver, $4,098,673 14'> total deposits,
$71,217,217 70. From this total must be deducted the re-deposits of bullion,
or bars made at one institution and deposited at another, for coinage. This deduction liiade, the amount will be $45,423,231 01.
The coinage for the same period was as follows : Gold coins, $45,.532,386 50 ;
fine gold bars, $16,144,190 0 5 ; silver 6oins„ $2,812,401 50; silver bars,
$418,680 01 ; cent coins, $116,000 ; total coinage, $65,023,658 06 ; number of
pieces of all denominations of coin, 28,296,899.
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The distribution of the bullion received and coined at- the mint and branches
was as follows : At Philadelphia, gold deposits, $26,287,009 77; gold coined,
$29,987,386 50; fine gold bars, $49,421 6 1 ; silver deposits and purchases,
$1,855,606 96; silver coined, $2,170,701 50; silver bars, $1,797 79; cents
coined, $116,000. Total deposits of gold and silver, $28,142,616 7 3 ; total
coinage, $32,274,088; number of pieces, 25,951,899.
At the branch mint, San Francisco, the gold deposits were $16,136,622 96 ;
gold coined, $15,545,000; silver deposits and purchases, $749,114 14; silver
coined, $641,700; silver bars, $1,278 '65. Total coinage of gold and silver,
$16,187,978 6 5 ; number of pieces, 2,345,000.
The assay office in New York received during the year $24,694,911 83 in
gold bullion and $1,493,952 04 in silver. Fine gold bars stamped at that
oifice, 3,867; value, $16,094,768,44; silver bars, 2,164; value, $415,603 57.
Total value of gold and silver bullion, $26,188,863 87:
No reports have been received from the branches at New Oiieans, Dahlonega,
or Charlotte.
Although New Orleans is now, and has been for some months, in the possession of the Union forces, yet the operations at the branch'mint in that city have
not been resumed, nor is it expedient or necessary that they should be. After
the suppression of > the rebellipn, and the pacification of the country, the branch
located there might again be successfully and usefully operated; till then it
should remain closed. No consideration, of public or private interest, would,
nnder the most favorable circumstances, justify the reopening oi the branches at
Dahlonega or Charlotte.. They ought not to have been established; and,
having been the source of useless expenditure, they should not, even in the
event of the States in which they are respectively located returning to their
allegiance, be again employed for minting purposes.
Whether gold or silver coins were struck at any of the defected branches of
the mint during the past year I have not been able to ascertain with certaintyv
If any, the amount was small. Prior to the defection of the branch at New
Oiieans, the dies in that institution were defaced or destroyed by some of the
loyal employes, under the direction of one of the officers who remained true to"
his duty and to his country. This destruction of the dies must have ^delayed,
if not altogether prevented, any coinage at that branch.
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The mines of the United States continue to yield large amounts of the precious metals. .Most of the gold and silver deposited at the mint and branches
was the product of these mines. . The sum of $30,976,593 24 in gold and
$1,032,264 45 in silver'was received from this source. As heretofore, much of
'the domestic silver was obtained by separating it from the gold deposits in
which it is found. The mines of the Washoe region exhibit a gratifying increase
in quantity. The gold mines of other portions of our country yield largely, and
their capacity is almost unlimited. The deposits of gold from Colorado Territory or Pike's Peak have largely increased, and the daily developments of tho
mineral wealth of that region would seern to indicate that, before many years,
the production from the mines there will rival in amount that of California.
The receipts from the State of Oregon during the year amounted to $888,205
against $3,181 last year—an increase full of encouragement to the miner.
The yield of gold and silver from Nevada, in the form of mixed bullion—one
third of the value of which is in gold—has largely increased during -the last ^
nine months, and increased supplies of the precious metals from that region niay
be confidently expected. '
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Gold deposits from Washington. Territory have also been received, and the
indications of a large increase are favorable.
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The deposits of gold and silver bullion at the mint and branches, during the
year, from the mines of the United States, notwithstanding the disturbed condition of public affairs and the troubles on our western borders, were only
$2,800,000 less than the amount of the preceding fiscal year. The decrease
was in the amount received from California, and must be attributed to other
causes than diminished yield of the mines of that State. The reports from the
gold and silver regions df our country are highly satisfactory and promise an
abundant and increasing yield.
The places Avhence the deposits of gold and silver were obtained, and the
amount from each locality, are set forth in the tabular statements attached to
this report.
The exchange of nickel for the old'copper cents-was continued during the
year. The number of the old cents is rapidly diminishing, and that coin will
soon disappear altogether from the circulation. The demand for the nickle cent
has largely increased. The disappearance of the small silver coins from circulation has caused the new cent to be extensively used, and. every effort has been
° made to meet the demand.. Large amounts have been sent to every part of the
country, and orders, beyond our ability to fill, are constantly forwarded to the
mint. The profits of the cent coinage have been fully adequate to meet all expenses of material, production and transmissio^n to the parties ordering them.
' The coinage of the past was of a more general character, than that of the preceding year. A greater variety pf all the gold and silver coins was produced,
and among them an unusual number of the smaller gold coins.
The distinct and unequivocal recognition of the divine sovereignty in the
practical administration of our political system is a .duty of the highest obligation. History unites with divine revelation in declaring that ''happy is that
people whose God is the Lord." In the exercise of political sovereignty bur
nation should honor him; and now, in this hour of peril and danger to our
country and its liberties, it is becoming to acknowledge his power and invoke '
his protection. Our national coinage in its devices and legends should indicate
the Christian character of our nation, and declare our trust in God. It does not
do this. On the contrary, ancient mythology, more than .Christianity, has
stamped its impress on our coin. It is, however, gratifying to know that the
proposition to introduce a motto upon our. coins, expressing a national reliance
on divine support has been favorably considered by your department, and will
no doubt be approved by an intelligent public sentiment. The subject is under
the control of Congress; and without a change in existing laws, no alteration in
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the legends and devices of most of our national coins can be made; a motto,
however, may be added without additional authority or violation of the present
law.
The 13th section of the act of January 18, 1837, prescribes the following
devices and legends for our coinage: ''Upon one side of each of the said coins
there shall be an impression emblematic of liberty, with an inscription of the
word Liberty, and the year of the coinage; and upon the reverse of each of the gold
and silver coins there shall be the figure or representation of an eagle, with the
inscription United States of America, and a designation of the value of the coin, but
on the reverse of the dime and half dime the figure of the eagle shall be omitted."
The provisions of this act being still in force, except as to the silver coins of
less denomination than the dollar, the character of the devices upon the coins
referred to in the section cited, viz: the eagle, half eagle, quarter eagle and silver
dollar, cannot be altered unless authority therefor be given by an act of Congress. . The same remark applie.s to the double eagle. The coins not included
in the provisions of the act referred to are the three dollar piece, gold dollar,
and si ver coins of less denomination than the dollar, also the cent coin. The
figure of the eagle is omitted on the reverse of the gold dollar, and the device
thereon, as well as for the obverse and reverse of the three dollar piece and
silver coins last referred to, having been fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury,
may be altered by the same authority.
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In consideration of the legal provisions referred to, it will be necessary, in
attempting to introduce a'motto on the face of our coins, to interfere as httle as
possible with the present legal devices. The first difficulty to. be encountered
is the necessary condensation. The idea should be unmistakebly expressed in
our own language, and at the same time the letters should be distinctly and easily
legible. To unite these desiderata within the limits presented on the face of the .
the coin, in connexion with the required arrangement of the legal devices, demands much reflection. The motto " I n God is our trust," which has become
familiar to the public mind by its use in our national hymn the "Star Spangled
Banner," would be an appropriate one, but it contains too. many letters to insert
in the place of the crest, without crowding«too much for good taste. For greater
brevity we may substitute the words, "God our trust," which convey the same
idea, in a form of expression according with heraldic usage, and as readily understood as the more explicit form of the other. Tlie most appropriate place for
this motto is found in connexion with the national inscription, which on all our*"
larger coins is on the reverse, the device of which is an eagle, with the heraldic
accompaniments appropriate to the dr^ns of the Union as adopted by law, dispensing at present with the motto (E Pluribus Unum) and the crest, except on
the double eagle. The place of the crest.OEQT^ the best position for inscribing a
motto, as on all the other coins which are large enough to admit of such an.
addition this space is now vacant, and therefore a motto, if sufficiently brief,
may be introduced with the least disturbance of the device as now arranged.
The adoption on our coin of the motto '' G-,od our trust," or some other words
expressive of national reliance upon divine support, would accord fully with the
sentiment of the American people, and it would add to the artistic appearance of
the coins.
. I would again call the attention of the department to the anomalous character
• of the silver dollar of the United States, and respectfully refer to the observations
on this subject contained in my last annual report, also to the propriety and
expediency of enlarging the limit of the legal tender for silver. The limit, with
great propriety and advantage to public and private interests, might and ought to
be extended to fifty or one hundred dollars. .
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PRICE OF SILVER AND GOLD.
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There is some reason, from present experience, to fear a continuous advance
of gold and silver, as compared with the legal, tender currency issued by the
government. That fear may be much abated by considering the amazing production of the gold fields of the world, to which, there has been no parallel in
past history. It is very much to the purpose to consider that at the era of the
great Napoleonic war the supply of precious metals was chiefly maintained by
the mines of Mexico and South America, the-washings of the gold coast of Africa,
and some initial developments in Russia, altogether not exceeding twenty-five
millions of dollars, by a literal estimate annually for a series of years. During
the most critical part of this era the premium on gold in England reached fortyone per cent., as against Bank of England notes, but was generally much less;
and in three years, from 1813 to 1816, fell from the highest point to par with
bank paper. Since those times it is'almost unnecessary to say the stock of gold
has been immensely re-enforced; and we have now the gold fields of California
and adjacent territories, Colorado or Pike's Peak, Australia, New Zeland, Russia, Nova Scotia, and the very promising silver regions of Washoe and Arizona.^
Adding together all the sources of supply, both gold and silver, we may safely
estimate an annual yield, in these times, of one hundred and seventy-five millions
of dollars, or seven, times the amount produced annually for some years prior to
the peace of 1815.
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There is, therefore, much reason to hope that the price of gold and silver, as
compared Avith actual currency, cannot go on rising indefinitely and ruinously,
and that the return of peace will bring a returning tendency to specie payments.
The civilized world does not want a mere metallic currency, but it must have a
sufficient metallic support for its bills of credit, and it is easy to see that only five
years addition of gold and silver from the mines will exert a. vast influence. Once
out of the ground and put in an. available shape, they are, setting off the mere
abrasion of coins, a perpetual addition to the machinery of trade and the wealth
of the world.
ABRASION OF COINS.
.
Very remarkable statements have from time to time been published as to loss
by abrasion or wear of coins, making the amount so great as almost to cast discredit upon metallic currency. Thus we are told by one writer that. the annual
loss, in a country where both gold and silver circulate, is one part in 420; by
another, one in 300; by a third, one in 200 ; and one " gentleman of great accuracy and acuteness" (cited by Jacobs) says that the loss on coined silver isfull one per cent, per annum. , A more recent and alarming estimate, from British sources, would lead to the expectation that silver pieces of the size of their
shilling, or our quarter dollar, would in less than ten years be worn so much as
to be no louger passable. Every one knows the value of such statements on
this side of the water.
We have recently had occasion to make a thorough re-examination of this
important subject, and have ascertained what is the average annual loss on each
size of gold coin, and on the silver promiscuously. Nol to enter into details
here,-it may be stated tliat the silver coin averages a loss of one part in 630 ;
the half eagle one in 3,550 ; the double eagle one in 9,000; and that, by a cautious estimate as to the proportions of the various sizes of coin actually among
us, the average annual loss by abrasion does not exceed one part in 2,400; that
is, in times when specie is- current at par with bank paper, and not lying idle.
Let it be observed that all experiments hitherto made, in regard to abrasion,
' seem to have been based upon pieces not higher in value than the sovereign or
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. half eagle. This has rendered expedient a new examination, because the great
preponderance of our specie is in large pieces, Avhich, being less exposed by
circulation, must be judged by a law of their own. While one double eagle is
^ lying quiet, five or ten smaller pieces are passing from hand to hand.
SMALL CHANGE.
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In regard to' our minor currency, usually called "small change," it is difficult to realize the fact that, with over forty-five millions of dollars in silver
coin now in' the country, we should be driven to a substitute, which, however .
useful as a temporary mea-sure, cannot enter into comparison, in point of convenience and durability, with small coin, not to speak of intrinsic value. W h y
cannot silver change be issued on a basis somewhat similar, yet more favorable
than that on which the copper coin is issued, namely, not to give a full bullion
value, b u t to afford a public benefit^? The cent we issue costs the government
scarcely half a cent; but for its purposes, and with the stamp of authority, it is.
worth its nominal value to everybody: it is.largely sought after, notwithstanding so many have been issued, and would purchase no more if it were three
times as heavy. Would the half dime, dime, or quarter dollar be any less acceptable if^ it were, say three-fourths of the present weight of those coins I At
all events, we could most safely and seasonabl}?- issue ten millions of dollars in
five and 'ten cent pieces, of the present .nineteenths fineness, "but of reduced
weight, and of legal tender to the amount* of five or ten dollars. The new pieces
would, of course, be not worth that much abroad, but they would, be'at home,
which is all we are concerned about. A legal provision to this effect,, prospective perhaps, to follow the wearing out of the stamp currency, would at once
bring to the mint a supply of the old coin, and of silver bullion from the
Washoe mines and other sour'ces, by holders desirous of realizing a premium"
and of accommodating their own business. So much of the gain as would be
necessary to draw the material should go in that direction; the remainder would
pay expenses of recoinage and transportation. The three^cent pieces already
out, and considerably coined, might be left to fulfil ^their mission, without calling
them in or adding to their number, the cents being sufficient to fill -the space
between one cent and five. It would _ be best at present to limit the new issue
to the dime and. half dime, leaving the larger coins for future consideration^ or,
probably, to return to their par value pn the return of better times.
STATEMENTg'OF FOREIGN COINS.
This statement, ».as required by Jaw, will be found appended to the report.
The additions are few, but there are alterations in the silver occasioned by the
raising of the rnint price. In gold, we find the sovereign of the mint of Sydney, Australia, by the trial of a much larger lot than has been hitherto procurable, a little higher in average weight, and a little Jower in average fineness,
than reported last year. It may be well to state here' that an inquiry has been
raised in England as to the propriety of making Australian coin pass everywhere concurrently with the British sovereign, being, in fact, of equal value,
though q^ite different in devices and in color. We have not seen the printed
documents on this subje'ct, but as the coinage of the Sydney mint is large, it is
worth while to bring the matter to public notice.
There are also several varieties of private coinage at Pike's Peak, Colorado
Territory, which, not being foreign nor legal, cannot claim a place in our coinage
statistics; and yet, being issued in considerable amounts, and current in the far
west, ought to receive attention. They are all of a pale color, and more highly
alloyed than our lawful coinage, making up in some cases by increase of weight.
Thus we have the ten-dollar piece of Clark, Graber & Co., ranging from 768 to
832 thousandths fine, and of course, as various^in Aveight; but they all appear
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to be about ten dollars in value, (a few cents more or less,) by computing the
value of the silver contained and charging, for the parting. The ten-dollar
piece of J . J. Conway &^Co. is only 630 thousandths fine, by a single trial, being
largely alloyed Avith the silver actually present. The net value of gold and silver is $7 25.' The five-dollar piece of John Parson & Co., by a single trial,
is "751 thousandths fine, and its net val vie $4 20. The trials in these latter cases
are not sufficient for a fair average valuation, but they will give an idea as to
the deficiency.
In silver we have added, from a recent assay, the Maria Theres^a thaler of
.Austria, which is coined specially for the Levant trade, but always bears the
date of 1780, no matter when struck. We have lately had a good opportunity
to make an average of old and hew pieces, many being of the latter sort. They'
fully maintain their original standards, and are, in fact, a little better than we
reported them twenty years ago.
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• In January of the present year the mint price of silver was raised from 121.
to. 122J cents per ounce troy, of standard fineness. This requires an entire
change in the column of values of silver coins, and the change has accordingly
been niade.
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NATIONAL MEDALS.
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The medal department of the mint has become a most important and interesting part of the institution. The reproduction of national and other American
medals of historic interest has been received with great favor by all who are interested in numismatics, and by all who desire the development of native genius and skill in this branch of the arts." Medals of honor for the navy, in recognition of noble and patriotic services in defence of the nation's honor and
life, have been prepared here, which reflect the highest credit ou the artists and
workmen engaged -in their preparation.
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Bare and.- valuable coins and medals have been added to the mint cabinet
during the year. The cabinet has become a very attractive place, and the daily,
crowds of intelligent visitors attest its value and importance as a numismatic
collection.'
LIST OF TABLES IN APPENDIX.
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A.—Statement of bullion deposited at the mint of the LTnited States and
branches during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
B.—^Statement of the coinage at the mint of the United States and branches
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
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C.—-Statement of gold and silver of domestic production deposited at the.
niiint of the United States and branches during the fiscal year ending June. 30^1862. ^
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D."—Coinage of the mint and branches from their organization to the close of;:
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862. (Eleven tables.)
E.—Gold of domestic production deposited at the mint of -the United States.,
and branches to June 30, 1862. (Seven tables.)
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F.—Statement of the amount of silver coined at the mint of the United
States and branches at San Francisco and New Oiieans, under the act of February 21, 1853. .
. G.—Statement of the amount of silv^er of domestic production deposited at
the mint of the United States and its branches from January, 1841, to 30th
June, 1862.
.
.
H.—^Statement of amount and denominations of fractions of the Spanish and
Mexican dollar deposited at the mint of the United States for. exchange for the
new cent-to June 30, 1860.
I.—Amount of fractions of the Spanish and Mexican dollar purchased at the.
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
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mint of the United States; the branch mint at New Orleans, arid assay office,
New York, to June 30, 1862.
#
J.—Cents of former issue deposited at the United States mint for exchange
for the "nickel cent to June 30, 1862.
K.—Statement of the weight, fineness, and value of the foreign gold coins.
L.—Statement of the weight, fineness, and valu'e of foreign silver coins.
•Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J A M E S POLLOCK,
.,
Director of the Mint,
Hon.
S. P . CHASE,
Seicretary of the Treasuryi Washington City,
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Statement of deposits at the mint of the United States, the branch mint at San Francisco, and assay office, New- York, during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
Mint of the U-. States,
Philadelphia.
Description of bullion.
Fine bars
United States bullion.
United States coin . . .
Jewellers' bars
Foreign coin
Foreign bullion...
,172,885
,435,890
386, 302
75, 973
199,846
16,112
Total gold.
26,287,009 77
Fine bars
_.....
Jewellers' bars
United States bullion.. . .
United States coin, (o. s.).
Foreign coin . . . . ^
Foreign bullion.'
1, 620, 143
37,202
38, 334
75,804
77,283
6,839
Total silver .
Total gold and silver
33
45
24
04
38
33
36
19
31
IS
05
87
1,855,606 96
•
28, 142, 616 73
Branch mint, San Fran- Assay office. New York.
cisco.
$15,754,262 96
48,400.00
333,960 00
$13,786,439 83
-4,836 00
233,244 0.0
9, 685, 280 00
985, 112 00
16, 136, 622 96
749, 114 14
749,114 14
16,885,737 10-
Less redeposits at the different institutions : Gold, $24, 172, 885 3 3 ; silver, $1, 621, 101 36.
24,694,911 83
958
62, 055
244,816
33, 604
972, 019
180, 500
00
00
00
00
04
00
Total.
124, 172, 885
30, 976, 593
391,138
309,217
9, 933, 526
1,335,184
33
24
24
04
38
33
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67, l i s , 544 56
1,621, 101
99, 257
1, 032, 264
109,408
1, 049, 302
187, 339
36
19
45
18
09
87
1,493,952 04
• 4,098,673 14,'
26, 188, 863 87
71,217,217 70
25,793,986 69
45, 423,231 01
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Statement of the coinage at the mint of the United States, the branch mint, San Francisco, and assay ofiice, New Yorlc, during -the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
Denomination.
Double e a g l e s . .
Eagles
Half eagles . . . . ,
T h r e e dollars . .
Quarter eagles.
Dollars
.,
F i n e bars
Mint of the United States,
.PJiiladelphia. -
1,052,375
79,299
639,432
• 5,785
1,253,249
1,799,259
Branch mint, San Francisco.
Assay office. N e w
York.
Total.
00
00
00
00
50
00
61
760,000
18,000
18,000
Value.
$15,200,000 00
180,000 00
90,000 00
Pieces.
1,812,375
97,299
30,000
75,000 00
•5,785
•1,283,249
1,799,259
30,036,808 11
826,000
15,545,000 00
1,179,500
120,000
219,500
589,750 00
30,000 00
21,950 00
Value.
$21,047,500
792,990
3,197,160
17,355
3,133,122
1,799,259
49,421
657,4:J2
$16,094,768 44
Value.
$36,247,500 00
972,990 00
3,287,160 00
17,355 00
3,208,122 50
1,799,259 00
16,144,190 05
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Total gold ,
Dollars
Half d o l l a r s . . . . .
Quarter dollars .
Dimes
Half d i m e s . . . . . .
Three cents.....
Bars
Total silver.
CENTS .
T o t a l coinage.
4,829,399
1,750
2,391,350
2,803,750
1,364,550
2,352,550
608,550
1,750
1,195,675
700,937
136,455
117,627
18,256
1,797
00
00
50
00
50
50
79
9,522,500
2,172,499 29
11,6005000
116,000 00
25,951,899
32,274,088 00
1,519,000
2,345,000
16,094,768 44
1,278 65
415^603 57
642,978 65
415,603 57
16,187,978 65
16,510,372 01
5,655,399
61,676,576 55
1,750
3,570,850
2,923,750
1,584,050
2,352,550
608,550
1,750 00
1,785,425 00
730,937 50
158,405 00
117,627 50
18,256 50
418,680 01
11,041,500
3,231,081 51
11,600,000
116,000 00
28,296,899
65,023,658 06
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Statement oJ gold and silver of domestic production deposited at the mint of tlie United. States, the hraTtch mint at San Francisco, and
assay ofiice at New York, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
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Description of bullion.
California
Colorado
;
North C a r o l i n a . . . . . . . . .
Georgia . . .
Washington Territory . .
Verihont
,
Nevada
...
N e w Mexico
,
Arizona
Santa F e , N e w Mexico.
Virginia
,
South Carolina
Oregon..
.,
Parted from silver . . . . .
Total gold .
Mint of the United States,
Philadelphia.
$244,259
1,122,333
81
135
215
81
50
38
40
70
Branch mint, S a n
Francisco.
Assay, office, N e w
York.
$14,029,759 95
680 00
1,580,647 83
912,403 00
2,232 00
1,469 00
Total.
J26,854,667 59
2,035,416 50
2,313 38
1,604 40
215 70
3,293 00
53,846 00
1,283 00
391 00
260 00
. 316 00
2,065 00.
888,205 00
1,132,716 67
68,864 66
888,000 00
822,823 01
3,293 00
40,846 00
1,283 00
391 00
260 00
. 316 00
2,065 00
205 00
241,029 00
1,435,890 45
15,754,262 96
13,786,439 83
30,976,593 44
21,366 38
757,446 60
8,224 00
105 00
245,122 47
13,000 00
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Nevada
California
Arizona
Parted from domestic gold.
Total silver.
Total gold and silver of domestic production .
W
12,597 38
. 3 , 6 1 8 37
655,211 23
22,118 56
93,902 91
8,769 00
98,617 00
8,224 00
- 105 00
129,lOJ 00
38,334 31
749,114 14
244,816 00
1,032,264 45
1,474,224 76
16,503,377 10
14,031,255 83
. 32^008,857 69
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Coinage of the mint and branches from their organization to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
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1. MINT OF THE UNITED STATES, PHILADELPHIA.
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GOLD COINAGE.
Period.
Double eagles.
Eagles.
Half eagles.
Three dollars.
Quarter esagles.
Dollars.
Fine bars."
'Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
Piejces.
Pieces.
Value.
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1793 to 181T . . . . . . .
1818 to 1837
1838 to 1847
1848 to 1857 . . . . . . . . . .
1858.....-..".......:...
1859 . . . ^
1860
1861 . . . . . . .
1862
TotaL. o . . . . . . . . .
---
132, 592
. 1,227,759
1, 970, 597
8, 122, 526
13, 690
468,504
8,600
98, 196
16, 013
188, 615
44, 005
2, 3 4 1 , 921
79,299
1,052,375
12, 2 7 2 , 1 3 T
-3, 492, 555
845,
3, 087,
3, 269,
2, 260,
32,
20,
19,
909
925
921
390
633.
718
724
56T526
639, 4 3 2 .
10, 2 3 3 , 178
«
223,015
13,059
11,524. 1 3 , 402
6,-^072
5,785
272, 857 •
22, 197
. 879,903.
345, 526
5;*544, 900 15, 348, 608 . $ 3 3 , 6 . 1 2 , 1 4 0
2 1 , 088
208, 724
113,097
231,873
76, 562 49,286
170. 2 7 5
78, 743
13,721
66, 434
13,955
121,376
49 421'
1, 2 5 3 , 2 4 ^ , 1, 799, 259
^
8, 370, 5 3 1
1-7,681,162
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46
10
59
34
76
61
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1. MINT OF THE UNITED STATES, PHILADELPHIA—Continued.
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SILVER COINAGE.
—\
. Period.
Dollars.
- Half dollars.
Quarter dollars.
Dimes.
Half dimes.
Three cents.
Bars.
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Pieces.
1793
1818
1838
1848
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
to
to
to
to
1,439,517
1, 000
879, 873". •
. 350, 250
1817.....
1837
1847
1857
,
............
Total
73,
315,
164,
1,
500
530
900
750
3, 226, 320
Pieces.
Pieces. '
650,280
13, 104, 433
5, 041, 749
74, 793, 560
4,952,073
20,203,333'
' 41,072,280
10,691,088
4, 028, 000 - 10,600,000
4, 996, 000
2, 636, 000
909,800
349, 800
3, 034, 200
741,300
2, 803, 750
2,391,350
128, 938, 864
74, 060, 132
1,007,151
11,854,949
11,387,995
35,172,010
690, 000
1, 760, 000
576,000
1, 573, 000
. 1, 364, 550
Pieces.
265, 543
14, 463, 700
11,093,235
34, 368, 520
4, 000, 000
2, 840, 000
870, 000
2, 787, 000
2, 352, 550
37, 778, 900
1, 266, 000
1, 380, 000
548, 000
265,'000
608, 550
65, 385, 655
73, 040, 548
41,846,450
Pieces.
•
Pieces.
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Value.
\^
$32,355
843
9,341
21,656
2.624
1, 797
55
37
OS
30
37
79
68,618 46
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1. MINT OF THE UNITED ^TATES, PHILADELPHIA—Continued.
TOTAL COINAGE.
COPPER COINAGE.
Period.
Cents. .
Pieces.
1793 to 1817
1818 to 1837
1838 to 1847
1848 to 1857
1858
1859
'.
I860
1861......
1862
. . .
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Total
. ..
Half cents.
. JPieces
29,316,272
46,654,830
34,967,663
51,449 979
23,400,000
30,700,000
34,200,000
10,166,000
11,600,000
6,235,513
2,205,200
272,354,744
7,985,223
644 610
Number coined.
Value of gold.
Value of silver.
Value of copper. Total value coined.
Pieces.
62,019,407
158,882,816
88,327,378
244,908,562
44,833,766
44,833,111
38,099,348
21,315,255
25,951,899
$5,610,957
17,639,382
29,491,010
256,950,474
10,221,876
2,660,646
4,354,^76
47,963,145
30,036,808
60
60
00
46
60
59
84
76
11
$8,268,295 76
40,566,897 15
13,913,01900
'22,365,413 55
4,971,823 37
3,009,241 08
857,076 30
1,601,324 37
2,172,499 29
. $319,340 28
476,574 30
. 349,676 63'
517,222 34
234,.000 00
307,000.00
342,000 00
101,660 00
116,000 00
719,171,542
404,928,878 36
97,726,689 86
2,763,473 65
$14,198,593
58,682,853
43,753,705
279,833,110
15,427,699
6,976,887
5,553,653
49,666,130
32,274,088
63
95
63
35
97
67
14
13
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606,366,722 37
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2, BRANCH MINT AT SAN FRANCISCO.
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GOLD COINAGE.
Period
1864 . .V.
. .•
1855 - .
1856 . . . . . - - —
1857
^.-1858
1859
-1860 . . . . .
1861
1862
Total......
^
.-. - - .
-.
---
-
Double eagles.
Eagles.
Half eagles.
Three dolls.
Pieces.
141,468
859,176
1,181,760
604,600
886,940
689,140
.679,976
614,300
760,000
Pieces.
123,826
9,000
73,600
10,000
27,800
2,000
10,000
6,000
18,000
Pieces.
. ^ 268
.61,000
94,100
47,00058,600
9,720
16,700
8,000
18,000
Pieces,
6,316,248
280,126
313,388
62,100
6,"600"*
34,600
5,000 •
9, 000
7,000
Quarter eagles.
Pieces.
246
Dollars.
Unparted bars.
Fine bars.
Pieces. '
, 14,v632^
Value.
$5,641,504 05
3,270,594 93
3,047,001 29
Value.
• $5,863
88,782
122,136
71,120
20, 000
49,200
8, 000
28,800
14,000
30,000
24,600
221,366
87,232
20,000.
15,000'
13,000
.
16
50
65
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816,295 65
19,871 68
. . . . .
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12,776,395 92
236,653 89
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2. BRANCH MINT AT SAN FRAiNfCISCO-^Continued.
SILVER COINAGE.
Dollars.
Pieces.
1864 . - - - 4 .
1855
1856.
1857 i
1858 . . . . . .
1859
1860
1861
1862 . - - . - . Total....
Half dollars. Quarter dolls.
Pieces.
Pieces.
" •
20,000
Bars.
Dimes.
No. of pieces.
. Gold.
$9,731,674
20,957,677
28,315,537
12,490,000
19,276,095
13,906,271
11,889,000
12,421,000
15,645,000
Value, <
Value.
Pieces,
__i
^121,950
211,000
86,000
\218,000
463,000
693,000
350,000
1,179,500
412,400
286,000
28,000
63,000
172,000
24,000
62,000
12t),000
30,000
96,000
40,000
100,000
219,500
19,752 61
• 29,469 87
211,411-52
71,485 61
1,278 65
.282,712
1,471,272
1,977,559
800,500
1,362,028
.1,463,893
1,417,475
1,144,300
2,345,000
3,322,460
1,157,400
479,500
357,007 71
12,264,739
•
15,000
6,000
TOTAL COINAGE.
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$23,609 45
21
43
84
00
66
68
00
00
00
144,632,166 81
. Silver.
Total.
Value,
Value.
$9,731,674 21
21,121,752 43
$164,075 00
200,609 45 =. 28,516,147 29
12,540,000 00
' '60,000 00
147,602 61
19,423,598 26
14,234,241 65
327,969 87
12,461,911 62
• 672,911 62
12,690,485-61
269,486 61
16,187,978 65
642,978 65
2,376,532'71
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GOLD COINAGE.
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Period.
Double eagles.
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Total
Half eagles.
. .
Pieces.
Pieces.
.730,500
47,500.
24,500
4,350
9,600
1, 026, 342
534, 250
21,500
. 4,000
8, 2 0 0
5, 2 0 0
709, 9 2 5
108, 100
13, 000
816, 450
1,599,492
831, 025
-
.
Three dollar.s.
Quarter eagles.
Dollars.
Pieces.
Pieces..
Pieces.
24,000
550, 5 2 8
546, 100
34, 000
•
Pieces.
1838 to 1847
1848 to 1 8 5 7 . .
1858
1859
I860
1861, Cto J a n u a r y 31^
Eagles.
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1,004,000
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2 4 , 000
1, 130, 6 2 8
1, 004, OGO
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3. BRANCH MINT, NEW ORLEANS—Continued.
SILVER COINAGE.
Period.
1838 to 1847
1848 to 1857
1858
.. ...
]859
. .. ;
] P60
1861, ( t o J a n ' y 3 1 ) . .
Total.........
Dollars.
Half dollars.
Pieces.
• 59,000
40,000
200.000
280:000
395;000
Piece*.
13,509,000
21,406.000
4,614,000
4.919,000
2,212,000
828,000
974,000
47,481,000
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Quarter dollars.
Pieces.
3,273,600^ »
4,556,000
1,416.(00
544,000
388,000
10,177,600
Dimes.
Pieces.
6,473,500"
•5,690:000
1,540;000
440,100
370,000
14,513,500
TOTAL
Halfdimes.
Three cents.
Pieces.
Pieces.
2,739.000
8,170,'000
2,540.000
1,060,too
1,060,000
" " 7 2 0 , " 660
15,619,000
720,000
Number of
. pieces.
Value of gold.
$334,996 47
2.^^422 33
•. 16; 818 3 i
28,390,895
43,538,950
10,226.000
7,184,500
4,322,550
1,237,800
$15,189,365
22,934,250
1,315,000
530:000
169,000
244,000
377,237 13
94,900,695
40,381,615
Bars.
COINAGE.
Value of silver.
Total value
; coined.
Value.
$8,418,700
12,881,100
2.942,000
3,223,-996
1,598,422.
825,818
00
00
00
47
33
33
29,890,037 13
$23,608,065
3.5,815,350
4,257,000
3,753,996
1,767,422
1,069,818
00
00
00
47
33
33
70,271,652 13
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4. BRANCH MINT, DAHLONEGA.
GOLD COINAGE.
^
Period.
Half eagles.
Quarter Neagles.
Three dollars.
Dollars.
•
1838 t o 184T
1848 to 1857
1858
.:...!
1859
; ....
1860...
:
1 8 6 1 , (to F e b r u a r y 28)
Pieces.
516, 553~
478, 392
19, 2 5 6
11,404
12,800
1 1 , 876
. '
Total value.
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Pieces.
Pieces.
Pieces.
134, 101
- 60,.605
900^
642
1,602
Total pieces.
1, 120
-
60, 897
1,637
6,957
1,472
1,5.66
710, 6 5 4
601,014
21,793
19,003
15,844
r3,442
$ 3 , 2 1 8 , 0 1 7 50
2 , 6 0 7 , 7 2 9 50
100 167 00
6 5 5 8 2 00
fiO 4.77 flO
60 946 00
1., 3 8 1 , 750
fi 191 0 1 9 GO
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Total
1,110, 2 8 1
197, 850
1, 120.
72, 5 2 9
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6. BRANCH MINT, CHARLOTTE.
GOLD COINAGE.
Period.
'' .
•.
Half eagles.
Pieces.
1838 to 1 8 4 7 . .
1848 to 1857
1858.
1859
1860
1 8 6 1 . fto Marcli 3lV'
Total. -
:
...
' - •
.'...
.
Quarter eagles.
Dollars.
Pieces.
Pieces.
269, 424
500, 872
31,066
39,500
' 2 3 , 005
14, 116
123,576
79, 736
9, 056
877, 983
219,837
• 103,899
5,235
7,469
109, 134
£
Total pieces.
393, 000
684, 507
- 40, 122
44,735
30, 474
14,116
1, 206, 954
Total value.
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00
00
00
50
00
o
5,-048,641 50
.o
^ 1 , 656, 060
2, 807,^599
177,970
202,735
133,697
70, 580
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6. ASSAY OFFICE, NEW YORK.
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Fine gold bars.
Period.
1854..:.
1855
18^6
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
•
-
'
...
822
6, 182
4, 727
2,.230
7,052
3, 295
4, 816
Silver bars.
Value.
$2,888,059
20, 4 4 1 , 813
19,396,046
9, 335, 414
21,798,691
13, 044, 718
6, 8 3 1 , 532
19,948,728
16,094,768
18
63
89
00
04
43
01
88
44
52
550
• 89.4
1,985
1,089
Value.
$6, 792
123,317
171,961
272,424
222,226
187, 078
415,603
63
00
79
05
11
63
57
Total pieces.
Total value.
822
.6,182
4, 779
^ 2, 780
7, 946
5, 280 •
$2, 888, 059 18
20, 4 4 1 , 813 63
1 9 , 4 0 2 , 8 3 9 52
9, 458, 731 00
2 1 , 970, 6 5 2 ' 8 3
13, 317, 142 48
7, 053, 758 -12
20, 135, 807 50
1 6 , 510, 372 01
5,-905
O
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J
Total....
rf.
29,124
1 2 9 , 7 7 9 , 7 7 2 50
4, 570
1 , 3 9 9 , 4 0 3 78
33,.694
1 3 i , 179, 176 2 8
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7. SUMMARY EXHIBIT OF THE COINAGE OF THE MINT AND BRANCHES TO THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30,1862.
^
Gold coinage.
Silver coinage.
Copper coinage.
Value.
S404, 928, 878 36
144, 532, 156 81
Value.
1793
1854
$97,725,589 86
2,375,532 71
Value.
$2, 763, 473 55
1838
40,381,615 00
29,890,037 13
.1^838
5,048,641 50
Commencement of
coinage.
Mints. ..-
e
Entire coinage.
o
1 T*}iiladplr)liia' -^ . . . . . . . .
New Orleans, (to January
*^i if^f^i"\
o x , JLOOiy -
--
Charlotte, (to March 31;
155<^ 1 \
Dahlonega, (to February
OQ
1 QC1 \
Assay office. New Y o r k . .
•
719,171,542
12, 264, 739
Value,
$505, 417, 941 77
146,907,689 52
94, 900, 695
70,271,652 13
1, 206, 954
5,048,641 50
1,381,750
33, 694
6,121, 919 00
131. 179, 176 28
Pieces.
o
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<?
1838
1854
6,121,919 00
129,779,772 50
1,399,403 78
o
Total...'.
•
730,792,983 17
131,390,563 48
2,763,473 55
828, 959, 374
864, 947, 020 20
02
E.
Statement of gold of domestic production deposited at the mint of the United States and branches to the close of the year ending'
June 30, 1862.
1.
Parted from silver.
Period.
1804 to
1828 to
1838 to
1848 to
1858
1859
I860...
J861
1862
MINT OF THE UNITED STATES, PHILADELPHLA..
1827
1837
1847
1857
-...
'
Parted from silver.
Period
to
to
to
to
$110,000 00
2,519,500 00
1,303,636 00
467,237 00
15,175 00
9,305 00
8,450 11
7,523"80
. • . 81 38
1,538,485 41
^ 4 , 4 4 0 , 9 0 8 29
.s...
l^tal
JR04
1828
1838
1848
North Carolina. South Carolina
00
00
55
00
00
62
29
$427,000
518,294
534,491
18.377
15,720
17,402
7,200
'
'.
Virginia.
1827
1837..;...
1847
1857
^
Oregon.
00
00
00
00
00
540,467 00
00
00
50
00
00
41
41
40
$12,400 00
16.499 00
6;664 00
2,435,089 72
36,403 88
$1,763,900
5.66,316
44,577
18.365
20-; 190
7,556
15,049
135
Arizona.
Colorado.
*22(5,S39,52l
1,372,506
959,191
663.389
426;807
244,259
$68,864 66
,
68,864 66
62
07
79
02
81
81
230,505,676 12
$54,285
3,600
2,960
2,780
00
00
00
16
63,625 16
Alabama,
$45,493 00
9,* 451 00
00
05
08
50
$3,048 37
2,076,674 63
.3,048 37
o
$48,397 00
H
O
92 76.
55,036 76
Washington Ter. Other sources.
$13,200 GO
21,037 00
7,218 00
$145
346,604
607,592
1,122,333
1 New Mexico^
'275 00
240 00
595 88
„
1859
1860
1861
1862.;
Total
California.
$327,500
152,:i66
55,628
300
4,675
Tennessee.
Georgia.
1,402 01
1,507 96
$215 70
215 70
44,364 97
4e,672 00
Total.
$110,000 00
5,063. .500 00
2,6-23.641 00
228,067,473 &i
1,426,3-23 07
1,012.701 79
1,048,180 26
1,068.822'48
1,435,690 45
241,858,532 67
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E.—Statement of gold of domestic production—Continued.
2. BRANCH .MINT, SAN FRANCISCO.
Parted from silver.
Period.
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
I860 . .
1861 . . .
1862
Total..-.-.
.......
-
California. »
$10,842,281
20, 860, 437
29,209,218
12,526,826
19,104,369
14,098,564
. 11,319, 913
12,206,382
$822,823 91
14,029,759
822,823 01
23
20 .
24
93
99
14.
83
64
95
144,197,754 15
Colorado.
Nevada.
$680 00
$13,000 00
680 00
13, 000 00
Oregon.
Total.
$10,842,281
20, 860, 437
~ 29, 209. 218
12, 526, 826
• 19, 104, 369
14, 098, 564
11, 319, 913
12, 206, 382
15, 754, 262
$888,000 00
888, 000 00
23
20
24
93
99
14
83
64
96
145, 922, 257 16
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E.—Statement of gold of do7nesti€ prod<wciijon—Continued.
oo.
3. BRANCH MINT OF NEW ORLEANS.
Period. •
1838 to 1 8 4 7 . - 1848 to 1857
1858
L
1859
1860 ,
1861, (to January 31)..
Total
South Carolina.
North
Carolina.
$741 00
Georgia.
Tennessee.
$14,306 00c .$37,366 00 $i,772 00
947 00
2,317 00
1,911 00
162 12
1,560 00
Alahama.
$61,903 00
15,379 00
661 53
741 00
16,217 00
2,883 12
41,241 00
-
California.
Colorado.
$21,606,461
448,439
93,272
97,135
19,932
64
84
41
00 $1,770 39
10 1,666 81
77,943 53
22,255,240 89
3,437 20
Other
sources.
Total.
13,613 00
3,677 00
• $119,699
21,630,692
450,163
93,272
89,566
21,598
7,290 00
00
64
96
41
92
91
22,404,993 74
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4. BRANCH MINT, CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA.
North Carolina.
Period.
South Carolina.
• California.
Total.
Cl
Ul
1838 to 1847
1848 to 18-57
1858
1859
1860
1861, (to M a r c h 31)
Total
:
=
.
- $ 1 , 529, 777
2,503,412
170,560
182,489
134,491
00
68
33
61
17
$143, 941
222,754
.5,507
22,762
.
'
00
17
16
71
$87,321 01
65,558 30
$1,673,718
2 813 487
176,067
205,252
134, 491
65. 558
00
86
49
32
17
30
V
4, 520, 730 ,79
460,523 34
87,321 01
5 068 575 14
E.—Statement of .gold of domestic production—Continued.
5.
Utah.
Period.
1838 to 1847
1848 to 1857. .
1858
. .
1859
I860:
1861, (to F e b . 2 3 ; . '
Total
$145 14
2,6.56,88
3,485 70
812 79
145 14
99,585 19
$95,427
174,811
32,322
4,610
2^004
2,066
00
91
28
35
36
91
' Tennessee.
Georgia.
North Carolina. South Carolina.
$64,351 00
28,278 82
BRANCH MINT, DAHLONEGA.
00
98
45
12
92
14
$32,175 00
9,837 42
107 33
4,310,459 61
42,119 75
$2,978,3.53
1,159,420
57,891
57,023
35:588
22,182
311,242 81
Alabama.
$47,711 00
11,918 92
59,629 92
Colorado.
California.
$1,224,71*2
5,293
699
1,097
4,213
Other sources.
82
52
19
37
79
• $8-2 70
24,908 86
32,772 28
1,236,016 69
57,763 84
$951 00
............ ....
951 00
Total.
$3,218,017
2,009,931
95,614
65.072
67,085
62 193
00
87
.58
24
21
05
6,117,913 95
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6. ASSAY OFFICE, NEW YORK.
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Period.
1854
1855
1856
1857
18.58
18.59
I860
1861
1862
Total
Georgia. Alabama
South
Virginia. Nor h
Parted
Carol na. Caro ina
from silver.
' $ i 6 7 0^'
2, .370 00
6,928 OC
i
1,531 00
501 00
436 00
,..
4,202 00
3,869 00
$24V,629'00
310 oa
$3,916 00
3,7.50 OC
805 07
1,689 00
7,007 00
20,122 00
9,7.55 00
2, 753 00
2,232 00
$395
7,620
4.052
2,663
6,3.><l
•700
00
00
29
00
00
00
$1,242
13.100
41.101
10,451
12,951
14,7.56
19,368
670 00 6,90(
2,065 00 1,469
New
Mexico.
California.
Colorado.
Utah.
Arizona. Oregon.
•
$9,221,457 00
00
^25,025.896 11
00 •$356" 00
16,529:008-90
233 62
28
9.899,957 00
00 1,545 00
19,o60;.5'3l 46
00 2,181 00
$'5„58l
11,694,872 25
00
$3,944 00
593 00
2,^866
00
248,981 00 54.080 00 fl,190 00
6,0.23.628 36
00
818 00 $6,714.00 19,227:653 14 1,449:166 00 73,734 00 16,871 00 3,181
1,543 00 12,580,647 83
00
391 00
205
912,403 00
-,
60
00
00
00
Nevada.
Other
sources.
T'otal.
$9,227,177 00
$1,600 00 25,054,686 11
16,582,1,29.16
9,9i7,836 00
27,.523 00 19.722,629 40
405 00 11^738.694 25
6 311^804 36
20,792,334 14
.i40,846'00 '3*293'60 - 15,754^262 96
241,029 00 20,320 00 52,029 07 24,519 29 121,338 28 5,720 62 8,257 00 129,853,657.05 2,614,494 00 78,414 00 18,452 00 11,833 00 40,846 00 32,821 00 135,101,553 44
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7. SUMMARY EXHIBIT OF THE ENTIRE DEPOSITS OF DOMESTIC. GOLD AT THE UNITED STATES MINT AND BRANCHES TO JUNE 30, 1862.
Parted from silver
Mint.
$68,864 66
822,823 01
• Philadelphia.
N e w Orleans
Charlotte . . . . . .
Dahlonega. ,
,.i.
Assav office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Virginia.
$1,538,485 41
241,029 00
20,320 00
1,132,716 67
1,558,805 41
North Carolina. South Carolina.
$4,440,908 29
741
4,520,730
99,585
52,029
00
79
19
07
$540,487 00
16,217
460,523
311,242
24,519
00
31
81
29
1,352,969 44
Georgia.
Alabama.
$2,436,089 72
$55,036 76
41,241 00
77,943 53
• 4,310.459 61
12I;338 2d
59,629 92
5,720 62
6,909,128 61
198,330 83
Tennessee.
California.
$36,403 88 ^230,505,676
144,197,7.54
. 2 , 8 8 3 12
22,255,240
87.321
1,238,016
42,119 75
129,863,657
Colorado.
12
15
89
01
69
05
$2,076,674 63
680 00
3,437 20
528,145,665 91
4,753,049 67
57,763 84
•2,614,494 00
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Total
Mint.
Philadelphia
,..
San Francisco, ..'.
N e w Orleans.
Charlotte
Dahlonega
Assay o f f i c e . . . . .
Parted from silver.
Utah.
$1,507 96
9,113,994 34
Arizona.
$3,048 37
Nebraska.
$1,402 01
N e w Mexico.
$48,672 00
Oregon.
$63,625 16
888,000 00
81,406 75
Nevada.
Other sources.
$41,670 70
$13,000 00
7,290 00
,,....
145 14
75,414 00
18,452 00
80^067 10
21,500 37
8,257 00
11,833 00
40,846 .00
951 00
32,821 00
963,458 16
fi.? RdR nn
R2 7rio 7n
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Total.,
$241,858,532
145,922,257
22,404,993
.5,068,575
6,117,913
133,133,730
67
16
74
14
95
31
w
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Total ;•
1,402 01
^ p . QQQ n n '
. '
'
5-'i4..«inR nn9 QT
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*
Statement of the amount of silver coined at the mint of tJie United States and its branches at San Francisco and New Orleans
. under the act of February 21, 1853.
United States mint at
Philadelphia.
Year.
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
I860
1861
18 6 2
:.
'
:.
Total
$7,806,461
5, 340, 130
1, 393, 170
3, 150, 740
1,333,000
4,970,980
2, 926, 400
,519, 890
1,433,800
2, 168, 941
00
00
00
00
00 00
00
00
00
50
31,,043,.512 50
• -
Branch mint, San Fran. Cisco.
.
$164,075 00
177,000 00
50, 000°00'
127,750 00
283,500 00
_ 356, 500 00198,000 00
641,700 00
1,998,525^00
Branch mint. New Orleans, to Jan. 31, 1861.
$1,225,000
3,246,000
1,918,000
1,744,000
00
00
00
00
2,942,000
2, 689, 000
1,293,000
414,000
00
00
00
00
Total.
$9,031, 461
8, 586, 130
3,475,245
5,071, 740
1, 383, 000
8,040,730
5, 898, 900
2, 169,390
2,045,800
2,810,641
-
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
50
48,513,037 50
' 15, 471, 000 00
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Statement of the amount of silver of domestic production deposited at the mint of the United States and its brariches. from January,
~ '
1841, to June 30, 1862.
Parted from gold.
Year.
1841
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
to 1851.
...'....
.
. . ........
.
.
$768, 509
404, 494
417,279
328,199
333, 053
. 321,938
127,256
300,849
• 219,~647
138,561
. 364, 724
245, 122
00
00
00.
00
00
38
12
36
34
70
73
47
Nevada. .
Arizona.
. Sonora.
North Carolina. Lake Superior.
California.
"^
^
^
$102, 540. 77
213,420 84
757,446 60
$13,357 00 $1,220 00
12, 260 00
105 00
$23,398 00
12,257 00
6,233 00
$15, 623
30,122
25,880
13, 372
21,366
00
13
58
72
38 $8,224 00
Total.
$768, 509
404 494
417, 279
328, 199
333, 053
321, 938
127 256
316 472
273, 167
293, 797
610, Oil
1, 032,264
00
00
00
00
00
38
12
36
47
05
29
45
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3,969,634 10
1, 073,^408 21
.25, 722 00
1, 220 00
41, 888 00
106, 364 81
8, 224 00
5,226,441 12
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73
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
H.
Statement of the amount a n d denomination o f f r a c t i o n s o f the S p a n i s h a n d
Mexican d o l l a r deposited a t the mint q f the United States f o r exchange f o r
the new cent to J u n e 30, 1860.
'
Year.
1857
1858
1859
I860
Quarters.
$78,295
68,644
111,589
- . 182,330
.------.
Total
-
00
00
00
00
440,858 00
Eighths.
$33,148
64,472
100,080
51,630
00
00
00
00
249,330 00
Sixteenths. " Value hy tale;
$16,602
32,085
41,930
24,105
00
00
00
00
114,182 00
$128,045
165 201
263 059
258 065
0.0
00
00
00
814 370 00
Statement of the amount o f f r a c t i o n s qf the S p a n i s h a n d Mexican dollar p u r chased dt the mint o f the United States, the branch mint, New Orleans, a n d
a s s a y ofiice^ Neio York, to J u n e 30, 1862.
MintofU. S., Branch mint, Assay office,
N. Orleans, New York.
Philadelphia.
to Jan. 31,
1861.
Year.
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
$174,485
326,033
165,115
68,353
36,572
20,585
,
,
*
00
00
00
74
05
95
781,144 74
Total
$1,360
17,355
19,,825
.9,075
5,680
00 $112,502 00
00 147,453 00
00 110,564.00
00
62,072 00
00
10,474 00
11,401 00
53,295 00
Total.
$288,347
490,841
295,504
129., 500
52.726
31,986
00
00'
00
74
05
95 -
454,466 00 1,288,905 74
J.
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^
.
Statement o f cents o f f o r m e r issue deposited a t the United States mint f o r
exchange f o r cents o f the neio issue to J u n e 30, 1860.
Year.
*•
1857
1858 . j
1859 i
I860
1861
1862
----
---
Value hy.tale.
---
-
-.--•-Total
-:---
$16,602
31,404
47,235
37,500
95,245
63,365
00
00
00
00
00
00
281,351 00
74
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
A statement offoreign gold and silvev coins prepared by the director of the
mint, to accompany his annual report, in pursuance of the act of February
21,1857.
,
EXPLANATORY REMARKS.
The first column embraces the names of the countries where the coins are
issued; the second contains the name of coin, only the principal -denominations
being.given. The other sizes are proportional; and when this is not the case,
the deviation is stated.'
The third column expresses the weight of a single piece in fractions of the
troy ounce carried to the thousandth, and in a few cases to the ten thousandths
of an ounce. The method is preferable to expressing the weight in grains for
commercial purposes, and corresponds better with the terms of the mint. I t
may be readily transferred to weight in grains by the following rule: Remove
the decimal point; from one-half deduct four percent, of that half, and the
remainder will be grains.
The fourth column expresses the fineness in thousandths—i. e., the number
of. parts of pure-gold or silver in 1,000 parts of the coin.
.
The fifih and sixth columns of the >first table expresses the valuation of gold.
In- the .fifth is shown .the value as compared with the legal content or amount
of fine gold in our coin. In the sixth is, shown the value as paid at the mint
after the uniform deduction of one-half of one per cent. The formb' is the
value for any other purposes than recoinage, and especially for the purpose of
comparison; the" latter is the value in exchange for our coins at the mint,.
*
For the silver there is no fixed legal valuation, the law providing for shifting
the price according to the condition of demand and supply. The present price
of standard silver is 1.22J. cents per ounce, at which rate the values in the fifth
column of the second table are calculated. In a few cases, where the coins
could not be procured, the data are assumed from the legal rates, and so stated.
75
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
GOLD COINS.
Weight.
Country.
Denomination.
Australia
Do
Austria..
Do
Do
Belgium..,
Bolivia
Brazil
Central America
Chili...
Do
Denmark
.f.
Ecuador
England
Do
Fiance
. Do
Germany, north.
Do
Do
Do
south.'
Greece
Hindostan
Italy
Japan
Do
Mexico
Do
Naples
Netherlands - .
New Granada _
Do
Do
Peru
Portugal
Prussia...
Rome
Russia
Spain Do*-Sweden
_.
Tunis
- --Turkey
Tuscany
Pound of 1852
-.
Sovereign of 1855-60
Ducat
Souverain
New union crown, (assumed)
Twenty-five francs
Doubloon
Twenty milreis...
Two escudos
Old doubloon
,
Ten pesos
Ten thaler..
Four escudos
Pound or sovereign, n e w . . .
Pound or sovereign, average
Twenty francs, n e ^ J . .
Twerity francs, average
Ten thaler
--..
Ten thaler,, Prussian
Krone, (crown)
Ducat
Twenty drachms
Mohur
Twenty lire
Old cobang
New cobang
,
Doubloon, average
,
Doubloon, new..
,
Six duJfeti, new
'
,
Ten' guilders
Old doubloon, Bogota
Old doubloon, Popayan
Ten pesos, n e w . .
..,
Old doubloon
,
Gold crown
New union crown, (assumed)
2^ scudi, new
Five roubles
,
100 reals.--80 reals
Ducat
-63:^...-.
25 piastres
.-100 piastres
1..
Sequin.
-
Fineness.
Oz. dec.
Thous.
0.281
916.6
0.256.5
916
0. 112
986
0.363
900
0.357
900
0.254
899
0.867 •
870
0.675
917.6
0.209
853. 5
0. 867 . • 870
0.492
900
0. 427
895 J
0.433
844
0.256.7
>916.6
0.256
915.6
0.207.5
899.6
0.207
899
0.427
895
0.427
903
0.357
900 ' \
0.112
986
0. 185
900 '
0. 374
916
0.207
898
0.362
' 668
0.289
572
0.867.5
.866
0.867.5
870.5
0. 245
996
0.215
899
0.868
870
0.867
868
0.525
891.6
0.867
868
0.308
912
0.357
900
0.140
900
0.210
^ '916.
0.268
896
0.215
869. 6
0.111
975
0.161
900
0. 231
915
0.112
999
Value.
$5
4
2
6
6
4
15
10
3
15
9
7
6
2
15
15
5
3
15
15
9
15
32.37
85.58
28.28
76.35
64. 19
72. 03
69. 26
90. 67
68.75
59. 26
15.35
90.01
65.46
34
84.48
85.83
84.69
90.01
97.07
64.20
28.28
44. 19
08.18
84.26
44.0
67.6
62. 98
61.05
04.43
99. 66
61.06
37.75
67.61
65. 67
5 80. 6Q
6 64. 19
2 60.47
97.64
96.39
86.44
23.72
99.54
36.93
31.29
Value after
deduction.
$5
4
2
6
6
4
15
10
3
15
9
29.71
83. 16
27.04
71.98
60.87
69.67
61.46
85.12
66.91
51.47
10.78
86,. 06
51.69
83.91
82.06
83.91
82.77'
86 06
93.09
60.88
27. 14
42. 47
04.64
3 82. 34
3 41.8
3 66. 8
16 45. 22
15 53. 25
5-01.91
3 97. 57
16 63.26
16' 30. 07
9 62.68
16 47.90
6 77.76
60.87
59. 17
95.66
93.91
84.51
22. 61
.05
34.75
30.14
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REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
L.
SULVER COINS.
• Country.
Denomination.
Weight.
Oz. dec.
Austria
Do
Do
Do..-..
D0....-I
Do...
Belgium
Bolivia
Do
Brazil
Canada
Central America.
Chili
Do
Denmark
England
J...
Do
France
Germany, north Do
north .
Do..-.south .
Do.-../outh.
Greece Hindostan
..
Japan
Do
Mexico.. - ,
Do...
NaplesNetherlands
Norway
. -..
New Granada . . .
Peru
:..,
Do
Do.-,
,
Prussia..-Do...
Rome J. i
Russia
Sardinia-_-^
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Tunis
Turkey-,..
Tuscany
Fineness.
Value.
Thous,
833
0.902
Old rix dollar
$1 02.27
902
0.836
1 02. 64
Old scudo
,.--.
833
0.451
61. 14
Florin before 1868
--,
900
0.397
'
48.63
New florin
900
0. 696
.73.01
New union dollar".
...
0.895
1 02.12
^^ 838
Maria Theresa dollar, 1780
0.803
98.04
897
Five francs
0.643
79.07
903.
New dollar
0.432
39.22
667
Half dollar
918.
1 02. 53
. 0.820
Double milreis.;
..
926
18. 87
0.160
Twenty cents - . 860
1 00. 19
. 0.'866
Dollar
....-. ' 908
1 06.79
0.864
Old dollar
900.6
98.17
0.801
New dollar
877
0.'927
Two rigscialer
1
1 10.65
924.
0. 182.
Shilling, new
Cp.
22.96
925
0. 178
Shilling, average
. . . x;
22.41
900
0.800
98.00
Five franc, average
760
0.712
72. 6.7
Thaler before 1 8 6 7 . . . : .
900
0.595
72.89
New thaler
,-.-..
900
0. 340
Florin before 1867
,
" 41.65
900
0.340
New florin, (assumed).-.
41.65
900
0.719
88.08
Five drachms
916
0.374
46.62
Rupee
o
'--,
991
0.279
37.63
Itzebu^
-,
890
0.
279
33..80
New itzebu
:
903
0.867.6
06.62
Dollar, new
•.
0.866
,
06.20
•
901
Dollar, average
0.844$
95:34
830
Scudo
'0,804
03.31
944
2^ guild
-.
0.927
10.65
877
Specie daler
0.803
97.92
• 896
Dollar of 1867 . . . . . . . . .
0.866
901
Old dollar
1 06. 20
0.766
909
94.77
Dollar of 1858
,
0.433
660
38.31
Half,dollar of 1835-38
0.712
760
72. 68
Thaler before 1857
0.595
900
72.89
New thaler
0.864
900
Scudo
1 06. 84
0.667
876
79.44
Rouble , - - ,
i
.:
0.800
900
98.00
Five lire
.'.0.166
899
20.31
New pistareen
1.092
750
^>-Rix dollar
1 11.48
0. 323
899
39.52
Two francs
0.511
^ "898,
62.49
Five piastres
0.770
830
Twenty piastres
...
, 86.98'
0. 220
925
Florin
27.70
77.
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
•A.
TREASURY
DEPARTMENT,
F i r s t A u d i t o r ' s Ofiice, October 30, 1862.
S I R ; I h a v e t h e honor to submit t h e following report of t h e operations of
this office for t h e fiscal y e a r ending J u n e 30, 1862 :
RECEIPTS.
Accounts adjusted.
No. of
accounts
Amount.
Collectors of customs
Collectors under steamboat act
1,163
314
$47,201,589 29
24,022 65
Aggregate receipts .
1,477
47,225,611 94
DISBURSEMENTS.
Collectors and disbursing agents of the treasury. .
Official emoluments of collectors, naval officers, and surveyors.
Additional compensation of collectors, naval officers, ^and
surveyors
Accounts for duties illegally exacted, and in satisfaction of
judgments rendered in United States circuit courts...'.
Accounts for net proceeds of unclaimed merchandise, duties
exacted on damaged merchandise, and for storage and fees
illegally exacted
The judiciary
Interest on the public debt
...-.
Treasury notes for redemption,^and received in payment of
duties and other public dues
Reimbursing temporary loan of August 19, 1861, from associated banks
Reimbursement of temporary loan
.
Temporary loans, act of February 25, 1862
-.,
Certificates of indebtedness
'.
Demand treasury notes destroyed
.1.
Money in lieu,of bounty land
Property lost in the military service of the United States
.
Inspection of steam vessels, for travelling expenses, & c . . . - - .
Life-saving stations, coasts of Long Island and New Jersey
Support of insane asylum of Washington
Columbia Institution for deaf, dumb, and b l i n d . . . - . .
,
Superintendent of Public Printing
.......^
Designated depositaries for additional compensation
Commissioner of Public Buildings.-.....,..
,,
Contingent expenses of the Senate.and House of Representatives of the United States, and of the departments of the
government
,
Support of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia
,
Bounty for the capture of slaves, under act of Maich 3, 1819
Mints and assay offices
- —. . . . o
,
Territories
A-..--,
Coast survey
,
Salaries of officers of the civil list, paid directly from the
treasury
.-..,
Disbursing clerks for paying salaries-.
.,.-....-.
Disbursing agent, California laifH claims.-..
,
Withdrawal of applications in appeal cases . . . . . . . . 1
,
691
884
$3,883,311 21
823,696 86
18
5,573 49
.42
106,695 69
306
836
12
238,481 53
945,021 67
10,682,132 07
377
45,618,552 26
1
142
3
1
6
2
68
103
7
6
9
68
6
382
• 8,875,000
9,216,040
960,650
615,961
8,250,000
200
9,829
13,626
6,795
44,489
6,746
371,293
942
230,896
00
15
00
63
00
00
53
39
80
31
60
17
94
97
417
8
374
29
56
24
1,329,329
62,148
58,385
87,298,420
112,506
590,239
95
41
99
39
63
80
794
235 !
3
4 1
332,418 68
I,87'8:j763 15
2,869 22
15,926 Q^
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REPORT ON THE. FINANCES.
A—Continued.
No. of
accounts;
Accounts adjusted.
Treasurer of the United States, for general receipts and expenditures
Superintendents of lights
-•.
1
Agents of marine hospitals.--.
Miscellaneous
-..---.-..--'
Number of reports and certificates recorded
Number of letters recorded
Acknowledgments of accounts written —
Total
. 4 $164,983,859 58
280
421,769 74
380
266,214 05
341 ,
4,427,008 36
7,906
Total.
362/664,687 88
-\
7,997
1,065
4,770
_
>.
-
—
Amount.
„
,
13, 832
T. L. SMITH, Auditor,
Hon. S. P. CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury.
B.
'
Statement of the operations of the Second Auditor^ office during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1862, showing the numher of money accounts settled, and the
amount of the expenditures embraced therein, and, in general,.the other duties
'pertaining to the business of the ofiice ; prepared in obedience to instructions
of the Secretary of the Treasury^
The number of accounts settled is 9,606, embracing an expenditure of
$37,111,957 47, under the following heads, viz:
P a y department
Indian affairs
Ordnance department, viz v
Expended by disbursing officers
Private claims, in'cluding expenditure under
appropriation for purchase, &c., of arms, (fee.
$4,181,276 33
3,335,885 23
$3,730,064 66
23,340,549 47
27,070,614 13
Quartermaster's department, expended on account of " contingencies of the army,'' medical and hospital and ordnance
appropriations
Medical and hospital department, viz :
Expended by disbursing officers
$791,865 64
Private claims, including accounts of contract
surgeons, &c.
'
899,787 56
k
-^
' Expenses of recruiting
Arrears of pay, &c., to discharged and deceased officers and
soldiers
....:
. -'Contingencies of the army, expended by disbursing' clerk of
the War Department
79,026 15
1,691,653 20
217,088 97
249,180 64
7.8,961 66
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Purchase of book of tactics, &c., for volunteers
.«
Miscellaneous claims,"including contingencies, collecting, drilling and organizing volunteers, Plarper's Ferry armory, &c.
Police of Baltimore
Removing stables around Washington Infirm^ary
Expenses of commanding general's office . . . —
^
Contingent expenses of adjutant general's department
..
Property accounts examined and adjusted
Requisitions registered, recorded, and posted..
.^
Letters, claims, &c., received, briefed, and registered
Letters written, recorded, indexed, and mailed
Private claims suspended or rejected
Army recruits registered
Dead and discharged soldiers registered
Certificates of military service issued to Pension Office
$37,255 74
64,69^
99,326
4,588
2,237
169
^. ^
32
48
22
16.
24
5,021
5,589
37,473
14,584 •
822
18,007
• 7,510
206
In addition to the foregoing, various statements and reports have been pre-,
pared and transmitted from this office, as follows ;
Annual statement' of disbursements in the department of Indian affairs for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862; prepared for Congress, comprised in 580
manuscript pages, foolscap.
Annual statement of the recruiting fund; prepared for the adjutant general of
the army.
Annual statement of the contingencies of the army; prepared in duplicate for
the Secretary of War.
Annual statement of the contingent expenses of this office; transmitted t© the
Secretary of the Treasury.
Annual report of balances on the books of this office remaining unaccounted
for more than one year; transmitted to the First Comptroller.
Annual report of balances on the books of this office remaining unaccounted
•for more than three years; transmitted to the First Comptroller.
Annual statement of the clerks and others employed in this.office during the,
year 1861, showing the amount paid to each on account of salary; transmitted
to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Statement showing all payments made to the Pottawatomie Indians,- either
in money or goods, under the various treaties with those tribes, beginning with
the treaty of Greenville, in 1795, and embracing the treaty of 5th and 17th
June, 1846. By an act of Congress approved 2d March, 1861, it became the
duty of the Second Auditor to prepare this statement. The only process for
accomplishing the work was that of a careful examination of the accounts of the
numerous superintendents, agents, and sub-agents disbursing moneys appropriated for the fulfilment of the treaty stipulations. The records of the office
furnish reliable data as to the payments made to the. Indians from 1813 to
1860, embracing a period of forty-eight years. The necessary routine in
obtaining from the files the proper accounts for examination involved much
time and labor. The treaties in the case, numbering thirty or more, were first
to be strictly examined, and each article and its requirements set forth. The
annual appropriations w^ere then to be traced; the agents who drew the money
. from the treasury ascertained; and the dates of tFe settlements of their accounts
sought from the books in which they are recorded. The number of settlements
duly examined in this investigation was but little short of five hundred. There
are three clerks in the office employed in the examination and adjustment- of
Indian accounts. One of these has the management of the property book; the
other two that of the money accounts. To one of the latter class was assigned
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the duty of preparing the statement in question. The time unavoidably occupied in the performance of .the work was some eight or nine months, subtracting
to that extent from the cinTcnt operations of .this branch of the public service
during the last fiscal year.
Monthly, reports, of the clerks in this office, submitted each month to the
Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with his instructions of the 17th
August and 11th September, 1861, together Avith a tabular statement showing
the amount of business transacted in the office during the month,- and the
number of accounts remaining unsettled at the close of the month.
The bookkeeper's register shows the settlement of 5,574 ledger accounts,
which have been regularly journalized and posted in the ledgers which, as well
as those for the appropriations, have been duly kept up. The payments made
to officers by paymasters of the army have been ^ entered in the officers' and
company pay-books, of both the regulai: and volunteer service.
•
'
' E. B. FREl^GR, Auditor:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Auditor's Ofiice, October 24c, 1862.
c.
• , •
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Third Auditor's Ofiice, November 8, 1862.
SIR : I have the honor to submit {;he following report of the operations of this
bureau during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
From the bookkeeper's statement it appears that requisitions have been drawn
b y the Secretary of War on the Secretary of the Treasury during the fiscal ,
^ year, on such of the appropriations for the military service as are entered on the
books of this office, to the amount of $232,655,673 35.
The principal appropriations drawn upon, as above, were for the following
objects:
,
For,quartermaster's department
For incidental expenses, quartermaster's department
...
For army transportation
'.
—
For barracks and quarters
For purchase of horses
For clothing of the army
.........
For subsistence of the army, three months militia, and two
and three years volunteers
For refunding to States expenses of volunteers
For gunboats on western rivers
:
'
.'
$29, 591, 150.
13, 986, 778
47, 213, 457
' 2, 522, 107
13, 773, 745
56, 549, 985
63
79
83 .
55
84
14
48, 695, 360 86
7, 645, 825 99
2, 159, 922 69
Counter requisitions were drawn on sundry persons for transfers in settlements
treasury drafts cancelled, and deposits in treasury, to amount of $1,448,216 98
The accounts audited in this office, and reported to the Comptroller, of advances made to disbursing officers and agents, claims settled and paid, including
amounts due contractors, unclaimed pensions, and of persons under special acts '
of Congress, involved the sum of $32,277,710 64.
A more detailed statement of the number and description of accounts examined in the various divisions of the office, will be found appended to this report.
Although it appears that the amounts involved in the accounts, claims, &c.,
examined and audited during the last fiscal year are large beyond precedent,
yet a mere inspection of the figures affords but an imperfect idea of the in
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creased labor- and responsibility devolved on this office during the year, and
which will be increased in a still greater ratio during the present year.
. For many years the amounts involved in expenditures, the accounts for which
were audited in this office, averaged but little more than ten millions of dollars
per annum, and during the last ten years the largest amount of settlements in
any one year involved less than sixteen millions. After the Mexican war it was
estimated that the excess of expenditures for the entire army for three years,
viz; from April 1, 1846, till April 1, 1849, over those for the three years immediately preceding the war, amounted to $58,853,993 41, being an average of
less than twenty millions per annum. A large portion of this, viz : for pay,
ordnance, hospital, and clothing supplies, was settled in the Second Auditor's
office. Notwithstanding the comparatively small increase in the expenditures,
this office at that time fell largely in arrear, and it was not until 1853 that the
arrearages were brought up. In.the years 1850~'51-'52, respectively, .there remained on hand 1,820, 1,900, and 2,359 unsettled accounts. So far, however,
this office has prevented an undue accumulation of .business, so that at the close
of the last fiscal year there remained on hand and unadjusted only 593 accounts,
many of which could not be settled, for the reason that explanations and further
evidence were required before an adjustment could be made. These accounts
involved an expenditure of upwards of twenty millions of dollars, but during the
first quarter of the present fiscal year fully that amount of accounts have been
adjusted and reported to the Comptroller; other accounts, however, have in the
meantime been received; thus leaving the balance on hand, on the 30th ultimo,
about the same amount, and which is equivalent to about one quarter's work. .
Under the act of March 3, 1849, " to provide for the payment of horses and
other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States."
392 claims have been presented at this office during the fiscal year, and 56
awards were made on Avhich the sum of $9,869 19. was allowed and paid.
These claims are accumulating. During the first quarter of the present fiscal
year 285 claims have been received, am'bunting to $65,062 41, and 45 awards
have been made, onwhich the sum of $8,617 14 was allowed and paid. At the
end of the quarter there remained on file 579 claims, arising under the act since
the present war, involving the sum of $110,798 63. Some old claims for losses
during the Mexican war still remain unadjusted, but the claimants nearly all
reside in the so-called seceded States, or in States a portion of Avhose citizens
are in rebellion against the government. It has been deemed advisable, under
the circumstances, to let them rest at present, giving a preference to claims
arising out of recent losses. It is believed that but a very small portion of these old
claims would be allowable at any rate. Of the claims now being allowed, nearly
all are for horses actually killed in battle. A considerable, number have been
filed fpr losses occasioned by capture, both horse and rider being taken, and the
officer or private afterwards deprived of his horse by the enemy. No action has
been taken on claims of this description. Some claims have also been filed,
under the second section of the law, for " boats," in the service by contract, and
lost, by unavoidable accident, or abandonment,, or destroyed by order of the
officers in command. No action has been taken on any of these clainis. If the
word " boat," as used in that section, be held to include steamboats, there as no
estimating the number and amount of claims that may arise under the laAv. I
respectfully recommend that some other provision be made by Congress for the.
settlement of claims of this description. When the act was passed; it was not
anticipated that such an immense amount of claims would at any time be placed
exclusively under the jurisdiction of the Third Auditor. And-from what has
already been seen,.it is manifest that, as at present situated, it is next to impossible for him to devote.that time and investigation necessary -fco their proper adjudication.
The extended military operations have had the effect of increasing the claims
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of a miscellaneous character, such as for arrearages of pay due deceased teamsters and other employes of the quartermaster's^department, and claims for subsistence or property furnished to the service under certain circumstances, but
which, not being paid by the officers contracting the liability for want of funds,
are referred to the treasury for settlement. All such receive the, administrative
examination and approval of the proper military bureau before being acted on
by the accounting officers. Some, large claims for clothing purchased and for
railroad transportation have been in this way paid through the Treasury Department, instead of through the quartermaster or oflier disbursing officer. The
aggregate amount of- 529 claims presented during the year (including 20, in
which no specific sum was claimed) was $4,880,739 14. Of these, 378 have
been acted on, and payment, to the amount of $4,354,724 06, has been made.
Of the remaining 151 claims, some have been reported to the Comptroller, others
have been referred to the appropriate military bureaus for examination, and not
. returned, a few' have been withdrawn, and the remainder have hot been acted
upon.
.
Claims of States for reimbursement of expenses incurred by them in " enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equipping, paying, and transporting" their troops ''employed in aiding to suppress the present insurrection
against the United ^^tates," provision for the-settlement of which was made by
the act of July 27, 1861, have been filed in this office during the year and up
to the . present time, to the amount of $23,941,834 49. The Secretary of the
.• Treasury, in his report to Congress at the commencement of the last session,
stated that,, ''as the law did not seem to contemplate the continued action of
State officers for federal objects, but confined the appropriation made h j it to
expenses incurred, leaving expenses to be incurred to the action of federal
officers within their respective spheres of duty, the Secretary has hot thought
himself authorized to settle in the unusual mode provided by the act, except
fqr advances actually made, or, at least, conti-acted for prior to its passage."
At the last session of Congress, however, an amendatory act was passed directing that the said act "shall be construed to apply to iexpenses incurred as well
after as before the date of the approval thereof." , Hence, the claims filed include expenditures incurred from the date of the first proclamation of the President up till the date of filing the claims. The claims of Vermont and Virginia,
and parts of the claims of loAva, Illinois, and New Jersey, have been reported
to the Second Comptroller. . The claims^ of Maine, Connecticut, New York,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Indiana, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Minnesota have been taken up for examination, some of which are nearly ready to
report, and others are awaiting additional, information or evidence from the
State authorities before they can be finally acted on. ^ At; an early period the
Secretary consented to make advances, or partial payments, to the State authorities to, the amount of forty per centum on amounts expended by them,-and such
payments have been made to the amount of $7,645,825 99 up till 1st October.
\ In the "act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the
public debt, and for other purposes," approved August 5, 1861, a direct tax of
$20,000,00.0 ' was levied on the States, agreeably to an apportionment therein
made, and it was provided that a deduction of fifteen per centum should be made
on such parts of said tax as might be paid into the treasury of the United
States on or before the last day of June, in the year to whicli such payment
relates, and it was further provided that the amount of such tax apportioned to
any State should be liable to be paid and satisfied, in whole or in part, by the
release of such State, duly executed to the United States, of any liquidated
and determined claim of such State, and that in case of such release such State
should be allowed the same abatement of the amounts.of such tax as would be
allowed in case of payment of the same in money. By the act of May 3, 1862,
this provision was dnected to be so construed as to apply to all such claims of
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States for reimbursement, as above, as should be filed with the proper officer of
the United States before the 30th of July, and the abatement of fifteen per
cent, was directed to be made on such portion of the tax as might be paid by ,
. the allowance of such claims, in whole or in part, the same as if the final settlement and. liquidation thereof had been made before the last day of June.
The quotas of direct tax' apportioned to the States which have filed their
claims for reimbursement as above, amount, in the aggregate, to $13,086,849 62;
deduct fifteen per centum, there will remain a net amount due the United States
of $11,123,822 18. To this add the amount of advances, or partial payments,
already made, and we have an aggregate of $18,769,648 1,7; being only
$5,172,186 32 less than the total amount of clainis presented. But these claims
will be more or less reduced on final settlement, so that-1 am inclined to think
the sum of the amounts allowed will not greatly exceed the amount of tax. In
certain of the , States the volunteers are paid a monthly pay, for themselves or .
families, in addition to the regular army pay of the United States, and they
have charged this in their claims for reimbursement. All such payments will
be disallowed.
,. The whole amount of Oregon and Washington Indian war claims filed under
the act of March 2, 1861, is $3,946,555. At the date of my last annual report
claims to amount of $1,093,465 88 had been acted on, and awards made thereon
amounting to $501,671 66. Since then claims to* amount of ^$1,692,267" 12
have been acted on, and awards made amountingto $963,251 S3. Total amounts
acted on, $2,785,733, on which the sum of $1,464,923 49 has been awarded for
payment. There, therefore, remain in the office claims involving the sum of
$1,160,822, on which, when acted on, between $500,000 and $600,000 will
probably be allowed and paid. I t is hoped that^before'long these claims will
be disposed of.
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By the act of March 2, 1861, an appropriation was made of $400,000, or so
much thereof as shall be necessary to defray the expenses incurred by the State
of California in the suppression of Indian hostilities therein in the years 1854,
'55, '56, '58, and '59, and the Third Auditor was directed to audit the .accounts'
of the State for the services of volunteers, and for supplies, transportation, and
personal services, agreeably to certain rules prescribed in the act. On the 2d of
November, 1861, the books, papers, rolls, &c., relating to said claim were filed
h y the agents of the State in this office, the amount claimed being $449,605 74.
: The, claims relating'to the various expeditions have been examined and investigated according to the best lights and information attainable, and the soini of
$229,987 67 appears to be allowable. An award has not yet been made, but will
be prepared and executed in a short time.
Whilst I feel justified, therefore, in saying that, considering the circumstances
. and the difficulties under which this office has labored, the business committed
to its charge is in a satisfactory condition, I cannot omit observing that, with
all the industry and effort of which the present force is capable, it will be impossible to keep up with the demands of the service and prevent an accumulation of business. The advances from the treasury to disbursing officers, on
requisitions from the Secretary of War registered in this office during the^ last
fiscal year, amounted to $227,253,952 94.' During the first quarter of the pres
ent fiscal year .the advances on similar requisitions amounted to $65,294,044 85,
or at the rate of $260,000,000. for the year. Add to this the amounts involved
in claims of States, accounts of other disbursing officers, and business arising^
under special acts of Congress, and we have an aggregate quadrupling the entire expenses of the government for civil, legislative, judicial, aa-my, navy, &;c.,
&:c., in former years.
The accounts audited and on hand unaudited amounting in the aggregate to
less than $70,000,000,' while the advances amounted^ to $227,000,000, it follows
that accounts for disbursements to the amount of, say, $150,000,000, are yet
outstianding, or, having been rendered to the proper military bureau, have not yet
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reached this, office. • It is known that a large number of accounts are on hand in
the military bureaus undergoing "administrative scrutiny," and these will, in due
course, reach the treasury officers. Presuming that the necessary measures have
been or will be taken there to keep pace with the increased demands of the service,
this accumulation must necessarily be transferred to the treasury. It is "only
a question of time, as eventually these accounts must all find their way to the
treasury. Thus it will be seeii that, great as have been the increased (demands
on this ofiice, much greater remain in store. Looking to this probable accumu' lation, and with a view of taking some precautionary measures to meet it, in my
last annual report I recommended that authority be obtained for the employment of ten additional clerks. About the first of May last ten clerks who had
been on temporary duty in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury were
transferred.to this office and have since been employed therein. These added to
, the regular force will make seventy-one clerks. In the estimates just made for
the next fiscal year I have submitted an estimate for twenty additional clerks;
and I have no hesitation in saying that their services will be absolutely necessary, and the authority for their employment should be obtained as soon as practicable. The total force of the office will then be ninety-one clerks. It is
proper to state here that in point of fact this increase will only about restore the
number of clerks legally attached to" this office and appropriated therefor prior
to J u l y 1, 1860. At that time, not anticipating such a condition of affairs
as has since transpired, by my recommendation twenty-nine clerks who were
legally attached to the office, and whose salaries were charged to its appropriations
but were temporarily doing duty in other offices, were permanently transferred
to those offices, thus reducing the appropriations for clerks in the office in thesum of $39,200, and llie number of clerks from ninety to sixty-one.
But, as before remarked, a mere reference to the vast increase in the expenditures, as compared with former years, affords no adequate idea of the unprecedented difficulties and responsibilities devolved upon the officers of this department
who are charged with the settlemen,t of these accounts. ' Previous to the breaking
out of the rebellion the military establishment consisted of about fifteen thousand
men, so orgavuized as to be capable of considerable expansion without materially
affecting or requiring much addition to the disbursing departments. The officers
were generally experienced in their line of duty, and perfectly familiar with the
laws and regulations applicable to the various branches of the service. The total
number of officers disbursing in the quartermaster's and comniissary departments,
and having accounts to render, averaged less than four hundred for several years
prior to 1861, and a large portion of these were acting for short periods of time,
and disbursing small amounts of money. By the Army Register for 1860 there
. were but thirty-six officers regularly commissioned in the quartermaster's depart, nient, and but twelve in the subsistence department. By a late official report
from the commissary general I am advised that for the second quarter of the
present year there were twelve hundred and four officers having accounts to
, render in the subsistence department; and a similar report from the quartermaster general advises me that there were seveii hundred and thirty-three officers
in his dejpartment who will have accounts to render for the same quarter. Add
to these the commissaries and quartermasters appointed or to be appointed for
the troops received or to be received into service under the late calls, and I think
the number may be safely estimated at twenty-five hundred. When it is remembered that the large proportion of these officers are but recently appointed, mostly
taken from the walks of civil life, inexperienced, ignorant alike of their duties and
the laws and regulations applicable to the branches of service in which they are
engaged, in some cases incompetent or otherwise.unfitted for the position, it may
well be expected that many irregularities will take place, the proper forms often
be not observed, unauthorized expenditures incurred, and, indeed, violations of
express regulations, and errors of every description—of omission as well as com
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mis^on—oc^ur. All these things complicate and render more difficult the investi-gation and settlement of the accounts, necessarily increase the labor.of the
accounting officers, and, besides involving the disbursing officers in difficulties
growing out of the suspension or disallowance of their vouchers, often result in
losses to the treasury impossible to be reclaimed. And the inexperience of the
disbursing officers above referred to is not the sole, cause of such irregularities,
for they are not unfrequently led into them by their superior officers, from the
same inexperience on their part, and want of knowledge of the laws and regulations. There is a regulation which provides that "an officer shall have credit
for an expenditure of mo.ney or property made in obedience to the order of his
conimanding officer. If the expenditure is disallowed,'it shall be charged to the
officer who ordered it." This regulation is held up as a shield of protection for
.unauthorized expenditures by disbursing officers, made upon the approval or
under the ord^r of the commanding officer; and .whilst it does often relieve the
officer so paying, it only, transfers the liability to the officer giving the order,
^ thus giving rise to a controversy between him and the government as to the
legality or propriety of the expenditure. Cases of this description are of not
unfrequent occurrence. By some officers this regulation would seem to be
regarded as recognizing in them a sort of general and unlimited authority to
direct tlie payment of clainis and liabilities of every description, provided they
appear to be just and meritorious, witliout regard to whether such, payments are
. authorized by law or regulations, or embraced in any of the appropriations made
' by Congress. Of this character are clainis for damages for property destroyed
or hijured by troops, or impressed into the public service, &c. Slany such payments are believed to have been made; and all vouchers therefor must necessarily
be rejected at the treasury, however meritorious or equitable they may appear to
be. Congress will no doubt at some period make provision for the investigation
and payment of aU proper claims for losses or damages growing out of the military operations, under such rules and regulations as may be deemed just and
right. Until such provision is made, or some appropriation made for payment
of such clainis, disbursing officers are not "authorized, nor have commanding
officers any rij^lit, to require them to pay them out of moneys in their hands
belonging to any of the appropriations specifically made for the support and
maintenance of the army and the various branches of the service connected with
it. And so with regard to other departures from law or regulations. In short,
the accounting officers feel it their duty to require conformity to the laws and
regulations \n iovQ,Q,,SiX\^ until changed by competent authority,-adhering also
" to established, rules and principles, the more necessary and important now, when
the legitimate expenditures have reached such a vast amount, and so many
opportunities offer for incurring unauthorized expenditures.
The system of accountability for public money placed in the hands of officers
for disbursement that was suited to a state of peace and. a small military establishment may need some revision to meet the condition of things arising from
the present state of the country. Officers who had not heretofore disbursed more
than a few thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars per annum are now
disbui;sing as many millions J n a single quarter of the year. The security and
check provided for faithful performance of duty aud to guard against improvident expenditures which were considered ample may now be inadequate. In
such an emergency, in the hurry and confusion incident to the bringing into the
field such immense armies, it was impossible to avoid irregularities in the purchasing, contracting, &c., growing out of the inexperience or unfaithfulness of
agents employed for the- purpose. Such abuses. readily disclose themselves,
however, and the remedy can be easily applied. In the formation of a system
such as shall afford the greatest possible security against fraud, peculation, or
improvidence in expenditures, and also secure the faithful application of the
.public money to the specific purpose for which it is raised and set apart, every
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provision possible should be made for the most rigid scrutiny and strict accountability. The system now in force, in the main, is well adapted to secure these
objects. All accojjnts for disbursements receive a triple examination; first, by
the military bureau under whose direction the expenditures were made; next,
by this office, where the formal report and statement are made; and, finally, by ,
the Comptroller who revises the settlement. It is believed tliat, for fidelity in
the performance of their duties,^ the disbursing officers of the army have compared favorably hitherto with those in any other branch of the government.
While this is the case, however, it is not doubted that some improvements might
be made by the adoption of safeguards and restrictions not hitherto necessary,
but now rendered essential by the changed circumstances of the time. Take,"
for instance, the quartermaster's department. This is one 'of the most extensive branches of the military service. It is the duty of this department to
make the purchases of clothing for the army, horses. Wagons, equipments, forage;
to provide means of' transportation for troops and supplies, &;c.; and advances
of money are made to its-officers directly from the treasury upon requisitionsof the Secretary of War in their favor. The disbursements^of this branch of
the service during the past year amount to more than one, hundred and sixty
millions of dollars.
The fifth section of the act '* regulating the accountability for clothing and
equipage issued to the army of the United States, and fbr the better organization of the quartermaster's department," provides "that each'officer appointed
under this act shall, before he enters upon his duties, give bond, with sufficient
surety, to be approved by the Secretary of War, in such suru as the President
shall direct, with condition for the faithful performance of the' duties of his
office." The bonds of quartermasters now in the service have been executed
at various periods, soine of them a number of years ago, and were doubtless
fixed in amount with reference. to the then existing state of affairs, and the
amounts of money and property for which they would probably become ac-.
countable. None of them, as far as I . am advised, exceed thirty thousand
dollars; for the most part they seldom exceed ten thousand dollars. There are
disbursing officers whose bonds do not exceed the latter sum, who have been
accountable for and disbursed at least that many millions of dollars during the
past year.' Now, it is true that the security for faithful performance of duty
does not depend merely on official bonds, and, therefore, the amount of penalty
in a bond is, after all, only secondary to that greater security, the personal
integrity of the officer; nevertheless, all experience has shown the necessity of
requiring bonds for amounts in some degree commensurate with the responsibilities imposed. These remarks apply equally to officers disbursing in the
commissary department. It is, therefore, respectfully suggested. Avhether some
of these bonds should not be renewed as well as increased in amount. Furthermore, the exigencies of the service frequently require that acting assistant
quartermasters or commissaries be appointed, and who are charged with the
same duties that devolve upon the regular quartermasters and commissaries, and
in like manner receive money for disbursement either directly from the treasury
or from other officers having money in their hands. In such cases I am not
aware that any security is given or required. It i^'true these appointments are
generally only for a temporary purpose, or a short period of time; although I
believe instances are not unfrequent where they have been continued for a considerable time, during which large amounts of money, have been in their possession.
I t is believed that some looseness has prevailed in- the mode of transacting
business by some disbursing officers^ especially in the matter of taking receipts
for payments not actually made, such receipts sometimes being used as vouchers ,
in the settlement of their accounts. The modes, by whicli credits may thus be
obtained for money not actually paid, dr for a sum greater than the actual con
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tract price, are nunierous. It is true, the law makes offences of this kind em• bezzlement, but the difficulty lies in detecting the transaction and establishing
the fact. Officers may also, in times like the present, have on hand large sums
of money not actually needed: for current demands upon them, which ai'e thus
exposed to risk of loss, as well as affording temptation for use or employment
for their personal benefit and advantage. Various modes have been suggested ^•
to provide against this., It has been suggested that advances of money should
not be made directly to the officers, but that tliey should have credits for s^iecified amounts with the United States Treasurer, or assistant treasurers, and be
required to draw checks or drafts in payment of all liabilities incurred by them.
Some legislation has been had on this subject, but it does not seem to have entirely accomplished the purpose. I t is believed, however, that a system might
be devised upon this principle which could be carried into practical execution
and enforced. Not the least among the advantages of such a'system would be
the retaining in the treasury of several millions of dollars, which, otherwise remain in the hands of disbursing officers. And the difficulty which sometimes
exists in collecting balances in the hands of officers when ceasing to disburse,
or when going out of the service by death, resignation, or Otherwise, would be
avoided
The act of 3d March, 1817, proV-iding for .the settlement of accounts aiid prescribing the duties of the Comptrollers and Auditors, made it the duty of the
Second Auditor to " receive all accounts relative to the pay and clothing of the
army, the subsistence of officers, bounties and premiums, military and hospital
stores, and the contingent expenses of the War Department;" and of the. Third
Auditor to receive " all accounts relative to the subsistence of the army, the
quartermaster's department, and generally all accounts of the War Department
other than those provided for," said Auditors- to examine the accounts, respectively, and certify the balance and transmit the accounts, with the vouchers • and
certificate, to the Second Comptroller for his decision thereon." In the army
appropriation act, approved March 3, 1857, a certain sum was appropriated for
the purchase of clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, and it was
provided that " hereafter all the accounts aiid vouchers of the'disbursing officers of the quartermaster's department of the army shall be audited and settled
by the Third Auditor of the Treasury." Under the operation of this provision the class of accounts known as the accounts of officers of the " purdiasing
department," for disbursements on account of clothing and equipage, which had
previously been settled by the Second Auditor, were transmitted through the
Quartermaster General's office to this office, leaving to the Second Auditor the
settlement of accounts pertaining to the pay of the army, arms, &c., hospital
stores and contingencies of the army and War Department. The purchasing
officers of clothing, camp and garrison equipage relieve themselves from accountability by producing the receipt of the military storekeeper of the post
that the property has been "received by him in store." The accounts of the
military storekeepers show the issue and application to the public service, and
these accounts are settled by the Second Auditor. I think all the accounts,
bolrh of money and property expended and issued under one appropriation,
should be adjusted in the' same office. Military storekeepers having in charge
clothing, camp and garrison equipage, but no money for disbursement, may not be
regarded, strictly, as "disbursing officers" of the quartermaster's department,
( but are intimately connected and blended therewith .in the particulars mentioned.
. It is, therefore, recommended that such further legislation be had on the subject
as will require all accounts relating to. the purchase a^d issue of clothing, camp
and garrison equipage to be settled in one office. Indeed, it has been heretofore
recommended by the Secretaries of the Treasury and War Departments that all
accounts relative to the army should be settled in one office. In his report on
the finances for the year 1853, Secretary Guthrie recommended that all accounts
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of the Interior Department should be sent to the Second Auditor, and all accounts of the War Department to the Third Auditor. /'
By the second section of "An act concerning the disbursement of public money,"
approved January 31, 1833, it is provided: "That every officer or agent of the ^
United States who shall,receive public money which he is not authorized to
' retain as salary, pay, or emolument, shall render his accounts quarter yearly to the
proper accounting officers of the treasury, with the voiichers necessary to the
correct and prompt settlement thereof, within three months at least after the
expiration of each successive quarter, if resident within the United States, and
within six months if resident in a foreign country." The army regulations
require, in addition, certain reports and returns to be ma.de to the military bureaus,
monthly or otherwiise, whereby the bureau and the department may be advisedf
of the transactions of the subordinate officers, their contracts and purchases;
and the regulations also provide that "every officer intrusted with public nioney
or property shall render all prescribed returns and accounts to the bureau of the •
department in which he is serving, where aU such returns and accounts shall
j)ass through a rigid administrative scrutiny before the money accounts are transmitted to the proper officers of the Treasury Departnient for settlement." The
long established practice has been for the disbursing pfficers to send their quarterly accounts to the chief of the military bureau, by whom, after the accounts have been examined and approved, or otherwise, they are sent to the treasury
for settlement. This course of proceeding, although in some respects desirable,
necessarily involves some delay, and, latterly, in consequence of the great press.
of business in the military bureaus, has prevented the transmission of many
accounts within the time limited by the law. At the last session of Congress an
act was passed providing that from'' and after its passage (July 17, 1862) all
such accounts should be rendered monthly instead of quarterly, as heretofore,
and "such accounts, with the vouchers necessary to the correct and prompt settlement thereof, shall be rendered direct to the proper accounting officer of the
treasury and be mailed or otherwise forwarded to its proper address within ten
days after thcN expiration of each^ successive month," with authority to the Secretary of the Treasury, if in his opinion the circumstances of the case require
it, to extend the time prescribed for the rendition of accounts.
The intention of Congress in passing this act was, manifestly, to, secure more
promptitude in the rendition of accounts, as well as early settlement thereof.
The law, it will be observed, requires.the accounts to be rendered ''direct" to the
proper accounting officer of the treasuiy, instead of to the "bureau of the department" in wliich the officer is serving, as required by the army regulation
before referred to. The law, therefore, nullifies the regulation in that respect.
Hence, too, the "administrative scrutiny" of the military bureau with regard
to the character of the expenditures made by the subordinate officers, will not be
obtained, unless it shpuld be by other means. In my opinion this administra-"
live action is desirable, no't only as fully apprising the chiefs of the mihtary
bureaus of the precise character of the expenditures made by their subordinates,
disbursing under their direction, but also fixing the responsibility which their
approval of such expenditures carries. The rule of this office is to pass no
voucher to which objection has been made in the administrative examination of
the military bureau-; but the fact of a voucher having passed the bureau without objection does not preclude the accounting officers from raising such objections as their examination may render necessary. Such objections are raised,
notwithstanding the approval of the burieau.
In the absence of any law or regulation on the subject I shall feel disposed
to refer all accounts for disbursements to the head of the proper military bureau for
his administrative scrutiny and approval, and for my own advisement in the
premises, before taking them up for settlement. Such-a cotirse it seems to me is
eminently proper, fpr the information of the bureau as well as the accounting
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officers. I am of opinion, however, that the intention of the law, in requiring
the accounts to be sent direct to, the treasury, was not to avoid ox prevent the
administrative action of the bureau, but merely to secure a more prompt and
frequent rendition, of accounts, leaving such further, administrative action as
might be desirable and necessary to be obtained after the accounts have been
rendered. A different construction would appear to have been put on this act
in some of the departments, and in consequence thereof uniform action has not
been obtained. The quartermaster general has, by a circular order, directed, all
officers disbursing in his department to take their receipts or vouchers in triplicate, instead of in duplicatci as heretofore, one copy of which, with the necessary
retnrns, abstracts, &c., comprising his account, to be sent to the quartermaster,
general, another to the proper accounting officer, viz: the Third Auditor, and the
third to be retained by the officer. I t is believed the same course has been substantially adopted in the subsistence departnient, and.in some cases two accounts
from the same officer for the same period have been received at this office, one
through, the commissary general and the other from the officer himself. The
law has not yet got fairly into practical operation, but a comparatively small
portion of the officei^ having accounts to render having sent their accounts to this
office. I t is important that some definite and uniform action should be obtained
on this subject.
The accounts for expenditure of property, issues of supplies, &CM have ^be^
come of great magnitude, and involve many questions, for the proper investigation and determination of which it would seem some further authority should
be obtained or regulations made. The abandonment or \ des true tion by the
officers in charge, or capture by the enemy, of property and supplies, have become of frequent occurrence, and the losses resultiiig therefrom are believed to
be immense. In all such cases there should be an investigation had immediately
of the facts and circumstances connected with such abandonment, destruction,
or capture, and the evidence collected shoAving the quantities and descriptions of
property lost or destroyed, together with the conclusions arrived at as the result
of such investigation, should be ma:de of record and filed in the proper office .
for its information and government as to the propriety of releasiag the accountability of the officer or officers in whose charge such property was at the time.
The only regulation on this subject is to the following effect: " Public property
lost or destroyed in the military service inust be accounted for by affidavit, or
the certificate of a commissioned officer, or other satisfactory evidence." This
appears to contemplate some action; but if the officer accountable neglects or
fails to take the proper steps to account for the property, or to furnish evidence
of the facts and circumstances connected Avith the loss, there is no provision
made for any investigation. In fact, the Avhole matter - appears to-rest with the '
officer himself; and if he. does nothing.he simply remains charged with the
property, and there is-no evidence to shoAv whether he should be relieved or not.
It may not unreasonably be presumed that, in the Avorst cases bf delinquency,
there Avill be the least effort made to provide the affidavits, certificates, or other
satisfactory evidence concerning the loss. The same may be said Avith regard
to property " captured from the enemy." The regulations provide that " a
return of all property captured will be made by the comlnanding officer of the
troops by Avhom such capture Avas made to the adjutant general at Washington,
in order that it may be disposed of according to the orders of the War Department." Whatever returns or disposition may have been made of property captured, the accounts and returns, so far as received at this office, show but little
acquisition, either as property captured and applied to the service or as proceeds
of sales thereof.
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By a provision of the act of August 3, 1861, the army ration was consid-'
erably increased, and by subsequent regulation of the subsistence department
" all sound articles of subsistence saved by troops or employes, by an economical
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use of the ration," was directed to be purchased at cost price, and paid for by
the subsistence department, the bills to be " presented fbr payment by com-,
manders of companies, officers in charge of bakeries," 6cc. This regulation embraces " savings of companies, of bakeries, and all saAnhgs from the army ration
made-by an organized command." The object sought, to be accomplished by
this change Avas praiscAvorthy, but it may Avell be doubted Avhether, practically,
it has resulted in benefit, either to the soldier or the government. On the con-,
trary, I am inclined to the belief that it has opened up a prolific source of fraud
on both, at the same time materially increasing the cost of supplies, besides
complicating the accounts. At least this is the impression that has obtained in
this office, by examination of the bills for savings'of company rations purchased
as authorized.
Filially, it is respectfully suggested whether the accounting officers of the
treasury should not be clothed Avith some further and specific authority, by
themselves or ageiits, to make investigations and inquiry AAdiere in their opinion,
such investigation is necessary in the examination of accounts sent to them for
settlement. Their investigation is, in a great degree, limited to the papers trans- .
mitted^Avith the accounts, or such other,evidence or information as the records
of the government afford, and which may be within their reach. It is my
opinion that the employment of one or 'more special agents, if the right'kind of
men Avere appointed, Avould greatly aid in detecting unfaithful officers, if any
there be, and bringing them to punishment. Sucli additional precautionary
measures involve no impeachment or disparagement of the integrity of the offi--'
eers connected with the service.
With great respect, your obedient servant,
n. J, ATKIN^O^, Auditor.
Hon.
S. P . CHASE,
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Secretary of the Treasury,
Summary statement of the principal operations of the Third Auditor's ofiice
during the fiscal year ending ZOth June, 1862.
,841 quartermasters' accounts settled, involving the sum ofi...- $15,084,545
815 comruissaries' accounts settled, involving .the sum of.
10,412,017
130 pension agents' accounts settled, involving the sum o f . . . .
• 725,095
81 engineers and topographical engineers' accounts settled, invohdng the sum of
542,853
378 miscellaneous claims, involving the sum of
4,354,724
56 claims for horses lost or destroyed, involving the sum of—
9,869
Oregon and Washington Indian Avar claims settled
1,148,604
2,867 bounty land claims examined and reported to Pension Office.
18 half-pay pension claims.
7,734 letters written and recorded.
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554 property accounts examined and adjusted.
4,094 requisitions registered, recorded and posted.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Fourth Auditor's Ofiice, October 21, 1862:
iSiR : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of
the second instant, requesting me to prepare, prior to the 1st proximo, a report
of the operations of this bureau for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862, to accompany your annual report on
finance.
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. ' I n conformity Avitli these instructions, I respectfully submit the subjoined
statistics for'the past fiscal year and germane remarks :
First. The total nuniber of accounts audited during the year and transmitted
to the Second Comptroller of the Treasury for his revision is nine hundred and
sixty-tAvo, (962,) embracing the accounts of payrhasters, assistant paymasters,
acting assistant paymasters, naval storekeepers, navy agents, the disbursing
officers of the marine corps, the agents for the payment of pensions, and other
officers in the service, involving an aggregate expenditure of $18,294,429 53,
distributed, principally, under the folloAving heads of appropriation;
Pay of the navy, &c
Pay of marine corps . • . . . ,
P a y of provisions
..>..........
$17, 474, 517 20
661, 398 93
............—.......
158, 513 40
Second. The nuniber of requisitions for drafts for the iiaval service issued'
during the year is eighteen hundred and seventeen, (1,817,) amounting in gross
to $43,293,259 ; for the pension service, fifty-one, amounting to $120,272 54.
Tliird. The number of official letters received during the year is tAvelve thousand four hundred and tAventy-six, (12,426,) and the number Avritten, thirteen •
thousand six hundred, and tAvehty-seven, (13,627,) exclusive of reports.
Fourth. The official reports furnished are tAventy-three (23) in number..
Fifth. The number of allotments, or half-pay tickets, granted and entered upon
the books of this office is five thousand nine hundred and ninety-three (5,993.)
Sixth. The nuniber of bounty-land cases, pension cases, and reports for naval
asylum is ninety-three (93.)
At the close of each quarter of the year a report was made to the Second
Comptroller, exhibiting the names of these disbursing agents of the Navy Department Avho had failed to render their accounts Avithin the period prescribed
by the act.of January 31, 1823, showing also the nature and extent of the default in each case,
Quarter-annual reports are made to the honorable Secretary of the Navy,
shoAving the amount which has been passed to the credit of the navy hospital
fund on the books of this office.
A report has also been made .to the honorable Secretary of the Navy, show-,
ing, in detail, the items of expenditures .charged to the appropriation of the contingent expenses of the navy.,
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A statement is nowin preparation'and will be transmitted to that functionary,
setting forth the am'ount of moiiey received during the year by each officer of the
navy and marine corps on account of"pay, rations, travel, servants' hire, forage,.
&c., under the provisions of the statute of February 16, 1843.
Applications by seamen for admission into the naval asylum at J^hiladelphia
Avere numerous. As a. service of tAventy years is required to entitle an applicant to such privileges, and as the services, in many instances, performed at
intervals of time, extend through a period of thirty-five or forty years^ much
time has been occupied in tlie,< examination of such cases.
Upon a careful comparison of these statistics, explanatory of the business
transactions of the office, with those of the previous annual report Avhich I had
the honor to^ transmit on the 28th of November, 1861, you will observe that the
aggregate amount disbursed and audited in this office for the past fiscal year exceeds that of the prior year some $7,000,000.
This increase, hoAvever, does not include the disbursements of officers whose
cruises had not terniinated sufficiently early for settlement within the fiscal year;
such additional accounts,, in all probability, would have exhibited an'outlay
much larger than the above-mentioned sum.
I n the commencement of the present administration the total number of disbiirsing officers in the navy was about one hundred-, (100.) By reference to the Navy
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Register published on the 1st of Sejitember, it Avill be found that the number has ,
increased to about tAvo hundred and seventy-five, (275.)
One of these agents alone has drawn from the treasury; during the last fiscal
year, the sum of $14,688,000, for Avhicli he has, in compliance with the laAv, produced his vouchers now in process of adjustment.
By reference to this report you Avill' also p.erceiA^e .that the correspondence of
the office has very nearly triplicated, the number of letters Avritten falling someAvliat short of fourteen thousand, (14,000,) and, in fact, each division of labor has,
to some extent, correspondingly increased.
The ^entire moneyed transactions of the navy, as you are aAvare, are adjusted
in this'office, either through the accounts of paymasters, navy agents, or special
•agents, including the purchase and charter of vessels, and the large important
contracts thercAvith connected.
-The number of public vessels now afloat is about three hundred and seventyfive, (375,) excluding such as are on the stock, for Avhich bills are constantly
being paid, also receiving and store ships in this and foreign countries.
I t may not be irrelevant for me to state, in this connexion, that the bonds of naval
disbursing officers are at present no larger than they Avere some fcAv years since,
when the receipts and disbursements of such officers Avere comparatiA^ely small.
NaA^y agents give $75,000 bonds, and paymasters $25,000. ^The disbursements
of one of these officers for the past fiscal year amounted to nearly $15,0.00,000.
I have already respectfully presumed to call the attention of the honorable
Secretary of the, Navy to the necessity,, in my opinion, of an increase in the
amount of the bond.
The increased clerical force granted under the act of May 21), 1862,1 conceive
to be sufficiently large to meet the increased duties pf the office, Avhich have been
so greatly augmented by the enlargement of the navy and the immense disburscr
ments of its agents. Acquaintance with the ordinary routine of business and familiarity with the laws and regulations governing the pay and emoluments of officers,
and the purchase of material, can only be perfectly attained by study and assiduity.
The plan you ha-ve instituted of exacting monthly reports from each clerk in the
employ of the department transmitted with the report of the head of the bureau,
is well calculated to incite a healthy ambition in the discharge of official duty.
I have the honor to be, respectfully, yom* obedient servant,
H O B A R T BERRIAN.
Hon.
S. P . CHASE.
Secretary of the Treasury,
E.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
• Fifth Auditor's Office, November 6, 1862.
S I R : I have the honor to report that during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1862, the necessities of the public service created by the rebellion and the change
and increase of foreign ministers and consuls have made the labor of this office
nearly double ^that of the preceding year. Without any increase of our clerical
force," hoAvever, we have promptly settled all accounts presented Avith proper and
sufficient vouchers. We have also given considerable aid to our associates in
other branches of this department in signing and issuing" treasury notes, in
counting and burning coupons and demand notes, in starting the new Burea,u of
Internal Revenue, and in all other requirements upon this office. .
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Schedule A, accompanying this report, shows the cost of the diplomatic service
as settled in this office for the fiscal year, and that the tAventy-nine legations
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therein mentioned have been paid tli^ sum of ($323,506 90) three hundred and
twenty-three thousand five hundred and six dollars and ninety cents.,
Schedule B shoAvs that the one hundred and seventy-five consulates therein
mentioned, in the eighteen months including the last fiscal year and the last half
of the year. preceding, in salaries and exchange on salary drafts, have cost us
($432,141 39) four hundred and thirty-tAvo thousand one hundred and fortyr
one dollars and thirty-nine cents, and that the fees collected at the consulates
and placed to the credit of .the government during the same time amounted to
($125,371 64) one hundred and twenty-five thousand three hundred and seventyone dollars and sixty-four cents.Schedules C, D, and E shoAv that the support of disabled seamen at* all the
consulates, together with their transportation and passage home, and the arrest ,
of criminal seamen and sending them home, has cost the treasury within the
fiscal year ($2.26,858 82) tAVo hundred and twenty-six thousand eight hundred
and fifty-eight dollars and eighty-tAvo cents, and that sixty thousand one hundred
and thirty-four dollars and eighty-three cents ($60,134 83) Avere collected during
the same time as extra Avages at the several consulates.
This last amount exceeds the sum collected the preceding year by about fifty
per cent., and in the present condition of our commerce affords evidence of
increasing diligence iri our consuls. ^
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Our consular system is, as Avill be seen by the foregoing statements, a burden
upon the treasury, and to save it from destruction, retrenchment and reform are
needed.
When, by the act of Congress of March 1, 1855, salaries Avere substituted for
fees to our consuls, the fees Avere greatly reduced. Experience has slioAvn the
r-eduction to have been a financial mistake; and if the consular system is to be
anytliiiig like self-sustaining, it seems to me the fees, collected for the pretended
purpose of paying salaries, should be raised to the old standard.
The mode of paying consuls, in consequence of the derangement of our currency and the extravagant rates of foreign exchange, now daily becoming Avorse
and worse, and in many instances causing^a loss of from forty to sixty per cent,
in the payment of salaries abroad, demands,correction. ,
. I can think of no better way than to stop the payment of all differences of
exchange, and pay our European consuls, as Ave do our ministers, in .London;
those of Eastern Asia at the legation in China, and all others in NCAV York.^
Should drafts for salary be negotiated by ministers and consuls at their OAvn cost,"
I feel confident that foreign bankers and brokers Avould make much less profit
out of the business than under the present mode of negotiation, and'the loss to
our ministers and consuls Avould be much less than that UOAV cheerfully borne by
the public servants at home in accepting payment of their salaries in a currency
thirty per cent. beloAV the standard of coin. If, under the troubles brought upon
us by the rebellion, any of the gentlemen Avho represent us abroad should be
dissatisfied Avitli the proposed change, I have no doubt competent and Avorthy citizens could easily be found Avdling to relieve them of their official responsibilities.
These changes, like the one mentioned in my last report, Avliich the honorable
Secretary thought worthy of his recommendation, to Congress, I am aAvare niight
require some action on the part of the national legislature.
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With great respect, your obedient servant,
- J O H N C. UNDERWOOD,
Auditor,
Hon.
S. P . CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury,
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SCHEDULE A.
Statement of expenses of all missio7is abroad f o r salaries, contingencies, and toss
by exchange, from^ the 1st of July, 1861, to the SOth of June, 1862, as shown
b^ij accounts adjusted in this ofiice, other than lohich may have been p a i d by
• tlie disbursing clerk of the Department of State,
Salary.
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.
.
.
•
Contingen- Loss by
cies.
exchange
Total.
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GREAT BRITAIN.
Chas. F, Adams, minister.
From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862 . . - . $17,500 00
From May 16, 1861, to June 30, 1862 . . .
$358 61
Chas. L, Wilson, secretary of legation.
From July 1,1861, to June 30, 1862 . . . .
"^
2;625 00
Benj. Mqran,' assistant secretary of legation.
From July 1, 1862, to June 30, 1862 J . . .
1,500 00
21j625 00
^
3,581 61
$25,206 61
FRANCE.
Wm. L. Dayton, minister.
From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862
From May 19, 1861, to June 30, 1862 - - From October 1; 1861, to June 30, 1862-.
17,500 00
2,492 32
$49 73
Wm. L. Dayton, jr., secretary of legation.
1
From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862
From July 3, 1861, to March 31, 1862---
\
1, 500 00
10 40
W. S. Pennington, secretary of legation.
From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862
Loss on drafts, October 1, 1861, and
March 31, 1862-..
_
2,625 00
•
18 02
21,625 00
2,49,2 32
78 15
24,195 47
RUSSIA.
John Appleton, minister.
From July 1 to July 8, 1861
Cassius M, Clay, minister.
280 86
.' ^
. From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862 - . . .
From April 11, 1861, to June 30, 1862-.-
12,000 00
1,277 72
12,280 86
1,277 72
13,658 58
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Statement qf expenses of all missions abroad, h^.-.—Continued.
Salary.
Contingen- Loss by
exchange
cies.
Total.
PRUSSIA.
Joseph A. Wright, minister.
^Ffom July 1, 1861, to August 8, 1861 - . Norman B. Judd, minister,
$1,271 74
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From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862
From April 20, 1861, to June 30, 1862.,From July 6, 1861, to June 30, 1862 . . . .
12,000 00
$870 38
$86 11
E.' Kreissman, secretary of legation.
From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862
Loss on drafts, dated. July 6, 1861, and
January 2, 1862
,.„.
.
'
10 27
15,071 74
870 38'
(
96 38 $16,038 60
AUSTRIA.
7. Glarwey Jones, minister.
From July 1,1861, to December 15,1861.
From July 1, 1861, to December 15,1861-
. 5,478 26
205 20
J, Lothrop Motley, minister.
From August 10, 1861, to June 30,1862.
From August 10, 1861, to June 30, 1862.
10,695 65
335 60
16,173 91
'16,714 71^
540 80
SpAm.
Wm, Preston, minister.
From Julv 1 to Julv 4 1861 . . -
0
-
130 43
.
Carl Schurz, minister.
From July 1,1861, to September 30,1861.
From March 28, 1861, to Sept; 30, 1861.-
3,000 00
978 40
Earalio J. Perry, secretary of legation and
chargi d'affaires.
From J u l y l , 1861, to June 30, 1862
From Julv 1 1861. to June 30. 1862
From January 1, 1862^ to June 30, 1862-
4,20'8 15
1,212 34
6 91
7,338 58
2,190 74
6'91
9,536 23
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Statement of expenses of all missions abroad, b^c.—-Continued,
Salary.
Contingen- Loss by
cies.
exchange
,
MEXICO.
Total. .
v>
Jno. B. Weller, minister.
From July 1 to August 8, 1861, home
transit . , - - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
......
$1,271 74
Thomas Corwin, minister.
From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862
From March 22, 1861, to June 30,'l862-.
12,000 00
$1,748 09
.-
W. H. Corwin, secretary of tegation.
From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862
1,800 00
15,071 74
BELGIUM.
\
1,748 09
$16,819 83
^
H. S. Sanford, minister.
From July 1, 1861, to March 31, 1862--From' March 20, 1861, to March 31, 1862From Sept. 30, 1861, to April 1, 1862 - . -
5)625 00
1,412 72
$5 89
Aaron Goodrich, secretary of legation and
chargi d* a faires ad interim.
From July 1,1861, to November 22,1861.
1,477 57
7,102 57^
1,412 72
From July 3, 1861, to March 31, 1862.-- ^ 8,934 78
From July 3, 1861, to March 31, 1862 .-Loss on draft, June 30, 1861
, 931 61
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6 89
8,521 18
BRAZIL.
J. Watson Webb, minister.
A. L. Blackford, secretary of legation and
chargi d'affaires.
From July 1, 1861, to October 4, 18'61.-.
25 00
i
1,473 91
^ C. L. Lazarus, acting secretary of legation.
From October 8, 1861, to January 7,1862.
Loss on draft, January 7, 1 8 6 2 . . . . . . . . . .
,
450 76
35 75
10,859 45
931 61
60 75
11,851 81
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Statement of expenses of all ?nissions abroad, ^c.-—Continued.
Salary.
Contingen- Loss by
exchange
cies.
Total.
CHINA.
A. Burlingame, minister.
From July 1, 1861, to March 31, 1862.-.
Loss on draft, January 6, 1862
$9,000 00
$21 45
S. Wells Williams, interpreter.
From July 1, 1861, to December 31, 1861.
Loss on draft, September 30, 1861
2,500 00
3 77
G. W. Heard, secretary of legation.
From July 1, 1861, to December 31,1861.
T,500 00
25 22 $13,025 23
13,000 00
PERU.
Christopher Robinson, minister.
From July 1 to July 7, 1861, awaiting
instructions
From December 10,1861, to June 30,1862.
From December 10,1861, to June 30,1862.
190 22
5,597 83
$415 75
Chas. Easton, secretary of legation.
From May 2, 1862, to June 30, 1862
Loss on draft, July 21, 1862
247 25
22 40
6,035 30
415 75
22 40
6,473 45
TTTTJTTW
F. Joy Morris, minister.
From July 1,1861, to June 30,1862
From June 8,1861, to June 30,1862
From October 1,1861, to January 4,1862.
Amount allowed from former report
7,500 00
2,429 83
123 00
220 58
John P , Brown, secretary of legation and
dragoman.
From July 1,1861, to September 30,1861From July 1,1861, to March 31,1862 . . . .
From 'July 1,1861, to August 8, 1862, as
charge d' affaires
.
.
From July 1,1861, to March 31,1862
FromOctober 1,1861, to February 26, J862.
James Williams, minister.
From July 1 to July 30,1861
750 00
2,250 00
211 96
667 49
85 54
^
611 41
11,323 S-7
Ex. Doc. 1-
/
3,097 32
429 12
14,849 81
98
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Statement of expenses qf all missions abroad, <^c.—^Continued.
[
Salary.
Contingen- Loss by
cies.
exchange
Total.
SWEDEN AND N O R W A Y .
J . S. Haldeman, minister.
F r o m J u l y 1 , 1 8 6 1 , t o March 3 1 , 1 8 6 2 . . . .
F r o m March 1 6 , 1 8 6 1 , to March 3 1 , 1 8 6 2 _
Loss on draft, December 3 1 , 1 8 6 1
$ 5 , 6 2 5 00
$241 66
$17 04
5 , 6 2 5 00
241 66
17 04
$ 5 , 8 8 3 70
DENMARK.
Bradf(yrd R. Wood, minister.
From July 1,1861, to June 30,1862
F r o m March 2 2 , 1 8 6 1 , to J u n e 30, 18G2 . .
7 , 5 0 0 00
314 78
7 , 5 0 0 00
GUATEMALA.
314 78
7 , 8 1 4 78
,
E . G. Crosby, minister.
F r 6 m J u l y 1 , 1 8 6 1 , to J u n e 3 0 , 1 8 6 2
F r o m March 2 3 , 1 8 6 1 , t o J u n e 3 0 , 1 8 6 2
7 , 5 0 0 00
247 23
7 , 5 0 0 00
247 23
7 , 7 4 7 23
SWITZERLAND.
Theodore S. Fay, minister.
F r o m J u l y 1 to 3 0 , 1 8 6 2 , h o m e transit . . .
F r o m J u l y 1, 1861, t o J u n e 30, 1862
F r o m Mav 1 4 , 1 8 6 1 , t o J u n e 3 0 , 1 8 6 2
611 41
7 , 5 0 0 00
506 26
8 , 1 1 1 41
606 26
8,617 67
PORTUGAL.
George W. Morgan, minister.
F r o m J u l y 1 , 1 8 6 1 , to September 4 , 1 8 6 1 .
1,345 11
James E . Harvey, minister.
F r o m J u l y 1 , 1 8 6 1 , to J u n e 3 0 , 1 8 6 2
F r o m April 3 0 , 1 8 6 1 , to J u n e 80, 1862
F r o m March 3 1 , 1 8 6 2 , to April 2 1 , 1 8 6 2 - .
7 , 5 0 0 00
921 71
40 60
8 , 8 4 5 11
921 71
40 60
9,807 42
PONTIFICAL STATES.
John P . Stockton, minister.
F r o m J u l y 1 to July 2 1 , 1 8 6 1
Loss on di-affc Aue-ust 13 1861
427 99
3 66
427 99 1
3 56 1
431 65
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Statement of expenses of all missions abroad, <^,—Continued.
Salary.
Contingen- Loss bycies.
exchange
TotaL
NETHERLANDS.
James S. Pike, minister.
From July 1,1861, to June 30,1862
From March 28, 1861, to June 30,1862...
Loss on draft, April 24, 1 8 6 2 . . . - -
$7,500 00
$611 13
$6 46
7,500 00
611 13
6 46
$8,117 59
A. B . Dickinson, minister.
From July 1,1861, to June 30,1861
:
From April 29,1861,to June 30,1861 - . -
7,600 00
1,031 44
7,500 00
NPTV
1,031 44
8,531 44
fi-TJANADA
George W. Jones, minister.
From July 1,1861, to December 20, 1861.
From July 1,1861, to December 20, 1861.
3,625 81
257 87
A. A. Burton, minister.
From July 1,1861, to June 30,1862
From May 29,1861, to June 30,1862
7,500 00
348 73
Q. W. Davis, secretary joint commission wiih
New Granada.
From September 11, 1861, to March 10,
1862 .--•From September 11, 1861, to March 10,
1862
1,333 33
2,639 89
12,359 14
3,246 49
16,605 63
HONDURAS
J. R. Partridge, minister.
From February 10,1862, to June 30,1862.
2,916^66
2,916 ^^
ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION.
R. M. Palmer, minister.
From July 1,1861, to April 26,1862
From April 16,1861, to April 26,1862 - - From February 27,1862, to April 8, 1862.
6,160 76
669 07
220 67
Robert C. Kirk, minister.
From March 4,1862, to June 30,1862
From April 9,1862, to June 30,1862
2,334 69
46 00
8,496 45
604 07
220 67
9,320 09
100
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
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Statement of expenses of all missions abroad, t^c—Continued.
Salary.
Contingen- Loss by
cies.
exchange
Total.
CHILI.
John Bigler, minister.
From July 1,1861, to December 1,1861-From July 1,1861, to December 1,1861Jhomas H. Nelson, minister.
$4,184 79
$165 26
-
From July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862 . . . . .
From June 17, 1861, to June 30,1862-
10,000 00
895 20
C. S. Rand, secretary legation.
From July 1,1861, to June 30,1862
.
1,500 00
15,684 79
1,060 46
$16,745 25
PARAGUAY.
C. A. Washburn, commissioner.
From July 1 to July 7,. 1861, (partial
transit)
-.
From July 27,1861, to March 31,1862 .-..
From June 8,1861, to March 31,1862 _.
From October 19, 1861, toFebruary28,1862
142 66
5,095 11
172 64
$59 34
6,237 77
172 64
59 34
5,469 75
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Thomas J. Dryer, commissioner.
•
From July 1, 1861, to June 30,1862
From June 6,1861, to June 30,1862
•
7,500 00
423 65
7,500 00
423 65
7,923 65
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LONDON.
John Miller, despatch agent.
From July 1,1861, to October 31,1861.--
1,486 75
1 486 75
EOUADOR.
C. R. Biickalew, minister.
From July 1,1861,to August 30,1861 . . .
From April 1,1861, to August 30,1861 .
1,263 68
139 76
F . Eassaurck, minister.
From July 1,1861, to June 30,1861.»
From March 23, 1861, to June 30,1861
From July.24, 1861, to June 30, 1861 - - - .
7,500 00
315 69
358 63
8,763 68
455 45
358 63
9,677 66'
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Statement of expenses of all missions abroad, ^c.—Continued.
'
Salary.
Contingen- Loss by
exchange
cies.
Total.
VENEZUELA.
E. A. Turpin, minister.^
From July 1,1861, to January 16,1862.-From April l , l h 6 1 , t o lanuary 16,1862..
$4,062 50
$68 16
E T. Blow, minister.
From- July 1 to July 7, 1861, (partial
transit)
-- - - - - - ...........
From October 5,1861,to May 22, 1 8 6 2 . . .
From October 5, 1861, to May 22,1862--.
142 66
4,739 91,
60 40
8,945 07
128 65
$9,0T3 62
COSTA RICA.
C. N. Rioiti, minister.
From July 1,1861, to March 31,1862 . . . .
From June 8, 1861, to March 31,1862
Loss on draft, September 30,1861 . .
5,625 00
276 40
$10 33
5,625 00
276 40
10 33
6,911 73
BARING BROTHERS & Co., UNITED STATES
BANKERS, LONDON.
Amount of loss by exchange on remittances made by the treasurer from January 8 to June 19, 1862..
Amount of gain by exchange on remittances made by the treasurer from July
1 to December 31,1862 -Loss by exchange . . - .
'........
)
6,400 00
666 67
5,733 33
6,733 33
323,506 90
102
REPORT ON THE FINANCES;
SCHEDULE B .
Stateme^tit of the amount f o r salaries and loss by exchange paid to and fees
received from the consular officers of the United States, mentioned in schedule
B a n d C, of the act of August 12, 1856, ^'to regulate the diplomatic and
consular systems of the United States," f o r the year ending December 31,
1861.
No.
Consulate—where located.
Salaries.
Loss by exchange.
1
2
3
4
5^
6
7
8
• 9
10
11
12
Acapulco''^ — . .
Aix la Cliapell'e
Alexandria* . . .
Anioor river
Amoy
Amsterdam* —
Antwerp — . . .
Apia*
Aspinwall
Athens*
Aux Cayes — .
Antigua*
%2, 108 68
2,930 01
289 73
.500 00
3,495 64
1,013 58
3,044 35
1,059 76
815 20
35 43
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
24
22
23
24
'25
Beirut
Basle
Batavia
Bay of Island?.
Belfast
Buenos A y r e s . .
BremQii . . . . . . .
2,000 00
2,305 00
1,385 76
1,000 00
2,277 18
2, 163 04
2,052 85
342 38
116 70
76 32
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
Bristoit
Barbadoes*t . .
Bermuda
Barcelonaf — .
Balize*t
Bahia
Cardiff t
Cork
Calcutta*
Cape Town —
Cadizt - Cura^oa*.....
Candia
Cyprus . .
Canton
Cape Haytien.
Callao*
Cobija
Constantinople
Carthagena
^f Returns incomplete.
$58 19
3, 136 56
61 60
3,012 25
11 48
160 63
Fees.
$662 60
802 00
7
165
233
1,548
45
66
33
73
1, 498 98
4 00
309 00
51
883
106
275
971
1,734
206
6
45
50
53
73
97
13
00
00
236 41
277 18
34 52
107 28
1,000 00
^15 55
362 76
2,253 46
4,916 65
1,000 00
1,80,3 08
334 23
589 67
1, 125 00
4,000 00
1,277 16
3, 83--^ 88
500 00
3, 387 31
500 00
14 71
17 25
75 07
93 70
74 78
1,030 44
625 03
188 00
413 S3
1,978 41
155 15
582 49
154 63
1 61
449 74
172 63
774 4,3
41 95
185 43
215 48
\ Compensation established by act of 1801,
103
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
Statement of the amount of salaries, ^c.—Continued.
Consulate—where located.
Demarara .
Dundee . .
Loss by exchange.
Salary.
Fees.
$2, 598 66
2, 103 67
$22 72
84
514 09
Elsinore.
1,830 16
212 14
81 40
Frankfort-on-the-Main* .
Funchal
,
Foo-Choo
Fayal
Florence*
Falkland Islands* .
2,983
1,740
7,737
750
Gaspe Basinf.
Genoa
Glasgow* —
Geneva*
Gaboon* . . . .
Guayaquil*!..
Gottenburgt ..
216 02
1,896 26
3, 554 33
1,565 21
24 19
152 65
228 25
78 15
Halifax* . .
Havre
Hamburg .
Havana . . .
Honolulu* .
Hong Kong
2, 163 36
7,298 50
2,313 48
6,083 13
5,315 44
1,921 19
Jerusalem .
2,057 05
Kingston..
Leipsic — .
La Rochelle
La Guayra .
Leeds
Lyons . . . . . .
Lahaina
Lanthala* . .
Leghorn*
Liverpool* ..
London^
Lisbon*! - - LaPaz*t--.
La Union*!.
Montreal
Munich
Malaga*
Marseilles
« Returns incomplete.
14
48
36
00
12 50
32 04
2, 099 22
201
11
234
351
00
81
-88
54
. 500 00
16 21
765 39
2,538 68
98 00'
31 11
11 49
4 71
148 52
732 93
5, 658 93
1,365 32
4,521 23
1,571 96
2,790 04
119 35
13 00
2, 418 20
3 85
583 90
1,581 91
1,499 99
1, 499 99
2,250 00
1, 754 26
3,594 40
500 00
840 71
1,324 71
8,450 06
57 77
125 51
53 06
72 47
120 07
25 93
20 21
^ 506 75
190 17
256 69
1,050 00
.306 00
150 40
7 30.
121 02
949 96
6, 534 98
362
4, 330 50
116 57
1,232 81
78
26 80
1,607 38
356
97 04
2,877 73
1,083
72 58
f Compensation established by act of 1861.
09
OG
67
34
104
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
Statement of the amount of salaries, 8fc.—Continued.
No.
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
Consulate—where located.
Manchester .,
Moscow*
Monrovia....
Montevideo*
Maranham...
Mauritius —
Melbourne...
Maracaibof . .
Matanzas —
Messina
Mexico . . . . .
Macao*f ."...
Matamoras* .
Manzanillot -.
Malta!
Loss by exchange.
Salary.
$2,206 59
2, 048 91
1,000 00
1,000
2,500
4,293
578
2,797
1,500
1,163
00
00
47
79
69
00
04
163 04
52 99
619 56
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
Nassau
Naples
Ningpo
Nantes!
Napoleon Vendee! ,
Nice!
Na2:asaki*
1,648
1,557
4,705
256
103
104
105
Oporto*
Omoa..
Odessa ,
576 37
1, 000 00
992 70
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
Panama
Ponce
Para
Prince Edward's Island.
Paso del Norte*
Palermo
^
...
Port au Prince
Paris . —
Pernambuco
Paita*
Paramaribo*
3, 880 83
1,500 00
1,000 00
1, 150 81
•250 00
1, 622 27
2,386 57
5, 244 56
2,000 00
117
118
119
120
121
Rotterdam
Revel
Rio Janeiro
Rio Grande del Sul*! .
Rio G r a n d e . . . - -
2, 387 65
2,266 29
7, 399 30
750 00
122
123
124
San Juan, P . R .
Stettin
.. ..
Spezzia
«- Returns incomplete.
04
06
52
78
$198 88
23 52
172 24
405 90
143 26
81 90
1,431 27
5 19
Fees.
$376 00
1 00
110 17
60
857
1,113
14
1,731
346
314
68
84
76
42
01
42
00
116 53
484 04
489 24
63 77
171 19
32 18
14 28
79 15
17 20
82
392
225
12
29
92
34
49
59 79
20 63
115 56
644 22
441 52
230 36
98 80
10 00
519 64
219 51
2,285 00
779^81
926
30
3,679
276
42
36
54
19
2,413 03
229 42
1, 174 26
66 47
103 30
1, 146 73
6 90
.2 67"^
f Compensation established by act of 1861.
105
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
Statement q f the amount of salaries, ^c.—Continued.
Consulate-r-where located.
Stuttgart*
St. T h o m a s
S a n J u a n del N o r t e .
Singapore'.. i
..
St. J a g o de C u b a . . .
St. Domingo city —
Shanghai
Smyrna
Sabanillo
St. P a u l de Loando .
St. Croix
St. P e t e r s b u r g . . . . . .
Santos,
.....
St. Catherine's
Santiago
S a n J u a n del S u r . . .
Southampton*
St. M a r c *
Lost by exchange.
Salary.
074
lib
296
500
673
683
815
331
500
000
95
84
09
00
62
90
21
51
00
00
213
529
415
750
570
439
383
73
88
70
00
63
97
15
$12 48
22 79
210 56
72 75
91 66
369 06
53
1,080
388
91
1,623
229
303
117
23
30
40
11
2, 538 33
2,593 09
750 00
500 00
2,983 22
1, 082 54
925 28
244 56
2,307 52
1,500 00
750 00
293 47
35 33
Vienna —
Vera C r u z .
Valparaiso.
Venice.
1,687 49
.3,341 98
2,741 82
1, 173 22
22
44
98
88
Zanzibar.
1,000 00
Salaries
Loss by exchange-
$157 00
1 834 21
59
25
33
66
93
74
00
12
68 75
Trieste
Turks' I s l a n d . . . .
Tampico
Tumbez*...
,
T r i n i d a d de C u b a .
Talcahuana
Tabasco
Tangier*.
Tripoli*
Tunis*
Tahiti*
,
Trinidad! . . . .
Tehuantepec*!
^ Returns incomplete.
Fees.
46
90
62
47
262 40
243 55
300 09
736 52
45 93
24 26
35
49
52
38
114 76
343 22
650. 72
82 69
39 09
48 03
720
337
1,436
21
00
89
05
89
65 81
•f Compensation established by act of 1861.
$276,067 93
13,795 69
289,863 62
Fees returned by consuls ,
Balance paid by treasury .
$77,590 21
212,273 41
289,863 62
106
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
Statement of the amount f o r salaries a n d loss hy exchange p)aid to a n d fees
received f r o m the consular officers o f the United States mentioned in schedules
H a n d C of the act of A u g u s t 12, 1856, ' ' t o regidate the dijylomatic a n d
consular systems o f the United S t a t e s , " f o r the first two q u a r t e r s o f the
y e a r 1862.
No.
Consulate—where located.
Salaries.
Loss by
exchange.
$ 1 , 000 00
• 1, 250 00
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Acapulco
A i x la Chapelle.
Alexandria*
Anioor r i v e r * . . .
Amoy
Amsterdam...:.
Antwerp
Ancona!
Aspinwall......
Athens
A u x Cayes*
Algiers!
Antigua*!.....
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
21
28
Beirut
-. . .
Basle
Batavia
B a y of I s l a n d s .
Belfast
Buenos A y r e s . .
Bremen
Bahia*
Bristol
Barbadoes!
Bermuda
Barcelona!
Balize*!
Bilboa!
Bergen!.
1, 000 00
1,000 00
499 99
500 00
1, 000 00
1, 549 2 5
1, 500 00
520 32
750 00
250 00
750 00
750 00
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
Cardiff!
Cork
Calcutta.
Cape T o w n . . .
Cadiz*
CuraQoa! . . —
Candia*
Cyprus.... —
Canton
Callao
Cobija
Constantinople.
Carthagena
750
1,000
2,500
334
25
750
^- Returns incomplete.
1,499
500
1,250
851
1,250
500
375
125
99
00
00
89
00
00
00
00
281 59
525 00
$54 83
724 21
16 30
86 56
60 72
55 25
58
46
48
66
05
42
34
86
113 07
23 83
Fees.
H 5 2 65
448 00
187
163
856
11
640
6
. 91
94
61
39
37
87
25
57
25
610
263
201
027
062
136
47
330
97
374
138
00
00
08
30
14
76
00
26
78
17
26
26
32 11
00
00
00
91
00
00
17 47
21 45
17 25
1,000 00
2,000 00
1, 750 00
250 00
1,500 00
405 34
29 64
450 51
50
736
278
1,410
12
26'
51
73
36
216 79
107 52
6
202
626
18
138
90
f Compensation established by act of 1861.
00
46
51
00
20
27
107
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
Statement of the amount of salaries, ^.—Continued.
Consulate—where located.
Demarara.
Dundee...
Elsinore.
Salaries.
$92 15
$91 65
526 00
816 65
91 73
8 77
1,500
750
1,750
350
00
00
00
00
Genoa
Glasgow
Geneva*
Guayaquil...
Gaboon*
Galatza*!.
Gaspe Basin!
Gottenburg! .
750
1,250
375
303
125
00
00
00
57
00
Halifax
Havre
Hamburg...
Havana.
Honolulu...
Hong Kong.
1,000
3,000
1,000
3,000
2,000
1,750
750 00
750 0000
00
00
00
00
00
750 00
Kingston...
Kanae-awa!.
500 00
2, 147 14
Leipsic
..
La Rochelle*.
La Guayra —
Leeds
Lyons
Lahaina
Lanthala*
La Union*!..,
Leghorn,.
Liverpool.. —
London
Lisbon*!
.
La Paz*!
750 00
375 00
1, 064 38
1,000 00
750 00
1,500 00
250 00
^ Returns incomplete.
Fees.
$1,000 00
1,000 00
Frankfort-on-the-Main.
Funchal
,
Foo-Choo.
Fayal
,
Florence*!..
Falkland Islands*.. ..
Jerusalem...
Loss by
exchange.
750 00
3,750 00
3,750 00
94 92
51 69
418 96
5 85
155
100
97
264
00
22
12
53
485 98
1, 175 00
11 00
33 64
7 50
40 99
115 OS
32 41
43 59
379
1,439
765
2,585
574
3,353
49
88
17
45
48
73
45 76
11 00
1,010 65
148 80
82 64
46 57
35 47
10 78
186 99
18 14
276
50
129
596
384
24
33
75
00
53
80
00
00
75
279 29
4,960 12
2,586 97
f Compensation established by act of 1861.
108
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
Statement of the amount of salaries, t^c.—Continued.
No.
Consulate—where located.
Salaries.
$2, 000
567
750
1,250
1,000
1,000
250
83
500
981
1,604
. 750
1,250
750
250
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
Montreal....
Munich
^.
Malaga
Marseilles...
Manchester..
Moscow.....
Monrovia*..
Montevideo*.
Maranham..
Mauritius
Melbourne*.,
Maracaibo!..
Matanzas
Messina
Mexico*
Macao*
Matamoras..,
Manzanillo!.,
M a l t a ! . . . . ..
Martinique!..
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
Nassau*
Naples*
Ningpo*
Nantes!
Napoleon Vendee*!.
Nice!.
Nagasaki *!.
Newcastle!.
533 38
109
110
111
112
Oporto...
Omoa*..
Odessa*.
Otranto ! .
850
250
375
737
00
00
00
49
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
Panama
Ponce
Para*
Prince Edward's Island..
Paso del N o r t e * . . . — ,,
Palermo
,
Port au Prince
Paris
Pernambuco
Paita*...
Pictou!
,.
Paramaribo *
1,750
750
332
750
00
00
41
00
750
1,000
2,500
1,242
00
00
00
91
81.
82
83
84
85
86
87
^ Returns incomplete.
172
70
750
842
• Loss by
exchange.
$29 37
125 88
20 56
47 10
139 65
6 91
147 89
24 66
29 46
22
83
00
16
Fees.
$168
24
71
613
356
2
18
50
02
37
50
50
48 26
315
358
186
1,147
249
30
61
06
12
12
49
54
9 75
107 60
659 34
87 45
34 82
177 85
750 00
69 44
34 19
620 83
55 70
25 00
145 17
55 77
17 97
38 99
36 16
29 09
136 09
4 75
311
324
629
33
64
48
02
42
438 40
249 85
1,976^00
.<313 49
375 00
f Compensation established by act of 1861.
109
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
Statement o f the amount o f salaries, Sfc.—Continued.
Consulate—where located.
No.
125
Port Mahon!.
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158^
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
Salaries.
Loss by
exchange.
$504 16
$22 52
Rotterdam
Revel
Rio de Janeiro
Rio Grande de Sul*.
Rio Grande*!
1,000 00
1,097 83
3,000 00
33 18
102 90
71 83
San Juan, P. R
Stettin —•.
Spezzia
Stuttgart
St. Thomas
San Juan del Norte.
Singapore
St. Jago de C u b a . . .
St. Domingo City —
Shanghai
Smyrna*
Sabanilla*
St. Paul de Loando .
St. Croix*
.....
St. Petersburg
Stockholm!
Santos!
Santiago!
San Juan del S u r * . .
Southampton . .
St. John's, N . B . ! - . .
St. John's, N . F . ! . . .
Swatow*.
Santander'*"
Scio!
-.
St. Marc*!
1,000 00
500 00
500 00
500 00
2,000 00
1,000 00
625 00
1, 250 00
750 00
1,613 88
1,081 84
21 18
32 42
Trieste
Turk's Island
Tampico
Tumbez . . . . . . . .
Trinidad de Cuba*
Talcahuano*
Tabasco*
Tangier*
Tripoli* . . . . ' . . . .
Tunis*
Tahiti*
1,000 00
1,000 00
750 00
125 00
^ 625 00
250 00
•^•Returns incomplete.
27 02
32 80
108 44
58 48
161 95
163 66
500 00
1,000
563
750
750
500
1,000
504
350
487
491
375
Fees.
$527 02
2 00
861 13
161 22
24 50
2 75
89 00
1,356 81
36 54
259 87'
358 02
52 46
176 14
102 85
35 67
32 84
38 08
51 77
6 69
. 8 25
38 65
28 66
5 15
61 18
93 51
316 75
13 10
36 54
65 37
10 77
106 51
79 07
55 25
7 65
117 17
189 99
513 73
j-Compensation established by act of 1861.
110
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
Statement of the amount of salaries, S^.—Continued.
No.
Consulate—where located.
168
169
Trinidad
Tehuantepec*!
170
171
172
173
174
Vienna . . .
Vera Cruz.
Valparaiso.
Venice . . .
Valencia!..
175
Zanzibar*
* Returns incomplete.
Amount of salaries
Amount of loss by exchange.
Salaries.
Loss by
exchange.
$750 00
750
1,750
1,500
871
748
00
00
00
82
63
250 00
Fees.
$126 21
$47 54
20 86
353
277
678
8
63
00
35
05
58
56
34 34
f Compensation established by act of 1861.
$135, 827 87
449 90
142, 277 77
Amount of fees returned by consuls.
Balance paid by treasury
• $47,781 43
94, 496 34
142, 277 77
NOTE.—At some of the consulates the amount paid exceeds the fixed salary;
in every case this is in consequence of a change of consular officer, the new
consul being paid for time while recei\dng instructions and making the transit
to his post of .duty, the retiring consul, in the meantime, receiving salary at the
consulate. Again: the retiring consul receives compensation for time of making
the transit home, after the,new consul has entered upon his duties and receives
pay at the consulate. •
Ill
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
SCHEDULE C .
Statement showing amount of money allowed f o r relief of destitute seamen at
the several consulates of the United States in foreign countries, together with
the extra wages and money coUected hy consular ofiicers on account of such
seamen; also amount allowed, as loss hy exchange on drafts of consuls to
cover said disb%irseraents,for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
Name bf consulate..
Dis.bursements.
Acapulco
.' . .
Amoy, (2 quarters)
Antwerp*
Aspinwall — .
.
Apia
Aux Cayes,
t26 00
110 28
260 40
1, 502 25
264 50
' 152 90
Bahia
Barbadoes, (3 quarters).
Barcelona
Batavia
Bathurst
Bay of Islands
Belfast.^..:
,
Bermuda
•....
Bombay
Bremen*
,
Bordeaux.... — .
Bristol
Buenos Ayres*
224
58
52
574
113
2,223
411
776
503
566
Cadiz
Calcutta
Callao
Cape Haytien..
Cape T o w n . . . .
Cardiff
Cienfuegos
Constantinople
Cork
CuraQoa...
00
08
60
61
59
49
92
89
40
98
1,094 90
2, 048 65
136
1,567
12,818
216
98
284
160
356
644
342
80
35
72
93
50
17
50
78
19
00
• Loss by exchange.
$60 50
Receipts.
$90
40
348
37
72
00
00
00
50
00
252 00
54 00
200 61
7 51
65 94
7 72
144 00
75 00
1, 332 25
594 00
122 40
841 69
546 45
48 00
581 80
1,057 29
48 00
1, 824 00
3, 199 50
48 00
55 10
58 73
40 09
513 00
18
39
267 00
98 00
Demarara
Dublin...
303 54
95 42
Falmouth
Fayal ,...
Funchal..
491 64
•2, 988 92
772 80
1,561 66
Genoa* .,
Gibraltar
Glasgow .
2,118 12
199 85
278 94
2, 992 82
39 18
343 82
48 00
45 00
112
• REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
Statement shoiving amount of money allowed, 8fc.—Continued.
Name of consulate.
Gottenberg*
Guayaquil
Guaymas
Hakodadi
Halifax
Planiburg
Havana
Havre
Hilo
Hobart Town
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Disbursements.
.-.
$52 68
569 20
290 75
105
340
130
2,918
1,540
1,462
286
1,679
33,780
^
iCingston, Jamaica
—^
Lahaina
Lanthala
Leeds
Leghorn
Lisbon
Liverpool
London
Londonderry
.•.
—
Malaga
Manilla, (premium $45 89)
Maranham
Marseilles
Martinique
Matanzas
Mazatlan
Melbourne, (3^ quarters)
Montevideo
Montreal
Nagasaki
Naples. - .^
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Oporto* — . .
— ....
Receipts.
$7 75
$375 00
6 00
41 54
531 00
20. 00
421 38
3, 464 70
837 65
333 93
.401 14
1,024 19
6,479 69
1, 737 53
8. 44
20,827
126
56
21
478
6,717
2,631
60
00
12
53
26
44
59
93
36
2,552 46
61 15
323 50
152'00
1,429 93
123 74
599 SO
2,728 75
237 30
: 1,222 66
21 25
4 60
182 61
2,433 50
975 40
126 25
2, 796 35
4 60
1, 128 52
324 00
108 00
2 23
177 21
34 57
7 52
8 00
107 44
130 38
Paita, (1 quarter)
Panama
,
.
Palermo
Pernambuco
:
Plymouth
Port Louis, ( M a u r i t i u s ) . . . . . . . .
50
45
08
56
92
50
74
46
72
Loss by exchange.
31
521
2,967
1,000
98
72
05
00
78 00
228 00
630 00
• .228 02
36 00
411 47
1,657 93
129 43
2 27
189 00
210 00
108 00
14 45
113 60
1, 455 87
42 90
1,009 50
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
113
C.—Statement showing amount of money allowed, Sfc.—Continued.
Name of consulate.
Disbursements.
Port au Prince*
Rio Grande de Sul, (2 quarters).
Rio de Janeiro, (3 q u a r t e r s ) . —
Rotterdam
..
330 00
1,452 00
83 73
11
129 33
682 12
1,755 98
5, 735 87
57 48
326 82
6 00
21 62
7 20
111 00
1, 589 73
404 50
322 16
125 80
. 52 50
797 03
4,383 08
Tahiti
Talcahuano
Teneriffe
Trieste
....
Tumbez, (premium $757 57).
Turk's Island
749 50
13,198 20
1, 168 00
504 81
7,984 00
64 00
Zanzibar
Receipts.
$97 15
San Juan del Norte
San Juan, P . R., (3 quarters).
Santos
..
' Shanghai.
'.
Singapore . . . . — . . —
Sierra Leone
Southampton
Stettin
.
........
St. Croix....
„
St. Catherine
...
St. Domingo City
........
St. Helena
Smyrna
^.?
St. Jolm, N. B.*
St. John, N . F . * . . . .
St. Petersburg '.
St. Thomas
'.
Sydney, N. S. W . . . . . . . . . . .
Valparaiso .
Vera Cruz.
Venice
Loss by exchange.
79 05
$1, 749 00
2,298 00
12 00
200 00
80 00
1,938 00
3, 695 43
• 49 56
5.00
2 00
515 00
87 10
7 61
753 84
76 95
905 78
194 51
186
87
429
1,557
00
00
00
00
1,887 00
1,020 00
8, 075 67
149 75
8 90
814 55
.98
90 00
115 00
174,182 90
Total.
7,249 41
60, 134 83
NOTE.—Those consulates marked thus *^ include expenditures made prior to July 1,1861,
but reported with accounts subsequent to that time, and not included in the report of the
finances for 1861.
Synopsis of the above.
Total disbursements
$174, 182 90
Total loss by exchange
"l
7, 249 41
- $ 1 8 1 , 4 3 2 31
Total receipts—of extra wages, moneys, and premium.
*
60,134 83
Excess of expenditures over receipts
E x . Doe. 1
8
'
.
I g l , 297 48
——^
114
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
The jfollowing allowances have, also -been made out of the fund for the relief
of seamen as balances of extra wages or arrear. wages due estates of deceased
seamen, viz:
Name of deceased.
John Brewer.
John Stanton
Robert Ammon
Francis 'Weeks
S. C. CuiTant
Meyer Godman
John A n d e r s o n . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consulate at which he died.
•.. SantiasTO de Cuba
Liverpool
Honolulu
Svdnev
mo..^
^.....
Arica
. Havana
*
Amount
allowed.
$5
23
96
80
19
242
34
26
42
00
00
93
00
81
502 42
The following sums have also been allowed as wages refunded to seamen"
directly from the United States treasury, out of the ''fund for the relief," &c.:
Name of seaman.
Consulate where discharged.
•allowed.
Liverpool
James Hayden
George H. Aimstrong
— . . Sydney..
John S. Percival
•Calcutta .
James Ridgeway, assignee for
Cork . . . .
seven seamen ...•..-.-.-...
J . T. J o h n s o n . .
.-..-.-—.. C o r k . . . .
Cork.....
James Ralph . . .
-.
Cork . . . .
John Merrill
Henry Price . • . . - . - . - . . . . . . .
. Cork....
HarmanDamnen-. . ' . • . . . . . - . . . . . Cork . . . .
Lewis Kavanagh
1 — .. Cork....
John M. Luskie
.^, C o r k . . . . .
Cork . - . .
Ronald McDonald.....-.Cork . . . .
James Wilson
$31 00
100 00
80 00
237
5.4
21
21
36
21
3
8
• -48
21
80
29
60
60
00
60
60
10
50
60
685 72
.
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
Il5
The following sums were allowed for relief to seamen picked up at sea, viz :
To John Henderson & Co., owners of the. ship Edward Everett,
for relief to their own c r e w . . .
.
... — .... —
• To Peter Rogerspn & Son, owners ..of the.British brig, Jessie, for
rescuing the crew of the ship Northumberland, in 1856
..
To James Fulton, paymaster United States navy, for expenses
incurred in rescuing two of the crew of
'•, near Shanghai,
in 1860
Total
...
.$163 24
11, 683 12
50 00
11, 896
^
There was allowed the further .sum of $269 75 :to W. B. Boggs, United
States .navy,:for expenses for copying,.&c., in the investigation of the Sandwich Islands hospitals.
.
. .
.
Recapitulation,
i
Disbursements by consuls in excess of moneys received by
them
$114,048 07
Loss in exchange on same . . .
.......:....
'.....
7, 249 41
Paid estates of deceased seamen
f.........
502 42
Wages refunded to seamen . . .\
.....
685 72
'Paid parties, other than consuls, for relief to seamen*
11, 896 36
Paid for copying, &c
— ..-...-.
. .'•..
269 75
Total
,
134, 651 73
•-• Of this sum $11,683 12 was. paid.. for. rescuing Ihe crew of the ship, Northumberland
by, authority of an act of Congress.
.
.
116
REPORT ON THE FINANCES,
SCHEDULE D .
Statement showing the numher of " destitute American seamen" sent to the
United States from their several consulates during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1862, and the amount p a i d for their passage.
Consulate.
* Acapulco.
Almeria..
Remarks.
No. of
seamen.
Amount.
7
5
$70 00
60 00
Amoor River.
Antigua.... .
Antwerp . —
Aspinwall —
3
6
3
6Z
30 00
60 00
30 60
630.00
Barbadoes
Bathurst
^
Bay of Islands
Bermuda
9
3
2
31
90
30
20
326
00
00
00
00
1
1
3
10
10
10
30
00
00
00
00
13
4
1
2
11
1
6
1
130
40
10
20
11@
10
60
10
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
4 at $10 each, and 1 at $20, in
a foreign ship.
23 at $10 each, and 8 at $12
e^ich, in British ships.
Bordeaux
Bremen
Bristol . .
Buenos Ayres.
f
Cadiz..-.
Callao.......
Cardenas
Cardiff.......
Cape Haytien.
Cape Town. ...
Cienfuegos •
Constantinople.
1
Demerara
Falmouth.
FayaL
Fortune Island;
Funchal
40 00
28 at $10 each, 6 at $35 each,
and 5 at $18 each, in foreign
ships; 5 at $20 each, 36 at $18
each, and 4 at $30 each, being
in excess of the lawful number.
Tp Messina.
2
84
8
^ 1
20 00
1, 448 00
80 00
25 00
Genoa —
Gibraltar .
Glasgow..
Guaymas .
3
7
2
27
30
70
20
270
Halifax...
44
410 00
00
00
00
00
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
117
D.-—Statement showing number qf destitute American seamen, Sfc.—Continued.
Consulate,
Havana,
Havre...
Pt€ marks.
15 at $10 each; 1 at $100, and
• i at $60—sick.
Hilo
Hong Kong.
Honolulu...
No. of
seamen.
Amount.
21
17
$210 00
310 00
1
7
100
10 00
70 00
1,000 00
Inagua.
10 00
Jacmel. .
Jeremie.
10 00
30 00
Kingston, (Jamaica)
50 00
Lisbon —
Liverpool.
135 at $10 each, and 1 at
in a British ship.
London.
Malaga
Marseilles .
Martinique.
Matanzas.
Mazatlan..
2 at $10 each, and 1 at $25, in
a foreign ves.sel.
27 at $10 each, and 1 at $20, in
a foreign ship.
Messina—. .
Montevideo. .
Montreal — .
Montego'.Bay.
Naples.
Nassau.
22 at $10 each, and 49 at $12
each, in foreign ships.
7
136
70 00
1,390 00
69
690 00
3
1
3
30 00
., 10 00
45 00
7
28
70 00
290 00
3
2
2
3
30
20
20
30
2
71
20 00
' 8 0 8 00
50 00
Nuevitas ,
Panama..... . .
Palermo
Pernambuco... .
Paramaribo . . .
Port Elizabeth..
Puerto Cabello..
00
00
00
00
5
1
45
1
1
50
10
450
10
10
80.
00
00
00
00
00
00
Rio de Janeiro.
50 00
Sagua la Grande..
San Juan, (P. R.).
Singapore
-
10 00
50 00
30 00
118
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
T),-^-Statement showing number of destitute A7nerican^ sea7nen, <5(V.-'—Continued.
Remarks.
Consulate.
No. of
seamen.
Amount.
2
1
2
4
12^
IL
36
2
$20- 00
200•00
20 00
40 00
120 00
83 50
360 00
14 00
Talcahuano....
Trieste
Tumbez
Turk's Islands.
4
2
^1
16
40
20
10
160
Valparaiso.
Vera Cruz..
4
16
40 00
160 00
Sydney, (N. S. W . ) .
Smyrna
Southampton
,
St. Jago de Cuba..,
St. Helena. .^
St. John's, (N. B.)..
St. Thomas, (W.I.),
Sidney, (N. S.)>....
Insane seaman.
Yairmouth, (N. S.>.
00
OO
00
00-
28 00
.MISCELLANEOUS.
Crew of the ship Silver Star, wrecked on Jarvis's
island. Pacific ocean, and brought to Honolulu by
the brig Josephine
.*
Crew of the wrecked schooner Mississippi, brought
to Philadelphia by the bark Eliza- Ann
Crew of the wrecked schooner Maryland, brought to
Philadelphia by the brig William Butcher
".
Crew of the wrecked brig Citizen, brought to New
York by the brig lanthe
Crew of the wrecked brig Granada, brought to New
York by the British schooner Greyhound
Crew of the wrecked bark B. Hallett, brought into
Glasgow by the British bark Annie Hall
....^
Crew of the wrecked ship Eagle Speed, brought into
Calcutta by the British steamer Burniah
^.:...
Part of the crew of the wrecked ship Star of Hope,
brought to Philadelphia by the ship Monterey:. .•..
Total.
27
270 00
5
21 00
5
50 00
11
99 00
4
40 00
10
33 00
13
268 13
3
73 50
1,127.
12,402 13
119
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
SCHEDULE E .
"^
Statement showing the amount expended in arresting Arnerican seamen in
foreign countries, charged with the commission of crime on American vessels,
together with the expenses attending the examination of the same by the consul, and the expenses of sending them to the United States, f o r trial, with the
witnesses, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
Consulate where the No. of : Amount ex. expense originated.
men.
pended.
Bata,via ..
Bordeaux..
Cadiz ..
...
.
Cardiff.
Havana
Havre
....
Liverpool
London ...
...
Loanda.
Mayagues
Montevideo .,
Palermo
Rotterdam
Singapore . . . . . . . .
St. Thomas .........
Sydney . . . . . . . . . .
3
1
2
2
2
1
14
2
46 ; "
55
00
22
75
99
93:
36
00
00
OO
00
86.
00
16.
8§ Special appropriation in case of mutineers of ship. *> Junior,'' 1858.
•8
$76
47
200
110
49:
22
2,553
411
10
50
150
10
47
1,000
a
14;921
45
19,670 13
1
1
1
4;
1
Remarks.
'
"^
'
Whole amount adjusted for fiscal year ending June 30, 1862 . . .
Amount expended under special appropriation in case of ship
*'Junior"
Leaving the ordinary expenses for the year ,
•
^
$19, 670 13
14,921 85
4, 748 28
120
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
F.
O F F I C E OF THE AUDITOR OF THE TREASURY
FOR THE P O S T OFFICE DEPARTMEIVT,
October 31, 1862.
SIR : To present in detail the financial affairs of the Post Office Department,
and the extensive, diversified, and .complicated operations of this bureau for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1862, would swell this report beyond convenient
limits. I therefore beg leave to submit only a brief outline of the principal
labors performed by the"office. All that relates to the financial transactions of
the Post Office Department, as exhibited by the books and accounts of this
b'Areau, will fully appear in my report to the Postmaster General.
The efforts of the office in collecting the scattered revenues of the Post Office
Department have been crowned with unusual success, notwithstanding the widespread pecuniary embarrassment occasioned by the existing unhappy rebellion
against the integrity of- the government. The sum collected within the fiscal
year from late postmasters alone amounts to $476,447 39, which.exceeds the^
amount collected from the same class of debtors during the fiscal yeai' 1861 by
the sum of $179,212 2 3 ; is $296,907 73 greater than the amount collected in
• thefiscg.1year 1860 t y my predecessor; and is very largely in excess of the collections made in any previous fiscal year since the organization of the-bureau.
'There has also been collected by drafts of this office from present postmasters
the sum of $48,241 25, a description of labor not hitherto performed by the
office. To the untiring industry and extraordinary labors of the clerical force
are to be attributed these gratifying results.
During the fiscal year two hundred and sixty-one suits were instituted by
the office for the recovery of sums due to the government, amounting, in the
aggregate, to $76,468 62. Of these suits one hundred and twenty-eight have
been tried, and all except two decided in favor of the United States.
Within the fiscal year the important and complicated accounts between the
United States and foreign governments have been considerably augmented, but
they have been promptly and satisfactorily adjusted.
The nuniber of changes of postmasters reported, by the Post Office
Department requning the final adjustment ^of their accounts during
the fiscal year was . . ' . . .
,
7, 336
The nuniber of late- postmasters' accounts in charge of the office
. ' 37, 638
The. number of present postmasters' accounts in charge of the office.. 19, 652
The number of quarterly accounts of postmasters adjusted, audited,
and registered.'.
.'
77, 109
The number of accounts of mail contriactors audited and reported to
the Postmaster General for payment
•
14, 740
The nuniber of accounts of special and route agents audited and re- .
ported for payment
4, 605
The number of accounts of special contractors and mail messengers
audited and reported for payment
15, 988
The number of miscellaneous accounts audited and reported for payment
".
165
The' number of accounts of United States attorneys, and marshals, and
clerks of United States courts adjusted and reported for payment..
143
The number of accounts for paper and printing post office blanks
21
The number of accounts for advertising
124
The number of *^ collection orders" issued to rdail contractors
61, 083
The number of " collection drafts" issued
.'..
8,.30O
The number of " dei)artment drafts" countersigned and registered
15, 314
The number of " department warrants" countersigned and registered4, 970
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
121
The number of letters received
T . . . . . 117, 317
The number of letters prepared, recorded, and mailed
'.. 82, 875
The number of folio post pages of correspondence recorded in the
** miscellaneous" letter book
895
The nuniber of pages recorded in the '* collection" letter book
4, 315
The number of pages recorded in the ''suit" letter book.,
476
The number of pages recorded in the " report" letter book
...
203
The number of accounts on the ledgers
I . . . 75, 981
The number of corrected quarterly accounts of postmasters copied, restated, and mailed
20, 500
The number of stamp and stamped envelope accounts examined, compared, and restated —
—
79,616
By comparing the foregoing brief summary with that contained in my last
annual report, it will be seen that the aggregate amount of labor performed by
this office within the fiscal year 1862 greatly exceeds that accomplished in the
fiscal year 1861.
It affords me great pleasure, in conclusion, to state tlmt the entire business
of the bureau is now in a very satisfactory condition, and that the accuracy,
promptness, and ability with which it has been discharged during the fiscal year
reflects the highest credit on the clerical corps employed in the office.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Hon. S. P . CHASE,
'
. .
' G. ADAMS, Auditor,
Secretary of the Treasury.
G.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
First Comptroller's Ofiice, October 28, 1862.
SIR : I submit herewith an abstract of the business of this office for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1862.
The following named warrants of the Secretary of the Treasury have been
countersigned, entered,in blotters, and posted, to wit:
Stock warrants
-.
1, 718
Quarterly salary warrants
1,955
Treasury (proper) warrants
J..
2, 070
Treasury interior warrants
,
2, 401
Treasury customs warrants
1, 945
War pay warrants
,
8, 735.
War repay warrants
^......
^
552
Navy pay warrants
^
> 1, 948
Navy, rejiay warrants
.
_ 357
Interior pay warrants
1
823
Interior repay warrants
,....
362
Treasury appropriation warrants
,
25
Interior appropriation warrants
•
20
Customs appropriation warrants
."
. . . . . . ^.".. 1
16
War appropriation warrants.
^ 20
Navy appropriation warrants
1
• 17
Texas debt warrants.
3.
Land covering warrants
225
Customs covering warrants
762
Miscellaneous covering warrants
....:
,
1, 327
25, 281
122
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
The accounts' described as follows, reported to this office by the First and
Fifth Auditors and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, have been
revised and certified to the Register of the Treasury, to wit:.
I. From the First Auditor:
.•• •
Judiciary.—Embracing the accounts of marshals for expenses of the
United States courts, of district attorneys, of clerks of the United
States circuit and district courts, and of United States commissioners,for per diesis and- fees, and rent of- court-rooms
.
774
Public debt.—Embracing accounts for redemption of United States stock
and treasury notes, the interest on the public debt, the United States
Treasurer's accounts, temporary loans, the United States assistant
treasurers' accounts, and other matters properly belonging t h e r e t o . . . l\ 637
Salaries.—Embracing accounts for salaries of United States supreme,
\ district, and territorial judges, attorneys, marshals, local inspectors,
officers of the executive departments> &c
1, 055
Yublic ^r^w^^7^^.—Embracing accounts for public printing, binding, and
paper
84
Mint and Z>ra?^e7ie5.-^Embracing accounts of gold, silver, and cent bullion, of ordinary expenses, repairs, wages of employes, &:c
31
Territorial.—Emliracing accounts of governors of the Territories for contingent expenses, erection of public buildings, of the secretaries of Territories for legislative and contingent expenses, &c
— . 50
Miscellaneous.—Embracing accounts of the Coast Survey, of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, the insane asylum, the penitentiary, for
the suppression of the slave trade, for horses lost in the military service
of the United States
,
873
Congressional.—Embracing the accounts of the Secretary of the United
States Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives
• 97
I L From the Fifth Auditor :
Diplomatic and consular.—Embracing accounts of foreign ministers for
salary and contingent expenses, of United States secretaries of legation
for salary, of consuls general, of .consuls,, and commercial agents for
salary and for disbursements for relief of destitute American seamen,
for passage from foreign ports to the United States of destitute and
criminal American seamen and witnesses, of United States commissioners under reciprocity treaty, of accounts under treaty for foreign indemnity, of contingent expenses of consulates
—
1, 860
l a t e n t Ofiice.—Embracing accounts for contingent and incidental expenses, salaries, &c
'18
Census Ofiice.—Embracing accounts of the disbursiug clerk for salaries
and all other expenses
t
2
I I I . From the Land
Embracing accounts of
disbursing agents, of
erroneously sold, of
within their limits
Office :
receivers of public money, of receivers acting as
surveyors general^and deputy surveyors, of lands
the several States for percentage on lands sold
. .*
1, 795
Aggregate of accounts revised:
From First Auditor
"
From Fifth Auditor
....,
From Commissioner of the General Land Office
4, 601
1, 880
1, 795
,8,276
Bonds entered, filed, and indexed
^
375
Letters written upon matters appertaining to the business of the office.. 4, 459
Decisions recorded, amounting to, pages .-.
96
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
123
There have been also- regularly entered, filed, and indexed with the proper
briefs, all letters and communications received in the office.
The-semi-annual emolument returns made by the United States marshals, district attorneys, and clerks of courts, in pursuance of the third section of the act
of February 26, 1853', haVe been examined, entered, and"properly filed;, also the
requisitions made, from time to time, for advances to United States marshals,
territorial officers, .treasurers of mint "and branches, to disbursing officers and
agents, &c., have been examined and reported upon in all cases.
There are many miscellaneous duties to be performed, arising' from the'^necessary business of the office, which need not here be particularized. These require,
in many instances, much time and labor, and have been attended to as they were
presented, from day to day.
Very respectfully,
ELISHA WHITTLESEY,
Comptroller, ,
Hon.
^
S. P .
.
CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury.
H.
^
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Ofiice, November 19, 1862.
SIR :. Pursuant to instructions, I have the honor to submit the following report
of the operations of this office during the fiscal year ending the 30tli June last:
The number of accounts of disbursing officers, agents,, &c., received, acted on,
passed, and recorded during the fiscal year was as follows:
Reported by the Second Auditor.
Reported by the Third Auditor
Reported by the/Fourth Auditor.'.
—
i^
.
', — .;..
L
..
•
Whole number
.
5, 572
3, 092
476
_
9, 140
The expenditures accounted for in the settlements of the Second Auditor embrace moneys appropriated by Congress for the use of the pay department of
the army; the recruiting service; medical and. hospital department; ordnauce
service, armories, arsenals, ordnance stores, purchase of arms, &c.; expenses of
collecting, drilling, and. organizing volunteers; contingencies of the army;* as
also, the disbursements of. the Indian department.'
,
The accounts reported by the Third Auditor cover a: very large field of puLlic
expenditure, embracing the q.uartermaster's department,' construction of gunboat
fleet, and steam, rams ;. clothing of army, subsistence of army, engineer department, fortifications, military pensions; the settlement of State disbursements
under acts of 17th. and. 27th July, 18^61, and other expenditures of the War
Department, for details of which I-.have, respectfully^ to refer to the Auditor's
official report.
The Fourth Auditor.'s accounts, were for expenditures of the naval establishment, comprising disbursements by paymastel'S of the navy and marine corps,
navy agents, naval storekeepers and navy pensions, prize money, &c.
Many of these settlements embraced a large number of vouchers,.and included,
very heavy expenditures, and iidt only required time but a high degree of o'&.r
cial capacity and experience in their investigation.
All undergo here a critical revision in reference to the legality and correctness^
of the payments, as well as that they were authorized in pursuance of appropriations duly made by law.
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• I have reason to believe that the work thereon has been promptly and satisfactorily performed.
The total amount embraced in these settlements was $87,684,097 64, viz : .
Second Auditor's.
. ' . . . . , . . . . $37, 111, 9 5 7 4 7
Third Auditor's
32, 277, 710 64
Fourth Auditor's
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18, 294, 429 53
Additional to the above, there has been reported to and examined in this office
a large number of another class of settlements, being "certificate accounts" or
claims for balance due officers whb'have resigned, died, &c., and to soldiers who
have been discharged or died in the service with pay and botinty due; and of
seamen, their heirs, administrators, &c.
The amount, when duly investigated and found from the official rolls and
records to,be due upon such "certificate" settlements, is made payable by disbursing officers of the ariny and navy, according to the branch of military or
naval service to which tlie party for whose services the claim is allowed properly
belonged.
To this class of settlements by the accounting officers of the treasury, with
the concurrence of the War Department, I have, within the past year, added
the payment of private physicians or citizen surgeons duly employed by the
medical ^nd hospital department.
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I t became matter of necessity to adopt this mode of .settlement to avoid overtasking the Secretaries of War and Treasury, and other officers'of both departments, for record, signature, and countersignatures to adjustments of mere
monthly stipends, for the payment of which it happened that proper disbursing
officers were not duly provided by other authority of law or regulation.
** Certificate " settlements originate in the offices of the Second and Fourth
Auditors! respectively, and were during the last fiscal year thus reported to and
acted upon in this office, in number as follows :
.
Accounts reported by the Second Auditor..'
Accounts reported by the Third Auditor.
3, 019
539 .
• Making a total of
3, 558
The number of requisitions upon the Secretary of the Treasury received, examined, countersigned, and recorded upon the books of this office was as follows :
Drawn by the Secretary of the Interior:,
Pay or advance requisitions
Refunding requisitions
;
Drawn by the Secretary of W a r :
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Pay or advance requisitions
Refunding requisitions
Drawn by the Secretary of the N a v y : '
. P a y or advance requisitions
Refunding requisitions
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806
143
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8, 465
558
2, 046
328
12,^346
There were received and filed during the fiscal year 1861-'62, 874 letters
upon official business, the answers to which cover 574 pages folio post of the
letter book.
All the annual statements for Congress required by the law of May 1, 1820,
have been promptly transmitted in duplicate to the Secretaries of Interior, War,
and Navy. These statements exhibited the balances of the several appropria
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tions remaining upon the books on the 1st of July, 1860; the appropriations
f(Dr the War and Navy Departments and for the Indian and Pension branches
of the Interior Department made by Congress for the fiscal year 1860-'61; the
repayments and transfers in that year; the amount applicable under each ap-.
propriation, and the amount drawn by requisitions during the same period;
and, finally, the balances remaining unexpended on 30th June,-1861, with such
appropriations as were carried to the surplus fund.
All other prescribed duties of this officer—embracing decisions on cases specially
reported from the Second, Third, and Fourth Auditors, or from the bureaus and
officers of the War, Navy, and Interior Departments; filing official bonds and
the nunierous contracts received from those departments ; the supervision of
transcripts for suit, &c.—have received'prompt attention, the business here having, by great exertion, been well kept up, so that no material part of it is as yet
in arrears.
I feel it my duty to declare my conviction that the accounting officers of the
treasury have not realized the immense amount of labor hereafter to be devolved
upon them. It is only necessary to. call attention to the military and naval expenditure of the past as compared with the imrnense increase of appropriations
rendered necessary by the present war. '
Time has still to be allowed for the rendition from the administrative bureaus °
of the War and Navy Departments of the accounts of the various disbursing
officers to whom public moneys have been recently advanced, and the increasing
number to whom advances are being daily made.
In fact, the very great number of these officers and agents to whom public
funds will be and are intrusted must be commensurate with the wide field df
. operations and the magnitude of the appropriations and necessary expenditure.
That irregularities and abuses under such circumstances will occur, I submit
is inevitable. It becomes, however, the duty of thei accounting, officers closely
to analyze and scrutinize all such accounts presented'to the treasury for settlement. Their labors and responsibilities are thus increased, in a greater degree
than by the mere ratio of increased appropriations. , Nor this alone : soriie new
^precedents and authorizations of expenditure have grown out of the riece'ssities
of the present occasion.
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Recent laws have been found to conflict, or, separately, to so authorize expenditures for the same purpose as not to .designate a sufficient dividing line to prevent
certain classes of military expense being paid for under two or three different
appropriations liy different disbursing officers.
» Thus, without extraordinary vigilance and experience on the part of. the disbursing officers, duplicate or triplicate payments may in some instances" have
occurred, by fraud, or in conflict with right or the intention of law.
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To this subject the Secretary of the Treasury early called the attention of
the accounting officers of his department. ••• ^^.>
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Fully aware of the possibilities injurious to th^ interest of the goverhment '
that might be r^ealized from the looseness of hurried legislation, I have'exer •
cised every power or prerogative intrusted to this office to guard against and to
stop at the treasury all such double or triplicate payments.
Thus, in the detection of many cases of fraud I have been successful, and
double payments, made in different shapes, for the same services, under color of
existing laws, have been disallowed at this office;->^
i have, nevertheless, to submit that this class of payments, made by disbursing
officers of separate bureaus of the War Department, do not reach the knowledge
of the accounting officers of the treasury until long after the erroneoT|^ disbursement has been made, and reclamation becomes difficult, impracticable, or impossible.
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necessary to trace and discover these unauthorized .payments, inevitably tasks the
time and attention of the accounting officers at a period when all their'efforts
are strained to keep up with th6 current business pf their offices.
.Iliad the honor to suggest for your consideration a provision by ^liich the
^accounting officers would be greatly relieved of the responsibility and labor of
the adjustment of State accounts, under acts of 17tli and .27tli July, 1861. This,
I believe, could not be properly.effected without corresponding legislation, and
meanwhile the labor is being performed, I trust, faithfully and satisfactorily,
adding, however, to the large aggregate of .duty imposed on this and the Third
Auditor's office.
In many of the settlements of military and naval expenditm'es, the provisions
of the tax law will, certainly for the present, -require vigilant co-operation with
the Commissionerof Revenue,until the laws, details, and.instructions.are so perfected as to place the whole subject entirely under the control of the Commissioner.
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Payment of damages in the military and naval service, and all questions of
expenditure unauthorized by law, Tv^ill, as heretofore, not be a;ffirmed • by the
passage of vouchers therefor, but will have, before allowance at the treasury, to
await authorization by Congress.
I have, on several occasions, had the honor to suggest that doubts, amounting
to reasonable conviction, have so arisen as to the fidelity and good faith which
occasionally attend the presentation of vouchers.for disbursements, that a local
examination should be had by some proper agent of the "treasury.
In some cases of absolute fraud -here discovered, local investigation of its
extent and means of proper punishment should be so provided for as to deter
future attempts of the kind on the treasury.
Property accounts, involving the distribution,. application to necessary use of
supplies, &:c., purchased, loss, damage, capture, &c., embrace a heavy responsibility, which, in my.opinion,, should rest with the administrative bureaus of the
War and Navy Departnients, as, indeed,.in contemplation of the laws creating
those offices I believe has been ordained. Hence, the . examination of all such
returns accompanying money accounts should be under the supervision of the
different military, and naval bureaus, for administrative advisementtothe accounting officers of their correctness.
Obstacles have been found to exist to.the strict execution of the act of J u l y
17, 1862, entitled " A n act to provide for the more .prompt settlement of the
accounts of disbursing officers."
By.a provision of the law, modifications are authorized, at your discretion, as
to the extension of time.for the rendition of accounts therein provided for.
At your suggestion, the recommendation of the different branches of War,
Interior, and Navy Departments has been submitted.to you, with report from,
this office thereon.
In the naval branch of life, service, the modification thus recommended has
been approved by you. That suggested for the War and Interior I have no
•doubt will meet the entire acquiescence of those departments, and thus will be
conserved the salutary and essential purpose of the law.
1,would avoid the extension of this paper, by respectfully referring you to the
separate reports of the Second, Third, and. Fourth Auditors for details and suggestions.
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With the addition of duties which those officers anticipate, and with the increase
of clerical force, recommended by them, this office inevitably shares.
In this connexion T do but follow out the suggestions of my predecessors, as
' well as my own convictions, in recommending that the clerical increase of this
office should be in ratio of one revising clerk here to three given additionally to
each of the .Auditors of the War and Navy for the purpose of stating accounts.
Furthei*, I may be permitted to add, that the measure of ability, as of salary,
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should, as has hitherto been invariably urged by my predecessors, be higher in
this office.
"^ If further experience of the increasing magnitude of labor and responsibility
devolving on this office shall, in my opinion, justify me in recommending other
provisions of law, I will, at the proper time, venture to call your attention to the
subject, rather than undertake a task which may be impossible iaithfully to be
executed by ^ny one, however able or experienced.
With great respect your obedient servant,
.
J . MADISON C U T T S , Comptroller,
Hon.
SALMON P . CHASE,
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Secretary of the Treasury,
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TREASURER'S OFFICE, Novemher 27,
1862.
SiR": The following summary of the business of the treasury for the fiscal
year ending the.30th June,. 1862, together with suggestions in regard to needful
changes in this office, is respectfully submitted:
The amount paid into the treasury during said year, and covered by thirtythree hundred and forty-three warrants, was^From customs, lands, and miscellaneous sources
$583,. 317, 631 42
War Department.....
3,271,609 67
Navy Department
2, 434, 195 21
Interior Department...173, 981 42
Total
, 589,197,417 72
The preceding amounts include repayments into the treasury for adjusting
balances. The aggregate payments into the treasury for the. fiscal year ending
June 30, 1861, were only $88;694,572 03.
The payments during the fiscal year ending on the 30th June last, made ujion
21,296 drafts issued upon 21,282 warrants, were—
For civil, diplomatic, miscellaneous, and- public debt
$132; 333, 453 19
War Department
397, 640, 017 03
Navy Department
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45, 102, 472 30
Interior Department.
...
3, 300, 300 27
Total
578,376,242 79
The above sums include transfers for adjusting balances'.
For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861, the total payments from the treasury,
were only.$90,012,449 79.
. The amount received for the use pf the Post Office Department, from postmasters and others, for the fiscal year, including a balance of.$57,684 03 in the
treasury at the commencement of the year, w a s . . . . . . .
$3, 683, .688 .20
Paid on 4,310 post office warrants
,$3, 644, 381 62
Less amount of cancelled warrants — . . . . .
5, 858 90
3,638,522 72
Leaving at the close of the year, subject to draft—...
...
. . . 45,165 48
T h e sum of $197,740,177 20 was transferred, by means of 472 transfer orders,
from one depository to another," to facilitate disbursements for the public service.
In addition to the "transfer account" ivith the assistant treasurer at New
York, like accounts have been opened during the past year with the assistant
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treasurers at Boston and Philadelphia, that have greatly benefited public creditors and facilitated business operations at this office. Nearly forty millions has
been paid through the medium of those accounts.
Tlie practice of holding moneys to the credit and subject to the draft of disbursing officers continues to work advantageously to them and with safety to
the government, but at the expense of largely increased labor and responsibility
thrown upon those employed in that branch of the public service. These deposits of disbursing officers have increased at this office, during the year, from
a little over eight millions to more than one hundred and ninety millions of dollars.
The business of the treasury proper, embracing aggregate receipts and disbursements, at all the offices of the department, has increased over the preceding
year, as six and a half to one. The transactions of this office have, however,
increased oVer those of last year in the ratio of nearly twenty-three to one. The
subjoined statements for the last two fiscal years will present a full and clear
idea of the money mo vements at the office in this city, and, by comparison, the
great accumulation of labor incident to the increase of business transactions.
Stateinent of the receipts and disbursements at the treasury of the United States
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f o r the fiscal year ending June 30, 1^61, "
Cash in treasury June 3Q, 1 8 6 0 . . . . . . . .
$604, 598 97
Coin by e x p r e s s . . . . ' . . , .
3, 965, 500 00
New York transfer drafts.
. 3, 934, 984 74
Receipts on loans
:
2, 863, 794 16
Receipts for use of Post Office Department
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17, 972 14
Sundry receipts.
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^ 1, 144, 985 38
Agency deposits.
' 8, 130, 834 21
Total.
20, 662, 669 60
Disbursements to July 1, 1861
Cash in treasury J u l y 1, 1861
19,691, 430 16
971, 239 44.
Total.
,..,
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20,662, 669 60
Statement of receipts and disbursements dt the treasury of the United States
:;
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1^62:
^C^sh in trea:sury;July 1, 1 8 6 1 . . . . . .
$971,239 44
Coin received by express"..-i-^^'v^^ i-...-....:..
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9, 570, 000 00
New York transfer checks
39, 351, 553 73
Receipts on national loan
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• 4, 272, 602 40
Receiptsvfblr.vPost-Office Department.
200, 380 31
.Receipts on 6 per cent. 5.20 United States bonds
190, 896 77
Receipts-on; 4^p)er%ent:^'tenip%rir^^
92,523 40
Sundry receipts
756, 961 94
United States notes, old issue
:
60, 030, 000 00
United States notes, new issue.
:
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100, 620, 000 00
Certificates of indebtedness
44, 888, 979 73
Old issue United States notes returned to be burned
8, 696, 700 00
New issue United States notes returned
4, 000, 000 00 ^
Oregon war bonds issued
1,010, 750 00
Deposits..
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. . . 1 9 0 , 1 0 4 , 2 0 9 47
Reimbursement for old issue United States notes b u r n e d . . .
58, 610 00
Total.
464, 815, 407 19
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Dishursevients to July 1, 1862, v i z :
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Paid on depositors' checks, treasury drafts, post office warrants, interest on public debt, &c
$248, 348, 084 03
Redemptions.—Certificates of indebtedness
5, 384, 574 11 •
4 per cent, temporary loan
1, 624 51
old issue United States notes destroyed
6, 990, 000 00
new issue, destroyed
\ ' 2, 000, 000 00
Paid members of Congress
870, 365 70
Transfers and credits
195, 016,105 66
Cash in treasury
6, 204, 653 18
Total
• 464, 815,407 19
The first entire'month that the office was in my charge, April, 1861,' the total
receipts and disbursements, exclusive of balances, was $3,007,832 21.
The same items for April, 1862, amounted to $331,165,816 81, or more than
one hundred and ten times as much as for the same month last year. Although
many items in the above amounts are represented three or four times, thereby
increasing totals in both months, yet all these transfers of money and entries
upon books became necessary to the correct transaction of business, and involved
corresponding risks and responsibilities. The correspondence of the office for
the month of April, 1861, exclusive of letters containing remittances, numbered
fifty four; in April, 1862, the number of written letters was five hundred and
twenty.
At the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861, there were upon the
books eighty open accounts of disbursing officers; at the close of the last fiscal
year those accounts had increased to two hundred and thirty-two.
Depositors' checks in the former year
,
22,430
Depositors' checks in the latter year
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81,150
Transfer checks, drawn^in the former year.. •
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1,484
Transfer checks, drawn in the latter year
8,158
A glance at the facts and figures set forth will show the necessity for an entire reconstruction of the personnel of this office. As at present organized, the
force employed and the room occupied are inadequate to the proper transaction
of the public business, although it is believed that the multifarious duties and
labors appertaining to the bureau have been thus far discharged with exactness
and promptitude. The work has been performed by devoting not only almost
every hour of each day, (Sundays not excepted,) but many hours of night, to
continuous labor beyond the endurance of most men. The compensation of
those employed in this office, with the present cost of living, is too small for
the services rendred, and not enough to maintain such as have families. It is
less than one-half that paid to employes of the same grade in the office at New
York, who have like duties, perform no more labor, and incur no greater responsibilities It has been only' by personal appeals to their patriotism, and holding
out the hope that Congress would do them justice, that some of the best clerks
have been induced to remain in this office. Others, unable to endure the hard
and long-continued labor, have succumbed and left the office. There are atpresent more temporary than regular clerks employed here, yet nearly the
whole force is overworked to a degree that cannot be continued. Under
former regulations, thirty-six hours' labor per week was required, but seldom had of clerks. There are persons .now in this office who work fiiithfully
and efficiently full threefold that time, and even the Sabbath has brought to
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them no period of rest. I t is right and proper that such faithfulness and industry, "united with suitable talents and integrity, receive reward in a substantial form.
The public exigencies and the business of the office require that there be a
deputy treasurer, with all the powers of the Treasurer of the United States.
The number of clerks should also be increased; and as a high order of ability
lind moral character is required, and great'responsibilities must rest on them,
they should be paid at least as well as clerks of like grade, and dischargiag
similar duties, in other offices.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
F . E. SPINNER,
Treasurer of the United States,
Hon.
S. P . CHASE,
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Secretary of the Treasury.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Solicitor's Ofiice, November 17, 1862.
SIR : I have the honor herewith to transmit a report of the operations of this
office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862, embraced in "^YQ tabular statements.
In the first four of these statements the proceedings are classified, as far as it
can be conveniently done, so as to present as distinctly as possible all that has
been done in each of the judicial districts, and in each particular class of business ; to which is added a general summary of the whole, viz :
No. 1.—Statement of suits on transcripts of the official settlements of the accounts of defaulting public officers, contractors, &c., adjusted^by the accounting
officers of the Treasury Department.
No. 2.—B-Statement of suits brought during the year f6r the recovery of fines,
penalties, and forfeitures for violations of the revenue laws, and for other
causes, including prize cases and cases arising under the act of J u y 13, 1862.
"No. 3.—Statement of suits on warehouse transportation bonds for duties on
mported goods.
No. 4.—Statement of miscellaneous suits, which includes all suits brought^
during the year which are not embraced in the three preceding tables.
No. 5.—A general sumniary showing the aggregates of the foregoing tables.
From this general summary it appears that the whole number of suits of all
descriptions brought during the year is 1,072, of which 10 were of class 1, for
the recovery of $66^517 88; 843 of class 2, for $1,322,996 9 3 ; 29 of class 3,
for $40,704 74; and 190 of class 4, for $28,010.
Of these suits, 544 have been disposed of during the year, as follows, viz:
358 decided for the United States; 55 decided against the United States; 98
settled and dismissed, and 33 remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury; leaving still, pending and undecided 528. Of the whole number remaining undecided, 233 are in the southern district of New York; and I am .informed that
the chief cause of their not having been brought to trial has been the inability
of the judges sitting Avithin that district to hear and determine the immense
number of cases brought before them.
Of the suits on the docket of the office which were instituted previous to the
commencement of the last fiscal year, 148 have been disposed of during the
year, viz: 26 decided for the United States; 50 decided against the United
States, and 72 settled and dismissed.
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The aggregate number of suits of all descriptions decided and otherwise dis-.
posed of during the year is 692. The gross amount of judgments obtained,
• exclusive of those in rem, is .-$66,342 29; and the., whole amount collected from
all sources is $461,438 87.
The following table presents a general comparative view of the business under
the charge of the office, so far as the same is exhibited in the foregoing statements and summary for the last fiscal year, and for the year immediately preceding the last:
SUITS BROUGHT DURING T H E FISCAL YEAR.
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$75,683 59
35,757 45
$444,279 16
1,463,229 55
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$113,787 74
332,433 62
1,12
358
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129,005 25
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32
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Whole amount of judgments in favor of United
States during fiscal
year.
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States during fiscal
year. '
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178' $136,818 35
66,342 29
384
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327
528
529
1,072
II..
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$343,346 46
461,438 87
By reference to this table it will be perceived that the business of the last
year was fully double that of the year next preceding, and, I will add, there
seems to be no prospect of its diminution, but, on the contrary, there is every
reason for believing that it will undergo still further and greater increase.
Very soon after I entered upon the duties of this office my attention was attracted
by the large amount of outstanding judgments in favor of the United States
which is evidenced by its books, and I have caused investigations to be made
_-with a view to determine the amount of these judgments; the causes which
have led to their immense accumulation, and whether it is not practicable to
devise means of greatly reducing the amount now outstanding, and of preventing
siich accumulations iri future.
By reference to statements herewith transmitted, showing the character and
condition of'these judgments, in detail, and to a summary exhibiting the gross
amount, and the amount outstanding in each judicial'^district, it will be perceived
that the aggregate of these uncollected judgments within the districts at present
under the control of the national government reaches the large sum of
$8,685,157^47.
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I am persuaded that one of the chief causes of so large an accumulation of uncollected judgments has been the state of the law relating -to the compensation
of district attorneys, Their compensation has been,.and still is, altogether inadequate, and it is, in my judgment, regulated by defective, artificial, and unwise provisions. It is measured by a fee bill which falls far short of apportioning the compensation in accordance with the amount of service rendered.
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Especially, no allowance is made, by way of percentage' or otherwise, for the
collection of money due to the government. There is a fee for tlie prosecution
of the suit for the money to judgment, and that is all. For anything that may
be done afterwards—and experience shows that often the greater difficulties of
realizing for the government what "is due to it remain to be surmounted after
judgment—the district attorney receives absolutely no compensation whatever.
With the rendition of the judgment, therefore, all his personal interest in the
proceeding terminates. He files his precipe for execution, it is true, and, the
execution issues; but the marshal may not readily discover property wherewith
to satisfy it, and he, too often prematurely, abandons all efPort to do so, and returns '^ nulla bona." Often, too, an execution will not reach property which is
laiowii to exist, and further proceedings are requisite, in order to enforce the
judgment. The district attorney is pressed with other duties ; the return of the
marshal is not questioned ; the additional proceedings are not taken; every day's
delay increases the difficulties in the Avay of collection; perhaps the district attorney goes out of office, and is succeeded by another incumbent, who has had
no responsibility in connexion with the case, knows nothing of it, and receives
no compensation for anything he iiia}^ do in relation to it. The result is, the
judgment remains year after year uncollected, though, by the use of the requisite means, it might have been, and, in many cases, might still be, enforced.
I consider it vain to expect any other result, so long as the present system of
. compensating district attorneys remains in operation. The adoption by them
of the necessary me*asures for enforcing a judgment would, in many cases, involve them in personal expense, for the reimbursement of which no provisionls
made, and, in almost all cases of any difficulty, would impose upon them much
labor, for which, as I have already said, they receive no compensation.
I feel confident, however, that by a change of the law in this respect, and the
adoption of some other means,, which I will point out, a large portion of these
outstanding judgments may still be collected. For this purpose, I would recommend—
1st,. That, in addition to the compensation now allowed bylaw, district attoriiieys be allowed a commission upon all moneys collected for the United States
in suits under their care; making the commission larger where the moneys are
.collected upon judgments obtained by their predecessors than when collected
.011 such as are obtained by themselves.
2d. That the Solicitor of the Treasury be authorized, unddr the direction and
\witli the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, to employ special attormeys and agents, upon such terms as the Secretary and Solicitor may deem
.reasonable and proper, to collect any outstanding judgments in favor of the
United States, for the collection of which they may consider it expedient to
resort to such means.
3d. That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized, upon a full report by
the proper district attorney of the facts and circumstances connected with any
judgment, and the terms upon which it is proposed to compromise the same, and
..upon'the concurrent.recommendation of the district attorney and of the Solicitor
of the Treasury, to compromise such judgment accordingly.
I would recommend the ^illowance of such a commission to district attorneys
as a matter'of justice to those officers; but, independent of all such considerations, I wo.uld most earnestly recommend it as a measure of the clearest policy,
as T entertain no doubt whatever that its adoption would result in advantage to
the government. I do not conceive it to be necessary for me to say anything
by way of explanation or enforcement of the proposition to authorizis the
" Solicitor to employ special agents and attorneys.. With reference to the power
of compromising judgments, I Avill say that, while it is a power which has been
held to be vested in the Solicitor of the Treasury, it is one concerning the exercise of which I should feel great hesitation, and which I certainly should not
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
133'
exercise without the advice and approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Still, I think it is a power which ought to exist as well for the interest of the
governnient as for the sake of judgment debtors, since it is often practical)le to
obtain a portion of a judgment by comproraisb when nothing could be obtained
by compulsory measures; and I know of no place where such a power could
be so appropriately lodged as with tbe head of the Treasury Department.
Another subject which has received from me very considerable consideration .
is that of frauds in the importation of foreign merchandise. On the 14tli of
March last I had'thchonorof addressing you upon this subject, on. the occ:isit)u
of returning to you a printed'communication in relation thereto, Avhich had been
addressed to you by a gentleman of New York, and which you had caused- to
be transmitted to me for exaniination, and for an expression of my views upon
the suggestions contained therein. In the letter which I then addressed to you
I used the following language : *' I have no doubt that extensive frauds have
been committed, and that their commission is still persisted in. I am [Persuaded
that the revenue sufPers loss to large amounts annually from this cause, aud
that every consideration of interest and of morals requires that it should be suppressed. The treasury needs all that is due to it, and tlie cause of morality is
served by visiting violations of it with due punishment. Besides, it is due to
honest merchants to protect them against the practices of the unscrupulous."
Recent developments, and further examination and rellectioh liave only served
to deepen the convictions thus expressed, and I- beg to call your attention to
the letter to which I refer, and to the printed communication by Avhich it was
accompanied, for a more full exposition of this subject than I shall attempt iu
this report.
In that letter I stated, and I take the .liberty of here repeating, that first in
order among the means of preventing a continuance of these frauds, I would
place vigorous and uiirelaxing efforts to detect and punish those which have
already been commited, since nothing would have a better tendency to deter
persons from committing frauds in the future than perceiving that the government is earnestly engaged in prosecuting those committed in the past. For this
purpose I think that special agents, to be employed as detectives in this branch
of the government service, might be employed with advantage, as well abroad
as at home.
But I am of opinion that prospective measures of prevention may be adopted
with the most salutary results. The first great object in all efforts of this character must be to secure the disclosure, in an authentic and permanent form, of
the actual terms of all purchases of foreign merchandise imported into this
country, and the deposition and retention of the evidence thereof in pOsiticms
safe and accessible, and convenient alike for the purpose of estimating the duty
and of detecting any error or fraud.
,
For this purpose it seems to me that the following requirements could not
fail to have a most beneficial effect:
1st. To require every invoice of foreign merchandise to be signed by the
seller or his authorized agent, and accompanied by an affidavit or solemn declaration that it exhibits the actual terms of the purchase to which it relates, including the currency or other consideration actually paid for the merchandise.
2d. That such invoice shall" be deposited, within a limited and short time
after the purchase, with some officer of the government of the United States, <'is
the consul or commercial agent, in the country of the purchase. This should
be done in order to guard against the possibility of changing the invoice between the time of the purchase and the time of making the entry of the goods,
and to afford ready means of comparing the prices stated therein with the markets of the country, and in connexion with the next requirement which I shall
suggest, for still another and not less important purpose, viz.; that of preventing
the possibility of the loss or destruction of the invoice by collusion or otherwise.
134
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
3d. The exhibition and deposit with the revenue officers of a duplicate of the
invoice, verified by the certificate of the consul or other officer, stating that the
original has been deposited with him, and showing the time when such deposit was made.
4th. The affidavit of the importer as to the genuineness and truthfulness of
the invoice in every respect.
In addition to these measures, I think if highly important that the whole,
subject of the prevention, detection, and prosecution of violations of the revenue
laws be placed under the general supervision of some officer of the Treasury
Department. This seems to me alike necessary for the energy and the uniformity of the measures to be adopted ; and J am confident that it would prove
alike conducive to the interests of the government and of importers. As a
large portion of those measures are now, and must reniain, under the direction
of the Solicitor of the Treasury, it Avould seem that there is no other officer to
whom the remainder could be so appropriately assigned as to him. For the
very considerable increase in labor and responsibility which would be the
result, he might be allowed a very small percentage^—probably one-half of one
per cent. Avould be sufficient—upon the moneys collected under his supervision.
While such an allowance would be sufficient for his compensation, it would be
too small in any particular case to excite his cupidity, and thereby cloud his
judgment, or unduly influence his action.
In conclusion, I bave to sa,y that fully persuaded, as I am, that the adoption
of the several measures which I have thus indicated would redound to the advantage of the government,. I beg most earnestly to recommend that they be
adopted, and that Congress be asked to make such legislative provisions as may
be requisite .to that end. Though some of these measures would confer incidental benefits upon certain officers of the government, I feel assured that any
such special advantages would be outweighed by those which would accrue to,
tlie govenraent itself* a hundredfold.
'
I have the honor to be, with high respect,
E D W A R D JORDAN, Solicitor,
Hon.
S. P . CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Statistical summary of business under charge of the Solicitor of the Treasury during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
Judicial districts.
T r e a s u r y , transcripts.
No.
Amount
sued for.
Fines, penalties, and • .Miscellaneous.
•forfeitures.
No
Amount sued No.
for.
Amount
sued for.
Total amount (reported) judgm'ts
for United States.
eUlTS BROUGHT DURING T H E FISCAL YEAR ENDING T H E T H I R T I E T H DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1 8 6 2 .
Warehouse
transportation
bonds.
No.
Amount
. sued for.
1 '^
Jl"i
i«
0
If
' r t CO
CJDO
^
13
rt
ia
il
'•5
0 "'
• p
0
•27
Maine.......
•$4,502 44
1
New.Hampshire
'2'
Vermont
......
1
" { ' . '^isjgge'eo
'M assacliusetts
57
2
Connecticut
4
2
Rhode Island
6
13
New York, northern d i s t r i c t . .
8
302 " * ' 8 5 , ' i 9 7 ' 8 6 ' 57
N e w York, souihern d i s t r i c t . . "i " s i , 879* 96
14
N e w Jersey
108 " " ' 3 5 , 2 9 2 ' 5 3
ipennsylvania, eastern district.
....
Pennsylvania, western district .i 'li,*905'34
""2' '
Delaware
".578*i6" 3
90
Marvland
4,100 00
X».A t-llJICI.IlU
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tli'vtripr o f r i n l i i m h i a
Viit'inia, eastern district
Virfinin
wp^stprii.fli.stript
....
$4,302 44,
$6,963 21
's
1
4
• ""is* 996*66"
"'32,396"49"
4
5
" " 625"60
7
•
•
805
40
'46^350 "on.
"**^287*6o"
6,* 637'66"
67
107,281 67
15
• 3,608 64
110,686 46
6
790 -!4
"^
40
•"*35,"292*,53" "4,*624'22" 107,38? 57
11,905 34
578 10
*:::::*.::::'
,, 7,659 01 "'"29
3,000 00 ....
7,100 00
2
"52"
**'ll
1
5
"*'i"
...... ...
....
*'6^044*36
$5,963 '2i
20
6,'644*36'
*i2
J
J5
28
"5 " " ' 5
-33
59
0
"1
8
15
22
233
375
4
14
62
111
1
1
1
2
38
91
'"**1
1
"io
""39
""e
"***9
North C a r o l i n a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
South C a r o l i n a , . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Florida, northern district
Florida, souihern district
Alabama, northern d i s t r i c t . . . .
Alabama, middle d i s t r i c t . . . . .
Louisiana, eastern . d i s t r i c t . . . .
Tiniii^irtiin
"39
.'.'..
i,'166*746*66"
...... .....
"33^996"is" •*!*29
i," 166,'746*66'
WK'^jfcrn r l i ^ t r i r t .
Mississippi, northern district..
Mississippi, southern district..
Te.\'Ts, eastern district.
'Pi'YJis; \vp<;tprn fli.Jtrif»t
A
r k a n s a s , eastern district
Arkansas, western district . . . .
Misi-ouri, eastern d i s t r i c t . . . . . .
Missouii, western district
Tennessee, eastern d i s t r i c t . . . .
!!!!**'.!.'..!
;:::;:*:::*•*'
....
.. .
....
!'.;;.".*.::.:
•••'5'
""'"eoo'oo'
'3
::::
142*26"
,l\V,',\,',',',,
742*26'
i42'26'
""'f
.... J.
Statistical summary of business under charge of the Solicitor o f the Treasury, 8^.—Continued.
SUITS BROUGHT DURING T H E FISCAL YEAR ENDINO T H E T H I R T I E T H DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1 8 6 2 .
Judicial districts.
c
Treasury transcripts.
No.
Amount
sued for.
Fines, penalties, and
forfeitures.
Miscellaneous.
Amount sued No.
for.
No.
Amount
sued for.
No.
Amount
sued for.
T3
9^ i
Warehouse
transportation
bonds.
If.
.
i
•fi
III
00
|1
H
ll
."2
'0 •
0
.fi £?
fi
I'i
$4,138 36
Kentucky
Ohio northern district
6,456 87
29
17
13
44
"$566'66
llhnois northern district
2,096 39
B'licliifan
Wisconsin
Iowa
39
1
9
6.000 00
6:280 00
2
12
3
8
12
6
1
$5,000 00
"2,* 666*66"
2,660 00
3
$6,161 40
$9,138 36
6 ; i 6 l 40
8,956 87
5
10,335 50
12,995 50
7,000 00
2,000 00
"*2"
Kansas
a
0
1'^
m
*25,'170*66'
$9,581
2.947
2;146
2,147
15,096 39
8,280 00
25,170 00^ •$25,i76'66"
12
35
22
00
10,940 16
5 00
2,078 50
54
1
23
13,100 00
2
300 00
13,100 00
4,540 80
24
17
10
24
5
31
... .^.
9
300 00
Utah Territory .
Nebra.5ka Territory
Dakota Territory
'Colorado Territory
.
Nevada Territorv
.
N e w Mexico Territory . . . . . .
I
19
5
66,-517 88
843
1,322,996 93 190
28,010 00
29
45,704 74
1,463,229 55
e
35,757 45
332,433 62
358
"is
"*2l"
10
55
23
6
11
1
•i
10
33
32
16
52
17
39
11
10
2
4
4
.
1
1
9
8
6
14
12
3
9
V 5
"is
California, southern district...
Ore'^'on
2
'0
-
Tenne<'see. middle district
Total
• ^3
55
W
a
02
'
......
98
H
O
33
528
1,072
2 "3
SUITS BROUGHT PRIOR TO T H E PRESENT FISCAL YEAR.
E
E «
Judicial districts.
'5
•fi
•fl
Is
•a
's
.2
.5 S
ns
ra
II'
1
1
S
o
<
Maine
.
C
CQ
4
..
1
Rhode Island
II.
T3
."
1.1
"o tn
o.t;
=3
<5
EH
8
4
1
$554 80
li
48
58
i
120
399 77
53,561 55
1
2
1
4
2,439 07
2
2
659 00
Delaware.
Souih Carolina
.
18
4
5
8
81
6
41
Whole amount of judprnents
rendered in favor of United.
States during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1862.
Statistical summary of business under charge of the Solicitor of the Treasury, Sfc.—Continned.
$5,963 23
"*** 4,'624*22*'
S rt
a) X V.
o
$6,963 21
H
32,951 29
O
•tz!
625
1.205
160,843
790
109,826
00
17
22
14
64
28
7,659 01
659 00
29
46,958 15
3
i42 20
-
«
HH
02
V
12,961 37
T e x a s eastern district
.
T e x a s western district
Arkansas, eastern dis'rict
Arkansas western district . •«
Missoufij'eastern district
.
••.«..•*.
........
.
.'
.......*.....
oo
Statistical summary of business under, charge of the Solicitor of the Treasury, S^c.—Continued.
•
•fi
Judicial districts.
fl
. pi
• H
•s
Q
I
•
e
i
m
Ci.-
. - ;
73
c- C <u
t^.2
o
to
<
—-fcD
, - 8 | |
•
O cy.2
CJOT^,
o
o-g
H
O
Missouri, western district. ',
T e n n e s s e e , eastern district .
Tennessee, middle district
T e n n e s s e e , western district.
Kentucky
•..
Total
T3
Total number of suits
disposed of.
t3
Decided against United
States.
i2.2
Ohio, southern district . . . . .
Indiana
,
l l h n o i s , northern district
llhnois, southern district
Michigan
V^isconsin.
Iowa
(Viinnesota
Kansas
California, northern district
California, southern district
Oregon
Wa.shington Territory . . . . . .
Utah Territory
Nebraska T e r r i t o r y . . .
Dakota Territory
Colorado Territory
,
Nevada Territory
N e w Mexico Territory
cS
SUITS BROUGHT PRIOR TO T H E PRESENT FISCAL YEAR.
^
Whole amount of judgrhents
rendered in favor of United
States during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1802.
GO
...
. ..
• $601 14
•5,271 27
557 50
1,271 59
24
18
13
25
8
31
4,470 00
•7,161 09
I2
25,170 00
$9, .581 12
3,548 49
7,417 49
2,704 50
1.271 59
10,940 16
5 00
6, ,548 50
7,161 09
39,097 10
19
6
14,648 93
344 96
• 43,637 90
.
$4,500 00
.'
11,090 95
14,648 93
344 96
1
3
1
3
6
1
1
8
2
3
I
1
$4,500 00
iij6g6*95"
,..'.
.....'....
'.'.'.
'.
4.
*
;,
1
1
...
i..
;...;.
30, ,584 84
26
.. 50
72
148
129,005 25
384
66,342 29
461,438 87
w
a
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REPORT ON THE FINANCES/
139
K.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Register's Office, Novemher 20, 1862. »
S I R : There is probably no bureau connected with-the government the operations of which are brought to your attention so seldom as that of the R-egister. ' It
is for this reason, and 'because I believe some congressional action indispensable,
if its constantly increasing duties are to, be properly performed, that I desire to
bring to your notice, somewhat more fully than i^ usually done, a statement of
what has been performed during the last fiscal year, and to make some suggestions in relation to the future.
The Register's bureau is divided into three departments or divisions, which
are commonly known as the divisions of " Loans," " Receipts and Expenditures," and ** Commerce and Navigation." I shall i;efer to them in the order in
which they are named.
LOANS.
•In this division is transacted the business pertaining to the public debt. It
is the transfer office for registered and coupon bonds. In it are received daily
the certificates of stock for transfer, and new certificates are made out, recorded,"
and issued. All the evidences of g-ssignable indebtedness against the United
States, except the United States notes, are recorded in this division, and from
it all are issued, except these and the three years bonds, bearing 7j^^ interest..
The proper authority for making the issue to each party is received from the
office of the Secretary of the Treasury, the certificates and bonds are prepared,
returned to the" office of the Secretary to be entered and sealed, are then returned and transmitted to the parties entitled to receive them. In all cases of
transfer, the authority to do it is examined and passed upon, and as this is often
done by attorneys and corporations, questions are almost. daily presented requiring an examination and decision upon legal principles. Schedules of the
semi-annual interest upon all the registered boiids, with estimates of the interest
falling due upon coupon bonds, are prepared for the Treasurer and the difierent
assistant treasurers. All the interest coupons, when paid, are returned here,
and having been assorted and counted, are placed in their regular order in books
for permanent pjeservation. The redeemed and cancelled treasury notes are
assorted, arranged, and filed away.
During the last fiscal year the original issues of United States stock have
been as follows:
Loan of .Feb'y 8, 1861. $75,000,embraced in bonds or certificates. N o , .
75
Loan of July l7,1861-o0,000,000,... . d o . .
do
do
41,300
Oregon war d e b t . . . . .
998,600,
do
do
do
•.. 3,159
Loan of 1862, or - ^ ^ . . 9,908,850,
do. .•
do.
do
-. 13,164
60,982,450
57,698
An issue of nearly seventy millions of dollars, requiring' the filling up, recording and signing of fifty-seven thousand six hundred and ninety-eight bonds
or certificates.
The transfers have been as follows :
Loan of 1 8 4 2 . . . . . . . . 117 transfers, certificates 317, amounting to $680,100
Loan of 1 8 4 7 . . . . . . . . 2 0 1 . . . d o . . . . . . . d o . . . : 563
do
1,074,^,00
Loan of 1848
7 5 , . . d o . . . . . . .do
235
do,
707,900
Loan of 1858
23...do
do.,..
34....do
245,000
l40
'REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
Loan of 1860
44 transfers, certificates 268 amountmg to fe73,000
Loan of Feb'y 8, 1861 7 5 8 . . . do
do
2,742
do
6,404,000
Loan of July 17, 1861 4 8 8 . . . do
d o . . . . 1,933
do
7,540,000
Loanof/t)3
l.i.do
do
1
do
1,000
1,707 transfers, certificates 6,093, amounting to 16,925,500
These transfers, amounting to sixteen millions nine hundred and twenty-five
. thousand five hundred dollars, required six thousand and ninety-three certificates.
•
These transfers have required journal and ledger entries to the number of six
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and the opening of over six hundred
new accounts.
Seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine paid coupons have
been counted, trimmed, arid numerically arranged, twenty-thousand of which
have been pasted in books prepared for that purpose.
The business of this division has required the writing and copying of three
thousand two hundred and fifty-seven letters.
' Ninety thousand two years' treasury notes have been signed by the Eegister
and entered upon the books, and sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty-six
certificates of deposit for treasury notes or bonds have been examined, entered,
and checked.
Schedules of dividends have been forwarded semi-annually to the Treasurer
and assistant .treasurers at Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and
Boston, covering one hundred and eighty-eight large pages of account paper,
containing five thousand six hundred and forty names.
All the powers of attorney (and the number is very large, requiring a separate ledger) for the collection of interest have been examined, decided upon, and
' recorded, and a copy made for the First Auditor; and the proper assistant treasurers have been furnished with a copy of each entry as it is made upon the
books.
All the unclaimed dividends have been recorded in a book, a copy of which
has been furnished to the Treasurer.
,
In addition to what I have stated, there has been a 'large amount of labor
performed which cannot be put into tabular form, such as making statements,
answering calls from the Secretary, Congress, and individuals, preparing and
numbering books for the entry of notes, coupons, &c.
This labor alone would probably very nearly equal the whole labor of this
division in former years.
The fact that this large amount of business has been promptly performed,
without the slightest error or complaint from any quarter which has reached me, is due to the fidelity and industry of the clerks in charge. John Oliphant, the head of the division, and John E. Nourse, the principal clerk in
it, have'been unremitting in their attention to it. Stock received for transfer by
the morning mail is invariably transferred and transmitted to the parties by return mail, and the remaining part of the business is transacted with great
promptness. Very numerous evidences are constantly received from parties
and corporations interested that this promptness is not unappreciated.
'
Great as has been the increase in the business of this division during the Istst
fiscal year, the ratio of increase since the close of the year has been greater
still. It has now reached a magnitude not at all pleasant to contemplate. I
• have no hesitation in saying that this division alone should be made a separate
' bureau, and that its proper supervision would furnish sufficient employment for
a competent officer. If the ratio of increase is to continue, and the. evidence is
conclusive that it must for some time to come, the transaction of its business
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
141
with the promptness .which has hitherto characterized it is a simple impossibility. It would be almost superfluous to remark that the issue and transfer of
evidences of the public debt must be promptly made, if the interests either of
the government or those dealing with it are to be consulted and protected.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
This division is the counting-house of the treasury. In it are kept the
accounts Avitli all agents, disbursing or receiving officers^, as well as separate accounts with all the appropriations; warrants for receipts into, and disbursements
from, the treasury are signed and recorded; all accounts connected with the
treasury are entered after having passed the Comptroller, and, with their vouchers,
are deposited in the files room. Most of the accounts showing a balance against the
United States are copied, and the copies, properly certified, are transmitted to the
office of the Secretary of the Treasury, where warrants are made for their payment.
Quarterly settlements are made by the greater number of the disbursing officers;
others are made monthly, and some of the assistant treasurers have accounts
settled daily. As a basis for most of these settlements, this division furnishes
a certificate to the proper Auditor showing the balance upon the last settlement
and the advances since in items. ,To this division the estimates of appropriations are sent by all the departments, and here they are digested, condensed,
and put in proper form to be submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress. A volume is annually published, showing in detail the receipts and expenditures of the government. This.volume, which costs much time and labor,
it appears to me possesses sufficient importance to deserve a more general circulation throughout the country. The law now allows the publication of only
five hundred copies, and these are so dist^'ibuted that few outside of the depart^
ments are aware of its existence. It shows the receipts from all sources, except
those connected with the Post Office Departnient, the districts in which they are
collected, with the names of the officers collecting them. It exhibits also the aggregates of expenditures under each head of appropriation, and the names of the
officers or persons making the disbursements. The. last report comprises 560
closely printed pages, and in order to prepare it a statement is made in detail of the
covering and pay warrants, with the appropriations on account of which they are
drawn. This statement requires more labor and time in its preparation than the
contents of the report itself, which comprises the aggregates of the details contained in the statenient. My reasons for suggesting the propriety of publishing a
larger number of copies are briefly these : Congress and the country would thus
be advised of the nature and extent of the receipts and expenditures from all
sources, and the persons through and by whom they are made, and the necessity
would be obviated for a large proportion of the calls for statements and information upon this department. These calls are numerous upon this and all the
other divisions of this bureau. The labor of weeks is required to answer some
of them, which occasions many serious interruptions to the business of the
office. As many of them relate to the receipts and expenditures of the government, it is believed that a general circulation of the annual reports showing
them would materially reduce the number which would be made in future.
There have been received during the year ending June 30, 1862, and entered
nnder their appropriate heads—
Accounts from the various accounting offices, which are twice registered and
filed....,
There were entered in the several journals and posted to the ledger..
Such as showed balances against the governnient were copied, certified
by the Eegister, and transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury
for pay warrants. The number of these .was
11, 267
3, 802
9, 000
142
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The number of treasury expenditure warrants issued w a s . .
(All these were copied, and entered in the difierent jo'urna;ls, which is equivalent to a second copy.)
Treasury warrants for receipts, customs, &c
.
Expenditure warrants issued from Interior, War, and Navy
Departments.
Eepayment warrants issued (Interior, War, and Navy)
10, 076
2, 314
11, 193
1, 022
24,605
Making an aggregate of
'48, 674
Many of these warrants contain more than one appropriation, and each item
of appropriation requires a distinct entry in several books, and as much entering
as if there was but one in the warrant, so that, in the entry of 24,605 warrants
issued during the year, more than one hundred thousand separate entries were
required.
The number of certificates from the books, showing the balances at
the last settlement and the adva:nces since, furnished to the accounting offices was
'..
5, 525
The number of accounts open on the several ledgers on the 30th .of
June, 1862, was
4, 145
And the number of pages occupied by the entry of 3,802 accounts,
10,076 treasury expenditure warrants, and 2,314 treasury receipt
warrants, was
1, 856
The drafts issued upon pay warrants are all recorded in this division.
The nuniber was
^
21, 268
The certificates of indebtedness issued under the acts of 1817 and March,
1862, are recorded and in part filled up. The number up to June 30,
1862, was
'.
26, 256
Much preparatory work for the balancing of the several ledgers has been done
during the past year, and there is much, time and labor expended in the performance
of various £\prvices which, from their nature, cannot be specifically enumerated.
These alone would probably occupy the time of two or more clerks during the
whole year.
This divisioi^ has for many years been under,the general charge and direction
of B. F . Eittenhouse.. I can only repeat in regard to him the expressions
which have been so 'many times reported in his favor by my predecessors. He
has met the demands upon his time and industry, created by the extraordinary
increase of the business of his division, faithfully and promptly. I am noj;
aware of any division in the Treasury Department the duties of which are more
complicated or important, or which have been more largely increased by the
war. I feel that I am only performing an act of justice in urging the jiropriety of making him some additional compensation. .He is almost daily called
upon to perform duties which do not properly belong to his division, but
which his thorough knowledge of the receipts and expenditures of the government for many years enables him to discharge. Nothing but unremitting attention during the whole year, joined to an unusual capacity for business, could
have enabled him to accomplish so much.
It will be seen at once that the business of this division must increase in exact
proportion with the receipts and expenditures of the government. It has been accomplished during the past year by an increased activity and industry on the part
of the clerks in this division, instead of a corresponding increase in their nuinber.
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COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION-.
From this division the annual report of commerce and navigation is issued,
and its duties are, the receiving, from the various collection districts and other
sources, returns and statements showing the value and descriptions of the various articles imported and exported, whether in American or foreign vessels; the
rate and amount of duties; the countries from and the. districts into which the
imports, and the districts from-and the countries to which the expoi^s,are made;
the correction of these returns, and their entry into suitable books, and their
compilation for the annual report; the compilation of statements for Congress
and others; the making of estimates and statements for new tarifi's;. the preparation of forms for returns of imports-and exports, duties and tonnage, for the
collection districts; the statements and tables for the financial report of the
Secretary of the Treasury; the superintendence of the printing and proofreading of the annual report and other statements issued, with the official
correspondence relating to these several sabjects.
There are, at present, seventy-two collection districts, which make quarterly
returns of the business done in each district. These.returns consist of—
Imports in American vessels
.1
Imports in foreisrn vessels
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± our abstracts ot each, one
Lixports 01 iorei2:n merchandise in American I
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2 Z
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> under each tarili, to be rendered
vessels
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.
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eacii Quartcr.
Jiixports 01 loreign merchandise in toreign I
vessels
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Exports of domestic produce in American ^
vessels
> One abstract each, each quarter.
Exports of^domestic produce in foreign vessels )
Imports under the reciprocity treaty with Great ^
Britain in American vessels
.-. > One abstract each, each quarter..
Ditto in foreign vessels
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Indirect trade in American vessels
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> One abstract each, each quarter.
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Tonnasre of American vessels entered
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Tonnaie of American vessels cleared
. . ] ^^^ "^""^'^^^ each,,eacli quarter.
Tonnage of foreign vessels entered
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> One abstract each, each quarter.
Tonnage 01 toreign vessels cleared
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These abstra,cts have each to be examined, and if found to be incorrect, which,
for the past year, has been rather the rule than the exception, the collector of
the district from which the incorrect return was received is written to, and the
correction made. If correct, or when made so, the return is entered in the
books of the division by countries, by districts, and in the aggregates, or footings, of the abstracts. To have these returns entered requires, for—
Imports:
In American vessels
10 books, of 5 forms each, of 58 pages.
In foreign vessels
^
7 do.
5
do.
58 *'
Exports of foreign merchandise:
In American vessels .^^
9 do.
b
do.
58 "
111 foreign vessels
10 do.
5
do.
58 "
Exports of domestic produce:
In American vessels
4 do.
20
do.
12 *'
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.'
2 do.
22
do.
12 " ^
making a great increase by reason, of the-changes in the tariff from ad valorem
to specific rates of duty.
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In consequence of the changes in the tariff, it is necessary to keep separate
and distinct books of the imports and exports of foreign rfierchandise, under the
several acts of March 3, 1857, March 2, August 5, and December 24, 1861—
•four difibrent sets of books. This great increase of the work has made it impossible to enter, the returns from the several collectors and balance the books
of the division as early as heretofore.
By the passage of the act of March .2, 1861, the work upon the report for
the year eifding June 30, 1861, Avas increased fi'om 684 pages for the report
of 1860, to 1,093 pages for that of 1861—a difference of 409 pages. By the
passage of the acts of August 5 and December 24, 1861, the work has been
materially increased over that of last year, and will make about 1,500 pages of
printed matter. These changes in the tarifi' have rendered new ** forms" of
.returns of imports and exports of foreign merchandise necessary, and an in- •
crease in the number and character of the books of the division. Last year
one of the two sets of books covered a period of ovlj'three months; this year
two sets, each covering the entire year—the third set from the 5th of August,
and the fourth set from the 24th of December, 1861. As the fiscal year begins
on the first day of July, the third set covers nearly the whole year.
During the past year ending June 30, 1862, there have been two changes
made in the *4brm" of return of imports and exports, in addition to the forms
of last year. Under the act of March 3,1857, the "form" contained 34 pages;
under the act of March 2,1861, 56 pages; under the act of August 5, 58 pages.
The act of July 14, 1862, the ''form" under which was required to. be made
up during the work on the report for 1862, and now in the hands of tli.e public
. printer, will have about 80 pages.
There is a separate office connected with the division of commerce and navigation, in which the tonnage accounts are kept, which has, for many years, been
conducted by Mr. .LoAvndes. It receives from the various collection districtsninety-five accounts each quarter, in which are embraced abstracts of permanent
and temporary registers and enrolments. These accounts are examined and
compared with the vouchers presented with thein, and the proper entries are
made in the several books containing the tonnage accounts. These accounts
require much correction, and involve an extensive correspondence with the
collectors.
Duriug the year tliere have been prepared and distributed—
Signed and sealed registers
3,515
Enrolments
,
4,300
Licenses
5,550
Duplicate registers issued in the several districts in the year 1860, in number
2,956, and duplicate enrolments issued in 1859, in number 7,518, duplicate
enrolments issued in 1860, in number 8,499, have been recorded in detail;
many calls from Congress, the State and other departments, have been promptly
answered, and more than sixty thousand returned registers have been placed in
suitable books for preservatiom
The Avork in the division of commerce and navigation has been done under
the general supervision of D. W. Haines.- It is highly probable that, in order
to bring out the annual report at the time provided by law,xin future an addition will be required to its clerical force. I Jiave refrained from asking this
increase for the reason that as many changes in the tariffs as have been made
during the past year will not probably again occur, and the labor *may be expected to assume a more definite and uniform character, and I have thought it
better that a temporary delay should be suffered now than to ask for a perma-.
nent increase in the number of clerks, which might turn o'ut to be unnecessary.
A very large increase of the labor of the Eegister's office has been occasioned
by the destruction of the demand notes issued during the year 1861. These
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after having been counted in the Treasurer's office are cut in two, and the upper
halves sent to the Eegister's office, where they are counted and compared with
the Treasurer's statement, and if found correct are destroyed under the direction
of a committee appointed by you for that purpose. The amount thus destroyed
up to the date of this report exceedfi forty millions of dollars. This business
has been transacted under the general direction of John A. Graham, the chief
clerk in this office. This with his other complicated duties have been performed
with his customary promptness and fidelity. .
I ought specially ,to call your attention to the files room of the Eegister's
office, in which are received and properly disposed of the accounts coming from
various sources, through the offices of the First Comptroller and Commissioner
of Customs. Some idea of the magnitude and number of these accounts may
be given by the statement that they require for ^tlieir accommodation a room
120 Teet in leiigth by dver 20 feet in width, which is closely filled with iron
cases, all which are being rapidly filled up. Notwithstanding their great number and complication, any account can be produced with the. delay of a few
minutes, or in default of it, the evidence showing where or in whose custody it
is. Daily reference is had to these accounts by the various bureaus of the
government, and in the course of the year thousands are temporarily withdrawn
by departments having authority, receipted for and returned. In this room the'
transcripts of accounts for suit and other purposes are prepared. It would afibrd
nie ple^^sure to say of all the other departments of my office what I can of this,
that I do not see wherein it is susceptible of improvement. The credit of this
is due to Messrs. Smith and Wannal, the clerks in charge, who seem to have
endeavored so to construct and arrange their department that if put into the
hands of a stranger, the system is so simple and effective, that a few hours only
would suffice to enable him to perform the duties which these clerks discharge.
In an emergency like the present the government may rightfully require the
highest degree of diligence and industry from every person in its service.
During the past year this requirement in the Eegister's office has been fully
answered, and the utmost exertion on the part of the Eegister and his clerical
'force has barely accomplished the performance of the necessary business of the
office. If this business was not to be increased, I should hesitate long before I
undertook to go through with it for another year. But the evidence is conclusive
that it must be very largely increased, and I make this report with the clear
conviction that it will be physically impossible for any one man to perform
during the current year the duties required of the -Eegister under existing laws
and regulations. These have existed without any substantial alteration, so i^ir
as this bureau is concerned, for more than thirty years. It must be manifest
that the force and capacity of an office like this which would be ample when
• the receipts^ and expenditures of the government amounted to fifty or sixty
millions of dollars per year, would be very insufficient under an expenditure of
that sum monthly. With the present unremitting pressure of current business .
the Eegister has not a moment to give.to the examination of the details of labor
in the several divisions, or to any attempts to improve their efficiency. It is
clear that many such improvements might and should be made. There is no
private institution of similar magnitude in which business is transacted now in
the same way that it was thirty years ago. I have not during the last year
been able to give this subject the slightest attention. The pressure of current
business is constant and unremitting. In order to carry on the daily operations
of the office it is not unfrequently necessary for the Eegister to sign his name
at the rate of ten or twelve times a minute during the entire day. Under such
circumstances no paper can be examined, and his whole reliance must be on the
correctness and fidelity of his clerks, and the fact that the business of the past
• year has been done without error or mistake is the highest praise that could be
awarded them. The Eegister cannot absent himself for an hour Avithout causing
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serious inconvenience or delay to some branch of the public business. Daily
and hourly, in sickness or health, this demand upon his attention and physical
energies is incessant and continuous. Eelaxation, the attention Avliich such
times as these require of every man to the comfort and interests of his fellowcitizens, private correspondence and business, all must give way before it. I
have endured it as long as I can. The effect already produced upon myself
admonishes that it is time to ask for some change.
Th.e necessary relief, I think, may be given by the passage of an act of Congress giving to the Secretary of. the Treasury authority to designate clerks in
the office, or others, to sign AA^arrants, certificates, bonds, &c., for the Eegister.
The clerk recording drafts upon the Treasurer, or assistant treasurers, fbr exaniple, might sign the certificate of .record. The clerk recording the Avarrants
might do the same, and thus the Avork be parcelled among three or four, Avhich
is noAv performed'by the Eegister.. ,1 do not believe thSr slightest danger could
result from this. The Eegister noAv is obliged to sign these certificates, without
the slightest examination, for Avant of time, and to rely entirely upon the clerks.
It AA^ould not be advisable that bonds or certificates of registered stock should
be signed by any person other than the Eegister, so long as it can be .avoided,
because bankers, brokers, and other parties dealing in governnient securities are
averse to the slightest change in their form or nature. But the time Avill soon
come AA'hen the change in this respect must be made.
If such authority Avas conferred and exercised only in proper cases, I feel
certain tliat the efficiency of this bureau Avould be greatly increased, its publications rendered infinitely more A-aluable to the country, the expenditures in
the office greatly diminished, and the Eegister would be able to give the necessary supervision to the Avork of all his clerks, to introduce proper changes and
improvements, and even to give that attention to public and social relations
Avhicli may reasonably be demanded of every citizen, a pleasure AY Inch during
the past year has been practically denied him. If it is not, only one result can
be reasonably anticipated. The business of the office cannot be promptly done
and must fall in arrear, and great inconvenience must ensue to the government
and all parties doing business with it through the office of the Eegister.
While the increase of the business in nearly all the departments of the public
service is a subject of notoriety, the increase in this bureau is far aboA^e the
average proportion. This is because the business of many of them finally
comes to the Eegister's office. If, for example, the number of accounts settled
in the offices of the First and Fifth Auditor is increased in each tAventy-five per
cent, during the year, the increase in this office AAHII be fifty per cent., for both
series of accounts must be entered on the books of the Eegister. The same relation exists betAveen this and many other departments of the government. I t
is no pleasure for me to urge the Avants and claims of tho office upoiwou, AAdiile
so many urgent subjects are pressing upon your attention. I have deferred it
as long as a proper regard to the interests of your department Avould permit me
to do so.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
L. E. CHITTENDEN,
Register
Hon.
S. P. CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury.
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L.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Ofiice of Commissioner of Customs, October 20, 1862.
S I R : In compliance Avith your requisition of the 2d instant, I have the honor
to submit a report of the operations of this office during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1862.
The number of accounts of collectors of the customs, and of surveyors desigiiate'd as collectors, received' and finally settled in this office during the year,
amounts to one thousand eight hundred and tAventy-eight.
Accounts relating to the superintendence and construction of light-houses,
beacons, buoys, marine hospitals, and custom-houseS, and for other miscellaneous purposes, amount to one thousand one hundred and seventy-one.
The number of bonds taken from collectors, naval officers, &c., and the notices
issued thereon, amount to one hundred and fifty-four.
In disposing of this amount of business, with other matters referred by tlie
departnient, four thousand four hundred and fifty-seven letters have been sent
iTom, and tAvo thousand and ninety-seven received at this office.
In making this, my annual report, I would respectfully remark that, in looking over the records of my office and the official correspondence of my predecessors, I cannot but obserye that a much greater variety of business Avas formerly referred to or came, as a matter of course, to this bureau', than has of late
years beeii referred to it. I have only to say that I shun neither labor nor
responsibihty, and am ready at all times to take upon myself any and all labor
formerly j^erformed by my predecessors.
I have the honor to be, Avitli great respect, your obedient seiwant,
•N. SAEGENT, •
Commissioner of Customs.
Hon.
S. P .
CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury,
M.'
L I G H T - H O U S E BOAED.
TREASURY DEPARTME-NT,
.. Ofiice Light-House Board, Washingtmi City, November 1, 1862.
S I R : I have the honorxrespectfully to submit for your information, and for
that of Congress, the report of the operations and condition of the light-house
establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
In the -first light-house district, embracing the coasts from the northeastern
boundary of Maine to Hampton harbor, NCAY Hampshire, the board has, through
the exigencies of the military and naval branches of the public service, been depriA^ed of both a naval officer as inspector and an officer of the army as engineer.
I t has therefore been compelled to .rely upon such civil assistance as it could
command; yet it is jDclieved the service lias been faithfully performed, and the
condition of the various aid's to navigation throughout the district is highly satisfactory.
Thorough inspections of the district have been made, and important repairs
and renovations have been efiected at Isle of Shoals, Whale s Back, Portsmouth',
Bbon Island, Cape Elizabeth, Dice's Head, Franklin Island, Henplrick's Head,
Martinicus Eock, and Moose Peak light-houses, and those stations are noAV in
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good order. The buoy and beacon service has received due attention, and when,
by casualties, these aids have been remoA^ed from their stations, they have been
recovered and restationed as promptly as possible.
The second light-house district, embracing the coasts from Hampton harbor,
NeAV Hampshire, to Gooseberry Point, Massachusetts, has but recently had
assigned to it an officer of the navy as inspector, previous to Avhicli assignment,
and since the date of the last annual report, the duties have been discharged,
under the immediate direction of the board, by civilians previously connected
with the light-house establishment as light-house' clerk and engineer's clerk.
Under this arrangement the various aids to navigation in the second district
have been carefully looked after, and, it is believed, are UOAV in a state of creditable efficiency.
'
Several of the light-vessels in this district have, during the past year, been
driven, by stress of Aveather, from their stations. They have, hoAYever, been
replaced as speedily as the delay necessary to make requisite repairs Avould
permit. These accidents to light vessels and their replacement on their stations
involve, in nearly every instance, an enormous expense, and this board makes it
a part of its duty to cause careful investigations .to elicit the facts of the accident, and in every instance Avhere it is reasonable to believe that it is attributable
to negligence or incompetence on the part of the keeper, the details of the case
are promptly reported to the department, Avitli a recommendation that the keeper
be removed. Such precautions are taken to have the light-vessels securely
moored that it is usually found that accidents of this character are mainly due
to carelessness or inattention—sometimes to culpable timidity—on the part of
keepers.
The buoyage and beaconage of this district liaA^e been Avell cared for. Extensive and thorough repairs, &c., have been made to the light stations at
TpsAAdch, Straitsmouth, Bass harbor, Tarpaulin coA^e,,Gay Head, Clarke's Point,
Palmer's island, Ned's Point, Bird island. Long Point, Boston NarroAvs, Ten
Pound island, Marblehead, Dumpling island, NcAvburyport, Annisquam, Egg
Eock, Mayo's Beach, Long Island Head, and Hyannis. NCAV beacons and daymarks, in place of others carried aAvay by storm, have been erected at Monument Bar, Hardy's Eock, and BoAvditch Ledge.
The third light-house district embraces. the coasts from Gooseberry Point,
Massachusetts, to Squam inlet, NCAY Jersey, including Lake Champlain and
Hudson river, and although for most-of the time deprived, by the exigencies of
the military department, of the services of a naval and army officer as inspector
and engineer, yet the duties of the district have been carefully performed, and
the various aids to navigation {ire in a state of higli efficiency.
The tAvo ncAY towers at Navesink, Avliich were under construction at the date
of the last report, have been completed, and the lights exhibited on the 1st of
^May,, 1862. This station UOAV shows two fixed lights of the first order, and
with a vicAv to obAdate an, alleged tendency to confuse mariners by the risk of
confounding the tAvo fixed lights at this station Avitli the two fixed lights on
Sandy Hook light-A^essel, one of the latter lanterns has been loAvered some nine
feeL This plan, it is hoped, Avill entirely remove the cause of complaint.
Extensive repairs to tOAvers and keepers' dAvellings have been made in this
.district, viz: at Juniper island, Burlington, Split Eock, Cumberland Head,
'Point au Eoche, Windmill Point, Esopus Meadows, Eondout, Saugerties, Coxsakie* Stuyvesant, Stony Point, Sandy Hook, Eobbins' Eeef, Bergen Point,
Pas.$aic, Faulkner's island. Execution Eocks, and ElboAV Beacon.
The light-vessel at Sandy Hook AYas found to require extensive repairs.
.These have been made, and the vessel replaced in complete condition on her
station. '
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,
The buoyage of the district has received due attention, aiid has been maintained in a condition of great usefulness.
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There are numerous other works of repair required in this district, which will
be attended to during the- next season as rapidly and completely as time and
other circumstances Avill permit.
In the fourth district, embracing the coasts from Squam inlet, NCAY Jersey, to
Metomkin inlet, Virginia, including DelaAvare bay and tributaries, the lighthouse- service lias been maintained in an efficient condition, with but slight expense for repairs and renovations, the inost important Avork being the rebuilding,
on a proper site, of the light-house at Mahon's river, Avhich change had been
rendered necessary by reason of defective original location, and subsequent
encroachment of the Avater, imperilling the structure. These dangers have been
entirely removed by the ncAv position..
At Cape Henlopen light-house it has been found necessary to take measures
for building a IICAY dAvelling .for the keeper, the old one at that place being
threatened AYith speedy destruction by the steady progress in that direction of
a remarkable sand hill, Avhicli has been moving inflexibly in a certain course at
a constant rate of speed for many years, presenting. in its existence and moA^ement a most singular natural phenomenon. The IICAY dAvellirig is in course of
preparation.
The old light tower at Cape May, Avhich, upon the completion of the new
light-house, had been left standing, having been found to be productive of danger, by misleading mariners by day, has been throAYU doAYn, and steps taken to
dispose of the old materials.
The light-A^essels, buoys, and beacons in the district are in a state of efficiency.
In the fifth light-house district, embracing the coasts from Metomkin inlet,
Virginia, to New Eiver inlet. North Carblina, including Chesapeake bay and
tributaries, Albermarle and Pamlico sounds, ;the service has been to some extent
interrupted, the authority of the United States not yet' having been re-established throughout the entire district.
Since the date of the last report strenuous efforts have been made to restore
discontinued lights, and in vicAv of the numerous grave difficulties to be encoun-.^
tered the board has reason to congratulate itself upon the success Avhich has
attended its exertions.
Immediately upon the restoration of the eastern shore of Virginia to governmental control by the military operations in that quarter, the lights at Cape
Charles, Cherrystone, arid ITog island Avere re-established, and have rendered
assistance of no small importance to the immensely increased naAdgation of
Chesapeake bay and tributaries. The lights, main and beacon, at Cape Hatteras
, haA^e been restored and re-established. The light at Naval Hospital, near
Norfolk, has been relighted.' A temporary light has been exhibited from the
ruins of the light-house at Craney island, and the AYork of pennanently restoring that structure is in progress.
By authority of the department a vessel has been purchased and stationed off
Smith's Point, in Chesapeake bay, to replace the light-vessel belonging to that
station, Avhicli was removed and destroyed by the insurgents. Through the
courtesy of the general commanding this departnient, a competient military
guard for the protection of this vessel has been detailed for duty and is yet
continued.
The light-vessel stations in the bounds of North Carolina have beeii marked
by suitable" vessels shoAAnng temporary lights, viz: Brant Island shoal, .Eoyal
shoal, Harbor island. Long shoal, and Eoanoke river, and steps are now in progress for the early re-establishment of the light-house at Wade's Point, Croatan,
Eoanoke marshes, Pamlico Point, northwest point of Eoyal shoal, and Ocracoke.
The light-vessel Avliich formerly marked Brant Island shoal, and Avhich Avas
recaptured on the taking, by the United States forces, of Forts Hatteras and
Clark, at Hatteras inlet, AYas subsequently sunk by accident at that inlet. She
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has, liowcA^er, been raised, and is now undergoing repairs to fit her for service
as a light-vessel.
The light-house at the. mouth of the Neuse river, AYhich was under con. struction at the time of the breaking out of the rebellion, Avas necessarily abandoned. The work has been recommenced, and is rapidly approaching com' pletion.'
By act of Congress approved June 20, 1860, an appropriation of $5,000 Avas
made for the erection of a beacon light at a suitable point at or near Cape Hatteras inlet. The requisite iron and Avood work for this structure has been prepared at Wilmington, DelaAvare; a Avorking party Avas sent to erect it; the
materials Avere all safely landed at the site selected, and on the same night a
storm of almost unparalleled severity SAvept them aAvay, so that scarcely a
vestige remained. Such of the materials as could be recoA^ered (being such
things as Avould be useful to the army) Avere sold to the quartermaster's department at Hatteras inlet, and the amount, together AYith the balance remaining of
the appropriation, it is believed, AYIII be sufficient to replace, in a measure, the
lost structure.
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Various and important repairs to light-vessels in the upper part of Chesapeake bay have been made, and are still in progress.
The buoyage and light-vessel service of the district, so far as it is practicable
to attend to it, is in a condition of great efficiency. The light-vessel originally
placed to mark the tail of the'Iiorse Shoe, betAveen Capes Charles and Henry,
entrance to Chesapeake bay, Avas lost from her station during the storm in
January last, and it Avas found necessary to place upon that station a vessel
Avhicli the board had been refitting at Baltimore for another station. Measures
have been taken to recover, AYith a vicAv to future use, certain light-vess"^els
AA-hich"had beeii forcibly renioved from their stations in this district, and sunk
LIS obstructions to the channel in Elizabeth river, 4^c.
The lights on Janies river, at White shoal. Point of Shoals, and Deep Water
shoal, Avere re-exhibited during the past summer; but, upon the Avithdrawal of
tlie army froni the peninsula, their services were no longer necessary, arid the
apparatus AYas taken doAvn and stored at Fortress Monroe.
In the sixth light-house district, embracing the coasts from NCAY Eiver inlet,
North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral light-house, inclusive, Florida, but little has
been done to replace lost or destroyed aids to navigation, in consequence of the
larger portion of the district not yet having been brought under the control of
the United States government. The care of-this board AAdll be to push forAvard.
such AYork of restoration parallel with the recoA^ery of the territory.
. The light-vessel stationed by the board off Port Eoyal entrance in place of
the one destroyed, by the insurgents, has been kept in position during the past
year, and has proved of very material assistance to the numerous vessels bound
into Port Eoyal and along that portion of the coast.
The seventh light-house district embraces the coast of Florida from St.
Augustine to Egmont key. The lights in this district, AYith the exception of
those at Jupiter inlet and Cape Florida, have been kept in useful operation
during the past year, and the buoys have been carefully attended to.
Steps have been taken to have the light at Cape Florida relighted at the
earliest practicable day.
The eighth light-house district, embracing the coast from St. Mark's, Florida,
to the Avesterii extremity of Lake Pontchartrain, has not received so much attention from the board in the way of re-establishing lights and other aids to navigation (all of them having been removed or discontinued by the rebels) as had
been desired, for the reason that the authority of the United States over that
locality had not imtil recently been sufficiently established to AYarrant such
action..
Steps have been taken to repair damage done to the lights at Ship island,
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Cat island, St. Joseph's, Pleasanton head, Proctorsville, Eigolets, Bon Tonca,
Port Pontchartrain, Bayou St. John, New Canal, Tchefuncti river, and Pass
Manchac, and it is hoped and expected that by the 1st of January, 1863, all of
these lights Avill be re-exhibited. The other lights and the buoys in this district AYill be restored as rapidly as circumstances shall Avarrant.
- The ninth district, embracing the coast from the mouth of the Mississippi
river to Eio Grande, inclusive, lying nearly entirely beyond the present control
of • the United States, has had but little done in the Avay of restoring aids to
navigation. ' Chandeleur Island light has been kept in operation during the
year. ^
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The important light at South Pass has. been Tepaired and relighted, and the
no less important lights at SouthAvest Pass, Pass a I'Outre, and head of the
passes, (mouths of the Mississippi river,) are in course of repair, preparatory to
their immediate re-establishment.
In the tenth district, embracing all lights on the lakes Erie and Ontario, and
rivers St. Lawrence and Niagara, the general routine duties have been performed Avith commendable zeal and fidelity, and the various aids to navigation
are in a state of efficiency. Important repairs and renovations have been made,
or are UOAV making, at nearly all the light stations in the district requiring them,
and the buoys and other day-marks have been the object of assiduous attention.
In the eleventh light-house district, embracing lakes St. Clair, Huron, Michigan, and Green Bay and tributaries, several important Avorks of construction
and repair have been in progress during the past year.
Under instructions from the honorable Secretary of the Treasury, the necessary steps have been taken for the immediate erection of the light-house at .
Green Bay, Wisconsin, authorized by Congress, March 3, 1859.
The light-house at Easpberry.island. Lake Superior, for Avliich an appropriation of §6,000 Avas made March 3, 1859, has been pushed nearly to completion,
and AYill be exhibited on the opening of navigation next spring.
The AYork of constructing light-house piers at Milwaukie and Eacine has been
d^elayed by reason of the fiiilure on the part of the contractor fbr timber to
make deliveries in such- quantities as Avould warrant the commencement of the
framing at either locality. The engineer in charge has, however, been directed
to transfer the timber delivered at MilAvaukie to the Eacine structure, which AviU
insure an energetic prosecution of the Avork upon that pier, preparatory to the
erection of the beacon light.
The necessary' surveys and examinations in advance of the commencement of
works on other light-houses in this district, for Avliich appropriations have been
made by Congress, have been in progress.
The buoyage of the district has. been well attended to, and has been of material assistance to the navigating interests of the locality.
In the twelfth light-house district, embracing the entire Pacific coast of the
United States, the various aids to navigation have received careful attention, and
haA'-e been maintained in an efficient condition.
The Avant of an appropriation for the expenses of the steamer provided for
that district, for attending buoys, transportation of supplies, &c., has obhged
this board to lay this vessel up, and her services being urgently desired by the
revenue marine on that coast, by authority of the honorable Secretary of the
Treasury she has been temporarily loaned to that bureau. The withdrawal of
this vessel from light-fiouse duty has occasioned serious embarrassment to this
board on account of the great difficulty experienced in having the buoyage of
the district properly attended to; but Congress at its last session haAdng made
an adequate appropriation for her support, it is expected that this branch of the
service will be more thoroughly and completely controlled.
The difficulty attending the collection of reliable and detailed information
concerning the status of the light-house establishment on the coasts of seceded
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States over AAdiich the control of the UnitedStates has not been yet thoroughly
re-established renders it impossible to submit an exact statement of damages
done and repairs required, but the folloAAdng list, as derived from all sources,
official and unofficial, that appeared to be Avorthy of attention, will be found to
be approximately correct!
Cape Henry, Virginia, tOAYcr standing, lantern destroyed.
Craney island,"iron pile structure, destroyed, except foundation piles.
Naval Hospital, lens removed, light re-exhibited.
White shoals. Point of Shoals, Deep Water shoals, Janies river, lenses, &c,
removed.
Body island, tOAYcr standing, lens, &c., renioved.,
Ocracoke, tOAYer standing, lens, &c., remoA^ed;
Cape Lookout, toAver damaged, lens, &c., removed.
Bogue Bank and beacon, bloAvn up.
Cape Eomain, lens and lantern destroyed.
Cape Hatteras, lens and lantern destroyed, light re-exhibited.
Bull's bay, lens and lantern destroyed.
Charleston, lens and lantern destroyed.
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Hunting island, tOAYCr bloAAai up.
Ty.bee, interior of toAver and lantern destroyed by fire, lens, &c., removed.
St. Simon, toAver and lantern destroyed.
Jupiter inlet, toAYcr and lantern destroyed.
Cape Florida, toAYcr and lantern destroyed.
All of the light vessels from Cape Henry southward, including the tAvo in the.
Potomac river and those in Chesapeake bay/ (except Hooper's straits and Jane's
island,) have been remoA'^ed and sunk or destroyed by the insurgents.
The buoys on the southern coast have, as far as learned, been nearly all removed from or sunk at their stations*. Under the authority of the department,
the necessary illuminating apparatus to replace that renioved or .destroyed as
above has, Avitli the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, been ordered
from France, and upon receipt Avill be kept on hand for re-establishing the lights
as possession of the coast is regained.
In AacAY of the pressing need of re-establishing the light vessel stations discontinued by the insurgents, this board asked and obtained permission from the
department to construct under contract, after due public advertisement, two first
class light-vessels designed for Fryingpan shoals, coast of North Carolina, and
Eattlesnake shoal. South Carolina, and three second class light-vessels intended
for service at positions of less exposure, AYhich are all under contract and in progress of construction.
, The necessary illuminating apparatus and lanterns for these vessels have been
ordered, and it is hoped and expected that the spring of 1863 Avill see them completed and on their proper stations.
The board takes this occasion to acknowledge valuable assistance rendered
by officers of the Coast Survey, under instructions from the superintendent, in
replacing certain buoys on the coasts contiguous to the operations of their own
regular service, viz: entrance to Metompkin inlet, NCAY Jersey; Oregon inlet,
North Carolina; entrance to Neuse river. North Carolina; entrance to Charleston harbor. South Carolina; Stono inlet, South Carolina; North^Edisto bar,
South Carolina; St. Helena sound. South Carolina; Port Eoyal, South Carolina; Tybee roads, Georgia; Wassaw sound, Georgia;^* St. Simon's sound,
Georgia; SouthAvest Pass of the Mississippi river, Louisiana, and Mare Island
straits, California.
• It is respectfully submitted that since July, 1861, this board has been Avithout the services of an engineer secretary, and since the 7tli June without those
of a naval secretary.
The patriotic impulse AYIUCII palls every true man to serve the country in her
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hour of trial, and the field opened for distinction in the t\Yo branches of the mil. itary service, from wliich the law establishing the board directs that these officers
shall be taken, has made it difficult, if not impossible, to withhold from the more
exciting and imposing scenes of the camp or the ship young'officers eligible and
qualified for the useful but less brilliant duties of the desk.
Under these circumstances the chairman of the board, Avith the assistance of
an executive committee, sanctioned by the president of the board, has, in addition
to his OAvn proper duties, discharged those appertaining to the naval secretary,
and the member from "the corps of topographical engineers of the army" has
, been charged with the engineering duties.
It AYill be the endeaA^or of the board that the public service shall not suffer in
consequence of this reduction of the force deemed proper' by Congress for the
duo performance of the duties of the light-house establishment.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Very respectfully,
' 0. K. STEIBLING,
For Chairman.
Hon.
S. P. CHASE, •
Secretary qf the' Treasury.
N.
COAST S U R V E Y .
STATION NEAR W E S T CHESHIRE, CONNECTICUT,
November 5, 1862.
SiE : I have the honor to submit for your examination the estimates for the
Avork of the Coast Survey for 1863-'64, and to request that, if approved, they
may be inserted in your estimates of appropriations. They are adapted to the
plan of AYorking approved by you, by Avliich all the aid possible is rendered by
our -organization to the operations of the army and navy, and the regular progress of the survey is carried on AYherever protection can be had for them, or is
not needed.
The amount of the estimates is but little more than half that of 1860-'61,
and is much diminished from tliaf of 1861-'62, as Avill be seen by the comparative
table at the close of this letter. T h e itenls are the same as, or less than, those
approved last year by the Executive and by Congress, Avitli the addrtion of one
for the pay of engineers of the Coast Survey steamers, not UOAY provided,, as formerly, by the Navy Department. The surplus of the year before last, from
which these officers Avere paid in 1862-'63, AYIII be exhausted during this fiscal
year.
These estimates will enable us to continue the regular work of the survey
Avherever our parties can move freely; to continue steadily all the office-Avork, on,
however, a reduced scale, so as to work up all the information already collected,
and to place it in appropriate and simple form in possession of the officers of
our government, civil, military, and naval; to give important aid, by charts and
by tlie personal experience of our officers, to the fleets and expeditions upon the
coast; to revise the surveys in localities knoAvn to be changeable; to collect new
information by reconnaissance on shore or afloat, and to Jvcep up the essential
organization of the survey, which has, by the testimony of the most enterprising
naval and military officers, proved itself so valuable. The statements of the
use made of the Coast Survey parties in difierent important military and naval
expeditions AYIII be given in my annual report, Avith the acknowledgments made
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by their chiefs. The services at Port Eoyal and in the loAver Mississippi were
only a fractional part of those rendered.
In the directions of the Treasury Department for the year I Avas instructed
to continue, as far as practicable, the operations heretofore ordered, and have succeeded as far as the limited means permitted. The means, and not the opportunites of Avorking, liave, as AA^as intended, limited the Avork executed, while, by
a.11 economical administration of the appropriation, no considerable opportunity,
it is believed, of usefulness Avas.lost for AY ant of means.
Three Coast Survey steamers have been kept at Avork during nearly the AYhole
season—the CorAvin, the Bibb, and the Vixen; being, Avhen not actually employed by the survey, used by the Navy Department. The seiwices of tho '
Bibb, under command of Assistant C. 0 . Boutelle, AYcre acknoAvledged by Admiral DuPont in his official report of the action at Port Eoyal. The familiarity of her commander AYith that part of the coast made his ^personal services
of the greatest importance. The Sachem, loaned to the Coast Survey by the
Navy Department, in place of the Iletzel, Avas also officered and manned by the
Coast Survey, and accompanied the expedition to the lower Mississippi, rendering serAaces AYarmly acknoAvledged by Commander (now Acting Eear Admiral)
David D.Porter. The Cor\Yii\ when.not engaged in her regular AYork at Hatteras and in the Potomac, AYas under the orders of Admiral Goldsborough, and
performed good service in the York river and its tributaries, the Pamunkey and
Mattapony. The details pf these and other matters of the kind belong to my
annual report; but I AYOuld remark here that no opportunity AYas lost to furnish
officers familiar AYith the parts of the coast visited by our fleets and armies, as
Avill appear from the tables in my annual report, showing the employment of the
assistants and other officers of the survey, and from the particulars of their Avork^
under the head of the different sections.
The operations generally have been executed by the civilians attached to the
survey—all the army officers, and all but tAvo of the naA^al officers, having been
returned to their respective serAaces. One of the two officers of the navy attached to the survey. Captain B. F . Sands, has been recently detached. We
have lost, by death, the gallant Lieutenant Colonel W. E. Palmer, AYIIO had remained most acceptably in charge of the Coast Survey office, though serving as
aide-de-camp to General McClelian, until the army of the Potomac moA^ed forAvard to Manassas. Six of the assistants, sub-assistants, and aids have, under .
your authority, received leaA^e of absence, Avithout pay, to join the volunteer or
regular service, and have shoAvn great capacity in their several positions. Their
services AYIII elscAYhere be particularly referred to.
No losses of vessels or other property have been incurred during the year;
but the tbree vessels seized at Charleston*and in Texas the year before have
not been restored. Four saihng vessels have been loaned to the Navy Department and three to the revenue service, during the year, at times when there Avas
great exigency for the use of light-draught vessels.
Sixteen officers of the survey, of different grades, have been detailed fi)r serAdce, chiefly topographical, Avith the army of the Potomac, near Washington, on
the peninsula and on the upper Potomac; Avith the army of the Eappahannock,
near Fredericksburg and at Manassas; Avitli the army of Maryland and Virginia,
on the eastern shore and at Norfolk; Avith the army of North Carolina at Hatteras, Eoanoke island, NcAvbern, Beaufort, N. C , &c.
The regular Avprk has gone on upon the Florida reefs, and parties AYcre at
and near Key West, ready to co-operate with the army had active operations
been undertaken on tlDe western coast of the peninsula.
The regular Avork upon the Pacific coast has gone steadily forAvard.
Of 17 assistants, 1.4 sub-assistants, and 18 aids serving in the field or afloat,
15 assistants, 11 sub-assistants, and 15 aids have.devoted the Avhole or a part of
the year to the regular progress of thesmwey, and 8 assistants, 10 sub-assistants,
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and 14 aids (32 officers) liaA^c rendered service in connexion Avith the operations
of the army and navy, generally in addition to their regular duties. .
Of course, this latter-named service AYas not Avithout its special dangers. SubAssistant Dorr narrowly escaped accident AYhcn the lamented Wagner Avas mortally AYOunded, and one of tbe soldiers of Mr. Dorr's plane-table party AYas
killed in front of YorktOAvn. The plane-table Avhich Mr. Dorr Avas using Avas
shattered to pieces.
Sub-Assistant Oltmanns Avas badly Avounded in the reconnaissance of Pearl
river, a^d AYliile attached to the steamer Sachem, under command of Assistant
F. H. Gerdes, and to. the flotilla of Commander (now Eear Admiral) D. D. Porter.
The bravery of Mr. J . S. Bradford, Mr. C. PI. Boyd, and their comrades, alone '
saved them from capture on James's island, putting several prisoners into their
hands. Of the officers AVIIO have thus served, the chiefs of parties. Assistant
Charles 0 . Boutelle, under Admiral DuPont, and Assistant F . H. Gerdes, under
Admiral Porter, have made themselves especially useful, and have Avon the
special commendations of the gallant officers under AYliom they served.
During the past season more than the usual nuinber of parties have been at
Avork in Maine, Massaclftisetts, Ehode Island, Connecticut, NCAY York, Ne\Y Jer..
sey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, pushing the AYork on that part of
the coast to completion.
In my letter of last year I stated that, under favorable circumstances, surveys
could be made by parties accompanying the fleets. Such circumstances occurring AYith Admiral DuPont's command, enabling us to surA'-ey the Stono river
and entrance; Skull creek, connecting Port Eoyal harbor AYith SaA^annah river
and Calibogue sound; to resurvey the bar of Fernandina or St. Mary's. The
party connected Avitli Admiral Farragut and Admiral D. D. Porter AY ere enabled
to resurvey and mark the bars at the entrance of the passes of the Mississippi,
and to make some minor surveys. Buoys Avere placed promptly for the use of
the vessels of the fleets and of the transport vessels.
I have taken the opportunity presented • by the visits of inspection of the
chief engineer. General Joseph G.Totten, to inform myself personally, through
the kindly official and personal relations betAveen us, of the progress and direction of the plans of defence of the coast, Avith a vicAv to special reference thereto
'in the progress of the surA^eys. ' I Avas much gratified to find that, as far as Ave
had advanced, the progress was in the right direction, though I could not but
recognize that the information obtained AYould enable me in future to make the
connexion more intimate than in the past, where no such exigencies as are
noAY probable seemed to be among the possibilities of the times. I should be
only too glad to make rapid proAdsion for these exigencies could adequate means
be furnished. Perhaps some opportunity may yet occur to carry out such a
purpose. It is certahi that accurate maps must form the basis of Avell conducted
military operations, and that • the best time to procure them is not when an
attack is impending, or the army Avaits^ but Avhen there is no- hindrance to or
pressure upon the surveyor. That no coast can be effectively attacked, defended,
or blockacled without accurate maps and charts, has been fully proved by the
events of the last tAYO years, if, indeed, such a proposition required practical
proof. ' The persons employed upon the various coasts being in the service of
the government, their personal experience has been aA^ailable in the various.
and complicated duties of pilotage, for .lighting beacons, buoys, &c., in times
of exigency, and during the derangement of regular modes of supply, inspection, &c.
The Hon. Secretary of the Navy acknowledges, in his report, the services of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey as a member of a commission
in reference to places of blockade, &c., ahd has since, "with your approval,
placed him on an important commission for selecting a site for a naA^y yard ** for
iron-clads and iron vessels, to lay the foundation of an iron navy." The indis
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perisable usefulness of the Coast Survey results to these two commissions was
generously acknoAvledged by votes of each, AYithout dissent. , The acknoAvledgments of the hydi;ograpliical and topographical notes, prepared by the Coast
Survey, lithographed, and AAdth the maps and charts illustrating them, furnished
to the principal military and naval officers, liaA^e been numerous and very complimentary. During the year (November to November) 25,434 copies of the
Coast Survey-maps and charts liaA^e been furnished for distribution by the active
chief of the hydrographic office to the naval vessels, and 1,476 have been
delivered to captains and pilots in the governnient transport service. Maps
compiled from the surveys of the coast, and from other authorities, liaA^e been
published by the process of color printing, and have been so popular as, at the
IOAV prices for AYhich they have been issued, more than to pay for themselves.
The estimates UOAY submitted are intended to proAdde for the usual progress
on the coast from Passaniaquoddy to the capes of Virginia, and the progress
which seems most probable from thence to the Eio Grande. They also provide
for parties to aid the fleets and armies operating on the coast, in pursuance of
the plan AYhich you have fully approved, and AYhich h^s, under your direction^
proA'.ed so useful. Flexibility, in a w^ork like this, is a most 'important feature,
and that you' have sucQessfally impressed upon it, ; If I have erred in the estimates, it is in restricting them too much, the safest side upon Avliich to err under
the circumstances.
I suppose that one more appropriation, of about the amount noAV asked, will
enable us to complete the survey of the Florida reefs and keys. . There is noAV
a gap in the hydrography of this dangerous part of the coast, which I expect
to be able to have completed this season. It may requne the application of the*
small appropriation for the triangulation across the peninsula, AYhich cannot be
used, under present circumstances, for completing the Avork for which it Avas
designed, for this purpose. All these matters of detail Avill be set forth in my
annual report.
The estimates include, as usual, separate items for the Atlantic and Gulf
coast, Florida reefs, and western coast of the United States, without, however,
the facilities formerly extended by the War and Navy Departments by the
detail of officers.
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Amount asked for, $306,000.
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'Estimates f o r the fiscal y e a r 1 0 6 3 - ' 6 4 , a n d appropriations f o r the present y e a r
and 1861-'62.
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For survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of t h e '
United States, including compensation of civilians
engaged iu the Avork, per act of March 3, 1843
$178,000
For continuing the survey of the western coast of the •
United States, including compensation of civilians
engaged in the work, per act of September 30,1850. 100,000
For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and.
keys, including compensation of civilians engaged
in the work, per act of March 3, 1849
11,000
For completing the line to connect the triangulation
on the Atlantic coast with that on the Gulf of
Mexico, across the Florida peninsula, including
compensation of civilians engaged in the work, per
act of March 3, 1843 -,_'
.
For publishing the observations made in the progress
of the survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the
work, per act of March 3, 1843
4,000
For repairs of steamers and sailing schooners used in
the survey, per act of March 2,1853_-«-»_-_- --.-.
4,000
For fuel and quarters, and for mileage or transportation, for officers or enlisted soldiers of the army
serving in the coast survey, iu cases no longer provided for by the quartermaster's department, per
actof August 31, 1852
f
For pay and rations of engineers for seven steamers
used in the hydrography of the Coast Survey, no
longer supplied by the Navy D e p a r t m e n t . . . . . . . . .
19,000
Total
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306,000
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P^^<
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$178,006
$230,006
100,000
110,000
11.000.
25,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
10,000
«-5,000
112,800
299,000
402,800
* Formerly included in estimates of War Department.
I Formerly, included in estimates of Navy Department.
Very respectfully, yours.
A. D. BACHE,
Superi7itendent United States Coast Survey,
Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the. Treasury.
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ANNUAL KEPORT OP THE BOARD OF SUPERVISING INSPECTORS.
S I R : The board of supervising inspectors of steamboats liaA^ing met in Philadelphia on the 16th day of October, 1862, pursuant to adjournment of their last,
annual meeting, have the honor of submitting to you their tenth annual report.
From year to year in the annual reports of the board Ave have expressed the
opinion, based npon our observation and experience, Avhile endeavoring Avithin
our respective districts to secure a strict obedience of its requirements, that the'
steamboat laAv under Avhick Ave act has, through obserA'ance of its humane provisions, been highly instrumental in lessening the number of accidents to steam
vessels, and is of incalculable benefit and value to the thousands AVIIO travel
daily on our passenger steamers. We are still fully of this opinion, Avhicli the
operations and incidents of the year just past haA^e only served to strengthen.
. Accidents from various causes yet occasionally occur; but judging by conijDarison with former years previous to the passage of this act by Congress, undoubtedly many have been prevented, and many lives and much-property have
been saved through the enforcement and observance of ils provisions.
Aware of the many risks incident to steam navigation, it does not idly enter
into our expectations that through the provisions of any law, hoAvever AYCII devised or strict its enforcement, all accidents can be entirely prevented. Such
results, however, as may be reasonably looked for as folloAving a faithful compliance Avith the provisions of this laAV, have been, to a great extent, realized.
The vsystematic habits of management Avhich have been induced in those entrusted with the navigation of steamers, by its wholesome regulations, have not
been without their efibct; and many oAvners of steam vessels, instead of exhibiting, as at Iirst, opposition to its enforcement, noAv make frequent offers of cooperation Avitli inspectors to attain in the highest degree possible the benefits
Avhich they feel assured must folloAv a faithful compliance Avitli its requirements,
both in additional safety to their property as well as to. passengers travelling
on their vessels.
A general admission of the great utility of the laAvs and expressions of satisfaction at the results Avhich have folioAved its observance, which to those interested in such property is noAv fully apparent, has noAv taken the place of the
original opposition AAath Avhich the inspectors Avere met in many instances ; and
incomplete as this law may be in some respects, the cause of almost every accident to passenger steamers Avliich UOAY occur can be readily traced to a violation
of its provisions, or of the regulations of this board made pursuant thereto.
The system of licensing pilots and engineers has produced a marked improvement in those officers in many parts of the country, both socially and professionally, and Avill do much to secure in a greater degree the objects of the laAV
in years to come. We regret to have to recall in this report the occurrence
during the past year of two very serious disasters, from Avliich great loss of life
has resulted^—the burning of the steamship Golden Gate, on the Pacific coast, .
and the collision of the steamers George Peabody and West Point, on the Potomac river; but as these cases are A^ery fully described in their appropriate place
in this report, AYC AYIII merely mention them here as the most prominent amongst
the accidents Avhich Ave have to report, and-also in some respects of a most unusual and extraordinary chai'acter, and especially do Ave refer to the loss of the
Golden Gate by fire.
FIRST SUPERVISING DISTRICT.
There have been inspected by the local board at Sau Francisco during the
past year fifty steam' vessels, to Avhich certificates liaA^e been granted. Some
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of these have been rebuilt or repaired at great cost. The Uncle Sam and,p
Brother Jonathan haA^e been rebuilt at a cost of $60,000 and $100,000, respectively ; and the steamers Sierra Navada, Peteluraa, and Senator have been very
extensively repaired; the three last named and the Brother Jonathan having
been also supplied Avitli new boilers. Five boilers have given away under the
hydrostatic test, and nine have been condemned from further use.
There have been granted by this board forty-eight licenses to pilots, and one
hundred and thirty-one licenses to engineers, all of AA^hom, in addition to the
usual oath required by the steamboat laAv, have been required to record in this
office their allegiance to the Constitution and government of the United States.
Three investigations have been held by the board under the 9th ^section of
the steamboat act, and they have suspended or revoked the^ licenses of three
engineers, and haA^e refused license to ^ve engineers, and four liave been refused
change of grade.
LOSS OF THE STEAMER NEVADA.
February 7, 1862.^—The steamer Nevada, on her trip fropi Sacramento to
San Francisco,, struck a sunken snag in the Sacramento slue, about forty miles
beloAY Sacramento ; she continued on her course for about nine miles, Avlien the
captain ordered the pilot to run her ashore for the purpose of making an effort
to stop the leak, as it Avas evident she could not be kept .free. She Avas accordingly run into the bank and lines made fast to the shore from the boAv, AAdiich
was iOAY v/ithin fifteen or tAventy feet. • The current swung her stern into the
bank, when lines Avere also employed aft to secure her to the shore. The
pumps and buckets Avere resorted to without success, and she gradually sunk—
her stern in thirty-tAvo feet of Avater and her bow in three feet. No loss of life
^ occurred, the passengers having been all previously taken off by the steamer
Chrysopolis. She has not as yet been raised, although several ineffectual
attempts have been made, and but little hope is left of being able to save her.
Her machinery Avill be saved with but little trouble. No blame Avas attached
to the officers of the vessel under the circumstances.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP GOLDEN GATE.
As soon as the first of the, passengers and creAV arriA^ed from the scene of this
frightful disaster, an investigation of the case Avas commenced, and there have
been examined, in all, tAventy-seA^en Avitnesses, embracing passengers, officers,
and crcAv.
The Golden Gate Avas a first-class steamship of 2,029 tons, belonging to the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company of NCAY York, and Avas engaged in the passenger carrying trade betAveen San Francisco and Panama. She sailed from San
Francisco July 21, and had on board 236 passengers and 102 officers and crcAv;
total 338. Of this number, 138 passengers and 37 crcAV Avere lost; total 175.
The ship took fire on tho afternoon of July 27, about 5 o'clock p. m., Avhen
about fourteen miles to the northward of Manzanillo, Mexico, and about three
and one-half or four miles from the shore. The sea was perfectly calm.
The Golden Gate AA^as inspected by the. board at San Francisco on the 28tli
day of April, 1862, and Avas found, as regards machinery and hull, to be sound, '
substantial, and sea-Avorthy, and Avell supplied Avith all the equipments required
by laAY for the prevention of accident, and for saving life in case of accident.
She was furnished Avitli tAvo oscilla^ng engines, nine feet stroke and eighty-six
inches diameter of cylinder, placed side by side directly under the paddle wheel
shaft; four return tubular boilers, fired athwart ship, two being placed forAvard
and two abaft of the engines, each pair having an independent smoke stack
aniidship. The vessel Avas about 265 feet in length, 40 feet beam, and 22 feet
depth of hold. She Avas provided Avith three permanent decks, and a spar deck.
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,5.running the Avhole length of the A^essel. The houses on the main deck extended
forAvard within about seventy feet of the head of the vessel, and aft Avithin about
four feet of the stern, and as far aft as tli6 after part of the Avlieel houses Avere
in general Avidth about eighteen feet, and situated centrally .in the ship. BetAveen
these houses just described and the starboard Avheel house Avere situated the
after galley and cabin pantry; the former being abreast of the forAvard smoke
stack, the pipes from the stoves of this galley leading into this stack, and the
pantry, Avhich Avas situated immediately behind.the galley, occupied the entire
space between the central deck houses and the starboard Avheel house, leaving a
gangway fore and aft on the main deck only on the port side of the ship. On
the port side of the ship, abreast of the smoke stacks and engine room hatch,
Avere situated the porters' room, chief engineer's room, assistant engineers' rooms,
and bar room; the gangAvay above mentioned .being betAveen 'these rooms and
the engine rooni hatch, and Avas in vAvidth about seven feet. The saloon, Avhich
occupied the after part of the main deck, Avas, including the state-rooms, about
fifty feet in Avidth, narrowing toward the after part of the ship. This vessel
AYas furnished AAdth a fantail, and had guards running from the extreme after
part of the ship as far forward as the fore rigging; these guards furnishing a
gangAvay and promenade in front of the saloon state-rooms, a part of Avliich Avere
entered from the guard, and others from the' saloon. There Avas a gangAvay
athwart ship from one after guard to the other; immediately forAvard of the saloon from this cross gangway two doors^ entered into the saloon. On the deck
next beloAY the main deck the central portion of the ship Avas occupied by the
machinery and the firemen's and Avater tenders' rooms On the after part of
this deck was the second cabin, and the forward part of the ship on this deck
Avas occupied by the steerage passengers. The central part of the lower deck
Avas also occupied by the machineiy; the after part Avas divided into freight
rooms, store room, baggage room, and special room; the forAvard part AA^as used
as a freight room, and beloAv this deck Avere coal bunkers. The upper or spar
deck Avas clear fore and aft, except the engine hatch, smoke stacks, and Avatch
officers' rooms.
The equipment provided to meet accidents by fire were as folloAvs, viz: Four
fire pumps—tAvo Avoiked by hand and tAvo by steam, and all Avere double acting
pumps. The forward hand fire-pump Ava^ five inches diameter and twelve incKes
stroke, and AA^as Avorked upon the main deck; the after pump was four inches
diameter,, eight inches stroke, and Avorked upon the spar deck. The .steampumps Avere situated on.the Avorking floor of the engine room.(loAA^er deck,) one
on the starboard and the other on the port side, both fitted Avith copper pipes
leading up to the main deck, Avith nozzles for attaching hose on each deck. The
main deck nozzles from the starboard and port steam-pumps were situated respectively alongside of the forAvard and after smoke stacks in the port gangway
These steam-pumps were each twelve inches stroke and ten inches diameter;
and the ship was provided AAdth 650 feet of hose, 24 axes, 80 buckets, 1,000 lifepreservers, seven metallic life-boats, and one Avooden boat. She had six sets of
• iDoat cranes, three on each side of the ship; one set in each case being forv.-ard
oi' the paddle Avheels and tAvo sets aft; and had tAvo gangway steps, one on each
side abaft the Avheels. Each boat Avas provided Avith life lines and all other necessary equipments, and'all Avere substantial and in good order.
When fire Avas first discovered the chief officer of the ship, AA^ho Avas on duty,
ordered the forAvard and after pumps to be put to Avork^on the fire. The hose
Avas not attached at this time. The hose" of the forAvard pumps, 200 feet in
lengthr Avas kept on a reel directly over the pumps, and the pipe or nozzle Avas
ahvays kept attached thereto, but the hose Avas not kept attached to the pumps
except at night. This hose, Avliich Avas tAvo inches in diameter, Avas first
stretched aft on the spar deck, but was'finally ordered to be taken beloAv to tho
main deck, and Avas stretched along on the port side of the ship, and from this
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time, until within a fcAv moments of the ship striking the ground, Avas kept to
. work upon the fire.
The after fire-pump, as Avas shown by the evidence, had to be primed with '
water before it would draAV, and it does not appear that this pump was got in
condition to work. The hose to this pump was kept in a hose-tub outside the
rail, opjiosite the pnmp; it was about 150 feet in length, and was not attached
in the daytime. 200 feet of hose belonging to the steam-pumps were kept on a
reel just inside the firemen's room, which entered off the engine room on the
second deck; 100 feet more hung in the engine room, and 50 feet Avere kept in the
port gangway on the main deck, for attaching to the starboard steam-pump. Botli
these steam-pumps were set to work with as little delay as possible. The starboard steam-pump was of little service, as the flames enveloped the copper pipe
leading from this pump to the main deck, where the hose had been attached; and
the branch pipe leading to the hose, being attached to the main with a soft soldered
joint, melted at this point, cutting off the supply of water from the hose. The
hose Avas attached to port steam-pumps on the same deck where the pump
was situated, (lower deck,) and carried up into the crank room and used upon
the fire until the persons using it Avere driven from the engine room by the
flames. The hose was connected to botli deck pumps and one steam-]iump
every night, by order of the officers of the ship. The hose of the fire-pumps
was not kept attached in the daytime, and from one and a half to two minutes
was lost in consequence. The general practice of these ships has been to attach the hose to the fire-pumps at sundown and remove them at sunrise. It is
believed all the officers of the ship did their best to save life in the trying circumstances under Avliich they were called to act. By the orders of Captain
Pludson, the chief engineer kept the engines going until the ship struck. %he
steam fire-pumps Avere worked as long as could be done amidst the flame and
smoke, and eA'-ery precaution Avas taken to prevent explosion. By orders of the
captain, the chief bfficer launched as many of the boats as possible Avitli the
ship under way, and the flames spreading aft with such fearful rapidity; and
when he finally left the ship, there remained on her after decks only three per^
sons—the man at the Avlieel, and a man and his Avife who could not be induced
to get into the boats. After getting clear of the ship, he still followed in her
Avake, picking up those whom he found struggling in the Avater. After picking
up all he could find, he brought the boats together, properly distributing the
crcAv and passengers amongst the se\^eral boats, and having arranged as far as
was possible for the comfort of the persons under his care, made for the harbor
of Manzanillo. It is believed that Captain Hudson did Avhat he thought best
to save life. He issued his orders promptly, and was cool, calm, and Avithout
fear under the most trying circumstances. He assisted the passengers forAvard,
entreating them not to get excited, but to stay on the ship until she struck.
Cut off from the after part of the ship by the fire, and from the assistance of
his officers and most of the crcAv, he also did all that he could have done to
save life after the ship struck.
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I t is the opinion of the inspector Avho examined this case that the fire originated from the baker's oven in the forAvard part of the cabin galley. The floor
under the oven was of brick Avork, laid in cement two layers thick, and the
bulkhead back of the oven and stoves made of iron plates, so that the nearest
wood work to the baker's oven was the deck upon Avliich the brick floor Avas
laid. The cooking stoves and oven Avere raised at least three inches from the
brick floor, leaving a space for air to pass under them. The fire first made its
appearance behind the stoves and under this oven. The carlines or deck beams
under this galley were cased in to make a snug finish to the upper engine room..
On the day of'the fire, from ten o'clock in the forenoon until half-past four in
the afternoon, the heat in the galley had been so great that the cooks complained,
to the head stCAvard that they could not stand it, and said it was caused by the
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having so much fire on. It is believed that the bottom of the bake-oven was
burned through, letting the fire doAvn in the ash pan on the brick Avork, as. the
' most probable way the fire originated; and there is no doubt that the carlines
spoken of (cased in) and deck had been on fire for some time and to a considerable extent, before it had burned through the casing into the engine room and water
tender's room. This alone can account for the rapidity Avith which the fire
spread after it was discovered, and the then impossibility of getting it under.
Her boats were ample, and more than the law required, but were not in that
state of readiness to loAver aAvay promptly that they should have been; they
Avere, however, secured as sea steamers usually have them.
The supervising inspector of the district makes a report to the board of-his
doings during the past season, Avhicli is as folloAvs:.
To the Board of Supervising Inspectoi's, Sfc:
GENTLEMEN : Having been, at the last annual meeting, of the board, held in
Washington city December 16, 1861, assigned the supervision of the Pacific
coast of the United States as an independent district, under a new diAdsion of
the supervising districts, I proceeded to that coast at as early a date after the
adjournment as the circumstances of the case would allow, consistent with
making the necessary arrangements for my departure, and providing niyself, by
the approval of the department, with proper instruments withAvhich to make inspections ; being aAvare that steamers navigating the northern waters of my district Avould necessarily come under my OAVII personal examination.
I left New York March 11 in the steamship Northern Light for AspiuAvall,
and ariwed in San Francisco April 6, in the steamship St. Louis, belonging
^.to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, in which I took passage at Panama.
(On my arrival in San Francisco, I found that of the local inspectors who had
-.until recently administered the duties of the office at San Francisco, the inspector of liulls had died about the end of the last year, and the inspector of boilers
ihad been removed from office, but was still contending that his successor had not
been duly appointed, and was not, therefore, entitled to receive the records of
the office. This caused the new incumbents considerable embarrassment in the
(discharge of their duties, not having in their possession the instruments for test-.ing boilers, the records of their office, or any of the forms or regulations adopted
iby this board for the guidance of local inspectors.
'Plaving satisfied myself ,that the ncAv inspectors had been duly commissiojied,
I addressed a communication to the inspector Avho had been removed, stating
this fact, and requesting that the books, records, instruments, and other property
pertaining to the office be delivered over to the new incumbents. Thus advised,
this request was cheerfully complied Avith. I found, upon examination of the
records, that many errors have crept into the practice of the old board, probably
;the result of having been left to carry out the laws after their OAvn construction,
Avithout the advantage of communication with other inspectors; and the interpretation put on certain of its requirements, and the manner of its enforcement
in many particulars, were unAvarrantably liberal, and certainly at great variance
Avith the usual construction and the practices of inspectors in other parts of the
country. Observance of the rules for the government of pilots has never been
enforced on the Pacific coast until the present season; no colored signal lights
have been used except upon the ocean steamers, nor have whistle signals been
employed, and life-preservers have not been demanded as a necessary part of the
equipment of river steamers.
The new inspectors entered into their duties at the end of last year, and, being
without the records of their office and the regulations of this board, although
aiming to perform their duty in the most faithful manner, fell into many of the
easy constructions of the old board of inspectors, Avho had established a precedent Avhich, in the hurry of the transaction of a large amount of business, was
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difficult to contend with in the absence of a knowledge of the most strict enforcement of the laAY in other districts ; and many certificates Avere at first issued
entailing the old errors of construction and administration.
But this state of things is noAv happily at an end. I do not in the remotest
degree intend to impugn the motives of the inspectors who inaugurated these
practices, but attribute their existence to the fact that these inspectors were
far removed from communication with other boards, Avhich otherAvise, by an
interchange of views and opinions, Avould have led to a true understanding of
their duties under the law, and a more particular and strict enforcement of its
provisions.
Under these circumstances, and having ^a large number of steamers in Oregon
and Washington Territory to inspect personally during the summer, I issued
from my office, under date of May 28, a circular addressed to the owners, masters, engineers, and pilots of passenger steamers navigating the Avaters of the
first district, setting forth, in as concise terms as possible, the provisions of the
law in its application to the several classes of steamers employed upon these
waters, together Avitli the regulationsof this board as affecting the construction to
be put upon these provisions to meet the inspection to Avliich these vessels would
be hereafter subjected. These instructions were furnished to the local inspectors, who were charged Avith their distribution, and Avere issued as the readiest
means at my command through which a better state of things might be inaugurated with the least possible delay.
After visiting almost every steamer in this district, and aiding the local inspectors in making inspections of several ocean and other steamers, and imparting to them all the information in regard to their duties Avliich the circumstances
seemed to suggest, I took^^assageofor Portland,. Oregon, on the 3d day of June,
arriving at that port on the 7th.
On the Columbia and Willamette rivers I inspected, in all, tAventy-five steamers,
having an aggregate tonnage of 2,823 tons, licensed 49 pilots and 30 engineers,
and refused license to three engineers and one pilot; nine boilers Avere found
defective upon inspection, and five gave Avay under the hydrostatic test.
These were repaired and retested. Some of these steamers are very fine
vessels of their class, and are especially adapted to the navigation in Avhich
they are employed; are well found in many respects, and are generally staunch
and Avell-built steamers. I Avas much pleased with the arrangement and management of many of these vessels; and, notwithstanding previous reports, I was
unprepared to find upon these waters so fine a class of river steamers.
The steamboat law has not, however, been observed to any great extent on
these rivers up to the present time; not that the owners have any disinclination
to comply Avith the provisions of the laAv, but, on the contrary, are ready and
desirous to do so, but have awaited as to what Avouldbe considered by the proper
officer of the law a suitable compliance Avitli its provisions by steamers of the
class employed in this navigation. I found no life-preservers or Avater-gauges
on any of the steamers running on any of these rivers, with one exception; and
for this.and other reasons, which it is unnecessary to.mention here, the certificates of inspection Avere withheld for the present, and Avill not be issued until
early in next season. I found on board some of these steamers a certificate
licensing them to carry gunpowder, &c., but found none equipped for this purpose. All such licenses Avere recalled. Soon after my return to San Francisco
the news reached me of the destruction of the steamship Golden Gate by fire,
and the loss of many lives. I immediately gave directions for the investigation
of the case by the local inspectors at that port, and aided them in the examination of witnesses up to the day of my departure for the east, at which tin^
they had concluded their investigation. All the OAvners and officers of the
vessels on the Pacific coast express a readiness to comply with the laws to the
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fullest extent, and I am satisfied it is from no lack of this disposition that the ^
law has not been as fully observed in this as in other parts of the country.
In the district of San Francisco the law is now fully complied Avith in most
particulars, and a little time is only needed to secure the full benefit of its humane provisions; and I Avould add that I hope to be able to report to the board,
at its next annual meeting, that a full compliance with the law has been secured
throughout my entire district.
Your obedient servant,
WM. B U R N E T T ,
Supervising Inspector, 8fc.
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SECOND SUPERVISING DISTRICT.
Ill this district, although one of very large extent, Ave feel happy to be able
to state that very few casualties have occurred, and but a small sacrifice of life
on the part of the vast public travel by steam naAngation during the past year.
The steamer Francis Skiddy, plying betAveen NeAv York and Troy, on her
upward trip, Avlien about tAvo miles below Poughkeepsie, on the • night of November 28, 1861, came into collision Avitli the sloop W. W. Reynolds. Upon
investigation, it appeared that the Francis Skiddy was stopped: that is, that
her engine Avas stopped at the time, the night being dark and rainy, with no
wind, and that the sloop shoAved no light. Also that the end of the boo-rii of
of the sloop penetrated the forAvard end of the Skiddy's forAvard starboard boiler,
and that the sloop was seen too late to avoid a collision. Nine persons Avere
scalded by the escaping steam, three of AA^hom died from their injuries, viz :
tAYo firemen and the cook's mate. In this case all was done that could be by
the licensed officers.
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At the NCAV London district no accident has occurred involving loss of life
or injury to the person of either passengers or crew. On the 3d of May the
steamer City of NCAY York came in collision with the schooner Mary Mankin,
in a fog, at the entrance of this harbor. The schooner was a coasting vessel,
with cargo, and Avas not seen until too late to avoid a collision. She filled Avith
Avater and sunk. Loss unknown.
On the 27tli of March the steamer Bay State, of Fall River, Avhile entering New
York harbor, came in contact AAdth a ship attached to a steam tug, by Avhicli the
ship's boom entered the steam chimney of one of her boilers, Avhich detained thesteamer tAventy-four hours. No injury occurred to any of the passengers or creAV.
On. the morning of August 1 the steamer Meneman Sanford, on her passage
from Bangor to Boston, during a thick fog, ran on to a ledge of rocks near Cape
Ann, called the Salvages, and bilged. All the passengers, with their baggage,
Avere taken off the steamer and forAvarded to Boston. Upon investigation into
the cause of this accident, it was ascertained that the pilots of the steamer had
made use of the usual precautions in running their courses. The steamer Avas
ultimately floated off and repaired. Loss on the vessel estimated at $40,000.
Many of our steamers from this district have been called off from their usual
routes, and employed as transports in the government service.
We feel pleased further to state that the owners and officers of all steamers in
our district continue to manifest their confidence in the wise and humane provisions of the steamboat law. .
From the local board at Philadelphia we learn that for the past year there has
been no casualty by Avliich life has been lost or property destroyed; nor has
there been any explosion or collision, or a report of tKe loss of life on steamers
under the law.
Everything, so far as the Avorkings. of law have been concerned, has been harmonious; nor has there been a single complaint made, by reason of any jar or .
conflict, during the past year.
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Under this VICAV of things, we are happy to report the benefits that are constantly shoAving themseh^es by the act of Congress of 1852 relating to the duties
and obligations of steam vessels navigating our Avaters.
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THIRD SUPERVISING DISTRICT.
On the 18th of January, 1862, the steamer Pocahontas was lost in a gale of
wind at Cape Hatteras inlet. This boat had been chartered by the United States
government to carry horses to North Carolina for the Burnside expedition. She
had proceeded on her voyage beyond Cape Henry, when she encountered a severe
gale from the northeast. In the gale her boiler, which was old and much worn,
by reason of the rolling of the vessel, fell off its legs, and completely disabled
the steamer from going on her voyage. The captain immediately ordered the
vessel to be run on the beach, to save the lives of those on board, which was
done; but all the horses Avere droAvned. The vessel a total wreck.
This vessel should have had a neAv boiler before going on this voyage; and
such was the A^erdict rendered by the local board.
On the 13th of August, 1862, the steamers George Peabody and West Point
collided on the Potomac river near Ragged Point, about 8 J o'clock in the evening.
Both these vessels were in the employ of the government at the time. The testimony went to show that the George Peabody was on her Avay down the Potomac
to Fortress Monroe, and that the West Point was on her way up to Aquia creek.
When meeting in the vicinity of Ragged Point, the pilot of the George Peabody,
steering at the time S.SE., about eight o'clock-in the evening, gave one blast of
the whistle, as a signal to the coming vessel that the George Peabody Avould
keep to the right, in accordance with the law.
The pilot of the West Point answered promptly, with one blast of his whistle,
that he also would keep to the right, then steering, as he states, west half south.
At the same time the captain was at the Avheel, and states that the pilot told
him to starboard his wheel, and he replied to the pilot, ^' You don't mean that,
you mean port." He ansAvered, " Yes, port; hard a port." Bnt as the course
of the vessel was thus shifted, this was undoubtedly the cause of the collision,
as she continued with force and headway until she came in contact with the
larboard guard and water wheel of the George Peabody, breaking in some
twelve feet of the deck and guard' Avork in front of the wheel. The bow of the
West Point Avas stove in some ten feet, when it was directly ascertained that
she was in a sinking condition. As soon as extricated from the Peabody, she
inade for the Maryland side of the Potomac, and sunk in four fathoms water.
She Avent doAvn, having on board two hundred and seventy-nine souls, three of
whom were ladies. Every exertion was made by Captain Doyle, of the West
Point, to save the lives of his passengers: also a gunboat, which was near,
hearing the cries of distress, gave relief. The machinery of the Peabody was
seriously crippled from the collision, preventing her from giving aid to those on
board of the sinking vessel for some time after, but drifted down the river until
she could get her engine in Avorking order, when she put out both boats in pursuit of those floating on the broken fragments of the sunken vessel. By this
sad disaster seventy-six persons have been drowned.
On the 21st of August, 1862, a collision took place between the steamers
Belvidere and Elm City on the Potomac, both employed at the time as transports for the government. The circumstances and testimony concerning this
• case have not yet been fully obtained. Happily, h j this disaster no lives Avere
lost. The supervising inspector of this district and the local inspectors at Baltimore have also been engaged during the past season in directing and superintending repairs of steamers Avhich have been employed as war transports and
have been brought to this port for repairs.
The district of Norfolk has been represented by Mr. G. V. Davids, boiler
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inspector,- whose residence and station has been at Old Point. . He has visited, °
examined, and inspected over one hundred steamers employed by the United
States government as transports, and ailso in the United States navy; recorded
defects and gave orders for their repair while engaged by the government, and
lying off Old Point. He has licensed seven engineers at the fortress, besides
attending and giving his services to a great deal of public AYork of this character.
No reports from Charleston, Savannah, or Mobile.
FOURTH SUPERVISING DISTRICT,
During the year ending October 1, 1862, only one life was lost by steamboat
accidents in this district; the person Avas intoxicated, and sleeping on board the
steamboat Jeannie Deans, Avlien the steam-pipe exploded, causing his death by
inhaling the escaping steam. The cause of the explosion was a defect in the
copper of Avliich the pipe Avas made.
The steamers Callie and Skylark were captured and burned by the rebels on
the Tennessee river. Both Avere laden with government stores. The amount of
the loss could not be ascertained.
* A collision took place betAveen the steamers Rowena and Estelle near Cape
Girardeau, on the Mississippi. No lives lost. The case is still undergoing an
investigation.
The steamer John D. Perry snagged in the Mississippi river. No lives lost,
and damage trifling.
The steamers Alex. Smith and ChoctaAV have left the passenger trade, and
are being turned into government rams.
On the 20th day of August last the steamer Acacia, on her voyage from
Memphis to Helena, Arkansas, struck a snag about tAventy-five miles above
Helena, and sunk in a few minutes in "twenty feet water. By this disaster over
a hundred human beings found a AA^atery grave. The supervising inspector, in
investigating the case, found that the Acacia Avas an old Avorn-out boat that
had been condemned several years ago. She was navigating Avithout a license,
and under a military p>ermit. Except the captain and pilot, the whole crew
consisted of negroes. The pilot employed never had been licensed, and is unknoAvn to the Mississippi pilots. Although he escaped unhurt, he could not be
found afterwards. The escaped passengers and the inhabitants of Helena
having threatened him Avitli summary justice, he left for parts unknown. No
hispection took place south and Avest of White river, Arkansas, this season, this
portion of the fourth district being still in open rebellion.
FIFTH SUPERVISING DISTRICT.
The supervising inspector of this district reports as follows : In this district
but three accidents have occurred, none of which have involved the loss of life or
injury to the person of either passengers or crew.
In the month of August, 1862, on the Minnesota river, the steamer New Ulm
Belle, a small freight and passenger boat, ran on a snag and sunk. No lives
lost. Loss, $1,000.
I n the month of September, 1862, the steamer Hannibal City, a large and
powerful boat, OAvned and inspected in St. Louis, but running into the fifth district, while on her passage from St. Louis to Keokuk, just below Louisiana, Missouri, ran on to a sunken log raft, and immediately sunk in seven or eight feet of
water. No lives lost; upper Avorks and machinery all saA^ed. Loss, $12,000.
On the night of September 18, 1862, the steamer Arizona, Avhile on her pas
sage from Keokuk to Quincy, Avhen about IAVO miles beloAv Lagrange, Missouri,
ran into the steamer Eagle, and sunk the latter in five or six feet of Avater, Avithin
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thirty yards of the shore. No lives lost. Loss, $1,000. Upon examination into
the facts of the case, I found both pilots to blame, though I consider the pilot of the'
Arizona much more to blame than the pilot of the Eagle, but for carelessness and
inattention to duty I suspended the licenses of both pilots. In another case I refused to reiiCAv, for a time, the license of a pilot who ran a heavily laden steamer
on shore at the imminent risk of instant destruction to the boat and great dainage
to the lives of passengers.
There have been inspected in this district twenty-nine steamboats, with an
aggregate tonnage of 4,424 tons.
There have been carried by the different lines of steamers in this district
^54,000 passengers, without the loss of a single life.
The operation of the law in this district has been very harmonious, the owners and officers being desirous to conform to the requirements of the law, and to
aid in making the same effective.
SIXTH SUPERVISING DISTRICT.
Ill this district we have to report but few casualties of a serious character.
The Monongahela, a small tOAvboat belonging the canal to company, (and not inspected under the act of 1852,) exploded a boiler on the 20th of February last,
about twelve miles below Louisville, Kentucky, while under Avay towing a flatboat ; the captain of the boat and three of the crcAv Avere killed. The boiler
of this boat had been in use for a long time, and, from the examination made •
soon after the explosion occurred, the boiler Avas considered very defective and
unfit fbr use; and had this boiler been inspected under the act of 1852, it Avould
.have been condemned.
On the 2d of August last one of the boilers of the steamer Commodore Perry,
while lying at the Avharf at. Louisville, Kentucky, exploded, by which one life
was lost, (a fireman.) After a careful examination of the persons Avho witnessed
this disaster, and also a careful inspection of the exploded boiler, no doubt Avas
entertained that the explosion was caused by the negligence and inattention of
the engineer having charge of the engines at the time in the performance of his
duties, and for which his license Avas revoked; and all the evidence taken in the
case was handed to the United States attorney for the prosecution of the delinquent engineer.
On the 5 th of October, 1861, the steamer Curl CAY struck on a sunken flatboat .
four miles above Golconda, Illinois ,on the Ohio river, and sunk. The boat and
cargo were nearly a total loss.
The steamer Arizona, on the 10th of January last, while passing out of the
mouth of the canal betAveen Portland and Louisville, Kentucky, swung round
on the head of the pier and sunk, which caused considerable loss to the boat and
cargo; the boat, howcA^er, Avas subsequently raised and repaired.
It Avill be observed, by reference to the tabular report, that the number of
steamers inspected in this district, when compared with forraer years, has been
much reduced. This is owing to the derangement in our navigation growing
out of the rebellion and not to any actual reduction in the iiumber and tonnage
of the steamers in this district; and from the same cause no reports have been
obtained from either Nashville or NCAV Orleans.
SEVENTH SUPERVISING DISTRICT.
Within the year there have been inspected in this district one hundred and
thirty-eight steamers, amounting to thirty thousand three hundred and tAA'^entyseven (30,327) tons. Licenses have been granted to four hundred and ninety-tAvo
pilots and five hundred and forty-seven engineers.
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The local boards find a ready acquiescence in the requirements of the law by
owners and officers of boats, and the diminution of accidents attests the 'advantage of its workings alike to commerce and' the safety of human lives.
In making a synopsis of the several reports of the local boards of inspection
of the seventh district, the folloAving casualties have occurred :
The steamer Igo exploded, killing one person and Avounding two. At the time
and prior to the explosion she was navigating and carrying passengers without
having undergone an inspection, either under the laAv of 1838 or that of 1852.
This case Avas placed in the hands of the United States district attorney at Cincinnati, who is prosecuting the same. Loss, $2,000.
The toAvboat Advance exploded, killing three and wounding ten. From this,
explosion the boat caught fire, and Avas a total loss; she Avas running under the
laAY of 1838. The engineer in charge Avas licensed under the laAV of 1852; his
license Avas revoked. Loss, $8,000.
The General Meigs, a steamer built by order of government and not inspected,
collapsed a flue, the machinery being in charge of a licensed engineer, Avho, Av^hen
the case was examined by the local board, was exonerated from blame, a defective
connexion of steam-pipe with the steam-drum being the cause of the disaster.
No lives lost. Damage, $500.
Steamer Bostona, inspected under the laAV of 1852, burst her mud drum. Engineer on Avatch, through fright, leaped overboard and Avas lost. Loss of prop
erty trifling.
Collision occurred betAveen the steamer Freestone and Belle Creole, whereby
the.latter was sunk. No lives lost. License of pilot of Freestone revoked. Loss,
$4,000.
Steamers Emma Graham and Leonora, both boats ascending the river, came
in collision; damage unimportant. Pilot of Leonora suspended for sixty days.
Steamers Bay City and St. Louis came in collision Avliile running in fog, the
latter boat injured in hull to the amount of $500. Pilots of both boats suspended
for thirty days.
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Steamer Eunice, a government boat, came in collision Avitli the Commodore
Perry; the Eunice was sunk and a total loss. No lives lost. Loss, $3,000. Licerise of the pilot of the Eunice revoked.
Steamers Echo and Home came in collison on the Alleghany river. A loss of
$3;000 occurred from the sinking of a bulk oil boat in toAv of the Home. No lives
lost. License of pilot of Echo revoked.
'
In the investigation of these several cases of. collision by the local boards, it
was shoAvn that in every case the rules for the government of pilots had' been
neglected.
EIGHTH SUPERVISING DISTRICT.
\
There have been inspected in this district during the past year fifty-seven
steam vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of tAventy-two thousand six hundred
and forty-six (22,646) tons.
There have been transported by these steamers one hundred and forty-five
thousand five hundred (145,500) passengers, not one of whom has received the
slightest injury.
No collisions have occurred between licensed steamers running in this district,
nor has there been any accident of a serious character to any such vessel; but
there have been several collisions betAveen inspected steamers and sail vessels,
which in one instance occasioned the loss of tAvelve persons, Avho Avere on board
the sail vessel. With this exception no loss of life has occurred; but still the
other collisions mentioned have placed in immediate danger the lives of a large
number of passengers, Avhose escape may be attributed in a great measure to the
good conduct of the officers and ere AYS of the steamers.
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These frequent collisions upon the northern and western lakes between steam
and sailing vessels are a source of constant anxiety and alarm with all persons
calledfcotravel on the Avater. It is, indeed, fraught Avith much danger, and until
Congress shall make some provisions further regulating the carrying of signal
lights and the management of vessels in passing steamers, these serious and often
fatal disasters will surely continue.
There have been some fcAv accidents by .derangement of machinery, but none
producing serious .results. There have been one hundred and fifty-five pilots
licensed during the year, and one hundred and sixty-one engineers, all of whom
have, so far as knoAvn, discharged their duties Avith care and fidelity, and all of
Avhom have taken the oath to support the Constitution and government of the
United States.
The propeller Kenosha, early in April, while entering the harbor at Milwaukiep
ran upon an unknoAvn sunken obstruction, which broke through her bottom.
.She had to go into dry dock for repairs. No lives lost.
Propellers Rocket and the Chicago, about the first of May, ran into the sunken
wreck of the tug Zouave in the Detroit river, and were placed in dry dock for
repairs. No lives lost.
Steamer Ariel, SaginaAV river, bulged the croAvn sheet of her boiler, supposed
by the hydrostatic pressure; subsequently repaired by the introduction of a neAV
croAvn sheet. No lives lost or persons injured.
The steamer Planet collided with sail vessel on Lake Erie in the night, on the
22d of August, betAveen Cleveland and Detroit, receiving serious damage, which
occasioned loss of her trip, and required her to go in dry dock for repairs. Though
no lives Avere lost or persons injured, yet the damage was so serious that it Avas
with great difficulty she was kept from sinking with a large number of passengers on board. No blame was attached to any of the officers of the steamer,
the collision being entirely attributed to the mismangement of the sail vessel.
The May Queen, aboutjthe first of September, was run into by a sailing vessel
between Cleveland and Detroit, doing some injury, but not of a serious character
The two vessels, after laying by until they ascertained that no serious injury had
occurred to either continued on their course.
The propeller Allegheny, about the last of September, on Lake Huron, in a
fog, collided with a sailing vessel, and was seriously damaged, requiring a large
amount of freight to be thrown overboard. Bfeing in a sinking condition, by
sounding signals of distress she brought to her aid the steamer Illinois, which happened to be passing at the time, and by which she was undoubtedly saved from
going down.
The propeller Michigan, about the last of September, grounded on a reef
while attempting, in a storm, to make a harbor at St. Helena island, Lake Michigan, having been deceived in her position by some Indian camp-fire on the
shore. No loss of life, but vessel and freight much damaged.
The steamer Illinois, on the night of the 9th of August, off the Pictured
Rocks, Lake Superior, in a fog, collided Avitli the schooner Oriole, loaded with
iron, on her passage down the lake, by which the Oriole Avent down almost instantly, with thirteen persons on board, all of Avhom, with one exception, were
drowned. The Illinois has been on fire upon one occasidn, owing to the water
being deficient in the Avater-jasket, the heat passing through three sheets of iron
and three open spaces to the upper deck, where the fire occurred. It Avas extinguished Avithout difficulty.
There have been several explosions of boilers in this district upon uninspected steamers and tug-boats, in every instance accompanied by the loss of
life, shoAving conclusively the great value of inspections and licensing of engineers. We will mention the following examples, which have come to our
knowledge:
The tug Zouave, engaged in tOAving vessels on the Detroit river, some time
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about the first of May last exploded her boiler, Avliile under Avay, about ten miles
aboA^e Detroit, and sunk immediately, killing the captain, engineer, and one hand.
The cause, so far as ascertained, Avas Avant of Avater in the boilers. It was stated
that, while passing Detroit, the force-pump had failed to work, and the Avater in
the boiler was IOAV ; but expecting to be able to get it to Avork, the boat continued
on her course until the explosion took place.
The tug Union, plying upon the Chicago river, in August, while towing a
vessel out into the lake, exploded her boiler and instantly sunk, killing four or
five persons, mostly citizens, who went on board for an excursion.
The Little Nellie, running from Saginaw to Saint Charles, in Michigan, exploded her boiler at the dock at SaginaAV City. I t appears, from what is known,
that the engineer on duty had been temporarily employed for a trip or two in
consequence of the sickness of the regular engineer, and that he had fastened
doAvn the safety valve and left the boat to go on the dock, and that, during his
absence, the boiler exploded, killing four passengers who were on board. This
man is in jail for trial. The captain of the boat had made application for her
inspection, but it had not been done. It may be proper to say that this boat
was of a class «of small boats noAv coming into much use in some localities in
this and other districts, fitted Avith scrcAV propellers, and running up the A^arious
small rivers emptying into the lakes. They are from thirty to forty feet in
length, and from six to eight feet beam, covered Avith light decks or aAvnings;
their engines and boilers light, and of a very simple construction, requiring but
a small amount of fuel, and running Avitli considerable speed. They, in many
instances, are almost an indispensable necessity in the ncAv and sparsely settled
district.
As these boats are of quite recent introduction, it is hardly probable that
Congress intended to legislate for them. They are too. small to carry a lifeboat, a fire-pump, hose, life-preservers, or floats, to any amount, and yet some
of them are carrying a very large number of passengers, but on very short
routes. The OAvners, and those in cliarge of these boats, are generally Avilling
and anxious to have them inspected and the engineers, and pilots licensed, and
many have been so inspected.
NINTH SUPERVISING DISTRICT.
Eighty-two steamers, carrying passengers, have been inspected in this district
since the date of the last annual report, the aggregate tonnage amounting to
46,142 tons. In making the above inspection one boiler gave AA^ay, (at Buffalo,
New York,) under the hydrostatic test. Upon examination, several stay-braces
were found broken, Avhicli, on being replaced,.the boiler stood the required test.
Forty-seven original licenses and two hundred and thirty-two rencAvals of
licenses of pilots ; also twenty-five original licenses and one hundred and ninetytwo renewals of licenses to engineers, have been issued by the various local
boards of inspectors in this district since the date of the last report.
Several collisions have occurred, during the time referred to, to licensed
steamers belonging in this district, and sail vessels navigating the lakes; in no
instance, hoAvever, of a-serious character, no loss of life nor bodily injury haAdng
been sustained, by either passengers or crcAv, upon the steamers and vessels so
colliding.
The screw steamer Jefferson, bound from Cleveland, Ohio, to Ogdensburg,
NCAV York, in April last, stranded upon the rocks near Port Colburn, Canada
West, during a fog, and was obliged to throAv overboard a portion of the cargo
in order to save the vessel. The value of property lost in this instance AA^as
$4,945. No loss of life, nor injury to passengers or crcAv, attended this disaster.
Three steamers licensed to carry passengers, and belonging in this district,
have been totally lost since the date of last report, one of Avhich, the steamer
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North Star, Avas burned by incendiary, in February, 1862, while lying .up for
the winter. The value of property lost Avas $40,000. The others Avere the
scrcAY steamers Pocahontas and Euphrates—both ships wrecked—the former
upon Long Point, Canada West, and the latter upon the bar at the entrance to
Sandusky bay. The loss of property in these instances was about $50,000 ; no
loss of life nor injury to passengers or crew, in either case, attending these disasters.
The above constitute the only casualties that have come to the knowledge of
the several local boards in this district, or to the supervising inspector.
In addition to the loss of the steamers above named, the steamers Western
Metropolis and City of Buffalo, heretofore inspected in this district, and operated
in connexion with the railroads, have been withdrawn from service, their
machinery and equipments taken out, and the hulls converted into barges for
the lumber trade.
Nine new screw steamers, (one of iron,) constructed with reference to carrying
passengers and freight, have been inspected in this district, and put in commission since the date of last report. The iron steamer Merchant, among the
number above referred to, is worthy of special notice as inaugurating a new
, era in the ship-building for merchant service upon the northern and western
lakes.
With this report will be found the usual statement, exhibiting, in a tabular
form, the duty performed by the local and other inspectors during the past year,
together with causes of the various disasters to steam vessels within the several
districts, and which is of usual interest.
Very respectfully,
J O H N SHALLCROSS,
President of the Board,
J A M E S N. MULLER, SR.,
Secretary^
Hon.
SALMON P . CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury,
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N a m e s of tribes.
Descriptions of annuities, stipulations,
&c.
References to l a w s ;
Statutes at Large.
Number of instalments yet unappropriated, explanations, remarks, ficc.
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Purchase of goods, provisions, and Vol. 11, page659....
other useful articJes, &c.; 9th article
treaty October 17, 1855.
Comanches, Kioways, For purchase of goods, provisions, and Vol. 10, page 1014...
agricultural implements; 6th article
and Apaclies of the
treaty July 27, 1853.
Arkansas river.
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, For transportation of goods, &c
Chippewas of Lake Su- For money, goods, support of schools, Vol. 7, page 592, and
vol. 10, page 1111.
provisions, two carpenters, and toperior.
b a c c o ; compare 4th article treaty
October 4,1842, and 8th article treaty
September 30,1.854.
T w e n t y instalments in coin, goods, im- Vol. 10,»pagell.
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plements, &c., and for education;
4th article treaty September 30,1854.
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T w e n t y instalments for six smiths and Vol. 10, page 1109,
and vol. lO, page
assistants and for iron and s t e e l ; 2d
nil.
and 5th articles treaty Sept. 30,1854.
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T w e n t y instalments for the seventh ,
smith, &c.
Blackfoot n a t i o n .
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Chippewas of the Mississippi.
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For support of a smith, assistant, and
shop, and pay of two farmers during
the pleasure of the President; 12th
article treaty.
Money, goods, support of schools, provisions, and tobacco; compare 4th
article treaty October 4, 1842, and
8ih article treaty September 30,1854.
T w o farmers, two carpenters, and
smiths and assistants, iron and steel;
4th article treaty October 4, 1842,
and September 30,1854.
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T e n instalments of §20,000, three instaUhents to be appropriated.
§•60,000 00
Ten instalments of $18,000, one unappropriated.
1.8,000 00
Transportation for one year at $7,000.,
Twenty-five instalments, four yet to
be appropriated.
7,000 00
78,040 24
T w e n t y instalments of $19,000 each,
twelve yet unappropriated.
228,000 00
75,600 00
T w e n t y instalments, estimated at
$1,060 each, fourteen yet unappropriated.
Vol. 10, page 1 1 1 2 . . . . Estimated at $2,260 per a n n u m
14,840 00
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T w e n t y instalments, estimated
$6,3U0 each, twelve yet unpaid.
{^2,260 00
Twenty-five instalments, four unexpended.
36,000 00
Twenty-five instalments, four unexpended, one-third payable to these
Indians (|1,400) for four years.
5,600 00
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Chippewas, Pillagers,
and Lake Winnebagoshish.
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Chickasaws
Chippewas, Menomonees, Winnebagoes,
and N e w York I n dians.
Chippewas of Saginaw,
S w a n creek, and
Black river.
Choctaws
T w e n t y instalments in money, ^ 0 , 0 0 0
each.
Money, ^10,666 67; goods, $8,000; and
purposes of utility, $4,000; 3d article
treaty February 22, 1855.
For purposes of "education ; same article and treaty.
For support of smiths' s h o p ; same article and treaty.
Pernianent annuity in goods
Education during the pleasure of Congress.
Vol. 10, page 1167.
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Vol. 1, page 619.
Vol. 7, page 304.
T e n instalments in coin of $10,000 Vel. 11, page 634
each ; and for the support of smiths'
shops ten years, ,'^1,240 per y e a r ;
same article, &c.
Permanent annuities
, Vol. 7, pages 99,213,
and 236.
Provisions for smith, & c .
Vol. 7, pages 212 and
236.
Interest on ^500,000; articles 10 and 13
treaiy J u n e 22,1855.
Permanent annuities
Vol. 11, pages 613 and
614.
Vol. 7, pages 36, 69,
and 287.
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S m i t h s ' shops, &c
Vol. 7, page 287
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Smiths, &c., t w o for twenty-seven
y e a r s ; treaties March 24, 1832, and
August 7, 1856.
Wheelwright, pernianent.
Thirty-three instalments for education;
13ih article treaty March, 1832, and
4th article treaty January, 1845.
T w e n t y instalments for.education; 4th
article treaty January, 1845.
Allowance during the pleasure of the
President.
V o l . 7 , page 368, &c.
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240,000 00
T w e n t y instalments of $3,000 e a c h ,
twelve unappropriated
Fifteen instalm'ts estimated at $2,120
e a c h ; seven unappropriated.
Act Febru-.try 28,1790, f 3,000 per year.
5lh article treaty August 11,1827
36,000 00
14,840 00
T w e n t y instalments of $3,000 e a c h ;
one unappropriated.
5th article treaty l''ebruary 14, 1833,
and 8th article treaty J a n u a r y 24,
1826.
Five per cent, for education
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Treaties of 1818, 1829, and 1832
Resolution of the Senate January 19,
1832.
Five payments of $3,000 each
Five payments of $2,000 each..
$60,000 00
9,600 00
192,000 00
920 00
18,400 00
25,000 00
500,000 00
24,500 00
490,000 00
69,720 00
4th article treaty August, 1790. $1,.500;
2d article treaty J u n e 16,1802,.$3,000;
4th article treaty January 24, 1826,
$20,000.
8th article treaty January 24,1826, say
$1,110.
One of twenty-seven instalments to
be appropriated.
Vol. 9, page 822
$3,000 00
1,500 00
2d article treaty Nov. 16,1805, $3,000 ;
13th article treaty Oct 18,1820; $600;
2d article treaty Jan .20,1825, $6,000,
6th article treaty October 18, 1820, and
9th article treaiy January 20, 1825,
say $920.
Five p e r c e n t , for educational purposes
8th article treaty January, 1826, $600.,
Thirty-three inst.ilments of $3,000 each;
one yet unappropriated.
Vol. 7, pages 287 and
419.
498,666 74c
T h r e e instalments yet to be appropriated, and two subsequent instalments of Si 8,000.
Vol. 7, page 2 8 7 . . . .
Vol 7, p;ige .368, and
vol. 9, page 822.
Interest on .$200,000 held in t r u s t ; 6th Vol. 11, pages 701 and
702.
article treaty August T, 1856.
Life annuities, &c., two c h i e f s . . . . . . . . Vol. 7, page 399
Interest on $46,080, at five per centum
Vol. 7, page 327
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Seminoles, (Florida In- T e n instalments for support of schools;
Vol. I I , page 702
8th article treaty August 7, 18.56.
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Delawares
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3d article treaty February 22, 1855,
twelve unexpended.
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2,200 00
600 00
12,000 00
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10,000 00
200,000 00^
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46,080 00
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15,000 00
10,000 00
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References to l a w s ;
Statutes at Large.
Descriptions of annuities, stipulations
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Pay of miller for fifteen years
Menomonees
T e n instalments of $20,000 each
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Miamies
Fifteen equal instalments, to pay
$242,686 ; to commence in 1867.
Permanent provisions for smith's shop,
&c., and miller.
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T w e n t y instalments upon $200,000.
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Interest on $50,000, at 5 per c e n t u m .
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Interest on $221,257 86, in trust
Eel River M i a m i e s . . . . Permanent annuities
$11,000 00
$25,000 annuities
2d article treaty May 18,18,54, $129,000
heretofore appropriated. Due3d iirlicle treaty May 12, 1854, $9,000,
$4,200 heretofore appropriated. Oue.
Five'instalments of $916 66 unappropriated.
4th article treaty 1848, three unapproVol. 9, page 953
priated.
Vol. 10, page 1 0 6 5 . . . . 4th article treaty May 12, 1854, and
S e n a t e ' s amendment thereto.
Vol. 7, pages 191 and 5th article treaty October 6 , 1 8 1 8 ; 5th
article treaty October 23, 1834; and
464; and vol. 10,
4th article treaty June 5, 1854—say,
page 1095.
$940 tor shop and $600 for miller.
Vol. 10, page 1094..., $150,000 of said sum payable in twenty
instalments of $7,500 each, seventeen unappropriated.
3d article treaty J u n e 5,1854
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Support of smiths' shops twelve years
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Five payments of $2,200.
Vol. 7, page 568, and 2d article treaty October 19, 1838, and
9th article treaty May 17, 18.54.
vol. 10, page 1071.
2d article treaty January 14, 1846
Vol. 9, page 842
Vol. 10, page 1 0 7 9 . . . . 2d article treaty May 18, 1854
Graduated payments on $200,000
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T e n instalments for support of smiths'
and shops ; same article and treaty.
Interest on $500,000, per 8ih article
treaty August 7, 1856.
Interest on S57,000, being the balance
- of $157,000.
Interest on $200,000
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Interest on $100,000
Vol. 9, page 953, and
vol. 10, page 1065.
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114, and 116.
Senate's amendment to 4th article
treaty of 1854.
4th article treaty 1795; 3d article treaty
1805; and 3d article treaty September, 1809, aggregate.
$25,000 00
$500,000 00
2,875 00
57,000 00
10,000 00
5,000 00
200,000 00
100,000 00
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71,000 00
4,800 00
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4,583 30
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60,000 00
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242,686 00
30,800 00
127,500 00
2,500 00
50.000 00
11,062 89
221,257 86
1,100 00
22,000 00
Navajo Indians . , . . . . ,
IsiLsqually, Puyallup,
and other tribes and
. bands! of Indians.
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Presents to Indians
For payment of $32,000 in graduated
payments.
Vol. 9, page 975
Vol. 10, page 1 1 3 3 . . .
iOth article treaty September 9, 1849..
4th article treaty December 26, 18.54 ;
still unappropriated.
Pay of instructor, smith, physician,
carpenter, &c., twenty years.
Vol. 10, page 1134...
Omahas
Forty instalm'ts graduated, ($840,000,)
extending for forty years.
Support of s m i t h s ' shops, miller, and
farmer, ten years.
lOih article treaty December 26, 1854,
estimated at $6,700 per y e a r ; twelve
instalments yet to be appropriated.
Eight instalments paid, (see 4ih article treaty iMarch 16, 1854,) to be
appropriated.
8th .article treaty, estimated $2,140 per
y e a r ; two years to be provided for.
4th article treaty March 15, 18.54, eight
instalments paid, to be appropriated
hereafter.
7th article treaty March 15, 18.54, estimated at $3,940 per year, eight appropriated.
For educational purposes, (Senate's
resolution of January 19,1833.)
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Vol. 10, page 1 0 4 4 . . .
Vol.. 10, page 1 0 4 5 . . . .
Forty instalm'ts graduated, (.$385,000,)
extending through forty years.
Vol. 10, page 1 0 3 9 . . .
Support of s m i t h s ' shops, miller, and
farmer, ten years.
Vol. 10, page 1 0 4 0 . . .
Pamphlet copy L a w s
1st session 36th
Congress, page 51.
Vol. 7, papes 54, K)6,
176, antl 220.
Osages
Interest on $69,120, at 5 per cent
Ottawas of K a n s a s . . .
Permanent annuities, their proportion
of.
Ottawas and Chippewas of Michigan.
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Interest on $240,000, at 5 per c e n t . . . . Vol. 7, page 497.
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Education, $5,000; mi-ssions, $3,000;
medicines, $300, during the pleasiire
of Congress.
T h r e e blacksmiths, &c.; one gunsmith, &c.; t w o farmers and assistants, during the pleasure of the President.
Ten equal instalments for education,
$8,000 each.
Support of four smiths' shops for ten
years.
Vol. 7, page 492,
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4th article treaty August 13, 1795; 4th
and 5th articles of treaty Sepiernber
17, 1818; 4th article treaty August
29, 1821; aiid 2d article treaty November 17, 1807.
Resolution of Senate May 19, 1836,
per year.
See 4th article treaty March 2 8 , 1 8 3 6 . .
$206,000 to be paid after ten years . . . .
Interest on $236,000 three years, being
the principal sum rchiaining of the
$306,000.
See 7th article treaty' of March 28,1836,
annually allowed since the expiration of the nuniber of years named
in treaiy. Aggregate $6,440.
2d article treaty July 31,1855; three
instalments yet unappropriated.
2d article treaty July 31, 1855; three
instalments yet unappropriated of
$4,2.50 I'ach.
Same article and treaty ; $10,000 for
ten y e a r s ; three appropriations yet
to be made.
Treaty July 31, 1855
Interest on unpaid consideration to be
paid as annuity, per 2d article treaty
July 31, 1855.
T e n instalments of $3,500 each t o b e
paid to the Grand River Ottowas.
T o be paid as per capita ; three instalm e n t s yet to be appropriated.
Agricultural implements, during the j Vol. 7, page 488.
pleasure of the President.
See 4th article treaty October 9,1853..
Vol. 7, page 493.
Vol. 11, page 623.
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In part payment of $306,000.
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Pawnees
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,
$5,000 00
12,750 00
80,400 00
570,000 00
4,280 00
260,000 00
7,880 00
3,456 00
69,120 00
2,600 00
52,000 00
12,000 00
240,000 00
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8,300 00
6,440 00
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24,000 00
12,750 00
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'30.000 00
206,000 00
35,400 00
10,500 00
1,000 00
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Five instalments in goods, and such
articles as may be necessary for
them.
For the support of two manual labor
schools.
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For purchase of iron and steel, and
other necessaries for same, during
the pleasure of the President.
For pay of two bl.acksmith.s, ope of
whom to be a gunsmith and tinsrnitli.
For compensation of two strikers and
apprentices.
Ten instalments for farming utensils
and stock.
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For pay of former
Vol. 11, page 729
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Pottawatomies
T e n instalments for pay of an engineer
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For compensation to apprentices to
assist in working the mill.
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Vol. 7, paces 51, 114,
, 185, 317'; 320, and
vol. 9J page 855.
Number of instalments yet un appropriated,, explanations, remarks, &c;
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See 2d article treaty Scptemljcr 24.
1857 ; first payment of annuities of a
permanent character, (being the
second series.)
3d article t r e a t y ; :innual!y. duringthe .•§10,000 00
pleasure of the Pr(;sident.
Same Mticle and t r e a i y ; annual ap1,200 00
propriation required.
500 00
4th article treaty; annual appropriation.
4th article t r e a t y ; annual appropriation required.
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4th article treaty; five appropriations
remaining unpaid, at the pleasure of
of the President. ^
4th article treaty; annual appropriations required.
4th article treaty; five appropriations
remaining at the discretion of the
President.
Five appropriations yetrequired, at the
discretion of the President, $1,200.
4th article treaty; annual appropriations required.
4th article treaiy 1795, $1,000; 3d article treaty 1809, $500; 3d article
treaiy 18I8,.S2,.500; 2d article treaty
1828, $2,000; 2d article treaiy Juiv,
,1829, $16,000; lOih article ' treaty
J u n e , 1845, $300.
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Am'I held in trust by the U. S.
on whichfiveper cent, is
annually paid ; and amounts
which, iiivested at five per
cent , would produce the
permanent annuities.
Referencps to l a w s ;
Statutes at Large.
Aggregate of future appropriations that will be required
d u r i n g a limited n u n i b f r of
years to pay limited .-innuities till tliey expire; amounts
incidt ntaily necessary to
efFtJCt the payment.
Descriptions of annuities, stipulations,
&c.
N a m e s of tribes.
A n n u a l amnunt necessary to
meet .stipulations. I n d e f i n i t e
as in lime, now alio wed,but
liable to be discontinued.
;N'O. 6.—Statement showing the present liabilities of the United States to Indian tribes, S^c.—Continued.
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$30,000 00
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1,200 00.
480 00
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$6,000 00
02
600 00
3,600 00
6,000 00
500 00
22,300 00
$446,000 00
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Life annuities to surviving chiefs
Vol. 7, page 379
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Education during the pleasure of Congress.
Vol. 7, pages 296,318,
401.
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Permanent provisions for three smiths, Vol. 7, pages 318,296,
321.
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Permanent provisions for furnishing
salt.
Vol. 7, pages 75, 296,
320.
Interest on $643,000, at 5 per cent..
Vol. 9, page 854
i Pottawatomies of Huron Permanent annuities
Provisions for education, $1,000 per
Q.uapavt's
year, and for smith and fiirmer and
smith shop during the pleasure of
the President.
Sixteen instalments of $2,500 each
^ Rogue River
Chasta, Scoton, and
U m p q u a Indians.
Sacs and Foxes of Missouri.
Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi.
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Senecas
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900 00
5,000 00
2,820 00
2,600 00
Interest on $157,400.
Vol. 10, page 544.
2d article treaty October 21,1837.
Permanent annuity . .
Vol. 7, page 8 5 . . .
3d article treaty No-^ember, 1804 .
Interest on $200,000, at 5 per cent..
Intere.-t on $800^000, at 5 per Cent.Permanent annuities.
Vol. 7, page 5 4 1 ;
Vol. 7, page 596
Vol. 7, pages 161 and
179.
2d article treaty October, 1837
2d article treaty October 11, 1842
4th article treaiy Sept*rmber 29, 1817,
$500; 4th article treaty September
17, 1817, $.500.
Vol 7, page 3 4 9 . . . . . . . 4th .article treaty Februarv 28, 1831—
say $1,660.
Vol. 4, page 442.
Vol. 9, page 3 5 . .
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Act February 19, 1831 .
Act June 27, 1846 . . . . ;
Act J u n e 27, 1846
Vol. 7. page 179.
Vol. 7, page 352.
4th article treaty September 17, 1818 .
4th article treaty July 20,1831
500 00
10,000 00
32,150 00
643,000 00
400 00
8,000 00
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Vol. 10, page 1 0 1 9 . . . . 3d article treaty September 10, 1853,
seven.instalments unappropriated.
$2,000 annually for fifteen years . . . . . . Vol. 10, page 1 1 2 2 . . . . 3d article treaty November 18, 1854,
seven instalments yet to be appro
priated.
Support of schools and farmers fifteen Vol. 10, page 1 1 2 3 . . . . Same treaty, 5th article, estimated for
schools, $1,200; farmers, $1,000;
years.
seven appropriations due.
Support of physicians, medicines, &c., Vol. 10, page 1 1 2 3 . . . . Two instalments yet due of $1,500 each.
ten instalments.
Provisions for smith and smiths'shops
and millers cludng the pleasure of
the President.
Senecas of N e w York Pcrnuinent annuity
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^ Interest on $7,:i00
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' I n t e r e s t on $43,0.50, transferred from
the Ontario Bank to the treasury of
the United States.
.Senecas and Shawnees Permanent annuity,
DoProvisions for support of smith and
smiths' shops during the pleasure of
the President.
V o l . 7 , page 106
Vol. 7, page 425 . . . .
3d article treaty October 16,1832, $200;
3d article treaty September 26, 1833,
$700.
3d article treaty October 16, 1826, 2d
article treaty September 20, 1826,
and 4th article treaty October 27,
1832, $5,000. •
2d article treaty September 20, 1828;
3d article" treaty October 16, 1826;
2d article treaty July 29,1829; three
shops, al $940 each per year, ,$2,820
3d article treaty 1803, 3d article treaiy
October, 1826, and 2d article treaty
July 29, 1829—estimated, §.500.
7th article treaty J u n e , 1848, annual interest, $32,150.
2d article treaty Nov'ber 17,1807, $400.
3d article treaty May 13, 133.i, $1,000
per year for education, and $1,660
for smith, farmer, &c., $2,660.
17,500 00
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14,000 00
15,400 00
3,000 00
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7,870 00
157,400 00
1,000 00
20,000 00
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10,000 00
40,000 00
1,000 00
200.000 00
too;000 00
20,000 00
02
11,902 50
238,050 00
1,000 00
20,000 00
1,660 00
$6,000 00
3,7.50 00
2,1.52 50
1,060 00
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;^o, 5.—Statement showing the present iiabiUties of the United States to Indian tribes, ^c.—Continued.
.rt "S o -^ I S
^•= 5 2 S ^
S =- 3 -O rt ^ .
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Names of tribes
Descriptions of annuities, stipulations,
&c.
References to l a w s ;
Statutes at Large.
Number of instalments yet unappropriated, explanations, remarks, &c.
3 r: £; ._= p. 3 3
• 2
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Six Nations of New
York.
Sioux of the Mississippi
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
Umpquas - C o w Creek
band.
Umpquas, Calapooias,
Sec.,.Oregon.
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Vol. 10, page 9 5 1 . .
Fifty instalments
$1,100,000.
Vol. 10, page 9 5 5 . .
of
interest
on
Fifty instalments of interest on $59,000,
being ten cents per acre for reservation.
Five instalments, at the discretion of
the President.
T w e n t y instalments, of $550 each . . .
T w e n t y instalments; payments graduated.
Support of teachers, &.c.,twejity years
Vol. 10, page 9 5 0 . .
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Senate's amendment to 3d article;
thirty-eiizht instalments to be provided for, of $5,600 each.
4th article treaty July 23,1851, .$68,000
per annum ; thirty-eight instalments
to be provided for.
4th article treaty August 5, 1851,
$58,000 per a n n u m ; ihirty-ei.ght instalments yet to be appropriated.
Treaty August 5,1851 ; thirty-eight instalments of $3,450 10 be provided for.
Five instalments of $70,000 each, for
provisions and merchandise,forpayment of annuities, and transportation
of the same, &c ; three instalments
, yet to be appropriated.
Vol. 10, page 1028..., 3d article treaty September 19, 1853;
eleven instalments yet due.
Vol. 10,p,age 1126.... 3d article treaty November 29, 1854;
twelye instalments to be appropriated
under the directionof the President.
Vol. 10, page 1127..., 6th article treaty, estimated at $1,450
per y e a r ; twelve instalments yet to
be appropriated.
Senate amendment to
treatySept. 17,1851;
vol. 11, page 749.
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Permanent annuities for education , . . . Vol. 7, pages 51 and .4th article treaty August 3, 1795; 4th
article treaty Sept'ember 29, 1817;
161, and vol. 10,
and 3d article treaty M.ay 10, 1854.
page 1065.
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3d article treaty May 10, 1854
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Interest on $40,000
6th article treaty November 11, 1794,
Permanent annuity in clothing. Sec-... Vol. 7, page 4 6 . . . .
$4,500.
Vol. 7, page 5 3 9 . . .
2d article treaty September 29, 1837..,
Interest on $300,000
Fifty instalments of interest
on
$1.12,00'), being ten cents per acre
for rest-rvation
Fifty instalments of interest on
$1,360,000, at 5 per centum.
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Shawnees
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$5,000 00
$100,000 00
2,000 00
4,500 00
40,000-00
90,000 00
15,000 00
300,000 00
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$212,800 00
2,584,000 00
2,204.000 00
131,100 00
210,000 00
6,050 00
18,100 00
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Support of physician, fifteen years.
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Supportof smith and shop, and farmer,
ten years.
T w e n t y instalments, graduated payments.
Vol. 10, page 1144..
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Winnebagoes
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Interest on $1,100,000
Thirty instalments of
$85,000.
Vol. 7, page 546
V
n l . ^9, page
n.TirP 879.
R79
Vol.
Poncas
Five instalments of $12,000 each for
beneficial objects.
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T e n instalments for manual labor
schools.
T e n instalments, diu-ing the pleasure
of the President, for aid in agricultural and mechanical pursuits..
For $150,000 in graduated payments,
under the direction of the President,
in twenty instalments.
T w e n t y instalments for an agricultural
school and teachers.
Willamette
bands.
Valley
Do.
Dwamish and other
allied tribes in Washington Territory.
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interest
on
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T w e n t y instalments for smith and carpenter shop, and tools.
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T w e n t y instalments, blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, and physician.
Makah tribe.,
For beneficial objects $30,000, under
the direction of the President.
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T w e n t y instalments for an agricultural
and industrial school and teachers.
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T w e n t y instalments for smith, carpenter, shop and tools.
T w e n t y instalments for blacksmith,
carpenter, farmer, and physician.
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Walla-Walla, Cayuse,
and Umatilla tribes.
For beneficial objects $100,000, to be
expended under the direction of the
President.
For two millers, one farmer, one superintendent of farming operations, two
school teachers, one blacksmith, one
wagon and plough maker, and one
carpenter and joiner.
Pamphlet copy L a w s
1st session 36th
Congress, page 67.
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P.amphlet copy L a w s
1st session 36th
Congress, page 2.
Pamphlet copy L a w s
1st session 36th
Congress, page 3.
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Pamphlet copy L a w s
1st session 3Sth
Congress, page 14.
Pamphlet copy L a w s
1st session 36th
Congress,- page 15.
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1st session 36th
Congress, page 20.
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6th article treaty, estimated at $2,000
per y e a r ; seven instalments yet to
be appropriated.
6th article treaty, estimated at $1,500
per y e a r ; two instalments yet unappropriated.
2d article treaty January 22, 1855;
twelve instalments yet to be appropriated under the direction of the
President.
4th article treaty November, 1837
4th article treaty October 13, 18.36,
$4,250 per year; fourteen instalments
to be provided for.
T w o instalments to be appropriated..,
14,000 00
3,000 00
76,000 00
25,000 00
24,000 00
Seven instalments of $5,000 ieach to
be provided for.
Seven instalments of 7,500 each to be
• provided.
52,500 00
Seventeen instalments to be provided
for.
111,000 00
Seventeen instalments yet to be provided for, estimated at $3,000 a year.
51,000 00
Seventeen instalments yet to be provided for, estimated at $500 per
year.
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated at $4,600 each
year.
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, in graduated payments,
per 5lh article treaty.
Seventeen instalments yet unappropriated, estimated at $2,500 per year.
8,500 op
Seventeen instalments yet unappropriated, estimated at $500 each year.,
Seventeen instalments yet unappropriated, estimated amount necessary
each year $4,600.
Seventeen instalments in graduated
payments.
Seventeen instalments to be provided
for, estimated at $11,200 each year.
1,100,000 00
59,500 00
35,000 00
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78,200 00
22,000 00
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42,500 .00
8,500 00
78,200 00
76,000 00
190,400 00
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References to laws ;
Statutes at Large.
T w e n t y instalments for mill fixtures, Pamphlet copy Laws,
1st session 36th
tools, medicines, books, stationery,
Congress, page 21.
furniture, &c.
T w e n t y instalments of $500, for each . . . . . . do
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of the head chiefs of these bands.
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T w e n t y instalments for salary of son.
Po
of Piu-piu-mox-mox.
Pamphlet
copy Laws,
For
$200,000
for
beneficial
objects,
Yakama n a t i o n . . . . . . .
1st session 36th
under direction of the President, in
Congress, page 27.
twenty-one instalments, in graduated payments.
do
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Support of two schools, one of which
to be an agricultural and industrial
school, keeping them in repair, and
providing furniture, books, and stationery.
Do
For one superintendent of teaching . . . . . . do
and two teachers twenty years.
do
Do
"For one superintendent of farming
and two farmers, two millers, two
blacksmiths, one tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter, and one wagon
and plough maker, for twenty years
Do
T w e n t y instalments keeping in repair
do
grist and saw mill, and furnishing
the necessary tools therefor.
Do
T w e n t y instalments for. keeping in redo
pair hospital and furnishing medicines, &c.
Do
T w e n t y instalments for pay of physi- . . . . . . d o
cian.
do
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T w e n t y instalments for keeping in repair buildings for employes.
Wall a-Walla, Cayuse
and Umatilla tribes
Number of instalments yet unappropriated, explanations, remarks, &c.
Seventeen instalments of appropriations yet due of $3,000 each.
Seventeen instalments yet due
Seventeen instalments yet due of $100
each.
Seventeen instalments to be provided
for.
T w e n t y instalments, three appropriated, seventeen yet to be provided,estimated at $500.
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Am't held in trust by the U. S.
on whichfiveper cent, is
annu-ally paid; and amounts
which, invested at five per
cent., would produce the .
permanent annuities.
Descriptions of annuities, stipulations,
&c.
Aggregate of future appropriations that will be required
during a limited number of
- years to pay limited annuities till they expire, amounts
incidentally necessary to effect the piiyrneni.
N a m e s of tribes.
Annual amount necessary to
meet stipulations, indefinite
as to time, now allowed, but
liable to be discontinued.
, No. 6.—Statement showing the present liabilities of the United States to Indian tribes, ^c.—Continued.
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$51,000 00
25,500 00
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• 1,700 00
110,000 00
tej
8,500 00
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Seventeen instalments
propriated, estimated
Seventeen instalments
propriated, estimated
yet to be .apat $3,200.
yet to be apat $9,400.
54,400 00
159,800 00
Seventeen instalments yet to be provided for, estimated at $500 each.
8,500 00
Seventeen instalments yet unappropriated, estimated at $300 each.
5,100 00
Seventeen instalments yet lo be appropriated, estimated at $1,400.
Seventeen instalments yet due of $300.
23,800 00
5,100 00
Ul
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Nez P e r c y s . . . . . . . . . .
Do
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P o r salary of head chief for twenty
years.
For beneficial objects $200,000, under
the direction of the President, in
graduated payments, extending for
twenty-one years.
For support of two schools, one of
which to be an agricultural and industrial school, keeping them in repair, .and providing furniture, books,
and stationery.
T w e n t y instalments for one superintendent of teaching and two teachers.
T w e n t y in.stalments for one superintendent of farming and two farmers,
two millers, t w o blacksmiths, one
tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter,
and one wagon and plough maker.
Do..
;..• T w e n t y instalments for keeping in repair grist and saw inill, and furnishing the necessary tools therefor.
T w e n t y instalments for keeping in reDo
pair hospital and furnishing necessary medicines, &c.
T w e n t y instalments for pay of phyDo..
sician.
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, T w e n t y instalments for keeping in
repair buildings for empl05'6s.
Do
T w e n t y mstalments for salary of head
chief.
Flathead and other T w e n t y instalments for beneficial objects", under the direction of the
confederated tribes.
President, $120,000.
Do
For the support of an agricultural and
industrial school, providing necessary furniture, books, stationery, &c.
Do
For employment of suitable instructors
^ therefor.
For keeping in repair blacksmith shop,
one carpenter's shop, one wagon and
°Do
plough maker's shop, and furnishing
tools" therefor.
For two farmers, two millers, one
blacksmith, one gunsmith, one tinDo
ner, one carpenter and joiner, and
one wagon and plough maker.
For keeping in repair flouring and saw
mill, and supplying the necessary
Do
;
fixtures.
For keeping in repair hospital, and
Do
fiirnishing the necessary medicines,
Do
&.C.
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Pamphlet copy L a w s ,
1st session 36th
Congress, page 32.
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Pamphlet copy L a w s
1st session 36th
Congress, page 33.
Seventeen instalments unappropriated
of $500 each.
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated.
8,500 00
110,000 00
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated at $500 each
year.
Seventeen instalments to be appropriated, estimated at $3,20U each.
54,400 00
Seventeen instalments y'et to be appropriated, estimated at $9,400 each
year.
159,800 00
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated at $500 each
year.
Seventeen instalments yet unappropriated, estimated at $300 each year.
8,500 00
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5,100 00
Seventeen instalments yet due, estimated at $1,400 each.
Seventeen instalments yet due, estimated at $300 each.
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, of $.500.
Sixteen instalments yet to be appropriated, in graduated payments.
28,800 00
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated at $300.
5,100 00
23,800 00
do
Seventeen instalrhents yet to be appropriated, $1,800.
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, $500.
Seventeen appropriations yet due, of
$7,400 each.
125,800 00
do...
Seventeen appropriations yet to be
m a d e , estimated at $500 each year.
8,500 00
do
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated value each
year $300.
5,100.00
do
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1st session 36th
Congress, page 50.
Pamphlet copy L a w s
1st session 36th
Congress, page 51.
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8,500 00
66,000 00
8,500 00
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s s rt g :d
Names of tribes.
Descriptions of annuities, stipulations,
Stc. •
References to l a w s ;
Statutes at Large.
Numher of instalments yet unappropriated, explanations, r e m a r k s , &c.
- . 2 ^.2
£ ri 2 ' 5
5 "5 "•> S
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Flathead and other
confederated tribes.
Do
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Confederated
tribes
and bands of Indians
in Middle Oregon.
Do
Do...,
Do
M o l d Indians
Do.
Do.,
For pay of physician twenty y e a r s . . . . Pamphlet copy L a w s
1st session 36ih
Congress, page 51.
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For keeping in repair the buildings of
employes, &c.,for twenty years.
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For $500 per annum for twenty years
for each of the head chiefs."
For beneficial objects, under the direc- Pamphlet copy L a w s
1st session 36ih
. tion of the President, $100,000 in
Congress, page 39.
graduated payments.
do
For farmer, blacksmith, and wagon
and plough maker, for the term of
fiiteen years.
For physician, sawyer, miller, super- . . . . . d o .
intendent of farming, and school
teacher, fifteen years.
.do.
Salary of the head chief of the confederated band, twenty years.
For keeping in rejiair saw and flouring Pamphlet copy Laws
1st session 36th
mills and furnishingsuiiable persons
Congress, page 55.
to attend the same, for a period of
ten years.
.do.
For iron and steel and other materials
for the smith shop and the shop provided for in treaty oi November 29,
1854, and for the pay of the services
of the necessary mechanics, for five
years.
For pay of teacher to manual labor . . . . d o .
school, and for subsistence of pupils
and necessary supplies.
.do.
For carpenter and joiner to aid iri
erecting buildings, making furniture,
&c. .
Seventeen instalments yet due, estirnated at $1,400.
<
Seventeen instalments yet to be made,
of .$300 each.
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, estima'd at$l,500 each year.
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated.
$23,800 00
5,100 00
68,000 00
42,000 00
Tvv'O instalm'ts yet to be appropriated,
estimated at $1,800 each year.
3,600 00
Seven instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated at $2,000 each
year.
o
25,500 00
Twelve instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated at $3,500 each
year.
T w e l v e instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated at $5,600 each
year. Seventeen instalments yet to. be appropr'ed, estima'd at $500 each year.
Seven instalments yet d u e , estimated
at $1,500 each.
Amount necessary during the pleasure,
of the President.
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8,500 00
10,500 00
$3,000 00
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Qui-nai and Q.uil-lehute Indians.
Do
Do
Do
,
S'Klallams
Do
Do
Arapahoes and Cheyenne Indians of
the Upper Arkansas
river.
Do
Ottowa
Indians of
Blanchard'.s
Fork
and Roche de Bffiuf
Do.
Do.
For pay of an additional farmer, five
years.
For $25,000 to be expended for beneficial objects, under the direction of
the President.
For support of an agricultural and in-'
dujrtrial school, and for the employment of suitable instruction, for the
term of twenty years.
For twenty instalments for the support of a smith and carpenter's shop
and tools.
For t h e employment of blacksmith,
carpenter, faViner, and physician,
for twenty years.
T w e n t y instalments in graduated payments, under t h e direction of the
President, lor $60,000.
T w e n t y instalments lor support of an
agricultural and industrial school
and for teachers.
T w e n t y years employment of blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, and physician.
For .$450,000 in fifteen equal annual instalments, under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior, of $30,000
each.
For fi ve instalments providing for sawing limber and grinding grain, m e c a n i c s ' shops and tools, and building
purposes for interpreter, engineer,
milk'r, farmer, & c .
For transportation^and necessary expenses of the delivery of annuity
goods and provisions.
T h e sum of $18,000, to be paid in 1862,
and in four equal annual instalments
thereafter, as near as may be, all
the money which the United States
holds or may hold for them, with
accruing interest on all moneys re• maining wiih t h e United States.
For .$15,000, providing for the debts of
the tribes, to be approved by the
Secretary of the Interior.
Providing for claims already approved
by the Secretary of the Interior,
$13,005 95, and also for other claims
for damages within two years, such
claims not to exceed $3,500.
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,
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1st session 36th
Congress, page 46.
Pamphlet copy Laws
1st session 36lh
Congress, page 47.
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Pamphlet copy L a w s
1st session 36th
Congress, page 8.
Pamphlet copy Laws
1st sessioii 36th
Congress, page 9.
,
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Pamphlet copy Laws
2d session 37tliCongress,page 229.
.do.
T w o instalments, of .$800 each, yet to
be appropriated.
Seventeen in?talmen(s in graduated
payments yet to be provided for,
amouniing to.
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated at $2,500 each
year.
1,600 00
18,500 00
42,500 00
Seventeen instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated at $500 each
year.
^
Seventeen instalments yet to be ;ip
propriated, estimated at $4,600 each
year.
Seventeen payments y e t to be provided for.
8,500 00
78,200 00
44,000 00
Seventeen instalments yet to be a p propriated, estimated at $2,500 each.
42,500 00
Seventeen instalments yet to be a p propriated, estimated at $4,600 each.
78,200 00
Thirteen in.stalmehfs yet te be appropriated of $30,000 each.
390,000 00
Five instalments to be provided for,
estimated at $5,000.
25,000 00
5th article treaty February 18, 1861;
thirteen instalments yet to be appropriated, estimated at$5,000 each.
Treaty J u n e 24,1862, 4th article, providing for the payment of $18,000 in
1862; same treaty, June 24, 1862,
the latter clause of the 4th .article,
providing for the remaining foirr
payments, being indefinite as to
amount.
Treaty June 24,1862, 5th article ; this
iimount to he-appropriated.
65,000 00
lOlh article treaty June 24, 1862 ; the
sum required, in compliance with
the treaty, to be provided within
two years.
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15,000 00
57,670 00
11,870,891 23 .$366,610 39
$7,331,707 86
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184
REPORT
ON T H E
No.
FINANCES.
7.
Gold a n d silver coinage a t the mint o f the U i i t e d S t a t e s i n the several y e a r s
f r o m its estciblishment, in 1792, a n d i n c l u d i n g the cmnage of the branch mints
a n d the a s s a y ofiice, [New York,) f r o m their o r g a n i z a t i o n to J u n e 30, 1 8 6 1 .
Years.
1793 to 1795.
1796
1797
1798 . - . - - - . .
1799
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804..
1805
,...
1806
.:.
1807
'.
1808
1809
"...
1810
ISll
1812
1813
1814
1815
1816
1817
1818
1819
1820
1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827
1828
1829
1830 _ .
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
1843
1844
1845
1846
1847
.-
Gold.
$71,485
102,727
103,422
205,610
213,285
317,760
422.570
423,310
258,377
258,642
170,367
324,505
437,495
284,665
169,375
501,435
497,905
290,435
477,140
77,270
3,175
Silver.
00
60
50
00
00
00
00
00
50
50
50
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
242, 940 00
258, 615 00
1,319, 030 00
189, 325 00
88, 980 00
72, 425 00
93, 200 00
156, 385 00
92, 245 00
131, 565 00
140, 145 00
295, 717 50
643, 105 OU
714, 270 00
798, 435 00
978, 550 00
3,954, 270 00
2,186, 175 00
• 4,135,700 00
1,148, 305 00
1,809, 595 00
1,375, 760 00
1,690, 802 00
1,102, 097 50
1,883, 170.50
8,302, 787 50
5,428, 230 00
3,756, 447 50
4,034, 177 50
20,221, 385 00
$370,683 80
79,077 50
12,591 45
330,291 00
423,515 00
224,296 00
74,758 0058,343 00
87,118 00
100,340 50
149,388 50
471,319 00
597,448 75
684,300 00
707,376 00
638,773 50
608,340 00
814,029 50
620,951 50
561,687 50
17,308 00
28,575 75
607,783 50
1,070,454 50
1,140,000 00
501,680 70
825,762 45
805,806 50
895,550 00
1,752,477 00
1,564,583 00
2,002,090 00
2,869,200 00
1,575,600 00
1,994,578 00
2,495,400 00
3,175,600 00
'2,579,000 00
2,759,-000 00
3.415.002 00
3.443.003 00
3,606,100 00
2,096,010 00
2,315,250 00
2,098,636 00
1,7.12,178 00
1,115,875 00
2,325,750 00
3.722,250 00
2,235,550 00
1,873,200 00
2,558.580 00
2,374,450 00
Aggregate.
$444,168 80
181,805 00
116,013 95
535,901 00
636,800 00
542,056 00
497,328 OO481,653 OO
345,495 50
358,983 00
319,756 00
795,824 00
1,034,943 75
968,965 00
876,751 00
1,140,208 50
1, 106,245 00
1,104,464 50
1,098,091 50
638,957 50
20,483 0028,575 75607,783 60"
1,313,394 50
1,398,615 00
1,820,710 70
1,015,087 45
894,786 50
967,975 00
1,845,677 00
1,720,968 00
2,094,335 00
3,000.765 00
1,715,745 00
2,290,295 50
3,138,505 00
3,889,870 00
3,377,435 00
3,737,550 GO
7,369,272 00
6,629,178 00
7,741,800 00
"3,244,315 00
4,124,845 00
3,474,396 00
3,402,980 00
2,217,972 50
50
4,158,920
50
12,025,037
00
7,663,780
50
6,629,647
50
6,592,757
00
22,595,835
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
185
Gold and silver coinage at the mint of the United States, fyi.—Continiiedo
Gold.
Years.
1848
ls49
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
.J.
(to September
(to September
(to September
(to September
(to June 30)
(to June 30)
(to June 30)
(to June'30)
30)
30)
30)
30)
..
--..
--.
Total
Silver.
$3,775,512 50
9,007,761 50
31,981,738 50
62,614,492 50
56,846,187 50
55,213,906 94
52,094,595 47
41,166,557 93^
58,936,893 41
48,437,964 31
61,841,433 91
19,777,418 70
23,447,283-35
80,708,400 64
61,676,576 55
$2,040,050 00
2,114,950 00
1,866,100 00
774,397 00
999,410 00
9,077,571 00
8,619,270 00
2,893,745 00
6,347,070*49
3,375,608 01
9,028,531 44
4,699,223 95
3,250,636 26
2,883,706 94
3,231,081 51
730,331,616 21
131, 368, 263- 50
Aggregate.
$5,815,562
11,122,711
33,847,838
63,388,889
67,845,597
64,291,477
60,713,865
44,060,302
64,283,963
61,818,572
60,869,965
24,476,642
26,697,919
83,592,107
64,907,658
50
50
50
50
50
94
47
93
90
32
35
65
61
58
06
861,699;779 71
No. 7^.
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General residt of all receipts and disposal of merchandise within the United States during the fiscal year ending June 3t), 1862.
July.
Amount.
1. Value of merchandise in warehouse on the
first of each month
^$31,769,579 89
2. Value of merchandise received in warehouse from foreign ports during each
month
2,493,689 61
3. Value of merchandise received in warehouse transported from other ports during
each month
....
139,883 00
4. Value of dutiable merchandise entered for
consumption from foreign ports during
each month
3,937,267 59
5. Value of free merchandise entered for consumption from foreign ports during each
month
13,099,446 55
6. Value of merchandise entered for consumption from warehouse during each m o n t h . .
9,934,649 10
7. Value of merchandise entered for transp'brtation to other ports during each month ..
186,378 15
8. Value of merchandise entered for exportation from warehouse during each m o n t h . .
•421,290 45
9. Value of merchandise in warehouse at the
. close of each month
23,860,834 80
10. Value of mercliandise in transitu at the
close of each month
I
754,996 00
August.
September.
Duly.
'Amount.
Duly.
Amount.
*$7,275,830 89
$23,860,834 80
$5,822,077 26
$23,453,392 66
698,723 18
3,234,230 32
948,402 54
1,974,649 33
40,893 20
134,605 40
33,198 44
221,954 00
625,358 70
4,107,108 51
1,113,814 85
3,769,482 96
4,732,465 52
October.
Duty.
Amount.
$5,891,597 80 |$21,271J82 83
Duty.
$5,521,708 41
693,073 54
2,666,366 65
921,062 82
76,200 71
248,359 60
76,498 39
1,094,220 15
4,692,967 18
1,299,857 26
.
4,362,255 58
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2,053,850 90
3,176,796 22
760,829 31
3,625,723 08
894,201 31
3,211,058 77
52,072 66
279,660 00
82,777 68
247,380 03
78,865 21
285,900 65
81,139 06
O
87,446 45
319,821 64
68,473 45
505,417 07
166,189 22
584,649 26
174,290 15
Ul
5,822,077 26
23,453,392 66
5,891,597 80
21,271,782 83
5,521,708 41
20,104,300 40
5,467,277 43
237,906 36
839,067 00
267,908 73
945,989 00
307,321 52
797,455 00
359,484 16
* Returns from insurrectionary ports not included, as in report of J u n e , 1861.
796,562 98
"No. 7 J.-—General result'of all receipts and disposal of merchandise within tlie United States, ^c.—Continued.
1861.
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November. .
Amount.
1. Value of merchandise in warehouse on the
$20,104,300 40
. first of each month
2. Value of merchandise received in warehouse from foreign ports during each
2,915,484 78
month
J. Value of merchandise received in warehouse transported from other ports during
each month
318,238 57
4. Value of dutiable merchandise entered for
consumption from foreign ports during
5,600,858 70
each month
5. Value of free merchandise entered for consumption from foreign ports during each
4;361,481 04
month
'.
6. Value of merchandise entered for consumption from warehouse during each month..,
2,696,122 14
7. Value of merchandise entered for transportation t o o t h e r ports during each month ,.
239,887 95
8. Value of merchandise entered lor exportation from warehouse during each m o n t h . .
499,054 57
9. Value of merchandise in warehouse at tire
close of each month
—
19,902,959 09
10. Value of merchandise in transitu at the
close of each month . . . .
.....
....
750,374 13
Duty.
1862.
•Amount.
$5,467,277 43 $19,902,959 09
1,209,844 70
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December.
. 2,864,366 49°
January.
February.
Duty.
Amount.
$5,809,709 63 $16,944,250 71
$5,103,739 48
$14,800,907 67
$4,946,700 25
1,085,284 96
3,681,399 62
1,606,436 53
4,356,045 00
1,996,827 69
Duty.
Amount.
Duty.
85,313 28
203,689 00
63,251 27
156,877 00
56,200 78
357,877 15
110,793 13
1,614,300 77
5,861,356 21
1,704,119 75
8,078,966 10
2,390,345 06
8,978,559 80
2,922,943 55
4,142,006 53
4,854,301 01
1,642,742 51
5,208,501 00
4,451,415 05
1,605,391 60
295,597 30
74,781 68
195,853 62
67,276 18
313,580 00
104,852 95
397,388 21
136,982 19
330,774 83
11.5,017 15
404,525 00
156,438 53
5,809,709 63
16,944,250 71
5,103,739 48
14,800,907 67
4,946,700 25
14,346,309 77
5,187,737 99
253,191 36
751,243 14
259,488 07
783,603 00
272,169 32
874,850 05
302,416 11
732,048 28
72,563 90
148,113 60
5,333,778 37 .
5,454,991 2 1 '
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CO
00
1862.
Amount.
1. Value of merchandise in warehouse on the
first of each month,
$14,346,309 77
2. Value of merchandise received in warehouse from foreign ports during eacli
6,356,243 38
month
7..
3. Value of merchandise received in w a r e house transported from other ports during
each month
170,251 70
4. Value of dutiable merchandise entered for
consumption frora foreign ports during
each month
12,128,353 63
5. Value of free merchandise entered for consumption from foreign ports during each
month,.,...
4,973,418 00
6. Value of merchandise entered for consumption from warehouse during each m o n t h . .
3,987,871 77
7. Value of merchandise entered for transportation to other ports during each rnonth ..
259,418 19
'8. Value of merchandise entered for exportation from warehouse during f\ach m o n t h . .
667,647 33
9. Value of merchandise in warehouse at the
close of each month
15,958,117 56
10. Value of merchandise in transitu at the
close of each month
811,010 00
May.
April.
March.
'"
June.
Duty.
Amount.
Duty.
Amount.
Duty.
Amount.
$5,187,737 99
$15,958,117 56
$5,735,977 66
$15,069,472 35
$5,702,768 57
$145 971,653 05
$6,039,318 44
2,512,616 62
5,445,020 49
2,881,451 38
6,238,939 78
3,657,366 96
5,436,262 15
•2,778,754 89
o
60,355 89
318,013 40
136,292 72
336,425 21
168,763 54
353,593 00
203,883 52
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4,063,577 47
8,390,528 78
2,835,022 23
10,917,663 98
3, .559,368 57
9,186,683 64
3,008,184 26
4,357,395 90
5,079,041 30
1,621,723 03
5,380,183 60
2,517,369 24
5,271,476 75
Duty.
2,833,821 60
t?j
2,842,899 82
6,686,138 27
3,164,884 60
• 83,736 82
93,960 66
204,238 50
83,725 83
271,693 78
143,162 20
185,794 25
309,049 15
1,067,257 00
449,858'12
1,130,013 76
503,518 61
912,102 00
424,908 96
5,735,977 66
15,089,472 35
5,702,768 57
14,971,653 05
6,039,318 44
12,977,473 68
5,348,426 47
288,387 08
687,527 00
250,800 44
665,309 00
265,971 56
547,976 00
.227,487 55
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SYNOPSIS
OP
THE RETTJENS OF THE BAIIS
DIFFERENT STATES AT THE DATES ANNEXED.
No. 8.
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Synopsis of the returns of the banks in the different States at the dates annexed.
State.
Date.
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Maine.
^ ^ v t Hampshire ,
Vermont.
Dec,
Dec,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
1854
1855
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
Dec,
Dec,
Dec,
Jan.,
Dec,
Dec,
Dec,
Dec,
1854
1855
1856
1858
1858
1859
1860
1861
Aug.,
Aug.,
AU2.,
Aug.,
July,
Aug.,
Aug.,
1854
1855
1856
1857
18.58
1859
1860
1861
Aug.,
Aug.,
Oct.,
Oct.,
Oct.,
Oct.,
Oct.,
Oct.,
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861 Il83
Aui.,
Massachusetts . . . .
$7,301,252 .$13,181,9081
7,899,793 13,066,956'
8,13.5,735 13,277,620
7,614,200 11,210,245
7,408,945 11,81.5,127
7,506,890 12,654,79^
7,6.56.250 13,406.294
7,970,650 12,679,244
$8,850| $112,694
113,879
138,251
135,263
145,56.=.
181,199
235, .531
255,060
3,626,000
4,449,300
4, 831,000
5,041,000
5,041,000
5,016,000
4,981,000
5,031,000
6,891,621
8, 037,427
8,846,421
'7,389,8131
8,250,754
8, .591,688
8.794,948
8,'368,941
52, .343
56,519
75,893
. 82,000
68,086
72,912
75,646
78,253
3,275,656
3,603,460
3,856,946
4, 028, 740
4,082,416
4,029,240
3,872,642
3,916,000 |_
6,572,951
6,710,9281
7,302, 951
7, 905, 711
6,392,992
6,946,523
6,748,500
6,013,730
54,492,660
58,632,350
.=8,598,800
60,319,720
61,819,825
64,519,, 2001
64,519,200
67,344,200l
93,341,953
99,506,711
101,132,792
92,458,572
101,602,947
107,417,323
107,417,323
111,038,828
140,864
151,8751
114,589
39, 991
106, 500
176,400
190,372
82,741
136,115
123,237
135,268
136,582
222,560
190,565
174,736
167,380
1,186,509
1,281,601
1,426,392
1,608,613
1,584.884
l,60i;072
1,601,072
1,626,404
$1,781,065 $539,974
1,396,430
464,561
1,158,276
375,216
245,121
876,022
1,478,896 • 273,303
1,019,902
290,224
995,650
308,706
2,084,263
219,370
$85,132
49,428
52,881
17,185
73,954
176,412
168,662
602,447
769,963
741,475
829,169
889,330
772,173
756,200
907,440
124,860
241,383
136,504
158,132
170.994
181,964
157,386
203,822
1,079,686
1,150,362
1,142,104
926,326
701,545
1,167,602
1,299,535
753,250
125,902
54,5.56
43,146
122,923
41,780
69,435
. 58,558
8,225,682
7,010,323
7,574,791
5,522, 088
9,187,245
7,212,5i0
7,212, .531
9,127,9861
5,32,5,594
4, .547,710
5,248,379
4,385,6.50
4,993,421
5,183,4.591
5,138,549
4,050,9301
$1,025,208 $5,691,
753,085 5,077,
705,143 4,641,
61.5,441 2,964,
663,7.54 3,886;
670,979 4;149,
653.;3;:i4 4,-313,
710,392| 4,047,
$54,071
32,845
39,440
36,3511
232,625
69,667
103, .5.37
138,550
$2,914,601 $172,628 $19,559
2,011,028
118,975 104,173
1,994,782
145.083 121,743
1,743,939
139,304
76,069
2,382,910
89.271
90,082
2,411,022
102;393
87,165
2,869,871
151,437 *608,951
3,307,628
83,601! *638,916
176,434
236.411
236:013
275;933
294,423
255,278
243,720
318,106
3,079,548
3, .589,482
3,677,689
2,289;939
3,115,643
3,271,183
3,332,010
2,994,408
775,410
958,474
1,058.803
875;789
1,069,920
1,187.991
1,234,628
1,376,853
196,080
201,.548
208,858
188,588
178,556
198,409
185,670
173,332
3,986,709
3,704,341
3,970,720
4,275,517
3,024,141
3,882,983
3,784,6^3
2,522,687
745,170
801,039
.797,535
746,557
615,874
787,834
814,623
715,207
3,828,402 24,803,758
4,409,402 23,116,024
4,555,571 26,544,315
3,611,097 18,104,827
11,112,715 20,839,438
7,532,647' 22,086,920
7,532,647122,086,920
8, 777,1931 19,517,306
18,783,281
21,478,717
23,437,256
17,631,190
30,538,153
27,804,609
27,804,699
33,956,711
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15,715
4,788
7,348
1,639
5,441
19,132
15,042
979
7,647
317
1,443
3,780
61,177
6,930,
5,947,
4,807,
4,106,
7,6.54,
6,937:
6,937,
8,000,
563,313
494,542
931,868
1,343,948
1,537,853
1,444,338
1,444,.388
i5,902,698
02
35,429
70,285
70,133
50,760
93,365
93,365
100,223
140,548
195,100
9:32,6191 880,7241
1,242,362 1,157,251
1,255,322 1,281,7,54
860,778
1,410,675
755,049
1,700,185
802,660
1,491,522
974,620
1,143,591
966,080
846,3331
.887,274
1,041,048
564,522
673,037
488,138
614,763
877,000
799,244
832,228
123,261
459, .502
2,205,068
2,272,606 • 341,754
367,319
3,432,975
443;9U0
2,651,143
273,331
2, .584,819
326,61
2,994,958
373; 853]
2,904,963
404,923|
4,359,577
Rhode Island.
Sept., 1854
Sept., 18.55
Dec,
1856
Dec,
1857
May,
1858
Jan.,
1859
Jan.,
1860
N o v . , 1860
Nov., 1861
17,511,1621
18,682,802
20,275,899
20,334,777[
20,070,7411
20,321,069
20,865,569
21,151,879
21,234,529|
25,233,3041
26,385,458
. 28,679,343
25,823,152
24,065,894
25,131,150
26,719,877
27,980,865
26,560,718|
Connecticut,
April,
April,
April,
April,
April,
May,
April,
Jan.,
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1862
15,597,891
17,147,3851
18,913,372
19,923,553
20,917;168
21,512,176^
21,60fi,-997j
21,794,937
28,292,321
23,704,4.581
28,511,149
33,108,527
26,799.430
27,856,785
30,518,690
27,086,326
New Y o r k .
Sept.,
Sept.,
Sept.,
Dec,
March,
June,
Sept.,
Dec,
Dec,
Dec,
Dec,
1854
1855
1856
1857
18f8
1858
1858
1858
1859
1860
1861
83,773,288
85,589,590
96,381,301
107,449,143
109,587,702
109.340,541
109,996,550
110,2.58,480
111,441,3201
111,821,957]
109,403,379
20,820,653
163,216,
20.590,1.50
192,161,
24;027,533
205.892,
22,623,755
162;807,
|22,894,677|
170,436.
23,097,661
187.468.
125,031,416]
194^734,
25,268.884
200;577,
200,351, 332-26,897,8^4
29,605,318
209,721,
56,278,059
198,058.
5,178,831
767,642 12,475,292
12,666.517
5,.857.5;37
12,179,169
6,868;945
7,423,614
467,855 11.726,973
12;803,512
7,681.904
331,602 13,569,231
7,899,958
350,155 12,860;865|
8,182.920
397,330 15,169,559
8,264,425
1,418 12, .524,249
8,725, .526
430,449 13,962,096
8,827,331
9,219,278 2,179,913 18,798,709
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
1855
18.36
1857
1858
18.59
1860
1861
1862
5,314,885
5,682,262
6,582,770
7,494,912
7,359,1.22
7,844,412
8,246.944
8,258,912|
821.964
9,177,334i
760:697|
10,999,919
581;773
13,380,085
721,098
11,364,319
785,523
12^449,460
962,911
14;909,174
899,831
13,864,045
12,796,026 1,502,518
240,92!
158,396 1,810,707
71,587 1,639,249
265,228
288,296 2,237,204'
224,711
288,802 1^609,817
344.045
42 ,7§.? • 39,194 2,223,9351
590,884 2,395,028
4415,202
469,724 2,353,059 1,853,151
98,524 2,752,954
468,057
Nov.,
Nov.,
Nov.,
Nov.,
Nov.,
Nov.,
Nov.,
Nov.,
18.54
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
19,854,825i
22,026,596,
23,609,344
25,691,439
24,565,805
25,565,582
2.5,808, .553
26,135,630
48,641,393
52, .549, r "
5.5,287; 234
49,149,323|
46,825,2661
50,327,1.57
55,327,472
46,749,190|
133,499
714,232
301,6-26
569,119
954,443
513,674
377,774
231,700|
599,662 4,840.118'
1,1,59,740
678,018 5,647,64"
1,128.674
303.730 5,143,330]
1,206,559
1,353,285
24^;, 120 3,773,2?7
25.3, .521 4,418.436
1,423,253
1,719,138
685, .561 3,073;210
1,765,255 1,045,641 4,548,839
1,858,300 2,102,186 4,700,260|
Jan.,
I Jan.,
1855
1856
1,393,175
1,493,1851
3,048,141
2,906,2531
37,4F6
44,086
New J e r s e y .
Pennsylvania..
Delaware.
111,9881
131,072
128,539
145,129
161,309
161,309'
214,102
276,435
496,638
26S, 1641
323,092
478,652
527,787
536,403
536,403
604,015
613,747
683,188
1,298,677
386,212
1,391,218
375,612
1,216,630
453,1.32
946,749
820,241
938,755 1,085,173
1,267,406 1,915;04?
1,104. .343 922,817
2,828,612 1,351,519
124,356
137,524
29,140
3,8141
* Profits.
402,179
387,079
312,6061
385,767
548,348
570,850
732,622
608,833
450,929
471,581
606,977
206,921
281,220
246.248|
270,722
262,595
255,844
262,065
433,222
5,035,0731
5,404,104
5,521,909
3,192.661
2,644,195
3,318,681
3,558,295
3,772,242
3,306,530
1,207,381' 11,219, .566
810,10! 6,871,102
1,006,493] 9,197,762
1,129,708 10,590,421
915,844 .5,380,247
989;920 7,561,519
950,753 7,702,436
1,529.855 6,918,018
2,772,,36'
2,914,596]
3,141,65^
2,510,108]
2,624,226
3,130,475
3,5.53,104
3,717,234
.3,742;171
1,046,658| 329,425
1.192,449 3.57.539
1;475,221 659,703
1,661;204 381,402
1,150,667 296,889
936.081 296,889
1,022,277
1,396,184;1,265,328
965,208 1,244,883
3,910,160 1,008,655 1,022,940
3,43.3,081]
945,844 482,975
4,090.835
875,287 911,458
4,688; 843! 1,020,711 1,503,135
4,140,088)
684,997, 89:3,155
5,574,900
926,30e
5,808
5, .506,.507 1,166,778 153,916
6,142,754
964,752 ]2,296,834
31,507,780 84,970,840 ]21,081,456 4.731,884
3,665,9.54 16,453,329 13,661,
31,340,003 88,852,395 26,04.5,4.39 |3; 615,502
2,958,038| 18,096,545 ! 0,910,
]34;019,633 96,907,970 29.014,125 6,767,333
2,935,205 22,678,628 12.898,
23,899,9641 83,043,3.53 21.268,562 12,829,656
1,857; 658 14,130,673 ?9,313,
1,705,037 16,1.52,746 35,071, 074J22,710,1.^8 93,7.38,878 28;710,077 2,292,940
1,914,031 15,019,241 33,597, 211(24,079,193 100,762,909 34,290,766 12,442,812
,26,605,407 103.481,74.5][33,610,448 2,539,629
2,106,653 13,740,731 29,90.5;
128,507,990 110; 465,7981]85,134,049 2,824;618
2,044,765 18,436,967| 28,335.
[29,959,506 104,070,273] 28,807,429 :3,059,277
2,261,723 17,376;750[ 20,921;
28,239.9.50 114,845,3721129,492,678 9,.572,786
2,287,843 le; 044,322 26,427,
30,553;020 146,215,488 '34,431,615 14,152,658
2,121,735 18.995,77o| 29,102,
418,342
502,949
710,072
494;197
578,006
662,196
533,6991
549,722
826,452
762.65^
849.9261
1,308;851
9.52,231
940,700]
1,049,090
1,493,103
3,552,58.5
4,285,079
4,759,8.55
3,395,936
4,054,770
4,811,8; 2
4,164,799[
3,927,5351
3,-290,462
483,8*5
3,994,.541
616,321
4,891,970 1,438,6.58]
3,696,605:
80,763
507,077
4,239.235
770,935
5,74i;465 1,141,664
5,117,817
559,5~9
5,687,923]
450,572 1,552,760
3,769,420 3,927,949 3,944,60o| 16,739,069 21,076,464
4,460,673;
1.55,376 6,738.6521 16,883,199 25,340,814
5,719,234 1,593,696 5;973;138 17,368,096] 27. .593,534
4,8l4,97h
75, 8291 4,580,528| 11,610,4.58] 18; 924,11.3]
834,124 3,349,824 11,345.5361 11,980,480 26,05^^,568
4,277,3991
8,378;474 13,132,892 26.167,843]
4,912,286 7,818,769] 15,830;033 27,0:32,104
3,666,i;0|
446,186 11,464,600 16,384,643 28,986,370]
39,0.51
39,830
267,215
156,0551
90,149 1,380,991
180,0511 1,192,2041
859,010
852,1641
.3,930,665 2,716,872
4,955,485 .96,792
4,21.5,515 127,059.
5,847,970:
80,706
4,569.625] 429,167
3,837,554 975,192
4,118,925 1,073,159
3,979,824' ]6,707,008
127, ,510]
125,303]
8,000
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State.
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Delaware—Cont'd, Jan.,
Maryland .
Virginia •
1857
Jan., 1858
Jan., 1859
Jan., 1860
Jan., '60-'61
Jan., 1862
$1,423,185 $3,021,378
1,3,55,010
2,544,212
1,638,185
3,009,285
1,640,775
3,150,215
1,640,785
3,014,6.53
409,865
1,004,088
$3.3,076 $130,000
18,610
57,655
22,610
81,499
4,750
85,182
3,250
83,963
4,550
42,269
$1,065
234
Jan., 1855
Jan.,
1856
Jan., 1857
Jan., 1858
Jan., 18.59
Jan..
1860
Jan.' 1,1861
Jan.,
1862
10,411,874
11,202,806
12,297,276
12,451,545
12,560,6:35
12.568,962
12,567,121
12,155,979
17,588,718
20,616,005
22,293,554
21,804; 111
21,8.54,934
20,898,762
22,299,233
17,440,111
618,295
644,600
758,278
644,318
892,965
848,283
635,685
856,425
33.3,930
318,896
402,217
417,925
484,825
505,179
539.329
540;089
295,'223
698.890
23,528
14,741
67, ,574
41,500
Jan., 18.55
Jan.,
1856
Jan.,
1857
Jan. 1, 18.58
Jan,,
1859
Jan,,
1860
Jan. 1, 1861
14,033,838
13,600, l}r8
13,863,000
14,651,600
14,685,370
16,005,156
16,486,210
23,331,939
25,319.948
24,899,575
23,338,411
22,419,512
24,975,792
25,866,262
5,205,073
6,031,945
11,468,527
11,558,430
6,425,250
North Carolina.... Nov., 1854
Nov. &Dec.,
. 1855.
Nov., Dec,
18.56, Jan.,
1857.
Dec, 1857,
Jan., 1858,
Jan.,
1859
Jan.,
1860
Jan. 1, 1861
South Carolina.... Sept., 1854
3,604
$506,514 0 $40,680 $195,601 $146,367 f1,394,094
108,516
507^255
203,228 1,240,370
58,639
114,812
308;222
217, .342 960.846
61,446
103,862
411,982
208,924 1,135,772
122,125
104,005
336,767
187,263 1,C80,822
130,423
17,238
152,128
445,619
196,725
27,136
1,490,609
1,649,166
1,894,791
3,226,112
1,017,641
1,657,016
1,874,439
***8,'42b .1,837,068
96,518 2,987,225 4,118,197
1,,566,361
82,961 3,;398,101 5,297,983
1,482,744
9,168 3,522,561 5,15.5,096
1,666,663
3,164 2.614.726' 4,041,021
1,47,3,413
69,863 1,521,663 3.'120; 01 3,977,971
2;779,418 4,106.869
1,897.218
2,267,15^ 3,558,247
1,524,228
1,469,799
120,476 3,682,471 3,794,295
$868,414
609,179
832,657
976,226
818.201
405;362
$147,250
72,297
86,180
102,166
105,948
53,009 $147,582
7,268,1
8,370,345
9.611,324
7;541,186
9:028,664
8; 874,180
9,086,162
7,637,602
1,511,970 891,230
1,924,756 9.38,108
1,895,281 679.701
4,194.677 549;933
l , 7 2 5 , r ' - 417,667
1,324.740 357,195
2,108,920 426,434
1,167,555 1,631,140
786,952
3,127,300
807,981
2,647,366
872,368
3,184,966
3, .591,564 910,394
954,629
3,569,4.37
.3,584,078 1,019,032
3,685,135 1,070,6
75,309
114,433
484,682
381.987
413;675
4.33,423
340,791
1,.596,434
2,186,725
2,405,211
2,085,424
2,557,182
2,756,047
1,893,416
1,225,106
999,764
1,509,089
1,674,733
814,060
1,294:093
2,003;703
123,275
123,985
145,033
171,037
12,769
4,067
672,991
785,852
409,764
378,690
39,238 1,291,436 6,667,762
1,360,995 5,750,092
12,636,521
94,116
192,475
* 7,913
846,416
366,076
1,378 1,156,993 6,301,262
6,525,100
11,967,733
180,270
196,671
14,275
709,830
383,018
1,035,869 5,699,427
1,037,457
6,525,200
6,626,478
7,863,466
12,247,300
12,213,272
14,080,746
128,951
363,828
537,714
216,347
188,568
239,456
45,696 1,291,343
68,009 1,081,463
28,912
630,355
317,362
601,115
513,183
51,642 1,248, .525 6,202,626
54,254 1,617,687 5.594,057
45,820 1,059,715 5;218,598
1,502,312
1,487,273
2,034,391
23,149,098 1,670,305
510,565
571,049 1,198,421
441,864
1,283,284 6,739,623
16,603,253
247,909
25,999
13,402
6,287
496,663
29.838
32;939
2,728,482 10,834,963
3,151,109 13,014,926
3,092,741 12.685.627
2,710,777 10:347;874
3,077,68' 10;340,342
2,943,652 9,812,197
3,017,359 19,817,148
81.5,830
5,61.5,666
663,995
6,204,340
729,507
7,397,474
899,796
6,971,325
982.351
7,401.701
7,729.'652 ] , 1.3»; 327
7,157;270 1,310,068
112,047
2.34,8:32
1,130,329
224,821
1,101,113
82,347
1,170,026
51,546
36,602
98,235
87;210
58,780
34,600
317,905
16,907
10,710
6,645
7,766
184,3.56
100,139 1,196,478
105,631 291,466
2,871,095 1,197,949
53,936
hj
O
O
Pi
t?J
O
Ul
Sept.,
Jan.,
18.55
1857
Dec,
Dec,
Dec,
1857
1858
1859
Sept.,
1860
3,483,011
3,268,876
3,223,887
3,321,969
2,994,688
2,969,872
u
o
Aug,,
1855,
Mar., 1856.
Oct., Nov.,
D e c , 1856,
Jan., 1857.
Sept. & O c t . ,
1857.
Ap'l, 1858, to
Jan., 1859.
Oct.,
1859
Oct.,
1859,
Jan., 1861.
11,508,717
16,758,403 1,671,234
4,853,503
135,298 1,285,624
846,675
15,428,690
16,649,201 2,248,083
8,368,280
534,619 1,368,971 1,480,570
16,015,256
12,677,863 2,358,584
8,470,709
549,639 1,194,465
454,156
12,479,111
17,929,066 1,605,127
4,791,022
678,274 4,073,665
720,692
16,6=9,560
16,555,460
16,776,282 2,583,158
16,680^261 2,629,706
8,424,463 1,110,377 2,005,768 1,083,710
970,050
8,565,261
689,721 1,987,125
Jan.,
Jan.,
1860
1861
300,000
425,000
464,630
424,262
100,025
125,000
Alabama .
1855
Jan.,
1856
Jan,,
1857
Jan.,
1858
Jan.,
1859
Jan.,
1860
Jan.,
Jan. 1, 1860,
and 1861.
2,296,v400
2,297.800
2,297;800
3,235,650
3,663,490
4,901,000
4,976,000
4,397.298
. 5,117;427
6,545,209
5,585,424
,9,058,379
13,570,027
10,934,060
768,650
713;026
142,201
146,539
160,219
524,513
565,826
Mississippi,
Tennessee.
Jan.,
1855
Dec,
1855
Dec,
1856
Dec. 26,1857
Dec,
'1858
Dec,
1859
Jan. 1,1861
20,179,107
19.027.728
21;730;400
22,800,830
24,215;6t9
24,496.866
24,634,844
27,142,907
27,500,,348
31,200,296
23,229,098
29,424,278
35,401,609
26,364,513
4,187,180
2,591,400
4,794,885
5,318,418
5, .564,.590
5,842,096
5,783,687
12,302
3,068,188
3,502,733
2,955,854
3,897,840
4,165,615
3,334,037
1,100,299
3,518,962
3,074,740
3,746,604
1,490,218
1,312,659
46,532
3,355,119
1,700,612
3,214,920
1,417,837
2,868,100
513,697 1,955,966 10,092,809
2,525,256 1,334,098
623,918
31,928 1,702,108 9,147,011
3,126,530 1,663,429
872,644
259,576 1,417,545 5,518,425
2,215,853
533,819
882,662
402,451 3,751,988 11,687,582
5,317,923 1,727,995
552,254
101,939 3,211,974 8,798,100
100,447 2,358,555 8,311,728
4,738,289 1,287,268
3,846,176 1,389,011
787,733
657,800
24,580
18,412
25,853
•40,118
774
32,876
55,071
183,640
116,250
129,518
108,606
271,801
1,421,445
665,302
1,162,972
2,192,019
1,208,506
1,131,530
45,647 1,125,490
57,061
1,274,944
561,482
1,139,312
.504,287
1:302,312
151,726
3,371,956
872,746
643,657 "**20,'866 2,747,174
684,601
105,786 2,715,119
1,985,373
2,2:33,412
1,493,905
1,147,287
873,471
1,082,041
1,293,840
3,154,437
6,099,850
6,416,728
3,951,205
9;268,254
7,305,115
6,570,568
8,191,625
6,811,162
10,370,701
16,218,027
12,115,431
6,073,419 13,656;058
6,586.601
7,222;614
9.191,139
4;336,624
9,094,009
11,579,313
6,181,374
11,688,296
14,747.470
13,478,729
11,638,120
21,822,538
19,777,812
17,056,860
60,710
81,152
257,505
219,086
8,063
7,744
7,912
591
221,760
324,080
556,345
169,400
42,738
35,606
83,435
49,781
53.588
80;648
78,148
150,141
160,410
171,300
171,300
28,29b
28,835
3,317,422
2,341,3:35
2,470,683
2,493,494
2,395, .500
2,141,881
2,128,413
1,252
24,506
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan,,.
1855
1856
1857
1858
240,165
240,165
336,000
1,110,600
352,739
488,411
6.57; 020
393;216
5.914
4,894
519
1,007
50,000
11,9C4
12,613
11,413
780,767 **"36,*209
Jan,,
Jan.,
.Ian.,
July,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan,,
1855
1856
1857
1857
1859
1860
1861
6,717,848
8,593,693
8,4.54:423
9,083,069
8; 351,3.57
S;067.037
8,406;543
11,755,729
14,880,609
16,893,390
13,124,292
13,262,766
11,751,019
li;942,288i
871,076
1,466,455
2,450,308
3,347,060
1,57 7,.578
1,233;432
464,372
166,395
486,455
143,696
541,711
24,169
590,715
118,323
583,406
8,258
486,622
84,355
595,759
577,6141 1,162,498
1,228,221 1 6,504,6791
1,197,774 10,654,652
1,104,12^ 6,185,825
2,601,414 9,170,333
2,324,121 11,475,634
1,628,336 6,089,036
hj
Florida ..
Louisiana..
424,13.5
539,497
889;722
600,290
443,478
277,649
22,238,900
28.-227,370
22,056,561
24,444,044
27,801,912
22,230,759
M
Georgia.,
'600,880 1 951,8321 1,057,476I
631,273
698,662 1,180,938
698,688 1,005,448 1,331,109
677,641 2,964,540 2,200,450
681; 245 1,45.5; 488 1,592,644
587,645
684,144 2,388,994
17,516,600
14,837,642
14,885,631
14,888,451
14,962,062
14,952,486
.i
5,450
7,740
26,503
-975
47,254
2,382,176 1,278,022
181,5.58
3,467,242 2,837,556
481,289
3; 177,234 2,423,269
703,443
2,581,791 1,408,837
571,556
6,651,117 3,8.30,607 1,006-832
7,477,976 4,851,153
874,800
5,055,222 3,435,685 2,250,855
491,800
68,209 1,473,040 5,850,562
1,057,140
8.59,956
16,037 2,231,418 8,518,545
2,617,686
62,767 2,094,632 8,401,948
2,:380,700 1,069,408
998,917
2,670,751 6,036,982
3,327,335
581,723 '1*287'077 2,86.3^,018 6,472,822
2,575,465
495,362
2,613,910
932,092 2,267,710 5,538,378
855,6761 422,9691 1,021,420 1,341,289 4,285,174
15,000
10.000
5,000
O
H
O
"^
H
2,131
195,049
160,982
w
1,154,538
1,687,531
965,555
1,340;619
2,198,982
1,165,675
753,359
2,232,973
2,301,747
2,207,583
>
o
1,781,058
2,201,138
1,012,115
Ul
31,792
60
2,413,418
211,681
85,501
3,740,101
467,070 664,910
4,875,346
944,917
951,262
4,545,104 1,617,610 J2,768,141
4,659,809 1,073,269 441,165
4;324,799
462,420
264,627
2,998,063
335,923 1,501,922
CO05
"^Q^ 8.—Synopsis of the returns of the banks, ^.—Continued.
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0
State.
Date.
S
3
2
Kentucky
Illinois
Indiana
1
a
it,
' "Sc
O
m
$10,369,717 $17,307, .567 $743,033
678,389
lO;454;572 21,132,519
7.39.126
10,596, .305 23,404,551
733;705
10,782, .588 17,681,283
793,641
12,216,725 24,404,942
851,562
12,835,670 25,284,869
467,357
13,729,725 22,455,175
13,453,306 15,391,666 2,343,360
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan,,
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
34
33
35
37
37
45
43
44
Nov.,
Dec,
Dec,
Jan.,
Jan,,
Jan,,
Jan,,
July,
Jan.,
1854
1855
1856
1858
1859
1860
1861
1861
1862
6
6
6
10
22
38
42
42
42
April,
Jan.,
Oct.,
Jan ,
Oct.,
Jan.,
Oct.,
Jan.,
1854
1856
1856
1858
1858
1860
1860
1862
29
36
42
45
48
74
94
19
2,513,790
3,840,946
5,872,144
4,679,325
4,000,334
5,251,225
6,750,743
316,841
337,675
1,740,671
1,146,770
1,295,616
387,229
546,876
2,671,903
3,777,676
6,129,613
6,164,017
6,486,652
9,826,691
12,264,580
Dec,
1853
July &-Oct.,
1854,
Oct., 1855, &
J a n . , 1856.
July & Oct.,
1856.
Nov., 1857,&
J a n . , 1858.
44
59
5,554, .552
7,281,934
46
46
40
CJ
1
$416,920
488:504
465:907
500;202
508.503
477:971
523;382
589,974
1
1
>
v.
6
$216,505
535,730
363,924
2,611
144.075
188,391
308,147
CO
.a
.a
0
3
Q
ix
0
.a
0
0
0
.$3,319,718 $686,370
965,878
3,731,463
840,959
4,115,430
725,460
4,431,131
6,535,215 1,017,580
5.099,678
779,565
4; 3.54,229
763,683
3,659,482
700,553
•5
0
1
•5
•
:!
0
0
.2
Q
6.
$4,152,988 $8,628,946 $3,011,719 .^2,577,824 $296,605
4.611,766 12.'634,533 3,608,757 2,555,953 532,000
50,000
4;406,ioe 13:682,215 4.473,378 2,983,373
$139 4,027,825 8,8S4,225 3,232.132 3,195,352
1,915
199 4,984,141 14,345,656 5,144;879 4,338,364
20,900 4,502,250 13, ,520,207 5,662,892 3,259,717
149,167 4,466,996 10,873,630 3,725,828 3,073,919
5,991,015 7,405,015 4,369,218 1,352,737 2,095,774
1,247,651
1,331,126
1,188,982
1,482,442
3,123,622
3,357,176
3,360,384
2,994,860
2,068,473
565,152
759,474
635,810
333,239
269,585
223,81:^
302,905
2,283, .526
3,420.985
5,534,945
5,238,930
5,707,048
8,981,723
11,010,837
1,415,076
1,286.102
1,267;234
1,002,399
658,521
640,058
697,037
807,763
715,305
911,000
128,860 1,820,760 7,116,827
173,573 1,894,357 8,165,856
1,764,747
2,289,605
132,946 1,274,992
598,262
369,600 1,599,014 4,516,422
1,957,097
379,804
161,975
380,911 1,338,418
557,238
68,508 1,420,076 4,731,705
1,852,742
272,'815
177,309
920,441
395,536
236,661 1,261,720 3,363,976
1,417,966
380,569 •
31,158
79,940
52,832
.59,567
87,769
92,429
116,551
878,612
1,358,203
1,108,148 2,354,571
3,953,450
4,757 2,813,578
1,837 2,627,690
1,679,277 3,20i;416
2,035,736 3,793,753
385,339
517,066
433,717
265,034
271,526
34.3,269
287,411
7,247,366 3,257,064
9,305,651 6,148,837
289,673
249,298
127,238 1,985,114
3,087,827
4,045,325
6,986,992 1,705,070
231,929
4,123,089
7,039,691 1,694,357
227,599
3,585,922
4,861,445 1,416,737
104,224
5,796,781
9,082,951
11,133,899
11,204,920
11,249,990
rt
hi
1,460,650
2,805,660
2,780,380
1,718,750
6,069,120
7,884,888
8,204,845
8,111,730
6,511,851
33,870
196,910
324,705
1,007,575
1,016,015
1,531,816
2,838,878
3,160,122
2,620;B15
3,441,643
4,393,029
4,112,791
4,620,534
72,000
9,830,426
417,335
1.5,461,192
725,670
17,373,469
970. .550
13,704,000 1,277,600
11,243,288 1,285,965
<0
.
975,49
4,355,050
1,245,184
1,424,004
" * 348,* 658 3,921,789
4,160,912
'"*97,"559 3,820,530
4,181,931
2,967,108
49,960
111,185
28,331
104,622
75,991
98,254
96,626
116,084
29,773
597,679
169,549
1,090,506
226,609
1,281,748
321,754
391,105 1,347,394 1,747,455
528,965 1,562,395 2,047,551
1,215,398
1,215,405
2,215,405
1
1
10,891
63,892
37,165
19,297
6,433
9,272
39,397
37,920
o
o
284,776
172,425
111,984
' 242,117
579,830
1,200,010
1,247,335
1,483,184 6,502,461
1,450,723 3,025,278
294,034
241,903
*2i6,*483 157,981
19,662
15,621
26,533
64,200
131,764
525,344
552,338
422,220
445,359
803,849
100,622
60,954
o
Ul
Nov., 1858. &
Jan.,1859.
1860
Jan.,
Jan. 1, 1861
1862
Jan.,
37
3,617,629
6,468,308 1,252,981
195,711
111,089 1,177,489
505,685
37
39
37
4,343,210
4,744,570
4,579,985
7,675,861 1,349,466
8,158;038 1,297,828
6,249,043 1,358,002
258,309
316,024
354,799
221,4.57
950,836
77,293 1,198,961
2,012,986
418,991
3.55,025
445,144
Ohio.
1854
Nov.,
1856
Feb.,
Nov., • 1856
1858
Feb.,
18.58
Aug.,
1858
Nov.,
1860
Feb.,
1861
Feb.,
1862
Feb.,
66
65
61
49
53
53
52
55
55
7,166,581
6,491,421
6,742,421
6,560,770
6,675,426
6,707,151
6,890,839
7,151,039
5,695,950
13,578,339
14,921,998
15,223.241
9,558;927
10,5*49,574
11,171;343
11,100,462
10,913,007
10,475,062
2,466,247
2,476,751
2,749,686
2,088,778
2,0i6,697
2,069,789
1,1.53,552
2,089,819
2,677,253
Michigan .
1855
Jan.,
1855
Dec,
1856
Dec,
Dec, 1857, &
Jan,, 1858.
Dec, 1858
Dec, 1859
Dec, 1860
Dec. 1861 •
6
4
4
4
980,416
730,438
841,489
851,804
1,900,942
1,988,087
1,903,603
1,111,786
555,431
517,945
588,389
322,466
146,035
124,486
60,110
115,661
15,345
21,347
11,145
15,727
392,550
402,520
245,081
77,034
118,784
97,265
159,489
31,411
6,162
6,433
9,141
10,043
143,123
152,080
92,762
23,776
500,942
573,840
670;549
364,676
1,170,974
1,366,958
1,347,956
310,479
95,597
53,425
118,962
78,975
187,522
128,216
52,646
124,198
3
4
2
1,153,547
892,949
578,043
788,028
258,776
192,831
.79;973
233,613
124,357
130,861
39,200
96,440
14,440
36,119
4
745,304
755,465
250,000
413,030
•137,059
120,372
1.33,796
268,672
54,963
44,644
52;372
• 65,500
22.579
23,871
1,879
17,903
•42,018
24,175
28,389
37,996
331,978
222,197
47,510
120,124
555,693
375,397
436,837
749,828
35,165
13,969
4,777
125,623
126,011
76,206
139,878
117,800
306,982
341,174
363,161
603,848
453,771
701,1.61
498,794
467,411
892,775
8.52,283
890,454
925,110
745,063 1,162,936
464,064
693,246
103,184
57,218
73,222
67,439
83,893
64,430
61,448
334,383
531,713
542,938
576.543
706;009
419,947
372,518
304,478
740,764
1,060,165
1,702,570
2,91,3,071
4,695,170
4,429,855
4,310,175
1,419,423
1,482,053
2,806,341
3,365,562
2,077,862
3,022,384
3,085,813
4,083,131
2,341,112
456,739
1,073,874
1,290,486
1,278,872
1,573,694
1,493,529
1,632,201
1,257,718
512
14,671
15,272
2,228
48,643
8,702
81,236
13,131
54,065
16,202
Wisconsin.
19,249
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan.,
1855
1856
1857
18.58
18.59
1860
1861
1862
23
32
49
66
98
108
110
60
1,400,000
1,870,000
2,955,000
5,515,000
7,995,000
7,620,000
6,782,000
3,807,000
1,861,043
3,906^079
*5,280^ 6.34
6,230,861
9,262,457
7,592,361
7,723,387
4,573,512
.1,044,021
1,200,083
2,025,160
3,626,468
5,1x4,415
5,031,504
4,949,686
1,850,516
8,791
24,320
1,501
94,261
1,892
1.50,315
229,236
45,266
304,142
326,461 1,329,658
1,722,779
550,106
317,880
.Tan.,
Jan.,
1859
1861
1861
2
3
,4
50,000
156,000
156,000
5,185
123,163
50,000
71,967
1,250
1,894
30.
18;285
4,223
9,802
1859
1861
1861
1862
12
13
14
14
460,450
589,130
642,785
720,390
724,228
1,169.870
1,117;146
1,094,912
101,849
Jan.,
July,
Jan.,
154,049
219,723
49,308
222,453
217,5.52
321,715
248,817
-284,008
386,710
334,186
213.661
522;695
324,082
271,550
Jan.,
Jan.,
Jan,,
1859
1861
1862
1
2
1
52,000
9:3,130
52,000
48,256
48,014
43,450
Jan.,
Jan.,
Nov.
"Nov.
1857
18.58
18.5S
1860
4
6
2
1
205,000
15,000
56,000
60,000
418,097
15,679
97,087
72,406
Dec,
Dec,
. Kansas.
905,555
298,222 1,006,525 2,751,312
350,708 1,195,047 3.117,178 1,6.32,969
310,145
687,337 2; 749. .5.58 1,199,363
522,041
768,243
91.0,436 2,139:364
604,000
749,681 2,347;041
796,998
586,670
711,157 2,613,615 1,152,4.33
718,91-3
961,720 2,667,763
898,337
671,590
842,325 3,206,580
841,682
2,828,357 1,426,066
702,657
40,000
4,068
6,696
750
2,295
6,533
9,280
3,975
3,850
1,1.55
7,885
.2,154
1,341
• 404
129,804
3.5,601
3,172
4,443
36,623 1.869,000 5,379,
80,799 1,583,540 5,390,246
105,875 2,296,648 5,755,-.i01
67,275 4,577,259 6,844,700
158,310
106,559
39,007
121;354
195,517
1,50, 741
157,378
110,987
144,845
1,690,
2,096,
2,0.16,
1,-734,
1,935,
1,84.5,
1,828,
2,377,
3,655,
563,806
255,545
689,600
378,030
938,073
547;363
725,443 1,281,453
210
•26
176,366
1,700,479
1,841,051
2,076,548
80,530
140,895
117,868 152,650
162,890 1,400,385
68,215
5,450, .566
949,727 411,652
7,101,325 1,712,040 296,202
6,543,420 1,202,961 392,758
3,915,781
282,071
280;786
.3,780,214
306,793 195,464
4,389,831
488,878 206,235
4,039,614
790,568 144,781
4,046,811 3,206,580 101,696
5,762,355
450,035 2,418,043
527, .378
1,154,925
1.002,306
'809,387
4,350
8,895
5,443
2,770
2,695
14,783
6,330
136,325
5,683
6,629
5,627
353,796
41,641
23,346
16,007
125,291
3,673
23,748
10,717
4,450
15,069
1,000
1,399
2,209
8,074,132
9,080,589
9,153,629
6,201,286
7,588,291
8,040,304
7,983,889
8,143,611
9,217,520
1,723,840
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50,504
37,522
47,876
25,056
92,898
126,216
108,422
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2,576
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CAPITAL PAID IN.
BANKS AND BRANCHES.
Sections.
1856-'57. 1857-'58, 1858-'59, 1859-'60. 1860-'61. 1861-'62.
Eastern S t a t e s . . . .
Middle States
Southern States
Southwestern States
Western States
Total United States
507
470
128
105
206
498
459
140
115
210
501
477
139
116
243
1,416
1,422
1,476
, ....
.
1856-'57.
1857-'58.
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
1850-'61.
1861--62.
505
485
146
138
288
506
488
147
141
319
511
498
147
142
194
$114,611,752
140,298,876
50,554,582
44,630,333
20,739,143
$117,261,990
154,442,049
52,077,587
49,633,352
21,207,821
$119,590,423
156,382,227
48,578,132
54,254,042
23,171,418
$123,449,075
159,091,051
54,583,2.56
59,383,524
25,373,189
$123,706,708
160,085,360
56,282,622
62.^)41,011
26; 577,012
$127,291,316
156,363;765
56,282,622
62,777;683
15,424,355
1,562
1,601
1,492
370,834,686
394,622,799
401,976,242
421,880,095
429,592,713
418,139,741
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LOANS AND DISCOUNTS.
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Sections
1856-'57.
Eastern States
Middle States
Southern States
Southwestern States
Western S t a t e s . . . . . '
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
1861-'62.
1856-'57.
$187,750,276 $177,896,020 $179,992,400 $190,186,990 $194,866,6 9 $191,747,787 $1,459,758
299,874,750 217,669,341 284,716,143 289:6:36.040 304,227.203 276.048,381 27,702,286
79,781,790
8,796,041
77,039,922
82,412,6.57
70.040.568
82,231,883 ' 79,282.290
75,875,815
7,127,039
89.069,505
85.980,791 101,468,716
82,813,257
64,633.845
23,224,007 13,187,205
29,332,804
29,454,543
31,605,937
22,925;468
28,421,346
Total United S t a t e s . . . . . 684,456,887
1857-'58.
583,165,242
657,183,799 691,945,580
696,778,421
646,677,780
59,272,329
1861-'62.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
$1,131,369 $1,206,564
26,.576;900 29,924,425
9, .3.54,305
8,625,484
9,623,729
8, .51:3,363
13,618,466 15,232,613
$1,657,908
31,227,492
9,625,777
9,177,273
18,655,893
.$1,489,949
33, .521,858
9,947,427
8,251,792
20,793,853
$3,407,991
68.873,252
9,947,427
10,4^3,210
6,339,107
63,502,449
70,344,343
74,004,879
99,010,987
1857-'58
60,305,269
1858-'59.
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REAL E S T A T E .
OTHER INVESTMENTS.
Sections.
Eastern S t a t e s . . . Middle States
Southern States,
Western States
Total United S t a t e s . . . .
1859-'60. •
1856-'57.
1857-'58.
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
$3,623, .549 $4, i 61,804
11,685.602 12.127.993
10,559: .530 lO;559; 530
3,722;463
3,996.266
1,157,783
1,481,956
$611,152
616,619
1,725,876
1,883,250
1,083,439
$682,708
1,015,7.52
1,951,349
1,439,020
987,077
$1,044,319
1.309.619
4,102;185
1,02.5,804
841,114
$1,07.5.879
1,319:363
3,067,297
1.333,083
4,277,549
$1,141,438
3,829,149
3,460,720
3,323,320
4,902,884
32,326,649
5,920,336
6,075,906
8,323,041
11,123,171
16,657,511
1856-'57.
1857-'58.
1858-'59.
$2,707,588
8.832,442
lO;064,396
3,715,120
804,976
$3,310,486
9,596,524
10,276,462
4,537,783
1,034,579
$3,640,675
10,675.795
6,639;639
3,720,584
1,299,804
$3,844,810
11.481,225
lO; 313,308
3,613,520
1,529,268
26,124,522
28,755,834 ,25,976,497
30,782,131
30,748,927
1860-'61.
1861-'62.
1861-'62.
.
$318,361
4,392,647
3,460,780
4,577,568
898,650
13,648,006
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DUE BY OTHER BANKS.
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.1856-'57.
Eastern States
Middle States
Southern Slates
Southwestern States
Western States
Total United States
1857-'58.
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
1861-'62.
$15,304,943 $12,215,423 $16,333,357 $14,310,756 .$14,015,271 $18,273,564
21,961,008 20,843,384 23,137,793 20,061,485 22,625,292 28,241,119
5,138,659
5,320,828 10,122.640
7,461,775
5,801,536
5,138,659
7,623,183
13,911,656 13,188,355 21,168,632 17,317,715
7,694,239
9,391,585
8,870,062
8,083,726
6,484,812 . 7,482,565
5,909,065
65,849,205
58,052,802
78,244,987
57,235,457
53,793,990
65,256,596
1861-'62.
1856-'57.
1857-'58.
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
.^7,452,318
11,071,8.54
3,895,232
2,638,067
3,066,537
$6,216,504
8,698,885
3,401,629
2,201,783
1,928,635
$6,495,545
3,588,204
2,452,404
3,479,624
2,842,512
$7,026,319
9,220,661
3,446,976
2,964,599
2,844,012
$7,003,127 $5,766,319
4,476,163- 7,834,522
3,782,997
3,782,997
3,403,069
4,968,245
3,238,546
2,901., 506
28,124,008
22,447,436
18,858,289
25,502,567
21,903,902
1860-'61.
25,253,589
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Sections.
1856-'57.
1857-'58,
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
1861-^62.
1856-'57.
1857-'58.
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
186l-'62.
$285,688
$307,073
$495,220
$325,511
$365,602
$571,772
$7,260,426
$6,391,617 $13,774,125 $10,098,162 $10,037,304
$12,115,855
24,477,093
14,318,182
23,423,265
17,480,612
21,060,613
19,579,673
23,390,763
38,020,756
37,749,614
45,939,614
Southern States
46,708
265,863
950,756
186,031
179,980
179,980
7,149,616
6,268,319
10,679,614
10,130,310
8,119,036
8,119,036
Southwestern States
62,767
47,393-
1,635,943
973,792
7,420,351
7,200,625
15,704,308
19,796,184
31,359,021
25,793,477
25,999,992
26,670,590
3,935,956
4,753,954
4,343,527
5,768,161
9,301,120
83,594,537. 87,674,507
102,146,215
Eastern States
Middle States
W e s t e r n States
,
Total United States
209,385
441,930
303,646
365,575
271,332
295,921
4,844,725
2.5,081,641
15, ,380,441
26,808,822
19,331,521
29,297,878
27,827,971
58,349,838
43,971,104
74,412,832 104,537,818
33,229,061
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DEPOSITS.
CIRCULATION.
Sections.
1856-^57.
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
1861-'62.
1856-'57.
1857-'58.
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
$53,554,041 $41,417,692 $39,564,689 $44,510,618 $44,991,285 .$39,306,729 $34,520,868 $28,196,426 $41,877,420 $41,319,550 $40,822,523
E a s t e r n States
Middle S t a t e s . . . .
1857-'58,
1861-'62.
$49,241,324
188,932,745
. . . . . . . . . . 62,696,774
44,187,749
49,482,057
53,146,871
52,873.851
55,105,112 139,873,112 113,814,435 150,620,922 145,829,987 156,899,656
38,788,552
27,751,551
37,400,883
35,863,618
39,552,760
39,558,760
15,196,763
13,180,489
18,119,776
18,250,347
16,480,480
16,480,480
•. 37,792,261
23,727,772
42,632,764
46,000,759
34,600,785
29,439,176
26,523,139
22,356,416
38,581,455
37,973,832
30,576,820
29,9^2,299
22,147,194
18,123, ,580
24,226,425
27,580,611
29,987,086
20,382,302
14,237,370
8,384,282
0,368,705
10,428,413
12,450,083
11,745,560
214,778,822 155,208,344 193,306,818 207,102,477 202,005,767 183,792,079 230,351,352 185,932,049 259,568,278 253,802,129 257,229,562
296,322,408
Southern States . . . .
Southwestern States
Western States
Total United States
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Sections.
.
Eastern States
Middle States
Southern States
Southwestern States
Western States
Total United States
1856-'57.
1857-'58. .
J858-'59.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
1861-'62.
1856-'57.
l857-'58.
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
1861-'62.
$7,310,540
36,710,832
6,136,719
5,709,272
1,806,970
.$6,929, ,552
31,890,583
4,590,702
6,999,046
759,992
$9,370,024
42,286,596
6,641,306
9,197,277
720,448
$8,987,151
35,213,553
4,0.30,096
6,764,829
937,289
$9,666,483 $10,014,087
36,386,050 40,082,575
4,117,369
4,117,369
7,661,391
6,143,597
3,443,963
786,424
$2,625,089
7,574,093
4,332:643
3,213,845
2,071,080
$3,304,554 $2,819,422
3,541,0.5&
3,731,452
3,833,720
"2,670,550
2,224,354
2,770,116
2,499,499
1,880,435
$1,541,091
4,391,664
3,436,648
2,859,607
2;432,805
$2,811,728
11,072,379
4,135,271
2,674,929
2,563,697
$10,144,408
24,191,148
4,135,271
7,79.5,981
5,306,782
57,674,333
51,169,875
68,215,651
55,932,918
61,275,256
19,816,850
14,166,713
14,661,815
23,258,004
51,573,590
61,144,052
15,048,427
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Maine.
N e w Hampshire.
Vermont.
Massachusetts.
Rhode Island.
Connecticut.
Middle States.
N e w York.
N e w Jersey.
Pennsylvania.
Delaware.
Maryland.
Southern States.
Virginia.
North Carolina.
South Carolina.
Georgia.'
Florida.
Southwestern States,
Alabama.
Louisiana.
Mississippi.
Tennessee.
Kentucky.
Missouri.
Western States.
Illinois.
Indiana.
Ohio. .
Michigan.
Wisconsin.
Minnesota.
Kansas.
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1851.
Number of banks and b r a n c h e s . . .
1854.
1855.
.
1856.
1857.
• 1858,
1859.
1860.
731
148
1,059
149
1,163
144
1,255
143
1.283
'133
1,284
138
1,329
147
1,392
170
879
1,208
1,307
1,398
1,416
1,422
1,476
1,562
$227,807,553
$301,376,071
$332,177,288
$343,874,272
$370,834,686
$394,622,799 $401,976,242
1861.
1862.
1,601
1,492
$421,880,095 $429,592,713
$418,139,741
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Stocks
Due from other banks
Notes of other banks
413,756,799
22,388,389
20,219,724
8,935,972
50,718,015
17,196,083
15,341,196
48,671,048
557,397,779
44,350,330
22,367,472
7,589.830
55,516,085
22,659,066
25,-579,253
59,410,253
576,144,758
52,727,082
24,073,801
8,734,540
.55,738,735
23,429,518
21,935,738
53,944,546
634,183,280
49,485,215
20,865,867
8:882,5 lb
62,639,725
24,779,049
19,937,710
59,314,063
684,456,887
59;272,329
26,1.24, .522
5,920,336
65,849,205
28,124,008
25,081,641
58,349,838
583,165,242
60,305,260
28,755,834
6,075,906
58,052,802
22,447,436
15,380,441
74,412,832
657,183,799
63,502,449
25;976,497
• 8,323,041
78,244,987
18,353,289
28,808,822
104,537,818
691,945,580
70,344,343
30,732,131
11,123,171
67 235,457
25,502:567
19,331,521
83;594,537
696,778,421
74,004,379
.30.748,927
16;657,511
53,793,990
21,903,902
29,297,878
87,674,507
646,677,730
99,010.937
32,326,649
13,648,006
65,256,596
25;253,589
27,827,971
102,146,215
155,165,251
128,957,712
46,416,928
6,438,327
204,689,207
188,188,744
50,322,162
13,439,276
186.952,223
190,400,342
45,156,697
15,599,623
195,747,950
212,705,662
52,719,956
12,227,867
214,778,822
230, .351,352
57,674;333
19,816,850
155,208,344
185,9.32,049
51,169,875
14,166,713
193,306,818
259,568,278
68.215,651
15,048,427
207,102,477
253.802,129
55;932,918
14,661,815
202,005,767
257,229,562
6l,275,256\
23,258,004
183,792,019
290,322,408
61,144,052
51,573,590
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Due to other banks.
Aggregate of immediate liabilities,
X. e , of circulation, deposits, and
dues to other banks
Aggregate of immediate means,
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443,200,113
422,509,262
461,173,568
502,804,507
392,310,268 , 521,090,747
516,337,524
520,510,585
541,258,539
131,926,342
163,164,657
158,048,537
166,-670,547
177,404,692
170,293,511
2\!8,449,916
195,664,082
197,670,277
220,484,371
11,164,727
25,136,252
27,183,889
22,706,431 1
20,066,114
'10,229,229
3,033,600
6,695,225
3,600,000
*3,400,000
59,835,775
84,546,505
81,133,435
82,020,494
78,415,952
84,642,061
107,571,418
. 90,289,762
91,274,507
105,546,215
Gold and silver in United States
Total of specie in banks and treas-
* Pebruary 8, 1862.
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No. 11.—Condensed statement of the condition of the banks
LIABILITIES.
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40
183
90
75
Maine
N e w Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Jan.1862 $7,970,650
Dec. 1861. 5,'031,000
Aug. 1861 3,916,000
Oct. 1861 67,344,200
Nov. 1861 21,234,529
Jan. 1862 21,794,937
$4,047,780
2,994,408
2,522.687
19,517.306
3,306;530
6,918,018
$3,307,628
1,376;853
715.207
33,956,711
3,742,1.71
6,142,754
$83,601
$638,916
8,000,526
965,208
964,752
61,177
5,902,598
1,244,883
2,296,834
127,291,316
39,306,729
49,241,324
10,014,087
10,144,408
30,553,020 146,215,488
3,927,535
5,687,923
16,384,643 28,986,370
445,619
405,362
3,794,295
7,637,602
34,431,615
450,572
3,979.824
53,009
1,167,555
14,152,658
1,552,760
6,707,008
147,582
1,631,140
1,56,363,765
55,10.5,112
188,932,745
40,082,575
24,191,148
Jan.1861 16,486,210
,. . d o . . . . 7,803,466
SeptJ860 14,9.52.486
Jan.1861 16,55.5; 460
.-. . d o . . . . • 425,000
19,817,148
5,218,598
6,089,0 6.
8,317,723
116,250
7,157,270
2,034,391
3,3.34,(1..
3,846,176
108,606
1,310,063
105,631
1,312,659
1,389,011
317,905
291,466
2,868,100
657,800
56,282,622
39,558,760
16,480,480
4,117,369
4,135,271
4,976,000
24,631,844
8,466,543
13,453;306
11,249,990
5,055,222
6,181,374
4,285,714
7,405,01.5
6,511,851
3,4.35,685
.17,050,860
2,998,063
4,369,218
2,068,473
2,250,855
753,3.59
335,923
1,3.^)2,737
1,450,723
160.892
1,012,115
1,501,922
2,095,774
3,025,278
62,777,683
29,439,176
29,922,299
6,143,597
7,795,981
4,579,985
5,695,950
413,030
3,807,000
720,390
156,000
52,000
1,415,076
6,844,700
9,217,-520
120,124
1,419,423
1,281,453
81,236
2,770
2,076,543
5,762,355
749,828
2,341,112
809,387
162,890
450,035
125,623
1,400,385
2,418,043
117,800
1,257,718
108,422
15,424,355
20,382,302
11,745,560
786,424
5,306,782
127,291,316
156,.363,765
50,282,622
62,777.683
15,424,355
39,306,729
55,105,112
39,558,760
29,439,176
20,382,302
49,241,324
188,932,745
16,480,480
29,922,299
11,745,560
10,014,087
40,082,575
4,117.369
6,143;597
786,424
10,144,408
24,191,148
4,135,271
7,795,981
5,306,782
418,139,741
183,792,079
296,322,408
61,144,052
51,573,590
Six Eastern States ..
N e w York
N e w Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware*
Maryland*
302
51
111
6
28
;...
Dec. 1861 109,40.3,379
8,258,912
Jan.1862
Nov. 1861 26,135,630
Jan.1862
409,865
Jan. 1862 12,155,979
Five Middle S t a t e s . .
Virginia!
North Carolinaf
South CarolinafGeorgia!
FioridM
Five Southern States
Jan.1861
Dec. 1360
Jan.1861
Jan.1862
...do....
Alabama!
Louisiana!
Tennessee!
Kentucky
Missouri
Five Southwestern States!
Jan.1862
... do....
Feb.1862
Dec. 1861
Jan. 1862
..:do....
Dec. 1861
Jan.1862
llhnois . . . . ,
Indiana.. .
Ohio
Michigan . ,
Wisconsin.
Iowa
,
Minnesota*
Kansas
Nebraska,.
Nine Northwestern States!
47,876
6,330
4,414
RECAPITULATION.
Six Eastern States
Five Middle States
Five Southern S t a t e s . . , . . . ,
Five Southwestern States
Nine Northwestern States
Totals.
511
498
147
142
194
* T h e returns from these States are slightly incomplete.
f No later returns have been received from these States.
203^
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
of the United States on or about the 1st of January, 1862.
RESOURCES.
iA
at
C
.Q
CJ
•
2
s
cd
o
.J
S
o
>
.s
s
o
CQ
-2
o
>->
.a •
o
6
o
i
"3
Q
1
1
• S
ja •
^^
.2
m.
0
$219,370
$2,084,263
203,822
907,440
753.250
9,127,985 "4,* 650; 930
887,274
1,041,048
404,923
4,359,577
$138,550
433,222
' $710,392
318,106
173,332
8,777,193
606,977
1,529,855
5,766,319
571,772
12,115,855
2,179,913
98,524
2,102,186
3,604
8,420
18,798,709 . 2,121,735
549,722
2,752,954
3,666,130
4,700,260
27,136
152,128
1,469,799
1,837,063
18,995,773
446,186
17,238
120,476
29,102,715
1,493,103
11,464,600
196,725
3,682,471
12, .127,993
4,392,647
28,241,119
7,834,522
19,579,673
45,939,614
3,685,135
537,7 4
2,969,872
2,629,706
125,000
1,070,669
239,456
684,144
8,565,261
340,791
' 23,912
2,388,994
689,781
12,302
1,893,416
630,355
587,645
1,987,125
40,118
2,003,703
513,183
277,649
970,050
18,412
32,939
45,820
100,447
774
3,017,359
1,059,715
1,628,336
2,358,555
55,071
79,781,790
9,947,427
10,559,530
3,460,780
5,133,6.59
3,782,997
179,980 •. 8,119,036
10,934,060
26,364,5 3
11,942,288
15,391,666
11,243,288
565,826
5,783,ti87
464,372
2,343,360
1,285,965
171,300
2,128,413
577,614
589,974
528,965
28,835
1,293,840
1,692,498
1,131,530
684,601
1,562,395
855,676
3,659,482
2,047,551
422,969
700,553
.3,160,122
75,875,8 5
10,443,2 0
3,996,266
4^577,568
7,094,239
6,249,043
10,475,062
788,023
4,57315 2
1,094,912
1,358,002
2,677,253
233,613
1,850,516
219,723
354,799
702,657
96,440
317,880
19,249
550,106
321,715
2,012,986
2,828,357
268,672
464,064
334,186
9,280
7,580
750
. 496,638
2,828,612
$255,060
78,253
167,380
1,626,404
683,188
1,351,519
$195,100
123,261
.191,747,787
3,407,991
4,161,804
318,361
198,058,966
12,796,026
46,749,190
1,004,088
17,440,111
56,278,059
1,502,51.8
10,231,700
4,550
856,425
9,219,278
468.057
1,858; 300
42,269
540,089
276,043,381
68,873,252
25,866,262
14,080,746
22,730,259
16,680,261
424,202
$12,679,244
8,368,941
6,013,730
111,038,823
26,560,718
27,086,326
$82,741
43,450
13,273.^564
105,786
6,073,419
1,021,420
2,715,120
13,656,058
. 1,341.289
5,991,015
2,967,108
4,968,'245
7,200,625
26,670,590
445,144
"1,426,060
65,500
'693,246
271,550
67,275
144;845
17,903
61,448
4,577,259
3,655,944
37,996
304,478
725,443
4,450
.
23,224,007
6,339,107
1,481,056
898,650
5,909,015
2,901,506.
295,921
9,301,120
191.747,787
276;048,381
79,781,790
75,875,815
23,224,007
3,407,991
68,87.3,252
9,947,427
10,443,2 0
6,339,107
4,161,804
12,127,993
10,559,530
3,996,266
1,431,056
318,361
4,392,647
3,460,780
4,577,568
898,650
18,273,564
28,241,1 9
5,138,659
7,694,239
5,909,0 5
5,766,319
7,834,522
3,762,997
4,968,245
2,901,506
' 571,772
19,579,673
179,980
7,200,625
295,921
12.11.5,855
45,939,614
8,119,0.36
26,670,590
9,301,120
640,677,780
99,010,987
32,326,649.
13,648,006
65,256,596. 25,253,589
27,827,971
102,146,215
204
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
No. 12.
Statement in relation to the deposit accounts, receipts and 'payments, and ^outstanding drafts, condensed, f ' o m the Treasurer's weekly exhibits rendered
during the year ending June 30, 1862.
A m ' t of deposits. Outstanding drafts. Subject to draft.
Period.
Am't of receipts.
A m o u n t o f drafts
paid.
1861.
July
8
15
22
29
August
5
12
19
26
September 2
9
16
23
30
October 14
26
November 2
9
16
23
30
December 9
16
o 23
31
1862,
January 20
27
February 3
10
17
24
March
3
10
17
24
31
April
12
26
May
12
19
26
31
June
9
16
23
30
$4,018,766
7,495,746
5,781,471
9,155,943
6,844,493
5,740,520
4,150,590
7,615,6.12
9,871,788
12,891,102
1,5,719,173
19,756,119
15,640,102
14.012,864
16,45.5,215
15,894,421
15,190,081
15,932,357
13,566,330
" ' i s ' 3 4 6 * 787
13, ,524,499
11,961,613
9,706,364
15
05
32
43
27
54
49
83
18
.55
72
30
08
39
07
68
38
46
83
32
65
27
22
63
03
.56
33
94
39
15
71
87
94
50
52
15
10
33
$2, .592,325
5,943,610
3,980, .528
7,253,475
4,885,221
3,891,506
• 2.873,692
4;574,903
4,452,946
7,458,726
7,473,795
14,244,044
10,363,713
3,041,615
5,828,817
8,852,875
8,874,082
4,117,886
4,071,814
83
40
05
21
64
.51
93
50
24
16
57
59
21
45
57
16
23
36
50
"73" **'12,295* 828*75" *'"3,'656,*959*63*'
39
8,270,081 29
5,254,418 10
99
9,080,392 98
2,881,221 01
14
6,147,227 10
3,559,137 04
9,532,691 65
9,671,046 39
9,279,131 59
7,178,253 22
6,851,917 52
7,096,661 49
7,492, .500 54
8,31.6,824 85
10,583,950 57
11,242,812 18
10,386,881 90
10,327,610 93
16,628,931 88
26,940,879 80
26,872,1,33 76
.28,824,001 53
23,957,265 31
27,868,750'76
28,813,887 85
30,176,946 73
29,534,699 98
$1,426,440
1,5.52,135
1,800,943
1,872,468
1,959,271
1,849,014
1,276,897
3,040,709
5,418,841
5,432,376
8,245,378
5,512,074
5,276;388
10,971,248
10,626,397
7,831,546
6,630,992
11,814,471
9,494,516
7,155,122
6,5.34,815
5.216,711
5,064,226
6,460,740
7,454,441
7,573,410
3,487,283
- 7,346,848
8,621,514
10,812,542
4,306,953
15,765,084
9,634,893
11,065,374
10,628,471
8,901,134
9,945,556
7.242,445
e;331,557
10,284,204
24
57'
34
88
18
83'
77
67
48
70
65
85
37
16
24
66
35
00.
76
49
59
*77,917
569,284
1,303,638
*43,421
*'290,4I2
*1,469,680
*1,167,511
4,829.541
3,163;029
1,136,116
*27,279,101
•11,492,760
816,575
17,305,986
15,806,7.59
15,720,673
15,0.56,130
17,92.3,194
21,571,442
23,845,389
18,369,904
* Over.
92
88
74
19
59
22
49
18
97
85
77
90
65
34
52
11
96
76
09
24"'
01
$663,674 42
5,430,593 49
348,980 61
6,573,977 21
1,406,197 30
808,561 79
607,268 17
5,638,182 76
6,437,899 41
10,866,886 68
1.5,406,176 70
. 14,009,444.33
4,963,373 59
16,452,847 90
27,696,925 24
.13,995,291 91
11,052,971 83
11,324,396 59 ,
13,5.56,216 69
9,888,332 46
.
12,114,238 43
9,269,661 33
8,145,709 18
17,263,348 08
13,230,450 42
9,205,243 21
8,587.224 86
9,41^8; 372 08
.5.391,321 69
e;079,293 31
6,109,160 67
8,970,978 06
6,058,651 84
4,718,611 08
9,947,744 99
44,839,557 82
61,297,911 22
51,304,171 54
13,364,752 09
14,286,057 81
10,848,289 15
10,360,739/19
9,997,115 72
9,793,035 17
12,827,058 01
$2,150,324 05
1,953,713 59
2,063,255 34
3,199,505-10
3,717,647 46
1,912,534 52
2,197,198 22
2,173,160 42
4,181,724 06
7,847,572 31
12,578,105 53
9,972,498 75
9,079,390 81
18,080,085 59
25,254,574 50
13,766,085 30
12,232,312 13
10,897,120 51
15,922.24.3 32
9,568;700 Q-i
10,653,413 31
11,091,949 72
9,703,594 58
19,518,597 93
10,352,200
•9,178,347
9,178,975
10,997,916
4,261,799
6,263,8.59
5,989,023
6,790,0.52
3,865,598
5,470,8.57
36,471,935
35,558,805
- 37,530,444
40,944,952
13,433,497
14,809,046
13,240,168
6,449,253
9,051,978
8,429,976
14,349,896
77
08
23
47
79
29
00
49
24
98
66
75
15
06
83
80
61
74
63
29
14
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
205^
No. 13.
NATIONAL LOAN—SEVEN-THIRTY BONDS.
Proposals will be received at the Treasury Department until 12 o'clock of
Monday, the 17th instant, and then opened for thirteen millions four hundred
and twenty thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, ($13,420,550,) being the
whole ainount of 7.30 three years bonds authorized by law and remaining
.undisposed of. These bonds will be of the issue of October 1, 1861, and will
have the coupon due April 1, 1863, attached. The accrued interest from October 1, 1862, to date of payment will be required to be paid in gold coin or in
United States legal tender notes.' Offers for any amount not less than one bond
of fifty dollars will be considered, but the department will be at liberty to decline all proposals not regarded as advantageous to'tlie government.
Ten per cent, of each amount offered must be deposited with an assistant
treasurer, and will be forfeited in case of acceptance of proposal and non-payment of the balance within ten days from date of notice of acceptance.
All deposits on account of proposal not accepted will be immediately returned
to the offerers. On receiving deposits the assistant treasurers will, when any
deposit may be made, issue duplicate certificates—the original of which he will
deliver to the offerer, by whom it must be sent, with his proposal, to the Secretary of the Treasury. No proposal will be considered in absence of such a certificate; nor will any proposal be received after 12 o'clock of the day fixed for
the opening.
S.P.CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury.
206
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
No. 13.
Schedule of bids for $13,613,450 three years' 7.30 bonds, under act of July 17',
1861, vnth the per centum amount accepted, and amount rejected, (notice
Novemher 10, 1862.^
Nc
' Name.
Residence.
1
G.F. Work&Co
. Philadelphia.
_2
Jay, Cooke 8c Co
.
/
3
Gebhard Fire Insurance Comp'}1
4
5
6
7
8
Florence & Conant.
G. D. Rosengarten
Jacob L . S m i t h . .
Washington, D. C . . . .
do
Washington, D . C . . .
Philadelphia
do
,'.*.*'. Boston
N e w York
-..
Vermilye & Co
9
10
Richard Valiant
do
Farmers and Mechanics' B a n k . Philadelphia !!!!!!;!;.'
11
E . W . C l a r k & Co
12
John Gardner
13
Brewster, Sweet & Co
do.
Boston
(Jo
14
G. S.'Robbins & Sons, a g e n t s . . . N e w York
15
Roosevelt & Son
16
17
Jeremiah Pangburn
Benjamin Tomes'
18
Daniel Le Roy
19
20
'r h o m a s V. C. Morgan
]
•,
21 .J ames A. Cowing
•
. . . ' do
do
. . . . clo
(Jo
|Philadelphia.
^Iew York
....do
Amount bid.
$5,000
6,000
10,000
5,000
13,000
6,000
5,000
200,000
200,000
200,000
100,000
50,000
50,000
50,000
250,000
150,000
250,000
5,000
3,000
5,000
' 5,<000
5,000
1,000
5; 000
750
1,000
10,000
50,000
20;000
20,000
50,000
20,000
100,000
20,000
50,000
10,000
20,000
50,000
50,000
20,000
10,000
7,500
50;000
100,000
100,000
250,000
25,000
50,000
50,000
50,000
2,000
3,000
15,000
100,000
100,000
100,000
10,000 .
20,000
20,000
100,000
100,000
100,000
5,000
5,550
5,000
5,000
5,000
1,600
150,000
150,000
150,000
25,000
Rate.
Amount ac • Amount
cepted.
declined.
P e r cent
4,121
$5,000
4.00
6,000
3.75
10,000
• 3.871
5,000
3.06
13,000
3.371
6,000
3.00
$5,000
4.00
200,000
3.75
200,000
3.621
200,000
3.50
100,000
3.30
50,000
3.25
50,000
3.121
50,000
3.05
148,600 ""101*466
3,00
150,000
•. 2,75
250,000
4.05
5,600
3.87i
5,000
3.621
5,000
3.371
5,000
3.121
5,000
4.00
1,000
4.00
5,000
4.00
750
4.00
1,000
4.00
10,000
3.80
50,000
3.75
20,000
3.60
20,000
3 55
50,000
3.50
20,000
3.31
100,000
3.10
20,000
3.05
29,700
20,300
3.00
10,000
2.90
20,000
2.81
50,000
2.6150,000
2.55
20,000
2.50
10,000
4.00
7,500
3.85
50,000
3.65
100,000
3.35
100,000
2.85
'"256*666
3.79 .
25,666
3.57
50,000
3.29
50,000
3.06
50,000
3.75
2,000
3.50
3,000
3.75
15,000
3.50
100,000
3.25
100,000
3.121
100,000
3,121
10,000 ,
3.75
20,000 .
••
3.50
20,000 .
3.75
100,000
.
3,50
100,000 .
3,25
**'
100,000 .
3.70
5,000- .
3.60
.
5,550
.
3.40
5,000 .
3.55
5,000 .
3.40 .
5,000 ,
360
1,600 .'.
3.55
150,000
3.30
150,000 . .
3.05
89,200
"66,*866
3.55
25,000 I..
207
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
No.
No.
22
13.—Schedule of bids, ^c.—Continued.
Residence.
Name.
Samuel A. Way .
Cambridge City Rank .
Henry P. Ketcham
Read, Drexel & C o . . . .
Cambridgeport, Mass.
New York
'...
do
26
J. De Ricqles
27
Benkard & Hutton,
Cincinnati
New York.
28
T.iD. Armstrong...,,,
Mount Holly, N. J.
H. C. Young, cashier.
Philadelphia
.do.
Wm. Amcr.
F, Tomes,jr
George W. Welsh
Jay, Cooke & Co
34
-.
Clarkc,Dodge& Co.
Jndd Linseed and Sperm Oil Co.
Geo. and Samuel Brown
New York,
do
Washington, D. C.
New York.
.do.
.do.
37
John De Voo, executor.
Clarkson Brothers
.do.
.do.
39
James H. Banker .
.do.
40 I Stuart & Brother
Philadelphia'.
41 I Com Exchange Bank .
.do.
Robert Stuyvesant
New York . .
Drexel & C o . . . . . .
Philadelphia
Livermore, Clews & Co
N e w York..
E. D. Stanton,
.do
James F. Penniman.
Merchants'Bank , . . ,
.do
.do
Amount bid
Ainount accepted.
Per cent.
3,50
$10,000
3.00
10,000
2.50
20,000
10,000
1.50
10,000
3.50
10,000
3.50
21,000
3.50
50,000
3.00
754,000
2.85
.50,000
2.10
75,000
2,00
50,000
1.00
250
3.50
250,000
3,50 i\
250,000
3.371 '
250,000
3.25
250,000
3.12i
5,000
3.50
5,000
3.00
25,000
3.,50
25,000
3.00
25,000
2.50
25,000
2.00
5,000
3.50
5,000
3.25
5,000
3.50
10,000
3.50
25,000
3.50
25,000
3.25
25,000
3.121
25,000
3.00
50,000
3.50
100,000
3.37A
100,000
3.25
100.000
3,12i
50,000
3.50
25,000
3.50
25,000
3.25
2.5,000
3.00
25,000
2.75
3,400
3.50
10,000
3.41
10,000
3.17
10,000
3 15
10,000
3,10
20,000
3.40
20,000
3.37i
20,000
3,331
20,000
3.10
20,000
3.00
25,000
3.38
25,000
2.5,000
3.02
25,000
2.90
20,000
2.80
20,000
3.37i
20,000
3,25
20,000
3.121
20,000
3.00
500
2.75
500
3.37i
150,000
2.62i
250,000
3.37i
150,000
3.02
150,000
2.91
5,000
2.80
10,000
3.371
20,000
3.25
30,000
3.121
30,000
3.10
50,000
3.05
50,000
3.01
100,000
3.00
100,000
3.36
100,000
3.30
3,000
3.25
50,000
3.35
• 50,000
3.35
50,000
3.25
'50,000
2.90
2.75
Amount
declined.
0,000
$10,000
20,000
10,00010,000
10,000
21,000
.50,000
754,000
50,000
75,000
50,000
250
250,000
250,000
250,000
250,000
5,000
5,000
25,000
25.000
25;000
25,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
10,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
50,00,0
100,000
100,000
100,000
50,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
3,400
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20 000
25,000
25,000
25,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
""26*666
566"
20,000
"•""566
150,000
250,000
150,000
150;000
5,000
10,000
20,000
. 30,000
17,800
"* i2,*266
50,000
.50,000
100,000
100,000
100,000
3,000
50,000
50,000
""56*666
53,000
208
REPORT ON .THE FINANCES.
No. 13.—Schedule of bids, S^c.—Continued.
No.
Residence.
Merchants' Bank . . . . . . . .
E . L . Boles
J. Van Duzor, president,,
New York.
do . . . ,
do . . . ,
G. S. Robbins & Son
,
do
John P. Yelverton, cashier .
,
do
Rittenhouse, Fant & C o . . . .
Washington, D. C .
O. n . Schreiner, cashier
N e w York .
E . W . Tallman, cashier
do .
Ward, Campbell & Co..
56
B. M. Freleigh.
Saugerties, N. Y .
John Gulliver
D. C. Spooner
,
De Couisey, Lafourcade & C o .
E. Whitehouse, Son & Morrison,
Philadelphia.
do
do
New Y o r k . . .
64
do .
Benj. H. Field
.do .
Charles P. Gulick
Mutual Life Insurance Comp'y.
.do ,
.do .
G, S. Robbins & Sons, trustees.
.do .
Washington, D. C ,
N e w York
John P o n d e r — . . . .
Thompson Brothers.
Livermore, Clews & Co.
do
.,
E. W . Dunham
,
do
Edward J, King
,
do
,
Livermore, Clews & Co.,
do
,
John Olmstead
Yonkers, N . Y .
Philadelphia.
Samuel F. Ashton
Manhattan Savings Institution., New Y o r k . . .
do
Henry F . Vail, cashier
77
W m . Barton
Brooklyn, N. Y .
W . H, Cox, cashier.
N e w York
Jo&eph Jones
Philadelphia
$100,000
6,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
157,000
150,000
256,000
250,000
20,000
20,000
. 180,000
30,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
50,000
5o;ooo
55
Amount accepted.
Amount bid
50,000
50,000
60,000
420,000
10,000
250,000
510,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
2,000
10,000
6,000
75,000
90,000
10,000
10,000
20,000
2,500
100,000
100,000
100,000
100,000
100,000
40,000
40,000
2.5,000
500,000
300,000
200,000
50,000
150,000
55,000
.50,000
50,000
50,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
100,000
300,000
100,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
125,000
650,000
6.50,000
600;000
€00,000
500,000
5,000
•5,000
25,000
227,500
210,000
10,000
26,000
P e r cent.
2.50
3.33
3.31
3.26
3 13
2.96
2.76
3,30
3.20
3.27
3.23
3.26
3.25
3.05
2.52
3.26
3.06
2.76
2.-56
3.26
3.20
3.10
3.05
3.25
3.05
3.00
2.-75
2.50
3.25
3.12i
2.75
3.25
3.25
3.25
3.25
3.00
3.25
2.00
1.00
3.25
3.25
3.00
2.75
2. .50
2.00
3.25
2.90
3.25
3.21
3.17
3.07
3,17
3.13
3,07
3.17
3.01
2.79
3.16
2..53
2.27
3.15
3.13
3.11
•
3.15
2.80
2.15
3.121
3.121
3.10
3.00
2.75
2.50
2.25
3.10 •
2.50
3.10
3.00
2..50
l.,50
3.10
$6,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
157,000
150,000
250,000
250,000
20,000
20,000
107,100
**25*o66'
25,000
50,000,
50,000
50,000
29,700
60,000
249,700
10,000
5,000
"2; 666'
10,000
\6,000
75,000
2, ,500
100,000
40,000
25,000
500,000
300,000
200,000
50,000
150,000
55,000
50,000
5,000
100,000
300,000
100,000
10,000
10,000
125,000
650,000
5,000
*25,"o66
26,000
,. REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
\
If
209
,
No. 13.—Schedule of bids, 5fc.—Continued.
Residence.
Name.
J oseph Jones
Winslow, Lanier & Co., and C.
P . Culver.
Philadelphia.
New Y o r k . . .
Underhill & Haven .
American Exchan-f^e Bank .
VV, H. Co.x, cashier
.,
Fearing'8c Dalton
.do
.do
.do
Ketchum, Son & Co., for themselves and others.
.do
.do.
Anthoiiy Halsey, c a s h i e r .
.do.
Franklin Haven .
Boston .
Samuel Rea
Ira Steward
Naumkeag Bank.
VV. Ropes & C o . .
......do...:.
do.,...
Salem, Mass
Boston
John E. Kendall
M. A. Falkenburgh .
J. C. Lewis
Washington, D. C .
Jersey City . . . . . ..
Washington, D . C .
Christopher Becker .
J. B. Orton
N e w York.
do...
C. S. Underwood
,
Riggs&co
.;
,
Wm. P. Dole
Anna G, Dudley
,
Boyleston Bank
Jas. E. Southworth, president.
Washington, D . C
do
,
do
do
Boston
N e w York
D a t e r & Timpson .
Metacomet Bank .
do...... ..
Fall River, Mass.
Henry W . S h a w . . . . . . , , .
Allen Danforth, treasurer.
New York.
Boston,....,
Rebecca Nathans .
John L . Rogers . . .
Thomas Lamb
Philadelphia .
New Y o r k . . .
Boston.......
Charles H. Delavan.
New York.
E x . Doc. 1-
-14
Rate.
Amount bid.
$2,000
. 250,000
' 350,000
200,000
100,000
100.000
5; 000
5,000
5,000
5,000
'
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
.5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
750,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
4,642,500
P e r cent.
3.00
3.10
3.00
2.90
2..50
2.25
3.07
2.97.
- 2.77
2.672.57
2.47
2.37
2.27
2.17
1.97
1.77
1.57
.3.05
3.05
3.05
3.00
2.95 •
3.05
. 107,500
50,000
25,000
15,000
100,000
130,000
25,000
25,000
,20,000
50,000
50,000
50,000
50,000
.500,000
500.000
'200
. 100
100,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
4,000 .
500
100
200
100 5,000
2,500
2.500
^400
100,000
400
150
40,000
25,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
15,000
15,000
15,000
1,000
10.000
10;000
10,000
3,000
20,000^
25,000
25,000
15,000
15,000
20,000
30,000
3.05
3.05
2.40
1.01
2.07
3.05
2.76
2.26
1.76
3.05
2.35
2.65
2.15
3.021
A m o u n t a c - Amount
. cepted.
declined.
$2,000
$250,000
*350*666
200,000
100,000
100,000
5,000
445,900
14,900
14,900
2,760,300
63,900
29,700
5,000
5.000
5,000
5,000 .
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
• 304,100
10,100
10,100
/25,000
25,0001,882,200
43,600
20.300
2:3; 000
.
15,000
100,000
52,700
25,000
2.5,000
20,000
20,300
50,000
50,000
50,000
500,000
2 m
3.00
. 3.00
3.00
3.00
2.50
2 00
1.00
Par.
3.00
3 00
3.00
2.00
1.00
3.00
3.00
2.75
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
2.88
3.00
3.00
2.75
2.50
2.25
3.^00
3.00
2.50
2.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
2.75
3.00
2:75
2.50
2.26
500,000
200
100
100,000
10,000
10,000
10,000.
10,000
•;
••
'
,
.••
j
•
.
10,000
4jG0O.i
500
10.0
20.0
100
5,000:;
2,500
2,500
400i
100,000
400'••
150..
40,00025,000
25,00020,000.,
15,000..
ISyOOO
15,000;
15,000;1,000-.:
10,-000-.
10,iOOO
10,;000:'=
i3,<()00
20,000/;
25,00^-,
25, OOOi15,000
15,000
* 20,000
30,000
210
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
No. 13!—Sched.ule of .bids, <^.—Continued.
Name.
Residence;
$1,500
10,000
N e w York .
do .-...
.110
111
J. M. Goddard
Otis Daniol, for gstate of M.
Grant.
112
113
114
E. L.Kels^ey
Alfonso Deschowitz,
John Wads worth
115
J. F , De L a n i e r . . . . . ,
. . do .
116
F . M . Harris,cashier..
..do.
•117
East River Savings Institution.
......do
118
Lewis" Johnson & Co
Washington, D. C.
Livermore, CleWs & C o .
New Y o r k .
J.E.Park
Philip Speyer & Co..
Downington, P a .
New Y o r k . . . . . . .
120
121
.do.
, do.
, do.
\.
•^Webster Bank.
023
124
Maria McGregor
Home Insurance Company..
"New Y o r k .
...do....
125
126
Augustus A, L , Chase, cashier.
John.'P, Elton
Waterbury, Conn.
127
128
S. & W . Welsh
New England Bank .
Philadelphia.
,
do.
129
130
131
132
Miners' B a i l k . . .
G. W. B e r r i a n . . .
Josiah P . Cook .
E. L.vBushnell..
Pottsville, P a . .
Jersey City . .
Boston , . . . . .
New York
133
134
135
Nathan Nathans .
J. Amory Davis..
Otis Daniel
Philadelphia .
Boston
.do
do
;...
136 J a m e s W. Harris
Philadelphia . . . . . .
137 Samuel F. Asbtpn
138 John T. Vincent
".
Washington, D. C.
139 J o h n B l a k e . , i
N e w York
.do.
140 Joseph M. Price, cashier
Ml Geo. S. Robbins & Sons, trustees.
.do.
Amount accepLed.
Amount bid
10,000
250
10,000
10,000
10,000
100,000
100,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
2.5,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
200,000
50,000
100,000
5,000
5,000
8,000
5,000
5,000
3,000
84,000
40,000
5,000
40,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
. 5,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
. 10,000
10,000
20,000'
75,000
7,5,000
75,000
75,000
100,000
• 7,000
25,000
25,000
2.5.000
25;000
3,000
10,000
15,000
100,000
40,000
40,000
80,000
80,000
10,000
50,000
8,000
10,000
5.000
5,000
5,000
5,000
1,000
25,000
10,000
10:006
10,000
1,000
10.000
1,000
i;ooo
.50,000
• 40,000
P e r cent.
3.00
3.00
• 2. CO
3.00
3.00
3.00
2.75
3.00
2.90
3.00
2.75
2.50
2.25
2.00
3.00
2.50
2.95
2.70
2.62i
2.90
2.8712 75
2.621
2.60
2 55
• 2.50
2.40
2,37i
1.90
2.87i
2.77
2.76
2.75
2.73 .
.2.71
2.68
2 64
2.62
2.59
2.56
2.52
2.51
2.75
. 2.62^
2,50
2.37i
2.25
•2.75
2.75
2.55
' 2.30
2.00
2.60
2,60
2.50
2.50
2.^50
2.00
1.50
.1.00
.50
2.50
2.50
2.50
2.50
2.00
1.50
1.00
2.50
2.50
2..50
2.00
l.fO
2,.50
. 2,50
2.50
2.50
2,.50
2.50
211
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
No. 13.—Schedule of bids, Sfc.—Continued.
Residence. .
James Gallatin, president.
W . H. Slocum
•...
Bliss, Williams & C o . . . .
N e w York.
,
do;...,
Charles Stoddard . . . .
P. S. Bayley, cashier.
Boston
Springfield, Mass.
B. F . Mansfield.
New York.
Underhill & Haven
Hannilton Fire Insurance Col
National Bank
•,..,
Bank of America
,
.do:
.do.
Boston .
New York.
George A. B l a c k . . .
A. E. Giles . . . . . . .
William Wright . . .
Joseph Hutchinson.
. . . ,do
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington, D. C.
Leaman Thompson
Albany Exchange Bank .
Albany, N. Y .
do
Robert White
Thomas Trueman
Amanda M c L e a n .
Isaac Sweetser .,',
John Slattery
Boston
New Y o r k . . . . . . . .
Washington, D, C.
Boston
New York
.-..
Jefferson Branch State "Bank of
Ohio.
Charles W, Swartz
Isaac W. Blain, for himself and
others.
'.
Hostetter & Smith
Clarkson & Co
'
Washington', D. C.
New York
Pittsburg . .
New York-,
J. Kendall
John H. Robinson
\A. B. Johnson
Francis Jago
George B. Milton
V. de Amerilla
Seth Caldwell
Brevoort Fire Insurance Co.
Boston .....'Paterson, N. J . . . .
Utica, N . . Y . . ; . . . .
Philadelphia
Boston
Philadelphia
Worcester, M a s s . .
New York
C. T . Willard
Albany Exchange Baiik .
Philadelphia . .
Albany, N. Y .
George W. Utermehle . . .
S. J. Goss
Henry H. Bown611
White & Hill
Henry S. Milton
Pemberton Smith
'..
G. F. Hunting
,
W. M. Webster
,
J. M. Balisse
J, M". Hines
Mrs. S. E, E d w a r d s . . . .
Washington,^U, C . .
do...,
N e w Haven, Conn .
Nashua, N . H
Boston
Philadelphia
Boston
.........
Phil.adelphia
New-York..
-...
Shippensburg, P a . . .
Philadelphia
Total
Amount bid
Rate,
Amount ac- Amount
cepted.
declined.
P e r cent.
$50,000
2.50
2.50
10,000
2.30
25,000
2i.25
25,000
2.05
50,000
1.90
25,000
1.75
25,000
2.25
6,000
2.25
• . 5,0002.00
5,000
1.75
5,000
1.50
5.000
1,25
5; 000
2.20
5,000
1.50
5,000
2.20
20,000
2.10
25,000
2.00
70,000
2.00
500,000
2.00
10,000
2 00
1,000
2.00
1,000
2.00
15,000
2.00
2,000
1.30
2,000
1.00
2,000
Par.
2,000
2.00
5,000
2.00
20,000
1.50
20,000
' 1.00
•20,000
2.00
3,000
"2.00
500
1,000
• 2.00
1,000
2.00
2.00
16;000
Par.
10,000
2.00
31,000
500
4,500
10,000
5,000
10;000
2,000
200
'10,000
4,000
•1,000
. 300
1,000
. 10,000
10,000
10,000
50
20,000
20,000
6,00Q.
750
. 3,000
5,000
1,000
3,000
400
2,200
1,000
1,000
2,000
29,.994,350
$50,000
10,000
25,000-'
25,000
50,000
25,00025,000
6,000
5,000
5,000
5,000.
5,000
.5,000
5,000
5,000
' 20,000
25,000
.70,000
500,000
10,000
1,000
1,000
J5,000
2,000
2,000
. 2,000
2,000
5,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
3,000
500
1,000
1,000.
10,000
10,000
31,000
1,75
1.50
500
4,500
1,25
1.01
.01
1.00
1.00
1.00
1:00
1:00
1.00
1.00
1.00
. .50
Par.
1.00
.75
.50
Par,
Par.
Par.
Par.
Par.
Par.
Par.
Par.
Par.
Par.
Par,
10.000
5,000
10.000
2,000
200
10,000
4,000 •
1,000
300
1,000
10,000
10,000 '
10,000
50
20,000
20,000
. 6,000
750
3,000
5,000
i,000
3,000
400
2,200
1,000
1,000
2,000
$13,613,450
16,380,900
212
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
•"
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N o . 14.
Statement of the public debt on the 1st day of January in each of the year
from 1791 to 1842, inclusive, and at various dates in subsequent years, to
July 1, 1862.
^
$75, 463, 476 52
O n the 1st day of January. .1791
..
77, 227, 924 66
^ 1792
80, 352, 634 04
1793
,.
78, 427, 404 77
1794....
80,747,587 38
1795.
. 83, 762, 172 07
1796
- 82, 064, 479 33
1797.
79,228,529 12
1798
78,408,669 77
1799
..82, 976, 294 35
1800
,
83,038,050 80
]801
80, 712, 632 25
1802
77,054,686 30
1803...... ....
86, 427, 120 88
1804
82,312,150 50
1805;
.
V
75,-723,270 66
1806
1807
'.. •69,218, 398 64
65, 196, 317 97
1808
57, 023, 192^ 09
1809.
...
53, 173,217 52
1810
\o
1811....
.... / 48,005,587 76
^
45,209,737 90
1812
55, 962, 827 57
1813..
81, 487, 846 24
1814
/
99,833,660 15
1815
...'.....
127,334,933 74
1816
1817. ...
. , , . 123,491,965 16
1818..
. 103,466,633 83
95, 529, 648 28
' 1819
,
91,015,566 15
1820
'..
89,987,427 66
1821
93,546,676 98
1822
90, 875, 877 28
1823
90, 269, 777 77
1824....
83,788, 432 71
1825
...-.
•a
81,054,059 99
1826
73,987,357 20
1827
'
67,475,043 87
1828
.•
58,421,413 67
1829
48,565,406 50
1830..
39, 123,^ 191 68
1831.
^
24,322,235 IS
1832
7,001,032 88
1833.....
4,760,082 08
1834
351,289 05
1835.
291, 089 05
1836
1,878,223 55
1837
.
4,857, 660 46
1838
213
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
No. 14.-—Statement of the public debt, ^tJ.^—Continued.
On the 1st day of January. .1839
1840
1841
1842
On the 1st day of J u l y .
. 1843
1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
On the 1st day of December. .1849
1850
On the 20th day of November. . 1851
On the 30th day of December. .1852
On the 1st day of J u l y . . . . . .1853
1854
On the i7th day of November. .1855
On the 15th day of November. .1856
On.the 1st day of J u l y . , , , , .1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
983, 737 53
125,077 63
6,737, 398 00
15, 028, 486 37
27, 203, 450 69
24, 748, 188 23
17, 093, 794 80
16, 750, 926 33
38, 956, 623 38
°48, 526, 379. 37
64, 704, 693 71
64, 228,238 37
62, 560, 395 26
65, 131,692 13
67, 340, 628 78
47, 242, 206 05
39, 969, 731' 05
30, 963, 90^ 64
29, 060, 386 90
44, 910, 777 66
58, 754, 699 33
64, 769, 703 08
90, 867, 828 68
514, 211, 371 92
•5,
%, E . C H I T T E N D E N , Register,
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Register's Ofiice, November 29, 1862.
,
2M
REPORT ON THE FINANCES
No. 15.
Statement showing the payments made annually on account of the interest and
reimbursement of the domestic debt, interest on the p)ublic debt, and redemption
of the public debt, from March 4, 1789, to. June 30, 1862.
o
.
Interest and .re- Interest on the
imbursement of
public debt.
domestic debt.
Redemption of
the public
. debt.
$37,685 83
$699,984 23
From Mar. 4, 1789^ to Dec. 31, 1791 ,$1,140,177 20
Year ending
. .. . .
.-.1792
2,373,611 28
4,711,405 04
2,079,105 76 '"""i8"753"4i" 2,672,048 54
17931794.
2,455,856 60
296,666 44
2,874,356 39
1795
2,727,959 07
219,099 99
2,985,742 55
1796
2,914,;847 68
324,500 00
2,685,658 33
1797
2,879,976 73
292,540 00
2,708,682 55
2,726,238 40
229,637 50
l,004,5i8 97
1798
2,599,251 41
216,400 00
1.706,578 84
1799
1800
3,186,201 04
216,400 00
1,138,563 11
4,213,430 06
198,400 00
2,879,876 98
1801
1802
4,077,147 16
162,025 00
5,293,235 24
1803
3,949,462 36
•82,000 00
3,224,697 07
1804
3,977,206 07 .• 592,'031 08 .3,593,017 66
3,318,141 48
751,707 41
3,171,225 96
1805
5,572,018 64
485,216 12
2,883,752"14
1806
1807
4,183,890 40
509,098 74
1,614,730 96
•7,701,288 "Se
600,633 28
1,956,440 95
1808,
3,852;'896 27
• 688,923 42
1,910,734 47
, '
1809
4,835,241 12
844, 674 35
2;318,996 74
1810
2,010,656 49
654,802 94
5,334,540 57
1811
1812
1,098,488 49
,627,051 64
2,724,082 32
1813
1,948,639 73
806,740 74 ' 8,352,742 97
1-. 712, 897 50
216,835 31
6,970,811 13
1814
3,343,263 09'
793,366 18
8,492,293 08
1815
4,527,779 '77
699,730 83 19,643,552 33
1816
5,442,503 62
344,019 85. 19,636,512 65
1817
5,506,814 60
190,743 82
2,006,367 87
1818
7,355,167 62
46,720 04 13,894,314 06
1819
*5,465,995 95
188,133 87- 2,974,364 46
1820
5,623,321 3836,56.0 88 2,707,211 36
* 1821
5,739,760 62
1822
2,109,188 50
6,982 04
5,524,034 37
1823
11,267,289 57
5,301,104 19
1824
4,366,757.40 . 7,728,678 38
1825
3,975,542 95
7,065,539 24
1826
6, 517,.506 89
3,486,071 51
1827
9,064,637 49
3,098,800 60
• 1828
2,542,843 23
9,841,024 55
1829
1,912,574 93
9,443,175 01
1830
1,373,748 74 14,800,629 48
1831
772,561 50 17,067,747 79
1832
1,239,746 51
303,796 87
1833
202,152 98
6,971,362 21
• 1834
60"00"
67,863 08
'330 37
1835'
3
..:
1836
21,824 03
27 76'
1837 •
2,000 75 '""'i4,"997"64' 5,588,711 98.
1838
1839
3.000 00
399,834 23 10,715,153 19
2,000 00
174,635 77
3,909,977 93
1840'
2,261 13
288., 063 45
5,310,365 16
1841
.
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REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
215
No. 15.—Statement showing the payments made annually, ^x.—Continued.
Interest and re- Interest on the • Redemption of'
imbursement, of public debt.
the-, public
domestic debt.
debt.
Year ending
$5,000
5,000
44,548
26,031
22,649
6,956
4,767
4,600
2,000
2,338
1,359
Total — - - -
--.,^.• " ^
00
00
16
95
35
74
38
00
00
49
78.
$773,550 06
523,684 57
1,833,484 37
1,040,953 09
843,228 77
1,119,246 86
2,391,652 17
3.565,835 3^2
3,782,406 74
3,701,979 60
4,000,654 35
3,665,551 08
3,066,646 61
.'
2,314,464.99
23 50 1,954,708 84.
3 21 1,593,765 23
1,652,055 67
2,637,664 39
3,144,620 94
4,000,173 76
3 06 13,190,324 45
1842
1843
1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
'1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
• ,
$7,8,96,98?
333,011
11,113,870
7,509,822
347,945
5,593,078
13,031,268
12,7.99,679
-3,654,321
652., 123
2,150,576
6,412,855'
18,269,718
6,666,165
10,052,099
4,284,686
7,544,568
14,713,572
13,900,392
18,221,707
96,096,919
88
98
31
63
19
77
87
00
43
55
72
67
49
86
88
78
29
81
13
27
03
131,498,896 27 96,107,896 21 532,688,184 38
^
L. E. CRIITE^DEl^, Eegister.
f REASURY DEPARTMENT,
I
Register's Office, Novemher 29, 1862.
216
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
•
.
'
N o . 16.
S u m m a r y statement o f the value o f the exports o f the grototh, produce, a n d manuf a c t u r e o f the United States d u r i n g the y e a r commencing J u l y 1, l'^61, a n d
ending June 30, 1862.
PRODUCT OF THE SEA.
Fisheries—
Oil, spermaceti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Oil, wbale and other fish , - i . . .
Whalebone
,
. ^ Spermaceti and sperm candles
Fisb, dried or smoked
Fish, pickled
$962, 603
1,286,329
656,795.
64,481
714,582
328,687
$3,913,477
PRODUCT OF THE FOREST.
WoodStaves .and headings
Shingles
Boards, plank, and scantling
Hewn timber
Other lumber
.Oak-bark and other dye..»
All manufactures of
Naval stores—
-• Tar and pitch
« '.%
Rosin and turpentine.-.Ashes, pot and pearl
Ginseng
Skins and furs
,
^..
...
$2,590,649
67,356
2,015,982
138,521
1,178,753
186,363
1,753,259
. 55,884
293,400
451,047
408,590
794,407
9,934,-211
PRODUCT OF AGRICULTURE.
Animals—
Beef
.«
Tallow......,
Hides
Horned cattle
Butter
....»
^ Cheese..
*
Pork, pickled
..o
^
Hams and bacon,...
Lard
Wool....'.
Hogs
i
. Horses
-....
Mules
Sheep
,
..,
,
,
Vegetable food—
Wheat..
,
Flour
Indian corn
Indian nieal...
...."-„-.^
Rye meal
^
Rye, oats, and other small grain and pulse
Biscuit or ship-bread
,
Potatoes
,
Apples
„»........
2,017,077
4,026,113
618,-687
193,019
4,114,057
2,712,899
3,980,003
10,290,572
10,004,521
296,225
23,562
157,442
212,187
34,600
38,680,964
42,568,790
27,513,196
10,387,651
778,076
64,488
2,364,626
490,942
300,599
219,528
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
^
217
No. 1 6 . — S u m m a r y staj^ement of the value of exports, ^ . — C o n t i n u e d ,
''
PRODUCT OF AGRICULTURE—Continued.
Vegetable food—•
Onions..--.- .Rice
-
Cotton
Tobacco
-Hemp
.'.... .
Other agricultural productsClover-seed
Flaxseed
Brown sugar
Hops.......
$90,412
156,899
$84,925,206
1,180,113
12,325,356
8,3f0
295,256
59
90,022
661,308
1,046,644
$138,066,583
MANUFACTURES.
Refined sugar
Wax...
Chocolate
Spirits from grain
.
Spirits from molasses
........;... .....--.
Spirits from other m a t e r i a l s . . . . . .
Molasses _.
Vinegar
•,.......-..
;.....
Beer, ale, porter, and cider, (in casks)
Beer, ale, porter, and cider, (in bottles)
Linseed oil
Spirits of turpentine ...^,o
Household furniture
Carriages and parts, and railroad cars and parts.
Hats of fur or silk . . i .
.........
Hats of palm leaf
„ ..,,-..
Saddlery
Trunks and valises..-.-.
Adamantine and other candles .
Soap
Snuff
Tobacco, manufactured ..
Gunpowder
Leather
Leather boots and shoes .
Cables and cordage.
Salt....
Lead
Iron—
Pig
Bar
Nails
Castings . . - ,
All manufactures....
Copper, and brass, and manufactures of.
Drugs and medicines
.-..
Cotton piece goods—
Printed or colored
White, other than ^uck
Duck
All manufactures of. .„
.,
147,397
47,383
' .' 4,288
328,-414
715,702
1,577,861
21,914
29,701
46,464
9,232
20,928
• 64,731
939,168
617,175
77,281
65,446
67,759
60,771
836,849
636,049
7,914
1,068,080
101,803
389,037
721,206
199,669
228,109
7,334
38,412
. 45,584
175,856
54,761
4,212,448,
13,433,636
1,088,021
1,490,376
587,500
608,004
221,685
1,629,275
2,946,464
'218
No.
REPORT ON T H E FINANCE'S.
1 6 . - ^ S u m m a r y statement of the valtce of exports, ^c.—Continued.
• MANUFACTURES—Continued..
Eemp—
Thread
-Bags . . . . . . . . . . . . ' . . . . . . . .
,-Cloth....
Other m a n u f a c t u r e s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '
:
'
-.
'
•
$253
2,106
1,140
28,441
$31,940
WearinsT a n n a r e l d l t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . '
Earthen and stone w a r e . . . . . . . . . . . . - . 1 . . . . . . .
Combs . . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . .
..----.
Buttons
Brooms and brushes of all k i n d s . . . - .
Billiard-tables and apparatus . . . . . . . ^ . . . . . . . .
Umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades . .
Morocco and other leather not sold by the pound.
F i r e - e n g i n e s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --...
Printing presses and type . . . . . . . . : . . a . .
Musical instrurnents.^.
Books and maps
Paper and stationery . . . . . . . j . . ; . . . . . . . . . .
Paints and varnish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jewelry, real and imitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other manufactures of gold and silver, and gold
leaf
Glass
..«..-,..-...-.
..
Tin.
Pewter and lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , .
Marble and stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . % . . . . .
Bricks, lime, and cement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
India-rubber shoes . . . . . . . . . . ,
.........
India-rubber, other than shoes
Lard o i l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i ; . . . . . ; . . . .
Oil-cake
i..
Artificial flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
..
.
• 472,924
31,158
12,994
1,227
99,166
19,884
663
13,049
34,930
168,^647
147,826
214,231
398,546
259,064
67,750
/
•
•
63,078
622,606
62,286
31,366
190,067
83,385
35', 903
• 107,953
148,026
876,841
130
4,062,590
$23,053,027
Coal
„
--iIce
-.
Gold and silver coin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gold and silver b u l l i o n . . . . . . . . .„
i\
Quicksilver
..,....,.....'
Articles hot enumerated—
Manufactured
Raw produce ; . . . . ' . . . % . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total
•
837,117
182,667
17,776,912
:13,267,739
1,237,643
2,880,347
l,770,9r6
n
37,953,341
212,920 630
L. E, CHITTENDEN, %«^er.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Register's Office, Decemher 26, 1862.'
No. 17.
Statement showing the revenue .collected from the beginning of the government:to June 30, 1862, under the several heads of customs,
direct tax, public lands, and miscellaneous sources, including loans and treasury, notes; also the expenditures during the same
period, and the particular tariff, and the price of lands under which the revenue from those soiirces was collected.
F r o m customs.
Date of tariff.
Direct tax.
Frora public
lands.
Price per
acre. .
From miscellan's T h a t portion of
mihceil's arising
sources, inclufrom loans and
ding loans and
treasury notes.
treasury notes.
Total receipts.
Total nxpenditures.
Pi
F r o m M a r c h 4,
1789, to D e c *
31,1791.^-
$4,399,473 C9
1792
V1793
•
1794
3,433,070 85
4,255,306 56
4,801,065 28
' 1795
1796
5,588,461 26
6,567,987.94
1797
7,549,649 65
.
1798
1799
. 1800
1801
1802
1803
1804
7,106,061
6,610,449
9,080,932
10,750,778
12,'138,235
10,479,417
11,098,565
93
31
73
93
74
61
33
1805
1806
1807
1808
1809
1810
•1811
1812
1813
1814
1815
1816
12,936. 487
14,667, 698
15,84.5, 521
16,363: .550
7,296; 020
8,583,309
13,313,222
8.958. 777
13,224^ 623
5,998^ 772
7,282, 942
36,306. 874
04
17
61
58
58
31
73
53
25
08
22
88'
1817
26,283,348 49
^ 1 , by act
of May 20,
1785.
July 4, 1789, general; Aug. 10,1790,
g e n e i a l ; Mar. 3,
1791, general.
May 2, g e n e r a l . . . . .
J u n e s , s p e ' l ; June
7, general.
J a n . 29, g e n e r a l . . . .
$45886 13
March 3, general;
July 8, special.
May 13, special.
March 26, special;
Mar. 27, special.
July 1, s p e c i a l .
July 29. special . , . ,
Feb. 5, spie'l; Apr.
,27, general.
| 2 , by act
of Mav 18,
1796.'
$5,810,552 66
$5,791,112 56
$10,210,025 75
$7,207,539 02
5,297,695 92
1,465,317 72
5,240,036 37
5,070,806 46
1,067,701 14
4,609,196 78
8,740,766 77
5,720,624 28
10,041,101 65
9,141,569 67
•7,529.575 .55
•9,'302,V.4 74
3,831.341 53
,2,167,505 56
3,305,268 20
362,800 00
9,419,802 79
8,740,329 63
10,435,P69 65
8,367,776 84
70,135 41
8,758,916 40
. 8,626,012 78
o
83,540 60
1,125,726 15
11,963 11
03
53
66.
96
55
33
90
30
88
38
45
21
40
88
45
56
78
10
91
443
167,726
188,628
165,675
487,526
75
06
02
69
79
1,091,045
6,011,010
3.369,807
2,026,950
2,374,527
419,004
249,747
540,193
765,245
466,163
•647,939
442,252
696,546
1,040,237
710,427
835,655
1,135,97\
1,287,959
1,717,985
80
73
27
06
.33
82
53
78
14
09
28
03
212, 827
175. 884
86. 334
51, 054
35, 200
2,864..348
78, 377
12,969. 827
26.464, 566
2?;424, •93
42,390, 336
19,146. 561
1,991,22^08
5,559,017 78
308, .574
5,074,646
1,602,435
10,125
5,597
27
53
04
00
36
9,532 64
128,814 94
48,897 71
1,882. 16
2,759,992
8.309
12,83?;900
26,184,435
23,377,911
35,264,320
25
05
00
00
79
78
9,494,436 16
734,542 59
8,209,070
12,621,4.59
12,451,184
12,945,455
15,001,391
11,064,097
11,835,840
07
84
14
95
31
63
02
• 8,613,517 68
11,077,043 ,50
11,989,739 92
12,273,376 94
13,276,084 67
11,2.58,983 37
12,624,646 36
13,689,508
15^608,828
16.898,019
17^062,544
7,773,473
12,144,206
14,431,):<38
.22,639,032
40,524,844
34,559,536
50,951,237
57,171,421
14
78
26
09
12
53
14
76
95
95
60
82
13,727, 124 41
15,070, 093 97
11,292, 292 99
16,764, 584 20
13,867, 226 30
13,319 986 74
I3,60i,'808 91
22,279, 121 15
39,190,520 36 •
38,028,'230 .32
39,582, 493 35
48,244, 495'51
33,833,592 33
40,877,646 04
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From customs.
1818
1819
1820
1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827
1828
.
$17,176, 385
20.283. 608
15;005; 612
13,004, 447
17,589 761
19,088, 433
17,878, 325
20.098, 713
23;341, 331
19,7121 283
23,205; 523
00
76
15
15
94
44
71
45
77
29
64
1829
1830
22,681,965 91
21,922,391 39
1831
.1832
24,224,441 77
28,465,237 24
1833
29,032,508 91
1834
T o Dec. 31,1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
T o J u n e 30, 1843
1843-'44
• 1844-'45
1845-'46
1846-'47
l847-'48
1848-'49
16,214,957 15
19,391.310 59
23,409,940 .53
11,169,290 39
16,158,800 36
23,137,924.81
13,499,502.17
14,487,216 74
18,187,908 76
7,046,843 91
26,183,570 94
27,528,112 70
26,712,667 87
2.3,747,864 66
31,757,070 96
28,346,738 82
lS49-'50
1850-'51
1851-'52
. 1852-'53
FRASER1853-'54 .
39,668,686
49,017,567
47,339,;i26
58,931,865
64,224,190
Digitized for
42
92
62
52
27
Date of tariff.
April 20, special .
March 3, s p e c i a l .
May 22, general.
May 1 9 , g e n ' l ; May
24. special.
M a y 2 0 , s p e ' l ; May
29, special.
July 1 3 , s p e ' l ; July
14, general.
Mar.' 2, s p e ' l ; Mar.
2, compromise.
Sept. 11, general .
Aug. 30, general .
July 30,1846, gen'l,
Mar. 29, 1848,spe'l,
Aug. 12,1848, spe'l;.
Jan.26,1849,sp'l,
Direct tax.
Frorh public
lands.
$2,606,564
3,274,422
1,635,871
1,2)2,966
1,803,581
916,523
984,418
1,216,090
• 1,393,785
1,495,845
1,018,308
Price per
acre.
77
78
61
46
54
10
15
56
09
26
75
From miscellan's T h a t portion pf
sources, inclumiirceil's arising
ding loans a n d
from loans and
treasury notes.
treasury notes. .
$1,810, 986
1,047, 633
4.240, 009
5; 3.56, 290
839, 084
535, 709
5.518, 468
51526, 054
525, 317
1,7.58, 235
o 539 796
89
83
92
11
46
72
93
01
35
41
84
$8,765
2,291
3,040,824
5,000,324
62
00
13
00
5,000,000 00
5,000,000 00
Total receipts.
$21,593, 935
24.605, 665
20;881, 493
. 19,57.3,703
20,232. 427
20,540, 666
24,381, 212
26,840, 858
• 25,260,434
22; 966, 363
24,763. 629
66
37
68
72
94
28
79
02
21
96
23
Total expenditures.
$35,104, 875
24,004, 199
21.763,024
19; 090,572
17,676,692
- 15,314,171
31,898,538
23,585,-804
24,103,398
22,656,764
25,459, 479
40
73
85
69
63
00
47
72
46
04
52
1,517,175 13
2,329,356 14
628,486 34
592,358 98
24,827,627.38
24,844,116 51
25.044,358 40
24;585,281 55
3,210,815 48
2,623,381 03
1,091,563 57
776,942 89
28,526,'820 82
31,865,561 16
30,038,446 12
34,356,698 06
3,967,682 55
948,234 79
33,948,426 25
24,257,298 49
4,857, 600
14,757, 600
24,877. 179
. 6,776; 236
3,081, 939
7,076, 447
3,292, 285
1,36.5, 627
1,335, 797
897, 818
2,059, 939
2,077, 022
2,694, 452
2,498, 355
3,328, 642
959
^5
69
75
86
52
47
35
58
42
52
11
80
30
48
20
56
55
719,377
.1,281,175
2,539,675
9,938,326
19,778,642
5,125,653
8,240,405
14,666,6.33
15,250,038
12,837,748
2,955,044
336,718
292,847
29,091,948
21,906,765
29,761,194
71
76
69
93
77
66
84
49
61
43
99
90
39
66
69
61
1,859,894
2,352,305
2,04.3,2.39
1,667,084
8,470,798
25
30
58
99
39
6,120,808
1,392,831
510,549
^ 901,152
1,107,302
21
03
40
30
74
2,992,989
12,716;820
3,857,276
5,589,547
13; 659,317
14.808.7.35
12;551; 409
1,877,847
15
86
21
51
.38
64
19
95
28,900,765 36
21,293^780 00
29,075,815 48
4,056,50'0
207,664
46,300
16,372
1,950
00
92
00
50
00
21,791, 935
35,430, 087
50,826, 796
27,883, 853
39,019, 382
35,340, 025
25,032, 193
30,519, 477
34,773, 744
20,782, 410
31,198, 5.55
29,941, 853
29;699, 67
55,338, 168
56,992, 479
59,796,
55
10
08
84
60
82
59
65
89
45
73
90
74
52
21
24,001, 982
17,573, 141
30,868. 164
37.265. 037
39,455. 438
37,614, 936
28,226. 533
31,797. 530
32,936i 876
12, H 8. 105
.33,642. OfO
30,4901 408
27,632, 282
"=60,520, 851
60,6.5.5, 143
56,386, 422
44
56
04
15
35
15
81
03
53
15
85
71
90
74
19
74
47,049,388
52,762,704
49,893,115
61,500,102
73,802,291
88
25
60
81
40
44,604,718
48,476,104
46,712,608
54,577,061
75,473,119
26
31
83
74
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• • 1858-'59
1859 '60
1860 '61
1861 '62
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53,025,794 21
64,022,863 50
63,875,905 05
41,789,620 96 Mar. 3,1857, gen'l.
49.565,824 38
53; 187,511 87^
39,582,125 64 Mar. 2,1861, gen'l.
49,056,397 62 Mar, 2,1861,gen'l; $1,795,331 73
Aug. 5 and Dec.
24, 1861, special..
1,624,208,977 54
1,795,331 73
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11,497,049 07
8,917,644 93
3,829,486 64
3, .513,715 87
1,756.687 30
1,778;557 71
870,658 54
152,203 77
175,970,164 97
...........
828,531 40
1,116,391 81
1,263,820 88
25,069,329 13
30,451,453 96
21,875,338 25
42,753,909 38
530,624,248 14
1,048,412,450 75
.800 00
65,351,374 68
200 00
74,056,899 24
, 3,900 00
68,969,212 57
23,717, ,300 00
70,372,665 96
28,287,500 00 -> 81,773,965 64
20,776,800 00
76,841,407 83
41,861,709-74
83,206,693 .56
529,692,460 50
581,628,181 26
952,175,340 96
2,850,386,924 99
66,164,775 96
72 726 ,341 57
71,274,587 37
82.062.186 74
83,678,642.92
77,055,125 65
84,578,834 47
570 841,700 25
2,806,518,8§1 86
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'Bales.
•Years.
1821.^, _.--.,,.
1822
.__
1
1823...
1824
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1825 ^
1826
..'.
i827„_.. .„...;.
1828
.•
1829,
1830
1831.
1832
-_.-. ..
.
1833
=-..-.
1834
1835"
._
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.
1836
1837
I.
1838......
1839
...-"..1840...
1
1841....
• .....
1842....
.,
1843..
Digitized for 1FRASER
844...:-.._..-
Other.
Rea Island.
K u m b e r of.
Value.
CO O
Dollars.
Cents.
•20,157,484
24,035,058
2 0 . 4 4 5 , 620
21,947,401
36,846,649
25,025,214
29,359,545
22,487.229
26,575,311
29,674,883
25,289,492
31,724,682
36,191,105
49,448,402
64,961,302
71,284,925
63,240,102
61,666,811
61,238,982
63,870\307
64,330,341
47,593,464 •
49,119,806
64,063.601
16.2
16.6
11.8
15.4
-20.9
12.2
10
10.7
10
9.9
9.1
9.8
11.1
12.8
16.8
16*. 8
14.2
10. 3
14.8
8.510.2
8.1
6. 2
8.1
Total.
Pounds.
•
...
,
...
'
11,344,066
11,250,635
. 12,136,688
9,525,722
9,665,278
5,'972, 862
16,140,798
11,288,419
• 12,833,307
8,147,165
•
8,311,762
,8,743,373
11,142,987
8,085,-937
7,752,736
,7,849,597
• 6,286,971
7,286,340
6,107,404
8,779,669
6,237,424
7,254,099
7,615,079
6,099,076
'
113,549,339
133,424,460
161,586,582
132,843,941
166,784,6^29
198,562,563
279,169,317
199,302,044
252,003,879
290,311,937
- 268,668,022
313,451,749
313,635,617
376,601,970
379,686,256
415,721,710
438,964,566
688,615,957
408,666,808
735,161,392
623,966-, 676" 677,462,918
784,782,027
657,634,379
124.893,405
.
144,675,095
173,723,270
142,369,663
176,449,907
204,535,415
294,310,115 .
2r0,-590,463 .
264,837,186
298,469,102
276,979,784
322,215,122
324,698,604
384,717,907
387,358,992
423,631,307 •
444,211,537 .
• 595,952,297
413,624,212
. 743,941,061'
630,204,100684,717,017
792,297,106
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663,633,455
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1846
1847.1848
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-.,_>.... J
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:. - 3 855
,
1856
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1859
1860
„
1862
Total
. •' -
2,303,403
2,991,175
2,265,688
2,454,629.
3,005,536
3,812,345
671,403.
11,890
17,622,869
9,380 625
9,388,533
6,293,973
7', 72.4,148
11,969,259
8,-236,463 .
8,299,656
11,738,075
11,165,165
10,486,423
13,058,59.0
12,797,225
12,940,725
12,101,058
13,'713, 556
15,5^8,698
6., 170, 321
66,443
863,516,371
538,169,622
620,925,985
• 806,650,283
1,014,633,010
627,145,141
918,937,433
1,081,492,564
1,100,405,205
977,346,683
995,366,011
1,338,634,476
1,035,341,750
1,106,522,954
1,372,755,000
1,752,087,640
301,345,778
4,998,121
393,895,320 "
25,066,509,114
872,905,996 .
647,558,055
627,219,958
814,274,4311,026,6.02,269
635,381,604 •
927,237,089
1,093,230,639
l,lli;570,370. 987,833,106
1,008,424,601 .
• 1,351,431,701
1,048,282,475
1,118,624,012
1,386,468,556
1,767.686,338
307,616,099
6,(]r64,664
25,460,404,434
61,739,643
42,767,341
63,415,848
61,998,294
66,396,967
71,984,616
112,315,317
87,9^65,732
109,456,404
93,596,220
88,143,844
128,382,351
1^1,575,859
131,386,661
161,434,923
191,806,655
34,051,483
1,180,113
5 92
7.81
10. 34
7. 61
6 4
11. 3
12. 11
8.05
9. 85
9.47
8.74
9. 49
12.55
11.72
12.72
10.85
11.07
23.30
2,600,065,687
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Statement exhibiting the quantity and value of tobacco and rice exported annually, from 1821 to 1862.
RICE.
TOBACCO.
Years.
1821
- 1822
1823
1824
1825
., —.
1
1826
1827
.---.-1828
.*----1829 .
.-1830
1831
-.-1832
1833
-----1834
- —1835..- —.18361837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842 - - - . .
1843 . • . - 1844----.
1845-1846 1
1847
Bales.
Cases.
• -
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Hogsheads.
66,858
83,169
. 99,009
77,883
75,984
64,098
100,025
96,278
77,131
. 83,810
86,718
106,806
83,153
87,979
94,353
• 109,042
100,232
110,593
78,995
119,484
147,828
158,710
94,454
163,042
147,168
147,998
135,762
Value.
$5,648,962
6,222,838
6,282,672
• 4.855,566
6,115,623
5,347,208
6,677,123
6,269,960
4,982,974
6,586,365
4,892,38.8
5,999,769
6,755,968
6,595,305
8,250,577
10,058,640
5,795,-647
7,392,029
9,832,943
9,883,957
12,576,703
9,540,755
4,650,979
8,397,255
7,469,819
8,478,270
7,242,086
Barrels.
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88,221
87,089
101,365
113,229
' 97,015
• lli;.063
113,528
175,019
132,923
130,697
116,617
^120,327
144,163
121,886
119,851
212,983
106,084
71,048
93,320
101,660
101,617
114,617
106,766
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134,715
118,621
. 124,007
144,427
Value;
$1 494 307
1,553 482
1,820,985
1,882,982
1,925,245
1, 9 1 7 , 4 4 5
2,343,908
2,620,696
2,514,370
1,986,824
2,016,267
•2,152,631
2,744,418
2,122,272
2,210,331
2,548,750
2,309,279
1,721,819
2,460,198
1,942,076
2,010,107
1,907,387
1,625,726
2,182,468
2,160,456
2,564,991
3,605,896
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1849
1850
1861
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1863
1854
1855
1857
1858
1859
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12,913
17,772
14,432
12,640
19,651
17,817
19.450
15,489
13,366
9,384
6,631
4,841
7,188
15,035
18,815
31,972
130,164
"106,232
130,665
101,521
145,729
95,945
137,097
159,853
126,107
150,213
116,962
156,848
127,670
198,846
167,274
160,816 .
107,229
4,869,337
7,551,122
6,804,207
9,951,023
9,219,251
10,031,283
11,319,319
10,016,046
14,712,468
12,221,843
20,662,772
17,009,767
21,074,038
15,906,547
13,784,710
12,325,356
19,774
81,"038
74,309
49,283
69,946
77,837
60,038
7,335
100,403
128,861
127,069
105,590
119,733
67,707
105,121
62,520
68,668
64,332
64,015
81,820
84,163
39,162
2,146
381,291,133
429,5-60
4,415,068
2,331,824
2,569,362
2fi.^1'S'v7
2 170 q27
2 4 7 0 029
1fi^7fl'SS
2fi.S4.127
1
2
2
1
•2
2
1
717 95.^
.890 2,S.H
290 400
870 ^78
207 148
567 .S99
Rfi2 178
156 899
89 393 588
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domestic exports and specie and bullion, the excess of specie and bullion exports over specie and bullion imports, and the excess qf
specie and bullion imports over specie and bidlion exports.
Imports of specie
and bullion.
Imports for consumption, and
specie and bullion imports.
Exports of specie Domestic exports
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and specie and
bullion exp'ts.
Excess bf specie
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imports.
Excess of specie
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1851
1852
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1856
1857
1858
1859
I860
1861
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.
$6,360,224
6,651,240
4,628,792
6,453,692
6,505,044.
4,201,382
6,958,184
3,659,812
4,207,632
12,461,799^
19,274,496
7,434,789
8,550,135
46,339,611
16,415,052
158,101,784
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139,216,408
168,660,625
205,929,811
200. 577, 73^9
255,272,740
282,914,077
235,310,152
299,858,570
345,973,724
261,952,909
324,258,421
335,230,919
320,995,936
198,672,052
$15,841,616
6,404,648
7,522,994
29,472,252
42,674.135
27,486,-875
41,436,456
66,247,343
45,745,485
69,136,922
52,633,147
63,887,411
66,546,239
29,791,080
36,886,956
$154,032,131
145,755,820
151,898,720
218,387,511
209,658,366
230,976,157
278,241,064
275,156,846
326,964,908
362,960,682
324,644,421
342,279,491
382,788,662
234,690,696
218,762,944
2,894,202
24,018,660
- 37,169,091
23,285,493
34,478,272
62,587,631
41,537,853
56,675,123
33,358,651
56.452,622
57,996,104
20,471,904
16,548,631
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3,721,836,209
590,713,659
3,857,198,419
450,406,898
17,795,123
$9~,481,392
$1,246,592
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No. 21.
Statement exhibiting the arnount of coin a n d bullion imported a n d exported,
a n n u a l l y f r o m 1821 to 1862, inclusive, a n d also the amount o f importation
over exportation, a n d exportation over importation, d u r i n g the same years.
Coin and bullion.
Year ending—
Imported.
September 30.
9 months, to June
Year ending June
1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827
1828
1829
1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
•1841
1842
30, 1843
30, 1844
1846
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1868
1859
1860
1861
1862
Total.
Exported.
,064,890 $10,•477,,969
,369,846
10 810,,180
,097,896
6,372,,987
,379,835
7,.014,,552
,160,765
8,.787,,659
,880,966
4,704,,533
,151,130
8,014,,880
,489,741
8,243,,476
,403,612
4,924,,020
,155,964
2 .178,,773
,305,945
9,014,,931
,907,504
5,^b^,,340
,070,368
2,611,,701
,911,632
2.076,,758
,131,447
6,:477,,775
,400", 881
4,324,,336
,516,414
5,976,,249
,747.116
3 508,,046
,595,176
8,776,,743
,882,813
8,417,,014
4 ,988,633
10.034,,332
4,813,,539
4 ,087,016
22 ,390,659
1 620,,791
5 ,830,429
5.454,,214
4 ,070,242
8,•606,,495
3 ,777,732"
3 :905,,268
24 ,121,289
1 907,,024
6 ,360,224
15 841,,616
6 ,651,240
5,404. 648
4 ,628,792 • 7 522,,994
6 ,453,592
29 472,, 752
42 .674,,135
6 ,505,044
4 ,201,382
27,486,,875
41 436;;456
6,,958,184
3 ,659,812
66 247,,343
4 ,207,632
45 745,,485
12 ,461,799
69 136,,922
52 633,,147
19 ,274,4966,369,703
63 887,,411
8 ,550,135
66 646,,239
46 ,339,611
29, 791,,080
,415,052
36 886,,956
16
402,916,539
755,324,644
Excess of im- Excess of exportation over portation over
importation.
exportation.
$2,413,079
7,440,334
1,275,091
$1,365,283
2,636,894
2,176,433
136,250
2,479,592
6,977,191
753,735
1,708,986
. 251,164
4,458,667
15,834,874
6,653,662
9,07€,545
4,54<!), 165
14,239, 070
3,181,567
465,799
5,045,699
726,523
^0,869,768
376,215
4,536,253
127,536
22,214,265
9,481,392
1,246,592
2,894,202
24,019,160
37,169,091
23,285,493
34,478,272
52,587,531
41,537,853
56,675,123
33,358,651
67,517,708
67,996,104
16,548,631
20,471,904
128,910,076
481,318,181
L. E. CHITTENDEN, Register.
TREASUEY DEPARTMENT,
Register's Office, Decemher. 26, 1862,
228
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
No. 22.
Statement exhibiting the gross value^qf exports and. imports from the beginning
of the government to the 30th June, 1862.
Exports,
Year ending
Imports—total.
Domestic produce.
Foreign merchandise.
$19,666,000
$539,156
September 30....1790
18,500,000
1791
512,041
1792
1,763,098
19,000,000
2,109,572
1793
24,000,000
1794
6,526,233
26,500,000
8,489,472
39,500,000
\ 1795
40,764,097
1796
26,300,000
1897
'27,000,000
29,850;206
28,527,097
1798
33,000,000
33,142,522
45,623,000
1799
39,130,877
1800
31,840,903
46,642,721
47,473,204
1801
35,774,971
1802
36, 708,.189
• 13,594,072
1803
42,205,961
36,231,597
1804
41,467,477
53,179,019
42,387,002
1805
1806
41,253,727
60,283,236
1807
48,699,592
69,643,558
12,997,414
9,433,546
1808
20,797,531
1809
31,405,702
24,391,295
1810
42,366,675
16,022,790
1811
45,294,043
8,495,127
1812
30.032,109
25,008,132
1813
2,847,865.
1814
.6,782.272
145,169
1815
6,583,350
45,974,403
1816
64,781,896
17,138, 166
1817
68,313,500
19,358,069
19,426,696
1818
73,854,437
1819
19,165,683
60,976,838
1820
18,008,029
51,683.640
1821
21,302,488
43,671.^894
1822
22,286,202
49,874,079
1823
27,543,6"/.2
47,155,408
25,337,157
1824
50,649.500
32,590,643
1825
66,944,745
24,530,612
1826
63,055,710
1827
58,921,691
23,403,!36
^
21,595,017
1828
60,669,669
182916,658,478
65,700,193
1830
14,387,479
59,462.029
61,277,057
1831
20,033,526
1832
24,039,473
63,137,470
1833
19,822,735
•70,317,698
1834
81,024,162
23,312,811
1835 • 101,189,082 • 20,504,495
1836
21,746,360
106.916,680
1837
21,854,962
95,564,414
96,033,821
1838
12,452,795
• 1839 103,533,891
17,494,525
Total.
^
$20,205,156
19,012,041
20,763,098
26,109,572
33,026,233
47,989,472
67,064,097
"66,850,206
61,627,097
78,665,522
70,971,780
94,115,925
72,483,160
55,800,033
77,699,074
95,566,021
•101,636,963
108,343,160
22,430,960
62,203,233
66,657,970
61,316,833
38,^527,236
27,855,997
6,927,441
62,557,753
81,920,452
87,671,560
93,281,133
70, 142,521
69,691,669
64,974,382
72,160,281
74,699,030
75,986,657
99,535,388
77,595,322
82,324,727
72,264,686
72,358,671
73,849,508
81,310,58387,176,943
90,140,443
104,336,973
121,693,577
128,663,040
117,419,376
108,486,616
121,028,416
$23,000,000
• 29,200,000
31,500,000
31,100,000
34,600,000
69,756,268
81,436,164
75,379,400
68,551,700
79,069.148
91,252.768
111,363.511
76,333,333
64,666,666
85,000,000
120,600,000
129,410.000
138,500,000
56,990,000
59,400,000
85,400,000
53,400,000
77,030,000
22,005,000
12,965,000
113,041,274
147,103,000
'-'99,250.000
121,760,000
87,125,000
74,450,000
62,585,724
83,241,541
77,579,267
80,549,007
96.340,075
84,974,477
79,484,068
88,509,824
74.492,527
70,876,920
108, 191,124
101,029,266
108,118,311
126,521,332
149,895,742
189,980,0S5
140,989,217
113,717,404
162,092,132
REPORT
ON T H E
FINANCES.
229
N o . 2 2 . - ^ S t a t e m e n t exhibiting the g r o s s value o f exports, d c . — C o n t i n u e d .
Exports.
Imports—total.
Year ending
Domestic produce.
September 30
1840 $113,895,634
1841
106,382,722
1842
92,969,996
Nov. 9 to June 30,1843
77,793,783
1844
99,715,179
1845
99,299,776
1846
102,141,893
1847
160,637,464
1848
132,904,121
' 1849 •132,666,955
1850
136,946,912
1851
196,689,718
1852
192,368,984
1853
213.417,697
1854
253,390,870
1855
246,708,553
1856
310,586,330
1857
338,985,065
1«58
293,758,279'
1859
335,894,385
' 1860 373,189, 274
1861
228,699,486
1862
212,920,639
Total.
Foreign merchandise.
$18,190,312
15,469,081
11,721,638
6,552,697
11,484,867
15,346,830
11,346,623
8,011,158
21,128,010
13,088,865
14,951,808
21,698;293
17,289,382
17,568,460
24,850,194
28,448,293
16,378,578
23,975,617
30,886,142
•20,895,077
26,933,022
20,645,427
16,869,641
Total.
$132,085,936
' 121,851,803
104,691,634
,84,346,480
111,200,046
114,646,606
113,488,516
168,648,622
154,032,131
145,755,820
151,898,720
218,388,011
209,658,366
230,976,157
278,241,064
275,156,846
326,964,908
362,960,682
324,644,421
356,789,462
400,122,296
249,344,913
229,790,280
6,914,456,078 1,506,235,628 8,420,691,706
$107,141,519
127,946,177
100,162,087
64,753,799
108,435,035
117,254,564
121,691,797
146.545,638
154,998,928
147,851,439
178,138,318
216,224,932
212,945,442.
167,978,647
304,562,381
261,468,520
314,639,942
360,890,141
282,613,160
338,765,130
362,163,941
335,650,153
205,819,823
9,183,446,734
NOTE,—Prior to 1821 the treasury reports did not give the value of imports. To that
period their value, and also the value of domestic and foreign exports, have been estirnated
from sources believed to be authentic. From 1821 to 1862, inclusive, their value hasbeen
taken from official documents.
L. E. CHITTENDEN, Register,
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Register's Offce, Decemher 26, 1862.
230
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
No. 23.
Statement exhibiting the amount o f the tonnage o f the United S t a t e s a n n u a l l y
f r o m 1789 to 1862, inclusive; also the registered a n d enrolled a n d licensed
tonnage employed in steam n a v i g a t i o n in each y e a r .
Year ending-
Registered
sail tonnage.
Dec. 31, 1789-1790.1791..
1792.1793,1794.1795.179-6.1797..
1798.. 1799..
1800-1801-.
1802..
1803\.
1804..
1805..
1806..
• 1807..
1808,.
1809..
1810..
1811..
1812..
1813..
1814..
1816..
1816 .
1817..
1818-.
. 1819..
1820,.
1821..
1822..
1823..
1824..
1825-.
1826..
1827..
1828..
1829.,
1830-.
1831..
. 1832..
1833..
1834..
Sept. 30,1835-,
1836_.
1837..
1838-.
Tons.
123,893
346,254
362,110
411,438
367,734
438,863
629,471
676,733
597,777
603,376
662,197
659,921
632,907
660,380
697,157
672,.630
749,341
808,265
848,307
769,054
910,059
984,269
768,852
760,624
674,853
674,633
864,295
' 800,760
800,725
606,089
612,930
619,048
619,896
628,150
639,921
669,973
700,788
737,978
747,170
812,619
650,143
575,056
619,675
686,809
749,482
857,098
885,481
897,321
809,343
819,801
Registered
steam tonnage.
J'ms.
1,419
877
181
645
340
340
454
1,104
2,791
Enrolled and Enrolled and
licensed sail licensed steam
tonnage.
tonnage.
Tons.
77,669
132,123
139,036
153,019
153,030
189,755
218,494
255,166
279,136
294,952
277,212
302,571
314,670
331,724
352,016
369,874
391,027
400,451
420,241
473,542
440,222
440,515
463,650
609,373
491,776
484,677
613,833
671,459
690,187
619,096
647^821
661,119
679,062
696,549
671,766
697,580
699,263
762,154
833,240
889,356
656,618
652,248
613,827
661,827
754,819
778,995
816,645
839,226
932,676
&82,416
Tons.
24,879
21,610
23,061
34,059
40,198
39,418
64,037
63,053
33,668
90,633
101,305
122,474
122,474
145,102,
153,661
190,632
Total ton' nage.
^0725.
201,662
274,377
502,146
664,457
620,764
628,618
747,965
831,899
876,913
898,328
939,409
972,492
947,577
892,104
• 949, 172
1,042,404
1,140,368
1,208,716
1,268,548
1,242,596
1,350,281
1,424,784
1,232,502
1,269,997
1,166,629
1,159,210
1,368,128
1,372,219
1,399,912
1,225,185
1,260,751
1.280,167
1,298,958
1,324,699
1,336,566
1,389.163
1,423,112
1,634,191
1,5,20,608
1,741,392
1, •260,-798
1,191,776
1,267,847
1,439,450
1,606,151
1,758,907
1,824,940
1,822,103
1,896,684
1,995,640
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
.
231
No. 23.—Statement exhibiting the amount of tonnage, &c.—Continned.
Registered
Year ending— | sail tonnage.
Sept. 30 1 8 3 9 — .
1840
1841....
1842....
June 30 , 1 8 4 3 . . . . "
1844,...1
1845....
1846....
1847....
1848....
1849....
1850....
1851..-.
1852.... •
1853....
1854.-..
1855....
1856....
1357....
1858...1859....
1860
1861
1862
Registered Enrolled and Enrolled and
steam ton- licensed sail 1icensed steam
nage.
tonnage.
tonnage.
Total ton-^
nage.
^0725.
Tons.
Tons.
Tons.
829,096
6,149
1,062,445
199,789
895,610 1 '
4,155
1,082,815
198,184
945,057 1
746 1 1,010,599
174,342970,658
4,701
892', 072
224,960
1,003,932
6,373
917,804 ' •
231,494
1,061,856
6,909
946,060
265,270 .
1,088,680
6,492
1,002,303
• 319,527
1,123,999
6,287
1,090,192
341,-606
1,235,682
5,631
1,198,523
399,210
1,344,819
16,068
1,381,332
411,823
1,418,072
20,870
1,453,459
441,525
1,640,769
44,429
1,468,738*
481,005 *
1,663,917
62,390
1,624.915
521,217
1,819,744
•79,704
1,675,456
563,536
2,013,154
90,520
1,789,238
514,098
2,238,783
95,036
1,887,512
681,571
2,440,091
115,045
2,021,625
665,240
2,401,687 •
89,^715
1,796,888
583,362
2,377,094
86,873
1,857,964
618,911
2,499,742
78,027
2,550,067
651,363
2,414,654
92,748
1,961,631
676,005
2,448,941
97,296
2,036,990
770,641 L
2;540,020
102,608
2,122,589
774,596
2,177,253 j
113,998
2,224,449
596,465
Tons.
2,096,479
2,180,764
2,130,744
2,092,391
2,158,603
2,280,095
2,417,002
2,562,084
2.8.S9,046
3,154,042
3,334,016
3,535,454
3,772,439
4,138,440
4,407,010
4,802,902
6,212,001
4,871,652
4,940,842
6,049,808
5;145,038
6,353,868
5,539,813
5,112,165
• L. E. CHITTENDEN, Regi^t^.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Offce, Deceniher 26, 1862.
No. 24.
to
CX)
Statement exhibiting the value of manufactured articles of domestic produce exported to foreign countries from June 30, 1846, to
June 30, 1862.
. 1847.
Articles.
•$161,527
124.824
l.;6,53
67,781
293,609
Wax
Chocolate
Spirits froni molasses
•
-
1848.
1849.
1850.
1851.
$134,577
253.900
2,'207
90:957
269;467
$121,720
129,001
1,941
67.129
288,452
$118,0.55
285,0.56
2.260
48,'314
268,290
$122,835
219, .588
3,255
36,084
289,622
'
1852.
$91,499
149,921
3,267
48,737
323,941
1853.
$113,602
375,780
10,230
141.173
329,381
1854.
$87,140
370,488
12.257
282;919
809,965
•
Molasses
.. * . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vincar
Beer, ale, porter, and cider
Linseed oil and spirits of turpentine
L a r d oil
Household furniture.
Coaches and other carriages . . .
Hats
Saddlery.
Tallow, candles and soap, and other candles
Snuff and tobacco . . . .
Leather, boots, and shoes
Cordage
Gunpowder...
....
Salt
Lead
IronPig, bar., and nails
Ca'^ftin^'S
'.
Copper and brass, manufactures of
Medicinal drugs
Cotton piece ^oods—
Printed or colored
T w i s t , yarn, and thread
Other manufactures of
H e m p and f l a x Cloth and thread
Wearing a p p a r e l . . . .
.,
Earthi^n and '•tone ware
Brushes and bropms
.....
....
.•>,,.
......
20,959
9,526
68,114
498,110
5.563
13.920
78^071
331,404
•7,442
14,036
51,320
148,056
14,137
11,182
52,521
229,741
16,8.30
16,915
.57,975
145,410
13,163
12,220
4'8,052
152,837
17,582
20,443
64,677
362,950
131,048
16,945
53,503
1,084,329
225,700
75,369
59,536
13,102
606,798
65«,950
243,816
27,054
88,3^7
42,333
124,981
297, .353
89,963
55,493
27,435
670,223
568,435
194,095
29,91.1
125,263
7.3,274
84,2;8
237,342
95,923
64,967
37.276/- ^
627,28(r ^
613,044
151,774
41,636
131.297
8>:972
30,'198
278,025
95.722
68:671
20,893
664,963
648.832
193,598
51,357
190,352
•75,103
12,797
362,830
199,421
103,768
30.100
609.732
1,143^547
458,838
52,054
154,257
61,424
11,774
430,'182"
172,445
80,453
47,937
660,054
1,316,622
428,708
62,903
121,580
89,31632,725
7i4,"5.56
184,497
91,261
48,229
681,362
1,671,500
673, 708
10.3,216
180,048
119,7^9
5,540
763, .197
244,638
176,404
5.3,311
891,566
1,551.471
896,555
194,070
212,700
159,026
26,874
168,817
68,'889
929,778
64,9^0
165,793
1.54,036
83,188
1,022,408
61,468
210,581
149,358
60,175
886,639
66,203220,894
154,210
79,318
1,677.792
105^060
334,789
215,652
164,425
1,875,621
91,871
351,585
118,624
191,388
1,993,807
103,039
263,852
181,998
220,420
2,097,234
108,205
327,073
308,127
459.775
3,472,467
92,108
454,789
290,114
3,345,902
108,132
338,375
353, .534
4,866,559
170,633
327,479
469,777
3,9.55,11.7
92,555
415,680
606,631
3,774,407
17.405
335,'981
1,006,561
5,571,576
37,260
625,808
926,404
6,1.39, .391
34,718
571,638
1,086,167
6,926,485
22,594
733,648
1,147,786
4,130,149
49;315
423,085
477
5, .305
47,101
4,758
17,026
2,967
495
6,218
574.;834
8,512
.16,461
2,160
1,009
4,549
75,945
10,6.32
38,136
2,924
1,183
10,593
207,632
15,644
23,987
2,827
1,647
6,376
1,211,894
23,096
27,334
8.257
2,924
13,860
239,733
53,685
31,395
6.612
24,456
. 55,261
234,388
34,525
37,684
9,501
5,4688,154
250,228
18,310
28,823
4,385
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1,798
12,260
1,088
8,340
1,673
6,183
.3,204
11,658
9,800
3,140
39.242
2i;634
119,475
99,696
67,597
136,682
13,590
22,682
34,510
4,.583
13,309
9,488
71,401
55,700
153,912
155,664
109,834
18.5,436
27.823
16,426
41,449
68,639
18,617
16,784
47,781
67,733
217.809
119:535
85;359
194.634
23,420
18,460
.57,240
20,332
6.448
9,652
32,250
. 52, .397
142,604
122,212
83,020
170,561
22,988
14,054
47,628
11,873
4.5'283
10,.370
16,348
i21,'6i3"
12,207
22,045
i 14,'738
15.0.-55
13,539
17,018
6, .597
33,012
126,128
187,3.35
192,339
121.823
229,476
30,750
16,478
88 327
1,311,513
442.383
50;471
23,673
.33,314
12
2,916
70 J
800
29,856
3,443
17,431
16,997
44,751
88,731
54,115
71,1.55
6,363
13,694
11,220
4,268
16,483
7,686
30,403
38, .508
75,193
78.307
50,739
76,007
12, .353
7,739
22.466
6,241
'9,427
548
28,031
23,713
94,427
86-827
5.5,145
101,419
13,143
13,196
20;282
4,502
3.*J26
5,270
17,623
ii;2i7"
6,126
24,174
1,108,984
1,137,828
1,408,278
3,869,071
3,793,341
2,877,659
3,788,700
4,972,084
10,476,345
62,620
12,8.58,7.58
2,700,412
11,280,075
956,874
15,196,451
2,046,679
20,136,967
18,069,580.-
18,862,931
37,437,837
22. .599,9.3023:548,535
25,849.411
38,234,566
10,538,965
15,559,170
12,236,949
17,243,130
38,206,547
56,300,768
46,148,465
65,083,977
.....•••.
Printin" presses and types . •••
••••....
Musical instruments
Books and maps . . . . . . . . . . . .
Paper and stationery
Paints and varnish
Manufactures of gla'^s
.......
Manufactures of tin
Manufactures of pewter and lead
,,,,,.......,,.,,....
Manufactures of marble and stone
Manufactures of cold and silver, and gold leaf
Quicksilver
T
Artificial flowers and jewelry
,...-.
T r u n k s and valises .
Bricks and lime
Oil-cake .
.
.
Articles not enumerated.
2,295
3,395
615
2,150
Billiard tables and a p p a r a t u s . . . . . . . . > . . . . . . . . . . . . . e.«a * . . . . . . . . .
Umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades . . .
. . . . . . . . : . ...
.
8!.5.57"
5; 099
8,671
.
66,* .397"
27,148
32,625
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Articles.
Wax.....:*...
Refinecl sugar
Chocolate
Spirits from grain
Spirits from molasses
Spirits from otlier materials
Molasses
-.
Vinegar
Beer, ale, porter, and cider
Linseed oil and spirits of turpentine . . . . .
L a r d oil
Household furniture
Coaches and other carriages
Hats
Saddlery
Tallow candles and soap, and other candles.
Snuff and tobacco
,
L e a t h e r , boots, and shoes
Cordage
;
Gunpowder
Salt.
Lead
,
IronPig, bar, and nails
,
Castings
,
All manufactures of
,,
Copper and brass, manufactures of
,
Medicinal drugs
,
Cotton piece g o o d s Printed or colored
Uncolored
T w i s t , yarn, and thread
..,..,
Other manufactures of
H e m p and flax—
Cloth and thread
*•
Bags and all manufactures of
Wearing apparel
,
Earthen and stone ware
,
Combs and buttons
Brushes and brooms
,.°. . . . ^ . .
Billiard tables and apparatus
;....
Umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades
Manufactures of India-rubber
for Leather
FRASER
and morocco, (not sold per oound) ,
Digitized
1855."
1856.
1857.
$69,
526,
2,
384,
1,448,
101,
189,
17,
45,
1,186,
82,
803,
. 290;
-177,
- 64,
1,111,
1,.500,
1,052.
315;
356,
158,
14,
$74,005
360,444
1,476
500,945
1,329,151
95,484
154,630
26,034
45,086
896,238
161,232
982,042
.370,259
.226,682
31,249
1,200,764
1,829,207
1,313,311
367,182
644,974
311,495
27,512
$91,983
368,206
1,932
1,248,234
1,216,635
120,011
108,003
30,788
43,732
795,490
92.499
879,448
476,394
254,208
45,222
1,242,604
1,458,553
1,311,709
286,163
398,244
190,699
58,624
$85,926
200,724
2.304
476,722
1,267,691
249,432
115,893
24,336
59,5.32
1,137, .507
60,958
932,499
777,921
126.525
55,280
934,303
2,410.224
1,269,494
212,840
365,173
162,650
48,119
288.
306:
3,158:
690;
286.980
288,316
3,585,712
534,846
1,066,294
397.313
289:967
4,197,687
607,054
886,909
2,613.
2,907,
1.966,845
4,616,264
384,200
336,250
2,
34,
233,
32,
32,
.10,
4,
1,409,
36,
802
25,2.33
278.832
66:696
32.653
8; 385
2,778
5,989
1,093,.538
5,765
1859.
1858,
1860.
1861.
to
1862.
$94,850
377,944
. 2,444
273, .576
760.889
188,746
75,699
35,156
^8,226
1,340,229
50,793
1,067,197
655.000
216,'704
58,870
1,137,965
3,402,491
1,319,893
320.4.35
371;603
212,710
28,575
$131,803
301,674
2,593
311,.595
930,644
219,199
35,292
41,368
53,573
1,943,088
. 55,7S3
1,079,114
816.973
211;602
71,332
1.20.3,104
3,353,428
1,455:834
246,572
467,772
129,717
50,446
$94,495
287,881
2,1.57
867,954
850,.546
593.185
39;133
38,262
39,480
1,220,769
8r,783
8.38,049
472,080
156,9.55
61,469
1,138,696
2,760,531
1.33.5,078
'2.55,274
347,103
144,046
6,211
$47,383
147,397
4,288
328,414
715,702
1,577,861
21,914
29,701
54,696
75,659
148,026
939,168
517,175
132,727
67,759
1,472,898
1,075,994
1,110,243
199,669
101,803
228,109
7,334
205.931
464.415
4,059.523
1,98.5,223
'681,278
257,662
" 128,659
5,117,346
1,048,246
796,008
246.154
282;848
5,174,040
1,664,122
1,115,455
311,321
76,750
5. .535, .576
2; 37.5,029
1,149,433
259,852
54,671
4,212,448
1,088,021
1,490,376
1,785,685
.3,715,3.39
2,069,194
1,782,025
2.320,890
1,518,236
3,3.55,449
1,785,595
2.215,032
1;377,627
587,500
508,004
614,153
1,800,285
4,477,096
5,792,752
4,364,379
1,.326
87,.766
210,695
36,783
46,-349
49,153
8,791
6,339
313,379
13,099
1,349
17, .529
470.613
47,261
48.007
44,638
12.094
4; 8.37
198,827
41,465
1,243
26,571
525,175
65;086
23, .345
61,377
15.979
.4;862
240,841
19,011
80
39.490
462: .5.54
40, .524
.12,792
62,360
8,910
1,271
193,691
7,507
1,056
33,687
333,442
34.256
39.799
•7;324
• 733
6,846
643,512
2,119
.
1,393
30, .547
472.924
31; 1.58
14,221
99,166
19,884
553
143.8.56
13;049
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Fire-engines and apparatus
Printing presses and types.
Musical instruments
Books and maps
Paper and stationery
Paints and varnish
Manufactures of glass
Manufactures of tin
Manufactures of pewter and lead
Manufactures of marble and stone
Manufactures of^^gold and silver, and gold leaf.,
duicksilver
Artificial flowers and jewelry
T r u n k s and valises . . ,
,
Bricks and l i m e , . . . . , .
,
Oil cake
Articles not enumerated
,
14,829
36,405
106,8.57
207,218
185,6.37
163,093
204,679
14,279
5,233
168,546
9,051
806,119
22,043
35,203
57.393
29,088
67,517
133,517
202,.502
203.013
217,17.9
216,439
. 13;610
5,628
162,376
6,116
831,724
26,386
32.457
64;297
4,014,432
3, .559,613
Total
Gold and silver coin and bullion .
28,833,299
53,957,418
82,790,717
TREASURY
DEPARTMENT,
Register's Office, December 26,1862.
21,.524
52,747
127,748
277,647
224,787
223:320
179;900
5,622
4;818
111,403
15,477
665,480
28,070
37,748
68,002
3,213
68,868
155,101
3^9.080
299,8.57
185,068
252,316
39.289
28,782
112,214
35,947
3,292,722
7,220
106,498
97,775
209,774
229,991
13U217
214;60S
24,186
27,327
138,590
25,386
129,184
28,901
59,441
103,821
1,435,861
2,601,788
58,570
42,1.53
160.6U
1,198;581
2,274,652
30.970,992
44; 148,279
29,653,267
60,078,352
.30,372,180
42,407,246
33,853.650
57,502,305
75,119,271
.89,731,619
72,779,426
91,3.55,965
'
7,940
106,.562
150,974
2.50,.365
347.915
240;923
394,731
30,229
30,534
185,267
53,372
631,450
50,199
40,622
93.292
1,385,691
2,530.689
. 34,930
168.647
147.828
214.231
398,546
259,064
522,606
62,286
31,366
190,067
63,078
1,237,643
67,880
50,771
83.385
875,841
2.880,347
39,803,080
56,946,851
36,418,254
23,799,870
27,171,017
31,044,651
96,749,931
60,218,124
58,215,658
9,948
157,124
129,6,53
278,268
285,798
223,809
277,948
39,064
46,081
176,239^
140,187
258,682
24,866
50,184
154,045
1.609,328
2,397,445
L. E. CHITTENDEN,
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No. 25.
S t a t e m e n t e x h i b i t i n g the v a l u e o f f o r e i g n m e r c h a n d i s e imported, re-exported,
a n d consumed, a r m u a l l y , f r o m 1821 to 1862, inclusive; a n d also the estimated
p o p u l a t i o n a n d r a t e o f consumption p e r c a p i t a d u r i n g the same p e r i o d .
Yalue of foreign merchandise.
Popjikition.
Years ending—
Imported.
$62,585,724
83,241,541
77,579,267
80,549,007
96,340,075
84,974,477
79,484,068
• 88,509,824
74,492,527
. 70,876,920
103,191,124
101,029,266
108,118,311
126,521,332
149,895,742
189,980,035
140,989,217
113,71^,404
162,092,132
107,141,519
127,946,177
100,162,087
September 30,1821
1822
1823
1824:
1825
1826
1827
1828
1829
1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
184:0
1841
1842
9 months to June
30, 1843
Year to June 30,
1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
]857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
Total-
Re-exported.
$21,302,488
22,286,202
27,543,622
25,337,157
32,590,643
24,639,612
23,403,136
21,595,017
16,658,478
14,387,479
20,033,526
24,039,473
19,822,735
23,312,811
20,504,495
21,746,360
21,854,962
12,452,795
17,494,525
18,190,312
15,469,081
11,721,538
64,753,799
6,552,697
108,435,035
117,254,564
121,691,797
146,545,638
154,998,928
147,857,439
178,138,318
216,224,932
212,945,442
267,978,647
304,562,381
2.61,468,520
314,639,942
360,890,141
282,613,150
338,768,130
362,163,941
335,650,153
205,819,823
11,484,867
15,346,830
11,346,623
8,011,158
21,128,010
13,088,865
14,951,808
21,698,293
17,289,382
17,558,460
24,850,194
28,448,293
16,378,578
23,975,617
30,886,142
20,895,077
26,933,0'22
20,645,425
16,869,641
6,832,818,496
824,755,788
Consumed and
on hand.
$41,283,236
60,955,339
50,035,645
55,211,850
63,749,432
60,434,865
56,080,932
66,914,807
57,834,049
56,489,441
83,157,698
76,989,793
88, 295., 576
103,208,521
129,391,247
168,233,675
119,134,255
101,264,609
144,597,607
88,951,207
112,477,096
88,440,549
9,960,974
10,283,757
10,606,540
10,929,323
11,252,106
11,574,889
11,897,672
12,220,455
12,243,238
12,866,020
13,286.364
13,706,707
J4, 127,050
14,547,393
14,967,736
15,388,079
15,808,422
16,228,765
16,649,108
17,069,453
17,612,507
18,155,561
58,201,102
18,698,615
96,950,168
101,907,734
110,345, 174
138,534,480
133,870,918
134,768,574
163,186,510
194,526,639
195,656,060
250,420,187
279,712,187
233,020,227
298,261,364
336,914,524
251,727,008
317,873,053
335,230,919
315,004,728
188,950,182
19,241,670
19,784,725
20,327,780
20,780,835
21,413,890
21,956,945
23,191,876
23,887,632
24,604,261
25,342,388
26,102,659
26,885,738
27,692,310
28,523,079
29,378,771
30,260,134
31,429,891
32,373,388
33,344,589
6,008,193,067
L. E. CHIITENDEN, Regist^.
TEEASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Offce, Decemher 26, 1862.
No. 26.
Statement exhibiting the total value of imports, and im^ports consumed in the United. States, exclusive of specie, K/ur-v^zg each fiscal year
from 1821 to 1862, inchisive; shoioing also the vahie of foreign and domestic exports, exclusive of specie; the aggregate exports,
includi^ig specie, and the tonnage employed during the same period.
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Years.
1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827
1828
1829
1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
9 months to June 3 0 . . .. . . - 1 8 4 3
Y e a r ending J u n e 3 0 . _ 0 0 0 . 1 8 4 4
1845
1846
Total imports, in- I m p o r t s entered for
consumption, excluding specie.
clusive of specie.
^
$62,585,724
83,241,541.
77,57 9,267
80,549,007
96,340,075
84,974,477
79,484,068
88,509,824
74,492,527
70,876,920
103,191,124
101,029,266
108,118,311
126,521,332
149,895,742
189,980,035
140,989,217
113,717,404
162,092,132
107,141,519
127,946,177
100,162,087
64,753,799
108,435,035'
117,254,564
121,691,797
$43,696,405
68,367,425
51,308,936
63,846,567
66,375,722
57,652,577
54,901,108
66.975,475
54,741,571
49,575,009
82,808,110
75,327,688
83,470,067
86,973,147
122,007,974
158,811,392
113,310,571
86,552,598
145,870,816
86,250,335
114,776,309
87,996,318
37,294,129
96,390,548
105,599,541
. 110,048,859
Domestic produce
exported, exclusiv^e of specie.
$43,671,894
49,874,079
47,155,408
50,649,500
66,944,745
52,449,855
57,878,117
49,976,632
55,087,307
58,524,878
59,218,583
61,726,529,
69,950,856
80,623,662
100,459,481
106,570,942
94,280,895
95,560,880
101,625,533
111,660,561
103,636,236
91,798,242
77,686,354
99,531,774
98,455,330
101,718,042 1
Foreign m e r c h a n dise exported, exclusive df specie.
$10,824,519
11,476,022
21,170,635
18,322,605
23,802,984
20,440.934
16,431,830
14,044,578
12,347,544
13,145,857
13,077,069
19,794,074
17,577,876
21,636,553
14,756,321
17,767,762
17,162,232
9,417,690
10,626,140
12,088,371
8,181,235
8,078,753
6,139,335
6,214,058
7,584,781
7,865,206 1
Total exports, including specie.
$64,974,382
72,160,281
74,699,030
75,986,657
99,635,388
77,595,322
82,324,827
72,264,686
72,358,871
73,849,508
81,310,583
87,176,943
90,140,433
104,336,973
121,693,577
128,663,040
117,419,376
108,486,616
121,028,416
132,085,946
121,851,803
104,690,534
84,346,480
111,200,046
114,646,606 I
113,488,516 1
Tonnage.
1,298,958
1,324,799
1,336,566
•1,389,163
1,423,112
1,534,191
1,620,608
1,741,392
1,260,798
1,191,776
1,267,847
Ij439,460
1,606,151
1,758,907
1,824,940
1,882,103
1,896,686
1,994,640
2,096,380
2,180,764
2,130,744
2,092,391
2,158,603
2,280,095
2,417,002
2,562,085
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Year ending June 3 0 . - . .--.1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
. Total
Total imports, in- Imports entered for
consumption, excluding specie.
clusive of specie.
$146,545,638
154,998,928
147,857,439
178,138,318
216,224,932
212,945,442
267,978,647
304,562,381
261,468,520314,639,942
360,890,141
282,613,150
338,768,130
362,163.941
335,650,153
205,819,823
6,832,818,496
$116,257,595
140,651,902
132,565,168
164,032,033
200,476;219
195,072.695
251,071,368
275,955,893
231,650,340
295,660,938
333,611,295
242,678,413
317,888.456
336,280,172
274,656,325
,
178,377,435
5,847,705,428
Domestic produce
exported, exclusive of specie.
$150,574,844
130,203,709
131,710,081
134,900,233
178,620,138
154,931,147
189,869,162
215,156,304
192,751,135
266.438,051
278,906,713
251,361,033
278,392,080
316,242,423
204,899,616
181,875,988
5,243,638,972
Foreign inerchan- Total exports, indise exported, excluding specie.
clusive of specie.
$6,166,754
7,986,806
8,641,091
9,475,493
• 10,295,121
12,053,084
13,620,120
21,648.304
26,158,368
14,781,372
14,917,047
20,660,241
14,509,971
17,333,6:^4
14,654,217
•' 11,027,336
682,823,723
$168,648,622
154,032,131
145,.755,820
151,898,720
218,388,011
209,658,366
230,976,157
278,241,064
275,156,846
326,964,908
362,960,682
324,644,421
356,789,462
400,122,296
249,344,913
229,790,280
Tonnage.
2,839,046
3,154,042
3,334,015
3,535,464
- 3,772,439
4,138,441
4,407,010
4,802,903
6,212,001
4,871,652
4,940,843
6,049,808
6,145,037
6,353,868
5,112,165
6,581,687,539
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Offce, Decemher 26, 1862.
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Statement exhibiting a summary view of the exports of domestic produce, ^ c , of the United States during the years endhig on June
30, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1862.
Product of—
Years e n d i n g -
Specie and bullion. '
Raw produce.
•
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J u n e 30 1847
1848....
3849
1850
1851
1852
1853
;
1854
1855
18.56
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861,
1862.....
,.,..
T h e forest.
$3,468,033
1,980,963
2;547,654
2,824,818
3,294,691
2,282.342
3,279,413
3,064,069
3.516.894
3;356,797
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3,704,.523
3,5.50:295 .
4,462,974
4,156,480
4,451,615
3,913,477
$5,996,073
7,059.084
5,917,994
7,442,503
7,847,022
7,864,220
7:915,259
11,761,185
12,603,837
10.694.184
14,699:711
13,475; 671
14,489,406
13,738,559
10.260,809
9,934,211
53,854,938
161,699,728
Agriculture.
Tobacco.
$68,450,383
37,781,446
38,8.58,204
26,.547. 1.58
24,.369;210
26,378,872
33,463,573
67,104,592
42, .567,476
77,686,455
75,722,096
53,235,980
40,400.757
48,451; 894
101,6.55,8.33
124,561,114
$7,242,086
7, .551,122
5.804,207
9.951,023
9,219,251
10.031,28i
11,319,319
10-016,046
14,712,468
12.221,843
20.260,772
17,009,767
21,074,038
15,906,547
13,784,710
12,325,356
887,235,043
198,429,838
Cotton.
$53,415,848
61,998,294
66:396.967
71;984,616
112,31.5,317
87.965,732
109,456,404
93.596,220
88,143; 844 •
128,382,351
131,575,859
13i;386,66l
161,434,923
191,806,555
34,051,483
1,180,113
Total value.
Manufactures..
$10,476,345
12,858,7.58
11,280,075
15,196.451
20,136,967.
18,862.931
22,599,930
26.849,411
28,833,299
30.970,992
29; 653.267
30,372,180
33.8.53,650
39,803,080
35,418,254
27,171,017
$1,525,076
974,042
904.980
953.664
1,437;680
1,545,767
,1,735,264
2,764.781
2,373,317
3,125,429
3,290,485
^ 2,320,479
2,676,322
2,279,308
3.543.695
2,790,700
395,336,617
34,441,989
-
$62,620
2,700:412
955,874
2,046,679
18,069,580
37,437,837
23:548,535
38,234.566
53,957;418
44,148.279
60,078; .3.55
42,407,246
57, .502,305
56.946,851
23;799,870
31,044,651
$150,637,464
132,904,121
133,666,955
136,946,912
196,689?718
192;308,984
213.417,'697
2,53; 390,870
246,708,553
310,586,330
•338.985,065
293,758,279
335,894,385
373;189,274
227,966,169
212,920,639
492,942,075
3 749 031.415
Total
1,525,091,187
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VALUE OF EXPORTS, EXCLUSIVE OF SPECIE.
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Foreign meicLandise.
Year ending—
Domestic produce.
Free of duty.
Paying duty.
Total.
•$286,788
374,716
1,323,762
1,100,530
• 1,098,181
1,036,430
813,844
877,239
919,943
1,078,695
642,686
1,345,217
5,165,907
10,757,033
7,012,666
8,534,895
7,756,189
4,951,306
6,618,442
6,202,562
3,953,054
3,194,299
1,682,763
2,251,550
$10,637,731
11,101,306
19,846,873
17,222,075
22,704,803
19,404,504
15,617,986
13,167,339
11,427,401
12,067,162
12,4.34,483
18,448,857
12,411,969
10,879,620
7,743,655
9,232,867
9,406,043
4,466,384
5,007,698
6,805,809
4,228.181
4,884,454
3,456,572
3,962,508
$10,824,519
11,476,022
21,170,635
18,322,-605
23,802,984
20,440,934
16,431,830
14,044,678
12,347,344
13,145,857
13,077,069
19,794,074
17,577,876
21,636,553
14,756,321
17,767,762
17,162,232
9,417,690
10,626,140
12,008,371
8,181,235
8,078,753
5,139,335
6,214,058
Aggrep:ate value.of
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1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
• 1827
1828
1829
1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
18351836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
9 months to June 30, 1843
1844
Digitized for June30._
FRASER
,
$43,671,894
49,874,079
47,155,408
60,649,500
66.944,745
52,449,855
57,878,117
49, 976, 632'
66,087,307
58,524,878
59,218,683
61,726,629
69,950,856
80,623,662
100,459,481
106,670,942
94,280,895
95,560,880
101,625,633
111,660.661
103,636,236
91,798,242
77,686,354
99,531,774
$54,496,413
61,350,101
68,326,043
68,972,105
90,747,729
72,890.789
74,309,947
64,021,210
67,4.34,651
71,670,735
72,296,652
81,620,603
87,628,732
102,260,215
115,215,802
124,338,704
111,443,127
104,978,670
112,251,673
123,668,932
111,817,471
99,876,995
82,825,689
105,745,832
$10,477,969
10,810,180
6,372,987
7,014,552
8,787,669
4,704,633
8,014,880
8,243,476
4,924,020
2,178,773
9,014,931
5,656,340
2,611,701
2,076,758
6,477,775
4,324,336
5,976,249
3,508,046
8,776,743
8,417,014
10,034,332
4,813,539
1,520,791
5,454,214
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1846
1847
1848..
1849
1850......
1851
1852
1853
1854
.1855
1856......
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861......
1862
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2,413,050
2,342,629
1,812,847
1,410,307
2,015,815
2,099,132
1,742,154
2,538,159
2,449,539
3,210,907
6,516,550
3,144,604
.4,325,400
6,751,850
5,429,921
5,350,441
3,709,329
2,879,565
137,120,796
6,171,731
5,522,577
4, 363, 9^07
6,576.499
6,625,276
7,376,361
8,652,967
9,514,925
11,170,571
18,437,397
19,641,818 .
11,636,768
10,591,647
.14,908,391
9,080,050
11,983,193
CJ 10,944,888
8,147,771
445,702,927
^ 7,584,781
7,865.206
6,166,754
7,986,806
8,641,091
9,475,493
10,295,121
12,053,084
13,620,120
21,648,304
26,158,368
14,781,372
14,917,047
20,660,241
14,609,971
17,333,634
14,654,217
11,027,336
98,455,330
101,718,042
150,574,844
130,203,709
131,610,081
134,900,233
178,620,138
154,931,147
189,869,162
215,166,304
192,751,135
266,438,051
278,906,713
251,351,033
278,392,080
316,242,423
204,899,616
181,875,988
106,040,111
109,583,248
156,741,598
138,190,515
140,351,172
144,375,726
188,915,259
166,984,231
203,489,282
236,804,608
218,909,503
281,219,423
293,823,760
272,011,274
292,902,051
333,576,057
219,553,833
192,903,324
582,823,723
6,243,538,972
5,826,362,695
8,606,495
3,905,268
1,907,024
15,841,616
6,404,648
7,522,994
29,472,252
42,674,136
27,486,876
41,436,456
66,247,343
45, 745, 486
69,136,922
62,633,147
63,887,411
66,646,239
29,791,080
36,886,966
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No. 29.
Statement exhibiting the value of imports, annually, from 1821 to 1862.
Yalue of merchandise imported.
Year endiijg
Specie and
bullion.
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Free of duty.
Paying duty.
Total.
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September 3 0 . . - . . .1821
1822
; 1823
1824
1825
1826
•'
1827
1828
1829
1830
1831
1832
1833
X834
1835
1836
1837
1838,
1839
1840
1841
1842
9month8to June 30,1843
Year to June 3 0 . . .1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
.1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
18.62
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$8,064,890 . $2,017,423
$52,503,411
3,369,846
3,928,862
76,942,833
5,097,896
3,950,392
68,530,979
8,379,835
4,183,938
67,985,234
6,150,765
4,796.745
85,392,565
6,880,966
6,686,803
72,406,708
8,151,130
3,703,974
67,628,964
7,489,741
4,889,435
76,130,648
7,403,612
4,401,889
62,687,026
8,155,964
4,590,281
58,130,675 :
7,305,945
6,150.680
89.734,4996,907,504
8,341,949 . 86,779,813
7,070,368
•^25,377,582
75,670,361
17,911,632
50,481,648
58,128,152
13,131,447
64,809,046
71,955,249
13,400,881
78,655,600
97,923,554
10,516,414
58,733,617
71,739,186
17,747,116
43,112,889
52,857,399
6,695,176
70,806,616
85,690,340
8,882,813
48,313,391
49,945,315
4,988,633
61,031,098
61,926,446
4,087,016
26,540,470
69,534', 601 .
22,^390,659
13,184,025
29,179,215
6,830;429
18,936,452
83, 668', 154
4,070,242
18,077,598
95,106,724
3,777,732.
20,990,007
96,924,068
24,121,289
17,651,347
104,773,002
6,360,224
16,356,^379 .132,282,325
6,651,240
15,726,425 ^ 125,479,774
4,628,792
18,081,590
155,427,936
6,453,592
19,652,995
191,118,345
5,605,044
24,187,890
183;252,508
4,201,382
27,182,152
236,595,113
6,958,184
26,327,637
371,276,560
3,659,812
36,430,624
221,378,184
4,207,63262,748,074
257, 684, 236
12,461,799
64,267,507
294,160,835
19,274,496
61,044,779
202,293,875.
7,434,789
72,286,327
259,047,014
8,650,135
'73,741,479
279,874,^640
46,339,611
71,130,351
218,180,191
16,415,052
62,721,648
136,683,123
403,981,625 1,295,229,414 5,133^609,770
$62,686,724
83,241,541
77,579,267
80,649,007
96,340,075
84,974,477
79,484,068
88,509,824
74,492,527
70,876,920
103,191,124
101,029,266
108,118,311
126,621,332
149,895,742
189,980,035
140,989,217
113^717,404
162,092,132
107,141,519
127,946,177
100,162,087
64,753,79.9
108,435,035
117,254,564
121,691,797
146,545,638
154,998,928
147,857,439
178,138,318
216,224,932
212,945.442
267,978,647
304,662,381
261,468,520
314,639,942
.360,890,141
282,613,150
338,768,130
362,166,254
335,660,153
205,819,823
6,832,820
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Statement exhibiting the aggregate value qf breadstuffs and provisions exported,
annually, from 1821 to 1862,^
Year ending-
Amount.
September 30
......1821
1822
•...
1823
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1824......
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1825
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1826............
1827
^.-...
1828
1829
1830
1831
1832
1833-..---.-.-..i...-.
1834..-^-..^
1836
„....
1836
1837
1838
«.
1839
" 1840
-.1841
1842
.
Nine months ending June 30
1843.-.
Year ending June 30
...,,1844.
--.,;1845.
1846
1847..J...
1848..-.1849..
1850
--..-.
1861
1852
---.
18531854....1855
1856
1857
1858....
.--..-.^.
1859
1860.
1861.
'^1862
-.
Total..
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's
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$12, 341, 90l
13, 886, 856
13, 767, 847
15, 059, 484
11, 634, 449
11, 303, 496
11, 685, 556
11, 461, 144
13, 131, 858
12, 075, 430
17, 538, 227
12, 424, 703
14:,209, 128
11, 524, 024
12, 009, 399
10, 614, 130
9, 688, 359
9, 636, 650
14, 147, 779
19, 067, 635
17, 196, 102
16, 902 876
11, 204, 123
17, 970, 135
16, 743, 421
27, 701, 921
68, 701, 121
37, 472, 751
38, 156, 507
26, 051, 373
21, 948, 651
25,.857, 027
32, 985, 322
e>5, 941, 323
38, 895.,348
77, 187, 301
74, 667, 852
60, 683, 285
38, 305, 991
45, 271, 850
94, 866, 735
119, 338, 786
1,221,156,755
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551
46 25
469 50
581 60
23 70
134 00
11,029 69
4,057 34
973 70
3 00
690 21
132 80
70 20
8 93
901 89
250 22
2 50-
72 15
42 75
y
7 50
1 16
117 56
262 00
96 02
14 00
32 65
5 04
159 24
171 55
350
2 00
3 50
3 00
Private
Hosoital...
do
1,059
^ 39
2,0^3
3,123
91
12
68
144
1,077
1,305
ti
o
MAINE.
$619.00
229 50
146 35
i
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V
Hospital money collected.
Statement of the expenditures and receipts of the Marine Hospital Fund f o r the relief of sick and disabled seamen in the ports of
the United States f o r the fiscal year ending June 30, 1862.
24 50
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Portsmouth J B IJnham
Hosnital
.
.
VERMONT.
Burlington, William C. Clapp
MASSACHUSETTS.
Newburyport, Enoch G. Currier
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Gloucester, Gorham Babson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
5 00
Private
,
4
1 57
....
>
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Gloucester, John S .* Webber
Salem and Beverly, no returns
Marblehead, no returns
,
Boston and Charlestown, J. Z. Goodrich
Plymouth, no returns
Fall River, Charles Almy
,
Barnstable, J M. Day
Barnstable, Charles F . Swift
N e w Bedford, Lawrence Grinnell
Edgartown, John Vinson
Nantucket, no r e t u r n s . . . i
,
.do.
- 422 67
15 00
3 00
-
Hospital.
33
187
15
29
1 Private
•
33 Hospital
191
do
15 . . . . d o .
28 Hospital and private.
20,942 73
46 00
710 00
3,416 50
392 20
770 00
3 50
3 50
1,044
2,309 ,50
9
210
949
84
50
5 54
50
213 15
30 1,024 95
45
56 90
26,388 45
3,577 25
2,088 66
3 50 & 3 75 1,991 79
78 00
3 50
87 50
3 50
3 50
386 00
371 50
15 00
12 50
80 25
557 20
2,543 29
479 25
689 50
15
50
00
50
122 35
52 25
2 02
46 95
3175
37 20
1,359 15
206 35
86 17
10 00
-140 00
2,628 05
4,393 28
5 00
10 00
29 24,248 53
240 08
749 22
11
54
3
7
61
34
03
73
80
61 65
1,144 99
12 00
12 00
12 00
.5,4.56 78
376 69
789 80
32,264 18
554
24
11,515
• 63
616
219
935
4.56
595
301
77'
84
73
38
12
84
52
05
91
82
15,878 20
BHODE ISLAND.
Providence, Charles Anthony
Bristol and Warren, W. H. S. Bayley . .
Bristol & Warren, W . R. Taylor
Newport, Seth W . Macy
Hospital.
Prrivate.
Hospital.
Private..
3 50
29 37
1 01
- 1 07
5 00
10 00
36 45
9. 00
7 50
115 80
12 00
12 00
37
01
57
55
644 22
65 37
3,782 50
1,078 29
2,965
103
108
605
O
CONNECTICaT.
Middletown, Origen Utley
New London, Edward Prentis..
N e w Haven, J a m e s P. Babcock.
Fairfield, S - C . Booihe
.^.
Stonington, h o returns
Hospital and private. '.Hospital
,
...do
Private
,
308
142
773
135
3 00
3 50
3 & 3 50
4
2
7
2
44
53
82
10
16 89
12
12
6
6
00
00
00
00
36 00
448
256
791
212
715
630
681
490
157
96
13
32
55
30
92
lO
09
37
O
W
1,708 96
NEW YORK.
Sackett's Harbor, C. W. Inglehart .
Genesee, P. M Crandall
Oswego, John B. Higgins
Oswego, C. A. Perkins.
Niagara, no rei urns
Buffalo Creek, Christian Metz, j r . .
Osw. gatchie, David M. C h a p i n . . . .
Sag Harbor, John Sherry
N e w York City, Hiram Barney. . .
Champlain, George W. Goff
Cape Vincent, no returns.-.
Dunkirk, George M. Abell
Hospital.
...do . . .
...do . . .
309
294
3
I
2
2
2,346 2,194
12
14
*i*
Hospital...
Private i , .
...do . ....
Hospitals..
Private....
5 00
4 50
2
2
3
4 00 &
3
15 15
"• 151 50
2.053 88
4^449 32
35
63
489
871
28
2,994
•
37
53
99
55 '
03
80
"39 00
'"ih'io
**"56
3,533 19
141 91
47 55
430 39
53 02
57,503 04 45,480 40
555 20
316 78
362 03
238 43
*56'26'
66.095 60
1,361 95
680 99
68,179 69
59 50
144 00
5 00
70 00
34 98
47
52
569 34 574 00
12 do
3 15
50 3,480 21
10 00
50
35 28
50
12 00
40 00
4 5055,109 70 1,250 00
220 08
00
58 25
Private. .*.
2,711 2,606
15
1 50
26 28
44 04
O
02
51,691 63
NEW J E R S E Y ,
Bridgetown, William S. B o w e n . . . . .
Burlington, no returns
•
P e n h Amboy, J. L a w r e n c e Boggs'..
Great Egg Harbor, J. S. A d a m s . . . . ,
547 61
20
Hospital.
Private .
3 00 & 3 50
3 00
1 00
10 00
67
2 30
67 67
232 30
1,137
134
980
680
64
60
65,
53
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Si
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Districts and agents.
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6
33
34.
170'
10
72
228
10
77
252
315
1
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1
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NEW JERSEY—Continued.
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v
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Little Egg Harbor, no returns
N e w a r k , no returns
Camden, S. Birdsell
3
$ 3 50
Private
$216 25
$60 85
$31 55
815 66
270 15
42 55
s
o
o
•
1
1
g
g
•S
s
6.
3
$ 3 09
o
Hospital money col. , lected.
No. 31.—Statement of the expenditures and receipts of the Marine Hospital Fund,' S^.—Continued.
$311 74
$327 70
294 79
520 21
$1 50
11 40
3
1,159 32
4,076 12
44 75 $165 10
50
13 00 *36'66'
92 10 135 00 21
2 13
53 17 "95"66' li
9,302 95
214 75
5,371 47
5,209 64
247 09
1,733 35
32 14,889 17
. 7,190 08
$18 00
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, William B . T h o m a s
Presque Isle, Tliomas Wilkins
Pittsburg, Charles VV. Batchelor
No returns
3 5 0 & 5 25 8.866 00
Hospitals
2 50
' 124 82 " " 6 2 * 7 5 "*"24*55
Ho pitaland p r i v a t e . . . .
3,931 98 1,000 00
196 23
12,922 80
1,062 75
58 25
220 78
201 10
147 40
230 00
^
.
966 62
pi
O
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i25
a
IdARYLAND.
Baltimore, H. W . Hoffman.
Annapolis, no returns
O.vford, no returns
,
V i e n n a , no returns
,
Havre de Grace, no returns
T o w n Creek, no r e t u r n s . . . ,
201
176
3 00
Hospital
3,112 97
31 39
40 00
8
3,173 26
4,480
263
354
979
110
51
•
-.
Georgetown, Judson Mitchell
VIRGINIA.
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Wheeling, Thos. Hornbrook
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
o
;..
".
3,112 97
201
176
9
9
Hosnital
3
3
2
3
Private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hospital
'. . . . . . .
3 00
4 50
3 50
242 20
29 15
79 65
A*
18 00
40 75
4 88
•
• • • • • . > .
..... • « . .
20
69
20
93
.34
98
31 39
40 00
8
3,173 26
6,240 34
2 62
18 00
3
262 81
531 40
....
58 61
121 96
371 57
,901 33
58
1 21
Ul
Cherrystone, E d w ' d S- Bailey, n o r e t u r n s .
No other ports ha:ve made returns.
'
....
6
108 80
5
58 75
1 79
4 88
180 57
1,^7'10
NORTH CAROLINA.
2 48
SOUTH CAROLINA.
• 61 30
GEORGIA.
Brunswick, (no others,) Woodford Mabry
ro
10
212
188
212
183
Hospital
..
3 50 •
47 00
°14 10
....
84
85 44
-
FLORIDA.
Key W e s t , Charles Howe
23 50
240 51
3,706 04
40 11
48 09.
5
4,0^6 78
730 49
40 11
48 00
5
4,026 78
730 49
^^
. 240 51
3,706 04
ALABAMA.
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O
125 .
• . -
H
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MISSISSIPPI.
«
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LOUISIANA.
O
Pi
H
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i25
TEXAS.
. <^
OHIO.
Miami Andrew Stenhan
Cuyahoga, Chas. J. Ballard
Cincinnati Enoch T Carson
Detroit, N. G. I s b e l l . .
Michilimackinac J. W . McMath
o
W
32 Sisters of Charity
32
7
6 . . . do
do
6
6 '
71
. 78
384 . . .do
254
377
499*
141
12
222 H o s p i t a l . . . . . . . . '
12 . . . . do . . . . . . . . ;
153
234
4 50
4 50
3 00
3 00
^
882
1,268
31
6,715
12,373
64
78
90
16
97
0
17 01
1,250 00
* " 2 8.5
582 30
78 99
21,272 45
1,267 01
585 15
78 99
.4,174 02
41 88
1,500 00
22 00
464 43 104 00
9 00.
7 00
4,215 90
1,522 00
473 43
111 00
Ul
8 81
891 45 .
12 80 "12*06' • 2 ' 1,293 58
52 30
51
"5'
86 48 " 2 4 ' 0 6 16 8,736 93
12,594 66
96 00
124 69
201
554
2,092
1,689
233 29
132 00
23 23,568 92
4,537 77
63 24
79
84 00
15
6,389 69
80 67
2,622 38
242 34
" 64 03 . 84 00
15
6,470 36
2,864 72
35
22
22
98
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No. 31.—Statement of the expenditures and receipts of the Marine Hospital Fund, (^.—Continued.
to
00
Districts and agents.
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3
ILLINOfS.
Chicacro Julius White
....
Alton, no returns
Galena Daniel W a n n
174
171
8
8
182
179
72
72
$1,665 83
4,584 96
Hospital
do
'-!
Hosnital.
1,693 92
$250 03
. 750 00
X
800 00
7,944 7 1 . 1,800 03 •
$181 28
514 89
$21 10
58 65
9 75
25 04
705 92
104 79
264 37
37 80
264 37
37 80
30 00
2 .$2,130 24
3 5,926 50
$601 81
2,151 86
2,522 96
532 93
5 10,579 70
3,286 60
3,817 61
174 00
72
2,876 55
Hospital..
72
2,876 55
638 89
^
638 89
.... . 3,817
61
174 00
Pi
H
O
....
1,.567 90
.787 17
Hospital
....do
905 56
34 90
15 56
17 23
QQ
1,583 46
1,740 61
•
147 80
2,355 07
905 56
34 90
32 79
$ 3 50
1,760 83
1,072 00
34 11
28 73
. 5 00
85 00
3,324 07
147 80
2,901 67
1,372 58
85 85
229 90
WISCONSIN.
96
116
1
1
Hospital . . . . . « •
6 00
1
MINNESOTA.
Hospital
,.
tz5
o
' •
IOWA.
o
-
INDIANA.
Evansville. A. L. Robinson .
N e w Albany, no returns
Burlington, Philip Harvey
Burlington, Clark Dunham
Keokuk, no returns
$12 00
18 00
85
MISSOURI.
F5t. L o u i s , R. J. Howard
KENTUCKY.
343
385
9,711 06
968 88
873 89
343
385
9,711 06
968 88
873 89
'
15 00
3 11,683 48
4,344 30
115 64
15 00
3 11,683 48
4,344 30
-
'^
Louisville, Charles B. C o l t o r i . . . . . . . . . . .
Paducah, w a r r e n Thornton
115 64
Hospital
4,159 35
3,251 72
1,125 00
1,114 79
169 42
316 22
54 77
47 12
'24 00
30 00
3
5
7,411 OT
2,239 79
485 64
101 89
54 00
8 10,292 3 9 '
-
5,532 54
4,759 85
760 64
760 64
TENNESSEE.
Pi
o
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Pugett's Sound, Morris H. Frost
4,854 00
48 54
4,902 54
56 78
37
37 77
189 88
OREGON.
Oregon, W m . L . Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cape Perpetua, n o returns
Port Orford, n o returns
I
1
6 00
20 60
12 00
'
4 80
44 30
1
1
20 60
12 00
4 80
584
548
26,260 05
3,610 04
1,686 18
37 77
234 18
66 32,338 45
10,639 65
147 27
95 52
37
CALIFORNIA.
<i7
S a n Francisco, I r a P . Rankin
<«..
Sonoma, no returns*
S a n J oaquin, n o r e t u r n s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S a c r a m e n t o , n o returns
San Diego, no returns
Monterey, no returns
,
S a n Pedro, no returns
' '
584
548
•
26,260 05
3,610 04
1,686 18
Many of the marine hospital reports are so given as to make it impossible to classify the accounts.
* No marine hospital reports.
462 00
320 17
462 00
o
Ul
2 40
24 40
48 65
,
•
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register'^s Office, December 8,1
320-17
66 32,338 45
10,957 89
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L. E. CHITTENDEN, Register.
to
250
REPORT ON THE
FINANCES.
No. 32,
•
.
"
•
.
,
•
•
\
•
;
Statement shoioing the amount o f moneys expended a t each custom-house in the
United States d u r i n g the fiscal y e a r ending J u n e 30, 1862, p e r act o f M a r c h
3, 1849.
Districts.
Passamaqnoddy, Maine
Machias, Maine (a)
.
.....
Frenchman's Bay, Maine
-.
Penobscot, Maine
.-._
Waldoborongh, Maine
_....--.
Wiscasset. . •.
Bath, Maine
Portland and Falpaouth, Maine (6)
,.,.
Saco, Maine,
__
Kennebunk, Maine
.«
York, Maine..Be] fast, Maine
Bangor, Maine
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Vermont, Vermont.._..,.
Newburyport Massachusetts
Gloucester, Massachusetts {a)
Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts
.
Marblehead, Masaschusetts
._
Boston and Charlestown, Massachiisetts (a)
Plymouth, Massachusetts
-..
^Fall River, Massachusetts
.',
Barnstable, Massachusetts - _ . - _ - .
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Edgartown, Massachusetts
-.
Nantucket, Massachusetts Providence, Rhode Island
-.-.Bristol and Warren, Rhodelsland
...
Newport, Rhode I s l a n d . . . - . _
.
Middletown, Connecticut
New London, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
Fairfield, Connecticut
Stonington, Connecticut
Sackett's Harbor, New York ......
Genesee, New York
»....
Oswego, New York
....
Niagara, New York
.
.
.
Buffalo Creek, New Youlc.
.^
Oswegatchie, New Y o r k . . . ,
Sag Harbor, New York..^
.
.
New York, New York..
Champlain, New York
.
Cape Vincent, New York
..
^..
Dunkirk, New York
Bridgetown, New Jersey
.
--...
Burlington, New Jersey
.-.
Perth Amboy, New Jersey . . . »
Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey ...
..
Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey
.-..
Newark, New Jersey.
,..
Camden, New Jersey
.....
Philadelphia, Penusylyania^-.-o
»
Present collectors.
Washiiigton Long
William B. Smith
Isaac H. Thomas.
Seth K. Devereux
Davis Tillson
Erastus Foote.
Roland FisheiJ. Jewett
^0. B. Chadbourne......
Nathaniel K. Sargent.I.
J. S Putnam
Truman Harmon
,
William P. Wingate . \ .
Joseph B. Upham
William Clapp
Enoch G. Currier.
John S. W e b b e r . . . . . . .
Willard P. Phillips . . . .
William Standley
John Z. Goodrich,.
Thomas Loring
Charles Almy
Joseph M. Day...^
Laurence Grinnell
John Vinson
Alfred Macy
Charles Anthony
William R. Taylor
Seth W. MacyOrigen Utley
.
Edward Prentis
..
James F. Babcock
Silas C. Booth
Franklin A. Palmer
Cornelius W. Tglehart..
P. M. Crandall
Charles A. Perkins
Franklin Spalding
Christian Metz, j r . . . . . .
David M. Chapin
John Sherry . . .
Hiram Barney
George W. Goff
John W. Ingalls
George M Abell
>.
J. H. Elmer . . . . .
.
W. L. Ashmore
Jc|hn L. Boggs
..
J. S. Adams
Jarvis H. J^artlett......
Peter W. Martin.'
Sylvester Birdsell
William B. Thomas
^ Amount.
$17,150 68
1,707 37
4,931 60
4,472 74
7,166 47
5,723 01
7,652 89
2,025 02
1,648 00
742 77
620 00
6,651 70
6,368 20
6,377 81
13,980 62
6,080 35
4,551 46
13,224 81
2,077 73
295,494 32
3,441 69
. 3 , 1 6 6 74
6,582 34
22,689 17
' 2,837 66
2,144 24
10,219 70
2,540 35
5,379 23
2,277 80
4,975 12
16,016 50
2,144 64
1,346 08
. 2,678 57
5,749 70
14,221 23
12,073 78
15,472 43
6,757 81
3,326 59
,488,727 18
8,791 34
6,056 21
1,124 6.0
. 382 47
152 90
3,956 81
723 71
1,720 42
1,920 99
297 14
258,437 25
REPORT O N . T H E FINANCES.
251
N o . 3 2 . — S t a t e m e n t showing the amount o f moneys expended, ^c.rrT^Continued.
Districts.
Presque Isle, Pennsylvania.
....
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Delaware, Delaware
-.
Baltimore, * Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland
..-.Oxford, Maryland
Vienna, Maryland
Town Creek, Maryland-•-.Havre de Grace, Maryland
Georgetown, District of Columbia .
Richmond, Virginia...
Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia .
Tappahannock, Virginia - . - . - - . - . .
Cherrystone, Virginia
.
Yorktown, Virginia
Petersburg, Virginia
.-.„..-.
Alexandria, Virginia
.
Wheeling, Virginia
„ .
Yeocomico, Virginia
.
Camden, North C a r o l i n a . . . - . . . - - .
Edentoa, North Carolina
Plymouth, North Carolina
'
Washington, North Carolina..
Newbern, Nortli Carolina
„
Ocracoke, North Carolina. . . . . . . .
Beaufort, North Carolina
.
Wilmington, North Carolina
.
Charleston, South Carolina..
Georgetown, South Carolina..
Beaufort, South C a r o l i n a . . . . . . . . Savannah, Georgia
-..---...-Saint Mary's, Georgia
-,Brunswick, Georgia
---Augusta, Georgia
Pensacola, Florida
...
Saint Augustine, F l o r i d a . . - . . - . . Saint Mark's, Florida
A.
Key West, F l o r i i a . . . . . . . . . .
Saint John's, Florida.
Apalachicola, Elorida
„
.
Fernandina, Florida
Bayport, Florida .
.^---.-.-Pcilatka, Florida.
Mobile, Alabama
• Tuscumbia, Alabama
.1..
Pearl River, Mississippi
Natchez, Mississippi
.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
o New Orleans, Louisiana
..
Teche, Louisiana
..-.
Shreveport, Louisiana
Texas, Texas
Brazos de Santiagp, Texas
Saluria, Texas
Paso del Norte, New Mexico .
Nashville, Tentiessee
Memphis, Tennessee
J
"
Knoxville, Tennessee
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Present collectors.
/
Amount.
I
Thomas >Vilkins
..
C. W. B a t o h e l o r , , . . . . . . . .
Thomas M. R o d n e y . . . . - Henry W. Hoffman
John E. S t a l k e r . , . . - . . . .
William H. V a l l i a n t . : . . .
D. J. W a d d e l l . . . . .
James Jones
Levi Kline- -. - -. - - - Judson Mitchell-..^.,-...-(No returns)
....do
.-..do..
^,...,,,^....
E. L. Bayly _ . - , . . . - , . - . .
^(No returns)
....
....do..,.,,.....,^,,.-,
Andrew Jamieson..
Thomas Hornbrook
..
(No returns)
....do
.-..do.
^
....do
....do
...-do
-.,.do
,.
J. D. Hedrick
(No returns) . . . .
.:.-do....>.
....do..................
T. C. S e v e r a n c e . , . . . . . * . .
(No returns)
.-..do
....do
....do....
....do
....do
....do............:
Charles Howe
(No returns) . „ . . .
....do
....do.......
.-..do...
...-do.....
....do
.....
-...do
-.
-...do
.'.
....do
...-do
.....do
.......
....do
..--do
,
....do..."
,
--..do
.,
.....do.-.,--...,
Samuel N. Wood, (no returns)'
(No returns)
.
....do
...-.-.do
,
....do
$1,962 12
5,713 12
12,.513 94
214,871 13
915 17
259 .30
1,482 51
150 84
. ^ 154 41
.4,428 02
42 85
3,962 75
2,747 73
45 29
874 45
4,956 39
252
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
No. 32.—Statement showing the amount o f moneys expended, <^.—Continued.
Districts.
Present collectors.
Louisville, Kentucky {g)
Paducah, Kentucky..
--....-.
Hickman, Kentucky
.
Columbus, K e n t u c k y . . . .
Miami, Ohio
'..
.
Sandusky, Ohio
Cuyahoga, Ohio
I.
Cincinnati, Ohio
.
Detroit, Michigan
Michilimackinac, Michigan
i
Evansville, Indiana
Madison, Indiana
New Albany, Indiana
...
Chicago, Illinois.
Alton, Illinois
Galena,. Illinois
Quincy, Illinois
Cairo, Illinois
-.
Peoria, Illinois
.
-.
Saint Louis,.Missouri
„.-.
.
Hannibal, Missouri
Burlington, Iowa
Keokuk, Iowa
,...»
Dubuque, Iowa
Milwaukie, Wisconsin
Minnesota, Minnesota
Puget's Sound, Washington Territory if)..
Oregon, Oregon
....
Cape Perpetua, O r e g o n . . . . . .
Port Orford, Oregon . . .
.
....
San Francisco, California (/)
Sonoma, California . . .
San Joaquin, California.
..
Sacramento, California ( a ) . . .
San Diego, California
Monterey, California
.....
San Pedro, California
-...-.
C. B. Cotton...
W. Thorn berry.
(No returns)
.....do
Andrew Stephan
John Youngs .
.
Charles J. Ballard
,
Enoch T. Carson
Nelson G. Isbell
John W. M c M a t h . . . . . . . .
A. L. Robinson
.
Robert P Jones
Jacob Anthony
Luther Haven
.-.-.-.
Jdhn H. Yager
.
Daniel Wann
J. J. Langden
Daniel Arter
L R. Webb, (no returns) .
R. J. H o w a r d . . . . .
...
N. 0. Archer
.
C. Dunham.John Stannus
j..
John B. Hcnioii.
Edwin P a l m e r . , . . . . . . . . .
Joseph Lemay
Victor Smith
William L. Adams
E. R. Drew
William Tichner
...
Ira P. Rankin
......
Seth M. Swain
S. W. Sperry
.
...
L H . Foote..
--..-..
Joshua Sloane
..A....
J.T.Porter.....
Oscar Macy
. . .•
Total.
Amount.
$458 12
966 31
3,916
4,042
7,630
8,734
18,280
5,621
3,645
533
1,468
12,880
597
416
518
3,474
6,074 71
1,170 00
350 00
1,358 07
705 13
6,560 42
2,143 07
529 07
6,174 43
2,218 71
2,750 00
201,534 26
3,002 30.
3,540 00
2,452 87
3,000 55
6,289-82
5,330 55
2,907,327 34
i .
L. E. CHITTENDEN,
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Office, Novemher 19, 1862..
42
38
80
91
60
78
31
00
65
30
40
45
00
69
NOTES.
(a.)
(6.)
{g.)
(6.)
(/.)
To the
To the
To the
To the
To the
31st of March, 1862.
6th of August, 1861.
30th of October, 1861.
2d of August, 1861.
30th of April, 1862.
253
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
No. 33.
"
.
Statement of the number of persons employed in each district qf the United
States, for the collection of customs, during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1862, with their occupation and compensation, per act of March 3, 1849.
09
Districts.
Occupation.
Compensation
to each person.
Passamaqiioddy, Me. . .
Collector..
Surveyor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inspectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
do
:..
,...do
Deputy collector
..................
Aid to the revenue . . . . . . , . . . . , . . . . . . . . . .
....do
Weigher, measurer, and aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Weigher and measurer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Boatman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
....do
Collector
Inspector and deputy c o l l e c t o r . . . . . . . . . . . .
.....do
„...do
i
„...do
Collector
....
...................
Deputy collector and i n s p e c t o r . . . . . . . . . . . .
-...do............do
„...do
i........do
Inspector
........••••......
Boatman
.....
....do
Measurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . o . . ^ . . . . . . . .
Aid to the revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Collector
«.
Deputy c o l l e c t o r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.:..do
-....„....„..
....do....^
....do
„
CoDector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inspectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
....do
,
....do
....do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^ ....
....do
Collector
Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a . . . . . . . . . . .
....do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . o . o . . . . . . . . .
„...do
....do . . . . . . L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Collector
Inspector, weigher, gauger, and measurer..
:...do
. ......do
............
,
Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
....do
|....do
$3,000
1,193
1,095
842
730
730
823
730
1,083
218
360
240
1,660
600
• 600
365
260
1,761
1,095
1,000
300
730
^ 360
240
91
359
1,600
750
730
600
1,000
1,800
1,095
936
300
600
730
909
1,095
912
800
730
700
1,236
1,491
1,460
1,095
650
600
Machias. M e . . . . . . . . . .
1
Frenchman's Bay, Me.
Penobscot, M e . . . . . . . .
Waldoborough, Me . . .
1
2
2
2
Wiscasset, M e . . . . . . . .
Bath, Me
00
00
00
00
00
00
W
00
00
00
00
00
40
00
00
00
00
70
00
00
00
00
00
00
46
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
42
00
50
00
00
00
47
24
06
00
00
00
254
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
N o . 33.—Statement—Continued.
S-o
«»
flD
5C P ^
Districts.
Bath, Me.—Continued
Portland and
mouth, Me.
Occupation.
P^ o
Fal-
Saco, M e . . . . . .
Kennebunk, Me
0
York, Me . . . . . .
Bangor, Me . . . .
Inspectors
^
....do
do
....'
o
Collector
Weigher, gauger, measurer, and deputy
collector.... i
Superintendent
\..
Clerk .-...
Storekeeper
Surveyor
Weighers, gangers, and measurers ."i.^.
Inspectors
..;..„.•
'
Occasional inspectors
Night watchmen
1
Aids to revenue
Boatmen
...do
Occasional weigher, &c., at $3 per day,
' when employed
Collector
Inspector
*......
...do
....,....<.......
Aid to revenue
,
Collector
Deputy collector
Inspectors
,
Collector
Inspector _
...do
Collector '.^
Deputy collectors
,
Deputy collector and gauger, &c
do
Belfast, Me.
Portsmouth, N. H
Vermont, Vt.
do
Weigher, gauger, and me.asurer . . . . . .
Aid to revenu^
,
Collector
Deputy colleptors Of customs
Inspector-, weigher, gauger, and measurer..
Deputy collector, inspector, weigher, &c
..,- .'do
...do
Aid to revehue..
Seaman employed in revenue boat
Collector
Naval officer".
Surveyor
"Deputy collector and inspector
...do
Inspector, weigher, and measurer.
Inspector . . . . . . . . . . ^ . .
....do...............
do
Inspector, discontinued August 10, 1861
Collector
Deputy collectors and inspectors
do............do
o
Compensation
to each person.
2.55
E E P O E T ON T H E FINANCES.
N o . 33.—Statement—Continued.
Compensation
. to each person.
Occupation.
Districts.
°a
jz;
Vermont -Continued..
Newburyport, Mass . . .
Gloucester, Mass.
Deputy collector and inspector
do
do
.
-.
,
....do
do
Deputy collector
Deputy inspe'ctor
..
....do
Revenue boatmen
Collector . . . . . . i - . . . • - . . . - Surveyor
.
Naval officer
c
„.
Depnty collector and inspector.....
Inspector, weigher, measurer, and gauger.
Inspector
„.....-..°....
Surveyor
Collector
Surveyor
Deputy collector
.;.....
Inspectors
..-.do
...:&
Salem and, Beverly,
Weigher, gauger, and measurer
....do
Boatman
,
Keeper of custom-house
Collector
^
Surveyor
Surveyor, Beverly . . . • . . . . . '
Naval officer
Weigher and gauger
.-..do
Clerk
Inspector and deputy collector ,
Inspector and storekeeper . .
Inspector
....do
....do
....do
....do
....do
....do
....do
Inspector, Danvers
Inspector, Beverly
Aid to revenue....
......i..i
„.
I
.-..dp
. . . . d o .....do
:.....'
-
...do
Marbleheady Mass.
...do
Measurer
Boatman . . i . . . .
..,•
..
Porter and messenger
Collector
'...........„......
Deputy collectors and inspectors
Surveyor
..»..
$600 00
600 00
360 00
750 00
360 00
240 00
240 00
323 05
362 91
363 63
1,095 00
1.095 00
1.096 00
250 00
1,428 21
695 08
850 00
1,095 00
300 00
112 50
376 00
• 716 20
262 60
150 0.0
1,025 38
• 497 09
. 175 41
712 77
985 42
838 23
1,000 00
1,095 00
1,095 00
633 00
630 00
540 00
402 00
282 00
252 00
315 00
306 00
204 00
249 00
730 00
75 00
42 00
57 00
81 00
78 00
400 00
300 .00
300 00
344 30
547 50
142 36
256 •
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
No. 33.—Statement—Continued.
00
a
Compensation
to each person.
Districts.
Occupation.
Marblehead Mass —
Continued
Boatman. . . . . . . . . . . . .
............
Deputy collector and i n s p e c t o r . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inspector and Swampscot....... . . . . . . . . . .
Boatman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . .
No r e t u r n s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$150
365
.182
100
00
00
60
00
Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deputy collector and i n s p e c t o r . . . . . . . . . . . .
d o . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . d o . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . do............do ..........
.......
Collector
I
Inspector, weigher, measurer, and ganger.,
do............do ....................
326
1,092
400
300
200
1,126
886
731
638
300
1,700
900
750
569
500
274
112
400
160
148
148
148
150
112
93
.^.50
550
2,173
00
00
00
00
00
37
81
96
00
00
00
00
00
33
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
50
75
on
00
46
Boston and Charlestown, Mass.
Plymouth, Mass . . . . . . .
Fall River, Mass . .
Barnstable^ M a s s . . . . . .
New Bedford, Mass . . .
'
^
Edgartown, Mass . . . . .
Nantucket. Mass.
Providence, R. I
..
1
•
Revenue boatman . . . . . . . . . . . . - « . . . . . . . . .
Collector
.................. ..........
Deputy collector and inspector
Deputy col lector and inspector, Provincetown
Deputies, Wellfleet and Chatham
Deputy collector and inspector,South Danvers
Deputy collector and inspector, Falmouth..
Deputy collector and inspector. Sandwich..
Deputy collector and inspector, Hyannis...
Aid to the revenue, Harwich ....^..,..
Aid to the revenue, C h a t h a m . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Aid to the revenue, W e l l f l e e t . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Aid to the revenue, Provincetown
Revenue 'boatman, P r o v i n c e t o w n . . . . . . . . . .
Revenue boatman, B a r n s t a b l e . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bevenue boatman, H y a n n i s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Keeper of c u s t o m - h o u s e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inspector, Barnstable
Collector,disbur6ing agent,marine hospital ,&c
Inspectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inspector, weigher,' and measurer
I n s p e c t o r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
....do
. ....:........ ............ ....
do
do
i..
Clerk
i...
Boatman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . ° . . . . . . .
Aid to revenue
^
Collector....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deputy collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.,..do
Occasional inspector
Special aids to r e v e n u e . . . . . . .
Boatman ..................
Collector
„
Deputy collector and inspector.:
.......
Inspector, weigher, and measurer
Collector
Deputy collector
......
Clerk
V
1 OO.'S 0 0
1,365 74
.SOO 0 0
125 00
80 00
600 00
800 00
420 00
1.010 fiS
1.095 00
I 600 00
372
\52
240
350
1.000
600
710
1.000
900
00
60
00
8.5
00
00
38
00
00
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
257
N o . 33.—Stateme7it'^Contmued.
Occupation.
Districts.
Compensation
to each person.
6 ^
Providence, R.
Continued.
I.-
Bristol and Warren,R. I.
Newport, R. I .
Middletown, Conn '
New London, Conn . .
New Haven, Conn . . . .
2
4'
3
2
1
1
2
Ex. Doc 1- -17
Naval officer
Surveyor, Providence
Surveyor, E. Greenwich....
Surveyor, Pawtuxet
Coastwise inspectors
.<..!
...
Foreign inspectors.....
Inspector, Pawtuxet
Inspector, E. Greenwich
.Weigher
w
Gauger
Measurer
Boatman, Pawtuxet
Messenger, Providence
Collector
Inspectors ..-*
Inspectors, $123, $72, $24
Gfaugers
Boatman
Surveyor
.\
:,......
do
Collector, superintendent of lights
Naval officer
Surveyor, Newport .
Surveyor, Tiverton
Surveyor, North Kingston ._
Deputy collector and inspector, Newport
Inspectors, Newport
Inspector, Nottingbam
Inspector, New Slioreham
Occasional inspector
.....do
...„do
•
...„do
...
Ganger.
Weigher
Measurer
„.
Boatman
Collector
.,
Surveyors
Inspectors, $650, $350. $300
Collector and superintendent of lights
Inspector, weigher, gauger, &c
do
do
.....do
do
. . . . do
do
Surveyor _
Collector
„
D-eputy collector
Surveyor
Weighers, measurers, and gaugers
Inspectors
....^
Inspectors, $730, $72, $60
Aids to revenue, $730, $48
Watchman and poiter
Messenger and porter
Boatmen and aids to revenue
$678 45 ,
574 II
251 69
200 00
547 50
556 00 .
450 00
300 00
675 03
35 16
1,500 00
420 00
400 00
419 04
549 00
219 00
.151 32
216 00
. 327 72
261 83
1,108 88'
413 23
390 68
200 00
250 00
1,000 00
274. 00
222 00
200 00
201 00
213 00
• 147 00
75 00
170 52
. 167 88
54 63
450 00
696 56
836 22
1,300 00
2,363 84
793 82
972 51
450 00
66 67
370
3,000
1,500
660
1,500
1,095
862
778
4C0
500
400
91
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
258
REPORT ON T H E
FINANCES
No. 33.—Statement—-Continued.
Districts.
Fairfield, Conn . . . . . . . .
gtonington. Conn
Sackett's Harbor, N. Y.
Genesee, N. Y
Oswego, N. Y .
Niagara, N. Y.
Bufalo Creek, N , Y - . .
Occupation.
Collector....................
Inspector . . . . . i . . . . . .
...
do
--—..'.
-...do
Deputy collector
„
Collector
„.......
Inspectors
.,.
Surveyor
...
Boat keeper
Collector
Deputy collector . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . d o ..-.•
....do
..-.do
Night watch
«..
Colltector
Deputy collector
I.
do
....do
Aids and inspectors
.^
Clerk and inspector
1
Collector
„..
Deputy collector
do
do
. . . . d o ..'.
....do
Clerks..... . - . d o .9
....do
,.
....do....,
:......
Inspectors
.-..do
...•
Revenue aid
do
•
do
:
,
Night watch -.
....do
do
.-.do
:.--....
Porter and boatman . . .
1 ..
Collector
Deputy collectors
do
Deputy collectors and aid
— .-do
do
Deputy collector and inspector
dp
do
do
do
Inspectors
Clerk
'..._..<.
Watchmen .1
„
Night watch
Coll ector
Deputy collector..;..„
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
259
No. 33.—Statement—Continued.
CO
Districts.
\i
CO
Q-
O
^ .
Occupation.
•
Compensation
to each person.
o <y
Buffalo Creek, N. Y.—
Continued.
Oswegatchie, . N . Y . . - .
Sag Harbor, N . Y
New York city. N. Y - .
I
1
1
1
1
2
2
5
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
7
1
1
1
4
21
11
8
42^
43
16
13
1
4
2
2
1
2
1
7
13
2
3
2
1
2
4
2
1
1
Deputy collector.
....:.............
..-.clo...:
.,
Inspector
..^.....
clo
•
do
.---Inspectors during navigation . . - . * . - - - - . . « Clerks
I
Night w a t c h . - . - - - - - - . . . - . . - - . - - . - . . . . .
Coll ector
.
.
....
Deputy collector and inspector
.
.
Aid to revenue.
.....---.--------._.Inspector
»
.........
Deputy collectors and inspectors^
...
Night watch
...
Collector - - _ . . . _ . _ « - - . . « - . . . . - - - . - . - . - .
Inspector
..
...«
do
-...do
'......
Collector
.
...
Auditor
.....
.
Cashier
.............
Assistant auditor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Assistant cashier
..; »
.....
Deputy collectors
......
.
Cieik\
..-do.
.^....,
...do
. . .
....do
— .do
....do.
.
.
:
-.-.do.
-.-do..
:
do
....do
-..do
.....
....do-J
....do....-..-,
do
^.&..--.-.
....do
Keeper of custom-house
.
Messengers . . - « - .
.
....
....do-.-.
do-...
.....
....
.-..do
...-do
....z
.....
Porters - . .
........
....
do
Fireman..
........
Watchmen
.
.........
.--do
....do
Warehouse superintendent
..---..
Storekeeper
$900 00
730 00
1,000 00
900 00
• 600 00
822 00
912 00
730 00
1,460 10
900 00
900 00
730 00
463. 75
450 00
300 00
402 70
240 00
688 22
93 00
39 00
89 60
• 6,340 00
4,000 00
3,000 00
3,000 00
2,000 00
2,600 00
2,400 00
2,000 00
1,800 00
1,600 00
1,600 00
1,400 00
1,300 00
1,200 00
1,100 00
1,000'00
800 00
750 00
700 00
650 00
600 00
1,200 00
800 00
700 00
650 00
600 00
400 00
480 00
420 00
647 50
625 50
547 50
45 CO
2,000 00
1,200 00
260
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
N o . 33.—Statement—Continued.
O rr->
District.
CO >-,
Occupation.
o o
New York city, N. Y.—
Continued.
69
1
•2
19
8
6
193
4
1
3
2
75
50
4
1
9
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
18
1
1
1
Storekeepers..
.
..
Clerk
:
•-..-..--..
Assistant storekeeper^
Weighers
_
Gaugers
:
-'.
MeasurersInspectors
°.-..
..--do
Inspector at Albany
..-.«..Temporary aids
....do
,
Night i n s p e c t o r s . . . . . . . .
Night watchmen
Measurers of vessels..
Measurer of marble
Debenture clerks
".-•.
Captain of the night watch
.
Lieutenants of the night watch
Superintendent of marine hospital.
Examiner of drugs..Clerk and examiner of drugs
Clerk, cotton agency
do
do
do
do
Bargemen
Surveyor at Troy
„
...
Surveyor at Albany.".„.
Surveyor iit Cold Spring
Appraiser's department.
1
3
5
1
10
6
2
10
1
4
3
21
11
1
6
1
5
2
General appraiser.....
Appraisers
Assistant appraisers...
Examiner of damages.
Appraiser's clerks
do.....
do.......
,
do
,
do...
do..
,
do
do
Messenger.
Storekeeper, appraiser of stores.
Clerk, appraiser of stores
...do
do
.---do
-.do.......do
-. . . . . d o
,
Messengers, appraisers of stores.
Nofval office.
Naval officer.
Deputies
Clerks
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
261
N o . 33.—Statement—Contmued.
Districts.
Occupation.
°s
New York city, N. Y.Continued.
Clerks.
....do.,
...-do-„
....do..
....do.:.
....do..
Porters.
6
29
3
1
3
2
|Compensation
to each person.
$1,400
1,200
1,000
900
600
600
600
00
GO
00
00
00
00
00
4,559
2,000
1,612
1,200
1,100
1,095
1,000
700
650
77
480
1,050
13
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
97
00
71
Surveyor's offce.
Champlain, N. Y.
Cape Vincent, N. Y
Dunkirk, N . Y . . . . . . . .
Bridgetown, N. J
Burlington, N. J
...
Perth Am boy, N. J . . . .
Great Egg Harbor, N.J.
Little Egg Harbor, N.J.
Surveyor and inspector.
Deputy surveyors
....do
Clerk.,
.-..do.
....do.
..-.do
.---do
,
Messengers.
....do
Porter.
Collector
Deputy collector and inspector.
Deputy collector and clerk
do
do
,
Deputy collector and aid
^ Deputy collector and inspector.
Deputy collectors and aids^
Deputy collector, and inspector.
do
do..
.Boatman
Collector
Deputy collectors and inspectors.
do
-.do.,
-do.
...-do
-do.
..-.do
Aid of revenue..,
Boatman
Collector.
Deputy collector.
Collector
...-do
..--do
Deputy collector.
Surveyor
Inspectors
....do...
...-do
Bargemen
.:
..
Collector.
.-.
Inspector..
".
.--.do
Boatman
Inspector
Temporary inspectors, at $3 per day.
1,000 GO
800
600
600
600
500
500
400
180
•1,014
730
365
00
00
00
00
00
GO
00
00
00
00
00
246 00
160
.647
^ 200
500
187
250
174
2,041
600
150
600
00
50
00
00
50
00
00
20
00
00
00
600
400
223
664
346
OQ
GO
00
33
00
61 00
12 GO
652 00
262
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
N o . 33.—Statement—Continued.
Occupation.
Districts.
Little Egg Harbor, N,
J.—Continued.
Newark, N. J . . . .
Camden, N. J
Philadelphia^ Pa
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
3
1
11
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
6
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
4
1
6
4
1
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
i
2
1
1
3
1
1
3
1
Temporary appraisers, at $5 per day .
Revenue boat-hands, at $3 per day...
Collector
,.-i
Deputy collector
,
Temporary inspector
Messenger.
Surveyor
Collector
Deputy collectors
,
Cashier....
Clerk...
Clerk for 8 months
Clerks
"
,
..-.do.
,
...-do
Clerk for 8 months.Clerks..
-Keeper
Messenger
Porter
Watchmen
Naval officer
Deputy, naval officer .
Clerks,
...-do-.Messenger^
Surveyor.
Deputy surveyor.
Clerk.....''......
....do
General appraiser
.....'. . .
Messenger to general appraiser..
Principal appraiser
o.«-.Assistant a^Dpraisers
......„.•.,..
Examiners
Examiner for nine months and one-half.
Packers.
, .--»..
Clerks
.-...*
Messenger
Clerk of appraiser's stores
..
Foremen of appraiser's stores
..-.., ..
Marker of appraiser's stores
Watchmen
1
Storekeeper of the port
.
.
Superintendent of warehouses...
Assistant storekeeper
..—,.....
...do....Markers
;
.. . d o .
„
Weigher
Assistant weighers
Assistant weigher, (part year).
Foreman to w e i g h e r s . : . . . . . . . .
Beamsmen
Beamsman, (6 months)....
Compensation
to each person.
26^
30
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
o
N o . 33.—Statement—Continued.
O rrt
Districts.
Compensation
to each person.
Occupation.
p, O
^a
o
Philadelphia, Pa.—Continuech
Presque Isle, Pa.
Pittsburg, P a . . . .
Delaware, Del.
Baltimore, Md.
©
2
2
2
44
1
2
1
Gaugers
Measurers.... -.
...do
......
Inspectors
.Inspector, (6J months)
Special aids to revenue
.*
Special aid to revenue, (5 months and 22
days)
-
8
1
1
2
1
1
1
21
1
6
1
1
1
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
4
2
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
4
1
6
3
. 7
1
1
1
1
2
Revenue agents
Revenue agent, (10 months)
Revenue agent
...do
.
—
Revenue agent, (10 months)
.-•
Captain of night inspectors...
Lieutenant of night inspectors
Night inspectors
^
,
Night inspector, (9f months)..
Night watch on wharves
—
Night watch on wharves, (9 months)
..
Temporary aid to revenue
Temporary aid to revenue, (8 months)....
Messenger to inspector's office..
Revenue boatmen
Collector
Deputy collector and inspector.....
„.
Surveyor . . . . . . . . . . i . . . -.
•Clerk
...
.^...do
Aids to revenue.^.
,.„....do.........
Watchman
:..
Collector . . .
..
Deputy collector..
Inspector
'
....do
,..
....do.„
.,
....do..
Messengers
Collector
Deputy collector...
Naval officer
„
Deputy naval officer
Surveyor
Appraisers
Cashier
-.
Clerks
....do...
.do .
..................
do
.
.-..do
....do
..-.do ,
....do
Superintendent of warehouses.
1 Storekeepers . . . . .
$1,485
1,485
1,200
1,095
600
1,095
00
00
00
00
00
00
522
912
757
730
547
457
800
650
547
439
647
411
647
360
647
600
381
730
3,954
7^0
600
730
620
456
1,154
1,095
800
500
598
428
365
6,000
2,500
00
50
50
00
50
50
00
00
50
50
50
00
50
00
50
00
26
00
20
00
00
00
00
25
18
00
00
00
60
.51
00
00
00
6,000 00
2,000 GO
4,500 00
2,50.0 00
1,500 GO
1,500 00
1,400 00 •
1,200 00
1,100 00
1,000 00
900 00
850 GO
650 00
1,500 00
1,095 00
264
REPORT ON THE FINANCES,
N o . 33.—Statement—Continued.
Occupation.
Districts.
Baltimore, Md—Con'd,
2
27
2
2
24
5
1
6
6
Annapolis, Md.
Oxford, Md .
Vienna, Md.
Town Creek, Md
Havre de Grace, Md.
Georgetown, D . C . . .
Alexandria, V a .
Wheeling, Va.
23
Yeocomico, Va.
Beaufort, N . C .
Beaufort, S.C...
Key West, Fla..
Louisville, Ky.
Paducah,"Ky
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Storekeeper..--.— do
do
Weigher.«......
Deputy weigher
,...^.do
,
LaBbrers at' scales
Gauger
.„
Measurer
.
,.
Deputy measurer . .
. . . .,;
Laborers
Inspectors
'
Captains of night watch
Vault watchmen
,
Watchmen.-..
,.
Messengers
Superintendent of building
Porters
Boatmen
Collector
Surveyor
....do
,
....do
Collector
Collector
.Deputy collectors
Surveyor.
Collector
....
Deputy collector.
do
,
Temporary inspector
do
Collector
,
Deputy collector
Inspectors—$1,095, $921
Surveyor
Boatman and messenger
Surveyor . . .
Aids to the revenue
No returns
....do
,
....do
Collector
,
Deputy collector
Inspector
,..„..
d o . . . . Cape Florida
Temporary inspector and-night watch.
Surveyor
Deputy surveyor and clerk .„,.-..
Messenger and porter .-2..;r
No returns
.„
Collector or surveyor,.
Clerk
„
i.-.do
---..„
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
265
N o . 33.—Statement—Continued.
II
Districts.
Occupation.
I Compensation
to each person.
O 03
Cincinnati, Ohio—Con.
Miami, Ohio
,
Sandusky, Ohio.
Cuyahoga, Ohio.
Detroit, Mich.
Michilimackinac, Mich,
Evansville, Ind.
2
2
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
3
1
28
New Albany, Ind.
Chicago, 111
Warehouse clerk
..
Temporary a i d . . . . . . .„
Collector
Deputy collector
Inspector
,
iMessenger
Collector
,
Deputy collector
,
......do
do
Clerk
Porter
Collector
Deputy collector
Inspector
,
....do
Aids to revenue
Clerk
Deputy collectors and inspectors
Porter
Collector
_.
Deputy collector.
do
......do
,
......do
..do
-.and inspector ..,
do
do
..do
do..
. - . . - . do
do
......do
.--.do
Inspectors .—,
do
....do
....do
....,
....do
,
....do
....do
....do
Collector
Inspector and deputy collector...
Assistant
'. . . . . . .
Inspectors and deputy collectors.
do
.do
do
do
do
do ..-.--.do...--.
do
....
Surveyor
Aids to revenue
,
$600 00
6,365 4 6 ,
1.618 40
1,000 00
800 00
300 00
1,690 07
800 00
200 GO
300 00
365 00
240 00
1, 6.18 42
1,000 00
800 00
600 00
.703 29
'600 00
240 00
300 00
1,618 42
1,000 00
' 730 GO
240 GO
120 00
1,480 00
1,095 00
1,021 00
745 00
644 GO
480 00
400 00
360 00
240 GO
120 00
• 70 00
60 00
20 GO
1,104 60
500 00
135 00
400 GO
118 68
150 00
224 71
200 00
2,961 78
2,259 30
Collector
,
Deputy collector.
,.„.-.do
.--.do
Clerk
Inspector
1,400 09
975 81
300 00
776 34
800 GO
600 00
266
REPORT ON T H E FINANCES.
No. 33.—Statement—Continued.
Occupation.
Districts.
Compensation
to each person.
^
Chicago, Dl—Cont'd.
Madison, Iowa.
Alton, lowa..Galena, Iowa, j
Quincy' Iowa..
Cairo, Iowa...
Peoria, Iowa..
St. Louis, Mo-
Hannibal, Mo...,
Milwaukie, Wis.
Burlington, Iowa.
Keokuk, Iowa..-.
Dubuque, Iowa,.
Minnesota, Minn
Puget's Sound, W . T .
Cape Perpetua, W. T.
Port Orford, W . T . . . .
San Francisco, Cal .
Sonoma, C a l . . .
.
San Joaquin, Cal...
Sacramento, C a l . . .
San Diego, Cal
.
Monterey, C a l . - . . ,
San Pedro, C a l . . . . .
Aids
.,.
...do
....do
Surveyor
.-.
-.
Aids to revenue . - . --....
Surveyor
Aids
.Surveyor . . . . . . . . . . . . '
Collector
Aid to revenue
..-^..
No returns
,
Surveyor, acting collector
Clerk
do
...do...
Inspector
Janitor
Aid
..do
Surveyor
Assistant inspector.......,
Collector
...^
Deputy collector..
Deputies
.....-•..
Inspectors
..,
Watchman
,
Surveyor
,,
....do
...
Clerk
,
..
Special aids
Surveyor....
Inspectors
Watchman
Collector
Deputy collector.......
Occasional
.
Collector
Surveyor
Inspectors
,
. . . . d o ....-:.
Boatmen
t
Collector
,
Deputy collector.
No returns
.,
No returns
No r e t u r n s . . . . . .
No returns..— .Collector
No returns
,
Collector
Surveyor
$730 00
675 25
704 GO
838 16
138 00
350.00
49 00
474 16
350 GO
169 50
3,000 00
1.500
1,200
1,000
730
GO
GO
00
GO
480 00
730 00
730 00
1,000
170
1,250
1,000
00
GO
00
00
300 00
900 00
480 00
381 98
175 GO
200 00
111.50
378 35
39 GO
14 00
1,200 00
800 GO
33 GO
2,500 00
1,000 00
800 00
1,000 00
720 GO
2,000 00
1,000 GO
750 00
3,060 00
2,000 00
REPORT
ON THE
FINANCES.
267'
No 33.r-PORTS FROM WHICH NO RETURNS ARE^MADE.
a
O^T-j
Occupation.
Distriets.
Compensation
to each person.
^
Richmond, Va
Norfolk & Portsm' th, Va
Tappahannock, Va..
Cherrystone, Va
Yorktown, Va
Petersburg, Va
Camden, N.C
..
Edenton, N.C
Plymouth, N.C
Washington. N. C . . .
Newbern, N. C
Ocracoke, N. C
. Wilmington, N . C . . .
Charleston, S. C.
Georgetown, S. C
Savannah, Ga
St. Mary'.s, Ga
Brunswick, Ga
,
Augusta, Ga
Pensacola, Fla
St. Augustine, Fla...
St. Mark's, Fla. . . . .
St. John's, Fla
.!
Apalachicola, F l a . . .
Fernandina, Fla . . . .
Bayport, Fla
Pilatka, F l a . . . . . . . .
Mobile, Ala
Selma, Ala
Tuscumbia, Ala.
Pearl River, Miss. ..
Vicksburg, Miss.....
Natchez, Miss.... .,
^"New Orleans, La
(See b elow) Tech^, La
Shreveport, La
Texas, Texas
Saluria, Texas
Brazos de Santiago,Tex.
Paso del Norte, Texas .
Nashville, Tenn
Memphis, Tenn
...
Knoxville, Tenn
Chattanooga, Tenn
Hickman, K y . . . .
Columbus, K y . . . . . . . .
*'New Orleans, La.
1
1
1
1
1
2
20
3
1
2
Deputy collector,.
Acting appraiser..
Entry clerk
Cashier
._ . . .
Register's clerk...
Abstract clerks...
Inspectors...
Night watches....
Keeper
Messengers.
..
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, RegisUr'S Office, Dec. 9, 1862.
$2,500
2.500
1,800
1,800
1,800
1,500
1,095
730
900
720
00
00
00
GO
00
00
00
00
00
00
L. E. CHITTENDEN, Register,
268
REPORT ON THE FINANCES,
No. 34
Regulations concerning internal and coastwise intercourse, to which is appended
the accompanying orders of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the.
Navy.^
• •
.
,
3>
[Act of Congress July 13, 1861, and an act supplementary thereto. May 2, 1862.]
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 28,
1862.
• i n pursuance of law, and by virtue of the authority conferred upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the act of Congress approved July 13, 1861, entitled
"An act further to provide for the collectiq^ii of duties on imports, and for other
purposes," and an act supplementary thereto,, approved May 20, 1862, and for
the purpose of preventing the conveyance of arms, munitions of war, and other
supplies to persons^ in insurrection against the United States, the following regulations concerning commercial mtercourse with insurrectionary States and sections
are prescribed.
S. P . CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury,
I. No goods, wares, or merchandise, whatever may be the ostensible destination
thereof, shall be transported to any place now under the control of insurgents;
nor to any place on the south side of the Potomac river; nor to any place on the
north side of the Potomac, and south of the Washington and Annapolis railroad;
nor to any place on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake; nor to any place on
the south side of the Ohio river below Wheeling, except Louisville; nor to any
place on the west side of the Mississippi river below the mouth of the Des Moines,
except St. Louis, witliout a permit of a duly authorized officer of the Treasury
Department. And the special agents of this department may temporarily extend
these restrictions to such other places in their respective districts, and make such
local rules to be observed therein as may from time to time become necessary,
promptly reporting their action to the Secretary of the Treasury for his sanction
or disapproval.
' ->
'
'
I I . All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section heretofore
declared to be in insurrection, is absolutely prohibited, except for military ]3urposes and under military orders, or under the special license of the Secretary of
the Treasury. And no payment of gold or silver shall be made for cotton or
other merchandise within any such State or section. And all cotton or other
merchandise purchased or paid for therein, directly or indirectly, in gold or silver,
shall be forfeited to the United States.
I I I . No clearance or permit whatsoever will be granted for any shipment to
any port, place, or section affected by the existing blockade, except for military
purposes, and upon the certificate and. request of the Department of War or the
I)epartment of the Navy.
•
IV. All applications for permits to transport or trade under these regulations
sliall state the character and value of the merchandise to be transported, the
consignee and destination thereof, with the route of transportation and the number,
and description of the packages with the marks thereon, v
V. Every applicant for such permits shall present with his application the
original invoices of the goods, wares, and merchandise to be transported, and
shall make and file with the officer granting the permit an affidavit that the quantities, descriptions, and values are correctly stated in said invoices, true copies
of which shall be annexed to and filed with the affidavit; and that the packages
contain nothing except as stated in the invoices; that the merchandise so per
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
269
mitted shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be disposed of by him or by his
authority, connivance, or assent, in violation of the terms of the permit, and that
neither the permit so granted nor the merchandise to be transported shall be so
used or disposed of by him, or.by his authority, connivance, or assent, as in any
way to give aid, comfort, information, or encouragement to persons in insurrection
against the United States. And, furthermore, that the applicant is loyal to the
government of the United States, and will in all things s^o deport himself.
VI. No permit shall be granted to ship goods, wares, or merchandise to States
or parts of States heretofore declared to be in insurrection, or to places under
insurrectionary control, or occupied by the military forces of the United States,
except to persons residing or doing business therein .whose loyalty and good, faith
shall be certified by an officer of the government or other person duly authorized
to make such certificate, or by a duly appointed board of trade therein, by
whose approval and permission only the same shall be unladed or disposed of.
And no permit shall be granted to ship merchandiseyrom any such State or part
of State in violation of any order restricting shipments therefrom, made for military purposes by the commandant of the department from which such shipment
is to be made.
V I I . Collectors or surveyors of customs, before granting clearances or permits,
may require bond, with reasonable surety, in such cases as they shall think necessary to .protect the public interests, conditioned that there shall be no violation
of the terms or spirit of the clearance or permit, or of the averments of the affidavit
upon which the same is granted.
V I I I . No permit shall be granted to ship intoxicating drinks, or other thing
prohibited by the military authorities, into territory occupied by the military
forces of the United States, except upon the written request of the commandant
of the dejpartment in which such territory is embraced, or of some person duly
authorized by him to make such request.
I X . J n order to defray the expenses under these regulations, a fee of twenty
cents will be charged for each permit granted; and shipments permitted to and
from States heretofore declared to be in insurrection shall, in addition thereto,
be charged with the following fees, viz : ^N^ cents on each one hundred dollars
over three hundred dollars on all shipments to such States', or sections; fifty
cents on each one thousand pounds of cotton, and twenty-five cents on each one
thousand pounds of sugar permittedJ'9•c'??^. such State.
X. No vessel, boat, or vehicle used for -transpoptation upon or south of .the
Potomac river, or north of the Potomac and south of the Washington and Annapolis railroad, or to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, or southwardly on
or from the . Ohio river below Wheeling, or westwardly or southwardly on or
from the Mississippi river below the mouth of the Des Moines, shall receive on
board any goods, wares, or merchandise destined to any place, commercial intercourse, with which now is or hereafter may be''restricted as aforesaid, unless
the same be accompanied with a permit of a duly authorized officer of the
Treasury Department, except as hereinafter provided in regulation number X I V .
X L No vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transportation from eastern
cities, or elsewhere in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, or merchandise
into any place, section, or State restricted as aforesaid, without the permit of
the du.ly authorized officer of the customs, application for which permit may be
made to such authorized officer near the point of destination as may suit the
convenience of the shipper.
X I I . No vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transportation shall put off
any goods, wares,-or merchandise at any place other than that named in the
permit as the place of destination.
X I I I . Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western waters south
of Louisville or St. Louis, or other wa^^ers within or adjacent to any State or
section, commercial intercourse with which now is or may hereafter be restricted
270
REPORT ON THE FINANCES.
as aforesaid, shall depart from any port where there is a collector or surveyor of
customs, there shalL be exhibited to the collector or surveyor, or such other
. officer as may be authorized to act in his stead, a true manifest of its entire
cargo and a clearance obtained to proceed on its voyage; and when freights are
received on board at a place Avhere there is no collector or surveyor, as hereinafter provided in regulation XIV,*then the same exhibit shall be made and
clearance obtained at the first port to be passed where there is such an officer,
and such vessel or boat shall be reported and the manifest of its cargo exhibited
to the collector or surveyor of every port to be passed on the trip where there
is such an officer; but no new clearance shall be necessary unless additional
freights shall have been taken on board after the last clearance. Immediately
on arriving at the port of final destination, and before discharging any part of
its cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the surveyor of such port, or other
officer authorized to act in his stead, whose approval for landing the cargp shall
be indorsed on the manifest before any part thereof shall be discharged; and
the clearance and shipping permits of all such vessels and boats shall be ex-'^
hibited to the officer in command of any naval vessel or military post whenever
such officer may require it.
X I V . To facilitate trade and guard against improper transportation, "aids to
the revenue" will be appointed from time to time on cars, vessels, and boats,
when desired by the owners, agents, or masters thereof, which aids will have
free carriage^ on the respective cars, vessels, and boats on which they are placed,
and will allow proper weigh freights to be taken on board without permit, keeping a statement thereof, and reporting the same to the collector or surveyor of
the first port to be passed on the trip where there is such an officer, from whom
a permit therefor must be obtained, or the goods returned under his direction.
No permit Avill be granted for transportation intb any insurrectionary State o*
district, except on cars, vessels, and boats carrying such aids.
X V . AH vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transportation, violating
any of the above regulations, and all goods, wares, and merchandise shipped or
transported in violation thereof, will be forfeited to the United States. If any
false statement be made or deception practiced in obtaining a permit, such permit and all others connected therewith or affected thereby will be absolutely
void, and all merchandise. shippecL thereunder shall be forfeited to the United
States. In all cases of forfeiture, as .aforesaid^ immediate seizure will b,e made
and proceedings instituted ^promptly for condemnation. The attention of all
officers of the government, common carriers, shippers, consignees, owners, masters, agents, drivers, and other persons connected with the transportation of
merchandise or trading therein, is particularly directed to the acts of July 13,
1861, and May 20, 1862, above referred to.
X V I . All army supplies transported under military orders are excepted froni
the above regulations. But ^this exception does not extend to sutlers' goods or
others designed for sale at military posts or camps.
X V I I . When any officer of the customs shall find in his district any goods,
wares, or merchandise, which, in his opinion, are in danger of being transported
to insurgents, he may, if he thinks it expedient, require the owner or holder
thereof to give reasonable security that they shall not be transported to any
place under insurrectionary control, and shall not in any way be used to give
aid or encouragement to the insurgents.
If the required security be not given, such officer shall promptly state the
facts to the United States marshal for the district within which such goods are
situated, or, if beyond the jurisdiction of a United States marshal, then to the
commandant of the nearest military post, whose duty it shall be to take 'possession thereof, and hold them for safe-keeping, reporting the facts promptly to
the Secretary of the Treasury, and a^yaiting instructions.
X V I I I . Where ports heretofore „ blockaded have been opened by the procla
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mation of the President, licenses will be granted, by United States consuls, on
application by the proper pa/ties, to vessels clearing Trom foreign ports, to the
ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence that the vessel so licensed will convey no person, property, or information contraband of war, either to or from
said ports, which license shall be shown to the collector of the port to which
the vessel is bound, and, if required, to any officer in charge of the blockade.
And on leaving any port so opened, the vessel must have a clearance from the
collector, according to law, showing no violation of the conditions of the license.
Any violation of the conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of
the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from entering
the United States for any purpose during the war..
X I X . United States vessels "clearing from domestic ports to any of the ports
so opened will apply to the custom-house officers of the proper ports, in the
usual manner, for licenses or clearances under the regulations heretofore established.
W A R DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, August 28, 1.862.
The attention of all officers and others connected with the army of the United
States is called to the regulations of the Seci'etary of the Treasury concerning
commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States or sections, dated August 28,
1862.
I. Commandants of departments, districts, and posts will render all such
military aid as may become necessary in carrying out the provisions of said
regulations, and enforcing observance thereof to the extent directed by the Secr.etary of the Treasury, so far as can possibly be done v/ithout danger to the
o^Dcrations or safety of their respective commands.
I I . There will be no, interference with trade or shipments .of cotton, or other
merchandise conducted in pursuance of said regulations within any territory
occupied and controlled by the forces of the United States, unless absolutely
' necessary to the successful execution of military plans or movements therein.
But in cases of the violations of the conditions of any clearance or permit
granted under said regulations, and in cases of unlawful traffic, the guilty party
or parties will be arrested and the facts promptly reported to the commandant
of the department for orders.
I I I . No officer of the army or other person connected therewith will seize
cotton or other property of individuals' unless exposed to destruction by the
enemy, or needed for military purposes, or for confiscation under the act of Congress ; and in all such cases of seizure the same shall be promptly reported to
the commandant of the department wherein they are made, for his orders therein.
E D W I N M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, August 28,
1862.
The attention of naval officers is called to the regulations of the Secretary of
the Treasury concerning commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States or
sections, dated .August 28,1862.
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I. Commanders of naval vessels will render such aid as may be necessary in
carrying out the provisions of said regulations, and enforcing observance thereof
to the extent directe4 by the Secretary of the Treasury, so far as can possibly
be done without danger to the operations or safety of their respective commands.
I I . There will be no interference with trade in or shipments of cotton or other
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merchandise conducted in pursuance of said regulations within any of the waters
controlled by the naval forces of the United States, unless absolutely necessary
to the successful execution of military or naval plans or movements. But in
cases of the violation of the conditions of any clearance or permit granted under
said regulations, and in cases of unlawful traffic, the guilty party or parties will
be arrested and the facts promptly reported.
I I I . No officer of the navy will seize cotton or other property of individuals
within the territory opened to traffic,.and subject to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, unless the same is exposed to destruction by the enemy
or needed for naval purposes, or for confiscation under the act of Congress; and
in all such cases the fact with all attendant circumstances shall be promptly
reported to the department.
GIDEON W E L L E S , •
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Secretary,
AN ACT further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Fi.ej)resentatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever it shall, in the judgment of the President, by reason of unlawful combinations of persons in opposition to the laws of the United States, become impracticable to execute the
revenue laws and collect the duties on imports by the ordinary means, in the
ordinary way, at any port of entry in any collection district, he is authorized to
cause such duties to be collected at any port of delivery in said- district until
such obstruction shall cease; and in such case the surveyors at said ports of
delivery shall be clothed with all the powers and be subject to all the obligations
of collectors at ports of entry. And the Secretary of the Treasury, with the
approbation of the President, shall appoint such number of weighers, gaugers,
measurers, inspectors, appraisers, and clerks as may be uecessary,, in his judgment, for the faithful execution of the revenue laws at said ports of delivery,,
and shall fix and establish the limits within which such ports of "delivery are
constituted ports of entry,-as aforesaid. And all the provisions of law regulating
the issue of marine papers, the coasting trade, the warehousing of imports, and
collection of duties shall apply to the ports of entry so constituted in the same
manner as they do to ports of entry established by the laws now in force.
SEC. 2. And be itfurtlier enacted, .That if, from tiie cause mentioned in the
foregoing section, in the judgment of the President, the revenue from duties on
imports cannot be effectually collected at any port of entry in any collection
district, in the ordinary way and by the ordinary means, or by the course provided in the foregoing section, then and in that case he may direct that the custom-house for the district be established in any secure place within said district,
either on land or on board any vessel in said district, or at sea near the coast;and in such case the collector shall reside at such place, or on shipboard, as the
case may be, and there detain all vessels and cargoes arriving within or approaching said district, until the duties imposed by law on said vessels and their
cargoes are paid in cash : Frovided, That if the owner or consignee of the cargo
on board any vesspl detained as. aforesaid, or the master of said vessel, shall
desire to enter a port of entry in any other district of the United States where
no such obstructions to the execution of the laws exist, the master of such
vessel may be permitted so to change the destination of the vessel and cargo in
his manifest, whereupon the collector shall deliver him a w.ritten permit to proceed to the port so designated : And ])rovided, further. That the Secretary of
the Treasury shall, with the approbation of the President, make proper regulations for the enforcement on shipboard of such provisions of the laws regulating'
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the assessment and collection of duties as, in his judgment, may be necessary
and practicable.
SEC. 3. And be itfurtlier enacted. That it shall be unlawful to take any vessel
or cargo detained as aforesaid from the custody of the proper officers of the
custoins unless by process of some court of the United States; and in case of
any attempt otherwise to take such vessel or cargo by any force, or combination,
or assemblage of persons, too great to be overcome by the officers of the customs, it shall and may be lawful for the President, or such person or persons as
he shall ha.ve empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the army or
navy or militia of the United States, or such force of citizen volunteers as may
be deemed necessary, for the purpose of preventing the removal of such vessel
or cargo, and protecting the officers of the customs in retaining the custody
thereof.
SEC. 4. And be itfurtlier enacted. That if, in the judgment of the President,
from the cause mentioned in the first section of this act, the duties upon imports
in any collection district cannot be effectually collected by the ordinary means
and in the ordinary way, or in the mode and manner provided in the foregoing
section of this act, then and in that case the President is hereby empowered to
close the port or ports of entry in said district, and in such case give notice
thereof by proclamation; and thereupon all right of importation, warehousing,
and other privileges incident to ports of entiy, shall cease and be discontinued
at such port so closed, until opened by the order of the President on the cessation of such obstructions. And if, while said ports are so closed, any ship or
vessel from beyond the United States, or having on board any articles subject
to duties, shall enter or attempt to enter any such port, the same, together with
its tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, sliall be forfeited to the United States.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President, in pursur
ance of the provisions of the second section of the act entitled " A n act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress
insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that
purpose," approved February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five,
shall have called forth the militia to suppress combinations against the laws of
the United States, and to cause the laws to be duly executed, and the insurgents
shall have failed to disperse by the time directed by the President, and when
said insurgents claim to act under the authority of any State or States, and such
claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by the persons exercising the functions of
government in such State or States, or in the part or parts thereof in which said
combination exists, nor such insurrection suppressed by said State or States,
then and in such case it may and shall be lawful for the President, by proclamation, to declare that the inhabitants of such State, or any section or part,
thereof, where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against the
United States; and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and between the
same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States
shall cease and be unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue;
and all goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, coming from said State or
section iuto the other parts of the United States, and all proceeding to such
State or section, by land or water, shall, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or conveying persons to or from such State or section, be forfeited to the United States: Frovided, however. That the President may, in his
discretion, license and permit commercial intercourse with any such part of said
State or section, the inhabitants of which are so declared in a state of insurrection, in such articles, and for such time, and by such persons, as he, in his discretion, may think most conducive to the public interest; and such intercourse,
so far as by him licensed, shall be conducted and carried on only in pursuance
of rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. And the
Secretary of the Treasury may appoint such officers, at places where officers of
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the customs are not now authorized by law, as may be needed to "carry into
effect such licenses, rules, and regulations; and officers of the customs and other
officers shall receive for services under this section, and under said rules and
regulations, such fees and compensation as are now allowed for similar service
under other provisions of law.
SEC. 6. And be itfurtlier enacted. That, from and after fifteen days after the
issuing of the said proclamation, as provided in the last foregomg section of this
act, any ship or vessel belonging in whole or.in part to any citizen or inhabitanf
of-said State or part of a.State whose inhabitants are so declared in a state of
insurrection, found at sea, or in any port of the rest of the United States, shall
be forfeited to the United States.
SEC. 7. And be itfurtlier enacted. That, in the execution of the provisions of
this act, and of the other laws of the United States providing for the collection
of duties on imports and tonnage, it may and shall be lawful for the President,
in addition to the revenue cutters in service, to employ in aid thereof such other
suitable vessels as may, in his judgment, be required.
.SEC. 8. And be it further enacted. That the forfeitures and penalties incurred
by virtue of this act may be mitigated or remitted, in pursuance of the authority
vested in the Secretary of the Treasury by the act entitled *' An act providing
for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities accruing in
certain cases therein mentioned," approved March third, seventeen hundred and
ninety-seven, or in cases where special circumstances may seem to require it,
according to regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
SEC. 9. Ancl be itfurtlier enacted. That proceedings on seizures for forfeitures under this act may be pursued in the courts of the United States in any
district into Avhich.the property so seized may be taken and proceedings instituted ; and such courts shall have and entertain as full jurisdiction over the
same as if the seizure was made in that district.
Approved July 13, 1861.
AN ACT supplementary to an act approved on the thirteenth July, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, entitled " A n act to provide for the collection of duties on imports," and for
other purposes."
Be it enacted by the Sencileancl House of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary of the Treasury, in addition to the powers conferred upon him by the act of the thirteenth July, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, be, and he is hereby, authorized to refuse a clearance to
any vessel or other vehicle laden with goods, wares, or merchandise destined
for a foreign or domestic port, whenever he shall have satisfactory reason to believe that such goods, wares, or merchandise, or any part thereof, whatever may
be their ostensible destination, are intended for ports or places in possession or
under control of insurgents against the United States ; and if any vessel or other
vehicle for which a clearance or permit shall have been refused by the Secretary
of the Treasury, or by his order as aforesaid, shall depart or attempt to depart
for a foreign or domestic port without being duly cleared or permitted, such
vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo," shall be
forfeited to the United States.
SEC. 2. And he itfurtlier enacted. That whenever a permit or clearance is
granted, for either a foreign or domestic ^^ort, it shall be lawful for the collector
of the customs granting the same, if he shall deem it necessary, under the circumstances of the case, to require a bond to be executed by the master or the
owner of the vessel, in a penalty equal to the value of the cargo, and with sureties to the satisfaction of such collector, that the said cargo shall be delivered at the
destination for which it is cleared or permitted, and that no part thereof shall.be
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used in affording aid or comfort to any person or parties in insurrection against
the authority of the United States.
SEC. 3. And be itfurtlier enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be,
and he is hereby, further empowered to prohibit and prevent the transportation
in any vessel, or upon any railroad, turnpike, or other road or means of trans-portation within the United States, of any goods, wares, or merchandise, of
whatever character, and whatever may be the ostensible destination of the same,
' in all cases where there shall be satisfactory reasons to believe that such goods,
wai*es, or merchandise are intended for any place in the possession or under the
control of insurgents against the United States; or that there is imminent danger that such goods, wares, or merchandise will fall into the possession or under
the control of such insurgents. And he is further authorized, in all cases where
he shall deem it expedient so to do, to require reasonable security to be given
that goods, wares, or merchandise shall not be transported to any place under
insurrectionary control, and shall not in any way be used to give aid or comfort
to such insurgents; and he may establish all such general or special regulations
as may be necessary oil proper to carry into effect the purposes of this act. And
if any goods, wares, or merchandise shall be transported in violation of this act,
or of any regulation of the Secretary of the Treasury established in pursuance
thereof, or if any attempt shall be made so to transport them, all goods, wares,
or merchandise so transported or attempted to be transported shall be forfeited
to the United States.
SEC. 4. And be itfurtlier enacted. That the proceedings for the penalties and
forfeitures accruing under this act may be pursued, and the same may be mitigated or remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury in the modes prescribed by
the eighth and ninth sections of the act of J u l y thirteenth, eighteen hundred
and sixty one, to which this act is supplementary.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of ail penalties and
forfeitures incurred under this' act, or the act to which this is supplementary,
shall be distributed in the manner provided by the ninety-first section of the act
of March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled " A n act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage."
Approved May 20, 1862.
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