Statement in Relation to the Disbursements of the Revenue of the United States, exclusive of Payments on Account of Public Debt and Trust Funds, from 4th March, 1789, to 4th March, 1837; exhibiting, also, the Number of Officers employed in the Disbursement, the Amount of Defalcations; with General Results; arranged in Periods of Four Years each. 66 3970 000∞ 1832 10 10 1834 344.27 140 140 1,919,589.52 3$3,390.95 $1,498.18 $4,889.13 433 1,877,903.68 $3,797,493.20 1 3 12,050.56 100.00 4 18,953.40 32,728.23 457 2,521,930.40 12,083,205.38 11 18 10,275.65 5,771.27 176,770.92 594 7,411,369.97 21,338,351.19 3 17 20 3,697.92 5 13 18 3,955.76 14,656.50 588 3,737,079.91 649 4,002,824.24 5 11,321.07 54,419.42 536 4,452,858.91 17,174,432.96 1836 8 21 29 23,303.33 69,368.23 230,336.32 1,048 29,655,244.46 87,130,428.08 Total 244 2,516 2,760 898,023.59 4,058,549.97 4,956,573.56| 520,062,676.36 24,514.17 152,568.70 665 6,504,338.85 23,927,245.80 782 7,414,672.14 811 5,311,082.28 Exhibit of the Number of Persons indebted, ana tne Amount of Indebtedness, to the Government on Custom-House Bonds, embracing successive Periods of Four Years, from the 4th of March, 1789, to the 4th of March, 1837; also the Amount of Duties collected during the same Period; together with the actual Loss and Ratio of Loss to the Amount of Duties collected under each Administration. Year. Number indebted. Whole Loss Whole Amount of Duties collected each Four Years. Ratio of Loss each Four Years to the Duties collected. From 4th March, 1789, to 4th March, 1793, Total,... Average loss per head,. Table exhibiting the Seats of Government, the Times of Holding the Election of State Officers, and the Times of the Meeting of the Legislatures, of the several States. 2d Monday in Sept. 1st Wednesday in Jan. Dates of the First Settlement of the several Colonies. 1828. Massachusetts Amount of Money expended in each State and Territory, by the United States, upon Works of Internal Improvement, from the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, to the 1st Day of October, Maine $11,724 22 | Tennessee. .104,042 46 Ohio $4,200 00 .390,159 03 Connecticut ..2,069 97 Indiana .108,123 88 Rhode Island. .195 19 Illinois .8,000 00 Alabama .81,762 78 .307,104 01 10,000 00 Arkansas. .44,690 00 Virginia... .150,000 00 Michigan. .48,607 95 North Carolina. ..1,000 00 Florida. ..799,002 01 Kentucky... .90,000 00 United States Mint. Officers of the Mint at Philadelphia. Salary. R. M. Patterson, Director. $3,500 J. R. McClintock, Melt- Salary. $2,000 er and Refiner. William Kneas, Engraver.1,500 " 2d Engraver.1,500 J. J. Singleton, Superin. . $2,000 David M. Mason, Coiner.. 1,500 J. W. Farnham, Assayer.." 1,500 Officers of the Branch at Charlotte, N. C. Salary. Salary. J. H. Wheeler, Superin. . $2,000 | John R. Bolton, Coiner ..$1,500 J. H. 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The fourteenth presidential term of four years, since the establishment of the government of the United States under the constitution, began on the 4th of March, 1841, and it will expire on the 3d of March, 1845. William H. Harrison, Ohio, President.... Salary. .$25,000 Va., Vice-President, and President by the death of General Harrison. THE CABINET. The following are the principal officers in the executive department of the government, who form the cabinet, and who hold their offices at the will of the President: Samuel L. Southard, New Jersey, acting Vice-President. Salary. $5,000 Daniel Webster, Mass., Secretary of State .6,000 A. P. Upshur, Virginia, Secretary of the Navy .6,000 .6,000 .6,000 .6,000 .4,000 |