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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.

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1832

10

10

1834

344.27

140
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

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32,728.23 457 2,521,930.40 12,083,205.38

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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

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5

13 18 3,955.76

14,656.50

588 3,737,079.91

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649 4,002,824.24

5

11,321.07

54,419.42 536 4,452,858.91 17,174,432.96

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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
883 5,592,604.86

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
each Four
Years.

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,
From 4th March, 1793, to 4th March, 1797,
From 4th March, 1797, to 4th March, 1801,
From 4th March, 1801, to 4th March, 1805,
From 4th March, 1805, to 4th March, 1809,
From 4th March, 1809, to 4th March, 1813,
From 4th March, 1813, to 4th March, 1817,
From 4th March, 1817, to 4th March, 1821,
From 4th March, 1821, to 4th March, 1825,
From 4th March, 1825, to 4th March, 1829,
From 4th March, 1829, to 4th March, 1833,
From 4th March, 1833, to 4th March, 1837,

Total,...

Average loss per head,.

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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.

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2d Monday in Sept. 1st Wednesday in Jan.
2d Tuesday in March, 1st Wednesday in June.
1st Tuesday in Sept. 2d Thursday in October.
2d Monday in Nov. 1st Wednesday in Jan.
Gov. and Sen. in April, 1st Wed. in May & June.
Rep. in April and Aug. last Wed. in Oct. and Jan
1st Monday in April, 1st Wednesday in May.
1st Monday in Nov. 1st Tuesday in January
2d Tuesday in October, 4th Tuesday in October.
2d Tuesday in October, 1st Tuesday in January.
2d Tuesday in Nov. 1st Tuesday in Jan. bien.
1st Wednesday in Oct. last Monday in December.
4th Thursday in April, 1st Monday in December.
Commonly in August, 2d Monday in Nov. bien.
2d Monday in October, 4th Monday in November.
1st Monday in October, 1st Monday in November.
1st Monday in August, 1st Monday in November
1st Mon. & Tues. Nov. 1st Monday in Jan. bien.
1st Monday in July, 1st Monday in January,
1st Monday in October, 2d Monday in Oct. bien.
1st Thursday in Aug. 1st Monday in Oct. bien.
1st Monday in August, 1st Monday in December.
2d Tuesday in October, 1st Monday in December.
1st Monday in August, 1st Monday in December.
1st Monday in August, 1st Monday in Dec. bien.
1st Monday in August, 1st Monday in Nov. bien.
1st Monday in October, 1st Monday in November.

Dates of the First Settlement of the several Colonies.

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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

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Illinois

.8,000 00

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Alabama

.81,762 78

.307,104 01

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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

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United States Mint.

Officers of the Mint at Philadelphia.

Salary.

R. M. Patterson, Director. $3,500 J. R. McClintock, Melt-
Wm. Findlay, Treasurer.. 2,000
Franklin Peale, Chief Coiner 2,000
J. R. Eckfeldt, Assayer....2,000

Salary.

$2,000

er and Refiner. William Kneas, Engraver.1,500 " 2d Engraver.1,500

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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. Gibbon, Assayer.....1,500

Number of Post Offices on the 1st of May, 1840....13,376.

Privilege of Franking.

Letters and packets to and from the following officers of the government, are by law received and conveyed by post, free of postage:

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The President and Vice-President of the United States, Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Navy; Attorney-General; Postmasters-General, and Assistant Postmasters-General; Comptrollers, Auditors, Register, and Solicitor of the Treasury; Treasurer; Commissioner of the General Land Office; Commissioners of the Navy Board; Commissary-General; Inspectors-General; Quartermaster-General; Paymaster-General; Superintendent of Patent Office; Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives; President and Secretary of the Senate; and any individual who shall have been, or may hereafter be, President of the United States; and each may receive newspapers by post, free of postage. Each member of the Senate, and each member and delegate of the House of Representatives, may send and receive, free of postage, newspapers, letters, and packets, weighing not more than two ounces, (in case of excess of weight, excess alone to be paid for,) and all documents printed by order of either house, from the period

of sixty days before he takes his seat in Congress, till the next meeting of the next Congress.

Postmasters may send and receive, free of postage, letters and packets not exceeding half an ounce in weight; and they may receive one daily newspaper each, or what is equivalent thereto.

Printers of newspapers may send one paper to each and every other printer of newspapers within the United States, free of postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may provide.

United States Executive Government.

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....
John Tyler,

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
John C. Spencer, New York, Secretary of War
Walter Forward, Penn., Secretary of the Treasury
Charles A. Wickliffe, Kentucky, Postmaster-General..
Hugh S. Legare, South Carolina, Attorney-General

.6,000

.6,000

.6,000

.6,000

.4,000

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