From the situation of affairs here, it is impossible to foresee the delays to which this perplexing business will yet be subject. In the first and only interview which I had with the duke of Bassano, he said expressly that the obstacles which his absence had thrown in the way of the negotiation should not occur again; two months have not elapsed before the same obstacles are presented." Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a Report from the acting Secretary of the Treasury in compliance with the Resolution of the Senate of the thirteenth instant. To the Senate of the United States, I transmit to the senate a report of the acting secretary of the treasury, complying with their resolution of the 13th in stant. December 20th, 1813. Sir, JAMES MADISON. Treasury Department, December 16th, 1813. In compliance with the resolution of the senate of the 13th instant, I have the honour to state: That the amount of duties accruing on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States, from the 1st day of July, 1812, to the 31st day of December, of the same year, for which period the accounts of the collectors of the customs are settled, was And the amount of tonnage, including light money, accruing during the same period, was $ 9,869,199 31 92,297 70 $ 9,961,497 01 The accounts of the collectors from the 1st day of January, 1813, to the 30th day of September, of the same year, have been but partially settled; and some for the quarter ending the 30th of September have not yet been received at the treasury. For this period, therefore, an estimate only can be given, taken from the accounts of the collectors, as rendered to the treasury, and in some cases from their less formal returns. This estimate is as follows: Duties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported: For the 1st quarter of the year 1813 $ 2,280,000 2,356,000 Tonnage duties, including light money: For the 1st quarter of the year 1813 2d do. do. do. $ 6,016,000 $ 89,000 84,000 67,000 $ 240,000 The sums above stated, for duties on merchandise imported, are without deduction for drawbacks paid on merchandise re-exported. These drawbacks paid from the 1st of July to the 31st December, 1812, amounted, by the accounts as settled, to $ 639,555 44. And they are estimated to have amounted during the three first quarters of the year 1813, to the following sums, viz.; During the 1st quarter of the year 1813, to $ 536,000 I have the honour to be, with the highest respect, sir, your most obedient servant, The President of the United States. W. JONES, Acting Secretary of the Treasury. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a Report from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a Resolution of the thirty-first of December, 1813. To the Senate of the United States, I transmit to the senate a report of the acting secretary of the treasury complying with their resolution of the 31st of December, 1813. JAMES MADISON. Sir, Treasury Department, January 5th, 1814. The resolution of the senate, of the 31st of December last, requests the president of the United States to cause to be laid before that body a statement of all articles manufactured or composed of wool, or of which wool is the material of chief value, of all articles manufactured or composed of cotton, or of which cotton is the material of chief value; and also the value of all spirits distilled from the sugar cane, or from the produce of the sugar cane, which have been imported into the United States since the year 1804, specifying the amount of the said articles imported in each year. I have the honour to state that the accounts rendered to the treasury by the collectors of the customs do not contain the information required by the above resolution, and that the materials for furnishing the statements requested do not exist at the treasury. Articles manufactured or composed of wool or of cotton are, with a great variety of other articles, subject, on importation, to the payment of an ad valorem duty. They are not distinguished in the accounts and returns from other articles paying the same ad valorem duties; and no means exist, there fore, at the treasury, for ascertaining their amount or value. Spirits distilled from the sugar cane, or the produce of the sugar cane, are liable to the same duty on importation as spirits distilled from any other material except from grain, and therefore are not distinguished in the treasury accounts from brandies, or spirits distilled from fruit. As the spirits imported from the West Indies are, however, known to consist almost wholly of spirits distilled from the produce of the sugar cane, a statement has been prepared exhibiting the quantity of spirits imported from thence for each year since 1804. The value of these spirits has been estimated from the pricescurrent returned by the collectors of the customs with their quarterly abstracts of exports for each year, and is annexed to the statement. I have the honour to be, very respectfully, sir, your most obedient servant, W. JONES, The President of the United States. Statement exhibiting the quantity and estimated value of spirits distilled from other materials than grain, imported into the United States from West Indies and American colonies. Note. The value has been estimated agreeably to the prices current returned by the collectors of the customs in their quarterly abstracts of exports for each year. Treasury Department, Register's Office, Fan. 5th, 1814. JOSEPH NOURSE, Register. [A report of the secretary of state on the subject of retaliation was laid before the senate, in compliance with their resolution calling for information on the subject. Owing to the destruction of the public buildings at Washington by the enemy, we were unable to procure a copy of this report in time for publication in its proper place, but we shall endeavour to procure it for a subsequent volume.] Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting his Annual Report, prepared in obedience to the act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to establish the Treasury De partment." Sir, Treasury Department, January 8, 1814. I have the honour to inclose a report prepared in obedience to the act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to establish the treasury department." I have the honour to be, very respectfully, sir, your obe dient servant, W. JONES, Acting Secretary of the Treasury. The Honourable the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In obedience to the directions of the "Act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to establish the Treasury Department," the acting Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits the following REPORT AND ESTIMATES: The monies actually received into the treasury, during the year ending on the 30th of September, 1813, have amounted to $ 37,544,954 93, viz: Proceeds of the customs, sales of lands, small branches of revenue, and re-payments, Proceeds of loans, viz. Loan of eleven millions, under the act of March 14, 1812, 4,337,487 50 Ditto of sixteen millions, un der the act of February 8, As will appear by the annexed statement E. Making, together with the balance in the treasury on the 1st of October, 1812, which was An aggregate of 13,568,042 43 23,976,912 50 37,544,954 93 2,362,652 69 39,907,607 62 The payments during the same period have amounted to For civil, diplomatic, and miscellaneous ex- 1,705,916 35 18,484,750 49 Navy, including the building of new ships, and the marine corps, 6,420,707 20 Public Debt: 32,928,855 19 And left in the treasury on the 30th of Sep tember last, 6,978,752 43 39,997,607 62 |
