STATEMENT No. 5, showing the amount of liabilities and assets 1842-Dec. 17. Amount warrants outstanding, Balance, 1842-Dec. 17. By amount due from revenue officers as per state- $16,482 41 34,668 81 $51,151 22 $44,382 31 6,768 91 $51,151 22 $34,668 81 TREASURY Department, Treasurer's office, Dec. 20, 1842. Sir-Herewith I beg to hand you my account current as Treas- Very respectfully, Your most obedient servant, HY. L. RUTGERS, Treasurer. To His Excellency R. K. CALL, Governor of Florida. The Territory of Florida in account with Henry L. Rutgers, To expenses prosecuting criminals Southern District: Paid Auditor's Warrant, No. 9 - To expenses prosecuting criminals Western District: To expenses Treasury Department: Paid Auditor's Warrant, No. 74 86 87 31 01 10 15 The Territory of Florida in account with Henry L. Rutgers, By Balance received from Thos. H. Austin, late Treasurer, (in $265 66 "Fines and Forfeitures, Middle District : Received on Auditor's Certificate 622 51 381 391,079 74 199 12 $1,281 51 $26 77 HY. L. RUTGERS, TREASURER. 1842. By Balance in the Treasury, exclusive of the School Land Fund TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Auditor's Office, Dec. 20, 1842. I certify that I have examined the foregoing accounts, and compared the same with vouchers, and find all correct. JOHN MILLER, Auditor Public Accounts. TREASURY Department, Treasurer's Office, Dec. 29th, 1842. To His Excellency, R. K. Call, Governor of Florida: Sir I have the honor, herewith, to hand you an annual stateiment of the situation of the School Lands in Leon County, so far as I have been able to ascertain from the books and papers of the office, turned over to me, as prescribed by the act of the Legislative Council, approved 12th Feb. 1837. These records contain nothing in relation to the Lands in any other County. You will perceive that the annual rents of the lands in Leon county, leased under this act, amount to $101 50 (one hundred and one dollars and fifty cents ;) and, although the amount is but small, I regret to state that there is due, in arrearages, the sum of $371 50 (three hundred seventy-one dollars fifty cents. The amount of the fund arising from rent of land, according to the last report of my predecessor, dated 6th April, 1842, was $815 25 (eight hundred and fifteen dollars twenty-five cents,) consisting of $796 75 in bills of the Union Bank of Florida, and $18 50 in specie. This fund has not been paid over to me, but my predecessor has placed in my hands a treasury warrant for the amount; but, being in doubt whether this fund could properly be applied to payment of treasury warrants, I have declined receiving it for the balance of the fund, unless sanctioned by the Legislative Council. With great respect, your ob't serv't. H'Y L. RUTGERS, Treasurer. ANNUAL STATEMENT of School Lands, leased in Leon Co. $ 200 The N. E. qr., T. 2, R. 3, N. and E., at $2 00 per acre, N W qr. SE qr. do. do. do. SW qr. Tallahassee, December 29th, 1842. To His Excellency R. K. Call, Governor of Florida: Sir: I have to submit the following statement of the condition of the Fund for building the Capitol. There are now, in the hands of the Commissioner, notes due the Fund, for lots sold, turned over by the late Comm'ı, Judgment vs. D. F. Wilson, and securities on his note for The claims against the Fund are, Balance due late Comm'r, as per his report, 1st Feb. 1842, of contract, for carpentering, with J. $1,722 25 600 00-$2,322 25 563 21 924 00 Shine, 5,792 00 Bill of New Castle Manufacturing Company for boring implements, 167 15 $9,006 36 The liabilities of the Fund exceed the amount due to it $6,684 11 c.; and the notes for the lots, being payable in paper of the Union Bank of Florida, on 1st March, 1841, will be settled at the rate of depreciation which existed at that time, and, therefore, will not meet an equal amount of the claims against the Fund. In the present embarrassed condition of the country, the remaining lots, and the quarter section of land not yet located, cannot be disposed of without very great sacrifice. They were valued, in the report in June, 1841, at $6,000, but would not sell, at this time, for half that amount. Upwards of $9,000 of the amount for which the lots in the original plan, and in the north addition to the city of Tallahassee, sold, exclusive of interest, has never been paid into the Fund. In the report last alluded to, it was estimated that probably $4,000 of this might be collected; since that time, however, the suits against the securities of W. Alston, former Commissioner, for a balance not paid over, and for money collected, with which he omitted to charge himself, have been decided, and the securities have not been held liable for the defalcation. No reliance, therefore, can at present be put in either of these sources, for means to meet debts now due, or to prosecute the work. In December, 1841, the late Commissioner reported, Balance (in notes) due from him, He charges himself, in January, 1842, with, Making, $1,617 87 141 15 $1,759 04 Which, deducted from the notes and judgment handed over to the present Commissioner, 2,322 25 Leaves the balance reported as due him, Feb. 1, 1842, $563 21 All the carpentry contracted for by Mr. Levinus has been executed, and the whole balance of the amount of the contract, and the bill for work, directed by the Commissioner, are now due. The time specified for the completion of the masonry has long since elapsed; but the delay, at least since the present Commissioner, came into the office, has not been from default of the contractor. Mr. Shine has repeatedly given notice, that he had provided all the materials and was ready speedily to complete what remains to be executed. The state of the Fund, and the extent to which it is now in arrear to him, has deterred the Commissioner from requiring him to proceed. All the plastering contracted for has been executed, and the balance stated is now due to the contractor. By the agreement it was provided that Mr. Scott should add a cornice, and other ornaments to the apartments designed for the Senate chamber and Court room at a fixed rate, if directed by the Commissioner. These directions were never given; but Mr. Scott executed the ornamental work, and claims pay for it, in addition to the balance stated. The Fund being in arrear for work specifically contracted for, and the state of the building urgently requiring other work, the Commissioner did not feel authorized to approve the account, and would respectfully request the matter to be referred to the Legislature. It is most urgently required that the work, of the Capitol, should be speedily continued, in order to preserve that already executed from the serious injury it must suffer from exposure. The present resources of the Fund afford no means of doing it; and it is estimated, that an additional sum of $24,000 will be required to pay off the debts now due, and to complete the edifice. I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your ob't serv't, C. G. ENGLISH, Commissioner. MEMORIAL Of a Convention of the friends of the American Colonization Society Assembled in Washington City 4th May, 1842. The Convention of the friends of African Colonization assembled in Washington City respectfully represent, that the American Colonization Society having been established near the close of the year 1816, by a respectable body of citizens from every section of this Union, for the humane and philanthropic purpose (in co-operaation with the General Government and such of the States, as might adopt regulations on the subject,) of founding colonies of free persons of color, with their own consent, on the coast of Africa, proceeded to explore the coast, purchase by fair negotiation with the native tribes an eligible tract of country, and assist such free persons of color as were disposed to emigrate in their removal and settlement in Africa. Impressed with the difficulty and magnitude of the enterprise, and the importance, if not absolute necessity of the countenance and aid of the Government, memorials were early addressed to Congress, and, in consequence, sustained as they were, by the avowed opinion of the Legislatures of several States, measures were adopted by Congress for the more effectual suppression of the African slave-trade, by its denunciation and punishment as piracy, and authority was conferred upon the President of the U. States to make such regulations and arrangements as he might deem expedient for the safe-keeping, support, and removal beyond the limits of the United States, all such Africans or persons of color as might be delivered and brought within their jurisdiction, and to appoint a proper person or persons, residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents, to receive those persons of color "delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the slave trade by the commanders of the United States armed vessels." The then President of the United States, Mr. Monroe, perceiving that the benevolent provisions of this law for the benefit of the |