an Act was passed in the 53rd year of His present Majesty's Reigu intituled "an Act for further allowing the importation and exportation of certain Articles at the Island of Bermuda :"* And whereas it is ex pedient that the said Acts should be extended, so far as regards the Articles to be allowed to be imported and exported; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and

II. And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to import Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading Boards and Plank, Timber, Shingles, and Lumber of any sort, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, and Live Stock of any sort, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Pease, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any sort, such Commodities being of the growth or production of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, from the said Territories to the Port of Saint George, in the Island of Bermuda, in any Foreign Ship or Vessel belonging to any Country in amity with His Majesty, any thing in an Act passed in the 28th year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for regulating the Trade between the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America, and between His Majesty's said Subjects, and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies," or in any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

III. And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for any of His Majesty's Subjects to export any of the Articles before enumerated, which shall have been imported in any Foreign Ship or Vessel from the Territories of The United States into the Island of Bermuda, from the said Port of Saint George, to any of His Majesty's Islands or Dominions in the West Indies, in British-built Ships and Vessels, owned and navigated according to Law.

* Act of the British Parliament "for further allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Articles at the Island of Bermuda."

[53 Geo. 3. Cap. 50.] [21st May 1813.] WHEREAS it appears expedient, that the Trade which is permitted to be carried on at the Port of Saint George, in the Island of Bermuda, by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, "an Act to allow British Plantation Sugar and Coffee, imported into Bermuda in British Ships, to be exported to the Territories of the United States of America in Foreign Ships or Vessels, and to permit Articles, the production of the said United States, to be imported into the said Island in Foreign Ships or Vessels," should be permitted at the Port of Hamilton in the said Island; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all such Articles as may be imported into the Port of Saint George in the Island of Bermuda, and all such Articles as may be exported from the said Port by virtue of the said Act, shall and may be respectively imported into and exported from the Port of Hamilton, in the said Island, in like manner, and in none other, as is permitted by the said Act; any thing in the Act passed in the 28th year of His present Majesty, intituled “an Act for regulating the Trade between the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America, and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies," or in any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that in addition to the Articles enumerated in the said Acts, it shall be lawful to import from The United States into the Ports mentioned in the Acts above recited, in Vessels of the description therein stated, and under the like Authority, Restrictions, Rules, Regulations, Penalties, and Forfeitures, provided in the said recited Acts, the articles of Fruit and Vegetables, being the produce of the said States; and in addition to the Articles permitted to be exported by the said above recited Acts, to export from the said Island of Bermuda to The said United States, in such Vessels, and under such Regulations as aforesaid, Rum and Melasses, the produce of any British Colony or Plantation in the West Indies, which shall have been legally imported into the Island of Bermuda in any British Ship or Vessel.

PROCLAMATION of The Prince Regent of Great Britain, prohibiting British Subjects from taking part in the Contest between Spain and the Spanish-American Provinces.Brighton, 27th November, 1817.

By His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Name and on the behalf of His Majesty.

A PROCLAMATION,

Prohibiting His Majesty's Natural-born Subjects from serving or enlisting, or entering themselves to serve, in the Military Forces or Ships of War, raised or set forth by the Persons exercising or assuming to exercise the Powers of Government in certain Provinces, and Parts of Provinces, in Spanish America, or in the Military Forces of His Catholic Majesty employed in Spanish America, or in His said Ma-jesty's Ships of War.

GEORGE, P. R.

WHEREAS there unhappily subsists a state of Warfare between His Catholic Majesty and divers Provinces or Parts of Provinces in Spanish America: and whereas it has been represented to Us, that many of Our Subjects have, without Our leave or licence, enlisted or entered themselves to serve in the Military Forces or Ships of War raised or set forth, or intended to be raised or set forth, by the Persons exercising or assuming to exercise the Powers of Government in such Provinces or Parts of Provinces, and that divers others of Our Subjects are about, in like manner, to enter and enlist themselves: and whereas such practices are highly prejudicial to, and tend to endanger

the peace and welfare of our Crown and Dominions; We do therefore hereby, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, strictly charge and command all and every of our natural-born Subjects, of what degree or quality soever, not to serve in any such Military Forces or Ships of War as aforesaid, and not to enlist or enter themselves to serve therein, and not to go beyond the Seas, or embark, in order to serve, or with intent to enter or enlist themselves to serve, in such Military Forces or Ships of War: and it is, at the same time, Our Royal Will and Pleasure, and We do, by and with the advice aforesaid, hereby also strictly charge and command all and every of Our said Subjects not to serve or enlist, or enter themselves to serve, in any of the Military Forces or Ships of War raised or set forth, or to be raised or set forth by His Catholic Majesty, and not to go beyond the Seas, or embark, in order or to the intent to serve or enter, or enlist themselves to serve, in such Military Forces or Ships of War: it is, nevertheless, Our Royal Will and Pleasure, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to prohibit any of Our Subjects who are engaged at the time of the date of this Our Proclamation in serving in the Military Forces of His Catholic Majesty, with Our leave or licence, from continuing to serve therein, provided that such Our said Subjects do not serve with the Military Forces of His Catholic Majesty, when employed in Spanish America: and We do hereby, by and with the advice aforesaid, strictly require all Our said Subjects duly to conform to Our commands herein contained, under pain of Our highest displeasure, and the utmost forfeitures, penalties and punishments, to which, by Law, they will otherwise be liable.

Given at Our Court at Brighton, the 27th day of November, 1817, in the 58th year of His Majesty's Reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

REPORT of the Secretary of the Treasury to the President of The United States, containing a General Sketch of the Finances of the Republic.—20th September, 1816.*

EXTRACT, &c.

THE Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President of The United States, the following General Sketch of the Finances, with reference to the 1st of August, 1816, comprehending:

1. A view of the sources of Revenue, and the objects of Public Expenditure.

II. A view of the Fiscal Measures during 1816.

Presented to Congress, with the Message of the President, on the Opening of the Session, 3rd December, 1816.

I. A View of the Sources of Revenue, and the Objects of Public

Expenditure.

REVENUE.

The return of Peace enabling the Legislature to alleviate the burdens imposed by the necessities of the War, Congress, during the last Session, discontinued or reduced the following Duties and Taxes:

1. The Acts imposing duties upon Articles of Domestic Manufacture were repealed,

2. The Acts imposing duties on Furniture and Watches were repealed.

3. The duties imposed on Licenses to Retailers of Foreign Merchandize, &c., were repealed.

4. The duties imposed on Spirits, distilled within The United States, were reduced, and the collection modified.

5. The Rates of Postage were reduced.

6. The direct Tax was reduced from 6,000,000 dollars to 3,000,000 dollars, and was imposed for one year only.

7. The double Duties on Merchandize imported were discontinued, and a new Tariff established.

The discontinuance and reduction of the Duties and Taxes, (independent of the Impost,) may be estimated at the annual amount of 8,000,000 dollars; with the contingent diminution of 3,000,000 dollars more, if the direct Tax should not be continued after the year 1816.

But the remaining Sources of Revenue were ample for the maintenance of the Public Credit, and the prosecution of a liberal and provident policy. They consist:

1. Of the Customs, including the Duty upon Salt, according to the new Tariff of Duties.

2. Of the direct Tax imposed for 1816.

3. Of the internal Duties on Stamps; on Licences to retail; on Spirits distilled; on Refined Sugar; on Carriages and Harness; on Sales at Auction.

4. Of Postage.

5. Of the products of fines, penalties and forfeitures, and other miscellaneous receipts.

6. Of the proceeds of the sales of Public Lands.

To these Sources of Revenue, must be added the auxiliary authority to issue Treasury Notes of various denominations, and to receive money upon Loan. The authority was necessary, in anticipation of the Revenue, throughout the year 1815, to meet the arrearages of the War Expenditures; to discharge the floating Public Debt of Treasury Notes and temporary Loans, and to pay the Instalments of the Principal and the Interest of the Funded Public Debt. But the Treasury would no longer require the aid of Loans or Treasury Notes, if the facilities of transferring its Funds from place to place had not been destroyed, when the National Currency became extinct.

The Committee of Ways and Means have heretofore estimated the annual product of the Customs, according to the new Tariff of Duties, at about the sum of 17,000,000 dollars, and although, for the present year, the amount will be much greater, in consequence of the late excessive Importations, the estimate of the Committee may be accepted as a just measure of the permanent annual product of the Customs, for the purposes of a Peace Establishment. The annual product of the direct tax, the internal revenues, and the sales of public lands, has, in like manner, been estimated at about the sum of 7,000,000 dollars, making, upon this general view, and supposing a continuance of the direct tax, a permanent annual revenue of about 24,000,000 dollars.

EXPENDITURE.

It is not intended, in this preliminary view of the objects of public expenditure, to embrace the temporary objects arising from the War, but those only of a permanent nature, upon a Peace Establishment, and which have heretofore been estimated at an annual aggregate of about 24,000,000 dollars.

1. For Civil, diplomatic, and miscellaneous expenses.

2. For Military expenses, including the Indian Department and the armament of the Militia.

3. For the Naval expenses, including the annual appropriations for the purchase of timber, and the gradual increase of the Navy.

4. For the instalments and interest payable on the Funded Public Debt.

It is proper to remark, that Temporary Loans and Treasury Notes, issued under the authority of Acts passed prior to December, 1814, were charged on the Sinking Fund; but as the current Revenue will afford the means to satisfy those demands in the course of a few months, the Floating Debt is not enumerated with the objects of annual expenditure.

It is also proper to remark, that the principal of the Louisiana Stock is reimbursable at the Treasury of The United States in 4 annual instalments, commencing in 1818; and that, by the operation of the Sinking Fund, the old 6 per cent. Stock will be extinguished in 1818, the deferred Stock in 1824, and the Louisiana Stock in 1822. The Stock created on account of the War Debt is charged upon the Sinking Fund, and becomes redeemable at various periods, between the years 1825 and 1828.

For the details connected with this general view of the sources of Revenue, and the objects of Public Expenditure, it is sufficient to refer to the Annual Report from the Treasury Department, dated the 6th of December, 1815; the Report on the subject of the new Tariff of duties, dated the 12th of February, 1816; and the Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, dated the 9th day of January, 1816.