For 1812. Marine hospital establishment, • Support and maintenance of light-houses, &c., $389,388 84 Six mos.of 1843. $184,548 46 114,771 73 50,134 54 Public buildings, &c., in Washington,· Furniture of the President's house,. 1,500 00 20,000 00 Total under direction of the Navy Dep't, 8,324,993 70 3,672,717 79 2. Statement of the Debt of the United States, December 1, 1843. 1. Of the (old) funded debt, being unclaimed principal and interest, returned from the late loan offices, 2. Outstanding certificates, and interest to 31st December, 1798, of the (old) unfunded debt, payable on presentation, 3. Treasury notes issued during the late war, payable on presentation, 4. Certificates of Mississippi stock, payable on presentation, 5. Debts of the corporate cities of the District of Columbia, assumed by the United States, viz: Of the city of Washington, Alexandria, $900,000 00 $210,000 00 $208,009 34 24,214 29 4,317 44 4.320 09 $1,320,000 00 *This sum includes $98,300, in the hands of the accounting officers. 3. Revenue and Expenditure from July 1, 1843, to March 1, 1844. From a subsequent report of the Secretary of the Treasury, made up to February 29, 1844, we gather the following particulars: The balance in the treasury on the 1st of July, 1843, was $10,434,507 55 The receipts from that time till 29th Feb'y, 1844, were From Customs, Lands, $15,102,688 26 Incidentals, Loan of 1843, 84,208 62 70,231 35 Treasury notes, The payments for the same period have been For civil list, miscellaneous, and for eign intercourse, 3,530,065 18 Military, 6,174,485 13 Naval, 4,703,956 13 Reimbursing treasury notes, 9,758,711 49 Interest on treasury notes, Interest on public debt, Balance in the treasury, 1st March, 1844, From these data it would appear, that the amount of the national debt, including treasury notes as a part of said debt, has been reduced $7,778,680 14, between the 1st July, 1843, and the 29th February, 1844. Thus |