Military and Naval Expenditures.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, REGISTER'S OFFICE, February 5, 1816.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit papers A and B, being comparative statements between the annual amount of the expenditures of the Military and Naval Establishments as rendered by the Treasury Department, under a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States of the 20th of January, 1816, and the statement thereof furnished under the resolution of the House, of the 31st March, 1810. I have the honor to be, &c.

Hon. ALEXANDER J. DALLAS, Secretary of the Treasury.

(A.)

JOSEPH NOURSE.

A comparative statement between the annual amount of the expenditures for the Military Establish ment of the United States, as rendered by the Treasury Department, under a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, of the 20th of January, 1816, and the statement thereof furnished under the resolution of the House, of the 31st of March, 1810.

Years.

Amount as ex-Expenditures out of appropriations Amount as ex- A repayment.

hibited under
resolution of
Mar. 30, 1810.

for War Department, in relation
to Indian Department, other than
treaties and trading-houses.

hibited under
resolution of

Jan. 20, 1816.

- $30,941,669 47

4,531 21

Amount of expenditures as exhibited under the resolution of 31st March, 1810
Deduct the repayment of $2,336 38 as above, and the sum of $2,194 83 as Indian expen-
diture

To which expenditures out of the appropriations for the War Department, in relation to Indian Department, other than the expenditures exhibited for treaties with the Indians, and trading-houses

As above

30,937,138 26

1,152,040 46

$32,089,178 78 of

(a) This amount, with the annual subdivisions, was formed by the Register, by estimate, for the purpose excluding the payments which had been made by the purveyors of public supplies, contractors, and other per sons who had expended public moneys in the purchase of Indian goods, rations, or supplies, which might ap ply to the Indian Department, and which had been made from moneys charged and exhibited in the annual printed public accounts as advanced for the Military Establishment.

These annual amounts, ascertained from the best materials to which access could be had, were dedacted from the total amount of the annual actual expenditures, with a view to conform, as nearly as possible, with the resolution of the House, of the 31st March, 1810, by excluding the expenditures on account of the Indian Department.

TREASURY Department, RegisteR'S OFFICE, February 6, 1816.

JOSEPH NOURSE, Register.

State of the Sinking Fund.

(B.)

A comparative statement between the annual amount of the expenditure for the Navy of the United States, as rendered by the Treasury Department, under a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, of the 20th January, 1816, and the statement thereof, furnished under the resolution of the House, of the 31st of March, 1810.

Amount of expenditures as exhibited under the resolution of 20th January 1816
And the marine hospital expenditure

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, REGISTER'S OFFICE, February 5, 1816.

On account of the interest on Louisiana stock payable in Europe

724,136 11

merchandise import-
ed, and on the ton-
nage of vessels

$4,830,422 36

III. From the proceeds of the duties on
goods, wares, and merchandise im-
ported, and on the tonnage of vessels,
and from the proceeds of the direct
tax and internal duties in advance,
and on account of the annual appro-
priation of eight millions of dollars
for the year 1816

$8,000,000 00

4,498,219 18

12,839,929 35

That the aforesaid sum of twelve millions eight hundred and thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-five cents will be accounted for in the next annual report, in conformity with the accounts which shall have been rendered to this Department.

That, in the meantime, the manner in which the said sum has been applied is estimated as follows, viz:

53,038 17

There is estimated to have been applied to the payment
of the deficiency of the provision at the end of the
year 1814, as above stated, the sum of 58,496 78
There was paid for loss on exchange on
remittances from America to Europe,
during the year 1815, the sum of
There is estimated to have been applied
during the year 1815 to the reim-
bursement of the principal of the pub-
lic debt
$7,034,016 48
And to the payment of
interest on the same

5,606,966 02 And there is estimated to have been left unapplied at the end of the year 1815, a sum applicable to payments on account of the public debt during the year 1816, of

12,640,981 50

87,412 90 $12,839,929 35

Amounting together to the sum of

That the temporary loans, which became payable during the year 1815 were paid, but the two $12,839,929 35 instalments amounting to $500,000, which became payable to the State bank, Boston, in the month

Which disbursements were made out of the follow-of December, 1814, and which were not then paid ing funds, viz:

from the inability of the Treasury to apply the moneys within its control to that object, owing to the disordered state of the public currency.

That, during the year 1815, and on the 1st day of January, 1816, Treasury notes charged upon the Sinking Fund fell due amounting to $7.747,280. It was not within the power of the Treasury to make provision for the payment of any part of these notes, or of those which had fallen due, and had not been paid in the preceding year, (with the exception of such as were applied by their holders to the payment of duties and taxes,) until the 1st of July, 1815, when provision was made, and public notice thereof given for the reimbursement of such Treasury notes as bad previously to that time become payable at Baltimore and Washington. The same provision was made on the 1st of August for those previously payable

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at Philadelphia; on the 1st of September for those previously payable at Savannah; and on the days when they respectively become payable, for those reimbursable at all other places, with the exception of New York and Boston; at neither of which places have funds yet been obtained to an extent sufficient to meet the payment of the Treasury notes reimbursable at those two places respectively. The annexed statement marked L, shows the time when, and the places at which, all the Treasury notes reimbursable in the year 1815, and on the 1st of January, 1816, became payable.

of Spain and France, enriched our enterprising merchants; the benefits of which were sensibly felt by the agriculturists, whose wealth and industry were increased and extended. When external commerce was suspended the capitalists throughout the Union became solicitous to give activity to their capital. A portion of it, it is believed, was directed to the improvement of agriculture; and not an inconsiderable portion of it, as it appears, was likewise employed in erecting establishments for manufacturing of cotton wool.

To make this statement as satisfactory as posA statement, marked H, is annexed, which ex-sible, to give it all the certainty that it is suscepthibits the whole amount of stock transferred to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, and standing to their credit on the books of the Treasury on the last day of December, 1815. All which is respectfully submitted by

A. J. DALLAS, Sec'ry Treasury. [The tabular statements are omitted.]

PROTECTION TO THE MANUFACTURERS
OF COTTON FABRICS.

ible of attaining, the following facts are respectfully submitted to the consideration of the House. They show the rapid progress which has been made in a few years, and, evidently, the ability to carry them on with certainty of success, should a just and liberal policy regard them as objects deserving encouragement:

In the year 1800, 500 bales of cotton were manufactured in manufacturing establishments; in 1805, 1,000; in 1810, 10,000; and in 1815, 90,000.

Capital

Males employed from the age of 17 and
upwards -

$40,000,000

This statement the committee have no reason to doubt; nor have they any to question the truth [Communicated to the House, February 13, 1816.] which is employed, of the labor which it comof the following succinct statement of the capital Mr. NEWTON, from the Committee of Commands, and of the products of that labor: merce and Manufactures, to whom was referred the memorials and petitions of the manufacturers of cotton wool, submitted the following report: The committee were conscious that they had no ordinary duty to perform, when the House of Representatives referred to their consideration the memorials and petitions of the manufacturers of cotton wool. In obedience to the instructions of the House they have given great attention to the subject, and beg leave to present the result of their deliberations.

They are not a little apprehensive that they have not succeeded in doing justice to a subject so intimately connected with the advancement and prosperity of agriculture and commerce; a subject which enlightened statesmen and philosophers have deemed not unworthy of their attention and consideration.

Women and female children
Boys under 17 years of age
Wages of 100,000 persons, averaging
$150 each-

10,000

66,000

24,000

$15,000,000

lbs. 27,000,000

Cotton wool manufactured, 90,000 bales,
amounting to
Number of yards of cotton of various

kinds

81,000,000

Cost per yard, averaging 30 cents - - $24,300,000

The rise and progress of such establishments can excite no wonder. The inducements to industry, in a free Government, are numerous and inviting. Effects are always in unison with their causes. The inducements consist in the certainty and security, which every citizen enjoys, of exIt is not the intention of the committee to ercising exclusive dominion over the creations of offer any theoretical opinions of their own or of his genius, and the products of his labor; in proothers; they are persuaded that a display of spec- curing from his native soil, at all times, with ulative opinions would not meet with approba- facility, the raw materials that are required; and tion. From these views the committee are dis- in the liberal encouragement that will be accordposed to state facts, and to make such observa-ed by agriculturists to those who, by their labor, tions only as shall be intimately connected with, keep up a constant and increasing demand for the and warranted by them. produce of agriculture.

Prior to the years 1806 and 1807, establishments for manufacturing cotton wool had not been attempted, but in a few instances, and on a limited scale. Their rise and progress are attributable to embarrassments, to which commerce was subjected, which embarrassments originated in causes not within the control of human prudence.

While commerce flourished, the trade which had been carried on with the continent of Europe, with the East Indies, and with the colonies 14th CoN. 1st SESS.-53

Every State will participate in those advantages; the resources of each will be explored, opened, and enlarged. Different sections of the Union will, according to their position, the climate, the population, the habits of the people, and the nature of the soil, strike into that line of industry which is best adapted to their interest and the good of the whole; an active and free intercourse, promoted and facilitated by roads and canals, will ensue; prejudices, which are generated by distance, and the want of inducements to

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approach each other and reciprocate benefits, treasures that are embosomed in the earth, on the will be removed; information will be extended; genius and ingenuity of our manufacturers and the Union will acquire strength and solidity; mechanics, and on the intelligence and enterprise and the Constitution of the United States, and of our merchants. that of each State, will be regarded as fountains, from which flow numerous streams of public and private prosperity.

The Government, possessing the intelligence and the art of improving the resources of the nation, will increase its efficient powers, and, enEach Government, moving in its appropriate joying the confidence of those whom it has made orbit, performing with ability its separate func-happy, will oppose to the assailant of the nation's tions, will be endeared to the hearts of a good and grateful people.

In proportion as the commerce of the United States depends on agriculture and manufactures, The fabrics themselves, in point of duration as a common basis, will it increase, and become and use, are likewise inferior to the substantial independent of those revolutions and fluctua-fabrics of American manufacture, Although the tions, which the ambition and jealousy of for-India cotton fabrics can be sold for a lower price eign Governments are too apt to produce. Our navigation will be quickened, and, supported as it will be by internal resources never before at the command of any nation, will advance to the extent of those resources.

The distance of most of the Western States from the ocean, the exuberant richness of the soil, and the variety of its products, forcibly impress the mind of the committee with a belief that all these causes conspire to encourage manufactures, and to give an impetus and direction to such a If want of foresight should neglect the culti-disposition. Although the Western States may vation and improvement of them, the opportune moment may be lost, perhaps, for centuries, and the energies of this nation be, thereby, prevented from developing themselves, and from making the boon which is proffered our own.