Total expenditures in mak- Aggregate statement of twenty-nine banks, Due from other banks and incorporations Suspense account, &c. Due from branches to parent banks $11,155,025 88 48,159 87 120,699 88 443,383 55 1,028,831 45 169,497 77 1,049,323 38 1,246,447 23 404,126 47 $18,115,031 04 is Stock owned by non-resi bank Bank notes in circulation 443,383 55 1,288,783 33 1,696,160 00 21,323,460 00 $1,556,799 00 Salt.-Amount inspected during the year 1830,-1,430,000 bushels Education.-Colleges, 4; medical colleges, 2; academies, 55; students in the colleges 506; in the medical colleges 276; in the academies 3,835. Common school districts, 9,062. Scholars taught in common schools, 499,424. Expended annually for the support of the common schools, $1,061,699; of this amount, about one tenth is derived from the revenue of the school fund, another tenth is raised by a tax upon the property of the towns respectively; something less than two tenths is raised by a tax upon the property of the district, in pursuance of a vote of the inhabitants thereof; and the residue, nearly six tenths, $617,820, is paid by the parents and guardians of the scholars, for books, and for the $6,294,600 00 5,870,935 39 balance of their school bills, after 678,729 46 the public money has been applied. 5,814 Manufactured in families as per 1,382 2,549 $5,000,000. Military Establishment. Horse artillery 1,716 Cavalry Artillery 12,803 Infantry, including riflemen 166,514 27 companies of artillery and cavalry, attached to infantry for inspection 1,679 Total rank and file 188,526 Agriculture. Acres of land in the state 29,495,720 state census returns. Fulled cloths, 2,918,233 yards, value $2,918,323. Flannels and other woollens, not fulled, 3,468,001 yards, value $693,600. Linen, cotton, and other cloths, 8,079,992 yards, value $1,211,998. LEGISLATION.-At the session 179,024,175 of 1831, an act was passed abol42,264,137 ishing imprisonment for debt, in suits upon contracts, except in case of fraud, and then authorising close confinement. It, however, allows the prisoner to be discharg ed, upon his assigning his property for the benefit of his creditors. $221,288,312 Population, 1,934,496. Yards of woollen,cotton, and linen cloths manufactured in 1830, 14,466,226. Number of grist mills, 2,264. Saw mills, 5,195. Oil mills, 121. Fulling mills, 1,222. Carding machines, 1,584. Iron works, 170, Trip hammers, 164. Distilleries, 1,129. Asheries, 2,105. There are 237 newspapers-publishing annually, as is estimated, 14,536,000 printed sheets. Manufactures. There are 88 cotton manufactories, 208 woollen, 200 iron. Cotton. The cotton manufactories employ about 132,000 spindles. About 22,000 bales of raw cotton are used, and the annual value of cotton goods manufactured, exceeds $3,000,000. Wool. Value of woollen goods annually manufactured (exclusive factured salt, to six cents per bushel. A resolution was also proposed in the Assembly by Mr. Selden, and passed without opposition, declaring, if the Senate concur, that the surplus revenues of the United States, beyond what shall be deemed by Congress necessary for the expenses of the general government, and a proper provision for public defence and safety, ought. to be annually distributed among the several States, according to their population, to be estimated in the manner pointed out by the second section of the first article of the constitution, for the apportionment of representatives and direct taxes. In the Senate, the resolution was referred to a Committee, which reported in favor of its passage, but opposition being manifested to it, it was never acted upon. CONTROVERSY BETWEEN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY.-By certain documents which were laid before the legislature, relative to the controversy between that State and the State of New Jersey, as to territory and jurisdictional limits, it appears, that New Jersey commenced a suit in the Supreme Court of the United States, in which she sets forth that she is justly entitled to the exclusive jurisdiction and property of, and over the waters of the Hudson river, from the 41st degree of latitude, to the bay of New York, or midway of the said river, and to the midway of the channel of the said bay of New York, and the whole of Staten Island Sound, together with the land covered by water of the said river, bay, and sound, in the like extent. To bring the matter zo an issue, she filed her bill, and procured a subpoena to be served on the governor and attorney general, to appear on behalf of the people of the state of New York, and answer thereto, under the penalty of five hundred dollars. The governor informed the legislature, that unless otherwise directed, he should instruct the attorney general to protest against any waiver of right by appearing, but to appear to contest the suit in its progress. In the first instance, the governor, upon the advice of the attorney general, determined not to appear, nor to acknowledge the jurisdiction,of the federal court; but the public opinion of the state, was so decidedly expressed against that course that he was compelled to forego his purpose, and offer the decision of the supreme court in January Term, 1831, ordering the State of New York, to appear at the next term, or in case of default, the Court would proceed to hear the cause, the governor transmitted the following message to the legislature, setting forth his reasons for refusing to appear upon the first citation. 'Gentlemen,-I consider it my duty to lay before you, the accompanying communication from the attorney general, concerning our controversy with New Jersey. The matter to which it relates, derives much of its importance from the grounds assumed by the judges of the supreme court of the United States with regard to their powers; and I feel bound to present to you my views of the subject, as well as the course which I feel impelled, by a regard to the interests and honor of the state, to pursue, unless you shall think proper to give it a different direction. 'You are apprised, by the accompanying papers, and those which have preceded them, from the same source, of the several steps taken by the State of New Jersey, to compel our appearance before the national judiciary, to contest with her the question of sovereignty over a portion of the waters of Hudson river. It seems to be a mere sovereignty over the waters, inasmuch as New Jersey admits in her bill of complaint, that, whatever right she may have had to the islands, those rights have been lost by adverse possession and the lapse of time. 'The attorney general, with my sanction, has hitherto declined to appear in court, and respond to the complaint, without intending any disrespect to that high tribunal, and in a manner, which I trust, precludes the imputation of such a motive. His refusal to appear, was grounded upon the belief, that the court has not been invested with the power to take cognizance of original suits where a state is made a defendant party. The reasons for this opinion, is more fully detailed by the attorney general, but may be succinctly stated as follows: '1. It was not designed, by the constitution, to confer that power on the court, until congress had legislated upon it, and declared what controversies between states were proper to be entertained by the court, and what should be the mode of proceeding. The constitution is silent in regard to both of these matters. A strong argument in favor of this construction, is afforded by that clause in the constitution, which, after enumerating the powers of congress, adds, "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution, the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by the constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof." 2. That congress had passed no laws for those purposes, In 1789, a judiciary act was passed, giving writs and other proceedings in all cases, other than those where a state was defendant. This was a practical construction of the constitution, and showed their opinion, that legislation was necessary to enable the court to proceed. And by neglecting to provide specifically for proceeding in controversies between states, they indicated their opinion, that the time had not arrived, when it would be proper for the court to entertain such suits. The meaning of congress is most distinctly marked by the wording of the judiciary act. It grants to the court the power to issue certain writs; and further, "all other writs not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law." Now, as no mode as proceeding against a sovereign state, is known to the common law, it would seem to be a fair conclusion, that congress designed, by precise and unequivocal language, to exclude an implication that the power to proceed against a state was granted by the act. '3. Although the court has frequently attempted to exercise this power, by entering suits against states, and summoning them to appear and answer, no state had ever obeyed their summons; thereby virtually denying the power of the court. |