B.

GENERAL AND STATE FINANCES.

Statement of Moneys received into theTreasury from

all sources, for the year 1832.

 

      Dollars. Cts.
From the Customs     22,178,735 30

Public Lands

     2,623,381 03
From dividends on Stock in the Bank of the
United States		     490,000 00
Sales of Stock in Bank of the United States     169,000 00
Arrears of direct tax 6,791 13    
Arrears of internal revenue 11,630 65    
Fees on Letters Patent 14,160 00    
Cents coined at the Mint 21,845 40    
Fines, penalties, and forfeitures 8,868 04    
Surplus emoluments of officers of the
Customs		 31,965 46    
Postage on letters 244 95    
Consular receipts 1,884 52    
Interest on debts due by Banks to
United States		 136 00    
Persons unknown, said to be due to
United States		 500 00    
Moneys obtained from the Treasury
on forged documents		 115 00    
Moneys previously advanced for
Biennial Register		 37 00    
Securing Light-house on the Brandy-
wine Shoal		 1,000 00    
Light-house on Mahon's Ditch,
Delaware		 4,975 00    
Balance of advances in the War
Department, repaid		 15,679 24    
  119,832 39    
Deduction, &c. 1,889 50    
      117,942 89
      25,579,059 22

 

Statement of Expenditures of the UnitedStates, for

1832.

  Dollars. Cts.
Civil, miscellaneous, and foreign intercourse 4,577,141 45
Military establishment 7,982,877 03
Naval establishment 3,956,370 29
  16,516,388 77

Such were the expenses of the federal government of theUnitetl States, exclusive of the Debt, of which nearly 35,000,000dollars were that year paid.

For the State of Connecticut, the same year, the receiptswere,--

  Ds. Cts.
From interest on United States 3 per cents 1,382 00
Tax on non-resident owners of Bank stock 2,817 00
Avails of State prison 5,000 00
Dividends on Bank stock, owned by the State 25,670 00
Fines and miscellaneous receipts 7,448 00
State tax 37,984 00
  80,301 00

 

Disbursements were--

For ordinary expenses of government 60,852 00
For public buildings and institutions 10,774 00
  71,626 00

 

Population in 1830,--297,665.

I will give also the receipts and expenditure of one ofthe largest and busiest of the States, with a population (in1830) of 1,348,233.

 

PENNSYLVANIA. 1832 AND 1833.

Receipts

  Ds. Cts.
Lands and Land-office fees 48,379 64
Auction commissions and duties 94,738 08
Dividends on various stock 171,765 20
Tax on bank dividends 45,404 21
Tax on offices 14,399 51
Tax on writs, &c. 24,771 00
Fees. Secretary of State's office 728 33
Tavern licenses 52,267 16
Duties on dealers in foreign merchandise 61,480 86
State maps 131 30
Collateral inheritances 160,626 26
Pamphlet laws 96 26
Militia and exempt fines 1,693 00
Tin and clock pedlars' licences 2,461 93
Hawkers' and pedlars' licences 3,025 45
Increase of county rates and levies 185,177 32
Tax on personal property 43,685 37
Escheats 1,746 99
Canal tolls 151,419 69
Loans, and premiums on loans 2,875,638 72
Premiums on Bank charters 102,297 90
Old debts and miscellaneous 5,119 74
  4,047,054 62

 

Expenditures.

  Ds. Cts.
Internal improvements 2,588,879 13
Expenses of government 212,940 95
Militia expenses 20,776 99
Pensions and gratuities 29,303 21
Education 7,954 48
House of Refuge 5,000 00
Interest on loans 94,317 47
Pennsylvania claimants 351 00
State maps 187 30
Internal improvement fund 755,444 01
Penitentiary at Philalelphia 44,312 50
Penitentiary near Pittsburg 23,047 75
Conveying convicts 1,350 22
Conveying fugitives 581 50
Miscellaneous 12,187 97
Defence of the State 160 00
  3,796,794 48

 

 

NORTH CAROLINA.

Receipts, for 1832, 3 188,819 97
Disbursements 138,867 46

 

Population in 1830,--737,987.

 

 

From Harriet Martineau, Society in America, AppendixB - "General and State Finances." London: Saunders andOtley, 1837, pp. 321-324.

 

 

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