Indiana Palladium, Volume 3, Number 52, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 5 January 1828 — Page 1
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EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS TH17 .uARCH OF MAN. Barlow. . MM Wl- - I ! II - "' " ' ' ' " " " i pi . . - - ... - i . .... . ,.,. , ,.,1 ., hi.. . !. I m i. - ill- I y i 'Will . PI i III II . M jm m I M llHtlll iil H llj ' ' " 1 11 i i in i i ! n M ; Volume III.. LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1828. Number 52.'
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The Treasurer and Auditor's REPORTS. The President laid before trfe senate the following communication from the .Treasurer of State, with his annual report, to-wit: Sir- Herewith is transmitted the annual report required from the Treasurer of State, to be laid before the Senate. 1 have the honor to be, &c. S. MERRILL. Hon. J. II. Thompson. Treasury Department, Dec. 6, 1827. In obedience to the directions of the "act concerning the Auditor of Public Account, and the Treasurer of State," the following report of receipts and expenditures is respectfully submitted:
Cash on hand, Dec. 2, 1826, 5315 55 Receipts from that time to the 1st Decembe'r, 1827, inclusive From the assessments
1822, 1823, 1824, 1826,
1827,
Assessments by collectors, not previously reported to Auditor Penalty from collector of Bartholomew, for 1 f-"0 From E. Denny, superintendant Rock Lick 1 From sales of lots in Indianapolis From Seminary lands in Monroe From sales of lands in Gibson From rents From fines on persons conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms From late Treasurer Incidental payments
Treasury notes burnt For killing wolves To E. Denny, Superintendant of Rock Lick section
41 00 51 50
130 60
Total expenditures 33,208 19
Leaving a balance in the Treasury of
The following items constitute the state
debt: Due to the Seminary fund Due to the road and
canal fund 4000 00 Interest on same 2075 00
519,153 24
10,093 06
of cs a 4;
4; ii 4i 4;
189 84 29 84 18 37 30,770 77 2,382 06
100 35 30 10 292 50 3,345 49 7,G5 00 90 00 62 00
344 50 1,160 00 85 00
46,545 88
Total, Expenditures during the period above mentioned For public printing For interest on treat?-1 ury notes For interest on seminary funds paid to presidentof trustees of state seminary
For contingent expenses For expenses of last legislature Pay and mileage of members Pay of clerks, doorkeepers, and sergeant at arms Distributing laws and journals Legislative appropriations for binding books in Secretary's oilice, of which 20 were refunded for error, and credit in the incidental payments
For state library and 1 i b ra ri an' s s al a ry For stationary for last legislature Specific appropriations: For making tract books and copies For special allowances
For seat of government: Agent's salary Balance for building the court-house Treasurer's per centum, for two years For building Governors house
-Salaries of the Adjutant and . Quarter Master Generals Salaries of the Executive Officers Salaries of the Judiciary Salaries of the circuit prosectors Balance of state debt to U. S. assignees of Vincenncs Bank
52,361 43
1,403 22
0,54
387 81
394 35
216 28
9982 00
1548 70
112 00
267
50
Outstanding warrant to A. Campbell Treasury notes in circulation Executive claims not audited
Judiciary
Circuit prosecutors
Making a balance in the after paying all the treasury debts of the state TJie payments yet to be made from the assessments of 1827, may be estimated at Frdm balance of former years
50 00 169 00 250 00 875 00 187 50
18,700 46
452
i u
23500 00 3000,00
26,952 78
Making, in all, the
sum of
Estimated to be equal to the current ex
penses of the year.
By the report of James Borland, Esq.
commissioner of the seminary township
in Monroe, it appears that on the 1st of
October last, there were sold of lands of
said township, one hundred and twentyone quarter sections, for the sum of 23, 003 96 1-2; of which there was receiv
ed the sum of 6,880 24 1-2, leaving un
paid, 161,73 72. The interest paid in
advance, for the sum due, is, 970 38 1-2:
which sums, after deducting the commis
sioners' per centum, have been paid at
the 1 reasury. Respectfully submitted, S. MERRILL.
"Which were read and referred to the
committee of ways and means.
From the late Treasurer 1,160 00 Incidental payments, 85 00
52,260 21
11,940 20
51 50
226 57
1141 00 962 54
2106 54
100 00 22 15 51 95 4000 00
4174 10
125 00 2007 20 6409 81
812 20
2435 12
The President also laid before the
Senate the following communication
and annual report, from the auditor of
public accounts, to-wit: Auditors' Office 6th Dec. 1827. To the Hon. John H. Thompson, President of the Senate : Sir: Enclosed, I herewith transrhit to the Senate, the Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, in obedience to an act of the General Assembly, concerning the Auditor of Public Accounts, and the Treasurer of State. Yours, respectfully, W. H. LILLY, Aud. P. A. Auditors Office, Glh Dec. 1 827.
In compliance with the requisition of
an act, concerning the Auditor of Public Accounts, and the Treasurer of State, the following report is respectfully submitted. There was remaining in the Treasurer's hands on the 3d Dec. 1 826, as per
former report; provided all claims audited to that date have been paid 5,714 33 Since the above period to the 1st Dec. 1827, there has been received on account of balances due for the years 1822, 1823 and
1824, From Collectors of Revenue, for the year 1826, for the year 1827, For unlisted lands as reported by Treasurer, Penalty for the delay of payment by the Collector of Bartholomew county,
for the year 1822, 30 16
From Superintendant of
Rock Lick Section, 292 50
B. I. Blythe, agent of state, for the town of Indi
anapolis, 3,345 49
Paymasters of the 8th, 9th, 17th, 37th, 40lh, 42d and 47th Regiments, for
conscientious fines, , 344 50
Sale - of Seminary lands
in Monroe Count-, 7,645 00
Gibson County, 90 00
Rents, 02 00
Since the above period
There has been Audited on account of transporting
convicts to the State Prison,
Salaries of Prosecutincr
Attornies,
Judiciary Department, Executive Department, Interest on Treasury
notes and Seminary fund,
Expenses of the last
General Assembly, including the pay of members, Clerks, Doorkeepers, Ser
geant at Arms, distributing laws, and appropriations for State Library,
Un account of specific
appropriations,
Public Printing, Salary of Agent of State for Indianapolis, balance
due on Court House, and building Governor's House,
On account of salaries of
Adjutant and Quarter Master General's,
v olf scalps, Liquidation of the debt
due from the State to Uni
ted States,
Treasury notes burnt, Contingent expenses for
the year 1327,
E. Denny, Superintendant of Rock Lick Section, m
Total, Which deducted from 52,260 21, leaves a balance in the Trcasurv on the 1st Dec. 1827, of' The assessment for all the counties in the state for the year 1827, except Delaware and Warren, amounts to Of which it is estimated after deducting commissions for collecting, delinquencies &c. there will be paid into the Treasury, The number of polls in the state except the two above named, and Clay, Fayette, aud Henry, in which the number is not
returned, is 39,865. From unlisted polls and lands assessed by Collectors and returned to this ofiice from the following counties for the year 1 827?
to wit: From Daviess Gibson Flovd Greene Crawford Pike Knox Sullivan Fountain
Lawrence
583 00 812 20 6,409 81
2.097 20
394 35
11,991 70 2,333 11 1,408 22
4,174 10
125 00 51 50
2,435 41
12 00
216 28
60 00
33,137 59
19,122 62
32,662 24
26,000 00
18 9 6 1 5
238 05 30,770 77 2.382 06
100 35
14 97 85 85 51
75 26 66 8 86 5 62 69 98
1-2, redeemable in the same year; 999, 999 16 at 5, redeemable in the same vear; 18.901 59, at 0, redeemable in 1833; 2,227,363 97, at 4 l-2,rcdcema-in 1S34; 4,735,296 30, at 5, redeemable in 1335; 13,296,217 70, redeemable at the pleasure of the government, and the seven millions subscribed to the stock of the bank of the United States, also redeemable at the pleasure of the government. There will be paid of the above amount, on the 1st January, 1 828,
1,500,163 16, of the 6 per cent, loan,
reducing the whole debt at that time to
67,4 1 3,377 92; and deducting therefrom
the 7,000,000 in stork of the U. States bank, for whi( h interest is received, it will reduce the actual debt to a little upwards of sixty millions. On the first of January, 1817, the public debt was 123,491,965 16. If will
on the first of next month be reduced to
67,413,377 92; and deducting the
7,000,000 subscriptions to the U. S.
Bank makes it a little above 60 millions;
less than one half the amount it was ele
ven years ago.
The receipts into the Treasury dur
ing the present year, including what it is supposed will be received during the
last quarter is estimated at 22,606,290
07, and with a balance in the Treasury at the commencement of the year makes an aggregate of 23,964,976 25. The expenditures for the year, including
those for the last quarter, are estimated to amount to 22,695,390 96, leaving a
balance in the Treasury on the first of
next month of 6,269,585 29, being
589,100 89, less than the balance
therein at the commencement of the pre
sent year. The whole amount of re
ceipts into the Treasury during the pre
sent year it is estimated will be 1,748,-
669 93 less than the estimates presented a year ago; 400,000 dollars of which
is owing to the failure to make sales to that amount of public lands. The above balance, which it is supposed will remain in the Treasury on the first of the next month will be subject to deductions of 3,980,000 of unapplied appropriations about a million of ineffective funds, consisting of debts due from banks, 817,380 unpaid of moneys received under the first article of the treaty of Ghent.
Under the head of Estimates of the
Public Revenue and Expenditures for
132S, the Secretary has given some very
good remarks on the subject of protect ing the Domestic Industry of the country
in the course of which he recommends an increase of duty upon woollen goods and
foreign wool, upon tine cotton goods, up on bar iron, and upon hemp. In recom
mending the two last articles, he has in
eile-1, condemned the course of those friends of the administration who, at the
last session of Congress, refused to hear
any proposition in favor of introducing
into the woollens bill, any provision in favor of any other branch of Domestic
Industry, except that in which the peo
ple ot .New England had a peculiar in terest. Delazcare Gazette.
Under the contracts recently made . great additional facilities have been giv- j en, by accelerating the mail on leading route, increasing the number of tripe, and establishing lines which connect important districts of country. , There are few towns or villages iu the Union which are not accommodated with mail stages. ? The post offices have been increased to seven thousand. In the last four years there has been added to the mail operations of the coun try, in revenue, transportation of the mail, and post offices, more than onethird. The means of the Department are now ample to meet the reasonable wants of the country ; and a vigilant administration of its atFairs, for a few years to come, will place at the disposition of' the Government, an annual surplus of more than half a million of dollars This sum will be augmented as facilities of mail intercourse are multiplied, and
can be most advantageously applied, if
deemed within the constitutional powers of Congress, in the establishment and repairs of mail roads. By the last annual statement, there was shown to be in deposite,&, due from Postmasters, including judgments obtained en old accounts, the sum of 270,321 87 To this sum may be added the surplus last year, 100,312 00 370,633 87 The repairs latejy authorised to be made on the mail roads from Columbus to Doaks, in the State of Mississippi, and from Fort Mitchell to Line Creek, in Alabama, are nearly completed, under contracts which require the work to be done in the best manner, and at a price which cannot fail to meet the public approba tion.
I have the honor to be with great res
pect, your obedient servant,
JOHN M'LEAN. To the President of the United Stales,
Total amount re
turned to the office, 1 54 1 0
on
An equal amount with
the above maybe expected to be returned from the counties which have not
yet settled with the Trea
sure winch sum 01 reven
ue from tiiis source,
Out standing balances
against Collectors since the commencement of the
state government, a large
part of which may be considered as lost,
All of which is respectfully submittedWM. H. LILLY, Aud. P. A. Which was read and referred to the
committee of Ways and Means.
10,979 32
Treasury Report.' The annual report
of the Secretary of the Treasury, is, this year, excessively long.
lie iirst makes a statement respecting
the public debt, the amount of which now
is 68,9 13,541 08, consisting ot S4,244-
587 08 of 6 per cent, stock, redeemable in 1826; 13,096,542 90 of 6 per cent, stock, redeemable in 1827; 9,490,099
10 of 6 per cent, stock, redeemable in 1828; 766,663 03 of 4 1-2 per cent.
stoek,redcemable in 1 829 ; the same sum.
at the same interest, payable in 1S30; 1 3,90 1 53 at 5 per cent, redeemable in
1S31; the same sum of the same stock,
redeemable ill 1832; 10,000,000, at 4
REPORT OP THE POSTMASTER
GEJVERAL. Post Office Department, JVuvcmber 13, 1327. Sin: The receipts of this Department
lor the year ending on the 1st July
The following is believed to be the
state of parties, in the present Legisla
ture ot Indiana, upon the Presidential question.
In the Senate, for the Administration 17 for Jackson 4. In the House.of Representatives, for the Administration 40 for Jackson 13 Neutral 4. Indiana Journal. To the Editor of the Indiana Journal. John Douglass, Esq. Sir The statement in your paper of the 11th inst. relative to the state of parties in the Legislature, induces me to request ) ou to give publicity to this communication. That statement in most probably correct; but no conclusion, a to the strength of parties in the state, can be drawn from the private opinions of the members of the Legislature. It 13 certainly true, that many Administration members of the Legislature, repress ent counties decidedly Jacksonian; and that other represent counties so equally divided, as tope properly called doubtful, and in which a trial of the strength of parties has not been made. According to the general opinion of candid fnen, as expressed to me, most probably, thirty counties in this state are decided in their preference for Aff-
drew Jackson; twelve counties are pro-
last, amounted to 1,473,551 OO bably as decided in their support of the
During the same peri- Administration; and ten counties are
od the expenditures were 1,373,239 00;admitted to be doubtful or are claimed
;by each party. 100,312 00 " Very many gentlemen of great per-
SQIIctl I tropfC Irt HII 1 1 , 1IIU SUiJJL ui uigU offical rank, friends of the Administration, and possessing many facilities for procuring accurate information, have expressed to me their fears that the S'ate was lost to the Administration, Very respectfully, 7 Representative of the Pecphj '' Indianapolis, Dec. 12, 1827. Richmond Ind. Dec. 22- ' FIRE! About 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning last the citizens of this Tillage were aroused by this alarming cry. The dv fflling of Thomas Oweji, jr. with most
of the furniture, was consumed, notwithstanding the active and praiseworthy esertiona of the citizens. Pub. Lexer.
35,134 18 22U4S9 63 304,352 09 359,205 88
Leaving one hundred
thousand three hundred
and twelve dollars surplus
ot receipts.
The receipts of the last
vear exceed those of the
four preceding years, the
sums stated, viz: 1826,
1825, 1824, 1323,
If to the above sums there be added
the amount of the reduction of expenditure, upon established routes, without lessening the public accommodation, and due allowance be made for increased services, at a rate of compensation
below what has usually been paid, the condition of the Department will be found to have been improved, within four years, ending 1st of July last, more than a million of dollars; and the last vear, in comparison with the year preceding 1st July, 1823, near half a million. Within the last year an augmented transportation of the mail has been authorised, of four hundred and fifteen
thousand two hundred and fourteen
miles, annually, in stages; and on horse
back or in sulkeys, five hundred thou
sand and thirty-to mily
A hog, two years old was exhibited in Wilmington, Del. a few days since, which weighed thirteen hundred and and eighty and a half pounds, and measured nine feet around the body. He was raised in Chester County, Peun Dr. Newell and general Coffee fought a duel at Jackson, Mississippi, about the 1 8th ult. the former was wounded, bit not mortally.
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