Newspapers / The Weekly Raleigh Register … / Nov. 7, 1803, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
5" 'isir.'iS c'loVon mo'v-d to raend iiw tao Isiid oi:nb?r by addujg o tne cpd....ih'reof. toerthcr with a copy ed Vpv mftrument in poiT.d- !! lion of th Executive, mewing that the $oan'i'fh'ijoverr,ma"t has oi d;Jed the. Pruvmce of L anfiana to be delivered to the com'u (Tsry or o ther agent of the French govcrC ent. Agreed to Ayr 6 . The queftion was ih-sn taken by Yeas and Njvs on the whole of the r's'tna! motion, amended as fel low : ( ... Rffolvrd, trjt thft-Prcfidr.nt'of the.,. United States be recrueffrd to Caufe to be laid brfore this Houfe, a copy of th Treaty between the 'rench repubbc and Spfjfs, of the tft October 3 S'.-jo, togeher with a Copy of anv' inOrument in polTsffion of the Rxacut v, (hewing that trie Spanifh government has ordered the Pr-pvinca of Louifiana to be deli vered to the commiOTiry or other, a gent of the French government." And loll Yeas5'7 Nays 59. . Tucfday, OA f;. The Houfe, according to tbeor der of the. day, refolved itfelf into a commutes of the wool- Houfe on the ro-fT:i! from -the Prefident of the Uritcd States, of the 21 Pc in ft; incloling a treaty and ronvsntions "entered nr( and rat'fi 'd by the Uni ted States and the French Republic, 1 1 which commuteof th- whole Houfe was alfo referred to a rrption for carrvin the fawie into eiTttt ; and aftr fome time fpent the rein, Mr. Spercsr refumdthr chur, and Mr. Da vv fon repc-rted, that the 'committee had, according to-mder, had the fa id mefUpe,- treaty, con ventions and motion undsr conf ederation, and come ta fcverl reio lutions thereupon, . which he del i- eredin at theelerk '$ table, whete the farnG were read 2s follows ; 1. Refolved, that nrovir'on outfit to be made fur carrying into efVecl 'the treaty and conventions conclu ded at Paris on the -1.3th of April, 180,3, between the United States of America and the French Repub lic. 2. Refolv.dy that fo much of ths meffaj-e or the Prefident, of thtsift infe. as relates to the cftabliQirhcritof a provisional government over the territory acquired by ths United States, in virtue of the treaty and vcon ventions lately negoeiated with the French Republic, fee referred to a felecl committee; and that they report by b:'l or otherwife. 3. Rtfalvedy that fo much of the sfoiefaid conventions ss relates to ths paymem fey the United States, of fixty rrnllv-na of franks to the F ''finch Re'ubhc--ind tp ihe pay ment, by the tJnited Su?"s, f debts dua by Fr.i.ice to the citnen of the Unitrd Staces, be refirre 1 to the committer of ways and means. The Houfe proceeded to confi der tke faid refolutions .- whereupon the Srfl rrMution was agreed to Yeas 90 Nays 25. Vta ,. Meii'rs. mfcn, jyo Alexander, AnJerfs, Archer, B 'r i, B dinner, Pulh p," Uc edge, Boyle, Rrr-wrv, Hutie , G Yf. Ca- p-eU, Cak-y, Chittenden, Ciaggctt, Clai fcern': I Claj,M Clay.Clop-.-.iVcraOC'row-ilMiib'sJd, Cults, D.iwfon. D;ckh:-, Karle, lfan., Filiot, Fppci, Fuft'.s. t'indier, Fok r, Ccjiwyn., Gray, jrsgti, W .rft'j tcju, Hama, iHjft'A-jk 1 .H-ifter, tft, : !o mes, Hunt, a. kion, Jor.fs, Krncdy, FLmght, I eih, 1 u. Cas, Lvon, V. 'C 1 a, M'Gi'iCiy, f 1'cic'-v"thr r S. L. 'V1 tchcll, N- R. Moore. I Moere, Jl.irrow, Mew, Nc wun. j uh rch; Ion, 'ti ll, Palmar, Pa'terfon, Pu Viance, j. K an 4o phj. n. T. M. Rad!p!i, J. Kea, Pen. J. Rhia,.Tes. Richards, Rodney, Rot, 5ammons, Sandiord, Seaver, rmilie, f. Snrth, (N.Y.). Smith. (Vir.) Suutord, Sianfon, Stewart, Thomas, 1 hompfon, j. r'?5 Van Cor'landt, Vji'oum, Vcrp juk, WaUnt Whitebill, M. Wtliiams, Winn, Winfton, Wynrs, 99. NAYa. Meffrs. Chamberlain, Cutler, Uina, D'arcaport, Dwight, (ioddrd. Grift, G, Gnfwold, R. Grifwold, Haltings, Hough, J. Lewis, jun. T. Lewis, Livingftoa, K. Mitchel', Plater, inds, J, G. Smith, Sted man, St?pefeTaggajt, Tenney, Thatch er, WadtWrib, L. Williams 25. The fecond refelutien, wasadop tecl ; and Mr. John Randolphjun. Mr. John Rhea of Tenneffee, Mr. Hogs, Mr. Haylord Grifwold and Mr. Bedinger, were appointed Ihe . committee. The third relolution 7as alfo a gresd to. 1 The Speaker laid before the Hsufe a letter from the Secretary of the Treafury, inclofing the 'following Report : . REPORT. In nedienee to the diitclions of the air. fup pSemntaey to the a6t eutiiled ' An ait eitail'fh the Treafury Department," the Secretary of the Treaiury, relpeclfuliy fubmits the following Reports. and mates. The annual nett proceeds ol the ut'esbn merchandize and tonnage hd in former leports, been-eftifna-ied at nine millions five hundred jr.truiana aoiurs. 1 nat emm.itea wk r 1 .1 1 1 n revenue, predicated on the impor- y 'ns ui tne years immeaiateiy t ding' the late European war trie afcertamed ratio or en- ie population in the United two la ft years, to L"der-rated: The nett from that fdu tee. Mch ac'crued during .the year 18 bsr exceeds ten millions one hundted thoufand dollars. The re venue which h?s accrued during the two firft q:i4rters of the prefent vear, appears from the beft efti maie that can now be formed, to have been only fifty thoufand dol lars lefs than that ot the two cor rfprmding quarters of the vear 1802,; and thq receipts in theTrej.- (ury, on account 01 the tame du tic., during the year ending on the qo'h SDternhsr lad, have exceeded ten millions fix hundred ihoufand dollars. , Thofe fact.s afford fatisfalory e- j vidence that the wealth of the Uni Med States" encfeafes in a Hill greater ratio thati their population, and in duce a belief that this branch of the public revenue may now be calcu lated at ten mi llions' of dollars. ' From the ftafement (A) it will appear that the fame revenue foi the twojait yearVof the lue Euro pean war (iSed and 1801 calcula ted at the prefent rate of duties, a verarrea 1 i.6oo,d'6o dollars a year ; but althopgh it might with fome degree of probability be fuppofed that the renewal of hoftiluies will a gain produce a fimilar enereale, no inference from that period is drawn 1 j in this report, in relation to the re venue ot the euiuing years. The ftjtement (B) thews the' fe veral dTnecics ol merchandize on which the duties on importations wetecolleRedjduTing the year 1S0;; the portion of that revenue which rwasfdei ived from drawback, ar-cj that";which arole from vh.e exfr idis J ty on met -chandise impoited in k- reign veH els. j Alfli.nigh the Lies of the public j lands during the vear endind on the! 30th dav of Seotember 'a it wereaf tecled by the (ituaiiori o! 5the wef t6rn country; tv'9 hundred thou-, fand acres have been fold during that period; and as it apneas ron the ft ate merit (C) that, mdeperHcni of future falesv tlw luns Ireadv paid to the receiver:, together win thofe which, t-xclvifiv-dy ot mtereil, fall due during the three enluin i 'years, amount to i,aco,coo l"lla-s. j the annual revenue arifing Irom'the proceeds of thr.fe fdis, cmot be eftimated at IeJkjlunfoujJiiwMl'fA ilhOTarTnTarol Urs. The exteuhon of pofi:-ro?ds, and the'ac celeration of tne mail, whilll difFuhng and encreafin the benefits of the inftitution, have, as?n ob ject ol revenue, leniered it lefs produtie. I hf receipts from that fgurctr, have amonnted, duiingUil yr,'u. 27,000 dollwW; but as nen th?: thelc, n.'i thole arifing from iorf.e other ntlier incilentai bran ches, ae ol Tufhcient importance to .iffe 1 anv general rein it. the whole exifling re venue ot the Uni- I ted States w' compn' -d at only ten millions four hundred t.umfdnd dollars. The permanent r!nnu;d expemces of government which, under exiil ing laws, mufthe detryed out ol that te'venue, Amounting to nine mil lions, eijht hundred thoufand dollars to wit : r. The anmual apprppriatirn of of 7,309.000 dollars, fer the payment of principal ani in Tereft of the debt ; of which about three mil lir.a and a HaJf are at preflrMt applicable to the ffch arge of ths principal, and the rhdue to the payment of intoreft, dols. 7,309,000 Z. i hi Currcat expell ees uf governncent which according to the '"eftimates fr the year f 84, confifte of the foil owjng Items ; For the civil depart ment'and all dcraefticet- pences of a civil nature, For expences attending the intercourfo with fo reign nationt, iacludiag the prmatatappropria tion for Algiers, aad ail other expCBcei relitire to the Barbary powers. For the military and India departments, For the naal eftablifli raest, calculated en the fuppoution that two fri gates aad four faialler veffcls fhall be kept ia cmmiflion, 79 iS4 $7 ,000 6$ 3,9 2C",Ci'00 58oo,o j And icdsftei from t!e permaEC.it revenue of ioro.-poo j Leave a furplu- revenue of Six htinJred thoufand dollars app. .table to ! other objciTls. v The lollowing extraordinary refources a ?d demaadJ n? being of a permanent n.Uure are not inciudii in that caKuiatioa,. to wit.' The l"p:cie in the Tres. fjry, which, on-the 30th day of September lalt, a.'.ivuatcd to 5,869,000 TUe arrears ot the direct tax, etttrrratcd at 250,00ft The outftaading internal duties, amounting to near 400,00 And the fun which will " be repaidto the United jSta-et, on account of advances, hetettfore made, in Englaad, lor p the pralecutioaof claims tftimatcdat r 565000 CAftiitiBg an agsrtjate - 6, 60,003 ' 'More t'Atn iV. tli!ioa fiijliunj" W- Una dollars, wJiicU, alter relerving ,-xk Ahich it isnccffary to keep in the TteTift will be fuffici'C'it f ditchtree the deraaads due on accanj of the cyaventjon with Great- Uritain, a )d aRiounnng ro dols. ,664ooo, uniry ext; aardiaary expences in relaiien to the conveitiicns wi'.h France and GreauBcitai, lii- matett at ' The loan obtained from th Stats f Maryland, fo the City of Wafti- ington, amounting to Aud allio to pay two mi'lins of dollars on accou t of Louiliaaa, IOO,C0 2O,C0O 2000,000 4,964,000' Being the f?me fi'm whick was relerved. for the purpates contemplated by the law f lafl lefiun, appropriating that araaunt for the extraorvitrry expewecs attending the inter courfe wiihjVi r gn nations. 1 1 appears by ihe estimate D that during th? year ending on the jmh September lafl:, the p?y meats from the Treal'ury on account of t1e pxblicdtbt, have amounted to 3,096,790 dollars. Which, Kgther with the it5 creaf ,ct" fprcie in the Trealt-y, dunn the lame period, amtuntiDg ta 1,320,000 4,410 703 rfikestn aftaal drfTerencc'ln favor of the U nited States, ofmore thaa four hundred thou fand dllars during that year. The payments on account of the principal of the puhlic debt, from the flrft day of Aprl, 1801, to the 30m d.y of September, 1803, have amounted, as appears kythe eftiraate dot:. 9,924,004 1 hefpecie in toe Trea- -lury, on the firlldiy of April, 1 80 r, amounted to 1,794,000 And on the 30th iep- " tember, 1803, to 5,86000 Making an increale of 4,066,000 Thtfe tvra items conftitute an ag gregate of dols. 13,990,004 frm which deducting the extraor dinary relource arifing from the f.ilf s of fhe bauk tliares, which produced 1,287.600 !.e .ives f.-r the tre amnunt of the true d ffsrence, 12,703; 4.04 :n fivor of the Un'fcd Stntes, for that period ivo years a half, ?. luiiof twelve mil lio: I'evcn huudred thoufand do'ilari. From that view ol the prefent fi tuation ol the financial concerns of tne Uniteu btates. it teems tnat tne ; ! . 1 niy iue!non wa!cn req uiei ay j eoniideratton, 1-, wnctner any an- j ditional revenues are wanted, m t order to uroride ftr th new debt widen, if Congrefs fhouid pals the laws necefiary to carry the treat wnh France into effect, will refuk f:ooi thepurchife of Loutfiana. TlliTmvvKich the United States may have to pay by virtue of that treatv, amounts to fifteen millins ol dollar!, ndconriil; cf twoitema, ill. 1 1,250.000 doilars, payable io the government ol France, or to its flignees, in a ftock. bearing "an in terest of fix per cent. payabiein Eu rope, the principal ot which will be difebarged at the Treafury f the United States, in lour annual inftal rnents, tWc firlt ol which fhail com- ! reeiice in the yeir 181S ; adly, a fum which cannot exceed, but may fall fhort of 3,750,000 dollars, pay abiein fpecieat the iVeafury of the I. United States, during the coarfr of the enfuint year, to American citi zens having claims ol a certain def ei iption on the government ot Fiance. It has already been ftated, that two millions of dollars may be paid from the fpecie now in the Treafu ry; on account of the lalt item ; and the whole amount of the new debt trhich may be eventually created, cannot exceed thirteen millions of dollars, the annual intereft of which ii equal to 700,000 dollari ; but on account of commitfions, and varia tions ot exchange, will be eftimat ed at 800,000 dollars. The exifting furplu s revenue of the United States will, as has been Hated, be fufheient to jlifcharge fix hundred thoufand dollars of that fum, and it is expected that the nett revenue at New-Orleans will be e qual to the remaining two hundred thoufand dollars. ' That opinion rerls on the fjpp- j fnion that Congrefs dial! place that i pott on the fame footing as thofe ol the United States; fo that the lame duties hall be collected there, on he iraportation of foreign mer- j chandize as are now by law levitd in the united States; ana that no dntiet fiiall be collected either on j ; the exportation of produce or mer chandize from New-Orleans fo any other place ; rtor on any articles im parted into the UnitedStatesfromthe ceded territories, or into thofe ter ritories from the United States. The flatmcriu F, G, H, exhibit the annual expert and imports f the United States to and from Flo- ndu and L fuifiana, for the years 1799 to 1803: and the ftaternent G particularly ihevs that the exporta tion Irom the Atlantic States to thofe colonies of articles not of the growth, produce, or manulaclure or 1 he United States, amounted for ue years 1799, 1800, and i8oi, to 6,622, 189 dollars ; making an ave rage of more than two millions two hwdredihf . . t . - .1 - -. f 1 1 articles, liable to pay duty, annually irftpdr'ted 6 tfonfa an'd 'Louifia. n? trom the United States alone, . It is a fee ruined thit the'exporta tibns from the United States to Flo rida, are fo trifling that that ftate meHt may beconfidered as applying folely to New-Orleans; and- it is alfo known that aimed! the whole of thofe importations tyere confnraed within that Ctdony, and that during the war the lupphes from the Uni ted States constituted by far the rreater. part of irs imports. From thence it refults that the an- - nual importarionintothe ceded terri tory, of aricles deflined for the con fujfiption of its own inhabitants, and which will, under the revenue laws oftheU. States, be liable topayduty, may fafely be eflirnated at two mil lions five huRc'red thoufand dollars ; an a mount which, at the prefent rate of dutie. will yield a revenue of abut 350,000 dollars. From that ; revenue mufl b cledufcfed 150,000 dollars, tor the following items, viz ; i ft. The amount of duties or. a duantitvof faar and indit?o eaual to tkatwhich fhall be imported from NewOrleans into the UuitedStates as thofe articles being imported, free from duty, wilT limiuifh byfo much the revenue now collected in the fea ports olths United States. The whole amount of fugar exported from New-Orleans 4s lefs than 4,000,000 of pounds, and that of indigo is flawed at about '30,000 pounds. Suppofing (which on ac- couhtofhis exemption, is not imi piooable) that the whole or thele articles fbould hereafter bcexported to tiie United States, the lofs to the revenue will be about 100,000 dollars. 2d. No cncreaTe of exfpep.ee':n the iVlihtary ' Eilablilhtnent of the United States, is contemplated en account ot the aequilition of terri toryj but the e'xpence,s of the civil adnvlr.i ration ol the Province and thofe incident to the intercourse with.i'tke'ludians, are eftimated at 50,020 doil-rs; leaving lor. the iunt revenue derived tiorn 'he Pro vince? and applicable, to the pay ment of the intcrel of the new dent, 200, oco dollars, as above ftated. 1 he onlv prov fi mis winch, if that view oi tne fubiect be coirefl, apcir nefl.-iy, and arc 1 efpecr iuliy li'b'iiitted, are r I. In relation to the flock cf t 1, 250. boo dollars to be'ereated in la'vor of the oovcrnment of France, or of' its a IT; prices ; That thAt debt be mde a charge on the Sirrking fund, directing the Comrni itionei s ot the tund, to ap ply fp much of its preceeds as may be neceflary for the payment ol iti terefl arid reimburfement or re demption of the principal, in the r . . 1.1 n lame, manner, as, oy tne exiitmg; i laws,- they arc directed to ao in re lation to the payment of intereft and difcharge of the principal of the debt now charged on that fund. That fo much of the duties on frier chandize and tonnage as will be etpfal to feVen hundred thoufand dollars, being the fum wanted to py the intereft of that nev flock, be added to the annual permanent appropriation for theSinking Fund, making, together with ihe exifling appropriation, eight millions ot dollais, annually applicable to the payment of the intereft and princi pal of the public debt And that the faid annual fum oi eight ; millions of dollars remain thus pledged and be vefied in the Ccmmiflionersot the Sinking Fund in truft tor the aid payments, until the whole ot the exilting debt of the Uni ed States, and of the new flock, fhall have been reimburfed or redeemed. As a fum equal to the intereft ac cruing on the new flock will thus be added to the unking fud, $he operation of that fund, as.it relates to the extinguifhment of the exift ing debt, will remain precifely on the fame footing as 'has been hei eto fore provided by Congrefs. The new debt will neither impede hoi retard, the payment of the principal of the old debt; and the fund will be fufHcieni, befides paying the intereft on both, to difcharge the principal of the old debt, before the year 1818, and that of the new within one year and an half after that year, II. In relation to the American claims the payment of which is af fumed by the convention with France. That d fum not exceeding 3,750,000 dollars inclufivc of the two million appropriated by a law of the laft feflion of Congrefs for defraying the extraordinary expen ces incident to the mtercourfe with ioreigri nations, be appropruteJ TrsMury not o!herwifcTS ia That for the purnorenc tt , the whole of the v Prefidentof the UnUed authorifedto borrow a Inm b ceeding 1.750,000 doli v intereft not exceeding fu a year. And that fo much ofth-Dr of the duties on -rapr-ri ' "-' .'jfiu. UUl OI 3nw . 'KiKi.i tonnage as may be necenVv K propriated for the payment of f intereft and fer the reimbur' of the principal of the may eventually be effected bv tue of the preceding p:ovi!ioc ' 11 is not propoled to ch loan on the finkino- ;nr . F - i- .'. Dera..f. ! ' 11,411 &e e: letted, cannot at nrefpr.t k.( tained ; and becaufe it mav" !' haps, tinder the then exifli'nVt cumftances of the Treafur found more expedient notto bj'orro- the money, and, in lieu ot it'.' pay out of the finking fund't wnole or part of the two lafl ml" tnents payable by virtue ol thecj" vention with Great-Bntain, as thorized by tbe Att-making prov;' fion lor the payment of the wl0. ofthe public debt. It is evident that the poiTibili:Vc thus providing lor the payment 0 the intereftof a new debt ottbirt millions of dollars, .without either occunng to new taxesor interfciin wiih the provifions heretofore m?.i for the payment of the exiftiacr;ic.,t" depends on the c-ureclnefs ufthe eftimate of the Public Reverse which has been lubmitted. A i though it is not without diffidence that the4 hope of fuch favorable re fult is entertained, fome reliance it placed'on the foiidity ot the bdiu i,a which the eftimateis grounded, h refts principally on the expectation that the revenue of the eniuincve. j ihall notbehfs than that which a. crued in the year 1802. No p-t of it depends on the probable r. creafe which may refult from the neutrality ot the United Sutesdr ing the continuance of the warn Europe ; nor even on the prcgre;. five augmentation, which, Iren pa it e xperience, xusy natural lybeex peeled to arife from the nradualir. creafe ot population and wealth. Nor has that effect been taken into mriitrr f-ili f r i n 1 i eri-nr ted free navigation of the MiiTi'.j uppi, ana inc acquiuiiun 01 xcv. Orleans may haveeither cnthefaljs ol the publicfands,oron the gtneul refources of the inhabitants-0! the weftern flutes. All which is rer peclluily fubmitted, ALBERT GALLATIN. Secretary of the Trccur:. Referred to the Co.umit;e3 ef Ways and Means. WedaefJay, OA. 26. The Houfe waa engagea until fcur o'clock indircuffing the r- iort of felect committee, as'fornerlv ft-ed on an amendment to the crr.fh'.i tion, refpecling defignating the elec toral votes given for Prefident and ViceaPreh dent. The ce-bate devtj loped great dtverfity of op'.nion as 'o the form of the amendment. 'r' numerous propofitions f amfr.d aient the report of the fe'.ect co-mut-e, verbally amended, prevaiiw by a large majority. Mr, Xandoloh. frcm the Cot. mitteeof Ways 'and Means, reported. a bul for carrying into encCt u Louifiana convention: the 'bill di rects the Conftitutton of flock, ac cording to the terms of the center," tion, and the delivery of the fame 10 the -ents authorifed by the French government, after Louifiana fra;i hvc benttkcn potTciTion oi b v v . c United vSrates. A bill was received from the " natc, enabling the Prefideat to tjW poffefTion of Louifiana, and for the VCl n ui n l v 1 ldj 1 1 a 7 . was twice read and referred to t. lame committee. Thurfday, Oft. 27. M; Lvcn obferved 0 i the c'M' try in which he lived had bees J Come time fupptied with ait a . lead from the Louifiana ccani:- 1. 1- on whicll articles con 1"' - ourtneniome aunes j" - ,;c For the purnofe of Jifaeratiag citizens from thofe dutif5,bc a refoUtion, declaring 't i)(t tKat provifton mould be Jr Ju fufpending the cetlcft;onf I I. ties on, artc'r5 pons of the United States u. territory cedd to the Unite by the Louifiana convention, the view of having it ,bc yJ the committee of Com jiC Mnuactures. Ordered the table. r-nr U On motion of r;ittc;off Houfe went into a catafflij whole on the amendment ftuutioa--Mr.Varaami
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 7, 1803, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75