Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-01-01

iuch circumstances as OtG suOs eht!tlS
the articles exported to "A drawback
and I'd, the amount of foreign articles
remaining on hand at the cloe Of, the
year 1900, was much greater in proper
ton to the iefpettive populations tasn
tina, on hand at the commencement Of
the year 1890. Thole caules which
afea to 40 uncomfortable ,degr:e she
years, 1890 1872, and but partially
thofe Immediately fucceeding, would,
however, render any deduction drawn
from rnole documents, in rcration %
the years 1899 and 1900, altogether tai-
iacious.
The preceding nine years may be di-
vided into two difintt periods; the frit,
from the 1T day of January 1890, to
the 3Iit day ot'December 1922, includes
the three years which Immediately pre-
ceeded the European maratime war; the
fecond includes the fix hrit years OF
that war, viz. from the commencement
Of 1898, to the cloie of 1895.
In order to obtain a diitipa view,
for each of ,heis two periods, OF the
annual average confumrtion Of foreign
articles, and OF the annual average reve-
nue. which a, the rate Of the prelent
duties, would have accrued thereon,
the table IL has been prepared, which
thews that the nett annual revenue,
which, would a, the Prefent rate ofduties,
have accrued during each Of thole two
periods, amounts on an average, for the
year 1899 TO I79, to 6,I63,soo DOL
lrs and FOR the years 1893 . 1895,
TO $4,000 dollars. Thefe fms con-
ititute, not the receipts in the 1reaf.ry,
out the revenue which would have accru-
cd during the respective years to which
they refer. The hra may be eonfder
ed as the revenue accruins during the
year 1871 T.; the lat ., that a,er,ing do
ring the year, ending 5orh jun 1896;
and as on account Of the credit siver
FIR the payment of duties, the lssenae
accruing during enc year, 'cnsl,utss
nearly the receipts Of the y,as e.d,ns
nine months later, thof two inns, ana
rae receipts of the year ending o. the
goth September 1891, as above Aassd,
may, without material error, be con-
tidsred as the receipts, Of three diit:nt:.
years, four years and half difsnt each
from the other, viz.
DakInu.
For the year ending a
goth Sept. 1892, 6,Io3,ooo
For the year ending
goth March 1871, $4,000
For the year ending goth
September 1901, lo,sco,ooo
The ratio ofencreafe during the wheel
period of nine years, exceeds ieventy per
cent, Whit that Of population, during
the fame, time was hardly more than
thirty per cent.
The ratio Of encreaie during the frlt
period Of four years and a half, is near
az per cent, and huring the laa
more than IS per cent? whila that
ofpopula,ion, for each period, was On
ly at the rate Of II per cent. The great
er ratiolof encreaie during the hrf, than
during the lait period Of four years and
a hall, is owing to the comparifon, in
the frf, being between a period of
European peace, and period Of Euro
pean war, and in the laf, between two.
periods Of European war.
The ratio of encreaie Of population,
being afeertained by the Genius to be
at the rste of 81 per cent. for ten
years if the encyeaie Of confnmption
ihall De Guppcfed to be hereafter precile-
ly the fame as that Of population, the
annual receipts Of the eight years, 1902
-ISc9, may be eeimated as nearl, fifty
per cent greater than -thofe Of the
years l7oc-179a, or at the fun Of near
9,zso,ooo, dollars, if that period be al.
iuned as the BATS on which to pre3i-
cate the Ultimate. Baaif the calcuIa-
ton ihall be grounded on the revenue
Of the years l795-I79S, the annual
receipts of the years 1Soz-1Soo
fhould be eliminated as about 3oI
per cent greater than ,hole Of that Pc
riod, or at about .o,eoe,coo, dollars.
7, f.a,ne thar tbofa rr,o reSnaA;ye