Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-11-02

ment CT france, or to its assignses, in a ro,h
bearing interest atsxP:r cent. payable in 2Euro,.
and the principal o! which will be discharged ~
The Treasury of the United States, in four n
stalinenss, the hrst of which shall comnenc. -
the year lSlS-aily, sun which canno, exceed
but may fall short OF 3.75o.o90 dollars, payabls
in specie, at the Treasury of the United State.
during the course Of the ensuing year, to Ane'
riean citizens having claims of certain descr;,
non on the government Of France.
il has already been stated that two millions NJ
dollars may be paid from the specie now in N.
Treasury, on account of the LIST item; and the
whole amount Of the new debt which NAV b.
eventually Created, cannot therefore exceed ;hir.
teen millions of dollars, the annual interes. oe
which is equal to 10000 dollars; bur on ac.
count of commissions and variations Of exchange
will BE- estimated a. eight hundred thousand dolls.
The existing surplus revenue OF the United
States will, as has been sts.ed, be sufscien, 10
discharge six hundred thousand dollars of ,ha,
sum, and IL is expected that the nett reyeous
collected at New Orleans will be equal to III. "a.
naming two hundred thousand dollars.
Congress shall place that port on tho same foot.
ing as those of the United States so that the
same duties shall be collected there on the impr.
taslon of foreign n,erchandz. as are now by law
levied in the United States and that no duu.,
shall be collected either on the expectations Of
produce or merchandise from New Orleans to any
other place nor any articles imported into til:
United States from the coded territories, or int
those territories from the United States.
The statements T. G. Fl. exhibit the annual
exports and imports of the United States TO and
from Florida and Louisiana, for the years 1893
to 1902; and the statement (G) particularly
shews that the exploration from the Atlantic
States to those colonies, of articles not Of the
growth, produce, or manufacture of the United
States, amounted Tor the year 1899, 1900, and
1901, to 6,621, 1879 dollars; making an average
Of more than two millions two hundred thousand
dollars of foreign articles, Liable to pay duty, an.
nualy imported into Florida and Louisiana from
tie United States alone.
1t is ascertained that the expectation, from
tie United States TO Florida, arc SO trifing that
that statement may be considered as applying
solely TO New Orleans and it is also known
that almost the whole of those iuportatIons were
consumed within that colony, and that during
the war the supplies from the United States con.
stitutsd by far the greater part otis imPOrts
From thence 1t results thai the annual imyor-
tations into the coded territory, of articles destn-
e for the consumption of iss own inhabitants, and
which will under the revenue laws Of the Uaed
States, be liable to pay duty, may safely be es.
tinated at two millions Eve hundred thousand
dollars: an amount which at the present rate Of
duties, will yield revenue Of about $4,000
dollars. From that revenue must be deducted
100000 dollars, for the following items, viz.
.lst. The amount of duties on quantity Of {
sugar and indigo equal TO that which shall be i'm
ported from New Osl:ans into the United States;
as those articles being imported free from duty,
will diminish by so much the revenue now col. /
leeted in the sea- ports Of the United States. In:
whole amount of sugar exported from New Or.
leans is less than 100000 OF pounds, and thar OF
indigo is stated at about SO, oooi pounds. Sup
posing (which on account of that exemption,
not Improbable that the whole Of those articles
should hereafter be exported to the United States
the loss to the revenue will be about 100000
dollars.
3D. No encrease of expence in the military 3
establishment of the United States, is contemPa"
ed on account of the acquisition Of territory +
bus the cxpencss of the civil administration OF 'os
Province and those incident TO the lntefcou'"
with the Indians, are estimated a. 1000 dollar;
leaving for the nett revenue derived from the fi0'
vince, and applicable to tie payment OF the w.
teres, Of the new debs, 100000 dollars IS aO0''
stated.
The only provisions which, if that view OF ','
subjea be correct appear necessary, ana a'' ~
spectfuIly submitted, are j.,
I. In relation TO the stock OF tl,S5o'o0o Wv
lars to be created in favour Of the goVe'l'i''"
Of France or of its assignees> Il.
That the debt may be made charge 0' w..
Sinking Fund, directing the commissioners o ~ !.
fund to apply 50 much of its proceeds as "H =,