The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1820-05-02

lands in the States Of Ohio, Indiana, AID Illinois,
10 the 30th of September.
! remain, with respect, your ma7 otedient
servant, WV. II. CRAWFORD.
lion. IoHS GAuLaRp, Preudt3., pro
haiPors, he Senate.
t'ain4te exhibiting de amount ef 1ss5 Per
Ctai. Fund, ar1s,ne from Me sole " public
lands tgtng IN tie Sia'es Of iadloHs, Ono, aud
Illinois.
Ohio, from ist July 1902 to Both
Indiana, rom 30th Nov. 1916. TO
30.h sept 1919, 2f,08o 43
Illinois, ffcm Isl Jan. 1870, TO Both
sept. 1919, 2,57e n
Nofe.--Ihs is estimate of tire funds that
hire aflset from the receipt OF money for lands
sod-not Of the funds that ulll arse when the
lands sold have been paid for.
JOSIAH MEIGs.
General Land Office, 8tit March, 1920.
From his report therefore, it appears, that
The whole amount OF the tao per cent. fund
realized up 10 tins present petiod i, no more
than Sl32,7i2, while the actual expense Of
llle road Is stated 10 have already exceeded a
million and half
The above estimate includes al tie monies
Dial have actually arisen tom the sales. The
whole amount new due for lands sold y. w.
ii Ohio / somewhat sborl Of SO 600 900. Of
Which, Whenever realized, two per cent. will
he liable 10 be added 10 the amount in the ,e-
port. Ii the whole could be collected, that
proportion would sill be less ihan $500 O0O,
bul tom the system 81 credit, on which these
sales have unfortunately been conducted,
lob, in a., Is
sueh II SUI within any dellalle period.
Bui adding thc whole OF this credit 10 the
present amount OF The fund, il still tails very far
short oil third pant of the expenditure !; and
caves deficiency OF considerably over a Mn
LION or DOLLARS, which have been paid out
OF The United States Treasury for tins purpose.
Can i, be wondered lhen that some surprise
should be iell ~ IBIS quarter at the exten, OF
these appropriations and can !, be consider.
ed - criminal" 10 express il
Nor is the nature OF this sensation much
diminished l.y the consideration lhat oil This
grostnd rs 10 be gone orer in fe same hummer
cih eUery other neyg Sfcfe. already OF here after
admitted INTO The Union; as was suggested in
the article already referred 10 The expense
OF no new passage that might he practicable
across he Allegheny, or other avenue into the
inferior, II may be well imagined, can be
much less tlan that OF one undertaken in the
lent State OF Maryland. one OF the earliest
settled States IN Ire Union, TO the neighbour.
Ing STATE Of Ohio. which may with propriely
be termed the first and most cultivated Of the
original Offspring of the United S'stes-Yer
mont, kentucky and Tennessee, not having
cons iIluled any pant of the national property
There can be no occasion, il should be
hoped, 10 remark that these calculations are
10, intended for the purpose Of any excite.
'neni whatever. Still less can il be imputed
'' an object 10 produce the seques,ralion OF
Its fund. The subtraction OF this t,eo per
cent would make very little difference in the
great aggregate of expense already accumu
laied.-Besides, Ohio is almost child of The
north There is more genuine New Engls
flood III that State than there is in all the res,
OF that rich valley wbiol, pours its alfluencc
INTO the Mississippi. Bat. while NC are pleas.
ed To behold the prosperity Of that 1ourishing
country, Il Is impossible 10 be unconscious,
though il may be painful 70 be reminded. that
the original States OF The Union have also their
"qnal rights 10 he bounty of the national gov
eminent. Whether the most of its genial
Influence has been experienced at the north
u south, II is not necessary 10 express an
pinon l.lnay be due 10 add that these remarks
n vindcatIon of the original statement ia the
Gazette are not made by the author OF that
'ery handsome Article, though they have been
N some measure occas;oned by the style IN
which il was thought proper 10 be noticed.
JUSTICE.