American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-12-22
REPORT.

IN submitting to Congress The Annual Report
required by law on the Finances, The Secretary Of
the Treasury is happy in being able to represent
them Tor the present year as in satisfactory condi-
ton. Whilst other countries. and Bome with which
the United States maintain extensive dealings, have
bched great branches Of their industry, if not alto
gether Frustrated, interrupted to extent produce
tive OF high degree Of suffering, the United States
have experienced within themselves such caam
itous occurrences, and have been freed from all
other than a slight iecoil Of the pecunary evils
which have been seen to press SO heavily in other
regions When advertirg to the complicated con-
nexions that bind together the pccunary interests
Of Commercial States, having large exchanges with
each other, the reaction from abroad has been less
felt than might have been expected and has brought
with 1t no results affective 10 The community, or in
suspicious to the regular operations Of the Govern
mcnt. The public obligations have all been pune
tually fulfilled, without any increase OF the public
burdens, and the National Revenue, which derives
no aid from the existence OF direct taxes or internal
duties Of any kind, but rests upon the Customs al
most exclusively, has been unusually abundant, In
the sums realised for the year drawing to close,
and promises to be fully adequate TO meet eve
nv stated head of the public expenditure, inclu-
ding the sum annually devoted 10 the extnguish
men: Of the debt, for the year that is to come This
substantial prosperity the result OF the general in
dustry fostered by good laws, and just economy
in the public administraon-la which, by en-
arging the home demand for the productions OF the
soil, have aided in supplying deficiencies in the To-
reign demand, and which. by superadding to ex-
ports the results Of manufacturing to those oil agr-
cultural labor, have tended to open new avenues 10
external traffick state of the country, in its
financial resources end concerns for the year will
be seen in the recapitulaions that follow. They
will consist. FIRST, OF the amount of moneys paid into
the Treasury in 1896, and in the year preceding
and the Expenditures for those two years Next,
of the state OF the Public Debt, and the portions OF
that have been paid off; which will be TO ex
coed the sum regularly appropriated BY law Tor that
purpose, within the year. And lastly of the Est
mates Of the Public Revenue and Expenditure for
the year 1897.
/. Of the Public Revenue and Expenditure Of the
years 1925 and 1926.
The nett revenue which accrued from duties imports
and tonnage, during the year 1885, amounted see State
ment All to *S24,358202 81
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The actual receipts into the Treasury, from
all sources during the year 1925, amount
ed TO 2o,o4O65o W
viz:
Customs, Statement AZ 20,09S,7l3 As
Public Lands. Statement ID 1,2lo,o9o 80
Dividends Stock in the
Bank Of the United States,
arrears of internal duties
and direct taxes, and in
cidental receipts, Estate
ment ~ 4S2,l5d o.
Re payments of advances.
made in the War Depart
ment for services or sup
plies, prior TO the first ui
july, 1915, A3,919 81