American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-12-14

any useful particular by Tic restrained appropris
t'ons OF Congress. The impo:tators for 1897
taxing INTO the account the calender year, will
IL Is Deieved as before intimated. exceed the i'm
porta'lons Tor 1896. But those for the two first
quarters ct 1927 have been very small. Had they
oorne me same proportion to those Of the two last
quarters that the importations of the two first
quarters have borne to those of the two last, on an
average oil hive years preceding. the actual re-
ce'p,s INTO the Treasury from the customs. in 827
would have been larger. This effect would nave
grown out of the terms of credit allowed on duty
bonds. ny these terms portion of the payments
always tails due within the year on importations
Iiade during the first six months in the year. The
average lmportations for the first six months du
ring i've years that preceded 1877. were larger
than those for the last six months For 1897 there
IS every probability that this ratio of mportations
on the time of the whole year, will be reversed. 1t
is SO, as tar as yet ascertaned. We are reminded,
even Dy the experience OF recent years. OF the fire.
guent variations between the anticpations and the
| issue in this part Of our fiscal system In 1917,
the estimated receipts from the customs were S24.-
oO0O00, and the actual receipts 500, 2s3.349. In
1910 the estimated receipts we're S20000.0O0 and
the actual receipts Sl7.176,3S5. In 1919, 1890,
and 1921. the estimates from the same were
! successfully given at So1 100000, S19,000,00O,
and Sl4 00O.0OO The sums SUCCESSFULLY receiv
e! were 820.283,608 SIS, OO5 .612 and Sl3.004,-
Az These disappoinments sprung from super
vening causes. the means of knowing which did not
exist when the estimates were made. There have
been, at other epochs, differences much more con
siderable, which need not be detailed yet it may
not be irrelevant to the purpose of setting forth the
intrinsic uncertainties Of thl, branch of revenue,
to add, that for the last Of the ear here indicated
alter the estimate had been Given in from the lrea
suiv at Sl4 000ofO the proper committee of one
OF the branches If the Legislature thinking it tco
low, raised it to fifteen millions. The receipts for
that year 1821 scarcel, exceeded thirteen mil
lions, as alread, stated The au,iun 10 these facts
would be incomplete in it, purpose. without the
further remark. that the af;l,s If thIs Department
are well known to nave been conducted with great
general accuracy DUNG the Ears mentioned.
The balance of S6,269.595 20. that will proba
bly, be IN the Treasury on the at Of January, 1928.
will be subject to the follow;n. char-es: l. The
balance OF unapplied appropriations which will re-
main to be satisfied after the lst of Jan arv, $685.
estimated at S5.9SO000. O. About one million of
doars in funds that cannot be considered as ehcc
tive bcins made up of debts due from banks in Sc
veral OF the States. heretofore used by the Govern
mcnt as banks Of depOsite, or the notes of which
were received whilst payments in specie we're sus-
pended. AS stated in former report, the
recovery Of these debts, though measures to that
end are in train, must in many instances, be re.
garded as doubtful, and wall probably be slow in
all. s. The sum of SSH $50, being the amount
which it is believed will remain unpaid of the
moneys received under the first article Of the trca-
ty Of Client.
[Ccncluson in nexl.]