Delaware journal., 1828-12-05

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General that the insurance OF the safe transmission ~
of moneys by the mail might be assumed by the M
Department, for a moderate and competent remu. 3
neration. will deserve the consideration of Con- III
| gress.
report from the Commissioner OF the Public
Buildings in this City exhibits the expenditures
upon them in the course OF tine current year. 1t
will be seen that the humane and benevolent IN.
tentions of Congress in providing, ny the ActOf
Goth MAY, 1895, for the erection OF fenltentiay
in this District, have been accomplished The au.
thorlty of further legislation is now required 10,
the removal to this tenement OF the offenders against
! the laws, sentenced to atone by personal contne.
ment for their crimes, and to provide code lOr
their employment and government while thus CON-
fined.
!, The Commissioners appointed conformaby TO
the act Of I'd March, 1897 to provide Tor the ad,
ljustment of claims of persons entitled to lndcmnl
fication under the first Article OF the Treaty Of
Ghent, and for the distribution among such claim.
ants of the sum paid by the Government OF Great
Britain under Convention OF 18th November, 1926
. closed their abors on the 30th Of August last, BY
)awarding the claimants the sum of one million one
hundred and ninety thousand four hundred
and twenty two dollars and eighteen cents !; leay.
ing balance Of seven thousand five hundred and
thirty-seven dollars and eighty two cents, which
was distributed rateaby amongst all the claimants
/ to whom awards had been made, according to the
directions Of the act.
The exhibits appended to the report from the
f Commissioner OF the General Land Office, present
the actual condition of that common property Of |
the Union. The amount paid into the Treasury
: from the proceeds OF ands during the year 1897,
: and the first half of 1928. falls little short of two
n millions of dollars. The propriety Of further ey.
tending the time for the extnguishment of the debt
: : due to tie United States by the purchasers of tile
- public lands, limited, by the act Of 2lst March last
to the 4th OF July next, will claim the considera.
ton OF Congress, to whose vigilance and careful
"a attention, the regulation, disposal, and preserya.
: ton, of this great national inheritance has by the
!. People of the United States been entrusted.
Among the important subjects to which the at
: tentiun of the present Congress has already been
ls invited, and which may occupy their further and
= deliberate discussion, will be the provision to be
Al made for taking the fifth census enumeration o
no the inhabitants of the United States. The Con-
stitutlon of the United States requires that this c.
! enumeration should be made within every term Of
~ ten years, and the date from which the last emu.
ya meration commenced. was the first Monday of Au-
IN gust of the year 1920 The laws under which the for.
&c mer enumerations were taken were enacted at the
\, Sessinn Of Congress Immediately preceding tho
~ operation But considerable nconveniences were
experienced from the delay Of legislation to so late
.st period. That law, like those OF the preceding
enumerations, directed that the census should be
taken by the Marshals of the several districts and
~ of State The preparation and transmission 10 the
III Mar shals OF those instructions, required more time
te than was then allowed between the passage of the
OF aw and the day when the enumeration was to
ell commence. The term of six months, limited for
the returns of the Marshals was also found even
OF then too short and must be more so now, when
W. an additional population of at least three millions
Der must be presented upon the returns. As they
on to be made at the short session of Congress, il
va would, as we'll as from other considerations, be
re more convenient to commence the enumeration
hh from earlier period of the year than the first Of
NC August. The most favorable season would be the
the Spring On review of the former enumerations
i'd 4 w he unJ that the nlan for t,t;na eycrv con-
the sus has contained improvements upon that of it
OF predecessor. The last is still susceptible of mucl
3fy improvement. The third census was the first a
.'hs which any account taken Of the manufacture
isi- of the country. It repeated at the last emu
Ger mcraon, but the returns in both cases were ne
rlne cessarily very imperfect. they must always b
ish so, resting Of course only the communication
ect voluntarily made by individuals interested in som
ited of the manufacturing establishments. Yet the
her contained much valuable information, and NAV, b.
o'lc supplementary provision Of the law be ren
wn' derel more effective. The columns of are, CON
10 mencing from infancy have hitherto been conine
pre- to few periods all under the number of As YEAR
ther Important knowledge would be obtained. by ey
meu tending those columns in intervals of ten year
ihcc to the utmost boundaries of human life The labt
!. OF taking them would be tring addition to th
eral, already prescribed and the result wonJ eyhb
IN comparative tables of longevity highly neresn
'arss' to the country I deem it my duty further
~ observe, that much Of the imperfeetons in the r
red turns of the last and perhaps of preceding enum
liars comnensatons a,Iowed ia the Mar.hals and the
and assistants in takjon them.
from In closing this communication. II on}v renal
nui for me to assure the Legislature of my continue
hve earnest wish for the adoption Of measures recon
peri mended by me heretofore and vet ia be acted