Litchfield enquirer., 1836-12-22
From Ne Natio,,al Entellicemcer.

l ANNUAL \ 1hEAOON1 TON1
 Of this document, transmitted to both Hou- ses of Congress on the first day of the session, we have thought our readers would not be dissatisfied with an abridged account, which we have arranged under its several natural divisions, as follows:-- s-.
 RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR 1856.
 The balance in the Treasury on the 1st of January last was $26,749,6O3. The receipts for 1856 are estimated at $47,691, ,s96, of which the receipts from Customs for the three first quarters have been $17,523, ,15l, and the receipts from Lands $s20,O46yO29. The er- pendifures for 1886 are ascertained and esti- mated at $B31 ,435 OS2, of which the payments for the military service (including fortifica- tions) during the three first quarters, have a. mounted to $l3,OlO,O6l.
 Ocducting the expenditures of the year, ascertained and probable, from the receipts, the lst of January, 1887, is estimated at $43,- 1869, and, deducting the unavailable funds" of $1, ,O6O,O0O, leaving "the available balance" $4l 4l,925,669. This does not in- clude the balance to the credit of the Post Office Department at the end of the year, es- timated at $513,920.1
 REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES FOR 1857.
 The receipts are estimated as follows: Gus toms, $16,5O0OOO; Lands, $5,OO0,OOO; Bank Stock and Miscellaneous, @2,50O,OO0. The expenditures Cncluding $1,OO0,0OO for usual excess of appropriations beyond estimates) are estimated at $26, ,755,6Sl. .... IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
 The imports during the year ending 9Oth September, 1886, are ascertained and estima- ted at $l73,540000, showing an increase, compared with the preceding year, of $23,- 644,2o6. The exports during the same peri l nd ara ocrnrfninoA oc md ncksr u& Ge10T
 769.OOO, of which $l0l, ,lO5OOO were domes- tic products, and the residue foreign, exhibi- ting an aggregate increase, compared with the preceding year, of $S5, 5,423, and an a. mount exceeding the average of the last three years by $5,s29,l5O.
 THE SURPLUS REVENUE. The recommendations of the last Annual Report are renewed, and reductions suggest ed of duties on raw materials of foreign ori- gin used in some of our important manufac- lures, and next on articles of comfort and ne- cessity for the people generally. A prohibit tion of the sale of the public domain to any but actual settlers is also mentioned as anoth- CT mode of curtailing the revenue. ttl,p THE PUBLIC MONEY. s 7giI AnrAccount is given of the measures adop. ted in pursuance of the act of June 23d, 1886 to regulate the deposites of the public mon. | ey, and some recommendations are made ol prospective provisions on the subject, such a: authority to discontinue as deposite banks when no longer necessary, those selected un der the late act, &c. +H
 THE MINT AND THE CURRENCY. es
 The coinage ot the Mint, from the 1st O January to the lst of November. 1886. hal been. of gold, @3.6l8. 40. and of silver, @, ST. 900. The establishment of gold coil of one dollar, is again urged upon Congress The quantity of gold now in the country is es timated at @l6.OO0OOO. The Secretary Q
 the Treasury calculates the whole specie il
 the country in October. le33, at thirty mill
 ions of dollars, and the whole specie aosp Il the country at seventy three millions. Va rioNs speculations on the subject occupy 1 number of pages in this part of the report. . MISCELLANEOUS.
 . The report concludes with several sugges tions Of miscellaneous character. anon 2 which the renewed recommendation of th q adoption of measures for regulating steam boat navigation must meet with very geneEs ' Appreciation from all those who have es muc E horror As we have of those anualllng caial e trophea which class themsclvee Wndcr th ls head of Steamboat diSMslere ,se