Mobile register and journal., 1845-08-28
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QUEsTIONS.

QUESTIONS.
 l. State and count, in winch the manulactory IS situated?
 2 Kind or description o the manulactory; and whether water, steam, or other power!
 3. When established; and whether joint stock concern?
 1. Capital invested in ground and buildings, and water power, and in nachueryl
 3. Average amount in materials, and in cash Tor the purchase of ma terIals, and payment of wages!
 6. Annual rate Of profit on the capital invested since the establishment of the manniacory; distin- gushing between the rate of profit upon that portion of the capital which is borroweo, aer providing for the interest it, and the rate of profit upon that portion which is not borrowedl
 7. Cause of the increase Cor decrease the case may bel of profit?
 8. Rates of profit on capital otherwise employed in the same State and county?
 9. Amount of articles annually manufactured since the establishment of the manufactory; description, quality, and value each kind!
 10, Quantity and value of different kinds of raw materials used distinguishing between foreign pro- ducts and domestic products?
 II. Cost in the United States of similar articles of manufacture imported from abroad, and from what countries?
 12. Number oGmen, women, and children, em- ployed, and average wages of each classt
 B. How many hours day employed, ana what portion of ihe year?
 l4 Rate of wages Of similar classes otherwise employed iu the same State and county, in other States, and in foreign countries?
 l5. Number of horses or other animals employ ed!
 l6 Whether the manufactures find market at the manufacory; if not, how far they are seut to d market!
 r. Whether foreign articles of the like kinds en- ter into competition with them al such place oi sale and to what extelt!
 IS. Where are the manufactures consumed!
 l9. Whether any of the manufactures are export fire 10,
 20. whether the manufacture is sold by the man cacturer for cash? and if on credit, at what credit if bartered, for what?
 2l. Whether the cost of the manufactured article (lo the manulaclurer) has increased or decreased; and how much, in each year, from the establishment of the manuiactory; and whether the increase has been in the materials the labor, and al what rate!
 22. The prices al which the manufactures have been sold by the manufacturer since the establish- ment2 23. What rate of duty is necessary to enable the manufacturer enter into competition in the home market with similar articles imported? 24. Is there any change necessary in levying or collecting the duty on such articles to prevent frand!
 25. What has been the rates of your profits, an- nualy, for the last three years? and if il be joint stock coinpany what dividends have been received, f, and what portion of the income of the company has been converted into fixed capital, or retained as a fund for contingent other objects, and therefore not divided out annually!
 26. What portion of the cost oi your manufactures consists of the price o the raw material, what por- iion of the wages of labor, and what portion of the profits of capitalI f
 27. What amount of the agricultural productions the country is consumed in our establishment, and what amount of other domestic productions!
 26. What quantity or amount of manufactures, such you make, produced in the United States, and what amount in your own State!
 29 If he duty upon the foreign manufacture of inc kInd nI " n;ik a IL q 12t per cent, with corresponding reduction on all the imports would it cause you to abandon your bu' siness, or would you continue to manufacture at reduced pricesl
 30. lift would cause you to abandon your busi- ness, in what way would you employ your capital!
 3I. Is there any pursuit which you could en- gage, from which you could derive greater profits, even after d reduction of the import duties to l2t per cent!
 32. Are not the manufactures of salt and iron, mote from the points of portatious, out of foreign competition within d certain circle around them; and what Is the extent of that circle?
 33. Amount oi capital; and what proportion the borrowed c.piial beais to that which is reall
 3i. What amount of reduction in the duties would eoabIe the actual real capitol employed to yield of SIX per cent? and how gradual the re- duclion should be?
 B. Iiminmum should be abolished, and the duty assessed upon the ucual value of the imported ari- cle in the American eporl, what rate of advalorem duty would be equivalent to the present with the minimum 36 What would be the operation of this change upon the frauds at present supposed to be pracised! 37 Proportion which the production by the Am- ercan manufacturer bears to the consumption! 3a. Extent of Individu and household manutac- lures in the United States and how much it has in- creased since ihe tariff of 1922 3S. Average profit Of kmoney or capital in the United Statesl
 40. Average rate of wages!