Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-21

The foregoing does not include the interest paid
the Texas boundary stock.
York Done.
BY the join. resolution Of the 4h February last the
Of 600 was appropriated to defay the annual
Of collecting the revenue, in addition such
be received from storage cartage drayage and labor
By the provisions Of the act Of Sd March, ls49 in lieu Of
the nett the gross amount Of all duties received
from CUSTOMS from the sales Of the public lands, and from
all miscellaneous sources" required be paid into the
Treasury without any abatement deduction whatever
This devoved upon the Department the necessity of trans
rrng all coin received to the dposae designated by the
act OF 9th August 1885, and retransporHg the
say for the current and incidental expenses Of collecting the
revenue the exercise of the implied discretionary
conferred by the act upon the Secretary Of the Treasury
designate such other deposares circumstances might
require The collectors Of customs and Of
ports have therefore, been made deposaes and given bonds
| as such.
in the views Of my predecessor that The change
was sautay one The labors of the collectors and their
clerks though largely increased thereby have been 10 gener
al performed BY the force authorized at the date Of my
| Stunning the duties Of this Department
The law Of 29h July last directing all conveyances Of
vessels to be recorded at the custom-houses necessarily
CURED some addition to the clerical rce and consequently
clerk for that duty has been authorized at each the
larger ports the fees allowed is hoped will equal the
penses incurred thereby.
transmit herewith statement c. showing " the amount of
money expended each house in the United States
during the fiscal year ending the 30h June last the number
persons employed and the occupation and salary Of each
at each OF said during the period aore
as required by the 9th section of the act of Sd March,
lS49.
The act Of both September last authorized the employment
OF ten additional inspectors New Orleans; the poviso to
the section, in the opinion of this Department. nu6es the
enacng clause, and the relief much required awaits the
| further legislation Of Congress .
BY the act Of 2s September last six collection districts
created the Pacific and two east Of the Rocky noun
tans, northern frontier. These give occasion for
increase in the personnel of the department Of customs
and than corresponding increase in the expenditures
The maximum salaries Of those officers attached to the Pacific
districts designated by that act though 10 general reduced BY
the Department, believed to be only commensurate with
the expenses attendant upon residence in that country.
That basis, fixed by Congress, has been the standard
adopted by the Department relatively for the compensation Of
the subordinate officers and in the exercise Of the discretion
given BY the FIRST section Of the joint resolution Of l4h Feb
ruay last such salaries have been assigned in the opinion
OF the Department. required to the Govern
ment officers Of ability and integrity and full reliance placed
upon an honest and faithful discharge Of the
responsible duties devoving upon them in that remote section
| Of our country
The great reduction Of the marine made by my
predecessor in consequences Of the limited appropriations hal
been represented injurious in is effects. This branch