Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-04

tons, those expenses are included in the
official accounts of the expenditures
during the FILLMORE and the succeeding
admins trations. That happened in this
wise:
By an act passed March Sd, 1s49, it
was provided, "that from and after the
Both day of June, 1S49, the gross
amount Of all duties received from Gus
toms, from Me-sale Of public lands, and
from all miscellaneous sources Tor the
use of the United States, shall be paid
by the officer or ag,'nt receiving the
same into the treasury of the United
States, atas early day as practicable,
without any abatement or deduction on
account of salary, fees, costs, charges,
expenses, or claim Of any description
whatever"
Referring to this act, the Secretary
of the Treasury in his report of De-
cember, 1S49, said:
Prior to the first of July last, the expen-
ses of collecting the revenue from customs
were paid out of the accruing revenue at the
several ports, and only the balance came into
the treasury of course the receipts at the
treasury, actual and estimated, were of the
net revenue after deducfing all expenses
BY the act of the 3rd of March last the
system was changed from and after the LIST OF
July, 1919; and accordingly, the receipts, ac-
tual and estimated, from that date, are of the
gross revenue, and estimates are submitted OF
| the expenses OF collection"
Referring to the same act, the Hon.
GEORGE w. JONES, of Tennessee, in a
speech in the House of Representa-
tives, on the 18th of February, 1850,
said:
:" 1t would be recollected that, prior TO the
3rd of March, l849, when the act referred to
in this discussion had been passed, the net re-
venue from customs only was paid into the
Treasury of the United States; that the COM
missions, fees and cOmpensations of the
revenue officers engaged in its collection.
were retained by these officers, and that the
balance was paid into the Treasury"
1t is thus, that, beginning with the
first year of the TAYLOR and FILLMORE
administration, and ever since, the ex-
penses of collecting tie revenue from
customs and the public lands have been
regularly appropriated for by Congress,
and may be found duly stated in every
Treasury Report published from 1850
inclusive, in the accounts of the pub,
lie expenditures; while they are not to
be found in the accounts of the public
expenditures contained in any Treasury
Report under Mr.. PoLK's or any pre-
| ceding administration.
Let us now proceed to ascertain the
expenditures under the TAYLOR ana
FILLMORE administration:
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,
DECEMBER IL, 1850.
For For' public debt, 81 ,is7 800 ii
For collecting the Gus
toms ....--....-... l,sI4'53l - -. -.
For public lands,. 1910 70 s,34s,los oo
Total, .s35, ,O49 81
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY THE TREASURY JAN g. 1859
Total expenditure (for 1s5) S4S ,O05 S7S 6S
For public debt, 81 ,217 $50 10
" customs. ........ IJsSso9o vs.
public lands,. 500 rs 6,252 991 Sc
Total. Sal ,762 $50 70
EFFORT SECRETARY TREASURY, JAN Is, 1858
Total expenditures (for 1851 ~ $40 ,OO7 500 20
For public debt, Sc. 275 SIS SO
O. customs. 2,Os2 633 "a .--
public lands, I67 Os2 IL s,525 $50 OF
SECRETARY TREASURY, DEC. o, 1888.
Total expenditures (for 1889 S54 ,026, SIS 81
For public debt, $40 ASP $50 80
:" customs,........ 2,2iS,3IT 70
{" public lants,.... Il2 1873 IS ~ 1888 1853 SIS
Total ,.-..-. $500. S4l $4,000 ID
These results may be summed up as follows:
STATEMENT BxPENDITUREs DURING FoUa YEARS OF
THE TAYioR AND FILLMORE ADMINISTRATIONS, EXCLUSIVE
OE IN