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II. The Monthly returns by Collectors of small districts, viz :

1. Monthly returns of specie and bullion imported, by whom, amount, and kind.
2. Monthly returns of specie and bullion exported, by whom, amount, and kind.
3. Monthly returns of money received for impost, tonnage, and other duties.
4. Monthly returns of money paid away, and on what accounts.

5. Monthly returns of bonds (5) taken during the month.

6. Monthly returns of bonds liquidated during the month.

7. Monthly returns of bonds put in suit during the month.

8. Monthly returns of debentures issued for drawback in the month.
9. Monthly returns of debentures for drawback paid in the month.
10. Monthly returns of entries made for bounty on fish exported.
11. Monthly returns of entries made for bounty on fishing tonnage.
12. Monthly returns of quantity and value of certain goods imported.

13. Monthly summary value of imports and exports made in the month.

14. Monthly statement of the rates at which the exchange value of foreign currency is estimated.

15. Monthly abstract of licenses issued to coasting vessels.

16. Monthly abstract of licenses issued to fishing vessels.

III. The Quarterly returns or summaries of revenue, including certain anomalous quarterly returns, viz:

1. Quarterly summary or account current of receipts and disbursements, corresponding with the quarterly accounts rendered to the First Auditor for settlement.

2. Quarterly summary of revenue for the third quarter of each year.

3. Quarterly transcript of the pay roll of revenue cutters.

(Anomalous quarterly returns, which receive their proper direction.)

4. Quarterly returns of receipts and expenditures of hospitals for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, corresponding to the quarterly account rendered to the First Auditor for settlement.

5. Quarterly accounts of disbursements by disbursing agents under the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, which are referred to the First Auditor for settlement.

6. Quarterly accounts of disbursements in providing weights and measures, under the direction of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, which are also referred to the First Auditor for settlement.

IV. The annual returns required of Collectors, viz:

1. Annual inventory of the effects of Revenue Cutters.

2. Annual inventory of the public property in the care of Collectors of the Customs.

3. Annual returns of the Commerce and Navigation of the different ports of the United States, corresponding to the returns to the Register of the Treasury.

4. Annual returns of the salaries, fees, and emoluments of Collectors, Naval officers, Surveyors, &c., for the information of Congress.

(B.) RETURNS OF RECEIVERS OF Land sales.

I. The Weekly returns by Receivers of the proceeds of the sales of Public Lands, in principal land districts, viz:

1. Weekly returns of deposites made to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States.

2. Weekly returns of certificates by Depositories of the deposites so made.

(5) Since the adoption of the System of Cash Duties by the tariff of 1842, bond returns have, in a great measure, become obsolets.

II. The Monthly returns by Receivers of the proceeds of sales of Public Lands, in smaller land districts, viz:

1. Monthly returns of deposites made to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States.

2. Monthly returns of certificates by depositories, of deposites so made.

3. Monthly returns, or accounts current, of moneys received and paid away on various accounts, by all receivers, corresponding with the quarterly accounts rendered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for settlement.

(c.) RETURNS OF THE MINT AND BRANCHES.

1. The Monthly returns of all the operations of the Mint and branches, viz:

1. Monthly returns of the Bullion, Coinage, and Deposites (or amount on hand) of the Mint at Philadelphia, including a statement of its receipts and expenditures, during the month.

2. Monthly returns of the Bullion, Coinage, and Deposites of the branch Mint at Charlotte, North Carolina, including a statement of its receipts and expenditures during the month.

3. Monthly returns of the Bullion, Coinage, and Deposites of the branch Mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, including a statement of its receipts and expenditures during the month.

4. Monthly returns of the Bullion, Coinage, and Deposites of the branch Mint at New Orleans, including a statement of its receipts and expenditures during the month.

(D) RETURNS OF BANKS AND OTHER DEPOSITORIES OF PUBLIC MONEY, AND CORRESPONDING STATEMENTS OF THE TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES.

I. Of the weekly statements of Banks and other Depositories of public money, viz :

1. Weekly statement of the account current of each deposite Bank, and other public depositories, with the Treasurer of the United States, in deposites to his credit, and drafts made by him on those deposites, &c. 2. Semi-monthly statements of the actual monetary condition of each deposite Bank, and of other depositories of public money.

II. Of the weekly statements of the Treasurer of the United States, viz:

1. The Treasurer of the United States makes weekly statements to the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the amount of public money at his credit in the various Banks and other public Depositories, and at the Mint and its branches, according to their latest returns; the amount for which his drafts have been issued, and were not then paid; and the amont then remaining in each, subject to his draft.

2. The Treasurer makes a like weekly statement of money in the hands of a few Collectors, and nearly all the Receivers, who have no depositories convenient, to deposite their surplus receipts; which moneys are consequently subject to be drawn by drafts of the Treasurer under warrants of the Secretary, just as if such Collectors and Receivers were authorized depositories, being in all cases virtually such while public moneys are remaining in their hands.

(E) OCCASIONAL APPLICATIONS, RETURNS, REPORTS, CLAIMS, &c.

I. The Secretary receives occasional applications, returns, reports, and claims, connected with the Customs, viz:

1. Applications of importers, for permission to enter goods imported without consular certificate to their invoices, which applications are accompanied with the Collector's certificate that no fraud was intended by said omission, (as provided for by the 10th section of the act 1st of March, 1823;) which applications he grants or rejects, according to the merits..

2. Applications for the remission of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred by violations of the revenue laws; which applications, if for remissions over fifty dollars must be accompanied by the certificate of the District Judge to the facts stated; but if under fifty dollars, the remission is discretionary with the Secretary without such certificate.

3. Returns by Collectors, of goods seized, when of less value than $100 dollars, imported contrary to law, and remaining unclaimed; these returns are made for the information of the Secretary, the Collector proceeding therein, in other respects, as provided for by the act of the 2d April, 1844.

4. Reports and awards of Commissioners under the act of the 7th July, 1838, for refunding duties on goods. destroyed by the conflagration at New York, in 1835, accompanied by the certificate of the Collector in connection therewith, for the Secretary's approval of said reports and awards.

5. Incidental claims for services and expenses incurred in connection with the revenue of the Customs, (6) which are referred to the First Comptroller, who, upon admitting the said claims, (as in other like cases which more properly come to him direct from the claimants,) directs the Collector to pay the same out of the receipts of the Customs and to charge them in his quarterly accounts current.

II. The Secretary receives occasional reports and claims connected with land sales, Spanish treaty stipulations, and miscellaneous unprovided claims, viz:

1. Claims of individuals for the repayment of money paid by them for lands erroneously sold to them by the United States, which are referred by the Secretary to the First Auditor for settlement.

2. Claims of individuals for losses sustained by military operations in Florida, reported favorably by the Judges of the Superior Court of Florida, in pursuance of the Treaty stipulations of 1819, which are referred by the Secretary to the First Auditor for settlement.

3. Miscellaneous claims (in connection with the civil Department) not otherwise provided for, which the Secretary refers to the First Auditor for settlement. (Not referred.)

III. The Secretary receives occasional applications for the release of Insolvent Debtors, and orders examination and report in each case by Commissioners of Insolvency, viz:

1. Applications of insolvent debtors of the United States, for release, under the act of 2d March, 1831, (with certain exceptions therein expressed,) being received by the Secretary, are transmitted, in the form of certified copies, to the District Attorney; who lays the same before the Commissioners of Insolvency for the district, to examine, and report thereon to the Secretary; in which proceedings of the Commissioners the Attorney acts as counsel for the United States.

2. Report of the Commissioners of Insolvency, in each case of application for release referred to them, giving a detailed account of the effects of the individual, and his indebtedness; upon which report the Secretary may compromise the claim of the United States, and discharge the insolvent.

(F) STATISTICAL RETURNS OF THE OPERATIONS OF AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, COMMERCE, BANKing, &c. I. The Secretary of the Treasury receives returns of such statistical information (7) as may be procured, from time to time, tending to show, in each year, the condition of the agriculture, manufactures, domestic trade, currency, and banking, &c., in the several states and territories, of the United States, whether in reference to the preparation of plans of revenue or otherwise, viz:

1. Returns of agricultural statistics, showing the condition of the agriculture of each state and territory during the year.

2. Returns of the statistics of manufactures, showing the condition of manufacturing establishments in the several states and territories during the year.

3. Returns of the statistics of domestic trade, showing the condition of internal commerce between the different states and territories during the year.

4. Returns of the statistics of currency and banking, showing the condition of each, in the several states and territories during the year.

(6) The revenue has ever been considered as applicable, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to defray any incidental expenses he may on any emergency deem to be essential or conducive to its benefit-among which may be mentioned his authority, to institute Commissions to investigate custom house accounts, &c., under the act of 2d March, 1799, or by direction of the President, under the injunc tion of the constitution "to see the laws executed." He may, also, under the latter authority, incur various other expenditures, to which there is no ascertained limit but that of expediency and sound discretion.

(7) Although the Bureau of Statistics in the Secretary's office has been abolished, the right and duty of the Secretary to collect statistical information elementary to the preparation of PLANS for the improvement of the REVENUE, is inherent in his financial office, as already stated. The Patent Office, however, has, for several years, been erected into a statistical office for these elementary mattersnot so much for any devotion to incongruity, perhaps, as to follow the British example of collecting these statistics through their Patent Office.

(C)-REPORTS TO CONGRESS.

[The Secretary of the Treasury makes Reports annually to Congress, under authority of law, or joint resolutions of the two houses, or under resolution of either house, (these latter resolutions to be found in their respective journals, only,) relative to the operations of the Department, the general state of the finances, plans for the improvement of the revenue and sustaining the public credit, the general and particular state of accountability, and detailed estimates for the yearly support of the government, civil, military, naval, and miscellaneous, &c, which are enumerated in three Classes or Divisions, as here subjoined.

Among the reports here enumerated, there are some marked thus(*) which are not standing reports, but are merely in answer to special calls of Congress: yet it was deemed proper to insert them here, as showing that in some instances they involve matters that are worthy of being put on the basis of standing yearly reports, while others of them are little more than repetitions of the substance embraced in other reports, thereby giving occasion to a great deal of unprofitable extra clerical labor, and expense to the government. There are also a few other reports here inserted, marked (a), which are made by the Secretary of State; others, marked (b), made by the Treasurer; and others, marked (c), made by the Comptroller: the subjects of which being so much in kind with those that are proper to the Secretary of the Treasury, that there would be a seeming chasm in the continuity of his reports without them.

No occasion, perhaps, can be more suitable than the present, to note the fact that reports which embody sundry documents as component parts of them, are sometimes liable to the great embarrassment of being divided, and the component parts separated in the publication and binding of Congressional Documents, and are even numbered as distinct documents. Of this description may be mentioned the report of the Comptroller, marked (c2) under Class II. The 2d section of the act 3d March, 1809, requiring this report, implies that it would embody the statements of the several Auditors, showing all the accounts of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments, which have remained more than three years unsettled in their offices, or on which balances have been due more than three years: but the usage of the Comptroller, from the beginning of the act (until recently) has been simply to transmit, separately, the statements of the respective Auditors as they were received by him, instead of retaining and embodying them, when all in hand, in one report. The like mishap befel the report of a late Secretary of the Treasury, (the Hon. Louis McLane,) of the 27th April, 1832, (22d Congress, House Document No. 222) "on the adjustment of a Tariff of Duties:" the report, and his circular calling for statistics of agriculture, manufactures, &c., were printed and bound in the 5th volume of the House Documents and the statistical returns, making part of it, were printed separately, and bound up in the 7th volume of that Session's Documents. Ever to identify these dispersed parts, as one document, afterwards, is almost impossible to most superficial researches. The remedy is almost too palpable to be stated-either to withold the component parts until they are all ready to be transmitted or, if time presses to transmit them in detachments, let them be afterwards reunited for the press as one document.]

I. Of the Reports that appertain to the general Resources and Expenditures of the United States, viz:

1. *A report of general statistics, arranged and classified, showing or tending to show the yearly condition of the agriculture, manufactures, domestic trade, currency, and banking, in the several states and territories of the United States: Joint resolution, 15th June, 1844.

2. A report of the state of the commerce and navigation of the United States, during the past year: Act 10th February, 1820, and resolution of the House of Representatives 26th May, 1830.

(a) A report on the privileges and restrictions of foreign nations, on the commerce of the United States : Resolution of the House of Representatives, 3d September, 1841.

(a) A report of abstracts of the returns made by Collectors of the registered seamen of the United States: Acts 16th July, 1789, and 2d March, 1799.

(a3) A report of a list of passengers arriving in the United States from foreign countries, during the year: Act 2d March, 1819.

3. A report upon the state of the finances, giving a general view of the revenue receipts and expenditures of the United States during the past year: Acts 2d September, 1789, and 10th May, 1800.

4. A report of the receipts and expenditures of the government, being a detailed account of each, in printed form, during the past year: Resolution of the House of Representatives, 30th December, 1791.

5. A report of the receipts and expenditures of the Mint, with a statement of its transactions, during the past year: Act 2d April, 1792.

6. A report of the results of assays made at the Mint, of gold and silver coins, their value, &c.: Act 28th June, 1834.

7. A report of a map or exhibit of public lands that have been surveyed in each state, showing the relative qualities of the lands: Resolution of the House of Representatives, 7th May, 1830.

8. A report of the fund arising from the sales of land under treaties with the Chickasaw Indians: Act 20th April, 1836.

9. *A report of outstanding appropriations, &c., and amounts drawn and accounted for, &c.: Resolution of the House of Representatives, 22d June, 1841.

10. A report of the number and names of deposite banks, their condition, and the amount of deposites in each to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States: Act 23d June, 1836.

11. A report of the annual products of the duties laid on bank notes, bills of exchange, and bank discounts, by the act of the 2d of August, 1813, and continued in force till the year 1837: Senate resolution, 10th September, 1841.

12. *A report of estimates of the expenses of the collection of the revenue: Resolution of the House of Representatives, 24th August, 1841.

13. A report of a revision of the revenue laws, and a retrenchment of the expenses of that branch of the public service: Resolution of the House of Representatives, 24th July, 1841.

14. *A report of various information connected with the survey of the coast of the United States: Resolution of the House of Representatives, 24th June, 1841.

15. A report of the capital, circulation, discounts, and specie deposites, and condition, of the state Banks: Resolution of the House of Representatives, 10th July, 1832.

16. A report of the amount of stock issued by the several states and territories of the United States, and the purposes for which issued, &c: Resolution of the House of Representatives, 2d September, 1841.

(b) A report of the accounts, receipts, and disbursements of the Treasurer of the United States, with an account of the state of the Treasury: Act 2d September, 1789.

(62) A report of the receipts and expenditures of the Post Office Department: Act 2d July, 1836. II. Of the Reports that appertain to special Expenditures and Accountability, viz:

1. A report of the application of the appropriations for the military (8) service during the year: Act 3d March, 1817.

2. A report of the application of the appropriations for the naval (8) service during the year: Act 3d March, 1817.

3. A report of the amount of scrip issued on the Virginia military land warrants: Senate resolution, 3d March, 1841.

4. A report of contracts and purchases made by collectors of the customs for the revenue service: Act 21st April, 1808.

(c1) A report of the official emoluments and expenditures of officers employed in the collection of the customs: Act 2d March, 1799, (usually made by the Secretary of the Treasury.)

5. A report of contracts made by direction of the Treasury Department: Act 21st April, 1808.

6. A report of disbursements from the Treasury for the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers during the year: Act 1st May, 1810.

7. A report of the amount of expenditures for the relief of sick and disabled seamen during the year.

8. * A report of the amount of expenditures for each revenue cutter, consisting of repairs, equipments, rations, officers' pay, and seamen's wages, and other incidental expenses: Resolution of House of Representatives, 11th February, 1839.

9. A report of the payments made at the Treasury for the discharge of miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for: Act 3d of March, 1809.

10. A report of the expenditures of the contingent fund of the Treasury Department: Act 9th May, 1836. 11. A report of the amount expended in the purchase of furniture for the custom house at New York: Resolution of House of Representatives, 7th September, 1841.

(c2) A report of all accounts which have remained more than three years unsettled, or on which balances have been due more than three years: Act 3d March, 1809.

(c3) A report of the names of all such officers as have not settled their accounts within the year, for money advanced one year prior to the 30th September last (preceding the report :) Act 3d March, 1817.

(8) A similar report, relative to the application of appropriations for the Indian department, is required by the act of the 30th June, 1834, to be made annually to Congress by the Second Auditor; the substance of which, as well as of these two, is made in the Secretary's annual report, No. 3, before mentioned, of the receipts and expenditures of the government: see table of operations of the Second Auditor's office, subject "reports," under which head it will be perceived that the Second Auditor makes other reports direct to Congress, instead of being required of the head of the department, as in most of the analogous casos.

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