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The disbursements by the board of public works of the state of Virginia, from the income received between the 30th Nov. 1827, and 1st Dec. 1828, for the purpose of internal improvement, have been on the following accounts:

Last instalment to the Roanoke Nav-
igation Company,

3,200 00

event of a perseverance in the depre-
cated measures on the part of the
general government. Believing that
a laudable spirit of inquiry is just
awakened by the pressure of intolera-
ble burthens, especially upon the
great staple productions of agricul-
ture, and above all upon the produc-
tion of wheat; and that the time is
now arrived, when every American
citizen ought to be informed of the
true character and destructive ope-
rations of those unauthorized mea-
sures, as well as in regard to their
unjust and oppressive sectional bear-
ings, as in regard to their destructive
influence upon the great principle of Advance to principal engineer for ex-
American liberty, secured to the Ame-
rican people in written constitutions;
I take pleasure in submitting those
vitally interesting subjects to the gen-
eral assembly, and I most respectful-
ly ask for their most profound consi-
deration.

1st and part of 2d do. to Sheperdstown
and Smithfield Turnpike Gompany, $8,127 50
2d and part of 3d do. to Staunton and

March. The Legislature of Virginia adjourned on the 8th instant, after a session of precisely three calendar months, and passing more than 150 acts, chiefly of a local or personal description. No decision was had upon any leading question arising out of Governor Giles's message, or the resolutions of the legislatures of other states, which accompanied it. It is stated that the expenses of the legis lature of Virginia, for the session, amounted to about 110,000 dollars, or more than a fifth part of the whole revenue of the state.

MANUFACTURES.-The legislature at its last session, incorporated five companies for manufacturing purposes, with an aggregate capital of 645,000 dollars. Four out of the five companies were for the manufacture of cotton.

December.-INTERNAL IMPROVE MENTS. BREAKING GROUND.—--On the 21st ult. the president of the Rappahanock canal company commenced the work by breaking ground for the canal. The event was celebrated by the citizens of Fredericksburg and vicinity, with much patriotic spirit, and a great display of masonic and other ceremonies,

James River Turnpike Company,
Last do. to Ashby's Gap Turnpike
Company,

2d and part of 3d do to Falls Bridge
Turnpike Company,

Last do. of loan to Dismal Swamp
Canal Company,

penses of surveys,

One year's salary to the collector of
the board,

Do. to principal Engineer,
Do. to the second Auditor,
Do. to the second Auditor's clerk,

Board, &c.

Printing 12th annual report of the
Compensation and mileage of the di-

rectors of the board at the 12th an-
nual meeting,

Door keeper $48, postages $17.53,
Interest on certificates of James River
Loans,

8,750 50

7,000 00

3,500 00

7,500 00 2,950.68

300 00 3,500 00 500 00

219,08

311 62

1,291 90 65 53 71,673 50 $118,889 81

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.-The report of the condition of this institution, which has attached to it the name of ex-president Madison, gives a favourable account of the condition and prospects of the University. The number of students at present attached to it, is one hundred and thirty-one.

The literary fund of Virginia, actually available, amounts to $1,200, 856; the fund for internal improvement, to $1,604,400 of productive stock, and $465,126 of unproductive stock. The James river company has expended $1,260,000; has a revenue of $29,673; and pays $71,673 interest-the difference between the revenue and interest being charged on the fund for internal improvement.

GOVERNOR.-William B. Giles was re-elected governor of Virginia, without any regular opposition; though about 70 votes were given for other persons. This is the last year that he can constitutionally serve in that office.

PRODUCE. The following, says the Richmond Whig, is the amount of produce, brought down the James river canal, to Richmond, during the year ending Dec. 31, 1828.

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22,803 hhds. tobacco; 592 do. stems; 1: 1,389 bushels wheat; 87,635 bbls. flour; 19,824 bushels corn; 595,327 do. coal; 263 tons bar iron; 937 tons pig iron; 9524 squares slate; 373,100 staves; 75,800 hoop poles; 419,400 feet plank; 1,491,800 Ibs. miscellaneous articles; 963 hhds. whiskey; 152 empty boats, small class; 39 do. large; 13 tons hay; 23 hhds. rum. Amount of tolls received $48,430.51.

January, 1829.--COLONIZATION SOCIETY. At a late annual meeting of the Richmond and Manchester Colonization Society, held in the Capitol at Richmond, Chief Justice Marshall presiding, after receiving the report of the Managers, and transacting the annual business, it was resolved to form a State Society. Accordingly, a constitution was adopted, and officers were appointed, embracing many of the most distinguished names in the state.

John Marshall, President.

James Madison, James Monroe, James Pleasants, John Tyler, Wm. H Fitzburgh, John F. May, General Briscoe G. Baldwin, Philip Doddridge, Hugh Nelson, General Wm. H. Broadnax, William Maxwell, and Dr. Thomas Massie, Vice Presidents.

SENATOR.-Littleton W. Tazewell was re-elected (almost unanimously) to be a senator of the United States from the state of Virginia, for six years from the third day of March

next.

February 28th.-TARIFF, &c.The following resolutions, with a long preamble, passed the legislature of the state of Virginia, on this subject. The yeas and nays were the votes thereon, in the house of delegates.

1. Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, That the constitution of the United States being a federative

compact between sovereign states, in
construing which, no common arbi-
ter is known, each state has the right
to construe the compact for itself.-
Yeas 134, nays 68.

2. Resolved, That, in giving such
construction, in the opinion of this
committee, each state should be
guided, as Virginia has ever been, by
a sense of forbearance and respect for
the opinion of the other states, and
by community of attachment to the
union, so far as the same may be con-
sistent with self-preservation, and a
determined purpose to preserve the
purity of our republican institutions.
Yeas 166, nays 36.

3. Resolved, That this general assembly of Virginia, actuated by the desire of guarding the constitution from all violation, anxious to preserve and perpetuate the union, and to execute with fidelity the trust reposed in it by the people, as one of the high contracting parties, feels itself bound to declare, and it hereby most solemn. ly declares its deliberate conviction, that the acts of congress, usually denominated the tariff laws, passed avowedly for the protection of domestic manufactures, are not authorized by the plain construction, true intent, and meaning of the Constitution.Yeas 126, nays 75.

4. Resolved, also, That the said acts are partial in their operation, impolitic, and oppressive to a large portion of the people of the union, and ought to be repealed.-Yeas 138, nays 62.

These resolutions were presented to Congress, and entered on the senate journal March 3, 1829.

The legislature for the last three years, has annually passed similar resolutions, about state rights, the tariff, &c. The votes on these resolutions, stood as follows:

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Ayes. Noes.

Majorities.

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Armstrong, P. P. Barbour, J. S. Barbour, Claiborne, Davenport, Maxwell, Mercer, McCoy, Newton, Rives, Roane, Smyth, Stevenson, Taliaferro, Trezvant, and Messrs. Richard Coke, jun. in the place of B. Bassett, Robert B. Craig, in the place of T. Floyd, Philip Doddridge, in the place of Isaac Lettler, and J. T. Bouldin, in the place of J. Randolph. Messrs. Floyd and Randolph were not candidates.

There were only four changes in the delegation, and two of them voluntary.

July.-TOBACCo.-Amount of tobacco inspected at the principal inspections in Virginia, from 1st October, 1828, to 30th June, 1829, and the quantity on hand on the 30th June. Passed. Refused. On hand. 5,948 3,668 624 300

14,279 1,299

640

Richmond, Manchester,

Petersburg,

1,788 2,172

Lynchburg, 8,340 1,415

2,550

Farmville,

2,051 1,104

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2,368

4,361

shows the quantity of salt manufactured in Kenhawa county, Virginia, from the salt springs, to have been something more than two millions of bushels.

December, 1827.-CONVENTION.A bill to call a convention to revise the constitution, has passed the house of delegates, 114 to 89. On the 31st inst. the bill passed the senate, by the following vote:

Ayes.-Messrs. Patterson, Walton, Wethered, Wyatt, Turley, Dade, Osborn, Smith, Fry, Thom, Morgan, Sharpe, Martin, and Saunders.-14.

Noes.-Messrs. Holt, (speaker,) Taylor, Dromgoole, Clopton, Mason, Chapman, Bernard, Cabell, Carter, and Jones.-10.

This bill simply submits the proposition of convention, or no convention, to the freeholders of the state. This question is to be settled by their suffrages, in May and June next.

June, 1828.-The vote in the state, on the question of calling a convention, was as follows:

3,576

Deficit, VIRGINIA GOLD.-This article it appears increases daily. Valuable discoveries of this metal are not confined to one neighbourhood; Spottsylvania, Orange, Stafford, and Louisa, are all said to have yielded it; the most considerable amount as yet obtained, has been from the first named county. A company of about a dozen in that county, make it their regular pursuit to search for it, and their profits average about five dollars a day for each hand employed; the present process is most simple. They shovel up the earth into vessels, pour water on it, and stir the whole until the earthy particles are in a state of solution, when it is drawn off, and the sediments searched for the precious metal, which is found in all sizes, from that of the head of a pin to a walnut.

August.-MANUFACTURE OF SALT. A statement, published in the Western Register, compiled from the quarterly returns of the inspector,

For it.

20,825

16,595

Against it. 16,595

4,230 majority. The county of Harrison is not included in this return. The vote of Harrison was 1050 for, and 50 against a convention. The majority throughout the state, 5,230.

February 14th, 1829.-The subject of a Convention was at length, finally disposed of. The House of Delegates, by a vote of 114 to 23, accepted the bill sent them by the Senate, organizing the Convention upon the present arrangement of the senatorial districts, under the census of 1810. The bill, as it passed both houses, also extended the limit of selection for members, to the whole state, fixed upon the courts in May, as the time of election, and upon the first Monday in October, 1829, as the time of the meeting of the Convention.

TREASURY.-The balance in the

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effect. The literary fund, which arises from bank dividends, &c., amounts to above $70,000.

BANKS.-There are three banks in the state, viz: the state bank of North Carolina, consisting of a principal bank and six branches; the bank of Newbern, and the bank of Cape Fear. The capital of the state bank is $1,600,000, and the capitals of the other two banks are $800,000 each. TREASURY.-Receipts and expenditures from the 18th of December, 1827, to the 1st of November, 1828.

RECEIPTS.

Cash handed over by the commit

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tee of finance,

Arrears of taxes,

2,053 83

Additional returns of taxes,

896 44

From the late public treasurer,

1,646 77

Balances due for sales of public land,

1,989 38

On account of interest,

0,000 38

Amount of the revenue of 1827,

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61,883 16 20,726 00 7.00 $174,234 01 80,890 414

$93,343 593

36,658 23
1,561 98

Total of state funds,

$722,158 61

In January a bill was introduced into the legislature to authorize a prosecution of the banks which were in great disrepute, but it was rejected by the casting vote of the speaker. In the course of the discussion, the bill underwent various modifications. When it passed its first reading, a prosecution of all the banks was contemplated; but on its second reading, 1,375 87 the bill was put into a new shape, and proposed to prosecute the president and directors of the state bank only, and was thus passed, without allowing time to have the bill printed ; but the next day, on its third and last reading, the bill having been printed, a further discussion took place, and it was rejected.

958 00

942 06

128 00 219 84 900 00 20,799 47 2,200 00 866 90 19 32

86 40 676 00 53 00

Public printers,

Judiciary,

Arsenal,

Sheriffs for settling taxes,

Repairs of state house,

Governor's house,

Public library,

Buncombe turnpike company,

1,250 00

State bank of North Carolina,

3,356 24

Pensioners,

977 00

600 00

3,057 00

Miss Udney M. Blakely,

Surveying and selling Cherokee

lands,

Expenses for surveying land, &c.
Bogue banks,

Roanoke navigation company, last
instalment,

Romulus M. Saunders, commissioner,
Contingencies,

263 554

1,000 00 250 00 1,963 68

Legislature.—The legislature adjourned on the 7th January, 1828, after a session of 50 days.

On Thursday preceding, in the house of commons, Mr. Stewart pre726 95 sented a bill to alter the time of meeting of the general assembly to the first Monday in November, which was rejected on its first reading; and Mr. Borden presented a bill to reduce the per diem allowance of members to two dollars, which met with the same fate, by a vote of 94 to 7.

Total of expenditures, $80,890 414 Taxes received for the year 1827, showing the particular items taxed, and the amount on each.

Land tax,

Town property tax,

Poll tax,

Stud horse tax,

Gate tax,

Store tax.

$24,867 49

1,402 86

26,932 21
1,484 82

202 40

6,271 68

The bill for the erection of an arsenal on the capitol square, in Raleigh, passed its final reading.

On Thursday, in the senate, the

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