And the payments into the Treasury during the year 1818, may be estimated at the same amount. To which add the balance estimated to be in the Treasury on the 1st day of January, 1818.... Making together the sum of 6,000,000 00 Dollars 30,525,000 00 The probable authorized demands upon the Trea sury during the year 1818, are estimated to amount to 21,946,351 74 Viz: Civil, iniscellaneous, diplomatic Dollars. and foreign intercourse. 2,069,843 29 Military services, including an ar rearage of 500,000 dollars..... 6,265,132 25 Naval service, including 1,000,000 dollars for the gradual increase o the Navy... Public debt 3,611,376 20 10,000,000 00 Which being deducted from the amount estimated to be received into the Treasury, including the Balance on the 1st of January, 1818, leaves on the 1st of January 1819, a Balance in the Treasury of.. Dollars. 8,578,648 26 which, however, will be applied to the redemption of the Louisiana Stock, under the provisions of the Act for the redemption of the Public Debt, passed the 3rd day of March, 1817, as far as those provisions will admit. All which is respectfully submitted. WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD. Treasury Department, December 5, 1817. (A.)-Statement exhibiting the amount of Duties which accrued on Merchandize, Tonnage, Passports, and Clearances; of Debentures issued on the Exportation of Foreign Merchandize, and of Expenses of Collection during the Years 1815 and 1816. * Net Revenue exhibited in the Statement accompanying the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 16th of December, 1816, (Statement marked A.) Deduct bounties and allowances 36,643,598 77 Treasury Department, Register's Office, December 5, 1817. (B.)-Statement of the accruing Internal Duties, during the Year 1816, with the computed expenses of Collection. (1.)-Statement of the Public Debt of The United States, on the 1st Nominal amount of Public Debt, 1st October, 1816. 128,007,170 54 Deduct reimbursement of the old 6 per cent. and deferred stocks, by estimate 19,261,352 25 Unredeemed amount, 1st October, 1816. Dollars.. 108,745,818 29 Treasury Department, Register's Office, December 19, 1816. JOSEPH NOURSE. (2.)-Statement of the Funded Debt of The United States, and Temporary Loans, on the 1st of January, 1817. Nominal amount of the Debt and Temporary Deduct amount reimbursed in the payment of 8 per 135,884,642 15 20,076,836 67 Unredeemed amount of Funded Debt, and Temporary Loans, 1st January, 1817...... Dollars. 115,807,805 48 Treasury Department, Register's Office, 28th November, 1817. JOSEPH NOURSE. ACTS of the British Parliament, relative to the Restriction and Abolition of the Slave Trade.-1806 to 1818. No. 1.-Act of the British Parliament, to prevent the Importation of Slaves, by any of His Majesty's Subjects, into any Islands, Colonies, Plantations, or Territories belonging to any Foreign Sovereign, State, or Power; and also to render more effectual a certain Order, made by His Majesty in Council on the 15th day of August, 1805, for prohibiting the Importation of Slaves (except in certain cases), into any of the Settlements, Islands, Colonies, or Plantations on the Continent of America, or in the West Indies, which have been surrendered to His Majesty's Arms during the present War; and to prevent the fitting out of Foreign Slave Ships from British Ports." [46 Geo. III. Cap. 52.] [23rd May, 1806.] WHEREAS it is expedient to prevent the supplying the Islands, Colonies, and Territories, belonging to any Foreign Sovereign, State, or Power, with Slaves, by or on account of any of His Majesty's Subjects, or by means of their Ships, capital or credit; and to prevent the fitting out of Foreign Slave Ships from British Ports. And whereas His Majesty by His Order in Council, bearing date the 15th day of August, 1805, was pleased to order, "That it should not be lawful, except by Special Licence as therein mentioned, for any Slave or Slaves to be landed upon any of the Coasts, or imported or brought into any of the Ports, Harbours, Creeks, or Roads, or within the Limits, Jurisdictions, and Territories of any of the Settlements, Islands, Colonies, or Plantations on the Continent of America, or in the West Indies, which have been surrendered to His Majesty's Arms during the present War, until further Order, upon pain that all Slaves so landed or brought contrary to the true intent and meaning of that Order, together with the Vessels bringing in the same, or from which the same should be landed, and their Cargoes, should beconie forfeited to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors; but the said Order recited, that it might be expedient to permit the annual introduction of a limited number of Slaves under due Regulations, for the purpose of supplying any waste that should take place in the Population on particular Estates, from extraordinary or unavoidable causes, and thereby of keeping up the cultivation of the lands already cleared and cultivated; and it was therefore further ordered, that any number of Slaves, not exceeding 3 for every 100 of the whole number of Slaves in the said Settlements, Islands, Colonies, and Plantations respectively (Returns whereof were to be made from time to time, in pursuance of Instructions to be transmitted by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State), might be imported in each year (provided casualties to that extent should appear to have taken place in the preceding year), under Licences to be previously granted by the Governor, LieutenantGovernor, or Officer administering the Government of the said Settlements, Islands, Colonies and Plantations, from any other of His Ma. jesty's Colonies in the West Indies, into the said Settlements, Islands, Colonies, and Plantations; such Licence, or a Copy thereof, to be produced by the Master of the Ship on which such Slaves are laden, as his authority, for having Slaves on board destined to the said Settlements, Islands, Colonies, and Plantations. Provided always, that until the 1st day of January, 1807, such limited importation might be made from other Places than His Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies as aforesaid, and without its being necessary for the Master of the Vessel, if met with at Sea, to produce the said Licence, or a Copy thereof, as his authority for having the Slaves destined as aforesaid on board, but subject nevertheless to such Licence being first had and obtained as aforesaid, before any Slaves should be permitted to be landed or sold from such Vessel in any of the said Settlements. And, after further reciting that Special Instructions would be immediately |