F.

Form of certificate of Collector, or other chief revenue officer of the port, in the adjoining British Provinces, to be inscribed on the back of the manifest. I, —, do hereby certify, that the same identical goods described and contained in the within manifest, have been landed at [insert the name of the port,] and duly entered at the custom-house here, and that the duties imposed by the laws in force in this Province, upon said goods, have been paid or secured to be paid in full. Witness my hand and seal of office this day of. A. B., Collector, or Chief Officer of Revenue.

A. D. 184-.

Form of oath or affidavit of the master of the vessel in which the goods were exported, to be taken before the Collector of the port of exportation. I, do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear, [or affirm,] that the same identical goods specified in the within manifest, were truly carried in the [name the vessel,] of which I was master, and landed and entered at the custom-house at the port of [name the port,] and that the duties imposed thereon at the said foreign port have been paid or secured to be paid; and that the goods referred to in the certificate of the Collector or chief revenue officer of the aforesaid port of [naming it,] were the same identical goods described in the manifest aforesaid, and in this affidavit. So help me God.

Form of manifest of merchandise exported to ports in adjoining British Provinces, from ports of exportation.

Report and manifest of merchandise laden on board of the [insert the denomination and name of the vessel,] whereof [insert the name of the master] is master, which merchandise was transported inland to this port, from [insert the District and port from whence brought,] and is intended to be exported for benefit of drawback to [name the port in the adjoining British Province.]

Marks.

Numbers.

Packages and con- By whom shipped. To whom consigned, Place of consignee's
or if to order.
residence.

tents.

NOTE.-The foregoing certificate of the foreign collector, and the affidavit of the master, are to be inscribed on the back of the manifest.

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Port of destination.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, April 15th, 1845. SIR: A contract having been made with Samuel Colt, esq., of New York city, to supply vessels of the U. S. Revenue Marine with his water-proof cartridges for cannon and small arms, you will please transmit your requisitions to this Department when powder is required for the vessel under your command; describing particularly the size of bore, the weight of full and reduced cartridges for cannon, number of musket and pistol do., and giving timely notice when a supply is wanted. R. J. WALKER, Secretary of the Treasury.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, April 16th, 1845.

SIR: The following resolution was adopted at the first session of the 28th Congress:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer from any office or offices of the Treasury Department from which their services may, in his opinion, be dispensed with, three or more clerks, to be employed under his direction in collecting, arranging, and classifying such statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to show, each year, the condition of the agriculture, manufactures, domestic trade, currency, and banks, of the several States and Territories of the United States."" By direction of the late Secretary of the Treasury, the duty of carrying out the objects of the resolution was assigned to the Register of the Treasury, and subsequently re-assigned by my predecessor to his own Department. In compliance with that direction, the Register, on the 25th July last, issued circulars, calling for the information desired, to various State and Federal officers; and I regret to learn that but few, comparatively, responded to the respectful request which he made for their co-operation. It is probable that the short space of time in which those who were solicited to collect the information were restricted, was one of the principal causes operating adversely to the attainment of the objects contemplated by the Federal Government; that cause at the present moment is, in a great measure, obviated, by the ample time now given to all whom I now address, in relation to this important and interesting subject.

In some of the States steps are taken periodically, by their respective authorities, to ascertain directly or incidentally the condition of the agriculture, manufactures, and domestic trade. Where such is the action of the legal authorities, no difficulty should be apprehended by those whom I have the honor to address, in furnishing to this Department the information collected under the operation of laws enacted for that purpose. In other States, where similar measures have not been adopted, it is not expected that those whom I address should make domiciliary visits for the purpose of obtaining the information; but, upon consultation with intelligent men, men presumed to have considerable knowlege of the condition of the subjects herein mentioned, a close approximation to the truth might be arrived at. In all cases, however, where estimated results are forwarded to the Department, let that fact be communicated; so that, in making my report to Congress, the actual and estimated results may be clearly designated. The subjects to which your attention is called are, the agriculture, manufactures, and domestic trade in the county where you reside. The meaning of the two first subjects you can readily comprehend. In regard to the last, I will explain what may be considered its meaning, as the resolution of Congress does not particularly specify what is to be embraced under that head. You will ascertain, if practicable, the quantity of produce, live stock, and merchandise sent and received from your county to and from another State or Territory, (or the District of Columbia,) according to the table herewith enclosed upon that subject, as well as upon the subject, of agriculture and manufactures.

In your inquiries for obtaining the information desired, you will bear in mind that it is the condition of the respective subjects as they existed between the 1st of June, 1844, and the 1st of June, 1845; and whatever information you may procure, I would thank you to forward to this Department by the 1st October next, or sooner, if practicable.

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As Congress made no appropriation to pay for the collection of statistical information, I am, consequently, not authorized to compensate any one who may deem it expedient to aid in collecting it; but as information upon the subjects herein mentioned would be agreeably received by persons of every condition, patriotism should be an inducement on the part of those whom I address to make some exertion for the accomplishment of a work capable of being rendered satisfactory and useful to the people of the United States.

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,

R. J. WALKER, Secretary of the Treasury.

[The following table, intended to exhibit, in returns to the Treasury, a detailed statement of the products of agriculture, mines, and manufactures, with the course and amount of Domestic trade of each State and Territory of the Union, is, from its extreme length, necessarily divided into several sections, in order to accommodate it, by such subdivisions, to the dimensions of these pages, instead of giving it in one extended sheet, to be folded (as a map) in the book. But these sections (eight in number) could not be limited or extended in their respective lengths to correspond with the principal heads or subjects of the table, without destroying the uniformity which is essential to be ob served for typographical symmetry. Thus, SECTION 1 purports to exhibit the products of AGRICULTURE; but, the items of agricultural pro duction being not sufficient to fill the width of the page, it also embraces that portion of the products of MINES which come under the denom ination of iron. SECTION 2 exhibits the products of MINES, but also includes a portion of the products of MANUFACTURE, under the denominations of sugar, (refined,) chocolate, &c. SECTIONS 3, 4, 5, 6, purport to exhibit the other denominations and amounts of manufactured articles and the materials of which they are made; while SECTIONS 7 and 8 embrace the items and amounts of DOMESTIC TRADE between the different States and Territories of the Union.

The reader need hardly be told that the resolution which this circular was intended to carry into effect has been rescinded, and that these statistics are now collected by the agency of the Patent Office, though they have no affinity whatever with the proper purpose and intent of that office: Whereas, such a development of the elements of national thrift points to their manifest connection with the Fiscal Department, to which they are inevitably destined to be permanently assigned at no distant day-having been deemed an essential part of the documentary information with which that Department commenced its operations, judging from the Secretary's circular of the 10th of March, 1791; which has been followed, at distant intervals, by similar calls. The transfer of these statistics to the Patent Office originated in a scheme of a former Commisioner of Patents to convert that office into a great "Home Department"-a visionary scheme, entirely incompatible with the mixed character of the relations of all the Departments; all of them having more or less home and foreign relations, but of which the Post Office Department, the Treasury and the War Departments, are almost exclusively "Home Departments," showing the absurdity of an exclusively home department without uprooting all the relations of the great departments of the Government.]

Coal.

Bituminous.

MANUFACTURES.

Anthracite.

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To Collectors of the Customs.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 15th, 1845. The following decisions of this Department on questions submitted, made since issuing the circular of the 1st April last, are communicated for your information and government:

Vessels of the Argentine Republic, arriving in ports of the United States, to be liable to the payment of the tonnage duty and light money imposed by law on vessels of foreign nations with which the United States have no existing treaty, and in the ports of which discriminating duties of tonnage and impost are levied on vessels of the

United States.

In the appraisement of prussiate of potash, or of any other goods, wares, or merchandise, imported into the United States, as directed by the 16th section of the Tariff act of 30th August, 1842, the appraisers of the United States not to be governed by any invoice or affidavit setting forth the value of the same at dates distant from the time of shipment; the intent of the law, as clearly manifested by the entire section, including the proviso thereto, being to ascertain, estimate, and appraise the true and actual market value and wholesale price of all goods, wares, and merchandise, in the principal markets of the country of production or manufacture, or from which the same are imported into the United States, at the period of exportation or time of delivery, on purchase, for shipment.

În the appraisement of solid licorice paste, manufactured in Spain, and imported into the United States from London, the value of the same to be estimated according to the current market value or wholesale price of similar articles, at the principal markets of Spain, at the period of exportation of the article from London to the United States.

Abatement or allowance not to be made for damage occurring from accidental injury received by casks of liquor, on their transportation from public store to the vessel in which it was intended to export them for benefit of draw

back.

Abatement or remission of duties charged on packages of merchandise, entered on the manifest, but not found on board on unlading the vessel at the port of importation, not to be granted on the mere declaration on oath of the master and mate, of their belief that such packages had not been brought into the United States, or had been lost, or left on shore, at a port where the vessel had put in to repair damages. The evidence received by the officers of the Customs, under the discretionary power vested in them by the 57th section of the General Collection act of 2d March, 1799, as satisfactory in regard to the penalty provided in such cases, not necessarily to be taken in all cases as authorizing abatement or remission of the duties legally charged on the goods.

Remission of penalty, in cases where the same has come into the hands of the Collector, and has been distributed among the officers legally entitled to receive it, not to comprehend the moiety so distributed.

Merchandise recovered from sunken ships or vessels, not to be entitled to entry without the payment of duty, under the provisions of the act of 3d March, 1843, "to permit the entry of merchandise recovered from shipwreck, in certain cases, free of duty," unless the ship or vessel from which it is recovered shall have been raised either entire or in parts.

Articles, such as the tackle, apparel, furniture, or ship stores of a foreign vessel stranded on the coast of the United States, not to be considered, when brought into a port of the United States, as "goods, wares, or merchandise," liable to the payment of duty, within the meaning and intent of the Revenue laws.

Black lead crucibles or pots, formed of one part clay and two parts black lead, plumbago, or graphite-a mineral substance-to be charged with a duty of 30 per cent. ad valorem, as imposed by the 5th clause of the 5th section of the Tariff act of 1842.

Buttons of metal, of all kinds, being charged under the provisions of the 12th clause of the 5th section of the Tariff act of 1842 with a duty of 30 per cent. ad valorem, iron strap buttons are necessarily liable to that rate of duty, subject to the operation of the proviso to said clause, declaring "that all such buttons, not exceeding in value one dollar per gross, shall be valued at one dollar, and be charged with duty accordingly," the gross intended by the law being the ordinary gross of twelve dozen, known and used in commerce at the time of the passage of the act, and not the "great gross" now referred to by some importers.

Catalogues of books in the French language, although intended, as alleged, for gratuitous distribution, unless specially imported as specified in the 9th section of the Tariff act of 1842, to be charged, under the last proviso to the 2d clause of the 7th section of the act, with a duty of five cents per volume, when bound or in boards; and when in sheets or pamphlets, fifteen cents per pound.

Cocoa nuts, imported from islands lying off the Cape and Gulf of San Blas, in the Caribbean sea, to be admitted to entry without the payment of duty, under the provisions of the 6th clause of the 9th section of the Tariff act of 1842, as "fruit green or ripe, from the West Indies, in bulk," as decided by this Department in circular of 5th August, 1844.

Coffee, the production of Costa Rica, a province in Central America, imported from Valparaiso, in South America, not entitled to the exemption from duty provided in the 6th clause of the 9th section of the Tariff act of 1842; that provision having reference only to coffee imported from its place of growth or production.

Cotton and worsted, all manufactures composed of those materials liable to the duty of 30 per cent. ad valorem, as imposed by the 2d clause of the 2d section of the Tariff act of 1842, to be subject to the application of the provisoes to that clause affixing a minimum value to all manufactures of cotton, or of which cotton is a component part.

Gum perdu, an article ascertained by analysis to be an inferior opium, to be charged with the duty imposed on opium in the 2d clause of the 8th section of the Tariff act of 1842; it being a principle established by this Depart