Total under direction of the Navy Dep't, 8,324,993 70 3,672,717 79 2. Statement of the Debt of the United States, December 1, 1843. 1. Of the (old) funded debt, being unclaimed principal and interest, returned from the late loan offices, 2. Outstanding certificates, and interest to 31st December, 1798, of the (old) unfunded debt, payable on presentation, 3. Treasury notes issued during the late war, payable on presentation, $208,009 34 24,214 29 4,317 44 4.320 09 $900,000 00 $210,000 00 210,000 00 $1,320,000 00 4. Certificates of Mississippi stock, payable on presentation, 5. Debts of the corporate cities of the District of Columbia, assumed by the United States, viz: Of the city of Washington, Alexandria, Georgetown, * This sum includes $98,300, in the hands of the accounting officers. 3. Revenue and Expenditure from July 1, 1843, to March 1, 1844. From a subsequent report of the Secretary of the Treasury, made up to February 29, 1844, we gather the following particulars: The balance in the treasury on the 1st of July, 1843, was $10,434,507 55 The receipts from that time till 29th Feb'y, 1844, were From Customs, Lands, Incidentals, Loan of 1843, Treasury notes, $15,102,688 26 1,337,052 79 84,208 62 70,231 35 1,919,800 00 18,513,981 02 28,948,488 57 3,587,439 64 Balance in the treasury, 1st March, 1844, From these data it would appear, that the amount of the national debt, including treasury notes as a part of said debt, has been reduced $7,778,680 14, between the 1st July, 1843, and the 29th February, 1844. Thus |