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Statement B: [Appropriations and Expenditures of the United States], 14 February 1793

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A General Statement of the Appropriations Made by Law, and of the Expenditures of the United States in Relation Thereto, from the First Day of January to the Last Day of December 1792.

Dates and Titles of the Acts of Appropriations. For discharging the
warrants issued by the
late Board of Treasury		 For the support of the
Civil List under the late
and present Government		 For the support of the
Army of the United States		 For paying the pensions
due to Invalids.		 For defraying the expences
of negociations or treaties of
peace with the Indian Tribes		 For paying Interest due on
temporary loans obtained by
the Secretary of the Treasury.		 For the support of the Ministers
&c of the United States at
foreign Courts & maintaining
intercourse with Foreign
Nations		 For effecting a recognition of the
Treaty of the United States with
the new Emperor of Morocco		 For the building, equipment, and
support of ten revenue cutters.		 Towards discharging certain
debts contracted by Ab: Skinner,
late commissary of Prisoners.		 Towards discharging certain
debts contracted by Colonel
Timothy Pickering		 For paying the Interest due
on the Domestic debt of
the United States.
Balances remaining unexpended on the 31st. of december 1791, on
appropriations made prior to the 23d. of said month, agreeably to
the schedule annexed to the General account of Receipts and Expenditures
rendered to the House of Representatives on the 10th:
of November 1792.		 }
32.210.06 189,706.55 314,362.93 104,629.44 13,000.— 2,401.88 78,266.67 7,000.— 32,757.50 209.62 38,545.92 229,452.94
1790 July 1: An Act providing the means of Intercourse between the United States, and Foreign Nations 40,000.—
Aug. 4: An Act making provision for the debt of the United States
{ A.  691,231.26 }
B. 2,849,194.73
1791 Mar: 3. An Act to incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States31
Decr. 23: An Act making appropriations for the support of Government for the year 1792 329.653.56 444.986.16 87.463.60
1792 Apl. 2: An Act for finishing the Light house on Bald Head at the mouth of Cape Fear river in the state of No. Carola.
“ An Act establishing the Mint and regulating the coins of the United States
“
An Act to compensate the corporation of Trustees
of the Public Grammar School & Academy of
Wilmington in the State of Delaware, for the occupation
of & damages done to the said School,
during the late War		 }
May 2: An Act for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers & for other purposes therein mentd. 673.500.–
8 An Act supplementary to the Act making provision for the debt of the United States32
“ An Act making certain appropriations therein specified
“ An Act to compensate the services of the late Colonel George Gibson 50,000.—
“ An Act concerning the claim of John Brown Cutting against the United States
Amount of Appropriations 32,210.06 519,360.11 1,432,849.09 192,093 04 13,000.— 2,401.88. 168,266.67 7,000.— 32,757.50 209.62 38,545.92 3,769,878.93
Amount of payments during the year 1792 33.33 327,711.80 1,116,687.32 108.800.15 78,766.67 53.02 2,606.18 2,374,054 28
Balances unexpended on the 31st. of December 1792. 32,176.73 191,648.31 316,161.77 83,292.89 13,000.— 2,401.88 89,500.— 7,000.— 32,704.48 209.62 35,939.74 F. 1,395,824.65
Dates and Titles of the Acts of Appropriations. For paying bills of exchange
drawn on the late Commr. at
Paris, for Interest due on
loan office certificates.		 For the support and repairs
of lighthouses, beacons,
buoys & public piers.		 For defraying the contingent
charges of Government		 For the reduction of
the public debt.		 For defraying the expences
[of the enumeration]33
of the Inhabitants of
the United States.		 For satisfying
miscellaneous claims.		 For balances due to the
French Government, to
Oliver Pollock &ca. &ca.		 For paying the debt due
to Foreign Officers.		 For payments on account
of the French debt.		 For effecting a subscription
in behalf of the United
States to the Bank of
the United States		 Total Amount
Balances remaining unexpended on the 31st. of december 1791, on
appropriations made prior to the 23d. of said month, agreeably to
the schedule annexed to the General account of Receipts and Expenditures
rendered to the House of Representatives on the 10th:
of November 1792.		 }
152.38. 43,089.15 8,744.30 674,672.17 1,259.29 13,570.33 1,784,061.13
1790 July 1: An Act providing the means of Intercourse between the United States, and Foreign Nations 40,000.—
Aug. 4: An Act making provision for the debt of the United States C. 726,000— 4,266,425.99
1791 Mar: 3. An Act to incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States 4,000,000.— 4,000,000.—
Decr. 23: An Act making appropriations for the support of Government for the year 1792 197,119.49 1,059,222.81
1792 Apl. 2: An Act for finishing the Light house on Bald Head at the mouth of Cape Fear river in the state of No. Carola. 4.000.— D. 7,000.— 4,000—
“ An Act establishing the Mint and regulating the coins of the United States 7,000.—
“
An Act to compensate the corporation of Trustees
of the Public Grammar School & Academy of
Wilmington in the State of Delaware, for the occupation
of & damages done to the said School,
during the late War		 }
2,553.64 2,553.64
May 2: An Act for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers & for other purposes therein mentd. 673,500.—
8 An Act supplementary to the Act making provision for the debt of the United States E. 191,316.90 191,316.90
“ An Act making certain appropriations therein specified 34,497.90 84,497.90
“ An Act to compensate the services of the late Colonel George Gibson 1,000.— 1,000—
“ An Act concerning the claim of John Brown Cutting against the United States 2,000.— 2,000.—
Amount of Appropriations 152.38 47,089.15 8,774.30 674,672.17 1,259.29 26,123.97 231,617.39 191,316.90 726,000.— 4,000.000.— 12,115,578.37
Amount of payments during the year 1792 152.38 28,265.04 471.80 257,786.42 1,259.29 14,652.61 202,773.14 18,354.79 G. 435,263.83 4,000.000.— 8,967,692.05
Balances unexpended on the 31st. of December 1792. 18,824.11 8,302.50 416,885.75 11,471.36 28,844.25 172,962.11 290,736.17 3,147,886.32
The Balance of the appropriations brought down is 3,147,886.32
From which deduct the following sums, being payable out of the Foreign Funds vizt.
Balance payable to Foreign officers 172,962 11
Balance due on account of the sum requested for St. Domingo 290,736.17 463,698.28
Remainder being the unsatisfied appropriations charged upon the Revenue 2,684,188.04
A. The difference between the actual dividends declared on the public debt to the end of the year 1791, as contained in the printed statement, and the entire Interest for that year as estimated, including the Foreign Debt.
B. The Interest on the debt for the year 1792, as estimated.
C. The sum requested by the National assembly of France by their decree of June 26th: 1792,34 for the Colony of St. Domingo.   4,000,000 Livres.
D. The Sum actually advanced for the Mint Establishment, during the year 1792.
E. The debt payable to Foreign Officers contemplated in the fifth section of the act supplementary to the act making provision for the Debt of the United States.35
F. In this balance is included two years Interest on the Foreign Debt which has been paid out of the Foreign Loans, the accounts of which remain unsettled also the Interest on that part of the Domestic Debt which has not been funded, or registered at the Treasury so as to be entitled to a dividend and also the Interest due to States on the unsubscribed balance of the assumed debt, the payment of which is at present suspended.
G. Warrants for 445,263 Dollars and 83 Cents had been drawn on the 31st. of december 1792, towards the debt due to France, as stated in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 3d. of January 1793   10,000 Dollars of which however had not been paid by the Treasurer at that time, and consequently not charged in his accounts.
Treasury Department February 14. 1793

Alex Hamilton
Secy of the Treasy

31. 1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 191–96 (February 25, 1791), 1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 196–97 (March 2, 1791).

32. 1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 281–83.

33. Material in brackets has been taken from ASP description begins American State Papers, Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States (Washington, 1832–1861). description ends , Finance, I, 221.

34. Archives Parlementaires description begins Archives Parlementaires de 1787 à 1860 (Paris, 1868– ). description ends , XLV, 593–95.

35. Section 5 of this act reads as follows: “And whereas the United States are indebted to certain foreign officers, on account of pay and services during the late war, the interest whereof, pursuant to the certificates granted to the said officers by virtue of a resolution of the United States in Congress assembled, is payable at the house of [Ferdinand] Grand, banker, at Paris, and it is expedient to discharge the same. Be it therefore enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to cause to be discharged the principal and interest of the said debt, out of any of the monies, which have been or shall be obtained on loan, in virtue of the act aforesaid, and which shall not be necessary ultimately to fulfil the purposes for which the said monies are, in and by the said act, authorized to be borrowed” (1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 282 [May 8, 1792]).

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