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Enclosure: [Summary Statement of Monies Received into the Treasury of the United States], [26 December 1794]

A Summary Statement of Monies Received into the
Treasury of the United States, in the Year 1793.

For Duties on Merchandise and Tonnage.
From the Collectors of the Customs, agreeably to the preceding statement of the said duties.
On warrants passed to the credit of the respective collectors in the year 1792, which are included in the treasurer’s accounts for the year 1793, 44,905.96
On warrants included in the treasurer’s accounts for the year 1793, which are passed to the credit of the respective collectors in the year 1794, 170,032.48
On warrants included in both the accounts of the treasurer, and of the respective collectors for the year 1793, 4,040,368.12
4,255,306.56
For Duties on Stills, and Spirits Distilled in the
United States.
From the supervisors of the revenue, agreeably to the preceding statements of the said duties.
On warrants passed to the credit of the respective supervisors in the year 1792, which are included in the treasurer’s accounts for the year 1793, 5,979,92
On warrants included in both the accounts of the treasurer, and of the respective supervisors in the year 1793, 260,715.18
On warrants included in the treasurer’s accounts for the year 1793, which were paid by supervisors whose accounts are not finally adjusted,   71,010.60
337,705.70
For Revenue Arising from the Postage Of Letters, &C.
From Timothy Pickering postmaster-general, agreeably to the preceding statement of the said revenue, 11,020.51
For Dividends on the Capital Stock in the Bank of
the United States.
From the President, Directors and Company of the said Bank, for the excess of two half yearly dividends on the said capital stock from July 1st, 1792, to June 30th, 1793, over and above the interest payable during said period, on the loan of two millions of dollars,5 500.  
 
For Fees on Letters Patent.
From Samuel Meredith, the amount of monies received by him from sundry persons, for letters patent issued from the office of the secretary of state, 660.  
For Balances of Accounts Which Originated Under the
Late Government.
From Richard Harrison, attorney for the district of New-York, on account of Margaret Livingston’s bond given for a bill of exchange purchased of her by the late secret committee, and which was protested. 7,325.18
From Morgan Lewis, late deputy quarter master general for the state of New-York, for a balance found due by him, 1,123.40
8,448.58
For Cents and Half Cents, Coined at the Mint of the
United States.
From Tristram Dalton, treasurer of the said mint, 1,281.79
For the Proceeds of Bills of Exchange drawn on Account
of Foreign Loans.
From the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of N. America, 177,998.80
From the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the U. States, 752,738.51
From the President and Directors of the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, at New York, 195,898.96
From the President and Directors of the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, at Baltimore, 20,635.74
From Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state,   50,000.  
1,197,272.01
For the Proceeds of Domestic Loans.
From the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, on account of a loan of 800,000 dollars, made in pursuance of the act entitled, “An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1793,”6 600,000.  
Amount carried to a general account of receipts and expenditures in page 65,7 6,450,195.15

5. This sum had been borrowed under the terms of Section 11 of “An Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States” (1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 196 [February 25, 1791]), which provided “That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, at any time or times, within eighteen months after the first day of April next, to cause a subscription to be made to the stock of the said corporation,… on behalf of the United States, to an amount not exceeding two millions of dollars; to be paid out of the monies which shall be borrowed by virtue of either of the acts, the one entitled ‘An act making provision for The debt of the United States;’ and the other entitled ‘An act making provision for the reduction of the public debt;’ borrowing of the bank an equal sum, to be applied to the purposes, for which the said monies shall have been procured; reimbursable in ten years, by equal annual instalments; or at any time sooner, or in any greater proportions, that the government may think fit.”

6. 1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 325–29 (February 28, 1793).

7. This page number refers to the pagination of the original document. For this material, see page 553 of this volume.

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