Statement of the Amount Appropriated each Year since the organization of the U. S. Government, for the Expense of Courts, and the Amount of Fines and Penalties received for the same purpose. each Year for Expenses of Courts, and for Prosecutions for Fines and Penalties, Also, the Amount Paid from 1789 to 1849. From the Cus of expenses toms for Pro- From other for Prosecu From the secutions for sources for tion for Fines Judiciary Fund. Penalties be- Prosecutions and Penalties, Excess of Fines and Penalties beyond the expense of Prosecution. fore they for Penalties, each year. $2.874 87 $4,055 33 118 00 9,597 61 18,126 98 178 15 18,305 13 419 46 12,000 00 1,931 49 13,931 49 14,364 63 552 89 14,917 52 1,378 60 14,699 27 18,687 52 1,038 37 19,725 89 1,660 90 66 1795.. 12,000 00 3,473 22 15,473 22 22,806 79 486 31 416 00 23,709 10 2,570 91 66 1796... 20,000 00 3,337 19 23,337 19 31,837 88 1,271 59 1,904 14 35,013 61 161 46 26,528 12 2,323 34 538 95 29,390 41 12,970 83 38,207 23 16,947 42 184 10 17,131 52 8,023 13 1799. 30,000 00 10,726 38 16,421 81 57,148 19 36,690 24 615 05 11,183 00 48,488 29 15,350 14 3,940 70 162 00 53,629 04 24,806 23 2,492 54 53,485 91 34,902 45 127 06 300 00 35,329 51 23,058 85 66 1802.... 56,900 00 16,893 15 1,971 96 75,765 11 46,911 39 700 08 7,173 69 54,755 16 10,991 34 1,278 52 1,244 00 43,963 95 13,829 26 1804.. 40,000 00 10,724 00 2,276 39 53,000 39 36,208 66 1,912 45 2,354 07 40,475 18 8,733 87 1,359 17 71,526 93 49,882 21 1,147 03 531 00 51,560 24 29,848 90 .... 44,690 97 55,037 68 665 90 500 00 56,203 58 3,525 07 .... 44,676 15 95,479 59 24,883 51 120,363 10 20,207 36 1808.. 40,000 00 11,552 09 2,572 00 54,124 09 67,654 40 3,057 57 450 00 71,161 97 10,616 52 176 00 78,481 74 81,737 22 5,774 56 25 00 87,536 78 32,682 18 113,846 80 78,138 13 10,659 44 632 20 89,429 77 62,555 16 ESTIMATE OF THE PRODUCTION OF GOLD. It is impossible to state with accuracy the amount of gold produced by the California mines. Some idea of the quantity received in the Eastern States, may be formed from an examination of the coinage. We insert the following statements: UNITED STATES MINT AND BRANCHES.-Total coinage for 1851, and sources whence gold was received for four years. Whole number of pieces coined, 28,701,958. The expense of coinage at Philadelphia is, 42-100 per cent.; at New Orleans, 1 and 8-100 per cent.; at Charlotte, 3 and 55-100 per cent.; and at Dahlonega, 3 and 13-100 per cent. From a gentleman who visited several of the Mexican mines, and acquired information from the most reliable sources, we learn that these produced about $29,000,000 in 1850; and the yield for 1851 was about the same amount, mostly silver. The most productive mines of Mexico are those of Guanaxuato, which produce as much as all the rest put together; and next to them, though much less valuable, are those of Zacatecas. The "N. Y. Courier" estimates the whole amount of gold and silver produced by America (North and South), up to July, 1851, at about 6,418 millions of dollars, of which more than four-fifths have been produced by Mexico and Peru. * Including $99,635 in copper. |