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GOVERNMENTS OF AMERICA FOR 1850.

(For the following statement we are indebted to the N. Y. Tribune :)

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220,000 Fredericton,
278,905 Halifax,

62.678 Charlotte Town, 91,264 St. Johns, 22,000,000 Washington, 7,000,000 Mexico,

4,000 Balize,

935,000 N. Guatemala, 363,000 San Salvador, 400,000 Leon, 198,000 Cartago, 308,000 Chiquimula, 40,000 Blew fields, 31,632,054

700,000 Port Republican, 200,000 San Domingo, 1,315,796 Havana, 357.086 San Juan de P. R., 360,000 Spanish Town, 47,000 Puerto d'Epana, 15,000 Scarborough, 49,000 St. George, 28,500 Kingstown, 115.000 Bridgetown, 16,000 Castries, 20,000 Rosean, 36,980 St. Johns, 19,800 Charleston, 31,300 Basseterree, 7,000 Tortola, 20,000 Nassau,

14,000 Hamilton,

135,000 Basseterre,
119,700 Port Royal,

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Sir J. G. Le Merchant, Governor.

José J. D. Herrera,

President.

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C. St. J. Fancourt, Superintend❜t. - Paredes, President. do. Dor. Vasconcelos,

Munoz,

Jose M. de Castro,

Juan Leado,

Jamaso I.

Dictator.

President. do.

King.

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Assumed the Presidency in October, 1849, on the failure to elect one by the Congress. General Elizalde and Don Norva were the candidates. Ascasubi had been elected Vice President, and Roca, the late President, retired.

†The election of a new President is at hand. Vivanco and Echenique, (the latter President of the council,) are the candidates.

STATE FINANCES.

PENNSYLVANIA.

Extract from the last message of Governor Johnston.

The consideration of the legislature is respectfully invited to the financial condition of the commonwealth.

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Amount of canal, railroad, and motive power debts, contracted prior to Dec. 1, 1848, and unpaid by the appropriations of the last session,

Total indebtedness of commonwealth, Dec., 1849, .

The funded debt on the 1st Dec., 1848, was
Unfunded debt,

Amount of canal, railroad, and motive power debt
contracted prior to December 1, 1848,

$933,434 51

63,239 53

$40,574,413 45

$39,393,350 24

1,081,386 69

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Amount of public debt paid during the year 1849, exclusive of the
sum paid commissioners of the sinking fund,
Amount paid during the year 1849 to the commissioners of the
sinking fund,

Amount appropriated during the year 1849 towards payment of pub-
lic debt,

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$267,965 86

-227,513 53

$495,479 39

In exhibiting the operations of the treasury for the last fiscal year, the sum of $130,000, borrowed on special loan for the avoidance of the Schuylkill inclined plane, and included in the aggregate of the public debt in December, 1849, should be added to the above stated sum of $495,479 39.

The amount of receipts at the treasury during the year ending Dec.
1, 1849, is

The amount of expenditures during the same period, is
Balance in the treasury on Dec. 1, 1848,

$4,433,688 65

4,084,771 80

577,290 39

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66 1849,

926,207 24

Amount paid to commissioners of the sinking fund, to January 1,
1850, $227,513 53, with which was purchased of the funded debt,
and transferred to the commonwealth,
Difference between the indebtedness of the state on the ist Dec.,
1848, and Dec. 1, 1849, .

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253,500 00

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At the close of the fiscal year, ending on 30th of September 1849, the general fund debt amounted to

The canal debt,

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$13,515 16

209,877 01

Total "direct" debt,

Toward the payment of which debt there was on hand

A surplus of the general fund debt sinking fund of
A surplus of the canal fund debt sinking fund of

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$214,392 17

Included in the amount of canal debt above stated, is the sum of $90,822, which was payable prior to the close of the fiscal year, but had not then been presented for redemption. The interest on this had ceased from the time when it became payable; the funds for its redemption being on hand awaiting the call of the holders of the stock. Since the close of the fiscal year, $77,917 of this amount

have been redeemed.

The revenue of the general fund, exclusive of the annual appropriation of $200,000, from the surplus canal revenues, made by the constitution, and including a temporary loan to the treasury of $15,000, was The canal revenues were

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The payments on account of the general fund during the year, amounted to $842,228 49, leaving a surplus of the revenue on hand, on 30th September, of $113,279 22.

The payments out of the canal revenues were:

1. Expenses of collection, superintendence, and ordinary repairs, $685,803 91 2. Appropriations made by article 7 of the constitution, toward the sinking funds, and to defray the necessary expenses of the go

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1,850,000 00

$2,535,803 91

This amount of payments deducted from the canal revenues of the year, leaves the sum of $907,102 71, applicable to the completion of the Erie canal enlargement, the Genesee valley, and Black river canals.

The receipts from canal tolls, during the year, show an increase of nearly $225,000 over those of the year preceding; the expenses of repairs, &c., have been nearly $170,000 less.

The general fund debt exceeds the amount stated last year by the sum of $400,000. $385,000 of this amount constitute the sum directed by chapter 225 of the laws of the last session, to be paid to the use of the canal fund, to repay the principal and interest of the amount stated to have been paid from the canal fund to the general fund after the first of June, 1846, beyond the amount limited by the constitution.

VIRGINIA.

Extracted from the annual message of Gov. Smith.

Receipts and expenditures for the year ending 30th September, 1849.

· RECEIPTS.

$104,247 72

The balance in the treasury on the 1st of October, 1848,
The receipts principally arising from the usual sources of revenue,
Dividends on bank stock owned by the state,
Eighteen months' interest on bond due the state by the James river

689,841 00 164,291 00

and Kanawha company,

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24,178 08

Interest due Washington monument fund, and including a small

portion of principal,

2,930 39

From the general government, on account of revolutionary claims paid by the state, and refunded,

93,586 80

Total revenue,

$1,079,074 99

EXPENDITURES.

The usual and ordinary expenses of government,

$574,153 88

Interest of the public debt,

63,297 04

Board of public works to meet interest on public debt,

175,000 00

Public roads, under special acts,

17,233 00

Literary fund, as directed by law, revolutionary half pay claims

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It is estimated that there will be a surplus on hand at the close of the present fiscal year, Sept. 30, 1850, of upwards of $187,000, unless expenditures not now anticipated should be sanctioned by the legislature.

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The resources of the bank of South Carolina, (the capital of which was pledged in 1820 for the redemption of the debt.) applicable to the payment of this debt, amount to $3,888,368 60, which is an excess of available assets over the liabili ties of the state of $1,532,843 99, or over two and a half millions, if the sum of $1,051,000, received from the federal government on deposit, be included.

MASSACHUSETTS.

The annual message of Gov. Briggs gives the revenue of the state for the past year at $540,658, the expenditures $601,604. The receipts are less than the amount estimated, in consequence of a falling off in the auction tax, and in the tax on alien passengers, cut off by a decision of the supreme court of the United States, that the tax was unconstitutional. The charges during the year for the support of state paupers exceeds $90,000. The debt of the state is $1,085,000; her property $1,722,258, not including lands in Maine, $1,500,000, and claims on the general government, $181,000. Her school fund is $903,000.

ALABAMA.

The report of F. S. Lyons, bank commissioner, was laid before the legislature. From this document it appears that the foreign debt created to establish the state bank and branches, amounted, two years ago, to $9,170,555 55. Since that time the interest has been punctually paid, and the principal of the debt has been reduced to about $5,600,000. Besides this, there is now in the hands of the commissioner about $500,000 more of specie funds, to be applied in reduction, and the prospect of a further reduction of $1,000,000 out of the funds of the bank. The collections actually made from the bank assets since February, 1846, have amounted to over $5,000,000 in cash.

OHIO.

From the message of Governor Ford.

The condition of the state finances is thus stated. Receipts from every source during the year,

Disbursements,

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$2,511,119 37 2,176,681 04

199,386 25

$433,365 16

Total amount of domestic bonds redeemed and cancelled during the year 1849,

Balance applicable to the payment of the state debt,

It will be seen (says the Governor) by this statement of the condition of the finances, that under the present system, after discharging all the general

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