Supplementary Journal.

Another motion was then made to amend the said resolution, by inserting, after the word "that," in the first line, the words, "from and after the end of the present session of Congress:" And on the question thereupon, it passed in the negative-Moore, Jeremiah Morrow, Gurdon S. Mumford, yeas 59, nays 61, as follows:

Supplementary Journal.

Gray, Seth Hastings, David Holmes, David chael Leib, Joseph Lewis, jun., Patrick Magruder,
Hough, John G. Jackson, Walter Jones, James Josiah Masters, Thomas Moore, John Morrow,
Kelly, Thomas Kenan, Michael Leib, Joseph Jonathan O. Mosely, Jeremiah Nelson, Thomas
Lewis, jun., Patrick Magruder, Josiah Masters, Newton, jun., Timothy Pitkin, jun., Josiah Quin-
Thomas Moore, John Morrow, Jonathan O. Mose-cy, John Randolph, John Rea of Pennsylvania,
ly, Jeremiah Nelson, Thomas Newton, jun., Tim-
othy Pitkin, jun., Josiah Quincy, John Randolph,
John Rea of Pennsylvania, Jacob Richards, Peter
Sailly, Thomas Sammons, Thomas Sandford,
John Cotton Smith, John Smith, Samuel Smith,
Thomas Spalding, Richard Stanford, William
Stedman, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Taggart,
Benjamin Tallmadge, Samuel Tenney, Philip R.
Thompson, Thomas W. Thompson, Abram Trigg,
Killian K. Van Rensselaer, Peleg Wadsworth,
David R. Williams, Marmaduke Williams, and
Alexander Wilson.

And then the main question being taken, that the House do agree to the said resolution, as originally moved, in the words following, to wit: "Resolved, That the injunction of secrecy imposed on the proceedings which have been transacted with closed doors, during the present session, be removed." It was resolved in the affirmative-yeas 63, nays 56, as follows:

YEAS-Evan Alexander, Burwell Bassett, Geo. M. Bedinger, Silas Betton, William Butler, John Campbell. Martin Chittenden, Christopher Clark, Joseph Clay, Leonard Covington, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, jun., John Dawson, Jas. Elliot, Caleb Ellis, Wm. Ely, John W. Eppes, James M. Garnett, Charles Goldsborough, Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin Gray, Seth Hastings, David Holmes, David Hough, John G. Jackson, Walter Jones, James Kelly, Thomas Kenan, Mi.

Jacob Richards, Peter Sailly, Thomas Sammons, Thomas Sandford, John C. Smith, John Smith, Samuel Smith, Thomas Spalding, Richard Stanford, William Stedman, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Taggart, Benjamin Tallmadge, Samuel Tenney, Philip R. Thompson, Thomas W. Thompson, Abram Trigg, Killian K. Van Rensselaer, Peleg Wadsworth, David R. Williams, Marmaduke Williams, and Alexander Wilson.

NAYS-Willis Alston, jun., Isaac Anderson, Joseph Barker, Barnabas Bidwell, William Blackledge, John Blake, jun., Thomas Blount, Robert Brown, George W. Campbell, John Chandler, John Claiborne, John Clopton, Frederick Conrad, Orchard Cook, Jacob Crowninshield, Richard Cutts, Ezra Darby, William Dickson, Elias Earle, Peter Early, Ebenezer Elmer, William Findley, James Fisk, Andrew Gregg, Isaiah L. Green, Silas Halsey, John Hamilton, William Helms, John Lambert, Matthew Lyon, Duncan MacFarland, Robert Marion, William McCreery, Nicholas R. Moore, Jeremiah Morrow, Gurdon S. Mumford, Roger Nelson, Gideon Olin, John Pugh, Thomas M. Randolph, John Rhea of Tennessee, John Russell, Martin G. Schuneman, Ebenezer Seaver, James Sloan, John Smilie, Henry Southard, Joseph Stanton, David Thomas, Joseph B. Varnum, John Whitehill, Robert Whitehill, Eliphalet Wickes, Nathan Williams, Richard Winn, and Joseph Winston.

And then the House adjourned.

APPENDIX

TO THE HISTORY OF THE NINTH CONGRESS.

COMPRISING THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS ORIGINATING DURING THAT CONGRESS, AND THE PUBLIC ACTS PASSED BY IT.

[Communicated to the Senate, December 9, 1805.] In obedience to the directions of the act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to estab-chasers, which, during the year ending on the 30th lish the Treasury Department," the Secretary of September, 1804, had amounted to 432,000 dollars, and the Treasury respectfully submits the following had not, in any one previous year, exceeded 250,000 report and estimates: dollars, have, during the year ending on the 30th September, 1805, amounted to 575,000 dollars; of which sum 535,000 dollars were paid in specie, and the residue in stock of the public debt. The specie receipts from that source may, for the ensuing year, be safely estimated at five hundred thousand dollars.

Expenditures.

State of the Finances.

The expenses of the year 1806, which must be defrayed out of those resources, are, like the revenue, either of a permanent nature or temporary.

$8,000,000

The permanent expenses are estimated at 11,450,000 dollars, and consist of the following items, viz: 1. The annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars for the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt, of which more than 4,000,000 dollars will be applicable to the discharge of the principal, and the residue to the payment of interest 2. For the civil department and all domestic expenses of a civil nature, including invalid pensions, the lighthouse and mint establishments, the expenses of surveying public lands, the third instalment of the loan due to Maryland, and a sum of 150,000 dollars, to meet such miscellaneous claims or grants as may be allowed by Congress 3. For expenses incident to the intercourse with foreign nations, including the permanent appropriations for Algiers

1,150,000

200,000

1,030,000

day of June, 1805, was 990,000 dollars. This apparent
product will, it is true, be diminished by subsequent ex-
portations; but it is believed, from a view of the value
of the goods imported in 1803 and 1804, which are
charged with that duty, that the fund may be estimated
as producing nearly 900,000 dollars a year. If that
estimate be correct, the fund will ultimately produce,
during the one year and nine months commencing on
the 1st day of July, 1804, and ending on the 31st day
of March, 1806
- $1,575,000
The expenses heretofore charged on that
fund, have been, viz:

Paid in 1804, to the Navy Department, un-
der the act constituting the
fund

Paid in 1805, to the said De-
partment, by virtue of the
second section of the act of
25th January, 1805

Making, altogether,

$525,000

590,000

1,115,000

But which will be more than absorbed by the Navy deficiencies above-mentioned.

The moneys actually received or to be received into the Treasury, on account of that fund, prior to the 1st day of January, 1806, are estimated at about 600,000 dollars. The residue will be received between that

1,070,000 day and the 31st of March, 1807, and credit has been taken for a sum of 900,000 dollars on that account, in the preceding estimate of the receipts of the year 1806. Public Debt.

$11,450,000

4,000,000 $15,450,000

It appears from the preceding statement, that the permanent revenues of the United States will, during As the exportation of the specie necessary to disthe ensuing year, exceed the permanent expenditures charge the last-mentioned instalment, would have more than one million of dollars; and that the mon- been sensibly felt, it was found eligible to pay it in eys already on hand, together with the temporary re- London, in conformity with the authority given by the sources of the year, will, after leaving the sum which act of the 3d of March, 1805; and the operation was it is always necessary to keep in the Treasury, be suf-effected at par, by the Bank of the United States. ficient to discharge the Navy deficiencies, and the whole amount of the claims assumed by the convention with France, the large receipts of last year rendering it unnecesary to recur for that object to the loan authorized by the act of the 10th of November, 1803. Mediterranean Fund.

It appears by the statement B that the additional duty of two-and-a-half per cent. on goods paying duties ad valorem, which constitutes the "Mediterranean fund," amounted during the last six months of 1804, to 563,038 dollars. And it is ascertained that the amount of duty accrued during the year ending on the 30th

It appears by the same statement D,
that the payments on account of the
public debt, from the 1st April, 1801,
to the 30th September, 1805, have
amounted to almost $18,000,000 - 17,954,790 49
During the same period there have
been paid to Great Britain, in satis-
faction and discharge of the money
which the United States might have
been liable to pay, in pursuance of
the provisions of the 6th article of
the Treaty of 1794

2,664,000 00

Evidences of Public Debt.

deferred stock, a charge which com-
menced only in the year 1801, and was,
therefore, in addition to the annual
sum wanted before that year, for the
payment of interest on the public debt.

3. More than one-third, and which
may be considered as the surplus rev-
enue of the United States, during that
period, has been applird toward the re-
imbursement and extinguishment of
the debt, viz:

On account of the principal of the pub-
lic debt proper
$16,317,663 92
1,494,001 78 In payment of debts

$22,112,792 27

In order to give a more general and concise view of the receipts and expenditures of the United States, during the four years, commencing on the 1st day of April, 1801, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1805, than can be derived from the annual printed accounts, a statement, marked H, and several explanatory statements, marked H 1, to H 8, have been added to those which usually accompany this report.

From those it appears, that a sum of fifty millions six hundred and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and four cents, has been paid into the Treasury during that period, viz: From duties on tonnage, and on the

contracted before
the 1st day of April,
1801, and arising
under the British
Treaty and under
the French Con-
vention of the 30th

September, 1800 - 2,963,782 65

19,281,446 57 $49,665,527 56

It is sufficiently evident, that, while one-third of the national revenue is necessarily absorbed by the payment of interest, a persevering application of the resources afforded by seasons of peace and prosperity, to the discharge of the principal, in the manner directed by the Legislature, is the only effectual mode by which the United States can ultimately obtain the full command of their revenue, and the free disposal of all their

importation of foreign merchandise $45,174,837 22 resources. Every year produces a diminution of interest,

From all other sources, (including $1,596,171 43 cents, arising from the sales of Bank shares and of public vessels)

5,492,629 82

50,667,467 04

and a positive increase of revenue. Four years more will be sufficient to discharge, (in addition to the annual reimbursements on the 6 per cent. and deferred stocks,) the remainder of the Dutch debt, and the whole of the eight per cent., Navy six per cent., five and a half per cent., and four and a half per cent. stocks. As the portion of the public debt which shall then remain unisiana stocks, neither of which can be reimbursed, expaid, will consist of the six per cent. deferred, and Loucept at the periods, and in the proportions fixed by contract, and of the three per cent. stock, which its low rate of interest will render it ineligible to discharge at its nominal value, the rapidity of the reduction of the the contracts, will, after the year 1809, depend on the debt, beyond the annual reimbursements permitted by price at which purchases may be effected. And, should circumstances render it eligible, a considerable portion of the revenue now appropriated for that purpose, may then, in conformity with existing provisions, be applied to other objects.

All which is respectfully submitted.

ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Dec. 9, 1805.

EVIDENCES OF PUBLIC DEBT.

[Communicated to the House, Dec. 28, 1805.]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Dec. 28, 1805. SIR: I have the honor to enclose the copy of the extract of a letter pointing out certain abuses, which are said to arise from the operation of the