For the stock belonging to the United States in the following canals, the sums specified were paid from the Treasury. Dismal Swamp canal.... Chesapeake and Delaware canal. Chesapeake and Ohio canal. $200,000 00 450,000 00 999,990 00 Besides the $1,500,000 assumed for the cities of the District of Columbia, for which their stock was assigned to the United States. Louisville and Portland canal... $233,500 00 The payment of dividends on the stock of the United States in this canal ceased in 1842, from which date they were applied, under the amended charter of that year, to the purchase of the stock of individuals, and have now resulted in the ownership of the whole canal by the United States-all the private stock having been purchased. No. 8. Gold and silver coinage at the Mint of the United States in the several years from its establishment, in 1792, and including the coinage of the branch mints and the assay office, (New York,) from their organization to September 30, 1856. 140, 145 00 295,717 50 643, 105 00 714,270 00 1,575, 600 00 1,715,745 00 1,994,578 00 2,290,295 50 2,495,400 00 3,138,505 00 3, 175, 600 00 3,889,870 00 1832. 1833.. 1834. 1835. 1836. 1837. 1838. 1839.. 1840. 1841. 1842. 1843. 1844. 1845. 1846. 1847. 1848 1849.. 1850.. 1851.. 1852. 1853. 1854. 1855, (to September 30).. 1856, (to September 30). 58,936, 893 41 798,435 00 978,550 00 3,954,270 00 2, 186, 175 00 4,135,700 00 1, 148, 305 00 1,809,595 00 1,375, 760 00 1,690, 802 00 1,102,097 50 1,833, 170 50 8,302,787 50 5,428, 230 00 3,756,447 50 4,034, 177 50 20, 221,385 00 3,775, 512 50 9,007,761 50 31,981, 738 50 62,614,492 50 56,846, 187 50 55, 213, 906 94 52,094, 595 47 41, 166, 557 93 No. 9. Statement of deposites and coinage at the Mint of the United States, branches, and assay office, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1856. DEPOSITES. Dollars...... Fine bars..... Unparted bars. Total gold 761,050 761,050 00 5,000 5,000 24,600 24,600 00 874 2,185 1,460 .... 377,334 792, 110 ..... 46 41,061 04 23 73,583 47 5,590 $21,841,682 65 1,065 3,746, 136 52 1,828.355 00 171,330 00 943,335 00 5,659 21,956,327 16 1,065 3,746,136 52 792, 110 00 1,703,564 10,066,221 04 67,350 525,500 1,454, 258 29,440,919 99 23,611 110,030 34,212 171,060 5,590 21,841,682 65 3,288, 585 62,155,413 68 63,500 63,500 00 72,100 00 3,008,250 00 Dimes...ple 2,380,000 238,000 00 500,000 6,872,400 1,718,100 00 50,000 Half dimes... 2,880,000 288,000 00 3,180,000 Fine bars.... Three-cent pieces......... 159,000 00 1,320,000 66,000 500,000 225,000 00 722,000 21,660 00 722,000 21,660 00 110 23,758 41 52 6,792 63 162 30,551 04 13,301,610 2,467,918 41 7,284,000 2,718,000 468,900 162,350 00 52 6,792 63 21,054,562 5,355,061 04 1,745,584 17,455 84 1,745,584 17,455 84 1,745,584 17,455 84 1,703,564 10,066,221 04 67.350 Total silver......... Total copper................. 525,500 1,454, 258 29,440,919 99 23,611 110,030 34,212 171,060 162,350 00 468,900 13,301,610 2,467,918 41 7,284,000 2,718,000 1,745,584 17,455 84 * Total coinage....... 16,750,758 12,551,595 29 7,351,350 3,243,500 1,923,158 29,603,269 99 23,611 110,030 34,212 171,060 MINT OF THE United States, Philadelphia, June 30, 1856. |