OPERATIONS OF THE MINT, IN 1833 The coinage effected within the year 1833, amounts to $3,765,710; comprising $978,550 in gold coins, $2,759,000 in silver, $28, 160 in copper, and consisting of 10,307,790 pieces of coin, viz. Half eagles Quarter eagles Half dollars Quarter dollars Disines Half dismes Cents Half cents 193,630 pieces, making 4.160 do do $968 150 10,400 2,603,000 39,000 48,500 68,500 27,390 770 $3,765,710 Total No. of pieces, Of the amount of gold coined within the past year, about $85,000 were derived from Mexico, South America, and the West Indies; $12,000 from Africa; $368,000 from the gold region of the United States, and about $13,000 from sources not ascertained, The annexed statement exhibits the quantity of Gold received from the several districts of the United States, which have thus far produced it in quantities sufficient to be an object of regard, commencing with the year 1824. Previously to that period, gold had been received at the Mint only from North Carolina, from which quarter it was first transmitted for coinage in 1804. During the interval, however, from that date to 1823 inclusive, the average annual amount had not exceeded $2,500. In the report of 1st January, 1833, it was remarked that the quantity of gold of the United States, brought to the Mint in the year 1832, was regarded, according to estimates entitled to great respect, as not much exceeding one-half of the quantity produced from the mines within that! year; nearly an equal amount being supposed to have been exported un coined, or consumed in the arts. Nothing has since occurred to create a doubt of the correctness of that conjecture. It is altogether probable that the remark is equally true in regard to the last year, and that the amount of gold derived from the United States within that period has exceeded one million and a half of dollars. This sum, it is believed, is not less than about one-fifth of the amount of gold produced, within the same period, from all other sources, in Europe and America, estimated according to the best authorities. Virginia. N. Carolina. S. Carolina. Georgia Tenn. Alabama. 1833 104,000 475,000 66,0 216,000 7,000 198.500 1,674,000 162,500 744,000|9,000| VOL XII. 20 868,000 1,000 2,781,000 PUBLIC LANDS. List of United States Land Districts, showing the dates of the laws under which they were established. Note.-Those marked * were in operation under the system of Credit sales.-Those with out the asterisk commenced operations under the Cash system of sales. • Ohio. * Marietta Land District, established by the act of...... May 10, 1800 Zanesville... .. .do........do..........................do.................................. March 3, 1803 Seubenville......do........do...... ...do........ ... May 10, 1800 Chilicothe.. ..do........do..........................do.... ....... May 10, 1800 *Cincinnati................do.......................do............................do................ May 10, 1800 Wooster, originally Canton.... ......................do.................. March 3, 1807 Wapaukonnetta, formerly Piqua............................do............................ March 3, 1819 Bucyrus, formerly Tiffin, originally Delaware.. ....... March 3, 1819 Indiana. ..... Jeffersonville Land District, established by the act of March 3, 1807 *Vincennes. ...........do......................do..........................do............ March 26, 1804 Indianapolis, originally Brookville.......do................ ............., March 3, 1819 Crawfordsville, originally Terre Haute..do.......... ................... March 3, 1819 Fort Wayne.. ..........do......................do............................do.......... May 8, 1822 La Porte..........do........do............................do.................................. March 2, 1833 Illinois. ... Shawneetown Land District, established by the act of Feb. 21, 1812 Kaskaskia.... ..do........do..........................do ..... March 26, 1804 Edwardsville.. .do........do............................do................ April 29, 1816 Vandalia...... ..do........do...........................do............ May 11, 1820 Palestine. ..do........do............................do ................................. May 11, 1820 Springfield............do......................do..........do Danville........ ..do......................do............................do.............................. * May 8, 1822 .do........do..........................do.............. Feb. 19, 1831 Missouri. 3, 1811 17, 1818 Feb. 17, 1818 St. Louis Land, District, established by the act of.... March Louisiana. .... 26, 1824 March 3, 1823 Ouchita, Northern District, established by the act ............ · .... Mississippi. *Washington, District West of Pearl River, establish 3, 1811 March 3, 1811 March 3, 1819 Augusta, District of Jackson County-Land office originally at Jackson C. H.-District originated per act of 25th April, 1812-Land office established by act of March 3, 1819 Mount Salus, originally at Jackson-District of Lands ceded by the Choctaws by a treaty of 18th October, 1820-established by act of.......................................... ............................ May Columbus, N. E. District S Ceded by the Choctaws, by treaties of Oct. 18, Chocchuma, N. W. Dist. 1820, & Sept 27, 1830 Alabama. .... 6, 1822 March 2, 1833 March 2, 1833 3, 1807 3, 1815 11, 1820 *St. Stephens, District East of Pearl River, by act of March 3, 1303 Huntsville, originally at Nashville, Tennessee, District of Madison County-Huntsville was originally called Twickenham, established by act of...... March *Cahaba, originally at Milledgeville, Ga. by act of.. March Tuscaloosa... ........do.... May Sparta, originally Conecuh Court House........do.... May Demopolis...... Montgomery. S Lands acquired by the treaty with the Montevallo.. Creeks, concluded March 24, 1832. ...... ............do.... 11, 1820 March 2, 1833 July 10, 1832 July 10, 1832 Michigan Territory. Detroit Land District, established by the act of.... Monroe, Southern District of Michigan....do.......... (District abolished) White Pigeon Prairie.... March 26, 1804 Monroe, (re-established in part,)............ ..........đó............................ Jan + Little Rock, Arkansas District, established by act of Feb. † Batesville, Lawrence County District........do...... Feb. Washington, Red River District.. ....... ....................do...... June Fayetteville....... ..........................do...... June 25, 1832 ...... Florida Territory. Tallahassee, District of West Florida, by the act of.. March 3, 1823 St. Augustine, District of East Florida......do...................... March 3, 1823 + District boundaries modified per act of 25th June, 1832, by which act the District of tands now subject to sale at Batesville, is called the White River District. of Ohio, Indiana, & Territory of Mich Cincinnati........... Samuel Williams................................................ Clerk,......do Oliver Simpson... Samuel Morrison...................do........do South of Tennessee, for the State of ............ G. L. C. Davis............ Chief Clerk, Jackson, Miss... Clerk, .....do... 900 00 800 00 ......... Florence, Alabama.. 2000 00 P. Hoff... Lands in Illinois and Missouri........ St. Louis, Missouri.. Augustus H. Evans .........Draftsman,......do John Warnock. 750 00 ............ 500 00 2000 00 ........ 750 00 ......do........do William Call.......... ........do........do in Florida............................................. Charles Haire....................Clerk, ......do Surveyor of Public Lands in Louisiana..... J. O. Lee Robert Boyd. ...................... Green Taylor. ...... ..do..... .do ....do........do ... .......... A. J. Jewell...... ................... ..................................do....................do ...................... Lands in Arkansas... .........do.. Little Rock...... Wm. Pelham............................ .......... ....................do.. ....... ty of Pontitock-October, 1832... Pontitock, Miss.. The compensation to Registers is 8500 per annum, and one per cent. commission on moneys paid into the Land Office. 500 00 500 00 Tallahassee ........ 2000 00 1000 00 900 00 ..... ..Clerk,......do 800 00 Joseph Wood...... Peyton S. Symmes. Chilicothe.......................................... Zanesville....... Wooster...... Thomas Scott.......................... ................ Wapaukonnetta .............................. Mar. 9, 1833 May 5, 1832 Charles Tyler..........] Crawfordsville...... Robert Brackenridge David Robb....... .... La Porte....... Sept. 11, 1833 Mar. 25, 1830 Mar. 2, 1833 Miles Hotchkiss......... Kaskaskia..........Illinois April 30, 1832 James C. Sloo................... Shawneetown......... .... Edwardsville .............. Mar. 25, 1830 Jan. 13, 1831 William P McKee.. ........ Lexington........ Wm. McKeunon Ball.. Fayetteville..... May 25, 1830 J. M. A. Hamblin....... Ouachita.... ............ ..... Opelousas........Louisiana Jan. 28, 1830 ....... Valentine King.... St. Helena C. H .... .... .... John B Hazard........ Benjamin S. Pope... ........... Dec. 17, 1829 Mar. 25, 1830 Dec. 24, 1830 Mount Salus.............. St. Stephens......Alabama Jan. 29, 1830 Huntsville........ ........ April 21, 1832 Tuscaloosa...................................... Mar. 25, 1830 Cahaba..... .... Alanson Salt marsh Sparta....... George W. Ward...... Charles Downing.... ... .. ..... Feb. 24, 1832 Tallahassee.. Florida Ter. Jan. 4, 1830 RECEIVERS OF PUBLIC MONEYS. The compensation to Receivers is g500 per annum, and one per cent. commission on moneys paid into the Land Office. |
