4. Statement of the Receipts into the National Treasury, from Customs, Internal Revenue and Direct Taxes, and Sales of Public Lands, fractions of a dollar being excluded.

5. Statement of the Expenditures of the United States, exclusive of Payments on Account of the Public Debt and from Trust Funds, fractions excluded.

6. Statement of the Debt of the United States, the Total Value of Imports and Exports, and the Total Tonnage, from 1791 to 1847.

XI. PUBLIC LANDS.

[From the Land Commissioner's Report for 1847.]

THE sales of public lands during the year 1846 amounted to 2,263,730 acres, producing $2,904,637.27; and in the first, second, and third quarters of 1847, 1,893,024 acres were sold, amounting to $2,366,352. During the year 1847 the aggregate quantity of public lands in all the States and Territories proclaimed for sale amounted to 9,138,531 acres.

The first Mexican bounty land-warrant issued from the Pension Office under the Act of February 11, 1848, § 9, for 160 acres, is dated 19th March, 1847, and was registered in the Land Office, 20th March, 1847. The first warrant for 40 acres bears date 7th April, 1847, and was registered 8th April, 1847. To the 30th November, 1847, 7,317 warrants have been issued for 160 acres of land, and 1,128 warrants for 40 acres, making in all 8,445 warrants, amounting to 1,215,840 acres. Of this number 95 warrants only, embracing 13,520 acres, have been returned as located for patents. Preliminary reports have been made by Dr. C. T. Jackson and his assistants, of the geological examination, made by them during the summer of 1847, in the northern peninsula of Michigan, and a similar report given by Dr. D. D. Owen, of geological explorations during the same period in Wisconsin and Iowa. These reports, as well as those of Messrs. McNair and Roberts, of their operations as mineral agents in the northern peninsula of Michigan, are contained in the Land Commissioner's Report. 1. Exhibit of the Quantities of Public Land (exclusive of the Sixteenth, or School Sections) in each State and Territory advertised for Sale in the Year 1847; the Quantities, the Plats of Survey of which have been returned to the General Land Office; the Quantities prepared for Market not yet advertised; and the Probable Quantities which will be prepared in the Year 1848.

2. Statement of Public Lands sold, and of Payments into the Treasury on Account thereof, in the Year 1846, and the 1st, 2d, and 3d Quarters of 1847.

3. Area of each State and Territory, the Number of Acres surveyed, the Number under Contract and in Process of being surveyed, and the Number not yet surveyed or contracted for, in each.