Gazette Of The United States

MR. GERRY, from the committee appointed for the purpose, made the following report, which being read, was laid on the table.

The committee appointed to report an estimate of the net produce of the Impost and Tonnage duties, not having been able to procure early documents, were under the necessity of suspending the matter until statements of the mentioned imports and exports, which come from the House of Representatives of the 8th of May last, could be obtained.

From that the State House but for obtaining information various are the revenue and authentic the returns several from States added the and principal to the the modes fluctuating Custom of stating Houses state their thereof of commerce accounts are furnished and as to the defeat probability by a in Member many that instances of the the defalcations under the Federal Government, will differ from those under the State Governments, evince the impracticability of an accurate estimate—and the committee can only submit the following as the best they could form, under the circumstances mentioned.

An ESTIMATE of the Gross Amount, and Net Produce of the Impost and Tonnage Duties for one year, which will be collected in the several States, according to the latest returns thereof, under the existing Acts of Congress.

79i~yt2 I
01,404 741
14,1472 136,04756 | 1,364,511 621103,193 57
619 161
102,574 41
1,467,c89
31

From the above Estimate, it will appear that the Net produce of the Impost from the 1st, and the Tonnage from the 15th August last, to the 31st December next, computed according to the time, will amount as follows:

The Impost to Dollars,
568,546-50

The Tonnage to do-
38.465-0

Total amount
607,011-90

N. B. The discounts of 10 pr. centum pr. annum, for prompt payment of Impost where the amount of duties shall exceed 50 dollars, cannot be estimated, and if made, are to be deducted from the net produce of the Impost of the States respectively: Neither can the pr. centage and incidental charges, which on the Impost, are averaged at the 1 pr. centum, and on the tonnage duty, at 3-5ths of one pr. centum, be precisely ascertained.

	The grofs amount of Import.	A deduction for a discount of ten per cent. of the duties on imports by Ameri- can vefels.	Deduction of 1 pr. cent. for collectors, inspec- tors and other incident- tal charges made from the impoft after the 10 pr. cent. is deduced.	A drawback estimated from the returns of exports of the several States.	Nett produce of the Impoft.	Grofs amount of the tonnage duty.	Deduction for pr. centage, which will pro- babably amount to 3-5 of 1 pr. cent.	Nett amount of the tonnage duty.	Total amount of the net produce of Impoft and Tonnage.
New-Hampshire,	22,177 97	1,756 28	204 21		20,217 48	1,282 4	7 69	1,274 35	21,491 83
Massachusetts,	216,366 332	17,819 68	1,985 46	7,427 20	189,133 892	10,188 28	61 13	10,127 15	199,261 42
Connecticut,	76,824 69	6,844 41	699 80	24 75	69,255 73	3,213 72	19 28	3,194 44	72,450 17
New-York,	245,165 17	12,450 18	2,327 15		230,387 84	15,019 24	90 12	14,929 12	245,316 96
New-Jersey,	11,336 70	957 39	103 79		10,275 52	240 36	1 44	238 92	10,514 44
Pennsylvania,	376,841 682	16,051 22	3,607 90	13,672 97	343,509 592	18,003 66	108 2	17,895 64	361,405 231
Delaware,	5,692 58	425 87	52 66		5,214 5	443 55	2 66	440 89	5,654 94
Maryland,	223,620 70	11,994 42	2,116 26	14,922 64	194,587 38	17,054 78	102 33	16,952 45	211,539 83
Virginia	176,185 812	6,594 51	1,695 91		167,895 392	18,687 6	112 12	18,574 94	186,470 331
South-Carolina,	137,887 9	6,088 82	1,317 98		130,480 29	14,446 23	86 68	14,359 54	144,839 83
Georgia.	3,712 21	121 96	35 90		3,554 45	4,614 66	27 69	4,586 97	8,141 42