the old system, was carried in ' one House at the recent session of the Mexican Congress, leaving it is hoped only the details to be perfected at some future sessions, a measure that would open new markets to our products and fabrics, prove highly beneficial to Mexico and unite the neighboring republics in the more intimate and friendly rela tions of our ever increasing reciprocal commerce and intercourse. I renew the recommendations contained in all my. annual reports for the establishment of a branch.of the mint of the United States at the city of New k ork. That city, our gTeat commercial metropolis, is advancing to its ultimate position (so important to the whole country) as the empo rium of universal commerce, the centre of inter national exchanges, and the storehouse of the produrs of the world. To attain this result we must secure for our great emporium, tin competi tion with foreign cities) the command of her due proportion of coin and bullion. Now, it is clear "that when bullion cannot be coined, and no re coinage takes place, this cannot be accomplished. America is the great continent of the precious metals; they are now found in extraordinary quantity in our own Union, and to a vast extent in countries adjacent, yet nearly all this coitrand bullion is diverted to other countries, and especi ally to Great Britain, being one of the chief in struments in aiding that country in maintaining her command of the business of the world. Bv steamships and by exports of her own products and fabrics, she accumulates coin and bullion in London, and provides for their coinage and re coinage, in the least time, and without expense; and yet in. our own commercial emporium we have no mint, or even a branch mint, for the-im portant process of coinage or re-coinage.. If we would command the commerce of all na tions, it must be through some one common com . mercial emporium, the great centre of our own trade and business. The history of trade demon strates that some such great point is' indispensa ble to enable any nation to command universal commerce, and that such concentration at some one city, instead of injuring other cities or ports of some country, is of immense benefit to all. There cannot be two or more financial centres of the foreign commerce of any one nation any more than there can he two or more centres of a creed. The same principles of the centre of trade of a na tion apply.to the trade of the world. There can be but one such, and one also for each ,nation, which in this country, from natural cause's, must be New York, where the competition must soon commence with foreign cities for the control of international commerce. Now, as the command of the specie of the world is of immense benefit to our whole country, and can only be secured by making one of our own cities the centre of uiii versal commerce, it is indispensable to success in this great American enterprize that specie and bullion should be invited from the world to New York, not by any unjust advantage, hut by giving ' to it equal facilities with our other cities for coin” age and rccoillage. It is not for New York merely, or for its commerce, that this mint is de sired, but for the benefit of the whole Union. The storehouse of goods and products of the Union must become the storehouse of its specie where the commerce and goods are, there the representatives of their value must he also, and there also should be every facility which a mint would give for increasing their circulating value, and for bringing them into immediate and active use in any form which might he desired. It is in vain to say that the specie bullion brought by our commerce to New York, can be sent to a dis tant point where there is a mint, with but little delay, risk dr expense. It is clear there must- he some risk, delay and expense operating as a tax on the business of commercial emporiums, and to that extent rendering unequal her contest with European cities for increased commerce. Coin age and recoinage should be immediate, without any risk or expense or’ delay; and it might he said as regards merchandise, with the same truth, (as is urged in relation to specie) that it would Li no injury to the commerce of the Union, if light and costly articles would he sent at hut triHhi'r expense, risk or delay, from New York to some distant city, there he stamped or marked, labelled and returned to New York f.,r sale and distribu tion in the general markets of our own country, or of the world. It seems to he forgotten by those who present such arguments, that a great com mercial capital where business to the amount of .millions of dollars is transacted from ten to tlm-i -o’clock, how important is time when the delay of a day, nay, often an hour, may he most disastrous, and change the balance of profit to loss. Mer chants and men of business should he permitted to exchange their bullion or foreign coin for Amer ican, in a few hours or moments, as could be dunl in a mint, or receive at once mint certificates of deposits, which often might he to them of the greatest importance. Tile trade in bullion and specie, in itself one great branch of commerce, indispensable in the transaction of business, and especially of interna tional exchanges, already exists to a great extent in New York, hut is limited in diffusing its bene fits to American commerce, and exchanges by the want, of a mint. Now, it is subject to expenses, and delay, to put it into a form for circulating vaiue—that delay being itself a great loss of capf tal, whilst the foreign coin, consisting of denomi nations unknown to the great body of our people, is almost useless for the purposes of general circu lation. It is the rapidity of tile circulation of coin that gl ves its chief value and accumulates capital by the speedy realization of profits, and the Amer ican eagle and half eagle, and our other decimal coinage, might in a few months perform more of *? e fthohons of money, and pass more rapidly through a greater variety of hands than if it were Borne, foreign anil unknown coin, which would not circulate among our people. Hence it is, that at New York, to give activitv to our specie circula ting capital, by converting it at once into Ameri can com, would be of vast importance to the whole Union Credit, when based on real capital, is highly beneficial to the commerce of the country and specie is one of the main pillars upon which credit can repose with assured confidence, and we must have that specie, as tile basis of such a credit, at our commercial emporium, if wc indeed desire to make it the centre of international ex change. With a view to augment the ci £ culatio.,'of our own coin m our country, this department lias ar rested as far as practicable the payment of foreign coin out of the Treasury, requiring it to he re coined into American coin, by which means it has been enabled between the first of March, 1845 and 30th October, 1848, to coin at our Mint, per ? . r K i, the , SUm ° r 5 38 .717,709 22, which from Ist of March, 1845, to the Ist of March 1849 must exceed s4o,ooo,ooo—being a larger sum ‘ 1 7q n , T aS , O C ,T ed If . thirt yeigh‘ years preceding 1793 to 1830 lncltisive. But whilst the depart fWl l t h " e med from the ,st of March, 1845, to Ist March, 1849, more than $40,000 000 the,amount would have augmented to the extent of several millions of dollars every year, if there had been a branch of.the Mint at the city of New York. This is proved by the fact that most of the foreign coin sent from New York and other points to Philadelphia for re-coinage, has been that portion which was received for Government dues, and transferred mainly, not by the people or merchants, (but by the order of this department,) lrom the several government depositories, and but little coin comparatively lias gone from N. York, transmuted vo untarily by individuals for recoin age to Philadelphia. Individuals will not to anv great extent subject themselves to the risk ex pense, and delay of this process, whereas’ the whole of the com and bullion amouting to many millions of-dollars that comes to New York by the operations of commerce, or by emigration, now a yery large sum, would all be changed into-Amer lcan coin if there was a Mint at that city. Hav mg no Branch at the great centre of American .commerce our Mint, notwitstanding the great ability aud fidelity with which its business is con fhnlld h ™ delpMa ’ is not ' t 0 the esten ? -<■ e '- e Mint of the people, and convenient aod eL n ge f , their bull “nand foreign coin, and espeeiaUy he l arge amounts brought grants in the Union, estimated at $8,000,000 per annum, but is used chieflv s.) A, m ’ uu ’ uuu P er cities for that of the d O ?JZZ *3 ought to be the Mint of the Government ‘andhm , pie, and for the benefit of both, and can only fiX become so by the location of a Branch as recon> ! D ’™f e . d ' , T . h . e amount of foreign coin re-eoined at Philadelphia from the Ist March, 1845 to the 30th November, 1848, on transfers ordered’ on de posites by officers of the Government directed by me, was, (per table Q,) hereto annexed, $11,463 - 181—being nearly equal to the whole remaining pktefnd buUiom ring th6Same Peri ° d ' inC,Udins The branch mint would be most important as TW, a ,™ fn 'll ° perations of constitutional Treasury, for the present Assistant Treasurer at New York would then become the Treasurer of Mint, and perform both functions precisely as is now done at Philadelphia and New : Orleans, saving the expense of an increase of offi ees, preventing double entries and payment, and 1 simplifying the operations of the government; and ' to the government and the merchant the risk and ! cost of the double custody arid transfer from the Collectors to the Assistant Treasurer would be entirely saved. 1 From the lsi January, 1847, to 30th Novem- her, 1848, the merchants of New York: paid to the Collectors (per table L) for duties the sum of 835,360,678 36 in specie, being two-thirjds of the aggregate payment in specie for duties in the Union. YU whilst the government exacts from these merchants this immense sum in specie for duties, it refuses them even a branch mint, where bullion can be coined of foreign coin Te-coined; the mere establisment of which would attract there so much specie, and render the payment of this large amount so much more easy. The amount of specie received by Assistant Treasurer at New York, from the Ist of January, 1847, to 30th November, 1848, 357,328,369, and the coin disbursed by him there during the same period, 855,496,269, making an aggregate of 8112,824,C33. [Table K;J With a branch mint at New York the transaction of business would be undisturbed by the operations of the Constitu tional Treasury. It is with such sys tem the collection of duties in specie would oper ate as a check—not upon the issues hut the over issues of the banks; a gentle and Inost useful their own issues and mitigating if not preventing those revolutions which are seen to ensue when the business of the banks-and as a consequence that of the country is unduly ex tended. Credit is useful and most abundant only when it is based upon capital and specie and a legitimate business and commerce. But. when it is stretched beyond those limits, it necessarily pro duces convulsions, disasters—not only to the par ties involved but to the commerce and business of the whole country. It is this fatal tendency to over-issues and the too great and dangerous ex tension of their business, which constitutes the greatest objection to our banking system, and those banks which are based on a small capital and desire to conduct their business advantage ously to themselves and to the country, ought to rejoice that such others as would transcend these limits, are checked and restricted by the f demand for coin, created by the specie re-coinage ’and spe cie circulating Constitutional Treasury. j * During the year 1847, when more than twenty-four mil lion dollars of.specie were brought into the coun try, and to a great extent paid in for loans to the government, had this coin gone into the banks, as under the old State Bankj deposite system, to a great extent it must have bien made the basis of an inflated currency far . exceeding that of 1836 ; it would have been followed upon the sudden fall of prices of breadstuifs and sta ples, and flow of specie out of the country by a revulsion more disastrous than that of 1837. The fall would have been from a greater infla tion to a lower depression, the intensity of the dis aster being augmented by the loans and expenses of a foreign war, by the drain of specie to sustain immense armies in foreign countries, by;deprecia tion of government loans, and the fall of the gov ernment credit; the public credit under that sys tem being inseparably connected with that of the hanks, as its depositors. The government having no specie, and depending upon their paper, its cre dit must have fallen with that of the banks, as happened in 1837 and during the year; of 1812, and luans for specie (which were indispensable) could only have been obtained a$ they were during that war, at ruinous discounts, amounting to mil lions of dollars per annum. Instead of these sac rifices, the public credit was maintained through out the war, and its stocks sold for high premiums, instead of ruinous discounts. A system which has operated so beneficially, both in war and in peace, must in the main be wise and salutary, but it would be still more so if the amendments heretofore recommended by this department were adopted, especially as regards the securities for disbursements, (without which the system is not sale,} and the establishment of a branch mint at New York, as a most important auxiliary. With these amendments, - afflicting none of the principles of the bill, and especially its specie receiving and specie circulating clauses, it would so commend itself to the whole country, and prove so beneficial to its industry, commerce and business, us to become our settled pblicy, . un disturbed by complaints, or opposition from any quarter. Annexed will be found tables marked IJ and V, communicating in compliance with the 22d section ol the Act ot the 28th of January, 1847, the in formation required by that act us regarths the issue, redemption, purchase and reissue of treasury notes.. •Statement W shows the payments into the trea sury on account of the loan of 1848. Statement -V shows the amount of specie paid into the trea sury irorn all_ sources from the Ist of 5 January, 184/, to 31 si ot October, 1848, amounting to $91,481,823 55, and the disbursements in spe cie during the same period amounting i to $92,- 142,512 39—making an aggregate during thatpe riotl ot receipts and disbursements in specie of $ 183,627,335 94. Under tile act of the 31-st of March last, autlmr iv.iiiu a loan for a sum not exceeding sixteen mil lions ol dollars, the department on the 17th of April last, and for sixty days thereafter, advertised the proposals as per copy hereto annexed marked i-h This advertisement was published tor sixty days, not only in the several newspapers in this city, but also in the' papers publishing the law's as authorized in each of the States, and with a view to more extensive circulation, in each of .the daily papers in the principal cities of the Union. The proposals were also made known to our Ministers and Consuls in the principal cities of Great Bri tain and the Continent, wherever it was believed might be enhanced, and bids extended by their ef forts. The notice was not inserted in the newspa pers until the 17th April, because by the 3d sec tion of the act, it was declared that the advertise ment should be published “ not more than sixtv davs, or less than twenty days from the time of the tirst mention of the said advertisement in one or two newspapers in the City of Washington.' 1 If then upon the day that the law passed, or the day succeeding, the loan had been advertised, the time for opening the proposals must have termi nated by the last of May, or Ist of June. The de partment, however, upon the information before it, telt persuaded that the treaty of peace which had been approved by the Senate, would be ratified by- Mexico, hut that in ail probability the intelligence of tile ratification could not reach here by the last of May or the Ist of .Tune, but that it would be re ceived before the middle of June, and consequently, that if the advertisement were immediately insert ed and the proposals offered by the last of May or the Ist of June, the government in the absence of the news of the ratification of the treaty by Mexico would necqssarily sell the loan upon much less ad vantageous terms, and at a probable sacrifice of several hundred thousand dollars of premium to the government. Under those circumstances, the department assumed the responsibility of delaying the advertisement until the 17th of April, allowing the longest period from that date authorized by law for opening the proposals, namely, the ,17th of June; some days belore which period I was confi dent that official intelligence of the ratification by Mexico of the treaty would be received here. The re’sult justified these anticipations. The in telligence of the ratification of the treaty was not received here by the last of May or first of June, nor in fact until a few days before the 17th of June! when it was immediately made known officially by telegraph, and the government received the full benefit in negotiating the loan, of.the universal knowledge of the final’ratification of the treaty of peace with Mexico. Upon the 17th of June, at the appointed hour, the seals were .broken and the bids opened by the Chief Clerk of this Department, in my presence, and that of the bidders and the public, the bids received, and loan awarded of course to the highest bidder. ! The total amount bid, together with the names of the successful and unsuccessful bidders, will be lound in the.statement hereto annexed, marked M. The whole premium obtained, it will be found was §467,168 66, which was the more extraordinary inasmuch as on relerence to the prices current it will be found that the entire sale of the sixteen millions ot stock on a single day exceeded tile rate at which the government six per cent., .twenty years stock, exclusive of interest and brokerage, was then selling in small sums in the market. It being made by law the duty of this depart ment to devote its attention to “ tiis suppout or pi hi.ic cnkiiit, as well as to “Me Improvement and management of the revenue," it is proper to remark that this government has paid punctually at all times the public debt at its maturity, as well as the accruing interest, never suspending for a moment of time in the discharge of cither when due, such has been the attachment of the Ameri can people to .this, the government of their choice. Such their regard for honor and good faith, that however severe the trial or sacrifice, they have liquidated as they fell due all the debt of the Union. A table, certified by the Register of the 1 Trea sury, hereto annexed, marked N, shows our popu a ton from 1790 to the present period every year, our debt, our receipts from loans and treasury notes, our revenue each year exclusive of loans and treasury notes, as well as from the loans and notes, and the principal and interest of debt paid each year, as well as the total amount. It U'an official record, which every American may read with pride and satisfaction. It shows that whenever it was necessary to pay the debt and sustain our ihonor. and good faith, and pay the debts of the ctiintry, the people cheerfully submitted not merely to du ties on imports for revenue, but to -direct’ taxes and excises to the amount of many millions of dol lars every year; and that even when our popula tion was sparse and our moneyed resources extreme- ly limited, the debt of the country was always punctually discharged after the adoption of the constitution, both principal and inter* st at their ma turity. In 1790 we assumed the debt of the revo lution, determined that the honor of the nation should be preserved stainless and unsullied. The debt then was $75,463,476 ,52, being equal to a debt at this date of more than $377,000,000, ac- cording to population, and nearly six times greater according to population than our present debt,— At that date, the country, exhausted by a seven years’ and weakened ‘by the internal difficul ties growing out of the feeble character of the old confederation, had scarcely commenced her onward career to greatness, wealth and honor. Yet this debt was voluntarily assumed as a matter of honor, and it was paid, including principal and interest, punctually, without failure or suspension. Again, at the close of the war of 1812, our debt in 1816, was $ 1*27,334,933 74, a portion of it bear ing an interest of 7 per cent.; yet that debt also was not only fully paid in 1836, both principal and interest; but the government, after liquidating all its engagements, had a surplus left in the Treasury’ of $28,101,644 91, which was deposited with the States for safe keeping, who may be called upon to return it to the government of the Union, should the emergency ever require its use, which is most improbable. -At that date, the country had been exhaused by a prolonged and serious struggle with the greatest power of the world, and its commerce almost annihilated bv blockades and embargoes. Its population then was 8,678,000, and consequent ly, according to population, the debt of that date would be equivalent to a debt, at the present pe riod, of upwards of three hundred and eight mil lions of dollars, or nearly five times as great as our present debt! Yet that debt of 1816 was not only principally paid within twenty years thereaf ter, but a surplus, as we have seen, of more than twenty-eight millions of dollars deposited with the States. If then, in twenty years, under such cir cumstances, and with such a population, and such revenues, we could pay a debt of that magnitude, and have a suiplus of twenty-eight millions, with in how short a period may we liquidate our pre sent engagement! By reference to the tables, it will be seen that from 1790 to the present period, including the reimbursement of treasury notes, we have paid a public debt, including interest, amount ing to a liability' of upwards of five hundred mil lions of dollars. By reference to the same tables, it appears that our revenue, during the same pe riod,, derived from resources, other than loans or Treasury notes, was upwards of eleven hundred and thirty-six millions of dollars. It will be perceived that our present debt, in cluding the whole of the loan yet to be paid in, and deducting the purchases directed bv this de partment of $500,000 within the last lew weeks, would be about $65,278,450 41. The debt due on the 4th cf March, 1845, por table O, hereto an nexed, was 5?17,788,799 62, deducting which from the present debt, as above stated, leaves the in crease of debt since that date $47,489,650 79, in cluding the loans yet to be. paid in, to which may be added about $26,000 for Mexican and bounty land scrip. The principal of the public debt paid since the 4th of March, 1845, is about $1,692,- Sl3 98. Our whole debt, including the loan yet to be paid in, is not a sixtieth part of the debt of Great Britain, and less than one-half the annual interest of that debt. According to a table of the Commissioners of the General Land Office, hereto annexed, marked P, it appearsthatour whole public domain amounts to 1,442,217,839 acres, which at the present mini mum price ot 5i,25 per acre, would make an ag gregate value of 5i,802,772,206. Regarding them however, including our mineral lands at twenty five cents per acre, they would yield $360,554,45*9. Large as is this sum, our wealth as a nation would be more rapidly increased by the sale of all our agricultural lands, at very low rates, not exceeding twenty-five cents per acre, in small farms to actual settlers and cultivators, and thus by enlarged pro ducts and exports ensuring increased imports and augmented revenue, as it is obvious even with lib eral appropriations that our revenue from lands and customs will enable us to pay the public debt before its maturity. I present the following suggestions for the con sideration of Congress. The great mass of our public debt, exclusive of Treasury Notes, consists ul five per cents, redeemable in 1853, of six per cents, redeemable in 1856, 1862, 1867, and IS6B, and the Military Bounty Laud Scrip, bearing six per cent, interest, redeemable at the pleasure of the Government. Of this sum, the Department, as at present authorized by law, can purchase at its dis cretion when the means will permit the live per ecu’s and the six percents, redeemable in 1856, 1862 and 1868: The Military Bounty Lund Scrip hears six per cent, interest, ami is redeemable at the pleasure of the Government. No power,how ever, is given to the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase this debt, although Congress may author ize the Department to liquidate it any time with out paying any premium or advance, and I advise such authority to begin to take effect any time al ter the Ist of July next. As regards the debt of twenty-eight millions of dollars rising from Trea sury Notes and Stocks authorized by the act of 28th of January, 1847, the Secretary of the Trea sury has no authority to purchase Treasury Notes or Stock except at par. When this act was pend ing before the two houses of Congress, this De partment recommended that the debt should he placed upon the same footing as those which pre ceded, by delegating the authority to the Treasury to purchase any portion of it, including the Trea sury Notes, at the market rates, above or below par. Among other reasons which iuthionced the Department in this recommendation, was the fact that such a provision would make the debt more valuable to the purchaser wl en if should be sold by the Treasury, and therefore increase the pre mium which could he obtained by enlarging the number of bidders for.it hereafter; namely, the largest probably of ail purchasers, the Government itself, and the absence of this provision diminished the premiums the Department wa*s enabled to ob tain upon this loan. It is observed that it' ivc have the means to pur chase the public debt before its maturity, it should be done, rather than pay the interest; and it is also clear that as the amount which can be purchased by the government is increased, especially to the great extent of twenty-eight millions of dollars, the Treasury can make the purchase upon better terms By enlarging the number of competitors, who could sell to it our own stock. Under these circuinstan- ces, I recommend that the Treasury Department be authorized to purchase, at the market rates, at any time when its means will allow, after the first of .July nest, any portion of the debt of twenty eight millions authorized by the act of the 28th ol January, 1847, including Treasury notes, if any should remain unfunded. This is the more neces sary, as the sales of the public lands have been set apart by the Department, as directed bv that act, for the payment of the interest and purchase of the principal of this stock, which is impossible at pre sent, the right of purchase being limited to par. Unless, then, authority should be given to purchase the stock at the market rate, a considerable sum must remain in the Treasury on the first of July next of these sales which can be used fur no pur pose whatever. . As soon as it was ascertained, on the estimates of the several Departments, that the Government had the means to purchase a portion of its debt, and meet the interest, the Department considered it to be its duty to make the purchase. Upon look ing into these estimates and comparing them with the means, it was found that theje would be a ba» lance of 82,353,694 84 in the Treasury on the Ist of July, 1849, and a balanceof .$5,040,542 11 on the Ist of January, 1850.' There was also at that date, by the latest returns, a copy of which is hereto annexed, marked T, 53,403,894 48 in spe cie in the several depositories to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, after deducting all drafts unpaid and outstanding; and since the pur chase of the stock, there remained by latest returns, marked as above, 83,001,746 89 in specie subject to the draft of the Treasurer, after deducting all drafts unpaid and outstanding. Under these cir cumstances, it was resolved to make the purchase to the amount of 8500,000, thus using a part of the premium obtained on the loans bv this Depart ment in liquidating to that extent the debt incur red, and by the rise of the stock since that pur chase, had it been delayed until the present period, the Government would have been compelled to pay a much higher price. It was essential to success (unless by largely advancing the premium) that the purchase should be made by a confidential agent, and directions for the purchase were accord ingly given to Mr. C. W. Lawrence, the Collector of New York, in whom the whole community in which he resides justly repose unbounded confi dence, and who had executed every trust with fi delity. A full statement of all the details of this purchase, which was made at the lowest market' 1 rates, is being prepared, and will be placed prompt ly before the Committee of Ways and Means of the House and of Finance of the Senate. That the debt should be liquidated as rapidly as the means of the Treasuay will permit, so as to ar rest the removing of interest, will not, it is pre sumed, be doubted; but the government should have its option to purchase any of its stocks, so as to lessen the premium which it would be compel led to pay, and the purchase should be very grad ual and progressive, forrif it were forced too rapid ly the premium would become exorbitant. In view of the Uncertainty whiclTattends all calcula lions of accruing revenue, it will, probably, not be regarded as judicious to make any further purchases until a period succeeding the Ist-July next, when estimates both as to receipts and expenditures, will , be tested by results, when it will with certainty what means will be at thisSkposal ol the Department to reduce the public indebtedness.— ; As an evidence of the progress of in wealth and credit, it may be useful to contrast the sales of the government stocks and--treasury notes during and immediately succeeding tqe war of .1812, with similar dates during and immediately succeeding the war with Mexico. ;By the report ol the Committee of Ways and Means, of the House of Representatives, of Congress of the 13th of April, 1830, it appears that for the loans of the war of 1812 for $80,000,000 in stocks and trea sury notes, the government obtained but $34,000,- 000, after deducting discounts and depreciation, being a loss of $46,000,000 upon its transactions, whereas, jin the loans of the last war, with Mexico, this department obtained for $49,000,000, borrow ed on stock and treasury notes, $49,555,511 39, including a premium of $555,511 39 upon the transactions, haring obtained $15,555,511 39 more for $49,000,000 stock and treasury notes sold by this department for loans growing out. of the war with Mexico, than was received for $BO,- 000,000 of stock and treasury notes sold, during and immediately, succeeding the war with Great Britain, specie being requiaed under the constitu tional treasury, and paid in stock and treasury notes sold. These statements are not made with a motive to depreciate my distinguished predecessors in this department, by whom these loans were negotiated. The great services rendered by* them are well known and appreciated by the country, and by no one more fully than the present incumbent of this department, who has had an opportunity of ob serving all the difficulties by which they were sur rounded, and how impossible it was for any Sec retary, under those circumstances, to have made the negotiation on better terms than was effected b} 7 them. But the facta are stated as'a gratifying proof of the wonderful advance of the wealth of the country and of the government credit. The coast survey, under the charge of the su perintendent, Professor A. D. Bache, is making great and rapid progress. During the past year six sections of coast on the Atlantic and the Gull oi Mexico have been under survey, and the com- 1 putations, drawings and engravings of charts have kept pace with field work. 'Within the same pe riod, six new shoals have been discovered and made known on the eastern coast and one in Chesa peake Bay. Important suggestions in regard to the places for light-houses and barges have been derived from the coast survey reports. While this work is ? conducted on the highest scientific principles it is shown in a letter from the superin tendent, that the land works cost less than the maximum paid for the survey, conducted with so much economy of the pubic land. In reviewing the progress of this work for the past four -years, the result is most striking. A part of the operations have been carried from the South west part of Rhode Islahd into Maine, and the whole land work has been completed from Point Judith to Cape Cod, eovering a very inden ted coast. The hydrography has passed Nantuck et, and both the land and water marks of Boston harbor have been completed. . Much work of fiilling up has been done be tween Point Judith and Cape May. Delaware Bay has been finished, and the Chart of the Bay and river published. The Chesapeake has been triangulated South of the Virginia line, and both this and the outer coast will be triangulated in from two to three years from the present .time.— The topography of this Section, which was coin-* menced in 1844, is advancing to completion, and except the offshore work, one third of the hydro graphy is finished. The shores ol Albermarle -sound and most ol its tributaries have been sur veyed. The triangulation extended also over j Craton and Roanoke Sounds, and theriiydrography I is greatly advanced. | A general reconnoisance has been made of part ut die coast ol S. Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi and Texas, and the operations tounded upon this have been commenced in South Carolina and Texas, in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, the triangulations have advanced nearly from Mobile to Lake Borgia, the typogra phy of the shore of Mississippi*sound, r and of the adjacent island, has been neariy’completed and the | hydrography of the entrance to Mobile. Bay and I part of Mississippi Sound, and of Cat and Ship ts i land harbors, and their approaches has been lin ! ished. The survey of Galveston upper and lower i bay has made considerable progress. Four base lines have been measured in Massachusetts, Mary land, North Carolina arid Alabama, and two oth ers haVe been laid out for measurement. Two of the base lines were measured with a most useful apparatus, combining new features, the invention of the Superintendent. Forty astronomical sta tions have been occupied in Maine, New Hamp shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Missis sippi and Texas— a part of which observations were made with new and improved instruments. Magnetic observations have-been . made witli the instruments recently introduced upon the survey, at eighly-th’-ee stations. While improved Gegdatic instruments have been introduced upon the work, the principles of the modern mathematics have been extended to every part ol its results. The electro-magnetic telegraph has been used for de termining the difference of longitude of cardinal points in the work, and with a degree of precision not hitherto attainable by other methods. The gulf stream has been explored and the law of the oceans’s temperature .ascertained. Twenty four sheets of charts, remarkable for their arrange ment, accuracy, and style of execution, have been published and distributed to libraries and scientific institutions, at home and abroad, and placed with agents for sale, at prices merely covering the cost of printing and paper. Ten more sheets are in various stages of progress of engraving. While the scale of operations has been enlarged, to em brace, the whole extensive coast of the United States, and to afford the benefits of it to every part of the coast as rapidly as possible, the economy of the work has steadily advanced ; the augment ed expenditures required falling much below the in crease of work done. While so much that is em inently useful to commerce and navigation, and to our foreign and coastwise trade have been accom plished by this great work, it has received the commendation of men of science in Europe and America, and advanced the scientific character of the country. On the Pacific, where this depart ment has already carried this work, and where it will be so useful in obtaining information and publishing charts of our western coast, I have en trusted to it the location of the buoys, and the sit uation of sites for light-houses in Oregon. The department has proceeded to carry into^execution the several acts of Congress passed at the last session, making appropriations for light-houses, lighthoats, buoys, beacons, &c., it has also carried the laws into effect, provided surf boats, rockets, carronades, life boats, and other necessary aparatus for the belter preservation of life and property from shipwreck, calling to its aid the underwriters and- Chamber of Commerce of New York, and the Humane Society for preserving life, of Massachu setts. Important improvements may be introduced in to our light-house system. To conduct it properly requires an accurate knowledge of our coast and navigation, the proper sites, the character of build ing and mode of construction, the proper appara tus and mode of lighting, the different elevations, color and other distinguishing properties of the light*, and whether stationary or revolving, the necessary preparations to guard against accidents, or the extinguishing of a light; adequate regula tions to secure the accountability and attention of ; the keeper, and all the administrative duties pertain ing to the system. There is involved in all this a varied amount of knowledge, practical and scien tific, possessed by no one individual; and to aid the Department in the execution of those laws it has heretofore suggested to Congress, and again respectfully renews its recommendation for the or ganization of a Board, creating no expense, under the supervision of the Treasury, consisting of the fifth Auditor, the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, two officers of the Navy, an officer of the Engineers, as also of the Topographical corps, who would unite the requisite knowledge and en able fhe Department to conduct all the operations of the system upon our extensive lakes and mari time with increased efficiency and eco nomy. The department has also proceeded to carry into execution as far as practicable, the various laws for the erection of marine hospitals on the rivers and lakes of the west, availing itself of the valua ble services of the Topographical Bureau. Copies of standard weights and. measures haverbeen distributed to the States, with the ex ception of the Tour most recently admitted into the Union. The standard for these States, and for the cus tom houses of older States not yet supplied, are in the course of preparation. The attention of the States is called in the report of the superin tendent of weights and measures, secured in June last, to the necessary steps for preparing county standards so as to secure uniformity in the weights and measures in common use. Fifteen balances for* regulating standards have been supplied to five States, and set' up by an agent from the office of weights.and ‘measures. Two more sets, six in number, have been supplied to two other States; Twenty-nine were on hand on the first of Janua ry last, ready for distribution. The establishment produces at the rate of six balances of the first class, and three of the second, or nine of the sec ond, of ithe third per annum. The present distinction of weights and meas ures is, in my opinion, provisional, ahd has been so considered by statesmen and men of science.— A more general uniformity extending to different nations was looked forward to by Jefferson and John Quincy Adams as one thing attainable, and was recommended in my last annual report. Tbe time, in my opinion, has come for the serious consideration of this subject by Congress. New standards are about to'be made in England. The reorganization of the Germanic Confederation \Vill give a great extension to whatever system of weights and measures they may adopt; and the political changes going on in other parts of Eu rope are favorable to the introduction of uniform ity. The success of our course shows that it is -practicable to break up the old system, and to in troduce another new and entire-yone stand ard of lengths—one standard of weights—one standard of capacity, with suitable multiplies and subdivisors would be prpmotive of conve nience and of economy of time in the business of life and the intercourse of nations. Tbe adoption of the decimal system would also in my opinion simplify and facilitate computation, and 1 recommend that authority be given to this depart ment to take the necessary steps for obtaining in ternational views and action as to uniformity of coins and of weights and measures. During the past year the third ot a series of elaborate reports of investigations on sugars ahd hydrometers, under the direction of Prof. A. D. Beech, superintendent of weights and measures, and by Prof. R. J- McCulloch, melter and refiner of the mint at Philadelphia, have been presented to the department and transmitted to Congress, by whom it has been ordered to be printed, with a collection of the preceediug reports. This report completes the subject of hydrometers, as far as is ne cessary to make the changes required in the use of the instrument at the custom-houses and standard instruments, and a manual are nearly pre pared for use. These extra official duties were discharged by three gentlemen, without compen sation. My last report recommended the grant of one section of land for schools in every quarter town ship in Oregon. This grant in each of the new States, of- one-section of the public lands in each township, was designed to secure the benefit of education to all the children of that township.— This object has failed to a great extent, because one section in the centre of a township six miles square is too distant from many other sections to furnish a school to which all can resort, and be cause as a pecuniary provision it is inadequate The grant, however, of one section foreverv quar ter township would be sufficient, whilst the cen tral locations would be adjacent to every other section in such quarter township, bringing the school house within the immediate vicinage of every child within its limits. Congress to some extent adopted this recommendation, by grant ing two school sections in each township, instead of one, for education in Oregon, but it is respectful ly even thus extended the grant is still inadequate in amount whilst the location is inconvenient and too remote for a school which all can attend. This subject is again presented to the attention of Congress, with the recommen dation that it shall be extended to California and New Mexico, and also to all the other new States and territories containing the public domain. Even as a question of revenue such grants would more than refund their value to the Govern ment, as each quarter township is composed of nine sections ot which the central section would be granted for.bichools, and each of the remaining 8 sections would be adjacent to that granted. Thus eight sections' thus located and each adjoining a school section, would be of greater value -than when separated by many miles from such oppor tunities, and the thirty-two sections of one entire township with these benefits would bring a lerger price to the government than thirty-five sections out ol thirty-six, when one section only so remote from the rest was granted for such a purpose.— The public domain would thus he settled at an earlier period and yielding large products, thus soon augment our exports and our imports, with a cor respondent increase of revenues from duties. 'i he greater diffusion of education would in crease the power of mind and knowledge ap plied to our industrial pursuits, and augment in this way also the products and wealth of the na tion. Each State is deeply interested in the wel fare ot every other, for the representatives of the whole regulate by their votes the measures of the I 'nion, which must be more happy and prosper ous in proportion as its councils are guided bv more enlightened resulting from the more universal diffusion of light and*k»ow!edgc and ed ucation. The attention of Congress is respectfully invi ted to the condition of the public lands in Califor nia. Ihe official reports ot the great mineral wealth of that region present important questions for your consideration. That gold and quicksilver exist lo a groat extent in California, would seem to be placed beyond controversy. This o-oIJ would appear to require the establishment of a branch of the mint of the United States at San Francisco. The quicksilver is not onlv important as connected with the mining of the precious metals with health and the arts, but still more with the advance of science and the progress ot dis covery in physios. The mines of gold, and per haps of other minerals, woiild seem to be located chiefly on the public lauds, Thev belong to the government as a trustee for the people, whose in terests should be protected and secured by Con gress. A scientific commission to make a geolo gical examination, accompanied with linear sur veys, is deemed important The Voluminous character of this report, grow ing out of the varied and important duties, con stantly augmenting, assigned by law to this De partment, renders it necessary that I should re serve for a few days, and for a special report to Congress, the ware-housing system. In advance of that report I would remark at this time that, new instructions are prepared by this Department, and the forms nearly completed, among other reg ulations extending a more free competition for the storage of foreign imports. The progress of the system has been most satisfactory and successful. The value of. foreign goods warehoused in our ports since the passage of the law, imAugust, 1846, up the 30th of September last, having amounted to the very large sum of about forty-four millions of dollars. In soon retiring from this Department and from public life, in which I have served so long with inferior abilities to many others, but with equal solicitude to promote the best interests of my be loved country, I submit, with the utmost deference to the superior wisdom of Congress, my views and experience as regards the organization of the Trea sury Department. Its varied and important duties, with the rapid increase of our area of business and’ population, can hardly be all promptly and proper ly performed by any one Secretary. Vet, in de taching any of its duties from this Department, the greatest care must be taken not to impair the unity, simplicity and efficiency of the system.— To take from this Department its supervision over the commerce and finance, or over any. of the ac counting officers of the Treasury, the two Comp trollers, the six Auditors, the Treasurers, the So licitors nr Registers, the Assistant Treasurers or Collectors, the Revenue Marine, the coast survey, the mint, the weights and measures, the marine hospital, or the light house system, would create contusion, and be most brejudicial to the public service. But there are important public duties, having no necessary connection with commerce or finan ces, that could be most advantageously separated from the Treasury and devolved upon a new De partment of the government. Among these are the Land Office, land titles, and surveys connect ed therewith, linear und geological. The business ol the Land Office occupies a very large portion of the time of the Secretary of the Treasury every day, and his duties connected therewith must be greatly increased by the accession of our immense domain in Oregon, New Mexico and California, especially in connection with their valuable min eral lands, their private land claims and conflicting titles. From all decisions of the Commissioners of the General Land Office as to the government titles, or private land claims, pre-emptions, private entries or purchases of the public domain, an ap peal lies to the Secretary of the Treasury. This is but one branch of these duties, and yet as some evidence of the amount of labor thus devolved up on him front this source. I have pronounced judgment in upwards of five thousand cases in volving land titles since the 10th of March, 1845. These are generally judicial questions and not fi nancial,, requiring often great labor and research, and having no necessary connection with the du ties of the Treasury Department. The daily cor respondence of this department with the Commis sion of the General Land Office, Surveyors Gen eral, the Register and Receiver, and other per sons connected with this system, is most volumi nous. The supervising power now exercised by the. Secretary of the Treasury over the expenses of the courts of the United States and other duties con nected therewith, though the marshals and clerks of these courts give rise to a-very considerable daily correspondence with these offices, and having no necessary connection with the finances, should also be’detached from the Treasury Department as well as from the State Department the duties of these marshals in connection with the census of United States. v Having:transferred the laborious duties enume rated from the Secretary of the Treasury, Con gress should authorize him to appoint an Assis tant Secretary, who should be a man of great tal ents, and experience, with a salary not less than 53,000 a year }j who should examine all letters, contracts and warrants prepared for the signature of the Secretary, and perform speh other duties not requiring the signature of the Secretary as might conveniently be devolved upon him by the De partment. To maiutain the unity and efficiency of the system, he should be appointed by the Se cretary and subject to his discretion. He would want one able and efficient Clerk with a salary of not less than $l7OO per annum.. The office of Comptroller of the Treasury should be divided, and that great and augmenting portion of his du ties relating to the receipts from customs and the accounts of Collectors, and other of the customs connected therewith,,should be devolved upon the head of a new Bureau, to be called the Commissioner ot Customs, whose duties would be various and important. The First Comptroller should retain all the other duties now performed by biin, and especial ly his decisions upon claims and accounts which would occupy the whole time of the head of the Bureau. Combined, as they now a‘re, under the First Comptroller, the duties appertaining both to receipts and expenditures of the public money, accounts and claims, the officer is overburdened with busi ness, which cannot promptly and be per formed by any one individual, however able and laborious. The duties now performed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs are most numerous and impor tant, and must be vastly increased with the great number of tribes scattered over Texas, Oregon, New Mexico v and California, and with the inter esting progress of so matiy of the tribes in Chris tianity, knowledge and •civilization. These duties do not necessarily appertain to war, hut to peace, and to our domestic relations with those tribes placed by the constitution under the charge oi this government. This most important bureau, then,’should be' detached from the war department, with which it has no neccseary connection. The duties of the Patent Office, great and im portant as they now are, must necessarily increase with the progress of light and knowledge, the de velopments of the wonderful inventive genius of our countrymen, and the researches of so many enlightened minds in this country into machinery, the physical sciences, and the arcana of nature. This Bureau has no necessary or proper connec tion with the State Department, and ought to be separated from it. The Pension Office should also be detached from the War Department, in as much as no military orders are given to pensioners as such- by the Se cretary of War, nor by the Navy Department, much less to the widows and heirs who receive these bounties from the government. There is another reason why the Pension Office as well as the Indian bureau, should be detached from the War Department and placed under the supervision of the same Secretary to whom the land office would be entrusted, nearly under our system of revolutionary and military bounties, and land warrants as-well as under treaties and reser vations with Indian tribes. Many questions arise in relation to our public lands and private land claims connecting themselves frequently and in timately with our general land system and with de cisions upon land titles made by the commission of the general land office, and therefore all those bureaus whose duties are so intimately connected with the public, lands, as well as with private laud claims, ought to be placed under the supervision of the same department, or. conflict of decision and jurisdiction may and does in fact take place. Having then detached the Patent Office from the Department of StUte, the Land Office from the Treasury, as well as its supervisory duties in con nection with accounts of marshals and clerks of the courts, including their connection with the census; having detached also from the War de partment the Indian [bureau and the Pension of fice, the same supervisory authority as regards them all, now exercised respectively by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Treasury, and the Secreta ry of War, should be entrusted to the head of a new department, to be called the Secretary of the Interior, inasmuch as his duties would be connect ed with those branches of the public service de volved upon this government by the express letter of the constitution associated with our domestic affairs. The duties of this new department, tints organized, would be great and important, fully equal to those appertaining to the heads of any other department except the Treasury, under one system as at present organized. The whole in clusive expense of this reorganization would not exceed twenty thousand dollars per annum; where as to the goverenment, in an increased accounta bility and efficiency of the service, and to the peo ple, in the more prompt discharge of their business with the several departments, and the consequent immense saving of time and expense, the gain would be great indeed, the advantages vastly ex ceeding the smaller additional expense. From the great and continual multiplication of the business of the Treasury Department as now organized, with the rapid increase of our maratime frontiers, our area, our commerce, revenue and population, there is great danger that at some future period, the Treasury Department may be broken down by the weight of its labors and consequences ensue disastrous to the public interests. Organized even as now proposed, the duties of the Treasury Department would still be great and arduous. Connected with this subject, I recommend the completion at an early day, of the Treasury build ing, so as to secure fire-proof rooms to all our bu reaus, free from rent, as well as accommodate and insure in this edifice the State Department with its invalaable archives. The Department has purchased for the sum ap propriated by Congress both the bridge within this district over the Eastern branch of the Potomac, which are now free of toll as designed by the wise and liberal legislation of Congress, and in consum mating this result valuable aid was rendered to me by the Mayor of this. city. k The various recommendations of this my last financial report are respectfully submitted to the enlightened consideration of the two Houses of Congress. They are believed to be such as would I best promote the true interests of. the American ' people. For them and for my country, and her glorious confederacy of sovereign and united States, I invoke the continued blessings of Heaven. May her union be harmbnious, progressive and perpet ual. May her career be one of honor, peace, and glory—of equity, justice, and good faith. May each successive administration, in all time to come, in faithfully discharging the arduous duties of its exalted trust, receive the support, and approbation of the people. Guided by conscious rectitude, may they be commended and sustained in every effort to promote the public good; and even their errors, which are the lot of humanity, be regarded with indulgence, and over-ruled by a benignant Providence, for the advancement of the happiness and welfare of our beloved country. (Signed) R. J. WALKER, Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. R. C, Wixthiiuj*, Speaker of the House of Representatives, From the Reading (Fa.) Herald. Charge of Murder. A German named Frederick Smith, residing in Pearl street, in this city, who was taken up and confined in jail for robbing the boot of the Lancas ter stage of a trunk containing some clothing, was yesterday examined belore Alderman Betz, in con sequence of information received of a murder kavin u been committed near Gettysburg, Adams county The prisoner worked for the deceased, a German tailor, named Frederick Foster, some four years since. The deceased was a bachelor, living alone, and was found dead in his house ori the 27th nit. The murdered man was found lying on a feather bed in his room, with his head battered to pieces with a club. In consequence of having been seen ln . the neighborhood at the time the deed was com mitted, suspicion fell upon the prisoner, and Mr John Hoover accordingly came on from Adams’ county to have him arrested. Having procured a search warrant, he, in company with Constable Morris, searched his house, when a deed of Foster’s property, having blood upon it, was found, as also some clothing marked with blood. The prisoner denies all knowledge ol the Deed as well’as having been in Adams county within four years. The evidence was entirely circumstantial, but so strong that he was committed to answer the. charge ol murder. The robbery of the stage, for which he was committed to answers our next court, took place near Mount Pleasant, on the Lancaster road. HT* “ Warm day, Mr. Jones, warm day,” said Smith, as they met on thanksgiving day. “ Yes, it is,” said Jones, “ it is some warm if hot summer was cruel in Jones.— Boston Post . TAVERN LICENCES. IN THE MATTER of the intended application of Martin Leber, to the Court of Quarter Sessions, at the January Terra, 1849, for license to con tinue keeping a public house in the village of Baretown, Carnarvon township—it being an old stand.. «• ® TJfTE, the undersigned citizens of the township m.T of Carnarvon, where the said inn or tavern is proposed to be kept, Do Certify, that the said inn or tavern is necessary to accommodate the public and entertain strangers and travellers, and. that we are well acquainted with the said Martin Leber, and that he is of good repute for honesty and tem perance, and is well provided with house room and conveniences for the accommodation of strangers and travellers. Hanson B. Jacobs, Francis Gillespie, Samuel Lincoln, E. D. White, Jacob Albright, Martin Bick l»am, Evan Rogers, Jacob Spatz, James Evans, S. Bickhain, Jacob Ax, Geo. Miller, jr., Hiram Evans John Kurtz, William Witman, P. H. Toland. • * Dee 19 ° *ts-47 • IN THE MATTER of the intended application of John Filbert, to the Court of Quarter Sessions, ol the January Term, 1549, for license to con tinue keeping a public house in Bainbridge, Coney township—it being an old stand. WP‘. ie undersigned citizens of the township Tf ol Conoy, where the said inn or tavern is proposed to be kept, Do Certify, that the said inn or tavern is necessary ty. accommodate the public and eme.taiu strangers ahd travellers, *and that we are well acquainted with the said John Filbert, and that he is of good repute for honesty and temper ance, and is well p ovided with house room and conveniences for the accommodation of strangers and travellers. . J. B. Hamilton, J. Foreman, Amos Hicks, Henry Haldeman, jr., Jacob L. Warfel, Abraham Collins, Jacob S. Bare, John Haldeman, Frederick Hippie* Jacob L. Engle, Henry C. Ober, Jacob Adams M* H. Smith. * ' Dec 19 IN THE MATTER 01 the intended application of Jacob Albright, to the Court of Quarter Sessions, at the January Term, 1849, for license to con tinue keeping a public house in the village of Churchtown, Caernarvon township—it being an old stand. WE, the undersigned citizens of the township of Caernarvon, where the said inn or tavern is proposed to be kept, Do Certify, that the said inn or tavern is necessary to accommodate the public and entertain strangers and travellers, and that we are well acquainted with the said Jacob Albright, and that he is of good repute for .honesty and tem perance, and is well provided with house room and conveniences for the accommodation of strangers and travellers. M. Bickham, E. D. White, B. F. Bunn, Evan Rogers, Jacob Jimeson, Francis Gillespie, William Witmah, Cyrus H. Jacobs, Coleman J r . Ball, David Jcnkin, Lot Rogers, George Rigg, James Evans, Hanson B. Jacobs. [Dec 12-3t-46 IN THE MATTER of the intended application of George Hinkle, !to the Mayor’s Court, for li cense to keep a public house in the city of Lan caster —it being an old stand. WE, the undersigned citizens of the West Ward in the city of Lancaster, where the said inn or tavern is proposed to Be kept, Do Certify, that that the said inn or tavern is necessary to accom modate the public and entertain strangers and trav ellers, and that we are well acquainted with the said George Hinkle, and that he is of ; good repute I'or honesty and temperance, and is well provided with house room and conveniences for the accom modation of strangers and travellers. J. Frey, Jacob Weaver, John Drepperd, Jacob Snyder, Charles Shaeffer, John A. Scheurenbrand, George Kieffer, Lawrence Suter, Henry Schaum, Jno Bamniller, John Stauffer, Win. C.Chamberlin. Dec 12 3t-46 IN THE MATTER of the intended application of Lucretia R. Kelly, to the Court of Quarter Sessions, at the January Term, 18,49, for license to continue keeping a public house in Washing ton, Manor township—it being an old stand. WE, the undersigned citizens of the township of Washington, w here the said inn or tavern is pioposed to l±e kept,. Do Certify, that the said inn or tavern is necessary to accommodate the public and entertain strangers and travellers, and are well acquainted with the said Lucretia R. Kelly, and that she is ol good repute for honesty and temperance, and is well provided with house room and conveniences for the accommodation of strangers and travellers. Samuel Shurtzer, John A. Gehr, Henry Fusliell, George Shuman, David Saylor, Jacob Collin, Hiram Ward, Erhard Gehr, Joseph AlcLane, S. Hoober, John A. Brush, Daniel Kise. Doc 19 * IN THE MATTER of the intended application of* Samuel Huj.i., to the Court of Quarter Sessions, at the January lerm, 1849, for license to con tinue keeping a public house-in West Earl town ship, Lancaster county. WE, the •'undersigned citizens of the township of West Earl, where the said inn ortavern is proposed to be kept, Do Certify, that tlie'said inn or tavern is necessary to accommodate the public and entertain strangers and travellers, and that we. are well acquainted with the said Samuel Hull, and that he is of good repute for honesty and temper ance, an if is well provided with house room and conveniences for the accommodation of strangers and travellers. George Caruthcrs, Christian Wenger, John For ney, Peter Kafroth, Henry Grehill, Jacob Steinmetz, Frs. H. Carpenter, Abraham Kaehel.Jno. K. Reed, George Reed, Mark Connell, Samuel Reemsnyder! Abraham K. Bair, tier 19 IN THE MATTER of the intended application of David Snavely, to the Court of Quater Sessions, at the January Term, 1849, for license to continue keeping a public house in Martic township. WE the undersigned citizens of the township ot Martic, where the said' inn or tavern is proposed to be kept, Do Certify, that the said inn or tavern is necessary to accommodate the public and entertain strangers and travellers, and that we are well acquainted with the said David Snavely, and that he is of good repute for honesty and tem perance, and is well provided with house room and conveniences for tht* accommodation of strangers and travellers. \ Christian Ilrenneinan, (miller,; Hiram Watson, Christian Brenncman, (farmer,; George Martin* Martin Huber, sen., Samuel Huber, David Huber* Johli Robinson, Micheal Kech, Charles Prichelt* Abraham Miller, Martin Miller, Strickland Fisher* dec. 19 47-3 t IN THE MATTER of the intended application of John R. Trout, to the Court of Quarter Sessions, of January Term, 1849, for license to continue keeping a public house in Paradise—it being an old stand. WE, the undersigned citizens of the township of Paradise, where the said inn or tavern is proposed to be kept, Do Certify, that the said inn or tavern is necessary to accommodate the public and entertain strangers and travellers, and that wc are well acquainted with the said John R. Trout, and that he is of good repute for honesty and tem perance, and is well provided with house room and conveniences for the accommodation of strangers travellers. , 6 Henry Eckert, Sam’l F. Foster, Jos. H. Lefevre, John Lingerfield, Henry Lefevre, A. K. Winner, ci-r" 1 J' F ° U s’ Henr >' Teaman, J. A. Eshleman, Philip Foster, Samuel Keneagy, John C. Lefever. Dec 19 3t-47 IN THE MATTER of the intended application of Michael McGrann, fora license to keep a'pub lic house in the city of Lancaster, at his present old stand, in North Queen street, in said city. TT”E, the undersigned citizens of the Northwest TT ward, ip the city of Lancaster, where said »nn or tavern Is proposed, to be kept, Do Certify that the said inn or tavern is necessary to accom modate the public and entertain strangers and trav ellers, and that we are well acquainted with the said Michael- McGrann, and that he is of good re pute for honesty and temperance, and is well pro vided with house-room and conveniences for the accommodation of strangers and travellers. H. C. Wentz, John WittJinger, Jacob Herzog, J; H. Duchman, Robert Johnson, M. Goldschmid, George Dietrich, Benjamin Huber, Moses Winger, Peter Spong, David Reese, Jacob Reese. Dec. 12 M 8 IN rilE MATTER of the intended application of Benjamin M’Cutciien, to the Court of Quarter Sessions, at the January Teim, 1849, for license to continue keeping a public house in the village of Millport, Warwick township—it being a new stand. WE, the undersigned citizens of the township of Warwick, where the said inn or tavern is proposed to be kept, Do Certify, that the said inn or tavern is necessary to accommodate the public and entertain strangers and travellers, and that we are well acquainted with the said Beni. M’Catchen, and that he is of good repute for honesty and tem perance, and is well provided’wilh house room and conveniences lor the accommodation of strangers and travellers. Christian Weiss, Levi Grube, Joseph Eby, Jacob Hardig, Anthony Holdenried, Edward AJoxander, John Sheaffer, John Grube, Samuel Mellenger, L. S. Heist, Samuel Huber*; Samuel HaJJacher, Henry Buch, Charles Michael, George M* Doest, Samuel Pauden. e?, Dec it IN of the intended application of John Adasi Scheurenbrand, for a license to keep a public house in the city of Lancaster, at his .present stand; sign of the Green Tree, in West King street, in the West ward of said city. WE, the undersigned citizens of the West ward, in the city of Lancaster, where said inn or tavern is proposed to be kept, Do Certify that the said in.i or taveru is necessary to accommodate the public and entertain strangers and travellers, and that we are well acquainted with the said John Adam Scheurenbrand, and that he is of good repute for honesty and temperance, and is well provided with house-room and conveniences for the accom modation of strangers and travellers. * William F. Miller, Charles Shaeffer, Gilbert R. Hartley, Jqhn StaufFer, Daniel Miller, John Baum lller, Wendel Martzall, Jacob Snyder, Jamea'H. Ferry, John Kuhns, William Kefer, Frederick Peusch, Jeremiah McCracken, George MiHer. ' [Dec 12 >4B-31-46
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