Note. The estimated Amount per No. 1, of the Secretary's To which add this sum, then over estimated as reimbursement of deferred Stock 93,686,095 74 109 28 Making as above....Dollars 93,686,205 02 Treasury Department, Register's Office, December 2d, 1822. JOSEPH NOURSE, Register. (2.)—STATEMENT of the Debt of The United States on the Amount of the Debt, (per Statement 1) on the 1st October Add Treasury Note six per Cent. Stock, issued in the fourth ... 93,686,205 02 390 40 93,686,595 42 .... 257,180 60 Deduct reimbursement of the Deferred Stock, 5,558 15 262,738 75 Amount, as above, on 1st January, 1822....Dollars 93,423,856 67 Treasury Department, Register's Office, December 2d, 1822. JOSEPH NOURSE, Register. (3.)—ESTIMATE of the Funded Debt of The United States, 1st October, 1822, and 1st January, 1823. On the 1st October, 1822. Deferred Stock, (unredeemed amount) 1,225,097 04 As above, 1st October, 1822....Dollars 93,043,019 67 Estimated amount of Payments in the Fourth Quarter, 1822 Reimbursement of the deferred Stock Payment of the six per cent. Stock of 1820 2,000,000 00 Estimated amount of the Debt, 1st January, 1823 2,265,588 07 90,777,431 60 Note. The following Sums, included in the above Statement, were surrendered on the 1st October, and exchanged five per cent. Stock issued in lieu thereof, under the Act of the 20th April, 1822, viz. (4.) ESTIMATE of the Amount of Treasury Notes outstanding 1st October, 1822. Total Amount issued (as per No. 4, of last Report) Outstanding 36,680,794 36,653,357 Dollars 27,437 Treasury Department, Register's Office, December 2, 1822 JOSEPH NOURSE, Register. (5.)—STATEMENT of the Stock issued under the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act supplementary to the Act for the Indemnification of certain Claimants of Publick Lands in the Mississippi Territory," passed on the 3d March, 1815. Amount of Claims awarded per Statement (5) of last Report 4,282,151 121 Whereof there was paid in for Lands per Do.... 2,442,535 39 CIRCULAR to the Collectors of Customs in The United States, relative to the treatment of Belligerent Armed Vessels, and their Cargoes, belonging to France and Spain, and to Spanish America, in the Ports of The United States. SIR, Treasury Department, 30th July, 1823. As it is probable that, in the progress of the War which now exists between France and Spain, the publick and private armed Vessels of one, and perhaps of both Belligerents may, by stress of weather, pursuit of enemies, or some other urgent necessity, be forced to enter the Ports and Harbours of The United States, it becomes the duty of the Government to prescribe the manner in which they shall be treated whilst they remain within its jurisdiction. As there exists, upon this subject, no legislative enactment, the question must be decided by the Conventional Engagements, which The United States have contracted with the Belligerent Parties. By the 8th Article of the Treaty between The United States and Spain, it is provided that the publick and private Vessels of Spain, when forced by stress of weather, pursuit of Enemies, or any other urgent necessity, to seek shelter or harbour, may enter into any of the Rivers, Bays, Roads, or Ports, belonging to The United States, and shall be received with all humanity, and enjoy all favor, protection, and help, and be permitted to refresh and provide themselves, at reasonable rates, with provisions and all things needful for the subsistence of their persons, or reparation of their ships, and prosecution * Art. VIII. Treaty between The United States and Spain. San Lorenzo el Real, 27th October, 1795. In case the Subjects and Inhabitants of either Party, with their Shipping, whether Publick and of War, or Private and of Merchants, be forced, through stress of weather, pursuit of Pirates or Enemies, or any other urgent necessity for seeking shelter and harbour, to retreat and enter into any of the Rivers, Bays, Roads, or Ports, belonging to the other Party, they shall be received and treated with all humanity, and enjoy all favor, protection, and help; and they shall be permitted to refresh and provide themselves, at reasonable rates, with victuals, and all things needful for the subsistence of their persons, or reparation of their Ships, and prosecution of their Voyage, and they shall no ways be hindered from returning out of the said Ports or Roads, but may remove and depart when and whither they please, without any let or hindrance. of their voyage: and they shall be no ways hindered from departing from the said Ports or Roads, but may remove and depart when and whither they please, without any let or hindrance. With France, The United States have no Treaty Stipulations upon the subject. The obligations of neutrality, however, impose upon them the observance of the same course of conduct towards both Belligerents, unless Spain has a right, by Treaty, to exclusive privileges. A reference to the provisions of the 8th Article of the Treaty above recited, proves that no exclusive privileges have been granted to her. It becomes, then, the duty of The United States to treat the Public and Private Armed Vessels of both Parties in the same manner. Assuming the provisions of the Article referred to, as the rule by which the conduct of The United States is to be regulated, I am in- . structed by the President to direct: 1st. That the Public and Private Armed Vessels of France and Spain, with their Prizes, may, under the circumstances described in the said Article, enter the Ports, Harbours, and Waters of The United States, and repair any damages which they may have sustained; but no increase of arms or munitions of war, or of the number of men on board, can be lawfully made. 2d. That such Prizes cannot be condemned or sold within the juris-diction of The United States, and, consequently, cannot be admitted to entry at the Custom Houses, nor permitted to enter into the general consumption. 3d. That they may, at any time, depart from The United States, without let or hindrance. 4th. That, when Prize Vessels have been wrecked, or so disabled as not to be rendered seaworthy, their cargoes may be re-shipped in any other Vessel which shall not enjoy an exemption from capture, not enjoyed by such Prize Vessels. For example: if France, in the progress of the War, shall conform to the rule, that free Vessels make free goods, the Cargoes of Vessels captured by either Belligerent, when re-shipped in Neutral Vessels, will enjoy an exemption from capture which the Prize Vessels did not enjoy. 5th. During the time that Prize Vessels may remain in the Ports of The United States, they shall be subject to such inspection, and such superintendence, by the Custom House Officers, as may be necessary to prevent smuggling of any kind. The same rules are to be observed in relation to the public and private Armed Vessels of Spain and of the Independent Governments established in Spanish America, and their Prizes, when brought within the jurisdiction of The United States. I remain, with respect, your obedient Servant, WM. H. CRAWFORD. [1822-23.] 3 I |