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On many of these objects the expense will annually be diminished and cease at no distant period on most of them. On the 1st of January, 1817, the public debt amounted to $123,491,965.16, and, notwithstanding the large sums which have been applied to these objects, it has been reduced since that period $37,446,961.78.
Life of Grotius prefixed to his works. Le Clerc, Hist. de Hollande, l. 12. t. 2. See the critical Remarks on Bayle's Dict. ed. 1734. Ep. 55. p. 18. Ep. 95. p. 41. Ep. 648. p. 952. Ep. 697. p. 965. Poemata, p. 217. Ep. 491. p. 896. VI. It was therefore on the tenth of April in the year 1583, that Grotius was born, at Delft.
In 1820 they produced a third; in 1830, a half; and by 1860, three-quarters of the cotton raised. At the same time, the population of the Alabama-Mississippi territory was: 200,000 in 1810. 445,000 in 1820. 965,000 in 1830. 1,377,000 in 1840. Thus thirty years saw an increase of nearly seven-fold in the population of this region. Meanwhile, slavery had become the issue of the day.
Of 115,986 families residing in the city of New York, only 15,990 are able to enjoy the luxury of an independent home; 14,362 other families live in comparative comfort, two in a house; 4,416 buildings contain three families each, and yet do not come under the head of tenements; and the 11,965 dwelling-houses which remain are the homes of 72,386 families, being an average of seven families, or thirty-five souls to each house!
In the sacristy is a fourteenth or fifteenth-century picture on a gold ground a figure of S. John the Baptist, with incidents from his life. It came from a church dedicated to him which was destroyed in 1839. Rovigno and the neighbourhood have suffered much from piracy. In 965 the Slavs sacked the city.
In 1895 the Maryland Experiment Station began field experiments with different forms of phosphorus; and, as an average of six tests every year for twelve years, $1.965 invested in ground raw rock phosphate produced increases in corn, wheat and hay that were worth $22.11, at 35 cents a bushel for corn, 70 cents for wheat, $6 a ton for hay, and 3 cents a pound for phosphorus in the ground natural phosphate.
According to the census of 1860: Slaves Kentucky had ........... 225,490 Maryland ............... 87,188 Virginia ............... 490,887 Delaware ............... 1,798 Missouri ............... 114,965 Tennessee .............. 275,784 Making in the whole .. 1,196,112 At the same rate of valuation these would amount to ......... $358,933,500
3,162 too young, 732 too old, 1,806 too short, 657 married, 2,434 could not speak English, 32 extremely ignorant, 1,965 intemperate, 106 of bad morals, 51 had been in armies from which they had deserted, Total, 10,945 All of these may have been in good health.
On many of these objects the expense will annually be diminished and cease at no distant period on most of them. On the 1st of January, 1817, the public debt amounted to $123,491,965.16, and, notwithstanding the large sums which have been applied to these objects, it has been reduced since that period $37,446,961.78.
It is estimated that $29,535,000 will be required for the payment of pensions for the next fiscal year, an amount $965,000 less than the estimate for the present year.
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