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Reports and Resolutions, December Session, 1829. 1829 1 (1829)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0222 and id is 1 raw text is: REPORTS AND RESOLUTIONS. DECEMBER SESSION, 1829. To the Honorable the Legislature of South Carolina. The Comptroller-Gencral, in compliance with the laws regulating his department, begs leave to submit the usual annual RE1ORT, viz: 1st. Of luconw and 6xpenditure. On the 1st day of October, I 828, there remained in the Treasury, the sun of T 118,317 51, and toin that tine up to the 30th September, 1829, there has been received at the Treasury, the sum of S 328,072 28, which two stuns taken together, make $446,589 79. The total disbursements of the Treasury for the fiscal year ending on the 30th Septenber, 1829, have been S31 i,370 12; consequently, the balance remaining in the Treasury on the day last mentioned is 131,219 67. This sum is larger than the corresponding balance of the preceding year, and if the present rate of taxes is permitfed to remain unchanged, it will be much increased for the next year, as the drafts for internal improvement have nearly clo- sed, and the demands on the Treasury fiom this source, will cease. In relation to the debts due by individuals to the state, all due exertions are making to bring them to a close, but as new accounts are continually forming, it will require constant and vigilant attention on the part of the state officers to prevent their accumulation. The demand against Mr. Shultz remains in a situation exceedingly embarrassing to the fiscal of- ficers, and it is respectfully presented to the attention of the legislature, in order that some instruction may be given as to its final disposition. 2nd. Claims against the Unhited Slates. The attention of the legislature was respectfully called to the condition of this demand in the report of the last year; but owing to, I know not what reasons, no notice was taken of it by the committee. It is now brought forward again and presented for consideration, in order that a subject ofso much interest to the finances of the state, may receive such direction as will bring it to a speedy close. I will not here pretend ei- ther to enter into the merits or history of this demand, but beg leave to re- fer to the reports of the two last years for information on these points, and will content nyself, at present, with a very few remarks. In addi- tion to the accounts heretofore presented, I have originated a demand for interest on the advances made by the state to the service of the United States; and am satisfied from claims of this sort, which have been paid to other states, that it will not be rejected in our case. So far as I can judge from what congress has already done, and from the opinion of those most conversant with matters of this kind, I feel conscious that the interest, now aniounting to more than 100,000 dolis will, with the other items of demand, be paid if properly prosecuted. The present time appears as propitious a period for pressing the matter, as will be presented for years. The administration, and more particularly the President, will evidently be disposed to do us every justice, and from the present congress, we have much to hope. The great difliculty with matters of this kind in congress is to get a dis- Passionate hearing, owing to themany other questions of more interest to - 1

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