it is believed tisat the efficiency of the establishment may be much increased. Heretofore the milling and coining have been done exclusively by human labor. New machines are nearly completed by which these operations will be executed with steam power. The humid assay for silver has been successfully introduced, and new arrangements for the assay by fire are about to be cominenced. Amount of Gold received annually from the Gold Region of the United States, from 1824 to 1835, inclusive. 1824 $5,600 1825 17,000 17,000 1826 20,000 20,000 1827 21,000 21,000 1828 46,000 46,000 1829 $2,500 134,000 $3,500 140,000 1830 24,000 204,000! 26,000 8212,000 466,000 1831 26,000 294,000 22,000 176,000 $1,000 $1,000 520,000 1832 34,000 458,000 45,000 140,000 1,000 678,000 1833 | 104,000 475,000 66,000 216,000 7,000 868,000 1834 62,000 380,000 38,000 415,000 3,000 898,000 1 835 60,400 263,500 42,400 319,900 100 12,200 698,500 312,900 2,317,500 242,900 1,478,900 12,100 1,000 12,200 4,377,500 An ACT to Establish Branches of the Mint of the United States. SEC. 1. Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That branches of the mint of the United States shall be established as follows: one branch at the city of New Orleans for the coinage of gold and silver; one bianch at the town of Charlotte, in Mecklinburg county, in the State of North Carolina, for the coinage of gold only; and one branch at or near Danlohuega, in Lumpkin county, in the State of Georgia, also for the coinage of gold only. And for the purpose of purchasing sites, erecting suitable buildings, and completing the necessary combinations of machinery for the several branches aforesaid, the following sums, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, shall be, and hereby are, appropriated : for the branch at New Orleans the sum of two hundred thousand dollars; for the branch at Charlotte, fifty thousand dollars ; for the branch at Dahlohnega, fifty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further ènacled, That, so soon as the necessary buildings are erected for the purpose of well conducting the business of each of the said branches, the following officers shall be appointed upon the nomination of the President, and with the advice and consent of the Senate: one superintendent, one treasurer, one assayer, ove chief coiner, one melter, and one refiver. And the superintendent of each mint shall engage and employ as many clerks and as many subordinate workmen and servants as shall be provided for by law, and the salaries of the said officers and clerks shall be as follows: For the branch at New Orleans, to the superintendent, the sun of Iwo thousand five hundred dollars; to the treasurer, the sum of two thousand dollars ; to the chief coiner, the sum of two thousand dollars ; to the assayer, melter, and refiner, the sum of two thousand dollars each; to iwo clerks, the sum of twelve hundred dollars each; to the subordinate workmen, and servants, not exceeding twenty in `number, such wages and allowances as are customary and reasonable, according to their respective stations and occupations. For the branches ar Charlotte and Dablohnega, to the superintendents, each the sum of two thousand dollars ; who shall respectively discharge the duty of treasurers ; to the chief coiners, each the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars; to the assayers, melters, and refiners, each the sum of one thousand five hundred | collars; to the clerks, not exceeding one at each branch, the sum of one thousand dollars ; and to the subordinate workmen and servants, not exceeding the number of five at each of the said branches, such wages and allowances shall be paid as are customary and reasonable, according to their respective stations and occupations. And for the purpose of paying the said salaries, wages, allowances, and the incidental expenses of the said branches of the mint, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, the following sums, to be paid out of any money in the Trea sury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby are, appropriated : for the branch at New Orleans, the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars; for the branches at Charlotte and Dahlohnega, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars each. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the officers and clerks to be appointed under this act, hesore entering upon the duties thereof, shall take an oath or affirmation before some Juilge of the United States, faithfully and diligently to perform the duties thereof; and shall each become bound to the United States of America, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the Director of the miut and the Secretary of the Treasury, with condition for the faithful and diligent performance of the duties of their offices. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, that the general direction of the business of the said branches of ihe mint of the United States shall be under the control and regulation of the Director of the inint at Philadelphia, subject to the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury; and for that purpose, it shall be the duty of the said Director to prescribe such regulations, and require such returns, periodically, and occasionally, as shall appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect ine intention of this act in establishing the said branches ; also, for the purpose of discriminating the coin which shall be stamped at each branch, and at the mint itself; also for the purpose of preserving uniformity of weight, form, and fineness in the coins stamped at each place ; and for thai purpose, to require the transmission and delivery to him, at the mint, from time to time, such parcels of the coinage of each branch as he shall think proper to be subjected in such assays and tests as he shall direct. Sec 5 And be it further enacted, That all the laws, and parts of lawe, made for the regulation of the mint of the United States, and for the government of the officers and persons employed therein, and for the punishment of all offences connected with the mint or coivage of the Uni. ted States, shall be, and the same are hereby, declared to be in full force, in relation to each of the branches of the nint by this act established, so far as the same shall be applicable thereto. (Approred, March 3, 1335.) BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. List of the Presidents, Cashiers, and Directors of the Bank of the United States, and ils Branches, in Office on ihe 30th day of September, 1835. Directors of the Bank of the Richard Willing...........Director. United States. Joshua Lippincott................do.. Henry Pratt....... ..........do.. Nicholas Biddle..... ..President. Robt. Lenox, of N. York......do.. John Sergeant....... Director. Chas. A. Davis....do..........do.. James C. Fisher... .........do.. Roswell L. Colt, of Mary'd....do.. Charles Chauncey.. ..............do.. James Swan......do...........do.. Matthew Newkirk... ..........do.. Jas. R. Pringle, of S. Car.....do.. Lawrence Lewis................do..! Daniel W. Coxe................do.. Directors appointed by the President. John Bohlen....................do.. John R. Neff........ ....................do.. Charles Macalester.... ..Director. William Platt.................. ........do.. Cheney Hickman...............do.. Alexander. Henry.. .........do.. Edward D. Ingraham............. M. L. Bevan ....... .....do.. Samuel Jaudon...........Cashier. BRANCH BANKS. Procidence. Joshua Wingate .......... President. Philip Allen......... President. Marshall French... ...........Director. Jefferson Borden........... Director. Noah Hinckley..... ................do.. Samuel Arnold.... ...........do.. Joseph Adams....... ...........do.. Wm. Blodget............ ......do.. Joho Purinton....... .do.. John Farnum.......... ...do.. John Dunlap........ ......do.. John Slater............ ....do.. Luther Jewitt...... ...do.. Charles Potter........... ..do.. William Oxnard.... .....do.. Isaac Brown...... ...do.. T. A. Alexanderrone Cashier. Trueman Beckwith... ......do.. N. Waterman, Jr..........Cashier. New York. Director. Isaac Lawrence.......... President. ..do.. John Parker.... do.. Isa ac S. Hone...... ..do.. J. K. Mills......... do.. John Rathbone, Jr..... ...do.. Daniel P. Parker...............do.. Samuel F. Mott.... ....do.. Horace-Gray....... ...do.. James Boorman................do.. Jobn Hooper....................do.. Andrew Foster., .................do.. S. Frothingham..... ..........Cashier. M. Robinson ................Cashier. ..do.. ..... President. ........ Baltimore. John N, Tazewell..........Director. Christopher Fry...............do.. John McKim, Jr..........President. H. Allmand, Jr.................do.. Thomas Wilson v. ......... Director. G. B. Cooke....................do.. F. W. Brune.............. ........do.. John Allmand...................do.. Robert Gilmor................do.. Robert Soulter.................do.. Samuel W. Smithó...... ..do.. Robert B. Butt................do.. James Beatty..... .do.. Joseph L. Roberts ..........Cashier: Samuel McDonald. ...do.. Robert A. Taylor...... ...do.. Fayelleville. Solomon Betis........... Samuel Hoffman..... ...do.. John Huske...... William Riggin................do.. James H. Hooper.......... Director. Joho White................Cashier. Thomas Č. Blake..............doi. Charles P. Mallett.............. ....do.. Washington. Beverly Daniel Raleigh........do.. ......do.. Samuel H. Smith.ii.... President. John Kelly....... ........do.. Thonias W. Pairo.........Director. Lewis Brown................... ......do.. William S. Nicholls..... ...do.. Duncan McNeill.. .........do.. William C. Gardner.... ...do,.J. W. Sandford......... .Cashier. William Laird.... .do.. Darius Claggett. do.. Charleston William H. Miller ....i.do.. John Rodgers..... .............i.do.. Joseph Johnston.......... President. Thomas Swann..................do.. John Frazer...............Director. Raphael Semmes................do.. H. A. Dessa ussure...............do.. Richard Smith.... ............Cashier. R, Carnochan..................do.. James Adger ..... ...................do.. Richmond. Simon Magwood..............do.. J. E. Bonueau..................do.. Richard Anderson ........ President. J. A. Winthrop..................do.. Edwin Robinson.......... Director. Samuel Patterson.......6 ....do.. James Gibbon.......... .do.. John Lewis.i..... ....do.. Savannah. ...do.. John Cumming............President. Lewis Webb..oo.ig................ ..do.. John M. Berrien........... Director. J. Robertson................Cashier. George Jones................... ....do.. ..doi. S. H. Fay........ ..do.. John Tabb............. .President. R. L. Taylor..... ..do.. Wm. H. Thompson....... .. Director. Wm. P. Hunter.. ...do.. Wm. G. Camp...... .........do.. Jaines Potter..... ....do., Isaac Talbot...... ...do.. Robert Habersham.............do.. Arthur Emmerson......... .....do.. Wm. Thorne Williams.........do.. Joseph H. Burroughs.......Director. St. Louis, Austin R. Gordin..............do.. John O'Fallen............ Presideut. J. Hunter.............. Cashier. George Collier............. Director. Archibald Gamble...............do.. ..........do.. P. McLoskey...... President. P. Choutinn, Jr................do.. H. Hitchcock..............Director. Jesse G Lindell.. ....do.. George W. Owen................do.. William Glasgow... ....do.. Edward Martineau............do.. Daniel D. Page.... ..do.. Thomas M. English.. ........do.. Michael Tesser... .................do.. Martin Durand.... ...do.. Hezekiah King..................do.. S. Stebbens.......... ..do.. Charles Mulliken...............do.. Lewis Judson...... .do.. H. S Coxe..................Cashier. William Crothers... do.. Alexander Pope. do.. Nashville. Edward Hall.................... ....do.. Thomas H. Fletcher...... President. Calvin Norris....... ...............do.. Henry M. Rutledge. Director, Charles Dillinger........... Director. James P. Clark.. ....do.. George Poe, Jr........ Cashier. Jacob McGavock. ..do.. John Shelby.....................do.. Nero Orleans. Thomas Washington ............do.. Foster G. Crutcher.............do.. Thomas Urquhart........ President. Robert Farquharson ............do.. John B. Byrne.............Director. George Wilson..................do.. James Calles....... ..........do.. Joseph B. Knowles.............do.. James Ramsay.. .....................do.. Andrew Erwin, Jr..............do.. J. U. La ville beurre...............do.. Joseph P. Brown................do.. Wm. A. Gasquet................do.. J. Sommerville ..............Cashier. George P. Bowers......... ...do.. George M. Lee..... ....do.. Cincinnati. Charles A. Jacobs...... ...do.. James Reynolds..........President. H.S. Buckner....... .do.. Thomas W. Bakewell.....Director. Jonathan Montgomery. ....do.. ................do.. James Saul.......... ....do.. Daniel H. Horne..... ...do.. N. N. Wilkinson................do.. Archibald Irwin...... ..do.. Natchez, W. G. Pendleton.... ..do.. Samuel E. Foote..... ....do.. L. B. Marshall...... .President. P. Benson....... Cashier. John N. Helm..... ..Director Benjamin Wade................. ...do.. Pilisburg. J. T. McMurran.... do.. A. Brackenridge.. .President. David Hunt....... ......do.. John Little...... Director Aglett Buckner...... ..........do.. James Park.....................do.. D. C. Mitchie.... P.....................do.. Thomas Bakewell.. loc............do.. J. P. Walworth................do.. Benj. Darlington................do.. Wm. St. John Elliott..........do.. Abishai Way.... .......................do.. Elias Ogden......... ..............do.. Wm. Holmes...................doi. Daniel C. Miller................do.. Samuel Thompson..............do.. John F. Gillespie..............10.. John D. Davis..................do.. Benjamin F. Young.............do.. James Thompson...............do.. T. Henderson....... .......do.. J. Thaw..... ...Cashier. ............ |