Total ..... $27,168,260 $21,764,370 $19,862,602 From the foregoing it will appear that the incorporated banks are en titled to have in circulation.... $21,764,370 And that they have in actual circulation and on hand.. 19,862,602 Leaving their circulating notes less than the amount they are entitled to $1,901,768 Banks. 1. 1. 10. The following table shows the number of banks whose charters will expire in each year from the 1st of January, 1852, to the 1st of January 1866, both inclusive; the amount of their respective capitals, (including State stock and canal revenue certificates,) the amount they are entitled to circulate, and the amount in actual circulation and on hand on the 1st December, 1851: Entitled to Capital. $100,000 Circulation. 720,000 5. 1st 1854. 2,300,000 204,000 66 1855 150,000 2. 1st July, 1855. 2 & 1 branch 1st January, 1856. 5 1st 66 1857.. 2d Tuesday in June, 1859 3 1st January, 1860.... 1. 1st June, 1861..... a Under act of 12th April, 1848, upon deposit of State stocks. 1849, upon deposit of canal revenue certificates. e Under act of 12th April, 1848, upon deposit e Under of State stocks. d Under act of 12th March, 1849, upon deposit of State stocks. ct of 12th March, 1849, upon deposit of canal revenue certificates. Total.... $27,168,260 $21,764,370 $19,862,602 The kinds and amounts of stocks held on the 1st December, 1851, for certain incorporated banks in trust to redeem circulating notes under the several acts mentioned below, are as follows: interest. Per c't. 5 66 12,000 $22,000 3,000 $61,400 Bank of Orange Co... 66 Seneca Co. Bank..... Canal rev'ue certificates 6 The following table shows the amount of circulating notes issued to seven safetyfund banks, (and not returned,) the charters of which have expired, and the date of the expiration of their respective charters. The aggregate amount of circulating notes issued to said banks and outstanding on the 1st day of December, 1851, was 1,555,507. A majority of the stockholders of six of these banks have formed associations under the provisions of chapter 313, Laws of 1849, and are transacting business under the provisions of that act : TABLE SHOWING THE TIME WHEN THE CHARTERS OF SUNDRY INCORPORATED BANKS EXPIRED, AND THE AMOUNT OF THEIR CIRCULATING NOTES OUTSTANDING AND NOT RETURNED TO THE BANK DEPARTMENT ON THE 1ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1851. Dr. THOMAS H. BUCKLER, who was for several years physician to the Baltimore Almshouse, has recently published a History of Epidemic Cholera. He says:— Since the pressure of 1837, the banks in many of the States have issued several millions of one, two, and three dollar notes, the effect of which has been to drive silver out of circulation. The inmate of a smallpox hospital generally keeps what money he may chance to have about his person. If he wants a lemon, he sends a note saturated with the poison, and having perhaps the very sea-sick odor of the smallpox, to a confectioner, who takes it of course. On leaving the hospital, the convalescent from the loathsome disease pays some twelve or fifteen dollars board. Provisions are wanted for the other patients; and the notes are sent to market, where they are taken by town and country people, and may pass through twenty different hands in a single day. It would be impossible to conceive of any better mode of distributing the poison of a disease known to be so very contagious and infectious. It could hardly be worse if so many rags were distributed from the clothing of small-pox patients. GOLD DUST SHIPPED FROM SAN FRANCISCO. STATEMENT OF GOLD DUST MANIFESTED AND SHIPPED FROM THE PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO, DURING THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1851, AS FURNISHED BY ADAMS & CO. A TABLE SHOWING THE SHIPMENTS IN EACH MONTH OF 1851, AS ABOVE. The San Francisco Picayune publishes the following statement of gold dust manifested and shipped from that port, during the year ending December 31, 1851, which swells the amount to $39,627,307. We subjoin the statement of the Picayune, which purports to be taken from the Custom-house records : The difference is large, over five millions of dollars, but is easily accounted for from the known fact that the steamers are invariably cleared before the precise amount of treasure can by any possibility be known. STATEMENT OF COIN MANIFESTED AND SHIPPED FROM THE PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO, DURING THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1851, AS COMPILED BY E. ZABRISKA. The above amount ($468,895) was distributed as follows:-To Hong Kong, $212,565; to Canton, $81,212; to Shanghae, $102,000; to Manilla, $43,766; to Honolulu, $16,000; to Valparaiso, $5,352; to ports in the Pacific, $8,000. CONDITION OF THE NEW ORLEANS BANKS FEBRUARY 28, 1852. The following is a statement of the condition of the banks in New Orleans on the 28th of February, 1852, as stated officially by Charles Gayarre, Secretary of State, and George McWhorter, State Treasurer: The dividends and capital of the Boston, New York, and Philadelphia banks, for the year 1851, have been, according to a statement in the Bank Note Reporter, comparatively as follows: Boston..... Average Capital. 28,051,450 Dividends. $1,744,375 2,510,566 Per cent. 7.68 9.93 9.67 Philadelphia. 747,500 The dividends in New York are on the working capital for the year. There are in New York ten banks, with nearly $7,000,000 of capital, which have been in operation but a few months, and have not yet declared full dividends. In Boston the increase of capital has been more rapid, and has, therefore, affected the average of dividends. Comparatively, the capitals and average dividends in Boston and New York have been as follows: The capital now in operation in New York is $84,603,100, and the amount and competition will probably affect materially the dividends for 1851. |