Excerpt from Report From the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Finances: December 24, 1839 All these, and similar cons1derations in favor of some permanent provi sion on this subject, apply with still greater force than they have heretofore. The available balance in the Treasury to facilitate its operations, is much smaller than has formerly been usual. The receipts 011 the debts still due from banks, after two previous disappointments as to some of them, must be regarded with increased doubt, and if they should be paid within the coming year, the outstanding Treasury notes become redeemable in the first half of it, and must be discharged some months before the bond of the United States Bank falls-due in September. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.