Extinction of the National Debt
The Treasury Report, announces the important facts that the National Debt Of the United States which at one time amounted to more than $127,00,000, will be totally Extinguished on the first of next month. This fact is not only gratifying in itself, but affords A practical illustration of immense resources of the country. For it is to be observed that these $127,000,000 have been paid off in the course of 19 years, by the regular operation of our financial and revenue system, without the imposition of direct taxes, (except for a very short period)- Maine 689,028
- New Hampshire 464,587
- Massachusetts 1,052,953
- Rhode Island 167,659
- Connecticut 513,472
- Vermont 484,133
- New York 3,309,503
- New Jersey 551,865
- Pennsylvania 2,325,424
- Delaware 130,120
- Maryland 700,079
- Virginia 1,765,554
- North Carolina 1,103,563
- South Carolina 784,918
- Georgia 741,423
- Kentucky 1,072,660
- Tennessee 1,78,578 (sic)
- Ohio 1,845,244
- Louisiana 363,733
- Indiana 917,213
- Illinois 754,888
- Missouri 399,326
- Mississippi 978,770
- Alabama 994,766
How Maine Towns Divided the Surplus
- Maine 1837 Census Directory
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| 1st of Jan | President | ||
| 1784 | Washington | pop was 3,000,000 | |
| 1791 | $75,463,476.52 | ||
| 1792 | 77,227,924.66 | ||
| 1793 | 80,352,634.04 | ||
| 1794 | 78,427,404.77 | ||
| 1795 | 80,747,587.39 | ||
| 1796 | 83,762,172.07 | ||
| 1797 | 82,064,479.33 | ||
| 1798 | 79,228,529.42 | John Adams | |
| 1799 | 78,408,669.77 | ||
| 1800 | 82,976,294.35 | ||
| 1801 | 83,038,050.80 | ||
| 1802 | 80,712,632.25 | Jefferson | |
| 1803 | 77,054,686.30 | Louisiana Purchase | |
| 1804 | 86,427,120.88 | ||
| 1805 | 82,312,150.50 | ||
| 1806 | 75,623,270.66 | ||
| 1807 | 69,218,398.64 | ||
| 1808 | 65,196,317.97 | ||
| 1810 | 53,173,217.52 | Madison | |
| 1811 | 48,605,507.76 | National Road Begun | |
| 1812 | 45,209,337.90 | War of 1812 Started | |
| 1813 | 55,962,827.57 | ||
| 1814 | 81,487,346.52 | War of 1812 Ended | |
| 1815 | 99,833,660.15 | ||
| 1816 | 127,334,933.74 | The year with no Summer | |
| 1817 | 123,491,965.16 | ||
| 1818 | 104,466,633.83 | Monroe | |
| 1819 | 95,529,648.28 | Pop was 9,000,000 | |
| 1820 | 91,025,500.15 | Missouri & Maine & 1st steam engine | |
| 1821 | 89,957,127.66 | ||
| 1822 | 93,516,675.98 | ||
| 1823 | 90,875,877.22 | Monroe Doctrine | |
| 1824 | 90,259,777.77 | ||
| 1825 | 83,788,432.71 | Erie Canal | |
| 1826 | 81,054,059.99 | John Q. Adams | |
| 1827 | 73,957,357.20 | ||
| 1828 | 67,475,043.87 | ||
| 1829 | 58,424,413.67 | ||
| 1830 | 48,580,534.22 | Andrew Jackson | |
| 1831 | 39,082,461.88 | ||
| 1832 | 24,282,879.24 | SC threaten secession over tariff | |
| 1833 | 7,001,698.83 | ||
| 1834 | 4,722,260.29 | reaper patent | |
| 1835 | 0,000,000.00 | ||
Only nine years ago, our National Debt was $81,000,00. 1816 the interest alone amounted to $7,157,500.42. In 1826, to almost $4,000,00. Since the beginning of that year, we have paid off, including interest, very nearly a hundred millions of dollars, over and above our current expenses, Almost without feeling it. [New York Journal of Commerce]
From the Maine Farmer issue 13 May 1836
Mr. Clay's Land Bill.
The Land Bill, so called, recently passed the Senate of the United States, gives the following Amount to which each State will be entitled, The Bill Proposes the division of twenty million five Hundred seventy-one thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents, on hand at the time from which the Bill is to take effect. It will give to Maine, immediately, nearly seven hundred thousand dollars, and an annual average of about three and fifty thousand dollars.
Share of Each State