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Washington, 19th January, 1833.
I transmit to Congress a report from the Director of the Mint, exhibiting the operations of that institution during the year 1832.
ANDREW JACKSON.
To the Hon. the Speaker
Of the House of Reps. United States.
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Mint of the United States,
Philadelphia, January 15, 1833.
Sir: I have now the honor to submit a report on the general transactions of the Mint during the last year, ending 31st December.
The coinage effected within that period amounts to $3,401,055 60, comprising $798,435 in gold coins, $2,579,000 in silver, and $23,620 in copper, and consisting of 9,128,387 pieces of coin, viz.
| Half Eagles, | 157,487 | pieces, | making | $787,435 |
| Quarter Eagles, | 4,400 | do. | do. | 11,000 |
| Half Dollars, | 4,797,000 | do. | do. | 2,398,500 |
| Quarter Dollars, | 320,000 | do. | do. | 80,000 |
| Dimes, | 522,500 | do. | do. | 52,250 |
| Half Dimes, | 965,000 | do. | do. | 48,250 |
| Cents, | 2,362,000 | do. | do. | 23,620 |
| 9,128,387 | $3,401,055 |
Of the amount of gold coined within the past year, about $80,000 were derived from Mexico, South America, and the West Indies; $28,900 from Africa; $678,000 from the gold region of the United States; and about $12,000 from sources not ascertained.
Of the amount of gold of the United States, above mentioned, about $34,000 may be stated to have been received from Virginia; $458,000 from North Carolina; $45,000 from South Carolina; $140,000 from Georgia; and about $1,000 from Tennessee.
The following statement exhibits the quantity of gold received from those districts of the United States which have thus far produced it in quantities sufficient to attract notice, commencing with the year 1824. Up to that period it had been recived at the Mint only from North Carolina, fro which quarter gold was first transmitted for coinage in the year 1804. During the interval, however, from 1804 to 1823, inclusive, the amount had not exceeded $2,500 yearly.
| Virginia. | North Carolina. |
South Carolina. |
Georgia. | Tennessee. | Alabama. | Total. | |
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| 1824 | $ 5,000 | $ 5,000 | |||||
| 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 | $ 212,000 | 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 | |
| 86,500 | 1,199,000 | 96,500 | 528,000 | 2,000 | 1,000 | 1,913,000 |
It is renered highly probable, by estimates entitled to great respect, that the quantity of gold of the United States delivered at the Mint within the last year does not much exceed the one-half of the production from the mines - nearly an equal amount being supposed to have been exported uncoined, or employed in the arts. If this conjecture be nearly correct, the production of gold from the United States during the year has not been less than a million and a quarter of dollars. This may be regarded as equal to one-sixth part of all the gold produced within the same period, from the mines of Europe and America, estimated according to the results of recent years, as give by the best authorities.
The prevalence of a fearful epidemic in this and other cities of the United States was sensibly felt in a diminution of the usual demands on the Mint, and its productiveness within the third quarter of the year. In every department of the institution, labor was, during the prevalence of the danger, more lightly exacted; and it is stted, with much pleasure, that no individual employed in the establishment became a subject of the disease.
Operations, I have now the satisfaction to say, have been commenced in the new Mint for the proof of the machinery; and all the departments of the institution will be transferred in a few days to that edifice.
I have the honor to be, with great respect,
Your obedient servant,
SAMUEL MOORE.
The President of the United States.