REPORT

FROM

THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,

IN COMPLIANCE

With a resolution of the Senate, on the subject of the coinage, deposites for coinage, and expenses of the mint and branches during the year 1838.

March 1, 1839.

Read, and ordered to be printed.

Treasury Department,
February 23, 1839.

Sir: In reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 22d instant, upon the subject of the coinage, deposites for coinage, and expenses of the mint and branches, during the year 1838, I have the honor to enclose a statement prepared by the Register of the Treasury, showing the expenses, &c., of sustaining each establishment during that year.

The report of the director of the mint, communicated by the President to the Senate on the 18th ultimo, and to which I beg leave to refer, (Senate document No. 98,) contains, it is believed, all the other information asked for by the resolution.

I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

LEVI WOODBURY,
Secretary of the Treasury.

The Hon. the President of the Senate.

*Statement of the expense incurred in carrying on and in sustaining the mint and each branch for one year preceding the* 1st day of January, 1839.
Mint of the United States:
	Salaries of officers and clerks	$20,400
	Incidental and contingent expenses	8,100
	Expenses incident to the introduction of new machinery	10,000
				$38,500	00
Branch mint, Charlotte:
	Salaries of officers and clerks	7,000
	Compensation to laborers	3,600
	Wastage of gold and contingent expenses	5,400
				16,000	00
Branch mint, Dahlonega:
	Salaries of officers and clerks	8,750	00
	Compensation to laborers	3,000	00
	Wastage of gold and contingent expenses	3,550	00
				15,300	00
Branch mint, New Orleans:
	Salaries of officers and clerks	5,444	78
	Compensation to laborers:	20,555	22
	Wastage of gold and silver and contingent expenses	11,000	00
				37,000	00

				106,800	00

Note.–The above statement is founded on the amounts paid out of the Treasury in 1838, except the item for salaries of officers and clerks of the mint, and that sum is the amount appropriated for the year 1838.

Treasury Department,
Register’s Office, February 23, 1839.

T. L. SMITH, Register.

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