14 19 21 21 19 20 21
Oregon . . . . . . . . . 1859 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 1 1
Pennsylvania . . . . . . ---- 8 13 18 23 26 28 24 25 24 27 28
Rhode Island . . . . . . ---- 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
South Carolina . . . . . ---- 5 6 8 9 9 9 7 6 4 5 7
Tennessee . . . . . . . 1796 . . . . 3 6 9 13 11 10 8 10 10
Texas . . . . . . . . . 1845 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 6 11
Vermont . . . . . . . . 1791 . . 2 4 6 5 5 4 3 3 3 2
Virgina . . . . . . . . ---- 10 19 23 23 22 21 15 13 11 9 10
West Virginia . . . . . 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4
Wisconsin . . . . . . . 1848 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 8 8 9

65 105 141 181 213 240 223 237 293 293 325

APPENDIX C.

PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1791-1883.

Statement of the Outstanding Principal of the Public Debt of the United
States on the 1st of January of each Year from 1791 to 1842 inclusive;
and on the 1st of July of each Year from 1843 to 1883 inclusive.

The amount given for the year 1791 represents the debt of the Revolution
under the Funding Bill of Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury.
The debt had decreased to a considerable extent by the year 1812. In
consequence of the war with Great Britain, which began that year, there
was a rapid increase, the maximum being reached in 1816. Thenceforward,
with the exception of the years 1822, 1823, and 1824,--a period of
extreme financial depression,--the debt was steadily decreased, until
in the year 1835, under the Presidency of General Jackson, it was
extinguished,--the total amount outstanding being only $37,000 in bonds
which were not presented for payment. The creation of a new debt