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The balance in the Treasury on the 1st of Dec. 1849;
The balance in the Treasury on the 1st of Dec. 1850;

The amounts of arrears of interest funded, or aut horised to be
funded, under the act of 1846, ch. 238, which have been redeemed
since Dec. 1st, 1849, showing at what dates such amounts were
redeemed, and distinguishing between what was called in by pub
lic advertisement, and what was bought at private sale to be extin
guished;
The amount of funded arrears still unredeemed
The amount of funded arrears, if any, now standing to the
credit of the sinking fund
The gross amount of receipts into the Treasury, for the whole
year ending the 1st of Dec. 1850; the gross amount of receipts
from Dec. 1st, 1849, to April 1st, 1850, and the gross receipts for
the whole month of April 1850;
The amount of interest on the public debt payable at the loan
office of this State on the 1st of January 1851
The amount of interest on the public debt actually payable on
the 1st of April 1851, at the loan office and at London—giving
the two items separately, if any be payable at London;
The amount of interest on the public debt actually payable on
the 1st of July 1851, at the loan office and in London, giving he
two items separately, and not including the interest due on sterl
ing bonds held in trust for the sinking fund;
At what dates in the years 1849 and 1850, respectively, the
Treasurer remitted to the Commissioner of Loans funds to pur-
chase bills of exchange for the purpose of remitting to London,
the interest on the public debt, actually payable there on the first
day of July, of 1849 and 1850 respectively.
The amount of interest actually payable on the 1st day of April
1851, on account of the sterling bonds, if any, now held tn trust
for the sinking fund;
The amount of gross receipts which the Treasurer estimates,
will come into the Treasury in the whole of the fiscal year ending
December 1st, 1851, and the estimated expenditures of the same,
and the estimated receipts and expenditures from Dec. 1st, 1.850,
to April 1st, 1851, and also for the whole month of April 1851—
in each case exclusive of the expenses of this Convention;
The ordinary expenses of the State from the 1st of Dec. 1849
to the 1st of April 1850, exclusive of the expenses of the Legisla
ture, and exclusive of special appropriations made by the Legis~
lature, and same expenses for the whole month of April 1850;
The probable balance which would he in the Treasury on the
1st cf Jan. 1851, if all expenses of this Convention were excluded
from the account;
He is also requested to state, whether there is any reason to ap
prehend that there will be between the 1st of Dec. 1850, and the
1st of April 1S51, any serious falling off in the State's revenue,
as compared with the receipts during the same period in the two

 
 
 
 
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