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present time, the amount so disbursed would be nearly $3,000,000. 

 This sum has gone into the public Treasury, almost entire, with 

 the exception of the $10,000 expended on macademising Pennsyl- 

 vania avenue, and paving in front of, and enclosing its own property. 

 Sthly. Although Government has relieved the city, to some extent, 

 by taking off its hands the principal of the Holland debt, upon the 

 hypothecation of the stock subscribed by the Corporation in the 

 Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, to the amount of $1,000,000, which 

 stock Government now holds as security, still it evinced its confi- 

 dence in said investment by having taken a large amount previ_ 

 ously, and, at the time of receiving the transfer of the corporation 

 stock, was considered to have got at least an equivalent and good 

 security for the advance in question. It must also be borne in mind, 

 that the interest paid by the Washington city corporation, up to 

 the time of said transfer, must be considered as so much lost, as 

 also the interest paid on the money borrowed to pay that interest, 

 amounting to $700,000. 9thly. In addition to what Government 

 has received from the original proprietors, and the large extent of 

 ground it still holds for public purposes, as a free gift, and besides 

 the $800,000, proceeds of sales of the building lots given by their 

 owners for the improvement of the city, it has also accepted 

 $120,000 from Virginia, and $72,000 from Maryland; the money so 

 given, the sums collected since, and taxes remitted, &c., have all 

 been spent for the benefit of distant sections of the country, and 

 scarcely any portion of the proceeds has been disbursed for that of 

 this city. lOthly. The appropriations for public buildings and 

 learned and charitable institutions within the District, should not 

 be charged to the account of the city, for all these improvements 

 were for the accommodation of the public authorities, and therefore 

 of national concern ; and the philanthropic acts of Congress, for 

 the benefit of the nation at large, ought not to be made a burden 

 upon the District. 



My readers will and must conclude, from the simple enumeration 

 of the foregoing facts which are matters of statistical and historical 

 accuracy and truth, that upon the settlement of the account be- 

 tween the General Government and this District, a large balance 

 will be found due to the latter ; thus contradicting most clearly the 

 assertion of its enemies in Congress and out, who desire to place 

 its inhabitants in the attitude of mendicants and suitors for national 

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