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In 1809 $2,770 In 1813 $2,790 



1810 3,490 1814 3,350 



1811 4,095 1815 3,970 



The law of 1812 expired by its own limitation at the 

 end of 1815, and was not renewed.* The Council of 

 the- Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts reported 

 through their chairman, in 1815, that the liberal 

 bounties granted by the state, " in combination with 

 other circumstances," had "contributed to raise in 

 many respects, the fine cloths of America to a degree 

 of perfection equal to those manufactured in Europe."f 



State Manufactures. 



As a specimen of the manufacturing industry of 

 those days, I will present the following statistics, 

 compiled from the census of 1810. In that year the 

 following fabrics were manufactured'in New York : 



Yards. Value. 



Woolen goods made in families 3,257,812 $2,850,585 



Cotton do. do 216,013 69,124 



Flaxen do. do 5,372,645 2,014,741 



* I think the state defrayed no more money in premiums until the 

 establishment of the Board of Agriculture in 1819, and then it 

 divided 10,000 among the counties, to be paid out in various kinds of 

 agricultural, &c., premiums. 



j- The chairman of the council was E. 0. Genet, the famous minister 

 of republican France, who produced such a commotion during General 

 Washington's administration. He had settled down near Albany, in 

 this state, married a daughter of Gov. George Clinton, and was an op- 

 ulent and public-spirited citizen. The report has one or two charac- 

 teristic touches. It is not complimentary to the commercial restrictions 

 of the two last administrations, and has a sly stroke at the " Philoso- 

 phers!" It is decidedly severe on duties intended "to check the 

 importation of foreign manufactures" and " other disguised attempts 

 at monopoly I" ' 



