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[Senate 



some sections of our globe, salt constitutes the circulating medium. 

 It passes as money, and truly it may, for it has intrinsic value and 

 extrinsic beauty, for the brightest gem will not out shine the crystals 

 of the Solar Salt of Onondaga! 



The importance of the manufacture of salt from the mines of rock 

 salt, and from the waters of the saline springs in the United States, 

 as compared with the importation of salt from abroad, may be infer- 

 red from the following statement: 



I have received from the Hon. McClintock Young, acting Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury of the United States, a statement of the salt im- 

 ported into the United States from foreign places during a period of 

 ten years, from 1832 to 1841, both years inclusive, to which 1 have 

 appended the rate of duties, which is as follows: 



Imports and Rate of Duties. 



In 1832, '. 5,041,326, duty 10 cents. 



1833, 6,822,672, " 10 " 



1834, 6,058,076, " 9 " 4 



1835, 5,375,364, " 9 " 4 



1836, 5,088,666, " 8 " 8 



1837, 6,343,706, " 8 " 8 



1838, 7,103,147, " 8 " 2 



1839, 6,061,608, " 8 " 2 



1840, 8,183,203, " 7 " 6 



1841, 6,823,944, " 7 " 6 



The bushel is reckoned at fifty-six pounds, and the duty on the 



same quantity. 



The quantity of salt manufactured in the United States in 1840, as 



appears by the returns made by the persons employed to take the 



census of the United States, was as follows: 



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