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In 1809..........00. $2,770 In1813...........0.. 29.790 
1810... 0.cce. eee 3490 1814... ......000. 3,350 
USLl..v. eee eee eee 4,095 I815......... 000, 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.” + 
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. vee. waeeeee 216,013 69,124 
Flaxen do. (or 5,372,645 2,014,741 
* [ 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. 
+ The chairman of the council was E. C. 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 !” 
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