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count of the several manufacturing establishments and 
manufactures within their several districts, territories, and 
divisions. It was directed that the whole of the infor- 
mation so collected should be returned to the secretary of 
the treasury. It was enacted too that for such addition- 
al services, suitable compensation should hereafter be 
made by law. The money appropriated for counting 
the inhabitants and registering their manufactures, was 
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which is under- 
stood to have been more than enough to defray the whole 
cost. 
Agreeably to the request of the committee of commerce 
and manufactures, I have paid some attention to the re- 
turns made by the marshalls on the state of manufactures 
in our country. They abound with information ; though 
some of them are executed with greatly more care and 
exactness than others. Massachusetts appears to have 
been done with remarkable correctness and method, by 
counties and towns. The partial accounts are followed 
by a general recapitulation ; and the whole is an example 
of order and perspicuity exceedingly creditable to Mr. 
Prince. South Carolina, on the contrary, is an example 
of carelessness beyond any of the returns. It is deficient 
in many important respects; and seems to have been 
sent away in such a hurry, that the columns of figures 
are not added together into an aggregate sum at the 
foot. 
The information collected in the other states, evinces 
intermediate degrees of observation and accuracy. Yet 
it ought to be mentioned of New -Jersey, a state famous 
for industry and manufactures, that the county abstracts 
only are forwarded, without any summary whatever of 
the whole. To render the statement instructive, the rea- 
der must bestow the labour of forming the general con- 
clusion; and in attempting this, he will discover fre- 
