MONTHLY MAGAZINE, 
No. 206.) 
DECEMBER 1, 1810. [5 of Vor. 30. 
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Influence and Celebrity, the mot extenfiyély circulated Mifcellany wil! repay with the greateht Bffect the 
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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
REPORT of the SECRETARY Of the TREA- 
sURY, on the SUBJECT Of AMERICAN 
MANUFACTURES, made April 17, 1810, 
in obedience to a Resolution of ihe 
HOUSE Of REPRESENTATIVES. 
(Concluded from page 301.) 
Paper and Priniing. 
OME foreign paper is still imported ; 
but the greater part of the con- 
sumption is of American. manufac- 
ture: and it is believed, that if suff- 
cient attention was every where paid 
to the preservation of rags, a quantity 
equal to the demand would be made in 
the United States. Paper-mills are 
erected in every partofthe Union. There 
are twenty-one in the states of New 
Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and 
Delaware, alone; and ten in only five 
counties of the states of New York and 
Maryland. Eleven of those mills employ 
a capital of two hundred thousand dol- 
Jars, and 180 workmen, and make an- 
nually 150,000 dollars-worth of paper. 
Printing is carried on to an extent 
commensurate with the demand. Ex- 
clusively of the numerous newspapers, 
which alone form a considerable item in 
value, all the books for which there is an 
adequate number of purchasers, are 
printed in the United States. But suf- 
ficient data have not been obtained to 
form an estimate of the annual aggre- 
gate value of the paper made, and of the 
printing and book-binding executed, in 
the United States, other than what may 
be inferred from the population. The 
manufactures of hanging-paper, and of. 
playing-cards, are also extensive; and 
that of printing types, of which there are 
two establishments, the principal at 
Philadelphia, and another at Baltimore, 
was fully adequate to the demand, but 
has lately been affected by the want of 
fegulus of antimony. 
_ Manufactures of Hemp.—The annual 
importations of foreign hemp amounted 
to 6.200 tons. But the interruption of 
commerce has greatly promoted the cul. 
Mration of that article in Massachusetts, 
Mownvuty Mae, No. 206, 
New York, Kentucky, and several) other 
places ; and it is believed, that a sufficient 
quantity will, in a short time, be pro- 
duced in the United States. 
The manufacture of ropes, cables, and 
cordage of every description, may be 
considered as equal to the demand; the 
exportations of American manufacture 
for 1806 and 1807, having exceeded the 
average of 6,500 quintals, and the impor= 
tations from foreign ports having falien 
short of 4,200 ditto, 
Exclusively of the rope-walks in all the 
-sea-ports, there are fifteen in Kentucky 
alone, which consume about one thou- 
sand tons of hemp a-year; and six new 
works were in a state of preparation for 
the present year. 
The manufactures of sail-educk, for- 
merly established in Rhode Island, in 
Connecticut, and at Salem, have been 
abandoned or suspended, partly on ac- 
count of the ,high price of hemp, and 
partly for want of capital. Some is still 
made; and the species of canvas, com- 
monly called cotton bagging, is now ma- 
nufactured in various places on an ex« 
tensive scale. An establishment at Phi. 
ladelphia employs eight looms, and can 
make annually 17,000 yards of duck, or 
45,000 yards of cotton bagging. There 
are thirteen manafactories in Kentucky, 
and two in West Tennessee. ‘The five 
at or near Lexington, make annually 
250,000 yards of duck and cotton hag~ 
ging. 
Spirituous and Malt Liguors.—The 
duty on licensed stills amounted in 4801 
to 372,000; and, on account of omissions, 
might be estimated at 450,000 dollars. 
As the duty actually paid on the spirits 
distilled mm those stills, did not on an 
average exceed five cents per gallon, the 
quantity of spirits distilled during that 
year from grain and fruit (exclusive of 
the large gin-distilleries in cities) must 
have amounted to about 9,000,000 of 
gallons, and may at present, the manus 
facturing having increased at least in the 
same ratio as the population, be estie 
mated at twelve millions of gallons, ‘lo 
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