TAXES IN INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS, 1864.
In Senate, June 27—The bill passed the Senate without a division.
July 2—It passed the House without a division.
Many financial measures and propositions were rejected, and we shall not attempt to give the record on these. All that were passed and went into operation can be more readily understood by a glance at our Tabulated History, in Book VII., which gives a full view of the financial history and sets out all the loans and revenues. We ought not to close this review, however, without giving here a tabulated statement, from “McPherson’s History of the Great Rebellion,” of
The Confederate Debt.
December 31, 1862, the receipts of the Treasury from the commencement of the “Permanent Government,” (February 18, 1862,) were as follows:
| RECEIPTS. | |
|---|---|
| Patent fund | $13,920 00 |
| Customs | 668,566 00 |
| Miscellaneous | 2,291,812 00 |
| Repayments of disbursing officers | 3,839,263 00 |
| Interest on loans | 26,583 00 |
| Call loan certificates | 59,742,796 00 |
| One hundred million loan | 41,398,286 00 |
| Treasury notes | 215,554,885 00 |
| Interest bearing notes | 113,740,000 00 |
| War tax | 16,664,513 00 |
| Loan 28th of February, 1861 | 1,375,476 00 |
| Coin received from Bank of Louisiana | 2,539,799 00 |
| Total | $457,855,704 00 |
| Total debt up to December 31, 1862 | 556,105,100 00 |
| Estimated amount at that date necessary to support the Government to July, 1868, was | 357,929,229 00 |
Up to December 31, 1862, the issues of the Treasury were:
| Notes | $440,678,510 00 |
| Redeemed | 30,193,479 50 |
| Outstanding | $410,485,030 50 |
From January 1, 1863, to September 30, 1863, the receipts of the Treasury were: