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Or, in round numbers, Fourteen millions of dollars, (allowing 68,170 dollars for arrears due, and other contingent receipts), which sum, I am convinced, that the country can only be prevented, by very great mismanagement, from producing.

Indeed, if Mr. Esteva's calculations can be depended upon, the Revenue has already very nearly equalled, my estimate for the year 1828.

The 11,514,619 dollars given in the preceding