hand, proportion of bills to specie, every fifth year from 1803 (forty-nine years) to 1851, inclusive, and the proportion of circulation and deposits to specie, from 1815 to 1851, etc.

TABLE EXHIBITING THE NUMBER OF BANKS IN MASSACHUSETTS, THE AMOUNT OF CAPITAL STOCK PAID IN, OF BILLS IN CIRCULATION, AND OF SPECIE ON HAND, SINCE 1815, as THE SAME APPEAR ON THE OFFICIAL RETURNS.

TABLE EXHIBITING THE NUMBER of banks IN MASSACHUSETTS, THEIR CAPITAL
IN CIRCULATION, SPECIE ON HAND, ETC., EVERY FIFTH YEAR, FROM 1803

SHOWN BY OFFICIAL RETURNS.

Specie.
$1,079,928 00
1,015,843 95
5,780,798 08

STOCK, BILLS
TO 1848, AS

Proportion of bills of paper to $1 of

specie. $1.44 9-10 1.02 1-10

Bills in
circulation.
$1,565,189 00
1,038,042 00

2,186,837 00

0.37 8-10

Years.

1815..

TABLE EXHIBITING THE CAPITAL OF THE BANKS OF MASSACHUSETTS, AND THE AMOUNT OF THEIR IMMEDIATE LIABILITIES, OR CIRCULATION AND DEPOSITS, AND THE SPECIE ON HAND IN EACH YEAR FROM 1815 TO 1851, INCLUSIVE.

Amount of
capital.
$11,287,500

$1.72 6-10

Bills in circulation
and deposits.
$5,685,502 00

Specie.
$3,277,884 00

Proportion of circulation & deposits to $1 of specie.

Average proportion of circulation and deposits since 1815, $7.27 86-100 to $1 of

specie.

FINANCES OF MASSACHUSETTS.

The subjoined summary of the financial condition of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is derived from Governor Boutwell's message to the Legislature, at the commencement of its session in January, 1852.

Excluding the balance in the Treasury on the first of January, 1851, the ordinary receipts of that year were $566,432 09, and the ordinary expenditures were $642,105 38, showing a deficit of $75,673 29. Among the items are three of an unusual character, namely the reception of the President, the Valuation Committee, and the enlargement of the State Prison; which, together, involved an expenditure of more than twenty-nine thousand dollars. In addition to this, the session of the Legislature of 1851 was of unusual length and cost. The estimated receipts for the year 1852 are $617,000, and the estimated expenditures are $568,291; showing a balance in favor of the Treasury of $48,709.

But of this balance not more than a million of dollars is available for governmental purposes.

CONDITION OF THE NEW ORLEANS BANKS, DECEMBER, 1851.

The following is a statement of the movement of the banks in New Orleans on the 25th December, 1851, from the official report of the Board of Currency of Louisiana, dated, New Orleans, January 1st, 1852:

CONDITION OF THE BANKS OF OHIO, NOVEMBER, 1851.

STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE SEVERAL BANKS IN THE STATE OF OHIO, TAKEN FROM RETURNS MADE TO THE AUDITOR OF STATE, ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, A. D. 1851.

Independent b'ks. 2,238,830 46 281,034 84 268,014 39 [1,308,562 01 4,661,214 35

State Branches.. 11,829,959 34 1957494 61 1145200 30 923,942 40 17,466,851 28

Total of all banks 17,882,695 21 2656179 61 1777516 71 2,232,504 41 27,594,415 36

Independent b'ks. 725,550 1,157,792 00 1,065,126 01 1,829,189 83

BRANCHES OF STATE BANK.

4,661,214 35

*No report has been received showing the condition of the City Bank of Columbus, this quarter.