TENTH CONGRESS--FIRST SESSION. Communicated to the House of Representatives March 8, 1808. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. March 3, 1808. _Sir_: In answer to your letter of the 1st instant, I have the honor to state: 1st. That the 5 per cent. reserved by the act of 30th April, 1802, on the net moneys received for public lands in the State of Ohio, sold since 1st July, 1802, has amounted to the following sums, viz: From 1st July, 1802, to 30th June, 1803 $ 6,220 00 From 1st July, 1803, to 30th June, 1804 8,810 17 From 1st July, 1804, to 30th June, 1805 13,994 30 From 1st July, 1805, to 30th June, 1806 31,442 20 From 1st July, 1806, to 30th June, 1807 28,827 92 From 1st July, 1807, to 31st December, 1807 (estimated) 15,000 00 ----------- $104,294 59 And that the said 5 per cent. will henceforth probably amount to $30,000 a year. 2d. That, of the $30,000 appropriated by act of 29th March, 1806, there has been expended, in laying out the Cumberland road from Cumberland to Brownsville, about $10,000 That there may be wanted to complete the location, about 5,000 ------- $15,000 3d. That contracts have been made for opening one-half of the breadth of said road, which, as verbally informed by one of the commissioners, will require about $3,000, leaving, probably, about $12,000 of the appropriation for the further improvement of the road. 4th. That the portion of the road actually located and confirmed, no part of which exceeds an angle of five degrees, extends from the navigable waters of the Potomac, at Cumberland, to the navigable waters of the Monongahela, at Brownsville (Red Stone Old Fort), and it is stated, though no official report has been made to me, at about seventy miles. 5th. That that road can be considered as a national object only if completed as a turnpike, whereby all the flour and other produce of the western adjacent countries may be brought to a market on the Atlantic shores; and the transportation of all the salt and other commodities and merchandise whatever, imported from the Atlantic ports to the western country generally, may be reduced probably one dollar per cwt. And, Lastly, that the expense of completing that part of the road in such manner, is estimated at $400,000. I have the honor to be, respectfully, sir, your obedient servant, ALBERT GALLATIN.