Detailed statement of the Bank of Virginia, and its several Branches, January 1st, 1834. In this item is included domestic or inland bills of exchange, 20 92 83 21 $50,553 39 at Richmond, at Petersburg, 698,270 61 383,556 34 $1,081,826 95 The amount at other banks does not appear as the returns do not distinguish. Debt outstanding: Richmond, State of the Farmers' Bank of Virginia, and its several Branches, 1st January, 1834. 1,572,546 20 Richmond, Specie: 204,831 20 *Including $35,518 88 profit on bank stock sold Whole amount of bad and doubtful debts reported last year, Whole amount of surplus fund, after payment of the last dividend, Total of bad and doubtful debts to be provided for, 61,008 65 From which may be deducted whatever may be collected from the doubtful debts, and any gain by the destruction of notes in circulation, which may be fairly considered as equal to the balance of bad and doubtful debts. Debts contracted and unpaid between the 1st January, 1833, and 1st January, 1834, viz. Richmond, 875,312 04 Norfolk, 223,973 00 Petersburg, 413,272 68 Fredericksburg, 189,983 78 Lynchburg, 477,680 00 Danville, 336,251 00 Charleston, 112,610 12 Making a total of $2,629,082 62 All of which is good. Statement of bad and doubtful debts due the Farmers' Bank of Virginia, on the 1st January, 1834, and also the contingent fund: Contingent fund, including January, 1834, 159,488 39 287,556 18 15,608 50-175,096 89 $112,460 30 From which should be deducted whatever may be received, from debts. reported doubtful, and any gain by loss of notes in circulation. Amount of debts contracted at the Farmers' Bank of Virginia and its Branches, during the year 1833, and which remained unpaid on 1st January, 1834. Bank at Richmond, 965,387 13 496,180 23 357,122 26 176,163 62 96,047 00 $2,090,900 24 State of the Farmers' Bank of Virginia, including the branches 1st January, 1834. 2,000,000 00 1,817,608 00 128,188 15 1,225,373 54 $5,241,169 69 REMARKS. Arrangement pursued in the description of counties. We have now completed our "General Description of Virginia;" having presented in the first part a view of Natural Virginia, comprehending her Situation, Boundaries, Extent, Face of the Country, Mineralogy and Geology, Scenery and Natural Curiosities, Mountains, Bays, Harbours, Rivers, &c. and in the second, her Moral and Political Condition:under which head we included, Population, Religion, Government and Laws, Arms and Military Organization, Provisions for the Insane, Penitentiary, Internal Improvement, Manufactures, Agriculture, Commerce, and Fiscal Concerns. We now proceed to give a more detailed account of the same subjects, taking the State, County, by County, in alphabetical order, and giving the origin of the county, an accurate and generally minute account of its topography, and a detail of the number, occupation, &c. of its Citizens, and of each Town and Village. In order to present a more condensed and connected view, than would have been possible by taking the counties of the whole State at once into consideration, in the confused order which an alphabetical arrangement would present; and as that arrangement was absolutely necessary for covenience of reference, we have divided the State into Eastern and Western Virginia, at the Blue Ridge, and made an alphabetical arrangement of the counties of each portion separately. The Towns, Villages, Post Offices, &c. are arranged in Alphabetical order in the counties to which they respectively belong; the County Town, and other places of more than usual importance, being distinguished by a larger type. An Alphabetical Index of all the places mentioned, and general subjects treated of, is at the end of the volume. Under the head of EASTERN VIRGINIA, we will consider all of the counties east of the Blue Ridge. |