returns have been received, are given. The titles, Commerce and Navigation, and Revenue and Expenditure, published each year in the Almanac, are complete abstracts of the public documents of the same name, and the tables connected therewith, and, with the Post-Office and Mint, show the receipts and expenditures of the government under their several heads, the public debt, the imports, exports, and tonnage, the operations of the PostOffice Department, and the coinage of the Mint for each year since the adoption of the Federal Constitution. The exports for the last four years are given in detail. The rates of postage are under the new laws, — and these, with the inland and foreign mail service, are believed to be complete and correct. The Census of Great Britain and Ireland is from the official documents, and can be relied on as sufficiently exact for all practical purposes. It was hoped that the seventh census of the United States could be given, but it has been impossible to procure other returns than those published in this volume. The Titles and Abstracts of the Public Laws and Joint Resolutions have been carefully prepared, and are sufficiently full, except for professional use. The tabular view of the railroads in the country is continued from the last volume; and the comparative view of the debts, property, and general financial condition of all the States has been corrected with great care from the latest official returns. The information concerning the Individual States is more full than in former years. It is believed that nowhere else can be found such full details respecting the Executive and Judiciary, the finances, schools, charitable institutions, and pauperism and crime, of the several States. Should any one note inaccuracies or deficiencies therein, he is urgently requested to correct them. The European part of the work is somewhat extended, and is correct so far as it goes. The Obituary Notices and Chronicle of Events have been prepared with care. The thanks of the Editor are particularly due to the heads of Department at Washington, and to his many contributors and correspondents, to whom the work is indebted for a great part of its value. A continuance of their favors is respectfully solicited. A work embracing such a multitude of facts must necessarily contain some errors; persons who detect any are earnestly requested to communicate them to the Editor. It is particularly desirable that these communications should not be anonymous. It is frequently a source of regret to the Editor that he cannot suitably acknowledge the valuable hints and assistance of anonymous correspondents. It is a matter of some public interest, that a periodical which circulates so widely, both in Europe and America, and which is so universally trusted as a manual for reference, should be rendered as accurate as possible; and this end can be obtained only by the coöperation of many individuals. Communications should be addressed to the "Editor of the American Almanac," Boston. Boston, Mass., Sept. 30, 1851. 11. Maryland,. 1. Maine. 2. New Hampshire,. 3. Vermont, ... 4. Massachusetts, 5. Rhode Island, 7. New York,.. INDIVIDUAL STATES. 227 19. Louisiana, 229 20. Texas,. ................................ ......... 233 21. Arkansas,................. 6. Connecticut, ....................................... 245 24. Ohio, 8. New Jersey, •••••••••• 9. Pennsylvania, 10. Delaware,........................ 262 28. Missouri, .............. 292 285 289 291 292 295 301 302 307 ...... 309 12. Virginia,. 13. North Carolina, • 263 29. Iowa, 311 313 315 14. South Carolina, ............................................. 272 32. Oregon Territory,. 15. Georgia,.................. 16. Florida, 275 33. Minesota Territory,................ 318 276 34. Utah Territory.. 318 278 35. New Mexico Territory,............ 319 18. Mississippi, .. ..... 317 AMERICAN STATES. Governments of North America,........ 319 | Governments of South America,........ 320 West Indian Governments, 130 Elections, contested, Evidence in, Act con- 48 3 322 344 347 ... 145 Barometrical Observations...........91-102 Executive Government of U. S........... 105 Brazil. Cabinet, Officers in the Calendar: January, &c.............. 10-33 Exports to Foreign Countries ........... 176 California Gold..... .... 181 California Land Claims, Commission to Festivals of the Church adjust,...... 5 108 Finances of the States................. Act concerning 200 Franking Privilege .................... 163 209 275 Connecticut Corrections and Additions.. 170 302 302 8 Interior, Department of the. Countries whence Goods are brought.... 176 Intercourse with Foreign Nations....... 133 ... Debt of the United States.......... 181-189 Iowa. Debts of the States Delaware.... Denmark, Ministry. .......... ..... 108 210, 211 Ireland, Census of.................................................. 195 Department of the Interior. ............. 5 326 Judges of U. S. Circuit and District Courts 130 Departments, Officers in the ....... 106-109 Kentucky .... District of Columbia .................. 319 Latitude and Longitude of Observatories 46 .... 143 Medical Schools ...... .... 6 Public Lands, Sales of... 105 211 326 190 191, 192 165 Public Lands, Surveyors-General of...... 113 ....... 156 127 Railroads in Construction in New England 214 131 Receivers of Land Office 263 Recent Discoveries in Astronomy, &c. ... 66 236 Registers of Land Office.................... 64 113 208 207 Representatives, Alphabetical List of.... 223 220 Meteorological Information ........ 91-102 Representatives, House of..... Militia Force of the U. S............... 122 Russia, Ministry Ministers of U. S. in Foreign Countries.. Mint. Officers of, Coinage, &c. Newspapers, Postage on............ 161, 167 Star, Pole. Apparent Places of. New York, Railroads in... Nights. Darkness of the, in 1852........ Obituary, American, in 1850.. 1851... 270 State Finances, Debts, &c. ......... 210, 211 331 Sun's Parallax in Altitude... Observatories, Latitude and Longitude of 46 Supreme Court, U. S... 48 65 258 Tides, Height of Greatest, in 1852.... 3 Tonnage of the U. S.... 199-201 United States, Seventh Census...... 326 Utah Territory 176 106 Postage Law, New.... 198 Postage, Rates of Inland.. 146 Value of Foreign Coins 319 Postage, Foreign Postage by the N. Y. & Bremen Steamers 165 Vermont 161 Venus and Mars, Disks of. 225 41 Postage to Oregon and California Postmasters in Chief Towns and Cities... 108 War Department .... 160, Western Railroads Postmasters Compensation of. .163-169 Vessels of War in U. S. Navy 233 126 263 107 217 320 91-102 313 64 4 |