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. 2. New Hampshire,.... 3. Vermont, 190 220 House of Representatives,. Alphabetical List of Representatives, 223 28. Immigration into the U. S. in 1850, 224 29. Foreign Coins, INDIVIDUAL STATES. 227 19. Louisiana, 229 20. Texas,. 225 292 ............................................... 233 21. Arkansas, .............................................. 299 4. Massachusetts,................... 236 22. Tennessee, ....................... 291 5. Rhode Island, 243 23. Kentucky,........... 292 6. Connecticut, ......................................... 245 24. Ohio, ....... 7. New York,. ........................................... 249 25. Michigan, 10. Delaware,............ ............ 262 28. Missouri, ........... Iowa, ..... 295 301 ....... 302 307 ....... 309 311 California..... Oregon Territory,. 313 ..... ... 318 ............ 263 30. Wisconsin, ........................................... 12. Virginia,. 15. Georgia,. 272 32. ........ 275 33. Minesota Territory,.............. 318 276 34. Utah Territory... 278 35. New Mexico Territory,............ 318 Governments of North America,........ 319 Governments of South America,........ 320 West Indian Governments, Abstracts of Public Laws ......... PAGE ..... 143 Eclipse of Moon, Dec. 26........ Alabama... American States 319 Elections, State... PAGE 36 35 35 36 ......... 208 Arkansas. ...... 198 Act concerning ..... 181 105 Finances of the States........ 5 ......210, 211 56 Capitals of States.. Cities, Principal, Population of....................... 200 Franking Privilege 326 ...... 347 Clouds and Winds 275 Collectors of Customs.................. 111 Government, Seats of, in different States. 208 Commercial Agents in Foreign Countries 134 Great Britain and Ireland, Census of 210, 211 Ireland, Census of........... Department of the Interior. ............. 302 302 133 326 Judges of U. S. Circuit and District Courts 130 106 Jupiter's Satellites, Eclipses of.... Departments, Officers in the ....... 106-109 Kentucky 40 41 Land-Office. Registers, Receivers, &c. 113 District of Columbia ..................................... Eclipse of Moon, Jan. 6, 7 206 35 Laws, Titles and Abstracts of Public .... 143 Legislatures, State, Meeting of.... Lighthouses, Act concerning Louisiana Mahometan Calendar Mail Service for 1850 ..... 20 Presidents of the U. S... 105 211 ............ 149 Prussia, Ministry ...................... 326 190 6 Public Lands, Sales of.............. 191, 192 Mail Service, Foreign.................. 159 Public Laws, Titles and Abstracts of..... 143 Maine.... Marine, Commercial, of the U. S........ 180 Railroads in New England Marine Corps. 212-215 Mars and Venus, Disks of....... Maryland, Constitution of. ... Massachusetts, Railroads of 64 113 ...... 263 Recent Discoveries in Astronomy, &c. ... 66 ........ 208 .... 207 Representatives, Alphabetical List of.... 223 Militia Force of the U. S. ...................................... 122 Russia, Ministry Navy, Vessels of War in................................. 126 Smithsonian Institute..... Newspapers, Postage on........................ 161, 167 Star, Pole. Apparent Places of 3 4 201 207 272 216, 217 ....... 321 326 54 56 106 208 210, 211 48 65 130 295 Sweden and Norway, Ministry. 113 326 291 Population of the U. S. ........... 199-201 United States, Seventh Census.. ................................... 146 Value of Foreign Coins .... Postage by the N. Y. & Bremen Steamers 165 Vermont.... ..163-163 Vessels of War in U. S. Navy Postmasters in Chief Towns and Cities... 108 War Department Postmasters Compensation of Post Office Rec's and Expend's in 1849, '50 160 Wisconsin. 320 Treasury Department 54 Trade, Foreign. Countries of. 67 Tonnage Comparative View of, for 35 Years 180 177-180 176 106 326 Utah Territory. 198 319 225 41 233 126 263 107 160 Western Railroads 217 108, 157 West Indian Governments. 320 91-102 169 Young's Refractions................... 313 64 4 Pennsylvania. Pension Agents, Army and Navy.... 116, 117 Titles and Abstracts of Public Laws |