2d Session. No. 39. A report of the Commissioner of Immigration of the foreign immigration and of the expenditures of the bureau for the first three quarters of the year 1866. JANUARY 14, 1867.—Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, December 20, 1866. SIR: In compliance with section 6 of the act "to encourage immigration," approved July 4, 1864, I have the honor to submit to you a detailed report of the Commissioner of Immigration of the foreign immigration and of the expenditures of the Bureau of Immigration for the first three quarters of the year 1866. Owing to the fact that the returns from collectors for the quarter ending December 31 are not, and indeed cannot be, received until some time after the annual meeting of Congress, the Commissioner of Immigration finds it necessary, in order to comply with the requirements of the section referred to, to limit his annual reports for the future to the first three quarters of the current year in which the session begins, and the last quarter of the year preceding. The final quarter for the year 1865 was embraced in the Commissioner's annual report for that year, and the present report therefore includes only the first three quarters of the present year. The report now submitted also contains statements, as required by section 13 of the act of Congress to regulate the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels, approved March 3, 1855, of the number, age, sex, and occupation of passengers who arrived by sea from foreign countries during the first three quarters of the year 1866, together with the country in which they were born, the part of the country in which they mean to reside, and the number that died on the voyage. These statements have been carefully compiled from returns made to this department by collectors of the customs, pursuant to the provisions of said section. I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, The SPEAKER of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION. Washington, December 20, 1866. SIR: In compliance with the requirements of the act of Congress entitled "An act to encourage immigration," approved July 4, 1864, I submit a detailed report of the foreign immigration during the first three quarters of the present year, and an account of all expenditures for the same period under the said act. I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, R. S. CHILTON, Commissioner. The SPEAKER of the House of Representatives. |