ENTERED, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by FREEMAN HUNT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of New York. CRAIGHEAD & ALLEN, PRINTERS, No. 112 Fulton-street. 495 V.c INDEX. ORIGINAL PAPERS. Page 1 Commerce as a Liberal Pursuit, by Charles King, Esq., of New York.. Examination of the Policy of the Laws against Usury, by Joseph Hopkinson, Implied and Expressed Warranties in Marine Policies, by E. W. Stoughton, Esq., Political Economy.-"John Hopkins' Notions," by Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro, Esq., ... Culture and Commerce of Silk, by Charles F. Durant, Esq., of New Jersey. Suggestions on the Law of Auctions, by Francis Brinley, Esq., of New York. 63 Theory of Profits, by George Tucker, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Uni- versity of Virginia, author of the Theory of Money and Banks, &c.... The Distinctive Provinces of the Political Philosopher and the Statesman, by Henry Vethake, LL. D., Professor in the University of Pennsylvania, author of a Treatise on Political Economy, and Editor of a new American Edition of McCulloch's Dictionary of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, &c......100 The Frotective System, by Isaac C. Pray, Esq., of Massachusetts.. The Merchant Service, by a Member of the Naval Lyceum.. Mercantile Lib. Assoc. Lectures.-Prof. Olmsted's Course on Meteorology. Lecture IV. Of Meteorological Observations and of Winds..... X. Causes of Meteoric Showers. Banks of Massachusetts, by Isaac Chickering, M. D., of Massachusetts Suggestions on the Law of Auctions, No. 2, By Francis Brinley, Esq., of N. Y Auctioneer's duty in taking care of Property, and the mode of selling. Annual Report of the Mercantile Library Association of the city of New York...162 The Principles of Credit, by Charles Francis Adams, Esq., of Massachusetts.....185 Theory of Profits, No. 2, by Professor G. Tucker, of the University of Virginia...210 253 History and Law of Fire Insurance, by W. W. Campbell, Esq., of New York....239 Post-office Reform-Cheap Postage, by B. Bates, Esq.. Commercial League of the Hanse Towns, by E. W. Stoughton, Esq., of N. Y 273 Fraud upon Underwriters, by James Bergen, Esq., of New York. Suggestions on the Law of Auctions, No. 3, by Francis Brinley, Esq., of N. Y...305 The Harbors of North America, by David Stevenson, Esq., of Edinburgh, Scot- 28602 Laws relative to Debtor and Creditor, No. 1, (against the citizens of the state of Maine,) by Francis Brinley, Esq., of New York..... Domestic Industry, by James H. Lanman, Esq.. Moral and Political Freedom, by Rev. Henry W. Bellows, of New York, The Opium Trade-England and China, by E. W. Stoughton, Esq., of N. Y. 321 353 365 372 .379 386 .412 450 History of Massachusetts Currency, by E. W. Stoughton, Esq., of New York....465 The American Merchant.. MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY. Hon. James Lloyd, by Alden Bradford, Esq., of Massachusetts.. 481 ..502 George Cabot.. William Gray..... Philip Livingston. Robert Morris... 248 408 .409 ..410 .411 .411 .183 ....507 ....508 ....509 Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Fire Insurance Extent of the powers of insurance agents to bind their principals..416 .419 Insurance-General Average-Technical Total Loss-Partial Loss-Abandon- .422 Cheating-Fraudulent Endorsement of a Note.... 493 Commission Merchants-their duty to insure goods consigned to them. 495 Eastern Lands-Fraudulent Sale... .496 Bills and Notes.... .486 Insurance... ...... .499 Common Carriers.... .499 Insurance Violation of foreign revenue laws-Confiscation in, and jurisdiction of, STATISTICS OF COINAGE. ..500 Annual report of the director of the mint of the United States-Coinage of 1839..513 ..514 STATISTICS OF RAIL-ROADS. Camden and Amboy Rail-road Boston and Portland Rail-road. Boston and Providence Rail-road. Boston and Worcester Rail-road. Eastern Rail-road.... Nashua and Lowell Rail-road........ Western and West Stockbridge Rail-roads. Cost, receipts, expenditures, &c., of several Rail-roads for 1839... .347 .347 .347 .347 .347 348 348 348 348 .348 .... .348 STATISTICS OF INSURANCE. Minimum Premiums adopted by the Board of Underwriters of New York, Janu- Clauses and Regulations of the New York Marine Insurance Companies. Massachusetts Insurance Companies-Names and location, capital, average annu- .516 STATISTICS OF MANUFACTURES. Of Great Britain, France, Prussia, Netherlands and Belgium..... Of Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Swedish Monarchy, Russia and Germany. Statistics of Van Dieman's Land-Navigation-Post Office Department-Reve- .179 Commerce of New Jersey from 1791 to 1838,. .314 Exports of Cotton from the port of New Orleans for eight years.. .341 Commerce of Connecticut, from 1791 to 1838.. Commerce of the United States... Value of Exports from the United States.. Comparative Arrivals, Exports, and Stocks of Cotton, at New Orleans, for 10 years.310 Bankruptcies in France.... Commercial Progress of France... Cotton Trade.. Commerce of Great Britain. 428 429 429 430 430 .431 ..519 ..519 ..519 BANK STATISTICS. The Bank of Amsterdam. Banks of New York... The Independent or Sub Treasury. Principal items of all the chartered Banks of the State of New York.... Of all the chartered Banks, distinguishing between those located in the city of New Condition of the five Banks in the State, not subject to the bank fund law 83 84 85 270 .270 .271 271 Aggregate of all the chartered Banks of the state of New York, on Jan. 1, 1840....272 .349 Condensed view of the condition of the several Banks of the city of Baltimore, on 432 Bank of England... .433 MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS. Population and property of the cities of New York, in each year since 1815......267 Amount of the public debt of the United States, from 1791 to 1835 The general Post Office... Comparative revenue and debt of several Countries. Table of Revenue, Expenditure, and Public Debt of France.. Canals of New York.. Extent of the Fishing Interest in Massachusetts Silk manufacture in France. ..349 350 .351 .351 .435 .436 .436 .436 .518 Public debt of Spain........... COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. Tariff of Texas as modified by the second Congress.. 264 Duties at Jamaica.. .265 Alterations on Marine Policies of Insurance 352 New Custom House Regulation.... .352 An Ordinance concerning the Levee duties, in and for the port of New Orleans..426 |