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 acknowl. edge 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 Al manac," Boston. Boston, Mass., Sept. 30, 1851. CONTENTS. ...... 43 47 .... 56 3 Latitude and Longitude of Places, Celestial Phenomena, Signs, &c., 3 Latitude and Longitude of Observatories, 46 4 Additional Latitudes and Longitudes,. Beginning and Length of the Seasons, 4 Apparent Places of the Pole Star, Movable Festivals of the Church, 5 Places of the Principal Fixed Stars, Height of the Greatest Tides in 1852, 7 Recent Discoveries in Astronomy, &c., Darkness of the Nights in 1852, 8 METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION :- Tables CALENDAR: - January, &c., ....... 10-33 for Biddeford, Cambridge, Lowell, Wor. 34 cester, Mendon, Providence, New York, 38 Lambertville, Rochester, Washington, Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites in 1852,... 40 Chapel Hill, Savannah, Muscaline, Milf Disks of Venus and Mars, ...... waukee. Green Lake, and Flowering of Elements of the Eclipses of the Sun,...... 42 Rain in King George's Co., Va.,.. Commission to adjust Private Land Postmasters in Chief Towns & Cities, 108 Registers, Rec's, &c., in Land Office, 113 Officers of Corps and Regiments,.. 118 Military Geographical Divisions, Military Geographical Departments, 119 7. Intercourse with Foreign Nations,.. 133 Ministers, &c., in Foreign Countries, 133 Consuls, &c., in Foreign countries, 134 Foreign Ministers in the U. States, . 137 Foreign Consuls in the U. States, .... 133 8. Titles and Abstracts of Public Laws, 143 Appropriations for 1851 and 1852,.. Rates of Postage in United States, .. 161 Sales of Public Lands, ..........191, 192 Rates of Foreign Postage, &c.,... Postage to Oregon and California, 163 Coinage of the Mint for 58 Years, 194 Foreign Newspaper and Pamphlet 15. Census of Great Britain and Ireland, 195 167 Emigration from the United Kingdom for 26 Years, 1825 - 1850, inclusive, 198 No. of Post-Offices, &c., since 1790, 169 16. Seventh Census of United States,.... 198 170 17. Population of Principal Cities,..... ....... 170 18. Population of the United States,..... 201 Value of Exports for four Years,..... 174 19. Slaves in the United States, Imports from and Exports to Foreign 20. Colleges, &c., in the United States,. 202 176 Annual College Expenses,......... 205 Tonnage of Vessels in Foreign Trade. 177 Theological Schools, .............. 206 Vessels and Tonnage from 1815 to 1850,178 Law Schools, .. Imports and Exports of each State, 179 Medical Schools, . Vessels built in U. States, and their 21. Smithsonian Institute, 179 22. Religious Denominations,.. Comparative View of Tonnage from 23. State Elections, &c., 180 24. Governors of States and Territories, 209 Commercial Marine of United States, 180 25. Finances of the States, 12. Revenue and Expenditure, : : 181 26. Railroads in the United States, . Imports, Exports, and Debt, for 60 27. Congress,........ U. S. Revenue from 1789 to 1850, U. S. Expenditure from 1789 to 1850, 183 Alphabetical List of Representatives, 223 Duties. Revenue, &c., for 1849 - 50, 184 28. Immigration into the U. S. in 1850, 224 . .......................... ............... 233 21. Arkansas, ........................ 289 ...... 243 23. Kentucky,........................ 292 .................... 7. New York, ....................... 249 25. Michigan, ........................ 301 256 26. Indiana, ....................... .................... 258 27. Illinois, 262 28. Missouri, ........................ 309 ............... 268 30. Wisconsin, ...................... 313 13. North Carolina, .................. 270 31. California,. 275 33. Minesota Territory,................ 318 17. Alabama, ........................ 278 35. New Mexico Territory,............ 318 Governments of North America,........ 319 Governments of South America,........ 320 ......... 66 66 66 ...... 174 .................. PAGE PAGE 36 35 35 36 208 224 198 ....... 117 Engineers in Navy, Pay of.............. 125 123 Envoys Extraordinary, &c. ........ 133 - 137 48 3 322 344 1851 347 130 Elections, contested, Evidence in, Act con- cerning 145 183 179 181 193 Federal Representative Population,...... 199 Festivals of the Church ..... 5 ..210, 211 56 276 102 225 170 159 ................ 344 Foreign Ministers, &c., in U. S..... 137 4 Foreign Nations. Intercourse with. 133 5 Foreign Trade, Countries of ............ 176 326 344 91 - 102 1851 ................ 347 275 111 Government, Seats of, in different States. 208 202 Governments, Annual Expenses of State. 211 205 Governors of States, &c................. 209 323 307 181 179 170 302 302 108 311 210, 211 Ireland, Census of ...................... 195 5 326 Judges of U.S. Circuit and District Courts 130 128 40 292 41 Land-Office, Registers, Receivers, &c. u. 113 128, 130 Lands, Public 319 Latitude and Longitude of Observatories 46 34 Latitude and Longitude of Places.... 43-47 34, 35 Law Schools 35 Laws, Titles and Abstracts of Public 66 ... 133 190 ...... 206 .... 143 ....... 191, 192 ................. .... 113 .................... ............. Legislatures, State, Meeting of... 208 Presidents of the U.S.. 105 ... 202 - 205 Property of States....... 149 Prussia, Ministry ...................... 326 190 6 Public Lands, Sales of..... 168 Public Lands, Surveyors-General of...... 113 159 Public Laws, Titles and Abstracts of ..... 143 227 Public Resolutions of Congress.. ......... 156 212-215 127 Railroads in Construction in New England 214 41 Railroads in the U. S.... 212-217 112 263 Recent Discoveries in Astronomy, &c. ... 66 64 236 Registers of Land-Office..... 208 207 Representatives, Alphabetical List of.... 223 220 301 Representatives, U. S., Apportionment of 199 ...... 156 243 326 326 42 84 211 4 309 Secretaries of Legation 133, 137, 138 218 ............. 170, 177 Ship Owners, Liability of, Act concerning 154 3 4 125 Slaves in the U.S. .................. 201 207 272 216, 217 321 326 318 Specific Duties. See Imports. 54 249 Stars, Fixed, Apparent Places of........ 56 106 208 270 State Finances, Debts, &c. 210, 211 48 331 Sun's Parallax in Altitude.............. 65 113 295 Sweden and Norway, Ministry 295 Tennessee 285 206 258 Tides, Height of Greatest, in 1852........ 7 3 Tonnage of the U. S...... 177 - 180 67 Tonnage. Comparative View of, for 35Years 180 .......... 176 320 Treasury Department ... ........... 199 - 201 United States, Seventh Census.... 326 Utah Territory .......... 318 146 Value of Foreign Coins 41 233 .......... 126 163 Virginia 108, 157 West Indian Governments.............. 320 313 64 4 .................. ............. 66 ........ 326 ................ 147, 193 ....... 106 .. 198 .................. ............ 225 ......... 268 ............... |
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