lieved to be complete and correct. The Seventh Census of the United States not yet having been printed, it has been found impossible to obtain full or authentic returns of the matters embraced therein. For obvious reasons the most authentic source of information is the official publication, and it is better to give in one of our volumes a complete abstract of the census from the official copy, than to publish portions of it from year to year in separate volumes from unofficial and irresponsible authority. If the census is printed in season, we hope to give full abstracts of its returns in our volume for next year. The Titles and Abstracts of the Public Laws and Joint Resolutions have been carefully prepared, and are sufficiently full, except for professional use. Among those this year of special interest are the acts making land warrants assignable, establishing the Light-House Board, for the further security of passengers on board steam-vessels, relating to the public printing, and concerning the Post-Office establishment. 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, revised from the best authority to the latest dates, gives the several States of Europe, with their form of government, the name, title, and date of accession of the reigning sovereigns, the area and population of the several countries. It also gives the Royal Family of England, and the Ministry, Judiciary, the Peers, and the New House of Commons. The newest Ministry of France is added. The Obituary Notices and Chronicle of Events have been prepared with care. A full foreign obituary was prepared but is crowded out. It will be given next year. 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, 1852. Abstracts of Public Laws PAGE 139 Ephemeris of the Sun. ..... Additions and Corrections.............................. 352 Eras, &c..... Alabama...... American Obituary • 281 European States .. 66 PAGE 51 3 318 345 348 ... 289 Executive Government of U. S........... 101 Apportionment of U. S. Representatives Appropriations, U. S., for 1852, 1853. Army Officers, Pay of.. Arsenals in the United States........... Astronomy, Recent Discoveries in, relat- Attorneys of U. S. Courts.. Banks. See the several States. Calendar: January, &c.............. California Gold.. .... 207 Finances of the States.. 69 Fixed Stars, Apparent Places of Flowering of Fruit-trees in 1852 .... California Land Claims, Commission.... ........ Census of U. States (Seventh) Circuit Courts. 144 Franking Privilege 66 ... 169 5 .206, 207 59 280 98 178 ..... 187 134 129 178 332 191 162 209 General Events in 1851 ... Cities, Principal, Population of... 127 Imports, Value of, in 1850 and 1851..172-175 169 212 Imports of each State for 1850-51 180 107 imports paying ad valorem Duties...172-175 172 Colleges in United States. ... 201 Indian Superintendents and Agents...... 111 Commercial Agents in Foreign Countries ........ Consuls, Foreign, in U. S. 352 213 Jewish Calendar 104 308 5 352 Judges of U. S. Circuit and District Courts 126 134-139 Jupiter's Satellites, Eclipses of........ 124 43 292 352 Land-Office, Registers, Receivers, &c. .. 109 196 8 Lands, Public, Act granting Right of Way District of Columbia .................. 315 Libraries, College... Eclipse of Moon, June 20.................. 102-104 Laws, Titles and Abstracts of Public 139 ....... .... District Courts... 42 Legislatures, State, Meeting of.......... 204 160 199-201 Eclipses in 1853 37 Lighthouse Board... 352 39 Lighthouse Board, Act concerning....... 159 Eclipse of Sun, Annular, June 6... Elections, State.. Eclipse of Sun, Total, November 30. Engineers, Corps of, &c. Engineers in Navy, Pay of.............. 121 Maine... Envoys Extraordinary, &c. ................... 129 Marine, Commercial, of the U. S........ 181 ................................ 113 Mail Service, Foreign.. 187 227 Marine Corps. Mars and Venus, Disks of... Massachusetts ...... ..... 123 Public Lands, Sales of.... 197 42 Public Lands, Surveyors-General of...... 110 ...... ............. 109 67 Military Geographical Departments...... 115 Recent Discoveries in Astronomy, &c. ... 69 Militia Force of the U. S. Ministers of U. S. in Foreign Countries.. 116 Registers of Land Office....................... 109 204 314 Representatives, Alphabetical List of.... 218 215 134 Representatives, State, No. of, and Terms 205 Mint, Officers of, Coinage, &c. .... 211, 212 Resolutions, Public, of Congress... Mississippi.. Missouri.. Naval Officers.................. 162 284 Revenue and Expenditure.......... 163-171 ............... Navy Department................ 109 Rhode Island... 170 243 172, 179 Satellites of Jupiter, Eclipses of, in 1853.. 43 Navy Officers, Pay of...................................... Navy Pension Agents..... New Jersey. ..... New Mexico Territory ................ Newspapers, Postage on............190-196 New York. Smithsonian Institution.......... 223 Southern Railroads........................... Nights, Darkness of the, in 1853........ 8, 9 Sovereigns of Europe Obituary, American, in 1851.. 66 1852.. See Imports. 273 Specific Duties. 44 207 4 129, 134 213 205 3 4 208 203 275 225 317 57 59 102 204 Observatories, Latitude and Longitude of 45 State Department... Occultations Ohio. Oregon Territory Pamphlets, Postage on..... ...... Parallax in Altitude of the Sun....... Pension Agents, Army and Navy.... Pole Star, Apparent Places of the .... .... 40 State Elections, &c... 3 Surveyors of Land-Office.... 316 Texas 208, 209 Theological Schools.. Population of Chief Cities in U. S.... 149 Tides, Height of Greatest, in 1853........ Postage by the N. Y. & Bremen Steamers 185 Treasurers, Assistant,... 178 102 102 209 314 42 234 Postage to Oregon and California, Foreign 192 Treasury Department |