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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.

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Abstracts of Public Laws

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139 Ephemeris of the Sun. .....

Additions and Corrections.............................. 352 Eras, &c.....

Alabama......

American Obituary

• 281 European States ..
.............................................. 332 Events, General, in 1851..
American States ...................... 315 66
1852..
Arkansas.

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51

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318

345

348

... 289 Executive Government of U. S........... 101
209 Expenditures of U. S. for 62 years...... 171
102 Expenditures of each State

Apportionment of U. S. Representatives
Appraisers at Large...

Appropriations, U. S., for 1852, 1853.
Army List

Army Officers, Pay of..
Army Pension Agents....

Arsenals in the United States...........
Assistant Treasurers

Astronomy, Recent Discoveries in, relat-
ing to Comets

Attorneys of U. S. Courts..

Banks. See the several States.
Barometrical Observations
Cabinet, Officers in the

Calendar: January, &c..............
California.

California Gold..

.... 207
139 Exports of each State for 1850-51
180
113 Exports, Value of, in 1850-51...... 176-178
119 Exports to Foreign Countries ........... 178
112 Exports for 61 Years.......
116 Federal Representative Population,...... 209
102 Festivals of the Church..

Finances of the States..

69 Fixed Stars, Apparent Places of
126 Florida.

Flowering of Fruit-trees in 1852
..89-98 Foreign Goods imported...................
101 Foreign Mail Service
10-33 Foreign Ministers, &c., in U. S.....
312 Foreign Nations, Intercourse with
211 Foreign Trade, Countries of ........
104 France.

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California Land Claims, Commission....
California, Act concerning Branch Mint in,
Capitals of States...

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Census of U. States (Seventh)
Celestial Phenomena, Signs, &c. ........
Chargés d'Affaires of U. S. in 1852......
Chronicle of Events....
Chronological Cycles
Church Festivals

Circuit Courts.

144 Franking Privilege
204 Free Matter

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209 General Events in 1851
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130 Geologists, U. S., with Land-Office...... 110
345 Georgia
278
4 Government, Seats of, in different States. 204
5 Governments, Annual Expenses of State. 207
..............126 - 128 Governors of States, Terms and Salaries.. 205

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Cities, Principal, Population of...
Clerks of Circuit Courts, U. S...
Clerks of District Courts of U. S.........
Clouds and Winds.....

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127 Imports, Value of, in 1850 and 1851..172-175
89-98 Imports for 61 Years...

169

212 Imports of each State for 1850-51

180

107 imports paying ad valorem Duties...172-175
198 Imports free of Duty

172

Colleges in United States.
Colleges, Annual Expenses in
Comets, Recent Discoveries of.......
Commerce

... 201 Indian Superintendents and Agents...... 111
69-88 Indiana
300
172 Inspection of Steam-Vessels, act concerning 150
130 Inspectors of Steam-Vessels.

Commercial Agents in Foreign Countries
Commercial Marine of the U. S.
Commission on California Land Claims..
Commissioners, U.S., in Foreign Countries
Congress, Thirty-Second, 2d Session ....
Congress, Officers of..
Connecticut

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Consuls, Foreign, in U. S.
Consuls in Foreign Countries......
Corrections and Additions...
Countries whence Goods are brought
Darkness of the Nights..

352
181 Intercourse with Foreign Nations....... 129
104 Interior, Department of the
130 Iowa.

213 Jewish Calendar

104

308

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352 Judges of U. S. Circuit and District Courts 126
246 Judiciary, U. S..

134-139 Jupiter's Satellites, Eclipses of........
130-133 Kentucky

124

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292

352 Land-Office, Registers, Receivers, &c. .. 109
178 Lands, Public

196

8 Lands, Public, Act granting Right of Way
Debt of the United States............
163 through, in certain cases... ..143, 146, 148
Debts of the States............................................
206 Land Warrants, Act making assignable.. 141
Delaware.
263 Latitude and Longitude of Observatories 45
Department of the Interior.............. 101 Latitude and Longitude of Places.... 46-50

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District of Columbia .................. 315 Libraries, College...

Eclipse of Moon, June 20..................

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102-104 Laws, Titles and Abstracts of Public

139

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District Courts...

42 Legislatures, State, Meeting of.......... 204
126-128 Letters, by Sea-going Vessels

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199-201

Eclipses in 1853

37 Lighthouse Board...

352

39 Lighthouse Board, Act concerning....... 159

Eclipse of Sun, Annular, June 6...

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Elections, State..

Eclipse of Sun, Total, November 30.

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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...
Marshals, U. S......
Maryland.

Massachusetts

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123 Public Lands, Sales of....

197

42 Public Lands, Surveyors-General of...... 110
127 Public Laws, Titles and Abstracts of..... 139
................................................... 264 Public Printing, Act concerning
147
......... 237 Public Resolutions of Congress..
162
Massachusetts, Railroads of............ 220 Railroads in New England .......220-223
Medical Schools
203 Railroads in Construction in New England 222
Meteorological Information.......... 89-98 Railroads in the U. S...
220-226
Michigan
298 Receivers of Land Office...

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109

67

Military Geographical Departments...... 115 Recent Discoveries in Astronomy, &c. ... 69
Military Geographical Divisions........ 115 Refractions, Dr. Young's
Military Posts

Militia Force of the U. S.
Minesota Territory

Ministers of U. S. in Foreign Countries..
Ministers, Foreign, in U. S.
Mint.

116 Registers of Land Office.......................
118 Religious Denominations

109

204

314 Representatives, Alphabetical List of.... 218
129 Representatives, House of.....

215

134 Representatives, State, No. of, and Terms 205
210 Representatives, U. S., Apportionment of 209

Mint, Officers of, Coinage, &c. .... 211, 212 Resolutions, Public, of Congress...

Mississippi..

Missouri..

Naval Officers..................
Navigation

162

284 Revenue and Expenditure.......... 163-171
...... 306 Revenue, U. S., for 62 Years..

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Navy Department................
Navy List

109 Rhode Island...

170

243

172, 179 Satellites of Jupiter, Eclipses of, in 1853.. 43
103 Saturn's Rings.

Navy Officers, Pay of......................................
Navy, Vessels of War in.

Navy Pension Agents.....
Navy Yards, Commanders of
New Hampshire

New Jersey.

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New Mexico Territory

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Newspapers, Postage on............190-196

New York.

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Smithsonian Institution..........
250 South Carolina..

223 Southern Railroads...........................

Nights, Darkness of the, in 1853........ 8, 9 Sovereigns of Europe
North Carolina....

Obituary, American, in 1851..

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See Imports.

273 Specific Duties.
332 Star, Pole, Apparent Places of
337 Stars, Fixed, Apparent Places of.............

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Observatories, Latitude and Longitude of 45 State Department...

Occultations

Ohio.

Oregon Territory

Pamphlets, Postage on.....

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Parallax in Altitude of the Sun.......
Pennsylvania.

Pension Agents, Army and Navy....
Planets, Signs of the..

Pole Star, Apparent Places of the
Population of the Globe
Population of the U. S.

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40 State Elections, &c...

3 Surveyors of Land-Office....
57 Tennessee

316 Texas

208, 209 Theological Schools..
210 Three-Cent Pieces

Population of Chief Cities in U. S....
Postage, Act modifying Rates of........
Postage, Rates of Inland.

149 Tides, Height of Greatest, in 1853........
189 Titles and Abstracts of Public Laws....
194 Tonnage of the U. S.....
..192-196 Tonnage, ComparativeView of, for 36Years 181
Postage, Cost and Income from in each Trade, Foreign, Countries of.
State.

Postage by the N. Y. & Bremen Steamers
Postage, Foreign.

185 Treasurers, Assistant,...

178

102

102

209

314

42

234

Postage to Oregon and California, Foreign 192 Treasury Department
Postmasters in Chief Towns and Cities... 104 United States, Seventh Census.
Postmasters, Compensation of.......185-188 Utah Territory
Post-Office Department........................... 104, 182 Venus and Mars, Disks of.
Post-Office Distributing Offices......104-107 Vermont
Post-Office Laws, Offences against, &c... 160 Vessels and Tonnage from 1815 to 1851.. 182
Post-Office Rec's and Expend's in 1850, '51

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