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NEW JERSEY The Mode of Proceeding in New Jersey for the Recovery of Debts
and Demands against Absconding and Absent, or Non-resident Debtors-Pro-
cess-The Manner in which the Writ is Executed by the Officers-The Mode
of Proceeding to Recover the Personal Estate of the Debtor and his Effects, in
the Hands of a Third Person-When the Goods Attached by the Sheriff are
Claimed by any Person-Action of the Court on the Return of the Writ-Duty
of the Auditors-Rights and Obligations of the Creditors-Proceedings before
Justices, by John Chetwood, Esq., attorney and counsellor at law, Newark, N. J. 253
PENNSYLVANIA-The Case of Judgments obtained in other States, &c.-Promissory
Notes-Bills of Exchange-Book Accounts, etc., to which there is no Defence-
Cases in which the Liability is not contested, by P. P. Morris, Esq., of the
Philadelphia Bar..................
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MASSACHUSETTS-Attachment-Imprisonment for Debt-Discharge of the Debtor
-Poor Debtor's Oath-Effect of the Oath-Charges of Fraud-Trustee Pro-
cess and Foreign Attachment-Insolvent Law-Kinds of Insolvency-Effect
of Petition-Choice of Assignee-Duty of Assignee-Debts Provable-Meetings
of Creditors-Secured Debts-Preferred Creditors-Effect of Discharge-Objec-
tion to Discharge-Debts for Labor Privileged-Promissory Notes, by A. C.
Spooner, Esq., counsellor at law, Boston, Mass......

MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY.

Life of Stephen Girard, by James H. Lanman, Esq..
The Rothschilds, by Louis Harper, L.L.D......

Isaac de Buirette and his sons, by Louis Harper, L.L.D.............

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MERCANTILE LAW DEPARTMENT.

REPORTS, DECISIONS, ETC.

Action on a Guarantee-Action for Freight......................

Illegality of Factors Pledging Notes for Goods sold by them,.....

Factors Selling Goods to Refund themselves for the Duties they Paid-Common
Carriers

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Liability of Tenants in Case of Fire-Collision-Bottomry....

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English Law of Wrecks-Salvage Services-Action for Freight..
Legal Rate of Interest in the Different States and Territories....
Punishment for Usury in the Different States and Territories.....

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Statute Laws Relating to Vessels-Registered Vessels-Of the Transfer of Vessels
-Enrolled Vessels-Coasting Trade-Vessels Engaged in the Fisheries, 372, 374, 374
Procuring Goods by False Pretences...

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Decisions in the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts-Trustee Law-Prom-
issory Note-Assignment.....

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Decisions in the United States Courts-Salvage Service......

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Promissory Note Endorsements.....

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BOOK TRADE.

Entz's Exchange and Trade between England and the United States...........................
Lives of the most eminent French Writers.....

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Cooper's Mercedes of Castile, or the Voyage to Cathay..........

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Mitchill's Geographical Works............

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Sacred Melodies, or Hymns for Youth...

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Goodrich's Token, and Atlantic Souvenir.....

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Heroines of Sacred History-Young Ladies' Companion.........

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Renwick's Application of the Science of Mechanics to Practical Purposes...

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Potter's Objects, Rules, and Principles of Political Economy.

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Bradley's Treatise on the strength of Distilled Spirits, with Rules and Gauging.... 176
Renwick's First Principles of Chemistry...

Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D....

Irving's Life of Goldsmith, with Selections from his Writings...

Keightley's History of England, from the earliest period to 1839..

Distinguished Men of Modern Times.......

Noah's Translation of the Book of Jasher..

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Morris's American Melodies-The production of 200 Writers...

Hope on and Hope ever-Strive and Thrive, etc., by Mary Howitt..

Constance, or the Merchant's Daughter.......

Byrne's Observations on the best means of propelling Ships..

Renwick's Life of De Witt Clinton..

Goethe's Correspondence with a Child..

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Hodge's Steam Engine-The Young Merchant-Boston Book..

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Poetry, and History of Wyoming....

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Walker's Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States...

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Hayne's Discourse before the Howard Benevolent Society.....

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Taylor's Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilized State.

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Remarks on Banks and Banking, and a Project for a National Bank..

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Sweetser's Digestion, and the Diseases incident to it...

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Emmon's Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch........

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Bishop Wilson's Private Meditations, Devotions, and Prayers.

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Sutton's Godly Meditations on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper...
Writings of Charles Sprague..

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Carlyle's Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History..

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Hague's Principles of Christian Union......

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Hale's History of the United States, from their Settlement as Colonies...

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Miss Martineau's Hour and the Man-My Son's Own Book..

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Merchants of the Staple...

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Tom of Ten Thousand-an Anecdote of the South Sea Scheme...................... 273
A Merchant Sovereign.......

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Palm Leaf Paper-Arkansas Coal-Havana Savings' Bank...

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East India Cotton Company.....

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British Foreign and Colonial Wool Trade...

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Exchange between London and the United States......

Paris remitted to London compared with the direct remittance at sixty days'
sight...........

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United States quotations of Hamburgh per Banco Mark.........
Amsterdam remitted to London for negotiation.

United States quotations of Amsterdam per Florin..........................

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MONEY TABLES.

Sovereigns compared with a Draft on London at sixty days' sight...................................
Quotations of London Exchange reduced into Federal Money......
To reduce Dollars to Pounds Sterling,..........

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Table showing the amount of one Dollar at Compound Interest at the end of every
year from 1 to 32....

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Table showing the present value of one Dollar, from 1 to 21 years.......

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Table showing the amount of an annuity of one Dollar per annum, improved at
Compound Interest at the end of each year from 1 to 32.....

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Table showing the present value of an Annuity of one Dollar per annum to con-
tinue for any given number of years from 1 to 21, reckoning Compound Interest 390
Table for converting Dollars into Taels, and vice versa.......

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Dry Measure Table....

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Sterling Interest Table for calculating Interest on British Money for any number
of days, at any rate per cent.

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Table of the rates of Insurance of $100 on a single life..

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Tables of Imperial Long Measure.....

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Table of Imperial Superficial Measure Of Imperial Cubic or Solid Measure....... 336

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Table of Improved Troy Weight-Of Imperial Apothecary's Weight........
Table of Imperial Avoirdupois Weight-Of Imperial Liquid and Dry Measure...... 338
Table of Factors for converting old Measures into new, and the contrary..
French Measures of Length compared with English Imperial Measure.... 341
Do. Measures of Surface compared with English Imperial Measure....
Do. Land Measure-Measure of Capacity with English Imperial Measure..
Do. Wood and Timber Measure-Liquid and Dry Measure...

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Do. Liquid and Dry Measures compared with Wine and Dry Measures of the
United States................

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Do. Weights and Measures of the Netherlands..
Weights and Measures of the United States.......................

Do. Measures of Gravity or Weight compared with Troy Weight compared
with Avoirdupois Weight.......

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Universal Interest Tables.....

Table for reducing Shillings, Pence, &c. to the Decimal of a Pound.........
Square-Yard Duty Tables for Bleached and Colored Cotton Goods........

COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

Arrivals at and Clearances from New York for November, 1840.....
Trade, Commerce, and Navigation of the Island of Porto Rico for 1839..
Commerce of Quebec in the years 1839 and 1840....

Oil imported into the United States from 1815 to 1839, with price per gallon.......
Annual Exports and Imports of the United States from 1791 to 1840....
Exports and Imports of the United States under each Presidency......

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Arrival of Foreign Vessels at the Port of New York in 1840.

Massachusetts Mackerel Fishery from 1831 to 1840...

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Canal Shipments at Buffalo of Flour, Wheat, Pork, Corn, etc., from 1837 to 1840, 197

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Trade and Tolls of the New York Canals, from 1835 to 1840..

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Relative proportion of Cotton grown in the different States....

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Millions of pounds grown in various parts of the World...

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Growth and Export of American Cotton in each year, from 1791 to 1840..

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Official value of the Exports and Imports of Great Britain for the last 82 years.... 281
Price of 3 per cent Consols, East India Company's and Bank of England Stock,
from 1760 to 1839.....

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Table showing the average price of standard Gold in bars, Bread, Beef, Masons
and Carpenters' wages daily, from 1760 to 1841......

Circulation of the Bank of England in February of each year, from 1760 to 1841.. 282
Number of Bankrupts in England and Wales for each year, from 1760 to 1841...... 283
Income and Expenditure of the British Government in each year, from 1775 to
1785, and from 1792 to 1841....

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Exports, Prices, and Stocks of Cotton at Mobile, from 1829 to 1840...

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Anthracite Coal Trade of the United States from commencement, 1820 to 1841.... 286
Price of Flour in Philadelphia, from 1812 to 1840,....

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Wholesale prices of various articles of Merchandise in Boston, from 1812 to 1840.. 287
Produce of the Whale Fishery in New London, from 1820 to 1840......
Fluctuations in Stocks in New York, at the close of each month in the year 1840. 288
Leather Trade of New York, from 1835 to 1841........

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Statistics of the British Cotton Trade, Import, Export, and Consumption..........
Stock of Cotton in Great Britain at the close of the last five years.............
Imports of Cotton into Great Britain during the last seven years.................
Exports of Cotton from Great Britain, 1840....

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Prices of Cotton in Great Britain on the 31st December of each year, from 1836 to
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Exports and Imports of the New England Colonies, from 1697 to 1776............... 353

Value of Imports and Exports of New Hampshire, from 1791 to 1839..

Vessels built at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in each year, from 1829 to 1839..
Products, Resources, etc. of New Hampshire, in 1840....

Comparative Arrivals, Exports, and Stocks of Cotton and Tobacco at New Orleans,
from October to February, 1841....

Bill Circulation in Great Britain and Ireland..
Commerce of Honolulu in 1840.....

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Beet Root Sugar Trade of France................................................................................................................................................. 391
Bankruptcies in Paris in 1840....

Growth, Export, and Consumption of Coffee for the last eight years.......
Prices of all descriptions of Cotton Wool at Liverpool during the last week of each
year, from 1837 to 1840.....

Commerce of the State of New York in 1840...
Commercial Resources of Ohio.....

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Flour Inspections in Baltimore, for the last forty-two years..................................................................................... 569
Product of Bread-stuffs in the United States
Exports of Flour and Wheat, from 1790 to 1838...
Commerce of France....

Consumption of Coal-Foreign Commerce of Canada........

Consumption of British Goods in Italy-Commerce of Egypt........................
Commerce of Quebec for 1839 and 1849.....

Tariff Regulations of the State of Yucatan, adopted by the Congress..
Cotton Regulations at Mobile.............

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Inland Warehousing in the Prussian League..................................................................................................
Regulations adopted at the Fegee Islands...

Regulations for Vessels destined to the Port of Antwerp....................................................
Health Regulations at Austrian Ports.........
Regulations at Porto Rico.......

Commercial relations of the United States with Germany...

Tariff of Charges adopted by the Mobile Chamber of Commerce................................
Method of sending Letters for the New York Steamers...............................................
Tariff of the Republic of Texas....................

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Passages of the Steam Ship British Queen and President in 1840..

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Number and description of Vessels which passed the light boat on Bartletts Reef... 487

Hamburgh Navigation-Floating Rafts on the Hudson....

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Pilots of the Port of Boston-Bay of St. Josephs, Florida....

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Oriel Shoal, New Zealand-Shoal near the Equator........

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