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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 Post-Office Department, and the coinage of the Mint for each year since the adoption of the Constitution. The rates of postage are believed to be complete and accurate. The articles upon Statistics of Coal, Public Libraries, and the Census of Charleston, S. C., each give valuable information. Owing to the protracted session of Congress, it has been necessary to place the Titles and Abstracts of the Public Laws, and Joint Resolutions, at the end of the volume. They have been carefully prepared, and are sufficiently full, except for professional use. All that are known to have been printed are here. If any have been omitted, they will be given next year. The tabular view of all 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 as full as 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 has been thoroughly revised, and is correct so far as it goes. The Obituary Notices and Chronicle of Events are extended, and 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 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, 1850.

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Abstracts of Public Laws

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331 Eclipse of Sun, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 ......
Additions and Corrections ........................................ 350 Eclipse of Sun, Total, July 28
Alabama...
256 Elections, State.

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American Obituary.................... 306 Electric Eel..
American States

Animal Electricity...

Animals with distinct Electrical Organs..
Arkansas.

Apportionment of U. S. Representatives
Army List.

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

298 Electricity, Animal...

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115

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74 Electricity, Muscular Current..........
74 Emigration to the U. S. in 1849
266 Engineers, Corps of, &c. .....
333 Engineers in Navy, Pay of.....
114 Envoys Extraordinary, &c. ........ 137 - 141
................................... 120 Ephemeris of the Sun
113 Eras, &c..
117 European States

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Arsenals in the United States...........
Attorneys of U. S. Courts...
Banks. See the several States.
Barometrical Observations...... 90-100,
Bounty Land Bill....

Brazil, Claims against, Act concerning
Cabinet, Officers in the .......

Calendar: January, &c....

California, Constitution of

California Gold......

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296 Executive Government of U. S....
346 Expenditures of U. S. for 60 years,..... 164
331 Exports of each State for 1849
103 Exports, Value of, in 1848-49...... 171, 172
10 Exports to Foreign Countries ....
291 Exports for 59 Years..

177 Festivals of the Church ............

California State Government............ 293 Finances of the States..
Capitals of States...

202 Fixed Stars, Apparent Places of
331 Flogging in Navy, Act abolishing
181-184 Florida.

Census of U. S. of 1850, Act concerning..
Census of Charleston, S. C........
Celestial Phenomena, Signs, &c.
Chargés d'Affaires of U. S. in 1850.
Charleston, S. C., Census of........
Chronicle of Events.
Chronological Cycles
Church Festivals

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181-184 Foreign Ministers, &c., in U. S....... ..........
321 Foreign Nations. Intercourse with......
4 Foreign Trade, Countries of............
5 France.

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Circuit Courts...

.135, 136 Franking Privilege

Clerks of District Courts of U. S.......

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135 Free Mail Matter, Quantity of.......... 149
90-100 Frog, Animal Electricity of......
188-195 Fugitive Slave Law....

Coinage of Mint for 57 Years ........... 178 General Events in 1849
Collectors of Customs...

Colleges....

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........ 196-199 Geologists, U. S., with Land Office..111, 112
199 Georgia

Colleges, Annual Expenses in ........
Commerce

Commercial Agents in Foreign countries
Commercial Marine of the U. S.
Commission on Mexican Claims

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Commissioners, U.S., in Foreign Countries
Congress, Thirty-First...
Connecticut

Consuls, Foreign, in U. S..

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229 Immigration to United States in 1849.... 209
142 Imports, Value of, in 1848 and 1849..167-170
138 Imports for 59 Years.

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Corrections and Additions

350 Imports of each State for 1849

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8 Imports free of Duty

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Dead Letters, Number of........

149 Indian Superintendents and Agents...... 113

Debt of the United States...... 161, 165, 166 Indiana

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Department of State

Disks of Venus and Mars

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Debts of the States........................................ 210, 211 Intercourse with Foreign Nations....... 137
......................................... 243 Interior, Department of the............. 106

Delaware.

Department of the Interior...

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Departments, Officers in the....... 104-106 Judges of U.S.Circuit and District Courts, 134

106 Iowa..

104 Jewish Calendar

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49 Judiciary, U. S..

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298 Kentucky

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Latitude and Longitude of Observatories 54 Post-Office Statistics since 1790.

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261 Public Laws, Titles and Abstracts of.

Marine, Commercial, of the U. S...
Marine Corps.

Mars and Venus, Disks of...
Marshals, U. S...

Maryland

Massachusetts

Massachusetts, Railroads of..

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6 Public Libraries in Europe and America 184-188
156 Public Resolutions of Congress....
213 Railroads in New England ......... 204-207
166 Railroads in Construction in New England 206
124 Railroads in the U. S..........

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Representatives, Alphabetical List of.... 130
.74-89 Representatives, House of.....

Matteucci's Researches in Animal Elec-
tricity..

Medical Schools

Meteorological Information

Mexico, Commission on Claims against
Michigan

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127

201 Representatives, House of, Officers of.... 130
90-100 Representatives, U. S., Apportionment of 333
106 Resolutions, Public, of Congress......... 347
277 Revenue and Expenditure.
158-164
116 Revenue, U. S., for 60 Years.......... 163
116 Rhode Island..
227
117 Satellites of Jupiter, Eclipses of, in 1851.. 48
119 Saturn's Rings

Military Geographical Departments.....
Military Geographical Divisions.
Military Posts

Militia Force of the U. S.

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

Mint, Officers of, Coinage, &c.
Mississippi.

Missouri..

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

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137 School Fund of States......
141 Seasons, Beginning and Length of
176 Secretaries of Legation........
177, 178 Senate of the U. S.

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259 Signs of the Planets..
286 Signs of the Zodiac
111 Slaves in the U. S.

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

Navy Officers, Pay of...

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Navy, Vessels of War in ....
Navy Pension Agents...

Navy Yards, Commanders of
New Hampshire

New Jersey.

New Mexico Territory

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Newspapers, Postage on....................
New York.

New York, Railroads in.......................
Nights, Darkness of the........................
North Carolina.

Obituary, American, in 1849..

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105 South Carolina.
121 Southern Railroads
122 Sovereigns of Europe

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123 Specific Duties. See Imports.
114 Star, Pole, Places of....

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298, 336 State Finances, Debts, &c.

210, 211

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215 State Department..

238 State Elections, &c...

156 Statistics of Coal...

250 Surveyors of Land Office....
306 Tennessee

310 Texas

Observatories, Latitude and Longitude of 54 Texas Boundary Law

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46 Theological Schools...

274 Tides, Height of Greatest, in 1851..

296 Titles and Abstracts of Public Laws... 331
73 Tonnage of the U. S

165, 175, 176

240 Tonnage, Comparative View of, for 34 Years 176
113, 114 Torpedo, Electricity of the....

Population of the Globe......................................

Population of the U. S.

Postage, Rates of Inland.....

3 Trade, Foreign, Countries of.....
62 Treasury Department.

299 Utah Territory

212 Venus and Mars, Disks of
150 Vermont...

Postage by the N. Y. & Bremen Steamers 155 Vessels of War in U. S. Navy
Postage, Foreign...

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173

104

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219

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Postmasters in Chief Towns and Cities... 107 War Department

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Post-Office Distributing Offices...... 107, 109 Wisconsin
Post-Office Receipts and Expenditures in

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