lic 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 relative to the circulation of small notes as Currency in the District of Columbia; the Court of Claims; the Reform and Discipline of the Navy; the Payment of the Creditors of the Republic of Texas; the remodelling of the Diplomatic and Consular System; the new Postage Rates, and the Registration of Letters; the carriage of Passengers in Steamships and other Vessels; the provisions for the Insane of the Army and Navy; the Codifying the Laws of the District of Columbia; the carrying into effect the Reciprocity Treaty; the Salaries of the District Judges; the additional Bounty Lands; the conferring of the Title of Lieutenant-General by Brevet; the children of citizens born out of the United States; the Telegraph to the Pacific; and the Purchasers and Locators of Swamp Lands. The tabular view of the railroads in the country is continued from the last volume. There are also given a list of the Railroads in Canada, and a Table comparing the surveys of the different proposed routes to the Pacific. 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 Life Annuity and other Tables will be found convenient and valuable for reference. 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, revised from the best authority to late 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, the Ministry, and the Judiciary of England. Fuller details in regard to the other States of Europe were prepared, but are necessarily postponed until another year. A Foreign Obituary for 1854 and 1855 is given. The Obituary Notices and Chronicle of Events have been prepared with care. The space is so limited, that many names and events which otherwise would be given are necessarily omitted. 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 errors; persons who may 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 co-operation of many individuals. Communications should be addressed to the Editor of the American Almanac," Boston. Boston, Mass., December, 1855. 86-92 Georgia 66 360 174-176 154, 189 366 ............ 1855 ............ 369 293 Coinage of Mint since 1792 ......... 218 Government, Seats of, in different States. 204 .......... 208 Great Britain. 211 Illinois. 163 Imports, Value of, in 1853-54 346 326 168 167 168 ... 177 Commercial Agents in Foreign Countries 127 Imports for 64 Years..... Commercial Marine of the U.S......... 178 Imports free of Duty .... Commissioners, U.S., in Foreign Countries 126 Imports of each State for 1853-54. Congress, Thirty-Fourth, 1st Session 197-203 Imports paying ad valorem Duties...168-171 Connecticut 258 Indian Superintendents and Agents...... 107 146 Indiana Consular System, U.S., Act to remodel Consuls in Foreign Countries Consuls, Foreign, in U. S. .......... ......... Countries whence Goods are brought Courts, U. S: 174 Jewish Calendar 120-125 Judges of U. S. Circ. and Dist. Courts 120-125 Judiciary, U. S. 143, 232 Jupiter's Satellites, Eclipses of.. 280 Land-Office, Registers, Receivers, &c. ............... 206, 207 Kentucky 93-100 Lands, Public Departments, Officers in the ........ District of Columbia 232 146 Latitude and Longitude of Observatories 41 122-125 Latitude and Longitude of Places.... 42-46 341 Law Schools .................. 212 Laws, Titles and Abstracts of Public 100, 179 .... 138 Post-Office Department. Letters, by Sea-going Vessels....... 188, 195 Post Office Rec's and Expend's in 1553, '54 184 Libraries, College 195 Post-Oflice Statistics since 1790...... 203-211 Post-Office Revenue.. 158 Presidents of the U. S.... ... 227 Property of States... Lieutenant General, Act concerning..... ................... Mahometan Calendar. ................. ................. 182 .... 184, 185 • 97 207 232, 233 106 109 Public Lands, and Sales of. Mail Service for 1854 Marine, Commercial, of the U. S........ Mars and Venus, Discs of.. Massachusetts 235 Railroad Routes to the Pacific 178 Railroads in the U. S............... 219-222 120 Receivers and Registers of Land-Office .. 105 39 Reciprocity Treaty, Act to carry into Effect 151 ....... 123 Religious Denominations 204 282 Representatives, Alphabetical List of.... 202 245 Representatives, House of..... ... 199 ..... Medical Schools in United States ..... 213 Representatives, State, No. of, and Terms 205 329 Senators, State, No. of, and Terms......: 205 105 Slaves in the U. S. 175-179 Smithsonian Institution........... Navy, Act to promote Efficiency of ..... 144 South Carolina... Navy, Act concerning discipline in...... Navy Department. Navy List (Officers dropped)... Navy Officers, Pay of.... Navy, Vessels of War in. Navy Pension Agents... ..... 149 Sovereigns of Europe 99 State Department............ 117 State Finances, Debts, &c. 109 Sun, Ephemeris of the 341 Supreme Court, U. S.. 271 Telegraph to Pacific 340 Tennessee ..187-195 Texas... ........... ......... Obituary, Foreign, in 1854 and 1855 262 Texas, Act to pay Creditors ........ 206, 207 109 348 Tides, Height of Greatest, in 1856.. Observatories, Latitude and Longitude of 41 Tonnage of the U. S... .....100.... 47-52 116 Sun's Parallax in Altitude. 238 Surveyors of Land-Office......... 106 142 .................... 309 305 145 212 7 138 175 37 Tonnage, Comparative View of, for 40 313 Years Oregon Territory 339 Trade, Foreign, Countries of. Pamphlets and Magazines, Postage on 187-195 Treasurers, Assistant Parallax in Altitude of the Sun.......... Passengers, Carriage of, Act........... Pennsylvania. 64 Treasury Department..... 109 Venus and Mars, Discs of. 3 Vermont. 53 Vessels and Tonnage from 1815-1854 Population of Chief Cities in U. S....... 216 War Department. Postage. Foreign 187 West Indian Governments. .....190-195 Winds and Clouds Postage to Oregon and California, Foreign 190 Wisconsin. Postmasters, Compensation of...... 182, 187 Zodiac, Signs of the.......................... |