XXI.
James K. Polk,
George M. Dallas,
James Buchanan,
Robert J. Walker,
William L. Marcy,
John Y. Mason,
Maine Medical School,
N. H. Medical School,
Castleton Med. College,
Vt. Medical College,
Med. School Har Univ.,
Berkshire Med. School,
Med. Instit. Yale College,
Coll. Phys. & Sur. N. Y.,
Med. Insti. Geneva Coll..
Med. Faculty Univ. N. Y.,
Albany Medical College,
Med. Dep. Univ. Penn.,
Jefferson Med. College,
Med. Dep. Penn Coll.,
Franklin Medical Coll.,
Med. School Univ. Md.,
Washington Med. Coll.,
Med. School Columb. Coll., Washington,
Med. School Univ. Va..
Richmond Med. College,
Winchester Medical Coll.
Med. Coll. State of S. C.,
Med. College of Georgia,
Med. Coll. of Louisiana,
Memphis Med. College,
Med. Dep. Transyl. Univ.,
Louisville Med. Instit.,
West'n Reserve Med. Coll.,
Medical College of Ohio,
Rush Medical College,
Med Dep. of Kemp. Coll., St. Louis, Mo.,
Med. Coll. St. Louis Univ.,
Do.
Brunswick,
Hanover,
Castleton,
Woodstock,
Cambridge,
Pittsfield,
New Haven,
New York,
Geneva,
New York,
Albany,
Philadelphia,
Do.
Do.
Do.
Baltimore,
Do.
Willoughby Med. College, Willoughby,
Med. Coll. Missouri Univ., Columbia,
Executive Committee.
W. W. Seaton,
Joseph G. Totten,
Robert Dale Owen.
George M. Dallas, V. P.,
Roger B. Taney, C. J.,
W. W. Seaton, Mayor of W.,
Lewis Cass, U. S.,
Sidney Breese, U.S.,
James A. Pearce, U.S.,
Robert D. Owen, U. S. R.,
Henry W. Hilliard, U. S. R.,
1838
1825
Charlottesville, 1825
Richmond,
Winchester,
Charleston,
Augusta,
New Orleans,
Memphis, Ten.
Lexington,
Louisville,
Cleveland, O.,
Cincinnati,
Chicago, Ill.,
OFFICERS.
GEORGE M. DALLAS, Chancellor.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Cave Johnson,
Nathan Clifford,
Roger B. Taney,
Edmund Burke,
William W. Seaton.
581 February 15th.
735 1st or 2d Th. Aug.
555 4th Thurs. in Aug.
232 1st Th. in March.
547 1st Wed. in Nov.
473 1st Th. in Sept.
830 6 w. aft 3d Th. Aug.) 852 1st Mon. in Nov.
98 1st Tues. in Oct.
597 Last Mon. in Oct. 58 1st Tues. în Oct. 4,774 1st Mon. in Nov. 1,232 1st Mon. in Nov. 1st Mon. in Nov. 2d Mon. in Oct. 909 October 31st.
1st Mon. in Nov. 81 1st Mon. in Nov. 1st Mon. in Oct. 14 1st Mon. in Nov.
1st Mon. in Oct. 2d Mon. in Nov. 124 2d Mon. in Nov.
3d Mon. in Nov.
242
216
130
214 1,351 1st Mon. in Nov.
53 1st Mon. in Nov.
96 1st Wed. in Nov.
331 1st Mon. in Nov.
16 1st Mon. in Nov.
19 Last week in Oct.
14 1st Mon. in Nov.
57 Last Mon. in Oct
1st Mon. in Nov.
70
75
50
126
92
William J. Hough, U. S. R,
Rufus Choate, Mass.,
Richard Rush, Pa.,
Gideon Hawley, N. Y.,
William C. Preston, S. C.,
A. Dallas Bache, Nat. Ins
Joseph G. Totten, Nat. Ins.
2
Building Committee.
Robert Dale Owen,
Joseph G. Totten,
W. W. Seaton.
Joseph Henry, Secretary.
Charles C. Jewett, Assistant Secretary.
James Renwick, Jr., Architect.
Robert Mills, Assistant Architect and Superintendent.
XXII. RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS.
According to returns made in 1844–7, and by estimate.
Methodist Episcopal,
Methodist Protestant Church,
Reformed Methodists,
Wesleyan Methodists,
German Methodists (United Brethren),
Allbright Methodists (Evangel. Associa'n),
Mennonites,
Orthodox Congregationalists,
Unitarian Congregationalists,
Universalists,
Swedenborgians,
Regular Baptists,
Six Principle Baptists,
Seventh Day Baptists,
Free Will Baptists,
Church of God Baptists,
Reformed Baptists (Campbellites),
Christian Baptists (Unitarians),
Annapolis,
Richmond,
Raleigh,
Columbia,
Milledgeville,
Tallahassee,
Montgomery,
Jackson,
New Orleans,
Austin,
Little Rock,
Nashville,
Frankfort,
Columbus,
Indianapolis,
Springfield,
Jefferson City,
Michigan,
Iowa City,
812
1,232
2,274
1,494
570
530
279
750
1,232
22
Rhode Island, {Providence,
Newport,
Connecticut, Hartf'd & N. Hav. 1st Monday in April,
New York, Albany,
New Jersey, Trenton,
Pennsylvania, Harrisburg,
Delaware, Dover,
Maryland,
Virginia,
N. Carolina,
S. Carolina,
Georgia,
Florida,
Alabama,
Mississippi,
Louisiana,
Times of Holding
Elections.
5,042
740
75
600
500
250
250
1,584
250
700
30
XXIII. Table exhibiting the Seats of Government, the Times of the Election of State officers, and the Meeting of the Legislatures, of the several States.
1,173,700
72,099
174,020
120,645
60,000
45,500
31,214
75,000
146,300
6,000
1,112,756
64,313
3,000
20,000
15,000
15,000
60,000
5,000
655,536
3,400
6,943
63,000
8,000
160,000
35,600
Times of the Meeting of the Legislatures.
2d Monday in September, 2d Wednesday in May.
2d Tuesday in March, 1st Wednesday in June.
1st Tuesday in September, 2d Thursday in October.
2d Monday in November, 1st Wednesday in January.
1st Wednesday in April'
1st Tuesday in May.
Last Monday in October.
1st Wednesday in May.
1st Tuesday in January.
4th Tuesday in January.
1st Tuesday in January.
1st Tues. in Jan. biennially.
Last Monday in Dec., bienn.
1st Monday in December:
2d Monday in Nov., bienn.
4th Monday in November.
1st Monday in Nov., bienn.
1st Monday in November.
1st Monday in Dec., bienn.
1st Monday in November,
Tues. af 1st Mon. in Nov.
2d Tuesday in October,
2d Tuesday in November,
1st Wednesday in Oct.
4th Thursday in April,
Commonly in August,
2d Monday in October,
1st Monday in October,
1st Monday in October,
1st Monday in August,
1st Mon. and Tue. in Nov. 1st Monday in Jan., bienn.
1st Monday in November, 3d Monday in Jan., bienn.
1st Monday in November, January, bienn.
1st Monday in August,
1st Thursday in August,
1st Monday in August,
2d Tuesday in October,
1st Monday in August,
1st Monday in August,
1st Monday in August,
1st Tues. in November,
1st Monday in August,
1st Monday in Nov., bienn.
1st Monday in Oct., bienn.
1st Monday in December.
1st Monday in December.
1st Monday in December.
1st Monday in Dec., bienn.
1st Monday in Nov., bienn.
1st Monday in January.
1st Monday in Dec, bienn.
GOVERNORS OF THE SEVERAL STATES AND
TERRITORIES,
With their Salaries, Terms of Office, and expiration of their respective Terms; the Number of Senators and Representatives in the State Legislatures, with their respective Terms.
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Maine, John W. Dana,
N. Hamp'e, Jared W. Williams,
Vermont, Horace Eaton,
Massach'tts, George N. Briggs,
R. Island, Elisha Harris,
Connecti't, Clark Bissell,
New York, John Young,
New Jersey, Charles C. Stratton,
Pennsylv'a, Francis R. Shunk,
Delaware, William Tharp,
Maryland, Thomas G. Pratt,
Virginia, William Smith,
N. Carolina, William A. Graham, 2,000
S. Carolina, David Johnson, 3,500
Georgia, George W. Crawford, 3,500
Florida, William D. Moseley, 2,500
Alabama, Reuben Chapman, 3,500
2 Dec. 1849 33
Mississippi, Albert G. Brown, 3,000 2 Jan. 1848 32
Louisiana, Isaac Johnson, 6,000 4 Jan. 1850 32
Texas, J. P. Henderson, 2,000 2 Dec. 1847 21
Arkansas, Thomas S. Drew, 2,000 4 Nov. 1848 25
Tennessee, Neil S. Brown, 2,000 2 Oct. 1849 25
Kentucky, William Owsley, 2,500 4 Sept. 1848 38
Ohio, William Bebb,
3,333
2 Nov. 1847
4 July 1849
1,500
2
Dec. 1848 36
2
Michigan, W. L. Greenley, Act. 1,500
Indiana, James Whitcomb, 1,500
3
Illinois,
4
Missouri,
Augustus C. French, 1,000
John C. Edwards,
Ansel Briggs,
Henry Dodge,
1,500
4
1,000
2,500
1 May 1848 31
1 June 1848 12
1 Oct. 1847 30
1 Jan. 1848 40
1 May 1848 31
1 May 1848 21
2 Jan. 1849 32
3 Jan. 1848 18
3 Jan. 1848 33
3 Jan. 1850 9
3 Jan. 1848 21
3 Jan. 1849 32
2
Jan. 1849 50
100
72
66
Dec. 1849 50
100
Dec. 1850 40
91
Nov. 1848 18
4 49
4 Dec. 1850 19
4 39
3 Mar. 1849 13 2 26
In all the States, except Virginia and South Carolina, the Governor is voted for by the people; and if no one has a majority of all the votes, in the States in which such a majority is required, the Legislature elects to the office of Governor one of the candidates voted for by the people.
The seat of government of Louisiana, after 1848, is to be at Baton Rouge.
* Wisconsin is not yet a State, having rejected the constitution which the convention had prepared.
XXV.
MEXICAN TARIFF.
Tariff of Duties on Imports and Tonnage, and Regulations for collecting the same in such of the Ports of Mexico as may be now or hereafter in our Military possession by conquest, prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury, and accompanying his Report to the President of the United States, dated 30th March, 1847.
On all articles not here enumerated, a duty of 30 per cent. ad valorem is imposed; when the duty is stated as so much per cent. it is reckoned as so much per cent. ad valorem.
Anvils, four cents per lb.
Apples, one dollar per barrel.
Arms, and warlike instruments, contraband.
Artificial flowers, forty per cent.
Bacon and smoked hams, six and one-quar-
ter cents per lb.
Bags of flax, hemp, or grass, not exceeding
one yard square in size, twelve and one-
quarter cents each; if exceeding that
size, twelve and one-half cents per square
yard of material. See Cotton.
Baizes, see Wool.
Bead bags, forty per cent.
Beads, forty per cent.
Beef, smoked and jerked, one cent per Ib.
Beef, salted and pickled in barrels or half
barrels, two cents per lb.
Beer, ale, porter, and cider, in quart bottles,
one dollar per dozen, which includes the
duty on bottles. In pint bottles, fifty
cents per dozen, which includes the duty
on bottles. In casks or any other des-
cription of package, other than the above-
named, twenty-five cents per gallon. In
all cases of liquids, imported in casks or
barrels, the duty shall be levied on the ca-
pacity of the cask or barrel, without re-
gard to any deficiency of its contents.
Beeswax, twelve and a half cents per lb.
Blank books, twenty cents per lb.
Blankets, see Wool.
Boards, ten dollars per thousand feet.
Bockings, see Wool.
Bonnets, see Wearing apparel.
Books, printed, bound, half bound, or in
sheets or pamphlets, fifty cents per lb.
Boots, for men, women, or children, one
dollar per pair.
Bottles, of black or green glass, not exceed
ing the capacity of one quart each, three
dollars per gross; if exceeding that ca-
pacity, five dollars per gross.
Bowie knives, contraband of war.
Boxes, fancy, forty per cent.
Brads, four cents per lb.
Braids, forty per cent.
Brandy, and other spirits, in demijohns, one
dollar per gallon. The same rules to be
applied to brandy and other spirits, when
imported in demijohns, or in bottles of
greater capacity than two and one-half
gallons to the dozen, as are made for
wines. Brandy in pipes, not exceeding one hundred and twenty gallons each, sixty dollars per pipe; if in half pipes, not exceeding sixty gallons each, thirty dollars per half pipe; in quarter casks, not exceeding thirty-two gallons each, sixteen dollars a quarter cask; if in Indian barrels or octaves, not exceeding twenty gallons each, ten dollars per package. Brandy and other distilled spirits, in bottles, not exceeding two and one-half gallons to the dozen, three dollars per dozen, which includes the duty on bottles.
Brass, manufactures of, see Manufactures.
Brass, see Copper.
Bread, ship, and biscuit, three cents per lb.
Brimstone, contraband of war.
Butter, six cents per lb.
Cables and cordage, five cents per lb.
Cables, iron, four cents per lb.
Camphor, forty per cent.
Candles, wax and sperm, twelve and one-
half cents per lb. Candles, tallow, six
and one-half cents per lb.
Cannon, contraband of war.
Caps of fur, leather, cloth, or straw, fifty cents each.
Cards, playing, twenty-five cents per pack.
Carpets, not more than thirty-six inches in
width, forty cents per running yard.
Carriages, forty per cent.
Cheese, four cents per lb.
China ware, forty per cent.
Cigaritos, or paper cigars, three dollars per
thousand.
Cinnamon, cassia, and cloves, fifty cents
per lb.
Cider, see Beer.
Coaches, forty per cent.
Coal, anthracite, bituminous, and charcoal, one dollar per ton.
Cocoa, three cents per lb.
Coffee, three cents per lb.
Copper, in pigs or bars, old copper, sheath-
ing copper, brass in pigs or bars, old
brass, zinc or spelter, in pigs, bars, or
sheets, and on steel in bars not over one
inch square, intended only for mining
purposes, two cents per lb. Copper man-
ufactured, see Manufactures.
Cordials, in bottles not exceeding two and
one-half gallons to the dozen, four dollars
per dozen, which includes the duty on
bottles.
Cords, see Cotton.
Cosmetics, all kinds, forty per cent.
Cotton trimming laces, cotton insertings and
trimmings, tapes, cords, galloons, tassels,
and all other manufactures of cotton or of
cotton mixed with any other material, ex-
cept wool, worsted, or silk, not otherwise
specially mentioned and provided for, for-
ty per cent.
Cotton shawls or rebosas, thirty per cent.
Cotton handkerchiefs, not over one yard
square, six cents each; over that size,
one-fourth of one cent per running yard,
each additional inch in width.
Cotton yarn and twist, eight cents per lb.
Cotton thread and balls, twenty-five cents
per lb.
Cotton thread on spools, six cents per dozen
spools.
cent.
Cotton, or of cotton, manufactures of, mixed
with any other material, except wool,
worsted, or silk, in the piece (excepting
shawls and handkerchiefs), not exceeding Indian corn, ten cents per bushel.
thirty-six inches wide, five cents per run- Indian meal, one-half cent per lb.
ning yard; and for every additional inch Iron, pig, one-half cent per lb.
in width, one-fourth of one cent per run- Iron, bar, rolled or hammered, old or scrap
iron, one and one-half cents per lb. Iron, sheet, rod, hoop, and all other descriptions of rolled and hammered, four cents per lb.
ning yard additional duty. Cotton bagging, gunny bagging, and all other bagging and matting of all kinds, five cents per running yard. Cotton, raw, two cents per lb. Counterpanes, see wool. Currants, three cents per lb. Cutlery, say pocket knives, scissors, razors, and table cutlery, and on all manufac- Laces, see Cotton. tures of iron and steel, except those pro- Lances, contraband. hibited and including iron and steel wire Lard, four cents per lb. and cap and bonnet wire, forty per cent. Lead, contraband of war. Dates, three cents per lb. Demijohns, three dollars per dozen. Dirks, contraband of war. Drawers, leather, fifty cents each. Earthen ware, forty per cent. Engravings, forty per cent. Epaulets and wings, one dollar per pair. Figs, three cents per lb. Fire-arms, contraband of war. Fish, pickled or salted in barrels, one dollar per barrel; if in half barrels, sixtytwo and a half cents; if in quarter barrels or kegs, forty cents each. Fish, smoked or salted, dried codfish, and on beef and pork salted or pickled, in barrels or half barrels, two cents per lb. Flax, see Hemp. Flour, see Wheat.
Furniture (household), forty per cent.
Galloons, see Cotton.
German silver, manufactures of, see Manu-
factures.
Gin, in square bottles (in cases), of not exceeding three gallons to the dozen, four dollars per dozen, which includes the duty on bottles.
piece, not exceeding thirty-six inches in width, fifteen cents per running yard; and for every additional inch in width, onehalf cent per running yard additional duty.
Grain of all kinds, except rice and Indian
corn, forty cents per bushel.
Gun cotton, contraband of war.
Gunny bagging, see Bags and Cotton.
Gunpowder, contraband of war.
Handkerchiefs, see Cotton and Linen.
Harness, forty per cent.
Hats of straw, fur, or silk, one dollar each.
Hemp, flax, Sisal, or India grass, India,
Sunn, one cent per lb.
Hemp, see Manufactures.
Hosiery, say caps, gloves, cuffs, mits, socks,
stockings, shirts, and drawers of whatever
material composed, except silk, thirty per
Iron castings of all descriptions, not other-
wise enumerated, three cents per lb.
Jute, one cent per ib.
Knives, forty per cent.
Linen thread, twenty-five cents per lb. Linen handkerchiefs, not over one yard square, twelve and one-half cents each ; if over that size, one-half cent per running yard, for each additional inch in width.
Lumber, hewn timber, or scantling, ten dol-
lars per thousand feet.
Laths, fifty cents per thousand.
Maccaroni, four cents per lb.
Machinery, and machines to be used in the
gold and silver mines, free.
Manilla, one cent per lb.
Manufactures of hemp, grass, and flax, in
the piece, not otherwise specially enumer-
ated and provided for, and not exceeding
thirty-six inches wide, six cents per run-
ning yard; and for every additional inch
in width, one-fourth of one cent per run-
ning yard additional duty.
Manufactures of copper, brass, tin, zinc, or
spelter, pewter, and German silver, ex-
cept such as are prohibited, thirty per ct.
Millinery, see wearing apparel and silk.
Molasses, five cents per gallon.
Musical instruments, forty per cent.
Muskets, contraband of war.
Nails, four cents per lb.
Ginger, fifty cents per lb.
Glass, window, ten cents per lb.
Glasses (looking), looking glass plates, Nuts and almonds, four cents per lb.
on glass ware of all kinds, except those
specially mentioned otherwise, and on Oatmeal, one cent per lb.
Oats, see Grain.
China ware, stone ware, and earthen ware, Oil cloth and oil floor cloth, not exceeding
forty per cent.
seventy-two inches in width, fifty cents
per running yard.
Gloves, thirty per cent.
Goats' hair or mohair, manufactures of, the Oils, whale, sperm, linseed, and olive, and
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