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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.

whom the work is indebted for

The thanks of the Editor are particularly due to the Heads of Department at Washington, and to his many many contributors contributors and and correspondents correspondents, to 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.

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Coinage of Mint since 1792

218 Government, Seats of, in different States. 204

Coins, Fineness and Value of certain Foreign 226 Governments, Annual Expenses of State. 207

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Commercial Marine of the U. S.

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Commissioners, U.S., in Foreign Countries 126 Imports of each State for 1853-54 ...... 177
Congress, Thirty-Fourth, 1st Session 197-203 Imports paying ad valorem Duties...168-171

Connecticut

Consular System, U.S., Act to remodel.. 146 Indiana

258 Indian Superintendents and Agents...... 107
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Consuls, Foreign, in U. S.

131 Inspectors, Supervising, of Steam-vessels 109

Consuls in Foreign Countries

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Observatories, Latitude and Longitude of 41 Tonnage of the U. S.....

282 Representatives, Alphabetical List of.... 202

245 Representatives, House of.....

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213 Representatives, State, No. of, and Terms 205

86-92 Representatives, U. S., Apportionment of 215

318 Resolutions, Public, of Congress....... 158

111 Revenue and Expenditure

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112 Revenue, U. S., for 66 Years.

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114 Rhode Island...

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339 Rice, Exports of, since 1820

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126 Saturn's Rings

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130 School Fund of States.

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