lieved to be complete and correct. The Seventh Census of the United States not yet having been printed, it has been found impossible to obtain full or authentic returns of the matters embraced therein. For obvious reasons the most authentic source of information is the official publication, and it is better to give in one of our volumes a complete abstract of the census from the official copy, than to publish portions of it from year to year in separate volumes from unofficial and irresponsible authority. If the census is printed in season, we hope to give full abstracts of its returns in our volume for next year. The Titles and Abstracts of the Public 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 making land warrants assignable, establishing the Light-House Board, for the further security of passengers on board steam-vessels, relating to the public printing, and concerning the Post-Office establishment. The tabular view of 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 more full than 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 the latest 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 of England, and the Ministry, Judiciary, the Peers, and the New House of Commons. The newest Ministry of France is added. The Obituary Notices and Chronicle of Events have been prepared with care. A full foreign obituary was prepared but is crowded out. It will be given next year. 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, 1852. Abstracts of Public Laws PAGE ........................................ 139 Ephemeris of the Sun. Alabama... 66 1852. American Obituary .................................................. 332 Events, General, in 1851............... 345 Apportionment of U. S. Representatives 207 139 Exports of each State for 1850-51...... 180 Arsenals in the United States........... Astronomy, Recent Discoveries in, relat- Attorneys of U. S. Courts... Banks. See the several States. Calendar: January, &c.............. California Gold.. .... 169 116 Federal Representative Population,..... 102 Festivals of the Church Finances of the States... Flowering of Fruit-trees in 1852 ...... 209 .206, 207 280 98 178 187 10-33 Foreign Ministers, &c., in U. S......... 134 California Land Claims, Commission .... ...... ........ Census of U. States (Seventh) Circuit Courts. 178 332 1852.. 130 Geologists, U. S., with Land-Office...... 110 Cities, Principal, Population of.......... 210 Great Britain. Colleges, Annual Expenses in Consuls, Foreign, in U. S. ..... ......... 308 352 Judges of U. S. Circuit and District Courts 126 ....... 134-139 Jupiter's Satellites, Eclipses of.. Consuls in Foreign Countries...... 130-133 Kentucky Countries whence Goods are brought ... 178 Lands, Public Debt of the United States...................................... Delaware. Department of the Interior. 8 Lands, Public, Act granting Right of Way Departments, Officers in the....... 202 102-104 Laws, Titles and Abstracts of Public 139 .... 204 ...... 126-128 Letters, by Sea-going Vessels 160 ......... 199-201 37 Lighthouse Board.. 352 Eclipse of Sun, Annular, June 6.. Engineers, Corps of, &c. 37 Louisiana 39 Mahometan Calendar Engineers in Navy, Pay of.............. 121 Maine.... 227 Envoys Extraordinary, &c. ................................. 129 Marine, Commercial, of the U. S........ 181 .......... 225 317 57 59 102 Newspapers, Postage on............190-196 New York New York, Railroads in... Smithsonian Institution.. Nights, Darkness of the, in 1853 ........ 8, 9 Sovereigns of Europe Obituary, American, in 1851.. 66 66 1852.. 273 Specific Duties. See Imports. Observatories, Latitude and Longitude of 45 State Department.. Pamphlets, Postage on.. Parallax in Altitude of the Sun.... Pension Agents, Army and Navy.... Pole Star, Apparent Places of the Population of the U. S.......... 40 State Elections, &c.. 190, 196 Steamboat Inspectors 68 Sun, Ephemeris of the. 112, 113 Supreme Court, U. S..... 316 Texas... 208, 209 Theological Schools........ Population of Chief Cities in U. S....... 210 Three-Cent Pieces 150 ... 352 ... 51 68 126 109 291 Postage, Act modifying Rates of........ 149 Tides, Height of Greatest, in 1853........ 7 189 Titles and Abstracts of Public Laws Postage by the N. Y. & Bremen Steamers 194 Tonnage of the U. S... 139 179-182 Post-Office Distributing Offices......104-107 Vermont. |