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$132,904,121 $21,132,315 $154,036,436 $154,998,928

Statement of the Commerce of each State and Territory, from July 1, 1847. to the

30th day of June, 1848.

Value of Exports,

Val. of Imp'ts.

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Statement of the total imports, and the imports consumed in the United States, exclusive of specie, during each fiscal year, from 1821 to 1848; showing, also, the domestic and foreign exports, exclusive of specie, and the tonnage employed during the same periods.

Total im

ports.

Imports con- Domestic pro- For'n mdse.
sumed in U.S. duce exp'id

exported

exclusive of exclusive of exclusive of

57,652,577 52.449,855 20,440,934 77.595,322 79,484,068 54,901,108 57,878,117 16,431,830 82,324,827 88,509.824 66,975.505 49.976,632 14,044,578 72,264.686 74,492,527 54.741,571 55,087,307 12,347.344 72,358,671 70,876,920 49,575,099 58,524,878 13.145,857 73,849,508 103.191.124 82,808,110 59,218,583 13,077,069 81,310,583 101,029,266 75,327.688 61,726,529 19,794,074 87,176.943 108,118.311 83,470.067 69,950,856 17.577,876 90,140.433 126,521,332 86,973.147 80,623,662 21.636.553 104.336,973 149,895.742 122,007,974 100,459,481 14,756,321 121,693,577 189,980.035 158,811,392 106,570,942 17,767,762 128.663.040 140.989.217 113,310,571 94,280,895

1,741,392

1,439 450

Years.

specie.

specie.

specie.

Toʻal exp'ts.

Tonnage.

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83,241,541

$62,585,724 $43,696,405 $43.671,894 $10,824.429 $64,974,382

68,395,673 49,874,079 11,476,022

1,298,958

72,160,281

1,324,699

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1829

1830

1831

1,260,798

1,191,776

1,267,847

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86,552,598 95,560,880 162,092,132 145,870.816 101,625,533 107.141,519 86,250,335 111,660,561 127,946,177 114,776,309 103,636,236 100.162.087 87,996,318 91 799,242 21,534,599 12,431.376 25,895,451 43,169.200 24,862,753 51,790,903 108,435,035 96,390.548 99,531,774 117,254,564 105,599,541 98,455,330 1845....... 121,691,797 110,048,859 101,718,042 1847 146,545.638 116,258,310 150,574,844 1848 ....... 154,977,876 127,490,012 130,203,709

From 1821 to 1842 the amounts are to September 30. They are then given for the last three months of 1842; then for first six months of 1843 to 30th June. The years 1844, '45, '46, '47, '48, are to the 30th June, from 1st July, each.

Aggregate value of Breadstuffs and Provisions exported each year, from 1821 to

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The Whale Fishery employs in all about 192,000 tons, and steam navigation 411,823 tons in coasting trade.

ADULTERATEd drugs.

The Inspector of Drugs, at New York, under the late act of Congress, reports that he rejected as base and spurious, in six months, the following: 6,650 lbs. rhubarb root, from Canton, 2,249 lbs. from London, 645 lbs., 788 lbs, and 185 lbs. also from London; 545 lbs. from Hamburg; 878 from Canton; 1075 from Marseilles; Opium, 931 lbs., 750 lbs. from Marseilles; 758 lbs., 156 lbs. from London; 2,940 lbs. jalap from Tampico; 875 lbs. and 3,400 lbs. from Vera Cruz; 1414 lbs. gamboge, from London; 1,400 lbs. senna, from Leghorn; yellow bark, 2,900 lbs. 1,875 lbs. from Bordeaux; 13,120 lbs. from Marseilles; iodine, 1,783 oz., 1,280 oz. from London; gum myrrh, 227 lbs., 412 lbs., 1,065 lbs. from London; 12,8.0 lbs. Cinchona bark, from Carthagena.

2. PRODUCTS UNITED STATES, 1848.*

TABLE, exhibiting an estimate of the value of the products of the labor and capital of the United States in the year 1848.

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* From the able report of the late Commissioner of Patents, Mr. Burke.

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3. THE LAST PATENT OFFIce report.

.$1,119,866,420

54,813,047

277,553,950

59,750,000

17,581,339

574,000,000

75,000,000 45,000,000

50 000 000 50,000,000

$2,323,564,758

In taking leave of the able gentleman who has presided for four years over this department of government, we can only express the hope that his successor will prove as efficient and energetic, and carry out the good works that have been begun.

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We take the following interesting tables, &c., from Mr. Burke, who says: "This office is under great obligation to the intelligent gentlemen who have so promptly and fully responded to its inquiries. And particularly is it indebted to J. D. B. De Bow, Esq., of New Orleans, Charles Cist, Esq., of Cincinnati, B. P. Johnson, Esq., of Albany, M. B. Batchem, Esq., of Columbus, Ohio, J. Delafield, of Seneca county, N. Y., T. Marshall Painter, Esq., of Lucerne, Pa., and N. J. Wythe, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass., for interesting and valuable communications."

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In the pursuit of its statistical investigations, this office has keenly felt the want of means for obtaining accurate and reliable information concerning the great industrial interests of the country. No provision has been made by the general government for obtaining such information, except in relation to the foreign commerce of the country; and but very few of the States have adopted measures for obtaining authentic information in relation to their industrial interests. Massachusetts and Louisiana are in advance of most other States in their legislation upon these subjects. In the former State, very full returns are obtained, in small periods of a few years, if not annually, of its industry and resources; and in the latter, a bureau of statistics has been established, at the head of which has been placed one of her most intelligent and talented citizens.

A most interesting view of the vast resources of this great republic, would be annually exhibited, if all the States should follow the example of Louisiana and Massachusetts. The statesman and legislator, to whom the people commit the destinies of their common country, would then have at their hands ample material to aid them in the intelligent discharge of their momentous and responsible duties, without which they are like blind men feeling their way in the dark.

Cultivation of Sugar Cane, etc.

As a commencement of this system of investigation, I employed an intelligent and able gentleman, Charles L. Fliechmann, Esq., to visit Louisiana during the last season, to make inquiry into the condition and progress of the sugar culture in that State. He has accomplished, in part, the object for which he was sent, and has presented to me a most valuable report, which will be found in the appendix to the agricultural report, marked No. 2.

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