Average cost per pound. Cents. TABLE SHOWING THE QUANTITY AND VALUE OF COTTON EXPORTED, THE VALUE OF TOBACCO, RICE, AND BREADSTUFFS EXPORTED, AND THE TOTAL EXPORTS IN EVERY YEAR, FROM 1821 To 1862 INCLUSIVE; ALSO THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES EXPORTED FROM JULY 1, 1846, TO JUNE 30, 1862.* 16.2 16.6 11.8 15.4 20.9 12.2 10. 10.7 10. 9.9 9.1 9.8 11.1 12.8 16.8 16.8 14.2 10.3 14.8 8.5 10.2 Also of breadstuffs, manufactures, and the aggregate exports to June 30, 1863. † Beginning in 1843, the fiscal year ends June 30. These amounts are given from assumed corrections on page 271 of the Finance Report of 1863. STATEMENT EXHIBITING THE AMOUNT OF COIN AND BULLION IMPORTED AND EXPORTED ANNUALLY FROM 1821 TO 1863, INCLUSIVE, AND ALSO THE AMOUNT OF IMPORTATION OVER EXPORTATION, AND EXPORTATION OVER IMPORTATION, DURING THE SAME YEARS. STATEMENT EXHIBITING THE AMOUNT OF THE TONNAGE OF THE UNITED STATES ANNUALLY FROM 1789 TO 1863, INCLUSIVE; ALSO THE REGISTERED AND ENROLLED AND LICENSED TONNAGE EMPLOYED IN STEAM NAVIGATION IN EACH YEAR. Light-House Board and Officers. Organized under Act of August 31, 1852. Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, ex-officio President. Admiral W. B. Shubrick, U.S. Navy, Chairman. Brevet Brigadier-General Jos. G. Totten, Chief Engineer, U.S. Army. Colonel Hartman Bache, Corps of Engineers. U.S. Army. LIGHT-HOUSE Appointed in conformity with the act of Congress of August 31, 1852, which provides that an officer of the army or navy be assigned to each district as a light-house inspector, subject to and under the orders of the Light-House Board, who shall receive for such service the Districts. Names of Inspectors. Corps. Where Born. Professor A. D. Bache, Superintendent of Coast Survey. Professor Joseph Henry, Secretary of Smithsonian Admiral C. H. Davis, U.S. Navy. INSPECTORS. same pay that he would be entitled to by law for the performance of duty in the regular line of his profession, and no other, except the legal allowance per mile when travelling under orders connected with his duties." New York..... 2d Navy Massachusetts за Navy All the lights on the coast of the United States from Cape Henry, Virginia (entrance to Chesapeake Bay), to the Rio Grande, Texas, except those at Naval Hospital (Norfolk), Craney Island Shoal, Cape Hatteras and Beacon, Ocracoke, Cape Lookout, N. W. Point, Royal Shoal, Roanoke Marshes, Brant Island Shoal Light-Vessel, Long Shoal Light-Vessel, Croatan Light-House, Wade's Point Light-House, Martin's Industry Light-Vessel, Carysfort Reef, Dry Bank, Sand Key, Key West, Dry Tortugas, Pensacola, Ship Island, Chandeleur Island, Merrill's Shell Bank, Plea Geographical Limits of the Districts. From N.E. boundary of Maine to Hampton Harbor, N.H. From Hampton Harbor, N.H., to Gooseberry Point, Mass. From Gooseberry Point, Mass., to Squan Inlet, N.J., and Hudson River and Lake Champlain. From Squan Inlet, N.J., to Metompkin Inlet, Va., and Delaware Bay. From Metompkin Inlet, Va., to New River In let, N.C., including Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. From New River Inlet, N.C., to Mosquito Inlet, Florida. From Mosquito Inlet to Egmont Key, Florida. From St. Mark's, Florida, to W. extremity of Lake Pontchartrain, La. From Mouths of Mississippi, inclusive, to the Rio Grande, Texas. On Lakes Erie and Ontario, with St. Lawrence and Niagara Rivers. On Lakes St. Clair, Huron, Michigan, Superior, and their tributaries. Pacific Coast, California, Oregon and Washington. are situated. Each light-house has a keeper, and the more important ones, one or more assistants. The compensation of the keepers ranges from $300 to $1000, except on the lakes, where, navigation being obstructed for half the year, their compensation ranges from $100 to $500. MARINERS. TABLE OF DISTANCES AT WHICH OBJECTS CAN BE SEEN AT SEA ACCORDING TO THEIR RESPECTIVE ELEVATIONS AND THE ELEVATION OF THE EYE OF THE OBSERVER. The distance at which a light is visible above the horizon at sea is proportional to the square root of its height. The effect of atmospheric refraction is to increase the distance of visibility by about the eleventh part of that which results from the consideration of the earth's curvature alone. The preceding table is calculated with regard to refraction, and shows the distance at which an object of a given height is visible above the sea horizon. In order, then, to ascertain the distance of a vessel from a light just becoming visible, add the distance corresponding to the elevation of the light to that corresponding to the height of the observer's eye above the water. Example 1.-Height of Cape Ann Light, 165 feet, visible.... Distance of light.. ... 15.3 nautical miles. 4.4 66 Example 2.-Height of Sankaty Head Light, 150 feet, visible.. Distance of light. 66 Dist SUPERVISING INSPECTORS OF STEAMBOATS, AND THEIR DISTRICTS. 1. All waters and rivers of Pacific coast, and all the tributaries thereto...... Wm. Burnett, 2. Waters of Atlantic coast, rivers and tributaries between Passamaquoddy Bay and Cape Charles....... 3. Waters of Atlantic and Gulf coasts, south of Cape Charles, to and including Pascagoula River, with river and tributaries........... San Francisco. Thomas B. Stillman, New York. ........ James N. Muller, 4. Mississippi River and its western tributaries to Alton, and Gulf coast west of Mississippi to Rio Grande.......... Baltimore. ......................... John J. Witzig, 5. Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries from and including Alton and the Red River of the North.............. 6. Gulf Coast from the Pascagoula to the Mississippi River, the latter with its eastern tributaries to the mouth of Ohio, and the Ohio and its tributaries to Madison....... 7. The Ohio River from and including Madison..... St. Louis. ........ Alfred Guthrie, Chicago. 8. All the waters of the lakes north and west of Lake Erie, with their rivers and tributaries....... 9. All the waters of Lakes Erie, Ontario, Champlain, and George, with river St. Lawrence and their tributaries Besides these, there are eighteen local inspectors of steamboat-hulls, and the same number of inspectors of steamboat-boilers, residing at the principal sea, river, and lake ports, and receiving a compensation ranging from $200 to $2000. The entire compensation of these local inspectors amounts to $23,200. |