COUNTIES. County societies usually require the payment of $1 annually from each member, or $10 for life membership without further payment. It is customary to restrict competition for premiums to members of the society, and to collect of all others an entrance fee to the exhibition grounds. 1 This column includes the four preceding ones, and also a miscellaneous class reported as "Planks," "Boards," &c. Of 4,196 dwellings, the material and value were not given. The value, so far as reported, was as follows: Shanties," Average Value. $6.857.89 5,500.26 784.90 4.13 1,302.76 MANUFACTURES. THE manufactures of the State are very extensive, embracing an almost endless variety of articles. In many sections the manufacturing interests surpass those of agriculture or commerce. The lines of internal communication through the State have greatly facilitated the spread of manufactures; and now flourishing establishments are found in nearly every part of the State.1 The most im 1 Manufacturing Establishments in the several Counties, as reported by the State Census of 1855. 109 portant and extensive manufactories are those of iron and machinery, leather, articles of wood, and cotton and woolen goods. Such articles as relate to the professions and fine arts, to books, maps, and engravings, and to the heavy machinery used in ocean steamships, are principally manufactured in New York City and its suburbs. Immense quantities of brick are manufactured on the Hudson for the New York and Southern markets. Lime, waterlime, and gypsum are largely manufactured on the Hudson and through the center of the State; and iron ware is produced in large quantities in the iron districts of Essex, Clinton, Dutchess, Orange, and Oneida counties. Details of the principal manufacturing establishments are given in the statistics of the cities or towns in which they are located.1 1 Manufacturing Establishments in the several Counties, continued. The returns of manufacturing establishments from many counties are quite unsatisfactory, as an examination of the table will show. It is to be hoped that the next census will be more complete in this particular. COMMERCE. Tax position of New York in the confederacy of States gives it peculiar facilities for maritime afas, and through its various ports a large proportion of the foreign and internal commerce of the nation is carried on. This commerce extends to every accessible port in the world, and in amant and variety excels that of all the other States of the Union. It is regulated by acts of Congress; and the revenues arising from duties upon articles imported are collected by officers appsed by the President and Senate, or subordinate to those thus appointed. These officers are ace untable to the U. S. Treasury Department. Collection Districts.-The Federal Government has established 11 Collection Districts within this State for the collection of these revenues. Each of these has one port of entry, in charge of a collector, and several ports of delivery, at which one or more deputy collectors, inspectors, or other cfcers reside. The number of officers employed in collecting these revenues in New York Cry and its dependencies is nearly 800. Duties on foreign importations form much the largest item of revenue for the support of the General Government, and those collected at the port of New I firm the largest part of the whole amount. The absolute and relative amounts of moneys alected from this source in the United States and State of New York have been steadily increasing, except as influenced by pecuniary embarrassments; and now the former amount to about $60,000,000 192 Sackets Harbor.. 1966 Rochester Mar. 2 Mar 3 Greenport. Subordinate Offices. Albany, Troy, Cold Spring Harbor, Port Jefferson. Whitehall. Reuses Pint. Champlain. Perrysville, Mooers, Centerville, Hammoni, Morristown, Lisbon, Wadlington, Louisville, Massena Dexter. Henderson. Sandy Creek. Big Sodas, Little Sodas, Texas. Port Ontario. Carthage Landing. Kelsey Landing. Pultneyville, Charlotte. Niagara Falls, Niagara Bridge, Youngstown, Wilson, Eighteen Mile Creek, Black Rock, Black Rock Dam. Tonawanda, Schlosser. ADÍ À NOTA KÈ were made ports of delivery from Te turme table exhibits the receipts for customs for the The amount of revenue from duties varies with the amount of tard, and the sum thus collected becomes a very uncertain measure of the amount of commerce. The present tarif was ad pted March 3, 1837, and admits a large class of goods free of daty. The system of bonding, introduced in 1846, permits goods to be stored in Government warehouses until reexported or s 11, before the payment of duties is required. The State Gorement took early measures for establishing custom houses and regulating dates upon fire,en importations. By an act ofNN, 18. 1754. Sag Harbor and New York were made ports of entry and delivery, and offers were appointed by the Governor and Council of Appointment at each. The reluctance of New York to part with these revenues jed to much delay in her ratifying the Constitution of the U.S.. by which her revenues were sur remiered to the General Government. Registered and enrolled tommage of the port of New York and f the United States at diferent periods. REGISTERED 765 186342 1.250.999 12 YEARS. 14.64 $15 1825 152142 180 185 ! 14.58-00 7-537.441 21,378,408 24,457,-10 42,513,753.79 portant and extensive manufactories are those of iron and machinery, leather, articles of wood, and cotton and woolen goods. Such articles as relate to the professions and fine arts, to books, maps, and engravings, and to the heavy machinery used in ocean steamships, are principally manufactured in New York City and its suburbs. Immense quantities of brick are manufactured on the Hudson for the New York and Southern markets. Lime, waterlime, and gypsum are largely manufactured on the Hudson and through the center of the State; and iron ware is produced in large quantities in the iron districts of Essex, Clinton, Dutchess, Orange, and Oneida counties. Details of the principal manufacturing establishments are given in the statistics of the cities or towns in which they are located.1 1 Manufacturing Establishments in the several Counties, continued. The returns of manufacturing establishments from many counties are quite unsatisfactory, as an examination of the table will show. It is to be hoped that the next census will be more complete in this particular. |