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............................. 127 Engineers in Navy, Pay of.............. 107
................................ 352 Envoys Extraordinary, &c. .................... 116, 120
275 Ephemeris of the Sun..
323 Eras, &c....

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Abstracts of Public Laws
Additions and Corrections.

Alabama...

American Obituary..
American Securities held abroad
American States

Arkansas.

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318

215 European States

66

Apportionment of U. S. Representatives
Appraisers at Large...
Appropriations, U. S., for 1854, 1855.. 127,
Army List.

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315 Events, General, in 1853............... 336
285 66
1854.... ............................ 346
188 Executive Government of U. S........... 87
88 Expenditures of U. S. for 65 years...... 150
128 Expenditures of each State
100 Exports of each State for 1852-53...... 162
110 Exports, Value of, in 1850-53 .......... 157
98 Exports to Foreign Countries........... 159
141 Exports for 63 Years....

195

152
188
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194, 195

Army Officers, Pay of....................................................
Army Pension Agents.......
Army, Act to increase pay of rank & file of
Arsenals in the United States........... 102 Federal Representative Population
Assistant Treasurers
88 Festivals of the Church..
Atmospherical Electricity................................... 65 Finances of the States.........
Attorneys of U.S. Courts............... 112 Fixed Stars, Apparent Places of Principal 55
Banks in the United States
210 Florida.
Banks. See the several States.
Flowering of Fruit-trees in 1854....
Barometrical Observations .........76-83 Foreign Goods imported in 1852.... 153-156
Cabinet, Officers in the .....
87 Foreign Mail Service ...
168
Calendar: January, &c............... 8-31 Foreign Ministers, &c., in U. S..... .... 120
California.....
........................................ 310 Foreign Nations, Intercourse with...... 115
California Gold..
190 Foreign Obituary.
California Land Claims, Commission ....
Capitals of States...

274
84

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336

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90 Foreign Trade, Countries of........159-161
192 France.

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323
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Census of U. States (Seventh)
188 Franking Privilege
Celestial Phenomena, Signs, &c. ........ 3 General Events in 1853 ................ 343
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1854

Chronicle of Events.
Chronological Cycles........................................

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345
272

4 Georgia

Church Festivals

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319
301

152

5 Government, Seats of, in different States. 192
Circuit Courts...
110, 111 Governments, Annual Expenses of State. 195
Cities, Principal, Population of.......... 189 Governors of States, &c. Terms and Salaries 193
Clerks of Circuit Courts of U. S....................... 113 Great Britain.
Clerks of District Courts of U. S......... 113 Illinois.
Clouds and Winds in 1853 ........... 76-83 Imports, Value of, in 1852-53.......... 153
Coinage of Mint since 1792............. 191 Imports for 63 Years...
Coins, Fineness and value of certain foreign 217 Imports of each State for 1852-53...... 162
Collectors of Customs.....................
93 imports paying ad valorem Duties...153-156
Colleges in United States..................................... 196 Imports free of Duty
Colleges, Annual Expenses in
199 Indian Superintendents and Agents...... 97
Commerce of U. S.
153 Indiana
296
Commercial Agents in Foreign Countries 117 Supervising Inspectors of Steam-vessels. 99
Commercial Marine of the U. S..... 163 Intercourse with Foreign Nations....... 115
Commissioners, U.S., in Foreign Countries 116 Interior, Department of the ............. 89
Congress, Thirty-Third, 2d Session 179-185 Iowa...
Connecticut

153

306

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240 Jewish Calendar

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Consuls, Foreign, in U. S.
121 Judges of U. S. Circ. and Dist. Courts 110-115
Consuls in Foreign Countries...... 117-120 Judiciary, U. S..
110
Corrections and Additions...
352 Jupiter's Satellites, Eclipses of..........
39
Countries whence Goods are brought 159 Kanzas Territory
314
Debt of the United States
130
Debts of the States................ 194,
288
Delaware.
Department of the Interior..................................
Department of State

149 Kanzas Territory, Act establishing
195 Kentucky
258 Land-Office, Registers, Receivers, &c. 95
89 Lands, Public
208

Departments, Officers in the

88 Lands, Public, Act to graduate and reduce
88-90 Price of
141
112-115 Latitude and Longitude of Observatories 41
315 Latitude and Longitude of Places.... 42-46
35, 37 Law Schools....

200
127

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35 Laws, Titles and Abstracts of Public
36 Legislatures, State, Meeting of. ..... 192
36 Letters, by Sea-going Vessels
37 Libraries, College....
192 Lighthouse Board.......................
65 Louisiana ....
37 Mahometan Calendar
100, 105 Mail Service for 1853

172
196
99

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Electricity, Atmospherical...
Elements of the Eclipses of Sun
Engineers, Corps of, &c.

District Courts...

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District of Columbia
Eclipses in 1855
Eclipse of Moon, May 1 & 2 ..........
Eclipse of Moon, October 25...
Eclipse of Sun, Partial, May 15
Eclipse of Sun, Partial, November 9
Elections, State.

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Mail Service, Foreign... ..................................... 168 Public Lands, and Sales of.........
Maine...

208, 209
219 Public Lands, Surveyors-General of...... 96
163 Public Laws, Titles and Abstracts of..... 127
109 Public Resolutions of Congress....... 143
39 Railroads in New England..
202-204

Marine, Commercial, of the U. S.......
Marine Corps.
Mars and Venus, Discs of....................................
Marshals, U. S...
Maryland

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Massachusetts..........

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201 fect

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142
192

113 Railroads in Construction in New England 204
259 Railroads in the U. S......
202-208
95
229 Receivers and Registers of Land-Office..
Massachusetts, Railroads of............ 202 Reciprocity Treaty, Act to carry into Ef-
Medical Schools
Meteorological Information.......... 76-83 Religious Denominations
Michigan
294 Representatives, Alphabetical List of.... 185
Military Commands................... 101 Representatives, House of....
182
Military Posts
102 Representatives, State, No. of, and Terms 193
104 Representatives, U. S., Apportionment of 188
313 Resolutions, Public, of Congress.... 143
116 Revenue and Expenditure .......... 144-152
120 Revenue, U. S., for 65 Years............ 15
189 Rhode Island...

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Militia Force of the U. S.....................................
Minnesota Territory.
Ministers of U. S. in Foreign Countries..
Ministers, Foreign, in U. Š..........
Mint.

190 Saturn's Rings

Mint, Officers of, Coinage, &c.
Mississippi..
Missouri.

236
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195
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278 School Fund of States..
304 Seasons, Beginning and Length of ......
95 Secretaries of Legation
116, 120
164 Senate of the U. S. ...........
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89 Senators, State, No. of, and Terms....... 193
106 Slaves in the U. S.

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Naval Officers..........................................
Navigation ............................................... 160,
Navy Department..
Navy List
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Navy Officers, Pay of.................. 107 Smithsonian Institution....
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Navy, Vessels of War in......................
108 South Carolina........................ 268
Navy Pension Agents...................................... 99 Southern Railroads ........................................................ 207
Navy Yards, Commanders of
106 Sovereigns of Europe
Nebraska Territory
Nebraska Territory, Act establishing.... 132 State Department...
New Hampshire
.. 222 State Elections, &c....
New Jersey.

317

314 Specific Duties. See Imports.

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192

99

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.............................................. 251 State Finances, Debts, &c. ...................... 194, 195
New Mexico Territory .......................................... 313 Steamboat Inspectors ...............
Newspapers, Postage on............172-178 Sun, Ephemeris of the
New York.
243 Sun's Parallax in Altitude..............
New York, Railroads in................ 205 Supreme Court, U. S.................... 110
North Carolina
267 Surveyors of Land-Office..
96
Obituary, American, in 1853............ 323 Surveyors General in New Mexico, Kanzas,
329 and Nebraska
336 Tennessee ............................ 286
41 Texas
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1854..
Obituary, Foreign, in 1853 and 1854 ....
Observatories, Latitude and Longitude of
Occultations
Ohio..

38 Theological Schools....

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290 Tides, Height of Greatest, in 1855..
7
Oregon Territory
313 Titles and Abstracts of Public Laws... 127
Oregon Territory, Postal service in ....... 138 Tonnage of the U. S........
160-164
Pamphlets and Magazines, Postage on.... 178 Tonnage, Comparative View of, for 39
Parallax in Altitude of the Sun..
64 Years
163
160
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88

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53 United States, Seventh Census.......... 188
316 Utah Territory

313
39
226

Pennsylvania.
253 Trade, Foreign, Countries of.
Pension Agents, Army and Navy...... 98, 99 Treasurers, Assistant,..
Planets, Signs of the..
3 Treasury Department.
Pole Star, Apparent Places of the
Population of the Globe.
Population of the U. S.
187, 189 Venus and Mars, Discs of
Population of Chief Cities in U. S....... 189 Vermont....
Postage, Rates of Inland....
Postage, Foreign.
.......... 108
Postage to Oregon and California, Foreign 174 Virginia
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Postmasters in Chief Towns and Cities... 90 War Department
89
Postmasters, Compensation of.. 135, 167, 171 Warehousing System, Act concerning,... 130
Post-Office Department
90, 164 Washington Territory,
314
Post-Office Distributing Offices. ..90-93 Washington Territory, Postal Service in.. 138
Post-Office Rec's and Expend's in 1852, '53 169 Western Railroads
208
Post-Office Statistics since 1790.

172 Vessels and Tonnage from 1815-1853 163-164
..174-178 Vessels of War in U. S. Navy

167 West Indian Governments.............. 316
169 Winds and Clouds

87 Wisconsin

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195 Young's Refractions............................................. 63
Zodiac, Signs of the............

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Post-Office Revenue....

Presidents of the U. S..........................................
Property of States...

Public Lands, Act to graduate and reduce
Price of...

Being the latter part of the 79th, and the beginning of the 80th year of the Independence of the United States of America;

the 6568th year of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 5615th, and the beginning of the 5616th

year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews; the 2608th year (according to Varro) since the foundation of Rome;

AMERICAN

THE

The Sun.
The Earth.

ALMANAC,

FOR THE YEAR

the 2602d year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been as-
signed to Wednesday, the 26th of February, of the 3967th
year of the Julian Period, which corresponds, according to
the chronologists, to the 747th, and, according to the astron-
omers, to the 746th year before the birth of Christ;
the 2631st year of the Olympiads, or the third year of the 658th
Olympiad, beginning in July, 1853, if we fix the era of the
Olympiads at 775 years before Christ, or at or about the
beginning of July of the year 3938 of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 1271st and the beginning of the 1272d
year (of twelve lunations) since the Hegira, or flight of Ma-
homet, which, as is generally supposed, took place on the
16th of July, in the year 622 of the Christian era.

I. CALENDAR AND CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR THE YEAR..

DO The Moon.

Mercury.
Venus.

1855,

SIGNS OF THE PLANETS, &c.

Mars.
Vesta.

Juno.

Pallas.

Ceres.

2 Jupiter.
h Saturn.

Herschel or Uranus.
Neptune.

A fixed star.

6 Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension. Quadrature, or differing 90° in

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66

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66

8 Opposition, or differing 180° in

The ascending, & the descending node.