ACTS OF CONGRESS creating the Statistical Office of the State Department. Be it enacted by the Senale and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to lay before Congress, annually, at the commencement of its session, in a compendious form, all such changes and modifications in the commercial systems of other nations, whether by treaties, duties on imports and exports, or other regulations, as shall have come to the knowledge of the department. Approved August 16, 1842. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the changes and modifications in the commercial systems of other nations, now required by said act, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to lay before Congress, annually, within sixty days after the commencement of each ordinary session, as a part of said report, all other commercial information communicated to the State Department by consular and diplomatic agents of this government abroad, or con. tained in the official publications of other governments, which he shall deem sufficiently important. . Approved August 18, 1856. CONTENTS OF PART I. || POSSESSIONS AND DEPENDENCIES- Calcutta. General commercial re- ports, tariff, ordinance, &c.-...... 126 Bombay. Commercial statistics..... 133 Barbadoes. Commercial information, Victoria, (V. I.) Port regulations, Malta. Annual report............ Gibraltar. “ Protections”......... Bay of Islands, (N. Z.) General com- mercial report... Bathurst. Annual report.......... 151 Sierra Leone. Annual report........ 154 Southampton... Paris. General commercial statistics tions," commercial statistics..... Marseilles. Annual report......... Lyons. Annual report, silk trade.. La Rochelle...................... Cognac. Annual renort........... Rochefort General report .-..-... Napoleon Vendée............... port, immigration, customs duties. 193 SPANISH DOMINIONS. Montreal Cana lian tariff.........., nance.......... --------...--.. Gaspé Basin, (C. E.) General report. Pictou. Annual report ........... St John's, (N. F.) Annual and gen- eral reports, new tariff......... St. John's, (N. B.) Annual report, cus- Trinidad. Commercial reports, annual report, imunigration .......... Turk's Islands. Ordinances relative to mercial report................... Demarara, (British Guiana.) General commercial information, immigra- tion....... Barcelona and Tarragona. Annual trade reports, statistics, &c. ...... Catalonia. Statistics ............. Malaga. General commercial statis- Santander. Annual report, official Valencia. General commercial report Bilboa. Annual report............' Port Mahon. General information.. Havana. General and commercial Honolulu. Special report..........646 United States treaty with Turkey.... 547 • HAYTI. Constantinople. Annual report..... Beirút. General commercial report.. 569 Aux Cayés. Special reports ........ 647 Smyrna. Cotton statistics, ordinance. 572 Cape Haytian. Special and general Jerusalem. General commercial re- Alexandria. General and annual re- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. ports, general information........ 582 Cyprus. Commercial report, general St. Domingo. General information. 649 information........... Tripoli, (Syria.) Commercial statistics 593 Latakeea, (Syria.) Commercial statis Mexico. General report .... Scio. General and annual reports... 596 || San Juan del Norte. Annual report. 651 Athens. Commercial report........ 600 Belize. Customs duties....... 652 Nagasaki. Silk products.. Comayagua and Tegucigalpo. Gen- 65+ Tangiers. General information ..... 605 || General commercial information.... Laguayra. General report......... Rio de Janeiro. General commercial Treaty with Portugal............... 621 | Para. General and annual reports.. Swatow. Commercial statistics...... 628 || Pernambuco. Annual report...... |