ACTS OF CONGRESS creating the Statistical Office of the State Department. Be it enacted by the Senate 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. Calcutta. General commercial re- ports, tariff, ordinance, &C........ 126 Bumbay. Commercial statistics.... 133 Barbadoes. Commercial information, Victoria, (V. I.) Port regulations, Bay of Islands, (N. Z.) General com. Liverpool. " Protections," &c...... Cardiff. " Protectivus," commercial Paris. General commercial statistics Havre. Commercial report,“ protec- tions," commercial statistics. Lyons. Annual report, silk trade.. Rochefort General report port, immigration, customs duties. Montreal Canalian tariff.......... nance. Gaspé Basin, (C. E) General 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 Turk's Islands. Ordinances relative to Kingston, (Jamaica) Immigration, Prince Edward's Island. General com- mercial report..... Demarara, (Briti-h Guiana.) General Barcelona and Tarragona. Annual trade reports, statistics, &c. ...... Malaga. General commercial statis- Santander Annual report, official - Valencia. General commercial report Port Mahon. General information.. statistics.. United States treaty with Turkey.... 547 Coostantinople. Annual report..... 565 Beirut. General commercial report.. 569 Aux Cayés. Special reports ..... Smyrna. Cotton statistics, ordinance. 572 | Cape Haytian. Special aud general Jerusalem. General commercial re- Alexandria. General and annual re- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. ports, general information...... Cyprus. Commercial report, general St. Domingo. General information. Larnica. (Cyprus). 588 MEXICO. Tripoli, (Syria.) Commercial statistics 593 Latakeea, (Syria.) Commercial statis- Mexico. General report Scio General and annual reports... 596 San Juan del Norte. Annual report. Athens. Commercial report..... 600 BRAZIL. CHINA. Treaty with Portugal..... Rio de Janeiro. General commercial reports..... Para. General and annual reports.. Pernambuco. Annual report..... 621 628 663 670 675 |