Bills of Exchange-Importance of Uniformity of Commercial Law 70 71 72 73 74 75 439 527 528 Course of Reading recommended to the Mercantile Library Association, by Chancellor Kent .... 80 Lanman's History of Michigan..... 162 Tanner's Description of the Canals and Railroads of the United States 163 Johnson's Analytical Abridgment of Kent's Commentaries on American Law. 337 Macauley's Critical and Miscellaneous Essays... 336 Murray's Historical and Descriptive Account of British America.. 338 338 339 Guizot's Character and Influence of Washington in the Revolution.. American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for 1841. 443 444 Lieber's Manual of Political Ethics...... 444 Taylor's Flag Ship, or Voyage round the World in the U. S. Frigate Columbia.... 445 Parry's Voyages for the Discovery of the Northwest Passage.... STATISTICS OF INSURANCE. Rates of Premiums, with conditions, adopted by the Boston Marine Insurance Companies, 1840 Risk between the United States and West Indies......... From Russia and Ports in the Baltic to the United States...... 81, 165 81 82 From Cuba to Europe and back to Cuba........ 82 Risk on Time on Vessels of two hundred tons and upwards.. Imports and Exports of the United States for the year 1839... 265 Amount of Specie imported into the United States from different countries, from 1821 to 1838...... 265 China Trade-Value of Exports-Tonnage employed, &c... 266 Commerce of Boston for the last twenty years..... 267 Trade, Commerce, and Navigation of Cuba...... 351 Importation and Exportation of Cuba for 1839, compared with 1838. 351 352 Number of Vessels entered and sailed from different Ports in Cuba in 1839... 352 Imports and Exports from different Ports in Cuba in 1839..... 353 Tonnage arrived at and cleared from different Ports in Cuba in 1839. 353 Import and Export Duty for Cuba in 1839.. 353 Imports and Exports of the Precious Metals for 1839.. 354 Annual Exports of the Agricultural, Manufacturing, Lumbering, and Fishing in terests of the United States for ten years, from 1828 to 1838, and the Bank Profits for the same time Value of Imports from and Exports to each Foreign Country for the year ending September, 1839... 447 Tonnage of American and Foreign Vessels arriving from and departing to each Foreign Country for the year ending September, 1839... Liquors imported into the United States in the last six commercial years.... Exports of the Produce and Manufactures of the United States for the year ending September, 1839. 448 449 450 Tobacco Trade of Virginia... 451 Number, Tonnage, Crews, and national Character of Foreign Vessels that entered and cleared from the United States during the year ending September, 1839...... 452 Tonnage of the several States and Territories, year ending September, 1839... 452 Tonnage of the Six largest Districts Imports and Exports of each State, for the year ending September, 1839 Cotton Goods printed in the U. States, number of Factories, Yards, and Value.. Commerce of New Orleans Table 1. Exports of Cotton from New Orleans for the last ten years... 2. Exports of Tobacco from New Orleans for the last ten years.. 3. Exports of Sugar from New Orleans for the last five years... 452 452 452 454 455 456 66 4. Exports of Molasses from New Orleans for the last five years.. 456 Commerce of Great Britain with the World..... Exports of the Precious Metals.......................... British Trade with Buenos Ayres... 554 554 555 British Produce and Manufactures imported into the States of the Rio de la Plata. 555 Cotton Crop of the United States, 1840..... Number of Arrivals and Clearances from the Port of New York for Oct. 1840.... 558 Importation of Silk into the U. S. during the year ending 30th Sept. 1839................................. 560 Bank of England Returns-Circulation of the Bank of England at different dates between October, 1833, and April, 1840..... 261. Condition of the Banks of Rhode Island, July 6, 1840.. 262 Statement of Banks in the United States, from 1834 to 1840. 263 457 Paris Savings Banks.. 457 Increase of Banking in the United States from 1820 to 1830, and from 1830 to 1837... 458 Bank of England, quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets, from 23d 458 Deposits of the London Bankers in the Bank of England, first fourteen weeks in the years 1838, 1839, and 1840. 458 Deposits of the Bank of Ireland and Royal Bank of Scotland, for the first fourteen weeks in the years 1838, 1839, and 1840 Deposits of the London Bankers, Bank of Ireland, and Royal Bank of Scotland, in the Bank of England in the years 1838 and 1839.... 553 STATISTICS OF COINAGE. English Coinage-Mint in London, from 1816 to 1836.. 85 Mint value of Foreign Coins, usually deposited for coinage at the Mint of the United States..... 86 Coinage of the United States....... 87 Precious Metals..... 87 United States Mint and Branches-Deposits and Coinage of U. S. Mint and 349 Coinage of England... 349 MONEY TABLES. Table to reduce Francs and Centimes to Dollars and Cents... Table to reduce British Sterling into Dollars and Cents... Table to reduce Sterling into Dollars and Cents......... COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS AND TREATIES. 264 264 264 Guide to Owners and Captains of Vessels bound to the Brazilian Ports......... 270 272 To Merchants and Shipmasters-Regulations of the Republic of Venezuela....... 356 Portugal Port Regulations.... 356 Regulations of the Russian Government... 357 Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the Emperor of Austria and the United States..... 459 Regulations relating to Whale Ships at California....... 461 Regulations of Trade at New Orleans........ 541 Tariff charges adopted by the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce. 541 541 541 Mariner's Compass. 357 Boston Telegraph Observatory-Vessels reported from 1824 to 1840. 358 Important to Ship-owners-Iron kentledge... 358 Advice to Shipmasters...... 358 Lighthouses in France..... 358 New Lighthouse on Petit Terre 359 Light at the entrance of the Avon Bristol Channel.... 359 Note on the Winds, as influencing the courses sailed by Bermuda Vessels.. 546 Rocks near the Azores...... 548 462 462 423 431 537 539 540 540 540 540 Importation of Sperm Whale Oil into the United States, September, 1840.. Donations to the Mercantile Library Association, New York......... Course of Lectures for 1840 and '41........ Donations to the Mercantile Library Association. The New York Mercantile Library Association Lectures. 96 96 463 463 560 Boston Mercantile Library Association-Annual Election of Officers, &c................................... 560 COMMERCIAL TABLES. Pro-Forma Account of Coffee from New York to Havre........ 341 Antwerp..... London.... Hamburg.. 342 342 342 .344, 346 346 Questions for Accountants, by Thomas Jones, Esq... Pro-Forma Account of a shipment of Rice from Charleston to Havre.... Bills on Hamburg as Remittance to London... Comparative price of Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar, &c., at New Orleans, from 1836 to 1840...... Allowances made by Law for Drafts on Articles subject to Duty...... 259 260 Imports and Exports under each Tariff from 1816 to 1838.. |