416

Laws relative to Debtor and Creditor, No. 1, (against the citizens of the state of
Maine,) by Francis Brinley, Esq., of New York........

399
Domestic Industry, by James H. Lanman, Esq...

361
Moral and Political Freedom, by Rev. Henry W. Bellows, of New York..

373
Causes of the Unsteadiness of the Currency, and the Remedy therefor, No. 1, by
H. C. Carey, Esq., of Pennsylvania .......

380
Rate of Interest–Usury.

387
The Opium Trade-England and China, by E. W. Stoughton, Esq., of N. Y 394
Laws relative to Debtor and Creditor, No. 2, (Laws of Missouri,).

420
Theory of Profits, No. 3, by Professor Tucker, of Virginia.......

449
Causes of the Unsteadiness of the Currency, and the Remedy therefor, No. 2, by H.
C. Carey, Esq., of Pennsylvania.......

458
History of Massachusetts Currency, by E. W. Stoughton, Esq., ot New York.... 473
The Connexion of Commerce and Agriculture, by Alden Bradford, Esq., Boston... 483
Laws relative to Debtor and Creditor, No. 3.- The mode of proceeding in New Jer.

sey for the recovery of debts, and in general for enforcing payment and satis-
faction of any claim or demand, by John Cherwood, Esq..

... 489
The American Merchant. .......

... 510
MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY.
Hon. James Lloyd, by Alden Bradford, Esq., of Massachusetts.....

256
George Cabot.......
William Gray..........

417
Philip Livingston..

418
Robert Morris...

419
Benjamin Pickman...

419
Samuel Henry..

191
Richard W. Dow, by Rev. F. W. Holland...

515
Israel Thorndike..

516
Nathaniel Tracy..

517
MERCANTILE LITERATURE.
Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime
Jurisprudence.......

77
On the Law relative to Sales of Personal Property..

78
The American Conveyancer....

78
Dean's Manual of Law for the use of Business Men.....

183
Ogden's Tariffs, or Rates of Duties....

185
Dickinson's Almanac for 1840...

185
The American Almanac for 1840..

186
Civil Office.......

271
Civil Polity and Political Economy..

271
Hints to Tradesmen...

518
MERCANTILE LAW REPORTS.
Special and General Partners .........................................................

166
Novel Insurance Case ........

167
Merchants' Clerks-Contracts.............

168
Salvage Case....

169
Import Duties...

267
Forfeiture of Goods...

267
Brussels and Wilton Rugs..

269
Silk Twist-Sewing Silk.

269
Worsted Cravats....

270
Commission Business...

338
Import Duties–Knit Shirts and Drawers.....

342
Fire Insurance-Extent of the powers of insurance agents to bind their principals.. 424
Important Decision on a fire policy..
Insurance General Average- Technical Total Loss- Partial Loss-Abandon-

ment--Sale of Vessel by the Master_Valuation-Marine Interest........ 430
Cheating-Fraudulent Endorsement of a Note...........

501
Commission Merchants their duty to insure goods consigned to them......

502
Eastern Lands-Fraudulent Sale.......

504
Bills and Notes........ nu................

506

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427

Insurance .....

507

507
Common Carriers......
Insurance-Violation of foreign revenue laws—Confiscation in, and jurisdiction of,

508
foreign courts....

STATISTICS OF COINAGE.
Annual report of the director of the mint of the United States-Coinage of 1839... 521

522
State of the British Mini............

STATISTICS OF RAIL-ROADS.
Cost, receipts, expenditures, &c., of several rail-roads for 1839...
Camden and Amboy Rail-road...
Boston and Lowell Rail-road
Boston and Portland Rail-road...
Boston and Providence Rail-road..
Boston and Worcester Rail-road..
Eastern Rail-road....
Nashua and Lowell Rail-road
Taunton Branch Rail-road......
Western and West Stockbridge Rail-roads..
Mohawk and Hudson Railroad.....

355
355
355
355
355
356
356
356
356
356
356

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STATISTICS OF INSURANCE.

441

Minimam Premiums adopted by the Board of Underwriters of New York, January
Ist, 1840........

82
Clauses and Regulations of the New York Marine Insurance Companies....... 85
Tariff of premiums on Inland Navigation, adopted by the Boston Insurance Com... 87
Rates of insurance in Canton on first class vessels....

90
Fire Insurance-Cedar-street Fire......

91
Increase of Premiums.......

91
Annals of Insurance in the West..
Massachusetts Insurance Companies–Names and location, capital, average annual
dividends for five years, and average amount of dividends...

524
Premium Credits in Boston, on Marine Risks, from and after March 9, 1840.......... 525

STATISTICS OF MANUFACTURES.
Of Great Britain, France, Prussia, Netherlands, and Belgium........

79
of Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Swedish Monarchy, Russia, and Germany....... 80
Of Spain, Portugal, Italian States, Ottoman Empire, Persia, Hindoston, and Farther
India..

81
of China and United States......

82

STATISTICS OF NAVIGATION.
Passages of the Liverpool Packets for 1839...
Passages of Steam Ships for 1839.....
Disasters at sea during the year 1839..
Shipwrecks on the coast of France....
The Hudson River.......
Notice to Mariners.
Steam Navigation......
French Steam Navigation....
Light-house at the Peninsula of Jutland..
Lake Navigation .....
Canadian Navigation......

COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.
Canal Commerce of Ohio......
Table of Duties on Flour....
Canton Currency......
Statistics of Van Dieman's Land-Navigation Post Office Department Revenue-
Imporis-Esporto. Population-Manufactures........

1

350
351
352
353
354
354
442
442
443
525
526

94
95
186

187

Commerce of the United States.......

274
Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Trade......

274
Charges on a bale of Cotton at Mobile...

275
Commerce of New Jersey from 1791 to 1838.

322
Exports of Cotton from the port of New Orleans for eight years..

349
Comparative Arrivals, Exports, and Stocks of Cotton at New Orleans, for 10 years, 348
Commerce of Connecticut, from 1791 to 1838..

436
Commerce of the United States........

437
Bankruptcies in France......

437
Value of Exports from the United States...

438
Commercial Progress of France.......

438
Cotton Trade......

439
Commerce of Great Britain...

527
Commerce of St. Petersburgh..

527
Sugar Crop of Louisiana.....

527

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BANK STATISTICS.
The Bank of Amsterdam......

91
Banks of New York.........

92
The Independent or Sub Treasury.

93
Principal items of all the chartered Banks of the State of New York......

278
Of all the chartered Banks, distinguishing between those located in the city of New
York and elsewhere......

278
Condition of the five Banks in the State, not subject to the bank fund law..

279
Aggregate of forty-one Banks subject to the bank fund law...

279
Aggregate of all the chartered Banks of the State of New York, on Jan. 1, 1840... 280
Amount of capital, number of dollars per share, and semi-annual dividends of the
Banks of New York and Brooklyn, for 1839...

357
Condensed view of the condition of the several Banks of the city of Baltimore, on
the 6th of January, 1840.............

440
Bank of England......

441
MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS.
Population and property of the cities of New York, in each year since 1815......... 275
Census of the United States for 1840.......

357
Amount of the public debt of the United States, from 1791 to 1835.

358
The General Post Office.........

359
Comparative revenue and debt of several Countries.....

359
Table of Revenue, Expenditure, and Public Debt of France.

413
Canals of New York......

444
Extent of the Fishing Interest in Massachusetts..

444
Silk manufacture in France.......
Public debt of Spain...

526

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.
Tariff of Texas as modified by the second Congress..

272
Duties at Jamaica.......

273
Alterations on Marine Policies of Insurance..........

360
New Custom House Regulation.........

360
An Ordinance concerning the Levee duties, in and for the port of New Orleans..... 434
Hospital Money..

435
Consular Certificates.....

527
Law relative to vessels engaged in the Whale Fishery.

528
Information to Masters of Vessels...........

528

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MERCANTILE MISCELLANIES.
Views of Boston........
Clearing House, London ..
Illegality of heaped Measures...
Tobacco in Mexico.......
Mortality of Seamen...
Inland Seas of South Australia.
Cotton Trade of India.....
The Whale Fishery ........
First Public Sale of the newly discovered Assam Tea......
Speculating and Failing........
Foreign Importations...
Cummercial Relations with Foreign Countries.....
Importance of African Commerce......
Duty on Salt Petre.........
A Bushel of Grain...
Canton.........
Currency of Cuba.
Ancient Coins.....
Advice to Men in Debt......
Insurance on Lives for the benefit of Married Women...
The Brazilian Slave Trade..
African Hemp ........
Valuable Invention.......
Conclusion of the First Year...

188
189
190
190
190
191
345

346
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347