Excerpt from The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1853 In the Second Part of the volume will be found full lists of the Execu tive and Judiciary of the General Government, including the chief ofiicers and clerks in the several Departments of Collectors of Customs, of Post masters in the principal cities, of Army and Navy Pension Agents, and of the Indian Su erintendents and Agents under the new organization Of that department 0 Congress of the Army, and the various Militar Posts, Mili tary Divisions, &c of the Navy, the public vessels, and the Myarine Corps of our Ministers and Consuls in F orei n Countries, and Of Foreign Consuls in the United States. These have al been corrected from official sources to the latest dates possible for publication. Later changes are noted in the Additions and Corrections, at the end of the volume. The titles, Com merce and Navigation, and Revenue and Expenditure, published each year in the Almanac, are full and complete abstracts of the public documents of the same name, and the tables connected therewith, and, with the post-of: Bee and Mint, show the receipts and expenditures of the government under their several heads, the public debt, the imports, exports, and tonnage, the Operations of the post-office Department, and the coinage of the Mint for each year since the adoption of the Federal Constitution. The exportsifor the last four years are given in detail. The ratesoof postage are under the new laws, -and these, with the inland and foreign mall service: 9 be' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.