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Total- dollars,

20,033,526

SUMMARY STATEMENT of the value of the Exports of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, during the year ending on the 30th day of September, 1831.

Dollars.

Dollars. Dollars.

THE SEA.

Fisheries

Dried fish or cod fisheries

625,393

Pickled fish or river fisheries, herring,

shad, salmon, mackerel

304,441

Whale and other fish oil

554,440

Spermaceti oil

53,526

Whalebone

133,842

Spermaceti candles

217,830

1,889,472

THE FOREST.

Skins and furs

Ginseng

Product of wood

Staves, shingles, boards, and hewn timber 1,467,065

Other lumber

Masts and spars

Oak bark and other dye

All manufactures of wood

214,105

7,806

99,116

275,219

Naval stores, tar, pitch, rosin, & turpentine 397,687

Ashes, pot and pearl

AGRICULTURE.

Product of animals

Beef, tallow, hides, and horned cattle

Butter and cheese

Pork, (pickled,) bacon, lard, live hogs

Horses and mules

Sheep

750,938

115,928

935,613

3,396,611

4,263,477

829,982

264,796

1,501,644

218,015

14,499

2,828,936

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Flax and hemp

102,033

55,755

104,760

2,969,435

96,931 947,932

2,397

17,221

61,832

1,126,313

231

Cloth and thread

Bags, and all manufactures of

Wearing apparel

Combs and buttons

Brushes

Billiard tables and apparatus

Umbrellas and parasols

2,599

59,749

120,217

3,947

2,343

29,580

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Trunks

5,326

Brick and lime

4,412

Salt

26,848

3,783,248

Articles not enumerated

Manufactured

394,681

Other articles

715,311

1,109,992

61,277,057

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

1.-DOMESTIC.

Message from the President of the United States, to the Twentysecond Congress. - First Session.

Fellow Citizens of the Senate,

and House of Representatives,

THE representation of the people has been renewed for the twenty-second time since the constitution they formed has been in force. For near half a century, the chief magistrates, who have been successively chosen, have made their annual communications of the state of the nation to its representatives. Generally, these communications have been of the most gratifying nature, testifying an advance in all the improvements of social, and all the securities of political life. But frequently, and justly, as you have been called on to be grateful for the bounties of Providence, at few periods have they been more abundantly or extensively bestowed than at the present: rarely, if ever, have we had greater reason to congratulate each other on the continued and increasing prosperity of our beloved country.

Agriculture, the first and most important occupation of man, has compensated the labors of the husbandman with plentiful c crops of all the varied products of our extensive country. Manufactures have been established, in which the funds of the capitalist find a profitable investment, and which give employment and subsistence to a numerous and increasing body of industrious and dexterous mechanics. The laborer is rewarded by high wages, in the construction of works of internal improvement, which are extending with unprecedented rapidity. Science is steadily penetrating the recesses of nature and disclosing her secrets, while the ingenuity of free minds is subjecting the elements to the power of man, and making each new conquest auxiliary to his comfort. By our mails, whose speed is regularly increased, and whose routes are every year extended,

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