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VOLUME I.

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NEW YORK:

FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,

142 FULTON STREET, (REAR BUILDING.)

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CRAIGHEAD AND ALLEN, PRINTERS,

112 Fulton,

corner of Dutch-street.

I N D E X.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

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Introduction..
Commerce as connected with the Progress of Civilization, by the Hon. Daniel D.
Barnard.

3 Accumulation, Property, Capital and Credit.

20 Commercial Travellers, by A. L. Stimson..

29 Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Bowditch, by Rev. Alexander Young.

33 The State of the Currency, by Charles F. Adams.

44 Theory of Money and Banks.

50 Commerce and Protection, by Horace Greely.

53 Popular Suggestions of the Principles of Co-partnership, by D. Lord, Jr

67 The Commercial Rights of Neutral Nations, by William Kent.

97 The Theory of Money and Banks, by Charles F. Adams.

...119 Commercial Sketch of Boston, with Statistical Facts, and Notices of Eminent Merchants, by Alden Bradford.

.124 Popular Suggestions of the Principles of Co-partnership, by Daniel Lord, Jr......147 New Commercial Field ...

142 The Rise and Progress of Commerce

193 Advantages and Benefits of Commerce.

.200 Commerce of the East, by H. F. Harrington.

.202 Commerce with Japan, by James Aldrich ..

208 Banks and Currency, by Charles F. Adams.

.214 The Legal Protection of Good Faith, by Daniel Lord, Jr.

.227 Book-keeping-Principles of Double Entry.

.256 What constitutes a Merchant, by Charles Edwards.

.289 Moral Law of Contracts, by James Aldrich ....

..303 History of Navigation, by E. C. Ward ...... Popular Principles relating to the Law of Agency, by Daniel Lord, Jr.

325 Lecture on Commercial Integrity, by Judge Joseph Hopkinson.

.377 On the Moral End of Business.. Leisure-Its Uses and Abuses, by Rev. G. W. Bethune..

399 Commerce and Protection, by Horace Greely...

.413 Popular Suggestions on the Principles of Guaranty and Suretyship, by Daniel Lord, Jr.

..418 The Progress and Influence of Commerce in Europe, by E. W. Stoughton.. 465 The Merchant Service, by a Member of the Naval Lyceum.

.476 The Comparative Importance of Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures, by Alden Bradford....

480 Landlords and Tenants.

.484 Rates of Premium for Marine Insurance, by Joseph Balch, Esq., President of Merchants' Insurance Company, Boston...

491 Hints to the Insured, on the Construction of Marine Policies, by E. W. Stoughton. 496 The State of the Currency, by Charles F. Adams.

..505 New York Mercantile Library Association Lectures.

.529 Introductory- The Connexion of Science and the Arts..

529 Lecture I. 'Of the Atinosphere in general...

531 II. Dew, Fog, and Clouds..

532 III. Of Rain,

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MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY.

Thomas Willet, the first Mayor of New York, by Alden Bradford
The Good Merchant-William Parsons, by Rev. Alexander Young.
Thomas Hancock, by Alden Bradford.
Thomas Russell, by Alden Bradford ..
Memoir of Matthew Carey, by E. Holden..
Notice of Join Langdon, by Jacob B. Moore...

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MERCANTILE LITERATURE.

Commerce and Literature. Anniversary Poem, delivered before the Mercantile
Library Association of Boston, by James T. Fields...

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Foot's Argument in favor of the General Banking Law..

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MERCANTILE LAW.

Insurance.
Consuls ..
Commission Merchants.
Misrepresentation of Tonnage.
Cheating..
Bills and Notes.
Guaranty, or Letters of Credit.
Usury.
Insurance, Marine and Fire.
Value of the Pound Sterling
Commission Merchants.
Insurance, Total Loss..
Partners and Partnership.
Partners and Agents.
Special or General Partners.
Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes
Bills and Notes.
Replevin.
Tarif Duties.
Forfeiture of Goods for Undervaluation.
Bank Charter Contracts between the States
Liability of Shipping Agents.
Salvage..
Freight-Charter Party.
Neutral Ships-Carrier Ships—Admiralty Jurisdiction.
Consuls and Seamen..
Seamen's Wages..
Bottomry.
Carelessness or Neglect...
Bills of Exchange.
Tariff Duties..
Right of securing Duties at the Home Port.
Fraud on the Revenue.
Bills of Exchange-Guaranty.
Warranty--Deceit..
Bills of Exchange-Protest.
Fraudulent Bankruptcy.
Conspiracy to Cheat.
Collection of Debts-Poor Debtors.
Commission Merchants-Supercargoes.
Promissory Notes-Fraud — Payment.
Salvage-Fraudulent Compact ..
Bills of Exchange...
Usury...
Collector of Customs..
Fraud.....

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Cheating by False Pretences...
General Average..
Bills of Exchange-Rights of Corporations..
Case of Salvage for Services rendered by one Whaler to another..

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TABLES OF COINS.
Table of the principal Gold Coins of the Countries and States with which the Uni-
ted States have Commercial Intercourse ..

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Table of the principal Silver Coins of the Countries with which the United States
have Commercial Intercourse.

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Value of Foreign Coins...

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A Table of Gold Coins, their weight, assay, and present value.

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MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS.

Debts of the several States....
National Debts of England and other Countries.
Table of Distances on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Statistics of the Press..

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STATISTICS OF TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.
Cotton Trade.....
Increase of Cotton in the United States.
Statistics of Lowell Manufactures.
Trade of Buffalo .......
Decline of Southern Commerce.
The Coal Trade for 1838...
Wool, and Woollen Manufactures
Export of Cotton Yarn and Manufactured Goods.
French Trade ...

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COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.
Imports into the United States .
Commerce of the United States in 1838
Cotton exported from the United States
Commerce of New York..
Silver Coin ....
- Commerce of Pennsylvania
-Commerce of New Orleans

Cotton shipped at New Orleans.
*Commerce of Boston....

Exports of British Produce, etc., from the United Kingdom.
Commerce and Navigation of the United States for 1838 ..
Tonnage, Crews, and National Character of Foreign Vessels
-Commerce of each State and Territory for 1838.
-Tonnage of the United States from 1815 to 1838 .....
Commerce of Massachusetts from 1798 to 1838.
Produce and Manufactures of Massachusetts.
Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the United Kingdom
Commerce of the United States
-Number of Vessels built in the United States in 1838.

Tonnage of the United States..
Commerce of Maryland from 1789 to 1838

Steam Vessels on the Atlantic for 1810
Commerce of Virginia from 1789 to 1838
Commerce of South Carolina, from 1789 to 1838.
Statement of Tea exported into the United States, in 1838-9
Statistics of Cotton....
Tobacco Crop....

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