Excerpt from The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1851
In the Second Part of the volume will be found full lists of the Execu tive and Judiciary of the General Government; of the Army, and the vari ous Military Posts, Military Divisions, &c.; of the Navy, and the public vessels; of our Ministers and Consuls in Foreign Countries, and of Foreign Consuls in the United States. These have all been corrected to the latest dates possible for publication. Later changes are noted in the Additions and Corrections, at the end of the volume. The titles, Commerce and Navigation, and Revenue and Expenditure, published Each year in the Al manac, are complete abstracts of the public documents of the same name.
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