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INDEX-VOLUME IX.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1843.

ORIGINAL PAPERS, ETC.

Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, with a review of the past and present condition of the
Polynesian Groups generally, in connection with their relations to Commerce and
Christianity, by James Jackson Jarvis, author of the History of the Hawaiian
Islands,"..

Internal Trade of the United States, by J. W. Scott, of Ohio,......

Progress of Population and Wealth in the United States, in Fifty Years, as exhibited by the Decennial Census taken in that period, by Professor George Tucker, of the University of Virginia

Chapter XVIL-Distribution of the Industrious Classes,..

Chapter XVIII-Education,.............

Chapter XIX.-The Products of Industry,..

Chapter XX.-The Products of Industry,..

Chapter XXI.-Increase of Wealth in the United States,.....

A Protective System-Its Expediency and Necessity, by Hon. Charles Hudson, of
Massachusetts,...

Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands—Their Commerce and Agriculture-Their Prospects—
Their Chief Towns-Seizure by Lord George Paulet, by James J. Jarvis,........
Our Railways, by W. R. Casey, Civil Engineer of New York,......
Inland Navigation of the State of New York, with a short account of its origin, and
of the Trade and Tonnage of the Erie Canal, by Henry S. Dexter, Civil Engineer
of New York,..

Commerce of the Mississippi, by James H. Lanman, author of the "History of
Michigan,"..

154

Free Trade: Mr. Woodbury's Views of the Tariff, by J. B. Fisher,......
Mercantile Biography: Life and Character of Jacob Ridgway,..

161

167

Story on Bills of Exchange, Guaranty of Bills, and Letters of Credit,...

169

Debts and Tariffs of the South of Europe, by Francis Wharton, of Pennsylvania,... 207 Usury and the Usury Laws, by J. O'Connell, of New York,.......

243

Letter to Cotton Manufacturers, by Henry Lee, of Massachusetts,..

253

Maritime Law, No. 1: The Doctrine of Lien, with reference to the Law of Shipping, by Alanson Nash, Counsellor at Law, New York,..........

261

Salem East India Marine Society,......

266

Sketches of Commercial Legislation: Chartering of the late Bank of the United
States, by Francis Wharton, Esq., of Pennsylvania,...........

303

Impending Revolutions in the Commercial Intercourse of the World, by Hon. H.
Wheaton, United States Minister at Berlin,.

321

Commerce of Cuba,......

337

Letter to Cotton Manufacturers, by Henry Lee, of Massachusetts,.....
Maritime Law, No. 2: Doctrine of Liens, with reference to the Law of Shipping,
by Alanson Nash,...

351

358

Meteorological Observations at Sea, by James Mease, M. D., of Pennsylvania,....... 365
Debt and Tariff of Portugal, by Francis Wharton, Esq., of Pennsylvania,...... 366
Book Trade of Germany, by Henry Meidinger, Foreign Member of the Statistical
Society of London,.....

Massachusetts and her Resources, by Hon. Charles Hudson, of Massachusetts,.
The Post-Office Department,...

Our Shipping, by James H. Lanman,.

399

418

436

444