Excerpt from The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1856 In the Second Part ofthe volume will be found full lists of the Execu tive and Judiciary of the General Government, including the chief officers and clerks of the several Departments, and of the Court of Claims; of Col lectors of Customs, of Postmasters in the principal cities, of Army and Navy Pension A ents, and of the Indian Superintendents and Agents; ofthe In spectors o Steamboats and their Districts; of the Army, and the various Military Departments and Posts under the new organization of the Navy, the public vessels, and the Marine Corps; of our Ministers and Consuls In Forei n Countries, and of Foreign Consuls in the United States. Under the hfiwy and Army Lists, respectively, will be found the Navy Officers dropped or retired, and the Ofiicers of the new Infantry and Cavalry Regi ments. These have all been corrected from o icial 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 Commerce and Navigation, and Revenue and Expenditure, ublished each year in the Almanac, are full and complete abstracts of tie public documents of the same name, and the tables connected therewith, and, with the post-othee, Mint, and Public Lands, show the receipts and expenditures of the Gov ernment under their several heads, the public debt, the imports, exports, tonnage, coinage, sales of land, and the operations of the post-othee De Enrtment, for each ear since the adoption of the Federal Constitution. 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."