NATIVITIES OF THE FREE POPULATION 1 Alabama... 2 Arkansas... 3 California.. 5 Delaware.. 6 Florida.. 7 Georgia.. 8 Illinois 9 Indiana.... 10 Iowa... 11 Kansas.. 12 Kentucky. 13 Louisiana.. 11 21 90 268 3 125 35 Total, U.S.... 1,231 526 1,419 1,361 9,072 249,970 233 35,565 9,962 431,692 1,403 Rank of Foreign Countries arranged according to the Number of Immigrants contributed by each to the Population of the United States in 1860. Ireland. German States, total... 1,301,136 Germany not specified. 598,382 35,565 Russia..... 3,160 28,281 Great Britain not specified 1,802 27,446 Australia. 1,419 25,061 Europe not specified... 1,403 18,625 Other Countries. ......... 1,366 10,518 Atlantic Isles............ 1,361 10,233 Asia.. 1,231 9,962 Sardinia.......... 1,159 9,072 Africa.... 526 7,353 Sandwich Islands.. 435 7,298 Greece...... 328 4,244 Pacific Isles............ 286 4,116 Central America....... Norway...... 45,763 South America... 3,263 Turkey. 128 Rank of the several States according to the Number of Foreign-Born Inhabitants in each in 1860. 81,336 598,382 1,301,136 1,802 Germany not specified. Total German 88 Great Britain not specified. Total, U.S...... 328 28,281 1,611,304 10,518 27,466 43,995 4,116 7,298 286 Foreign Born.-Whites (including Indians and Chinese), Native Born.-Whites (including Indians and Chinese), 22,869,679; Free Colored, Rank of the several States according to the Number of GERMAN Immigrants in each in 1860. New York.. Ohio...... Pennsylvania. 20,553 Arkansas.... Minnesota..................... 18,400 Oregon. 13 1 2 30 18 103 1 13 21 85 16 1 9 5 11 4,815 1,228 192 256,252 Texas.... 1.143 4,131,512; Free Colored, 4,363; total, 4,136,175. 483,707; total, 23,353,580. Total Native and Foreign, free population, 27,489,561. Rank of the several States according to the Number of IRISH Immigrants in each in 1860. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.* ISAAC NEWTON, of Pennsylvania........... Commissioner of Agriculture...... LEWIS BOLLMAN, of Indiana... ..Statistical Clerk.. Salary. $3000 2000 1600 The following is the law under which the De- department, not exceeding in weight thirty-two partment is organized: AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL TURE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established at the seat of government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a "Commissioner of Agriculture," who shall be the chief executive officer of the Department of Agriculture, who shall hold his office by a tenure similar to that of other civil officers appointed by the President, and who shall receive for his compensation a salary of three thousand dollars per annum. ounces. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of Agriculture shall appoint a chief clerk, with a salary of two thousand dollars, who in all cases during the necessary absence of the Commissioner, or when the said principal office shall become vacant, shall perform the duties of Commissioner; and he shall appoint such other employés as Congress may from time to time provide, with salaries corresponding to the salaries of similar officers in other departments of the government; and he shall, as Congress may from time to time provide, employ other persons, for such time as their services may be needed, including chemists, botanists, entomologists, and other persons skilled in the natural sciences pertaining to agriculture. And the said Commissioner, and every other person to be appointed in the said department, shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office or appointment, make oath or affirmation truly and faithfully to execute the trust committed to him. And the said Com missioner and the chief clerk shall also, before entering upon their duties, severally give bonds to the Treasurer of the United States, the former in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and the latter in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditional, to render a true and faithful account to him or his successor in office, quarter-yearly accounts of all moneys which shall be by them received by virtue of the said office, with sureties to be approved as sufficient by the Solicitor of the Treasury; which bonds shall be filed in the office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, to be by him put in suit upon any breach of the conditions thereof. Approved, May 15, 1862. APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to acquire and preserve in his department all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments (accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office), by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power; to collect, as he may be able, new and valuable seeds and plants; to test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such tests; to propagate such as may be worthy of propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists. He shall annually make a general report in writing of his acts to the President and to Congress, in which he may recommend the publication of papers forming parts of or accompanying his report, which report shall also contain an account of all moneys received and expended by him. He shall also make special reports on particular sub-ral statistics, for promoting agricultural and rural jects whenever required to do so by the President or either house of Congress, or when he shall think the subject in his charge requires it. He shall receive and have charge of all the property of the agricultural division of the Patent Office in the Department of the Interior, including the fixtures and property of the propagating garden. He shall direct and superintend the expenditure of all money appropriated by Congress to the department, and render accounts thereof, and also of all money heretofore appropriated for agriculture and remaining unexpended. And said Commissioner may send and receive through the mails, free of charge, all communications and other matter pertaining to the business of his The following sums were placed at the disposal of the Commissioner for the current year by the general appropriation bill of Feb. 25, 1863For the collection and compiling of agriculte economy, and the procurement, propagation, and distribution of cuttings and seeds of new and useful varieties; and for the introduction and protection of insectivorous birds; and for the purpose of establishing a laboratory, with the necessary apparatus for practical and scientific experiments in agricultural chemistry; and for paying the clerks and employés and contingent expenses necessary in said department, ninety thousand dollars; three thousand dollars of which appro priation shall be for the encouraging the culture of cotton and tobacco. For investigations to test the practicability of cultivating and preparing flax and hemp as a substitute for cotton, twenty thousand dollars. *For statistics from this Department, &c., see article "Agriculture in the United States in 1863," page 47, et seq. |