Description of Goods. Nails Onions Oranges Olives GENERAL TABLE OF THE IMPORTS, ETC.-Continued. Table showing the value (in drachmes) of the Annual Imports, Exports, Transit, and Coasting Trade of the Kingdom of Greece for the years 1833 to 1840 inclusive. Customs. The customhouse establishment was organized on its present footing, by the royal ordonnance of the 30th of September, 1836; the system pursued till then being that which was introduced by Capodistria in 1829, and continued by the regency, with a few trifling modifications. The line of coast and the islands are divided into twenty-five customhouse districts, of which five are of the first class, seven of the second, and thirteen of the third. Each of these is subdivided into under customhouses, customhouse stations, and coast-guard stations. There are twenty-five head customhouses, sixty-three under customhouses, thirty-three customhouse stations, and fifty-eight coast-guard stations, making together one hundred and seventy-nine ports with customhouse authorities. Free intercourse is permitted between all the respective ports for goods and merchandise, grain, and cattle, either the produce of the country, or of foreign growth or manufacture, if originally imported at a legal port, and if the duty has been paid at the customhouse, which will appear from the manifest and clearance of the vessel. The principal customhouses are under the immediate control of the minister of finance, from whom they receive their instructions, and to whom all reports and communications are made. The under customhouses, &c. are under the control of the principal one in each district. The chief customhouses are divided into two main districts; twelve are in the eastern, and thirteen in the western district, for each of which a chief inspector of customs is appointed, with the rank and pay of a ministerial assessor; the seat of the former is at Syra, that of the latter at Patras. Their duty is to inspect the books and vouchers of the customhouses in their districts. The officers of the customs are entitled to wear the uniform of the civil servants of the crown, as contained in the decree of the 18th of April, 1833, in the analogous grades, and with the same distinctive embroidery, epaulettes, &c.; and all customhouse functionaries are permitted, ex officio, to carry fire-arms, without the usual certificate from the police. ART. II.-PROGRESS OF POPULATION AND WEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES, IN FIFTY YEARS, AS EXHIBITED BY THE DECENNIAL CENSUS TAKEN IN THAT PERIOD. CHAPTER IV. THE CENSUS OF 1820, BEING THE FOURTH DECENNIAL ENUMERATION UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. THIS census was the first which made any discrimination in the colored part of the population, either as to sex or age. It distributed the males and females, both of the free colored persons and slaves, under the four following divisions, viz: those who were under fourteen; who were fourteen and under twenty-six; who were twenty-six and under forty-five; and who were forty-five and upwards. It made no change in the distribution of the whites, except to add a column for those males who were between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. The result may be seen in the four following tables. |