Includes goods amounting to $202,119; the respective value of each kind could not be ascer tained, the returns being informal.

VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM EACH FOREIGN COUNTRY.

VALUE OF MERCHANDISE IMPORTED INTO UNITED STATES FROM EACH FOREIGN COUNTRY, FREE OF DUTY AND PAYING DUTIES, DISTINGUISHING THE AMOUNT IMPORTED IN FOREIGN AND AMERICAN VESSELS, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1851.

STATEMENT OF THE COMMERCE OF EACH STATE AND TERRITORY, FROM JULY 1, 1850, TO JUNE 30, 1851.

5,224,518 3,984,861

South Carolina.

15,316,578

Missouri

622,039

622,039

187,934,589 58,755,179 196,689,718 14,205,617 7,176,148 21,381,760 218,071,478 163,650,543 52,574,889 216,224,982

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.

BRAZILIAN CONSULAR REGULATIONS.

The Emperor of Brazil has ordered the execution of the following regulations, defining the exemptions and functions of foreign consular agents in the empire, and the formalities to be observed in taking possession of, and in administering to, the property of deceased subjects of their respective nations, in case of reciprocity.

ART. 1. Consular agents-that is to say, foreign consuls and vice consuls in the em pire, having obtained the imperial exequatur for their nominations-shall freely exercise the functions of an administrative character proper to their charge, which, without detriment to the laws of the country, may have been imposed upon them by their governments.

They are free to favor and promote the lawful navigation and Commerce of their fellow-countrymen; to protect the same against illegal measures; to assist them in their just pretensions before the local authorities; to appeal, in case of justice being denied on the part of the latter, to the imperial government through the medium of the diplomatic agent of their nation, or directly, if there should not be any; to set forth, by said means, the measures that have been adopted which may affect or tend to injure the Commerce and navigation of their country; and, finally, to perform other administrative acts-such as to receive the declarations, protests, written affidavits, and other documents which may be presented to them by the captains of vessels belonging to their nation; to authenticate the same; to issue certificates; to draw up maritime and marriage contracts between their own countrymen; and other acts of this character, according to the regulations of instructions of their governments.

ART. 2. As soon as a foreigner, domiciled in Brazil, dies intestate, having no wife in the land, nor heirs recognized as such present, to whom would belong the right of taking possession, as head of the family, in order to take an inventory and portion out the estate, or even with a will, if the heirs should be foreigners and happen to be absent likewise, the judge of probate for deceased persons and absentees shall proceed, with the respective consular agent, to take possession of the estate, the custody of which to be intrusted to said agent; the above mentioned judge causing at first an ex-officio inventory to be taken, which proceeding must take place in the presence of the consular agent aforesaid.

This intervention on the part of consular agents shall not take place when any heir recognized as such happens to be a Brazilian citizen, even though he should be absent. ART. 3. The inventory being concluded, the effects belonging to the estate shall be intrusted to the administration and liquidation of the consular agent, who will not be at liberty to dispose of the same or the proceeds thereof, nor to deliver them to the legitimate heirs, until it is ascertained-preceding notices having been published in the newspapers immediately after taking possession-that no creditor to said estate has appeared within the period of one year, nor any judicial question been pending in the meanwhile in regard to it, nor the duties to which said estate was subject by the laws of the empire been left unpaid. In order to ascertain whether the payment of duties is required or not, it will be necessary for the consular agent to show, by satisfactory documents duly authenticated, what is the degree of kindred between the deceased and his heir or heirs.

ART. 4. At the expiration of the year mentioned in the foregoing articles, there being no judicial question pending in regard to the estate the fiscal duties having been paid, or it being ascertained that the payment of such is not required-the consular agent shall be at liberty to dispose of said estate, and transmit the proceeds of the same to those who have a right to it, according to his instructions, being then considered by the tribunals of the country as the representative of the heir or heirs, to whom he will be alone responsible.

ART. 5. If there be evidence of debts, or questions pending affecting only a portion of the estate, the provision of the preceding article may, at the expiration of one year, and on the fulfillment of the requisitions of the 3d article, be carried out in regard to that portion which is unincumbered and free, a public deposit being previously made of a sum of money covering the amount of the debt or question pending, or a reserva tion made for the object embraced in said question.

ART. 6. If any foreigner domiciled in Brazil die under the circumstances mentioned in the 2d article of this regulation, in a place were there is no consular agent of his nation, the judge of probate for deceased persons and absentees shall proceed to take possession and make an inventory of the estate, in presence of two trustworthy witnesses belonging to the nation of the deceased, and, for want of such, in the presence of two merchants or property holders of respectability, either of whom becoming administrators for the settlement of the estate until some provision shall have been made in regard to the disposition of the clear and undisputed proceeds accruing from it.

ART. 7. In the case alluded to in the forgoing article, it shall be the duty of the judge of probate to transmit, within the period of fifteen days after having been noti fied of the death of any foreigner in his district under the circumstances mentioned in the 3d article, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by a certificate of the death, an account of the age, residence, place of birth, profession, and what has been ascertained in regard to the property and relatives of said foreigner, in order that the minister aforesaid may communicate with the respective legation or consular agent in regard to disposing of the unincumbered portion of the estate.

ART. 8. In the case alluded to in the 6th article, neither the consular agent nor the administrators shall have power to discharge any of the debts of the deceased without the authority of the judge of probate, who is not to order payment of the same without consulting the consular agent or the administrators.

Exception to be made for the expenses of the funeral, which shall at once be authorized by the aforesaid consul, if possible, or by the competent authorities of the district, with a regard to the capabilities of the estate.

ART. 9. When a deceased foreigner has been a partner in any mercantile firm, or is indebted to merchants for considerable sums of money, it will be necessary to proceed according to the provisions of the 309th and 310th articles of the commercial code. To the judge of probate for absentees, and to the respective consular agent, will alone belong the right of taking possession of the unincumbered portion still appertaining to the estate. The consular agent, however, may, in the terms of the article aforesaid, require whatever may fall to the benefit of the same.

ART. 10. In those cases when, according to the 6th article of these regulations, administrators to the unclaimed, estates of foreigners are appointed, they shall receive. if they require it, the per centage established by the laws of the empire for the curators of such estates, and the emoluments of the judge of probate shall be determined in the same way.

ART. 11. When a foreign consular agent dies, his estate shall be taken possession of in the same manner as it is customary with members of the diplomatic corps, unless the consular agent has been engaged in some kind of business in the country; because in this case it will be necessary to proceed according to the general rule.

ART. 12. When a foreign vessel is wrecked on the coast of Brazil, and at a place where there is consular agent of the respective nation, the latter may take whatever measures he shall deem proper for the safety of such vessel, her cargo, and appurte nances, without interfering with the local authorities in their right to succor those who have been shipwrecked; to preserve order; to secure the interests of the owners of the vessel and cargo, as well as those of the public treasury; to authenticate the inven tory; to identify the effects which were on board the wreck, and have the same deposi ted in the custom-house; and to intervene in all such circumstances that may attach suspicion to the proceedings of the captain, pilot, or any other person who may have had charge of the wrecked vessel.

ART. 13. Foreign consular agents shall exercise the authority of judges and arbiters in all questions relating to the wages of the crews, and in all civil questions which may arise between their own countrymen composing said crews; between the captains of different vessels belonging to their nation; and in suits of a commercial character between their fellow-citizens, when the latter do not prefer to have recourse to the ar thorities of the empire, and there are not found involved in such questions the rights of any inhabitants of the empire belonging to a different nation.

ART. 14. It is incumbent upon consular agents to take cognizance, according to their regulations, of such crimes as are committed on board vessels belonging to their nation, by members of the crew against one another during the voyage, provided that neither the offender nor the injured party are subjects of the empire; because in such case, although they may constitute part of said crew, the local authorities will have the exclusive right of taking cognizance of such crime.

ART. 15. When foreign merchant vessels find themselves in any of the ports & Brazil, the criminal and competent jurisdiction of their respective consular agents shall