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Rh numerous written requests for our guide-book, which amounted to more than 3000 letters and postal-cards; these were responded to by forwarding the pamphlet. Inclosed in these letters for emigrants were $6537.45 in cash or bills of exchange. Orders for railroad tickets are now sent direct to the steamship companies and to Castle Garden.

For emigrants expected or newly-arrived, who had not yet found a fixed place of abode, we received 1751 letters (against 1746 during the preceding year); these were either forwarded to the proper persons, if their address had been furnished, or they were called for at our office. Most recipients of these letters are not personally known to us, and none are employed by us, though this has frequently been supposed, or wrongly stated to be the case, and we can therefore very rarely answer satisfactorily the numerous inquiries respecting them. Letters which have lain in our office for six months are returned to the Post-Office, to be sent back to the writers.

For the discharge of the manifold business of the Bureau of Information, we are frequently obliged to tax the kindness of our sister societies in the interior, and we herewith gratefully acknowledge the many courtesies shown us by them. For the benefit of our friends abroad we subjoin a list of the German Societies existing in this country, as far as they are known to us:

— German Society of Lehigh Co., P. O. Box 526;, Secretary.

— The German Society of Maryland, 147 West Lombard Street;, Agent.

—German Aid Society of the City of Boston, Charity Building, corner of Charnton and Hawkins Streets;, Agent.

—The German Society of the City of Chicago, 49 South La Salle Street;, Agent.

—German Immigration and Aid Society, 22 Court Street;, Agent.

—-German Society of Kansas City, Mo., opposite the Union Depot;, Agent.

—German Society of Milwaukee, 300 South Water Street, coiner of Reed Street;, Agent.