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Vessels cleared during the year: American vessels for foreign countries—115 steamers, 4 ships, 13 barks, 2 brigs, 13 schooners, 2 sloops: total number of vessels, 149; number of tons, 55,606.25; number of men, 2,105.

Foreign vessels for foreign countries: 6 steamers, 16 ships, 6 barks, 3 sloops: total, 31; number of tons, 19,227.42; crews, 456.

American vessels coastwise: 29 steamers, 11 ships, 18 barks, 1 brig, and 9 schooners: total, 68; number of tons, 31,779.74; crews, 1,092. Total number of vessels cleared, 248; total number of tons, 106,613.41; crews, 3,653.

Vessels entered during the year: American vessels from foreign countries—95 steamers, 1 ship, 10 barks, 1 brig, 18 schooners, and 22 sloops: total, 147; number of tons, 39,840.06; crews, 1,852.

Foreign vessels from foreign countries: 6 steamers, 7 ships, and 3 sloops: total, 16; number of tons, 5,366.57; crews, 62.

American vessels coastwise: 39 steamers, 18 ships, 43 barks, 3 brigs, and 6 schooners: total, 109; number of tons, 55,561.18; crews, 1,853. Total number of American vessels entered, 272; total number of tons, 100,767.81; total number of crews, 3,502.

In the coasting trade belonging to other ports there are eighteen vessels, viz., 1 ship, 12 barks, 1 brig, and 4 schooners: total, 18; number of tons, 7,761.25.

The value of the shipments coastwise can not be obtained from any other source than the mills from which the lumber is shipped, as vessels do not clear from this port unless sailing under a register.

The year's shipment coastwise is estimated at three million dollars, being an increase over the preceding year of nearly three hundred thousand dollars.

Imports coastwise can not be ascertained, as the vessels are not obliged to report at the Custom-house except in certain cases.

The total population of Washington Territory is 23,995. Of this number 6,699 are in Eastern Washington, and the remainder chiefly in the vicinity of the lower Columbia River and the Sound.