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Rh f. The report of the Commissioner of Customs and Internal Revenue, which furnishes in detail the information relating to the collection of taxes under the internal revenue laws.

For the collection and publication of statistics of commerce and immigration a special bureau of statistics has been organized. Its functions date from 1820, when Congress directed the Register of the Treasury to prepare annual statistical accounts of the commerce of the United States with foreign countries, and beginning with the year 1821 there is a continuous series of annual volumes on the commerce and navigation of the United States. Beginning with 1876 there is a similar annual volume on internal commerce. These two volumes are designated, respectively, "Annual Report on the Commerce and Navigation of the United States: Foreign Commerce," and "Annual Report on the Commerce and Navigation of the United Spates: Internal Commerce." In 1878 the bureau began the issue of an annual statistical abstract, which contains a condensed summary of the statistical information embraced in all the principal government publications.

Other regular publications of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department are its annual report in regard to imported merchandise, with rates of duty and amount of duties collected; an annual report, by countries and by customs districts, of the imports and exports of the United States; a quarterly report relative to the imports, exports, immigration and navigation of the United States; a monthly statement of the foreign commerce and immigration of the United States, and a monthly summary statement of the imports and exports of the country.

This bureau has also issued reports on subjects pertinent to trade and commercial interests, the chief of which are a table showing the prices of commodities and the immigration into the United States for a series of years; a report showing the arrivals of alien passengers and immigrants in the United States from 1820 to 1888; lists of boards of trade and other commercial and industrial organizations of the country. It has also published a most valuable special report upon wool and the manufactures of