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260 wool, and on the production and consumption of alcoholic liquors.

This industrious bureau has made other special reports, among which may be mentioned one made in 1871 on immigration, containing information for immigrants relative to land, products, markets, stock, labor, etc., with tables showing wages of labor, cost of living, and other facts which immigrants might desire. It also, in 1875, made a well-known report on labor in Europe and America, containing special reports on wages, subsistence, and the condition of the working classes in Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, the United States, British America, and other countries. Under a resolution of January 19, 1832, the bureau made a report relative to the manufactures of the United States. It has also published valuable documents on the mineral resources of the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains, and reports upon the mining and metallurgical industries of the United States. This bureau has also furnished a history of the national loans of the United States from July 4, 1776, to June 30, 1880, while the metallic wealth of the United States was described in a report published in 1854. Hon. David A. Wells' well-known documents on the revision of the revenue system (1865-6) and the report of a special commission on the revenue, by Mr. Wells (1868), were also brought out by the bureau.

Among its most recent valuable special reports are those on the imports for consumption for eleven years, and the commercial aspects of cotton.

The Treasury Department must therefore be considered as a liberal contributor to social science, but it has done much more than simply record business transactions. Some of the earlier reports of the Secretary of the Treasury contained special reports concerning our commercial and industrial conditions that are of great value in the study of the history of economic conditions. The well-known reports of Alexander Hamilton, to which reference has already been made, are to be found in a volume containing the reports of the Secretary of the Treasury for the