International Statistical Congress at ^erlin. VI. SESSION. SIXTH DAY’S SESSION. September 11th, 1863. Report from the United States of America. Mr. Samuel B. Ruggles, Delegate from the United States of America, presented the following Report: -3A. President and Gentlemen of the International Statistical Congress : The Government of Prussia having specially requested, through its Minister at AV ashington, his Excellency the Baron Gerolt, that the Government of the United States of America should send a representative to the International Statistical Congress to convene at Berlin on the 6th of September, 1863, the President of the United States, on the 14th of August, appointed the undersigned to that office. The session of the Congress being so near at hand, the undersigned was necessarily obliged to embark for Europe without delay, and was thus prevented from collecting, in due season, as large a portion as could have been desired, of the numerous documents and publications illustrating the statistics of the United States. Much important information, though often wanting in classification and arrangement, is embraced in various official papers issued under public authority, both National and State, and also by Boards of Trade and other voluntary societies whose labors are more or less statistical.
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