of the American Almanac respectfully invites his correspondents in the several States to communicate such errors as they may detect in these tables. The object here is to give only a summary of the facts, so as to afford the means of comparing the States with each other. Their financial condition is shown at much greater length under the head of "Individual States." Official returns published in this work for 1843 (page 135) show that the total of the debts of the States in 1842 was $198,818,736. It is apparent, then, that there has been no great reduction of these debts. Maine, XX. New Hampshire, Vermont, POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. 233,141 1830. 1840. 1850. 399,955 501,793 553,169 269,328 284,574 317,976 280,652 291,948 314,120 610,408 737,699 994,499 97,199 108,830 147,544 297,665 309,978 370,791 1790. 1800. 1810. 1820. 72,674 753,419 868,903 594,398 663,507 Florida, Alabama, 20,845 127,901 Mississippi, Louisiana, 76,556 153,407 215,739 352,411 517,839 Texas, Arkansas, 14,273 30,388 97,574 209,639 Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, 30.791 105,602 261,727 422,813 681,904 829,210 1,002,625 687,917 779,828 982,405 937,903 1,519,467 1,980,408 8,896 Illinois, 12,282 55,211 Missouri, Wisconsin, 30,945 305, 191 Iowa, Dist. of Columbia, 14,093 California, 192,214 43,712 51,687 92.597 Total, XXI. 3,929,872 5,305,952 7,239,814 9,638,131 12,866,920 17,063,353 23,191,074 SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES. * No slaves are returned in the Territories of Minesota, New Mexico, and Oregon; in Utah 26 are returned; for their population see p. 209. † Apprentices by the State act to abolish Slavery, of April 18, 1846. XXII. SEVENTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES. POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES ACCORDING TO THE SEVENTH CENSUS, AND REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.* Free States, 9,654,865 1,102 13.434,559 Slaveholding States, Districts and Territories, Total, 225 13,434,559 143+1 7,290,719 2,481,532 6,412.151 3,200,380 8,332,372 90-1 117.769 4.721 140,271 3,713 17,063.353 2,487,355 19,986,981 3 204,093 21,766,931 233 the number of *The aggregate representative population (21.766,931), divided by 233, representatives established by law,-gives 93,420 as the ratio of apportionment among the several States. But this gives only 220 members, leaving 13 to be assigned to the States having the largest residuary fractions. These are Apprentices" by the State act to abolish slavery, passed April 18, 1846. In the column of fractions, those marked thus,, entitle the State to an additional Representative, who is included in the number given the State in the column of Representatives. By the act of July 30, 1852 (Titles and Abstracts of Public Laws, No. 36, ante, p. 146), an additional Representative is assigned to California, making the whole number of Repre sentatives 234. The ratio of representation remains unchanged. XXIII. POPULATION OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES, Ir is lawful for any person or persons to bring to the Mint gold and silver bullion to be coined; and the bullion so brought is there assayed and coined, as speedily as may be after the receipt thereof, and, if of the standard of the United States, free of expense to the person or persons by whom it has been brought. But the Treasurer of the Mint is not obliged to receive, for the purpose of refining and coining, any deposit of less value than one hundred dollars, nor any bullion so base as to be unsuitable for minting. And there must be retained from every deposit of bullion below the standard such sum as shall be equivalent to the expense incurred in refining, toughening, and alloying the same; an accurate account of which expense, on every deposit, is kept, and of the sums retained on account of the same, which are accounted for by the Treasurer of the Mint with the Treasurer of the United States. By the State Census of this year. † Including the County. Officers of the Mint at Philadelphia. Geo. N. Eckert, Director, Officers of the Salary. $3,500 James C. Booth, Melter and Salary. $2,000 2,000 Jas. B. Longacre, Engraver, 2,000 2,000 W. E. Dubois, Assist. Assayer, 1,500 Branch at New Orleans, La. Robert M. McAlpin, Superint., $2,500 Augustus Devall, Coiner, $2,000 4,000 Officers of the Branch at Dahlonega, Ga. A. W. Redding, Superintend., $2,000 Robert H. Moore, Coiner, $1,500 Officers of the Branch at Charlotte, N. C. $1,500 J. H. Gibbon, Assayer, 1,500 J. W. Osborne, Superintendent, $2,000 Emmor Graham, Coiner, 1. Statement of the Deposits for Coinage, at the Mint of the United States and its Branches, in the Year 1851. 2. Statement of the Coinage of the Mint of the United States and its Branches in the Year 1851. Up to September 30, 1852, $136,747,935 of California gold had been received at the Mint and branches. From Jan. 1, 1852, to Sept. 30, 1852, 1.603.217 double eagles, 232,084 eagles, 559,602 half-eagles, 1,036,295 quarter eagles, and 1,674,687 gold dollars were coined. The total gold coinage in value for the 9 months was $41,448,614.50; silver, $ 609.650; copper, $39,122.61. The whole number of pieces coined in the nine months was 22,003,246. Value, $42,097,387.11. |