These tables are believed to be very accurate, being compiled almost exclusively from official reports made by the Treasurers and Auditors to the Legislatures of the several States, near the 1st of January, 1852. The account of the State debts, in particular, is full, and may be depended upon; that of the several kinds of property owned by the States of course is more defective, for the State archives seldom afford complete materials for accurate accounts of this sort, and the property is sometimes estimated at a nominal valuation, which is much above its market value. The editor Total, 25,170,730 134,982,644 3,069 Total, near Jan.1,1851, 20,456,605 134,936,578 2 66 Total, "1850, 21,542,683 125,369,722 27,584,443 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. 5,812,000 F,912 5,812,000 5,673,121 5,258,652 5,062,310 5,435,285 Massachusetts, 373.717 423,245 472,040 523,237 610,408 737,699 994,499 Rhode Island, 69,110 Connecticut, 233,141 251,002 New York, New Jersey, 97,199 108,830 147,544 262.042 275,202 297,665 309,978 370,791 340.120 586,756 959,949 1,372,812 1,918,608 2,428,921 3,097,394 184,139 211,949 249,555 277,575 320,823 373,306 489,561 434,373 602,365 810,091 1,049,458 1,348,233 1,724,033 2,311,786 59,093 64,273 72,674 72,749 76,748 78,085 91,532 319,729 341,548 380,546 407,350 447,040 470,019 583.034 748,303 880,200 974.642 1,065,379 1,211,405 1,239,797 1,421,661 393,751 478,103 555,500 633,829 249,073 345,591 415,715 502,741 82,548 162,101 252,433 340,987 753,419 868,903 69,122 77,031 83,059 Virginia, North Carolina, 737,987 South Carolina, 3,929,872 5,305.9527,239,8149,638,131.12,866,920 17,063,353 23,191.074 SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES. 92.597 893,041 1,191,364 1,538,064 2,009,031 2,487,355 3,204,067 *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.* Total, RECAPITULATION. Total Free Slaves Population in in 1840 1840. 9,654.865 Total Free in 1850. 1,102 13,434.559 Slaves Represen Rep. Gain in tativePop in or 1850. in 1850. 1850 loss 225 13,434,559 143+1 7,290,719 2,481,532 6,412.151 3,200,380 8,32,372 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 aggregate representative population (21.766,931), divided by 233, the number of 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 Representatives 234. The ratio of representation remains unchanged. XX'. POPULATION OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES, It 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. |