197

a Decrease.

b Of Virginia and West Virginia together.

c Decrease.

Number of Representatives to Congress assigned to each of the United States previous to 1790 and from 1790 to 1880, and formation of States and Territories.

From territory ceded to United States by South Carolina and Georgia.
Admitted Dec. 14, 1819.

Admitted June 15, 1836.
Admitted Sept. 9, 1850.

From territory ceded by France.
From territory ceded by Mexico.
From portion of territory ceded by France and Mexico. Admitted Aug. 1,

1876.

From territory ceded by Maryland and Virginia. Established as seat of
government July 16, 1790. Alexandria retroceded July, 1816.

One of the thirteen original States. Ratified Constitution Jan. 9, 1788.
One of the thirteen original States. Ratified Constitution Dec. 7, 1787.

Ratified Constitution Jan. 2, 1788.

Admitted July 3, 1890.

From territory ceded by Spain. Admitted Mar. 3, 1845.
One of the thirteen original states.
From Territory of Idaho.
Out of territory ceded by Virginia.
From territory ceded by Virginia.
From part of Wisconsin Territory.

Admitted Dec. 3, 1818.
Admitted Dec. 11, 1816.
Admitted Dec. 28, 1846.

Composed of territory ceded by France and the State of Texas. Admitted
Jan. 29, 1861.

From the territory of Virginia. Admitted June 1, 1792.
From territory ceded by France. Admitted Apr. 8, 1812.
Out of part of territory of Massachusetts.
One of the thirteen original States.
One of the thirteen original States.
From territory ceded by Virginia.
From territory ceded by France.

Admitted Mar. 15, 1820.
Ratified Constitution Apr. 28, 1788.
Ratified Constitution Feb. 6, 1788.
Admitted Jan. 26, 1837.
Admitted May 11, 1858.

From territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina. Admitted Dec. 10, 1817. From territory ceded by France.

Admitted Aug. 10, 1821.

Territory of Montana. Admitted November 8, 1889.

Nebraska.

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From territory ceded by France.

Admitted Mar. 1, 1867.

Admitted Oct. 31, 1864.
Ratified Constitution June 21, 1788.
Ratified Constitution Dec. 18, 1787.
Ratified Constitution July 26, 1788.
Ratified Constitution Nov. 21, 1789.

From territory obtained from Mexico.
One of the thirteen original States.
One of the thirteen original States.
One of the thirteen original States.
One of the thirteen original States.
From Territory of Dakota. Admitted Nov. 2, 1889.
Out of territory ceded by Virginia. Admitted Nov. 29, 1802.
From territory included in treaty with France, 1803, and Spain, 1819, and
Admitted Feb. 14, 1859.
One of the thirteen original States. Ratified Constitution Dec. 12, 1787.
Great Britain, 1846.
Ratified Constitution May 29, 1790.
Ratified Constitution May 23, 1788.

One of the thirteen original States.
One of the thirteen original States.
From Territory of Dakota. Admitted Nov. 2, 1889.

Out of territory ceded by North Carolina. Admitted June, 1796.
I: dependent republic. Admitted Dec. 29, 1845.

From part of the territory of New York. Admitted Mar. 4, 1791.

One of the thirteen original States. Ratified Constitution June 26, 1788.
From Territory of Washington. Admitted Nov. 11, 1889.
Formed out of a portion of the State of Virginia.

Admitted Dec. 31, 1862.
From part of the territory of Michigan. Admitted May 20, 1848.
From Territory of Wyoming. Admitted July 10, 1890.

The Territorial governments, when established by Congress and organized,
send Delegates (one for each Territory) to the House of Representa-
tatives, who are present at its deliberations, with a right of moving
amendments and debating, but not of voting.

*Admitted into the Union after the apportionment under which they are here arranged was made, but before the succeeding census. The whole of the "thirteen original "States were settled in the period of 125 years, which intervened between the landing at Jamestown, Meanwhile, Henry Hudson had come to New York [1609]; the Mayflower's colony had landed in Massachusetts | 1620]; John Mason had received a grant of New Hampshire in the same year; a patent had issued for Connecticut [1631]; religious differences in Massachusetts had sent settlers to Rhode Island; a title to Maryland had vested in Lord Baltimore [1632]; a cesVa., in 1607, and the arrival of Oglethorpe in Georgia in 1733. sion of Delaware was obtained from the Indians [1640]; the Carolinas had passed into the possession of Clarendon and others, were settled in 1667 or 1668, and divided in two in 1729; and New Jersey had been patented in 1664. During the Revolution and afterwards, Congress held its sessions in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Lancaster, York, Princeton, Annapolis, and Trenton. Having been interrupted at Philadelphia, In 1784 commissioners were appointed to procure a site for the capital, beIn 1789 a bill passed tween two or three miles square, upon the Delaware River, and erect suitable buildings, but nothing was done by them. one house of Congress in favor of a location upon the banks of the Susquehanna. The present seat of Government [District of Columbia] was the sessions were removed to the halls of the college at Princeton. selected by virtue of acts passed in 1788-'89 by Virginia and Maryland ceding ten miles square upon the Potomac, under the name of Connogocheague. The first session of Congress was held in the District November, 1800.

NOTE.-Ratios of representation: 1790 and 1800, 1 to 33,900; 1810, 35,000; 1820, 40,000; 1830, 47,700; 1840, 70,680; 1850, 93,420; 1860, 127,000; 1870, 131,425; 1880, 151,912.