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441.5
Brussels.
314,100
Bavaria ..
4,861,400
1871
29,292
165.9
Munich.
169,500
Portugal
3,995,200
1868
34,494
115.8
Lisbon
224,063
Holland
3,688,300
1870
12,680
290.9
Hague ..
90,100
. ew Grenada ..
3,000,000
1870
357,157
8.4
Bogota.
45,000
Chili
2,000,000
1869
132,616
15.1
Santiago.
115,400
Switzerland
2,669,100
1870
15,992
166.9
Berne.
36,000
Peru
2,500,000
1871
471,838
5.3
Lima.
160,100
Bolivia ..
2,000,000
497.321
4.
Chuquisaca ..
25,000
Wurtemburg
1,818,500
1871
7.533
241.4
91,600
Denmark
1,784.700
1870
14,753
120.9
Copenhagen.
Venezuela
1,500,000
368,238
4.2
Caraccas
Baden ..
1,461,400
1871
5,912
247.
Carlsruhe.
36,600
Greece ..
1,457,900
1870
19,353
75.3
Athens ..
Guatemala
1,180,000
1871
40,879
28.9
Guatemala
Ecuador
1,300,000
218,928
5.9
70,000
Hesse
823,138
2,969
277.
Darmstadt
30,000
S.un Salvador
600,000
1821
7,335
81.8
572,000
1871
58,171
6
Managua.
10,000
Uruguay ..
300,000
1871
66,722
6.5
Monte Video
44,500
Honduras
350,000
1871
47,092
7.4
Comayagua .
12,000
San Domingo
136,000
17,827
7.6
San Domingo
20,000
Costa Rica.
165.000
1870
21,505
7.7
San Jose ..
2,000
Hawaii.
62.950
7,633
80.
Honolulu
7,633
Liberia
718,000
1871
9,576
74.9
Monrovia
3,000
Sal Salvador
15,000
Hayti ..
10,205
56.
Port au Prince
20,000
Nicaragua.
350,000
1871
63,787
15.6
Asuncion ..
48,000
Argentine Republic.
1,812,000
1869
871,848
2.1
Buenos Ayres.
177,800
Stuttgart
136,900
5,921.500
1870
292.871
20.
Stockholm.
Nevada.
112,090
42,491
593
Washington.
69,944
23,955
North Carolina ..
50,704 1.071,361
1,190
Aggregate of U. S .. 2,915,203 38,555,983
60,852
Indiana ..
33.899 1.680,637
3,529
528,349
1,606
2,235
598,429
1,612
990
New Mexico
121,201
91.874
246,280 52,540
Utah
POPULATION.
Miles' R. R.
1870.
1875.
1,000,000
40,000
Quito
162,042
47,000
43,400
Paraguay.
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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
POPULATION OF ILLINOIS, BY COUNTIES.
AGGREGATE.
COUNTIES.
1870.
1860.
1850.
1840.
1830.
1820.
Adams
56362
41323
26508
I4476
2186
Alexander.
10564
4707
2484
3313
1390
626
Bond
13152
9815
6144
5060
3124
293I
Boone
I2942
II678
7624
I705
Brown
I2205
9938
7198
4183
Bureau
32415
26426
8841
3067
Calhoun
6562
5144
323I
I741
1090
Carroll
16705
II733
4586
1023
Cass
II580
II325
7253
298 1
Champaign
32737
14629
2649
I475
Christian
20363
10492
3203
1878
Clark
18719
14987
9532
7453
3940
93I
Clay
15875
9336
4289
3228
755
Clinton
16285
1094I
5139
3718
2330
Coles
25235
14203
9335
9616
Cook
349966
144954
43385
IO20I
Crawford
13889
II55I
7135
4422
3117
2999
Cumberland
I2223
83II
3718
De Kalb
23265
19086
7540
1697
De Witt
14768
10820
5002
3247
Douglas
I3484
7140
Du Page
16685
I470I
9290
3535
Edgar
21450
16925
10692
8225
4071
Edwards
7565
5454
3524
3070
I649
3444
Effingham
15653
7816
3799
1675
Fayette
19638
11189
8075
6328
2704
Ford
9103
1979
Franklin
12652
9393
5681
3682
4083
I763
Fulton
3829I
33338
22508
13142
I841
Gallatin
III34
8055
5448
10760
7405
3155
Greene
20277
16093
I2429
I195I
7674
Grundy
14938
10379
3023
Hamilton
13014
9915
6362
3945
2616
Hancock
35935
29061
14652
9946
483
Hardin
5113
3759
2887
I378
Henderson
1258:
950I
4612
Henry
35506
20660
3807
I260
4I
Iroquois
25782
I2325
4149
1695
I828
1542
Jasper
II234
8364
3220
I472
Jefferson
17864
12965
8109
5762
2555
691
Jersey
15054
I205I
7354
4535
Jo Daviess
27820
27325
18604
6180
2III
Johnson
II248
9342
41I4
3626
1596
843
Kane
3909I
30062
16703
6501
Kankakee.
24352
15412
Kendall
12399
I3074
7730
7060
274
Lake
21014
18257
14226
2634
La Salle
60792
48332
17815
9348
Lawrence
I2533
9214
6121
7092
3668
Lee
27171
17651
5.292
2035
Livingston
3147I
11637
1553
759
Logan
23053
14272
5128
2333
I
I
1
1
Knox
39522
28663
13279
Jackson
19634
9589
5862
3566
*23
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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.
POPULATION OF ILLINOIS-CONCLUDED.
AGGREGATE.
COUNTIES.
1870.
1860 ..
1850.
1840.
1830.
1820.
Macon
2648 I
13738
3988
3039
II22
Macoupin
32726
24602
I2355
7926
1990
Madison
4413I
3125I
20441
I4433
6221
I3550
Marion
20622
I2739
6720
4742
2125
Marshall
16950
I3437
5180
1849
Mason
16184
10931
5921
Massac
9581
6213
4092
McDonough.
26509
20069
7616
5308
(b)
McHenry
23762
22089
14978
2578
McLean
53988
28772
10163
6565
Menard
II735
9584
6349
4431
Mercer
18769
I5042
5246
2352
26
Monroe.
I2982
12832
7679
448 I
2000
1516
Montgomery
25314
I3979
6277
4490
2953
Morgan
23463
22112
16064
19547
I2714
Moultrie
10385
6385
3234
Ogle
27492
22888
10020
3479
Peoria
47540
36601
17547
6153
(c)
Perry
I3723
9552
5278
3222
1215
Piatt
10953
6127
1606
Pike.
30768
27249
18819
II728
2396
Pope
II437
6742
3975
4094
3316
2610
Pulaski
8752
3943
2265
Putnam
6280
5587
3924
2131
11310
Randolph
20859
I7205
11079
7944
4429
3492
Richland
I2803
9711
4012
2610
Saline
12714
9331
5588
Sangamon
46352
32274
19228
I4716
12960
Schuyler
17419
I4684
10573
6972
b2959
Scott
10530
9069
7914
6215
Shelby
25476
14613
7807
6659
2972
Stark
1075I
9004
3710
1573
St. Clair
51068
37694
20180
13631
7078
5248
Stephenson.
30608
25112
II666
2800
Tazewell
27903
21470
12052
7221
4716
Union
16518
III81
7615
5524
3239
2362
Vermilion
30388
19800
II492
9303
5836
Wabash
8841
7313
4690
4240
2710
Warren
23174
18336
8176
6739
308
Washington
17599
I373I
6953
4810
1675
1517
Wayne
19758
I2223
6825
5133
2553
III4
White
16846
12403
8925
7919
6091
4828
Whitesides
27503
18737
5361
2514
Will_
43013
2932I
16703
10167
Williamson
I7329
I2205
7216
4457
Winnebago
29301
24491
II773
4609
Woodford
18956
13282
4415
*49
Total.
2539891
171195I
851470
476183
157445
55162
1
I
Rock Island
29783
21005
6937
*21
*5
1
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CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND ITS AMENDMENTS.
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
ARTICLE I.
SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
SEC. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of mem- bers chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature.
No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the sev- eral states which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subse- quent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative ; and until such enumeration shall be made the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plan- tations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylva- nia eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, and Georgia three.
' When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the Executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers, and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
SEC. 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six years ; and each Senator shall have one vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expira-
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tion of the second year, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature of any state, the Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried the Chief Justice shall preside. And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.
Judgment, in cases of impeachment, shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment according to law.
SEC. 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Sen- ators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the Legis- lature thereof ; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
SEC. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide.
Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.
SEC. 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compen- sation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason,
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felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same ; and for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time ; and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either house during his continuance in office.
SEC. 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.
Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it ; but if not he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have origi- nated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration two-thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objec- tions, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted), after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.
Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment), shall be presented to the President of the United States, and before the same shall take effect shall be approved by him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be re-passed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and lim- itations prescribed in the case of a bill.
SEC. 8. The Congress shall have power-
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States ; but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States ;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States ;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States ;
To establish post offices and post roads ;
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To promote the progress of sciences and useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writing's and discoveries ;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court ;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations ;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water ;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy ;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces ;
To 'provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions ;
To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the disci- pline prescribed by Congress ;
To exercise legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful buildings ; and
To make all laws which shall .be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any depart- ment or officer thereof.
SEC. 9. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.
No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or rev- enue to the ports of one state over those of another; nor shall vessels bound to or from one state be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expeditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
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No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States : and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
SEC. 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confeder- ation ; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money ; emit bills of credit ; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts ; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.
No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws, and the net produce of all duties and imposts laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States ; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
ARTICLE II.
SECTION 1. The Executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same term, be elected as follows :
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of Electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress ; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
[* The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each ; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The Pres- ident of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed ; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President ; and if no person have a ma- jority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the vote shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote ; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President,
* This clause between, brackets has been superseded and annulled by the Twelfth amendment.
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the person having the greatest number of votes of the Electors shall be the Vice-President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice-Presi- dent. 7
The Congress may determine the time of choosing the Electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice-President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inabil- ity, both of the President and Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the dis- ability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a com- pensation which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States or any of them.
Before he enters on the execution of his office, he shall take the fol- lowing oath or affirmation:
" I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
SEC. 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardon for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present con- cur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law ; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.
SEC. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such mea- sures as he shall judge necessary and expedient ; he may on extraordinary
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occasions convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagree- ment between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers ; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.
SEC. 4. The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and con- viction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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