NEW APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES. By the law passed in 1832 for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States, it is enacted, that from and after the third day of March, 1833, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio of one Representative for every 47,700 persons in each State, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constitution of the United States. The following Table exhibits the Representative Population of each State, the Number of Representatives to which each State will be entitled, and the Fractions which remain after dividing the Representative Population of each State by 47,700; and also the number to which each State was entitled in the 22d Congress. R. I. Con. N. J. Pa. 47700 399,454 817354 269,327 53 47700 215 47700 280,652 47700 97,192 2 47700 297,665 611465 47700 2 Ala. 262,507 5 6 Miss. 110,357 700 804 La. 171,904 32 47700 N. Y. 1,918,578 401978 34 Ten. 625,263 135163 621,832 131732 319,921 6337. 1,348,072 2812472 26 Ohio, 937,901 1930 14 7 N. C. 6 S. C. 13 Ga. 639,747 131947 13 47700 9 00 77 47 00 4957 1 5 3 9 47700 6 Ky. 12 47700 1 Ind. 343,030 7-10 3 47700 9 Ill. 47700 157,146 3140 6 1 47700 Va. (1,023,502 212183 22 Mo. 130,419 35019 47700 with the Names of the Registers and Receivers of Public Moneys. Thomas B. Van Horne, Arthur St. Clair, Robert Brackenridge, Samuel Alexander, Francis Prince, William L. May, James C. Sloo, Edwardsville, do. William P. McKee, Charles Prentiss, Joseph Kitchell, John Biddle, Abraham Edwards, William Christy, Hampton L. Boon, Receivers of Public Moneys. Samuel S. Stokely. David C. Skinner. Bernard Van Horne. John D. Wolverton. Edward Humphreys. Benjamin F. Edwards. Jonathan Kearsley. John Hays. Edwin M. Ryland. Costs of the Public Lands, and Amount paid for and on account thereof. Payment on account of the purchase of Louisiana : 14,984,872 28 Interest to 30th Sept. 1831, 1,265,416 67 6,251,016 49 Same. Compact with Georgia, 1,065,484 06 Same. Settlement with the Yazoo claimants, 1,830,808 04 Same. Contracts with the several Indian tribes, (all expenses on account of Indians,) 11,852,182 56 Same. Commissioners, clerks, surveyors, and other offi cers, employed by the United States for the management and sale of the Western domain, 3,563,834 54 Total to the 30th September, 1831, 48,077,551 40 Amount of money received at the Treasury as the proceeds of sales of the public lands, to the 30th Sept. 1831, 37,273,713 31 * On this item, the cost per acre is to be calculated. |