The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year, Volume 21Gray and Bowen, 1849 |
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Page 220 - Representatives shall be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio of one Representative for every seventy thousand six hundred and eighty persons in each State, and of one additional representative for each State having a fraction greater than one moiety of the said ratio, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constitution of the United States...
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Page 143 - States, during the fiscal year next preceding; and also the number of persons employed, and the occupation and salary of each person, at each custom-house, during the period aforesaid.