56. The following table exhibiting the ratio of representation in every state, as fixed by the temporary provision contained in the constitution of the United States, and by the several acts for the apportionment of representatives among the several states according to the several enumerations made in the years 1791, and 1801, will afford a pleasing evidence of the rapid increase of the population of the United States in the short period of thirteen or fourteen years.
| States | Representation under the Constitution |
Representation according to the First Census |
Representation according to the Second Census |
| New Hampshire | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Massachussetts | 8 | 14 | 17 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Connecticut | 5 | 7 | 7 |
| New-York | 6 | 10 | 17 |
| New-Jersey | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | 13 | 18 |
| Delaware | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Maryland | 6 | 8 | 9 |
| Virginia, including Kentucky | 10 | ||
| Virginia, exclusive of Kentucky | 19 | 22 | |
| North-Carolina, including Tenessee | 5 | 10 | |
| North-Carolina, exclusive of Tenessee | 12 | ||
| South-Carolina | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| Georgia | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| THE NEW STATES, viz. | |||
| Vermont | 2 | 4 | |
| Kentucky | 2 | 6 | |
| Tenessee | 1 | 3 | |
| State North West of the Ohio | 1 | ||
| TOTAL | 65 | 106 | 142 |
The apportionments both according to the first and second census, were made at the rate of one for every thirty-three thousand persons in each state: so that the increase of population has been as 142 to 106, or nearly as 4 to 3 in ten years. See L. U. S. 2. Cong. c. 23. and 7. Cong. 1. Sess. c. 1.
