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Tbs Ceasus q she State and the statement Of the
iaxss rag 81 eaSltsowa and county, prepared by
tbe First Auditor ia Compliance with resolution
d the Convention. are documents OF much general
inleEesl L. aaosher phase we Pablish- synopsis II
the Cefsts from The Riehm0nd Pines, and pro-
Roseg he4 some STATISTICAL acls which, though
laE the st part oil no pulitcal Importance possess
degEsa ol Interest 10 most Feaders.
III. AZ il sssnetaley known the slave population IS
Fery u6etlQalls distributed in DE STATE. The great
est nun,llsr j ieand in the Piedmont District. in
heariyss eEy eeanty Of which here is an excess Of
his class 81 population. Ia each ii the counties o
Amelia holloway and Pewhalan, the number 81
tae SLAVES is more thaa duabe that az tie whites
The cerhty having the largest number Of slaves Is
Hallizxl in which there are 10000 whites, II 4a6
slayessald 55a tree eelaFed people. i Londoan has
she smallest plumber Of slaves ID proportion 10 il
q any eslpiy la The district viz
III ths Valley tie RATIO OF the slaves 70 The white
population is a6ontl 70 / In Roanoke, the slaye
population Is more dense than in any other county
lin this district; the population being 5I03 whites,
425l0 slaves and I6S tree eoored. Augusta has the
Aargesipumber of slaves VIZ: 505s; while IN Shen-
5andoa.g The ratio is l Slave 10 Ii whites and in
lMorgaa only 10 81.
II The Trans Allegheny district has population Of
1873 5ss whites "a 436 slaves and2 IS2 free negroes
the ratio of slaves % whites being about 10 ~
skanREha has the largest number Of slaves 81 anF
The district viz 3 40 slaves TO l200s
tsayes 30 1859 whites. Seventeen counties IN the
sdistrid9haFe each less than 100 slaves, eighteea
8coundss less ihan 500, and the remaining iourteeh
fcouutfss over 500
II The great bpk of the free colofed population is
ffpundsll the Tide Water District Accumac eoun
ty aloRh has 1851 free cooed people 10 9730 wlites
land ias1 slases.
\ Thenumtsr of AoYses in the State IS 3ls 203--
Y Augusa has The greatest number, 90lS, and Rock
Hinghaaa the next greatest number, 1913.
ThkanumbeTOt Htteass in the State on which
4 taxesare paid is % s52 The Two eastern districts
have safiy twice as many as the two western
ThFnnmler OF Clarks in the State, which are ar
/ sesse Is III 1893, l96 in the east, and l06sO m
the vssl
ThsTe are f400 Coaches or Carriages in The Trans
Allegheny District, OF which 0hiueouny, including
L Wheeling has the greatest numbers 1871 and Mica
L olas and Wyoming none 22il in the Valley, Rl
Il which Jefferson county has 365; G45l in the Pied
montHaistriet. ofwhich Loadoun has 81; and 69ss
in the Eide w alter disifiet-of which Henrico, in
eudIRg Richmond, has 576-total in the Sts7tt
5000
Ot5tcd}rqauA The Trans-Alleghany district ha.
27l many elunties Of which have none the VALLEY
4 has sl0 Of which Rockingham county has l09, 1tu
guSt& II and Boteoaft none; the Piedmont dIslTsc
i has 43l, OF which Louisa has AZ; and the ~
Water district has 92j o1 which Caroline has "a
TIE Tide Waterdislrict abounds in Gigs, hayiA
u 2565. The other districts united have only 325-
N Accamac alone has 4s3, being emphatically IN
HI SkOlfkstY OIL SlSS auQ iESE HeSloSS't
m The number cf PidHos in The Trans Alleghan
ii Disfsct is 3I3 in the Valley 533-of which leite
IA son las 100 aud Augusta ~; the Piedmont di
] rici 3272-of which Albemarie and Campbell hay
1 each.lo9; and the Tide Water, district lSl5-tot
4 in he State, 1929. -Sapposing each one 10 ha'
cost 5000, the amount invested in these musical
strlsalenis is 81 ,l79 SEQ.
| The number Of practising AttoraegS in the Tran
\ Alt.hany District is 269 Of which Kanawha b
III 10 Harrison II, and Wyoming none; the Vail,
and he sKRSia Aaf Sl M J2qd sys 5s 9th
Tide Water districthas '392, Of which Henrico h
a3 lO5 and York and Warwick counties none-tol
in die State 1902 Is
Ihe number ofpractising PHYSICIANS 10 the Trar
Altfghany Districts 372-of which Ohio com
has p and Wyoming and Raleigh none; the Y;
IN ley has 2f9-of which Augusta has 30 and JetIeTs
y i the Piedmont district has G3ls-of which Ia
/ faxhqs lis and the Tide Water district has SIS
Of Which Henrico has 93-total in The State 1853.
Augasta county has a poplationofi ,903 Wis
| 395F Free coorcd and $50 Slaves-total 81 Gle
fhe total amount ofreEenue tax paid by the con-
i " SD, IS of which the town ofSauHon pa
4 S2al752) more than any county ia Western Mi
n slna, except QAid, which includes Wheeling.