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5616.13 1870 38,558,37122.6310.705074938,071,87520.93 1880 .50,155,78330.0813.9251049011,318,54722.57 1890 . 63,069,75624.8520.7851148918,235,67029.12 1900 76,295,22020.97(Not yet reported ) Previous to 1790 there were no definite figures of population; everything was estimate. During the life of the Continental Congress the taxation apportionment, as well as the calls for troops from the colonies, was made on meagre information, and that often of a purely conjectural character. Mr. DeBow, who edited the census returns in 1850, gave the following estimates of colonial population: 1707262,000 17491,046,000 17752,803,000 Mr. Bancroft gives the estimates of the Board of Trade, which had its agents in the colonies, as follows: 1714434,600 1727580,000 17541,485,634 The Constitution of the United States provides for an enumeration of the population as often as once in every ten years, as follows: Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the seve