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The foregoing enumeration is preserved in the City Clerk's Office. It is manifest that, in the last section, the whole number of inhabitants is included, instead of ratable polls as in the first and second sections. On a separate paper in the same file, this memorandum is found: ‘The whole number of polls on the south side of Charles River in Little Cambridge, from sixteen years of age and upwards, 66 whites, 4 blacks.’ The whole number is:—

In the Town,155 whites.9 blacks.
In Menotomy,122 whites.1 black.
South side of the River, Total,66 whites.4 blacks.
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Total,343 whites.14 blacks.

In 1781, a general valuation was taken of the property in the Commonwealth, as the basis of a State tax. The Cambridge List was as follows1:—

1 Mass. Arch., CLXI., p. 369.

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