A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the US., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws . The ground plan of Montpelier village, 1840; population, 1720;township granted October 21, 1870 (Copied from old plate) 16. The Population of Vermont.—Vermont re-tained her tw^o representatives under the apportionmentmade in accordance w^ith the census completed in number of inhabitants at that time was 85,539, foundin one hundred eighty-five towns. More than 77,000 ofthese
A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the US., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws . The ground plan of Montpelier village, 1840; population, 1720;township granted October 21, 1870 (Copied from old plate) 16. The Population of Vermont.—Vermont re-tained her tw^o representatives under the apportionmentmade in accordance w^ith the census completed in number of inhabitants at that time was 85,539, foundin one hundred eighty-five towns. More than 77,000 ofthese were south of the Winooski and Wells rivers. Themost populous town north of those rivers was Danville^population, 574. The five most populous towns in theState were Guilford, 2,432; Bennington, 2,377; Shafts-bury, 1,999; Putney, 1,848; Pownal, 1,746. Twenty-three Independent Sovereignty 209 towns each had more than one thousand inhabitants andeach of one hundred towns had more than three hundredinhabitants. Each of twenty-one towns south of a linedrawn west from the mouth of White River had a largerpopulation in 1791 than in Old State house In Rutland. Destroyed in 1913. The Statelegislature met here in 1784, 86, 92, 94, 96, 97 and 1804 17. The Legislature.—During the thirteen yearsof the separate independence of Vermont, her legislaturemet twenty-eight times, and in one year, 1781, there werefour sessions. From 1788, one session a year was the ruleuntil 1870; since that time one session in two years hasbeen the rule. Previous to 1791 the legislature had metin eight Vermont towns and in Charlestown, N. H., andprevious to 1808 It had met in fourteen Vermont towns. 210 History of Vermont Fourteen sessions were held in Windsor, eight in Benning-ton, seven in Rutland. Montpelier, which became the per-manent capital of the State in 1808, by act of Legislatureof 1805, was the sixteenth town and the fifteenth Vermonttown in which the legislature met. 18. Counties.—By the
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