APPENDIX. 477 



The forcgotnf!^ arc the lirtj which were f.ivea in to the General AfTembly 

 fay the particular towr.s, m confoimiiy to an aft of the lcf;iflature. la 

 cotnpatir.g the value ot the liH taken in 1791, the prices ot fomc of the 

 capital ar:;c!ei -.veie ihns ftatcd by the Affcmbly : — Improved land, tea 

 fhillings per acre. Neat cjttle, cne year old, fiftetn l}iii lings per head ; 

 two years old, thirty fhiliiiif;s per head ; thice years old and upwards, for- 

 ty fhillings pet head : An ox, lour years old, and upwards, three pounds. 

 Horfet, one year old, twenty Oiilliiigs ; two years old, forty fhillings; 

 three years old and upwards, four pounds. — As thefc prices were fcarcely 

 one half of the current prices of thofe articles, the real value of the ratable 

 property of the ftate, muft have been doible of what was fct down in tlir 

 lifls. It is probable this was alfo the cafe with the li'.fs taken in 1781, 

 But although nciiher of tlieie lifls will give the cxaft value of the taxable 

 properly of the ftate, at eiiher of thole periods, they will ^ive the increafe, 

 or the relative value of the taxable property at thofe times : And we can 

 clearly deduce from them, that from the year 1781, the whole ratable 

 property ot Veimont became doubled in eight yejjrs and an half; and 

 from the year 1791, the latable property of the ftaie becaine doubled, ia 

 nine years. 



In Virginia, the period at which the value of their land and flaves ta- 

 ken conjunctly, doubles, is Hated by Mr. Jefferfon, to be about twenty 

 years.* 



The number of towns repicfented in I7 Si, was fixty three : The num- 

 ber reprefented in 1791, was one hundred and twenty fix. In 18.6, the 

 number of towns that fend leprefentatives, was one hundred and eighty 

 feven. 



Thofe towns which are not taxed or reprefented, do not give in to the 

 afTerably any account of their ratable property. 



No proper enuroeiation of the inhabitants of Vermont, was made, be- 

 fore the cenfus taken in 1791. Thegeneral etlimations of the aflcmblies and 

 agents before that time, were roerely conjeftural. From a report which 

 Gov. Tryon of New York made to the king of Great Britain, of the ftate 

 of that piovince in the year 1772, it appears that he had procured a lift of 

 the inhabitants of each county in that province : Two of thofe counties, 

 Cumberland, and Qlouceiler, were in Vetniont ; and CDntained the traft 

 of country, which lies on the eafl fide of the green t«<nintains, and is nov,' 

 formed into the counties of Windham, Windior, and Orange. The num- 

 ber of people in thofe counties in the year 1771, was as foiiows : 

 * Notes on Virginia, d, 187. 



