MANNING, AMOS R. 



MANSFIELD, EDWARD D. 491 



The following is the population of Maine by 

 counties, according to the first official report 

 of the Federal census of 1880: 



Androscoggin 45,044 



Aroostook 41,700 



Cumberland 86,360 



Franklin 18,184 



Hancock 33,131 



Kennebec 53,061 



Knox 32,862 



Lincoln 24,809 



Oxford 32,618 



Penobscot 70,478 



Piscataquis 14,873 



Sagadahoc 19,276 



Somerset 32,339 



Waldo 32,468 



Washington 44,477 



York 62,265 



Total for the State 648,945 



The population of the cities, as compared 

 with that of 1870, was as follows : 



The receipts of the State Treasury for the year, 

 including a balance of $69,413.47, amounted to 

 $1,741,808.60. The expenditures were $1,581,- 

 469.96, and the balance at the end of the year, 

 $160,358.64. The State has a bonded debt of 

 $5,883,900, and a sinking fund of $1,307,857. 

 The total resources, including the sinking fund, 

 are $2,513,822.39; liabilities, $8,706,392.67. 

 The bonded debt is made up as follows: 



Bonds due, 1831, renewal of bounty loan. . $50,000 



" 1832. renewal of bounty loan.. 50,000 



" 1833, renewal of bounty loan. , 



" 1834, renewal of bounty loan . . 



" 1835, renewal of bounty loan.. 



" 1836. renewal of bounty loan . . 



" 1833, war loan ! 



" 1839, war loan 



188;), municipal war loan 



Bonds due and uncalled 



50,000 

 50,000 

 50,000 

 57,000 

 385,000 

 2,330,000 

 2,326,900 

 35,000 



Total $5,833,900 



The amount of taxes assessed upon the rail- 

 roads under the new law was $55,250, but 

 only three of the companies responded to the 

 demand for payment. Suits were accordingly 

 brought under the law, before the close of the 

 year, against the Maine Central, the Boston and 

 Maine, and the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth. 

 The Western Union and International Tele- 

 graph Companies also refused to pay the tax 

 assessed upon them, and proposed to test the 

 validity of the law. The tax assessed upon the 

 three railroads named was Maine Central, 

 $22,000 on a valuation of $2,200,000; Boston 

 and Maine, $18,000 ; valuation, $1,800,000 ; 

 and Portland, Saco and Portsmouth, $12,000; 

 valuation, $1,200,000. 



MANNING, AMOS REDUS, was born in the 

 State of New Jersey in 1810 ; died September 

 17, 1880, at New York. In his early youth he 

 removed from his native State to Alabama. 

 His education was begun at the Green Acade- 



my, and at the end of his preparatory course 

 he entered the University of Tennessee. Hav- 

 ing graduated there, he studied law with Hon. 

 A. F. Hopkins at Huntsville, and commenced 

 his professional life at Linden in 1836, but sub- 

 sequently removed to Demopolis, where he 

 was associated at different times with Messrs. 

 F. L. Lyon, D. C. Anderson, and William E. 

 Clarke, in the practice of law. When his 

 ability at the bar had won to him the popular 

 interest, he was for a short time drawn into 

 public life as a member of the Whig party. In 

 1845 he went to the lower House of the Legis- 

 lature as a Representative from Marengo, and 

 in 1847-'51 to the Senate from the district 

 then composed of Wilcox and Marengo. In 

 1852 Judge Manning settled in Mobile in order 

 to gain a large field for professional success. 

 During the twenty-eight years that elapsed 

 after that time, his fame as a lawyer occupied 

 the public attention, and the professional firm 

 of Manning & Walker was associated with 

 the most serious and complicated litigation in 

 the courts. In 1874 Judge Manning was elect- 

 ed to the Supreme Bench of the State, and in 

 this high position acquitted himself in a man- 

 ner worthy of his great professional experi- 

 ence, deep learning, exact scholarship, and 

 spotless reputation. Patient, earnest, and pro- 

 found, he was unruffled by prejudice or passion 

 in the discharge of his judicial duties. Inces- 

 sant labor, coupled with a painful disease, at 

 length undermined a naturally strong consti- 

 tution, and ended a distinguished life which 

 the State he served is proud to hold in honored 

 remembrance. 



MANSFIELD, EDWAED DEERIXG, LL. D., 

 was born at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1801. 

 He was a son of Colonel Jared Mansfield, a 

 mathematician and engineer, who was long a 

 professor at West Point. Appointed Surveyor- 

 General of the Northwest Territory by Jeffer- 

 son in 1803, he removed to Marietta and Cin- 

 cinnati. His son Edward was a student at 

 the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, until he 

 was prepared in 1815 to enter West Point 

 Military Academy. He graduated in 1819, 

 fourth in his class-list. Instead of entering 

 the army, he pursued a classical course at 

 Princeton, graduating with honors in 1822. 

 In 1825 he was admitted to the bar in Con- 

 necticut. He removed to Ohio, practicing in 

 Cincinnati. In 1836 he accepted the professor- 

 ship of constitutional law and history in Cin- 

 cinnati College. Retiring from the practice of 

 the law, he was editor of the " Cincinnati 

 Chronicle" from 1836 until 1849; of the 

 "Atlas" from 1849 to 1852; of the "Railroad 

 Record," from 1854 to 1872. He was the corre- 

 spondent of the "New York Times" under 

 the well-known nom de plume of " A Veteran 

 Observer." He was Commissioner of Statis- 

 tics for Ohio from 1857 to 1867, and was 

 an associate of the French " Society de Statis- 

 tique Universelle." He wrote a " Treatise on 

 Constitutional Law " (1835), " Political Gram- 



