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WEST VIRGINIA. 



contracted by the whole before the division, 

 are ratably binding upon the different parts 

 in proportion to territory and population ; " 

 and they deny the justice of this principle in 

 the present case, averring that "the benefits 

 conferred, and not the territory and population, 

 should be the principal, if not the only basis, 

 of an adjustment of the debt." To show the 

 justice of this principle in the case in hand, 

 they point to the fact that " all of the above- 

 mentioned sum of $31,779,067.32 was ex- 

 pended within the present State of Virginia, 

 with the exception of $2,788,329.29;" and 

 that "the amount expended for all purposes 



in West Virginia was $3,343,929.29." From 

 these data the commissioners conclude by 

 charging West Virginia with the amount ex- 

 pended within her territory, and crediting her 

 with $2,390,569.06, the aggregate sum of her 

 proportionable share in the estimated value 

 of public buildings and other assets, United 

 States surplus fund, the literary fund, and the 

 amount collected from her after January 1, 

 1861 ; so that the balance of the proportion of 

 the public debt of Virginia which West Vir- 

 ginia ought to assume in favor of the former 

 State is determined by the commissioners to 

 be $953,360.23. 



CENSUS OF 1870. 



Included in the census is one Indian. The value of farm-products, including betterments 



total taxation includes $132,213, not distrib- and additions to stock, was $23,379,692 



uted among counties. The true value of prop- 1,598,541 pounds of wool were raised; *l,49i 



erty was $190, 651,491. The public debt, county, whites and 9,997 colored persons, ten years 



city, town, etc., amounted to $651,767. The old and over, cannot write, of whom 36,584 are 



