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CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



Residents of the District of Columbia never had the right to vote therein for national officers, or on other 

 matters of national concern, after it became the seat of the general government. But from 1802 to June 20, 1874, 

 the citizens of Washington, and from January 1, 1790, to said date, the citizens of Georgetown were entitled to 

 vote on municipal subjects and for certain municipal officers - } the citizens of the portion of the District outside 

 of Washington and Georgetown were entitled to the same privilege from April 20, 1871, to June 20, 1874, but that 

 suffrage was abolished in the District of Columbia and was rescinded June 20, 1874, by the act of Congress of 

 that date. 



THE STATES AND THE UNION. 



THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES. 



STATES ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 



STATE AND TERRITORIAL STATISTICS. 



Gross area includes water as well as land surface. These areas are from the U. S. Census Krport of 1890. 

 t Breadth is from east lowest. Length is from north to south, | The District of Columbia \v;is originally 100 

 square miles, but 30 miles were receded to Virginia in 1846. Including the Cherokee Strip and No Man's Land. 

 II Breadth from CJuoddy Head, in Maine, to Cape Flattery, in Washington; length from the 49th parallel to 

 Brownsville, on the Rio Grande. This is exclusive of Alaska. 



