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_005195535	Chickering, Jesse, 1797-1855.	Immigration into the United States	1848		.txt	text/plain	36794	1832	74	The first column shows the years; the second , the number of persons in the United States for 1820, 1830 and 1840, according to the censuses of those years, the number for the intermediate years, on the supposition of a uniform rate of increase during each year of a decade of years, and the number after 1840, on the supposition of the rate continuing as it averaged the 10 preceding years; the third , the average amount per annum of the increase of population ; the fourth , the number of foreign passengers registered at the custom- houses, that is, passengers, exclusive of those born in the United States ; the fifth, half the number of foreign passen- gers, which half are presumed to have arrived “elsewhere;” the sixth , the “ total” of those in the fourth and fifth col- umns ; and the seventh and eighth , the proportion of the “total” foreigners to the whole increase of the population from 1820 to 1846. 1,028 District of Columbia, * 1,892 •14 498 1,394 •19 5,497 Slave States, 268,828' 19-85 223,911 44,917 6-07 781,028 Free States, 1,085,477 ; 80-15 390,176 695,301 93-93 3,153,645 United States, - 1,354,305 100-00 614,087 740,218 100-00 3,934,673 This table is designed to exhibit a summary view of the amount of population added to the United States in conse- quence of foreign immigration, from 1790 to 1840, so far as the custom-house records show it, and the proportion there 44 FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.	cache/_005195535.txt	txt/_005195535.txt