PREFACE. In prefaces to previous editions of the Digest, Henry H. Smith, late Journal Clerk of the House of Representatives, states reasons sufficient to justify, if not to compel, a continued adherence to the general plan followed in the later editions of this work. The present compiler could not find any just reason why either the matter or arrangement of the last edition (first session Fiftieth Congress) should be rejected, and has therefore, with the consent of Mr. Smith, its author and compiler (who copyrighted the same), preserved to the members in this edition all its substantial features and matter, adding thereto such additional matter as brings the work up to the close of this session. JOHN C. ROBINSON. MARCH 2, 1889. III Population of the United States under the ninth and tenth censuses. Table of apportionment of Representatives in Congress from 1787, Digest of the Rules and practice of the House of Representatives.. 269-511 Statement as to qualifications of voters in the several States...... 501-503 |