JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph letter signed ("Th:Jefferson") as Secretary of State, to "His Excellency the President of Philadelphia" [David Redick, Acting President], "Office of Secretary of State," 31 March 1790. 1 full page, text in a clear clerical hand, integral blank (neatly separated) with recipient's docket and trace of old album mount, otherwise in fine condition. THE FIRST CENSUS, NATURALIZATION AND THE BUDGET A circular letter forwarding three very critical enactments of the first Congress under the new Constitution: "I have the honor to send you herein enclosed [not present] two copies duly authenticated of the Act providing for the enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States: also of the Act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization; also of the Act making appropriations for the support of Government for the year 1790...." Article I of the Constitution provided that "representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states...according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole numbers of free persons...three-fifths of all other Persons [slaves]." It further stipulated that "The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of Congress..., and within every subsequent term of ten years....It was only as a result of this requirement, to ensure equal democratic representation, that the United States became the first nation to provide by law for a periodic census. When completed, largely under the careful direction of Jefferson, the census results were published as Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States ...(Philadelphia: Childs & Swaine, 1791). Not in Papers , ed. Boyd, et al.
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph letter signed ("Th:Jefferson") as Secretary of State, to "His Excellency the President of Philadelphia" [David Redick, Acting President], "Office of Secretary of State," 31 March 1790. 1 full page, text in a clear clerical hand, integral blank (neatly separated) with recipient's docket and trace of old album mount, otherwise in fine condition. THE FIRST CENSUS, NATURALIZATION AND THE BUDGET A circular letter forwarding three very critical enactments of the first Congress under the new Constitution: "I have the honor to send you herein enclosed [not present] two copies duly authenticated of the Act providing for the enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States: also of the Act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization; also of the Act making appropriations for the support of Government for the year 1790...." Article I of the Constitution provided that "representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states...according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole numbers of free persons...three-fifths of all other Persons [slaves]." It further stipulated that "The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of Congress..., and within every subsequent term of ten years....It was only as a result of this requirement, to ensure equal democratic representation, that the United States became the first nation to provide by law for a periodic census. When completed, largely under the careful direction of Jefferson, the census results were published as Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States ...(Philadelphia: Childs & Swaine, 1791). Not in Papers , ed. Boyd, et al.
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