THE POSTAL MONEY-ORDER SYSTEM.

The fees or charges for domestic money-orders will be as follows:
For orders not exceeding $5...

For orders exceeding $5 and not exceeding $10.
For orders exceeding $10 and not exceeding $15..
For orders exceeding $15 and not exceeding $30.
For orders exceeding $30 and not exceeding $40.
For orders exceeding $40 and not exceeding $50
For orders exceeding $50 and not exceeding $60.
For orders exceeding $60 and not exceeding $70..
For orders exceeding $70 and not exceeding $80.
For orders exceeding $80 and not exceeding $100.

5 cents. 8 cents. 10 cents. 15 cents.

20 cents.

25 cents.

30 cents.

35 cents.

40 cents.

...... 45 cents.

Postal notes for sums less than five dollars, payable to learer at any time within three months from the last day of the month of issue, are sold at all money-order offices. The fee for a postal note is three cents. No duplicate postal note can be issued.

FOREIGN MONEY-ORDERS.

There are now in operation postal conventions for the exchange of money-orders between the United States and the following foreign countries, viz: Switzerland, Great Britain and Ireland, Germany, France, Italy. Canada and Newfoundland, Jamaica, New South Wales, Victoria, New Zealand, Queensland, the Cape Colony, the Windward Islands, the Leeward Islands, Belgium, Portugal, Tasmania, the Hawaiian Kingdom, Sweden and Japan.

RATES OF COMMISSION OR FEES CHARGED FOR THE ISSUE OF ALL INTERNATIONAL MONEYORDERS.

MISCELLANEOUS.

STATES AND TERRITORIES WITH POPULATION-1840 TO 1890.

NOTE. The narrow column under each census year shows the order of the states and territories according to magnitude of population.

*Not included in totals.

Table of States admitted, with date of ratification of constitution and date of admission into Union since adoption of same, and how formed.

39 Pennsylvania.

1787

One of the thirteen original states.

40 Rhode Island

1790

One of the thirteen original states; seceded May 21, 1861; readmitted July 4, 1868.

France, 1803.

Virginia.

From portion of Indian Territory.

France, 1803; Spain, 1819, and Great Britain, 1846.

One of the thirteen original states.

One of the thirteen original states; seceded December 20,
1860; readmitted July 9, 1868.
France, 1803.

North Carolina; seceded May 6, 1861; readmitted July 24,
1866.

Originally part of Republic of Mexico. By revolt inde-
pendence established and annexed to United States; se-
ceeded February 1, 1861; readmitted act March 30, 1870.
Mexico, treaty 1848, and Gadsden purchase, 1852.
New York.

One of the thirteen original states; area at date of rati-
fication was 61,352 square miles: on December, 31,
1862, portion was set off and admitted into Union as
"West Virginia"; seceded April 17, 1860; readmitted
act of, January 26, 1870.

France, 1803; northern boundary settled by treaty with
Great Britain; "Oregon, treaty," June 15, 1846.
Virginia.

Michigan, as territory of Wisconsin, April 20, 1836.
France, 1803.

COUNTIES.

1836. 1838. 1840. 1842. 1846. 1847. 1850. 1855. 1860. 1865.

1870.

1875. 1880.

1885. 1890.

10, 167

17,439

23,770

29,767

37,325

45,033

42,741

50,395

50,097

2,425

2,965

3,911

NOTE - In 1830, the population of Wisconsin Territory was 3,245, and there were but two counties, Brown and Crawford.

6,048

8,981

14,358

18, 127