Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1897 — OUR POPULATION IS 77,000,068. [ARTICLE]

OUR POPULATION IS 77,000,068.

An Official Estimate la Made by the Actuary of the Treasury. The latest official estimate of the population of the United States is 77,000,068. This is mode by the actuary of the treasury, an officer whose duty it is, at fixed intervals, to report on the per capita circulation of money in the United States. He estimates that the present holdings of money are $22.53 for every man, woman and child in the United States. His estimate of the population is made by the use of the census reiwrts for the preceding decade. Certain fixed rules of increase by birth and immigration and provision for deaths and other losses are made nud the resulting estimate is accepted as official.