[9]. Official returns for 1900 give Baltimore a population of 508,957. The estimated population for Jan. 1, 1908, is 567,000.

[10]. The estimated population of Brooklyn as a borough of greater New York is given on Jan. 1, 1908, as 1,448,095.

[11]. Official statistics for 1900 give Chicago a population of 1,698,575. The estimated population for Jan. 1, 1908 is 2,483,641.

[12]. Official statistics for 1900 give St. Louis a population of 575,238. The estimated population on Jan. 1, 1908, is 50,000.

[13]. Art. III Const. U.S., Sec. ii.

[14]. Am. Commonwealth (Bryce) Vol. I p. 231.

[15]. Railroad Co. v. Tennessee, U.S. Reports 101, 337.

[16]. Clark v. Barnard U.S. 108, 436, and Green v. State 73 Cal. 29 et seq.

[17]. See Cooler's Constitutional Limitations, chapter ii, also Louisiana v. Jumel 107 U.S. Reports, p. 711, 2 sup. et. rep. 128.

[18]. History of the Church, Vol. III, p. 46.