Civil Government of Virginia / A Text-book for Schools Based Upon the Constitution of 1902 and Conforming to the Laws Enacted in Accordance Therewith

by William Fayette Fox

The Secretary of the Commonwealth will cause the Constitution, Schedule, and said ordinances to be transcribed in a book to be provided for the purpose and safely kept in his office.

The Secretary of the Convention will immediately upon the adoption
of this Schedule, deliver a certified copy of the Constitution and
Schedule, and of said ordinances, to the Governor of the
Commonwealth.

SEC. 24. The Governor is authorized and directed to immediately issue his proclamation announcing that this revised and amended Constitution has been ordained by the people of Virginia, assembled in Convention, through their representatives, as the Constitution for the government of the people of the State, and will go into effect as such, subject to the provisions of the Schedule annexed thereto, on the tenth of July, nineteen hundred and two, at noon, and calling upon all the people of Virginia to render their true and loyal support to the same, as the organic law of the Commonwealth.

SEC. 25. This Constitution shall, except as is otherwise provided in the Schedule, go into effect on the tenth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, at noon.

This Schedule shall take effect from its passage.

THE POPULATION OF VIRGINIA AT VARIOUS DATES.

YEAR. POPULATION. AUTHORITY.

1616 350 Cooke's Virginia. 1622 4,000 Cooke's Virginia. 1648 15,300, of which 300 were slaves Cooke's Virginia. 1670 40,000, of which 2,000 were slaves Cooke's Virginia. 1700 70,000, white and colored Cooke's Virginia. 1715 90,000, of which 23,000 were slaves Fiske's Old Virginia. 1756 293,000, of which 120,000 were slaves Cooke's Virginia. 1790 746,610, white and colored United States Census. 1800 880,200, white and colored United States Census. 1810 974,600, white and colored United States Census. 1820 1,065,116, white and colored United States Census. 1830 1,211,405, white and colored United States Census. 1840 1,239,797, white and colored United States Census. 1850 1,421,661, of which 526,861 were colored United States Census. 1860 1,596,318, of which 548,947 were colored United States Census. 1870 1,225,163, of which 512,841 were colored United States Census. 1880 1,512,565, of which 631,616 were colored United States Census. 1890 1,655,980, of which 635,438 were colored United States Census. 1900 1,854,980, white and colored United States Census.