I certify that the paper hereto annexed is a correct copy of the
Statement furnished by the Acting Superintendent of the Census, of the
returns of the Ninth Census, from the “disputed” Islands in the County
of Whatcom, Territory of Washington. In testimony whereof, I, Hamilton
Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed
my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-ninth day of March, A. D.
1872, and of the Independence of the United States of America the
ninety-sixth.
Abstract of the returns at the Ninth
Census, from the “disputed” islands in
the County of Whatcom, Territory of Washington.[119]The population of
the Haro archipelago more than two-thirds American.
| Names
of islands. |
Aggregate number of males, 21 years of age and
upwards. |
Males
21 years of age and upwards, born in the United
States. |
Males
21 years of age and upwards, born in foreign countries, but
claiming to be citizens of the United States. |
Males
21 years of age and upwards, born in Great Britain and
Ireland, not claiming to be citizens of the United
States. |
Males 21 years of
age and upwards, born in foreign countries other than Great
Britain and Ireland, not claiming to be citizens of the
United States. |
| Blakeley |
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
| Decatur |
4 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
| Henry |
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
| Lopez |
23 |
5 |
12 |
4 |
2 |
| Orcas |
52 |
26 |
9 |
16 |
1 |
| San Juan, excluding the English
and American garrisons. |
(b)96 |
21 |
35 |
26 |
(b)14 |
| Shaw’s |
(a)1 |
(a)1 |
|
|
|
| Speidan |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
| Stewat’s |
(a)1 |
(a)1 |
|
|
|
| Waldron |
4 |
4 |
|
|
|
| Total |
184 |
62 |
58 |
47 |
17 |
*CHARTS AND MAPS TO MEMORIAL AND REPLY.[120]
A. Photograph of Map of de Haro. 1790. (See page 17.)
B. Photograph of Map of Eliza. 1791. (See page 17.)
C. Photograph of Map of Vancouver. 1798. (See page 15.)
D. Photograph of Map of Galiano and Valdes.
1802. (See page 17.)
E. Photograph of Map of Duflot de Mofras. 1844
(See page 15.)
F. Photograph of Map of Wilkes. 1845. (See page 11.)
G. Photograph of Map of W. Sturgis. 1845. (See page 9.)
[Page 190]
H. Lithograph of U. S. Coast Survey Map of
Washington Sound and Approaches. (See end of the
volume.)
J. Lithograph of Map of de Haro. 1790. (See end of the volume.)
K. Lithograph of Map of Eliza. 1791. (See end of the volume.)
L. Lithograph of Spanish Chart published in
1795. (See end of the volume.)
M. Cross Sections of Haro and Rosario
Channels. (See page 130.)
N. Sketch to illustrate the route of the
vessels of the Hudson’s Bay Company. (See
page 126.)
O. Copy of Map H, with
a blue line drawn southerly from the center of the Gulf of Georgia
in latitude 49°; with red lines to show the channels through Haro
northward; and a yellow line to show the so-called Rosario Channel.
(See end of the volume.)
