*The amount of Capital allotted to these Branches by the parent Banks at Nashville, &c. is not stated.

† Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Co. with banking privileges.

BANK CAPITAL AND POPULATION OF THE
SEVERAL STATES.

Table showing the number of Banks and amount of Bank Capital in each
of the several States: together with their present Population, (according to
the estimates contained in the Patent Office Report 1848-9,) the estimated
increase from 1840 to 1848; and the per centage of increase in each State.

STATE.

New York,
Pennsylvania,

Ohio,

Virginia,

Bank

Inc. since Per cent.

No. of

1840.

Increase,

Banks.

Capital.

$44,330,553

496,000

234

51

17,712,570

54

6,654,407

35

9,714,970

Indiana,

13

2,082,874

Tennessee,

980,000

150,000

18

20

8,056,800

Kentucky,

890,000

16

7,030,000

Massachusetts,

875,000

113

33,285,000

Georgia,

825,000

18

4,949,975

Illinois,

800,000

324,000

68

North Carolina,

780,000

27,000

3,525,000

Alabama,

716,000

1,500,000

Mississippi,

670,000

294,000

781/

South Carolina,

620,000

Maine,

615,000

31

2,920,000

Missouri,

589,000

6

1,208,167

Maryland,

510,000

40,000

8/1/2

23

8,930,742

Louisiana,

490,000

137,000

39

17,663,300

New Jersey,

425,000

Michigan,

420,000

3

660,600

Connecticut,

340,000

30,000

931

33

8,726,331

Vermont,

310,000

22

1,626,190

New Hampshire,

308,000

24,000

8

20

1,890,000

Wisconsin,

250,000

1

225,000

Arkansas,

200,000

103,000

106

Iowa,

150,000

100,000

Rhode Island,

135,000

26,000

24

Delaware,

85,000

1,490,000

Florida,

43

District of Columbia,

48,000

5,000

9

1,338,195

Texas,

150,000

150,000

300,000

Oregon,

50,000

50,000

In the preparation of this Table, it will be perceived that we have adopted the estimates of the Commissioner of Patents. These are no doubt sufficiently correct for general calculations, and furnish several curious results. It will be scen that the old States of Massachusetts, Georgia, Maine and Rhode Island have increased in a somewhat larger ratio than those of Kentucky and Tennessce.

The banks of Illinois, Mississippi, Arkansas and Florida have some years since gone into liquidation, and there is no provision at present for any similar institutions. No bank can be established in Illinois without the assent of the people at large: the circulation of the State is mainly from the banks of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.Ed. B. M.