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| | Suffolk County Massachusetts, 1890 |
 | | It is the largest portion of the county as to territory, and its treasurer and auditor fulfil the same offices for the county, while its board of aldermen are the county commissioners, though Revere and Winthrop are placed in the jurisdiction of the commissioners of Middlesex County. |
 | | The county is in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 13th Congressional districts; in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Councillor districts; and together with Ward Three of Cambridge, has 9 State senators, and, of itself, has 52 representatives in the General Court. |
 | | At the first United States census in 1790 Suffolk County had a population of 18,792; in 1869, it had 192,700; in 1865, 208, 212; in 1870, 279,802; in 1875, 364,886; in 1880 387,927; and in 1885, it was 421,109; the legal voters then numbering 95,154. |
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