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## 1870 Instructions

Approximately 6,500 U.S. marshals received their instruction for enumerating the U.S. population from a May 23, 1850 authorizing the census - the same act authorizing the 1850 census and a May 6, 1870 act that canceled the collection of slave data.  In addition to the census act, marshals also received the printed booklet, "Instructions to Assistant Marshals."

**1870 Instructions**

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