Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-04-18

Judges of their respective districts or
territories, may make such further al
lowance TO the assistants in such divis-
ions as shall be deemed an adequate
compensation Provided, The same
does pot exceed one dollar and twenty
five cents for every fifty persons by them
returned; Provided further, That before
any assistant, as aforesaid, shall be enti-
tied to receive said compensation, he
shall take and subscribe the following
oath or affirmation, before some Judge
or justice OF the peace, authorized to adj
minister the same, to wiz Il, A. B. do
solemnly swear or affirm, that the num-
Der of persons set forth in the return
made by me, agreeably to the provisions
Of the act, entitled g An act 10 provide
for taking the fourth census or enumera-
ton of The inhabitants ofthe United States,
and for other purposes" have been as
certalned by an actual inquiry at every
dwelling house, or of the head of every
family, in exact conformity will the pro-
visions OF said act; and that have, in
every respect, fulfilled the duties re-
CURED of me by said act, to the best of
my abilities, and that the return afore-
said is correct and true, according to the
best of my knowledge and belief. The
several mars halls shall receive as follows:
The marshal Of the District OF Maine,
two hundred and fifty dollars the mar
shall Of the District of New-H Hampshire,
two hundred and fifty dollars the mar
shall of the District of Massachusetts,
three hundred dollars; the marshal Of
the District of Rhode-Island, one hun
bred and fifty dollars the marshal Of the
District OF Connecticut, two hundred
dollars the marshal of the District of
Vermont, two hundred and fifty dollars !;
the marshal of the southern district of
New-York, two hundred and fifty dol
lars; the marshal of the northern district
of Newly York, two hundred and fifty dol
lars; the marshal of the district of New
Jersey, two hundred dollars the mar
shall of the eastern district of Pennsylva-
MIA, three hundred dollars; the marshal
of the western district of Pennsylvania,
two hundred dollars the marshal of the
district OF Delaware, one hundred dol
lars; the marshal of the district of Ma
ryland, three hundred dollars; the mar
shall OF the eastern district of Virginia,
three hundred dollars; the marshal of
the western district Of Virginia, two hun
dred dollars the marshal Of the district
of Kentucky, three hundred dollars the
marshal Of the district of North Carolina,
three hundred and fifty dollars the
marshal of the district Of South Carolina,
three hundred dollars; the marshal Of
the district of Georgia, three hundred
dollars; the marshal Of the district of
east Tennessee, one hundred and fifty
dollars; the marshal of the district Of
west ! ennessee, one hundred and fifty
dollars; the marshal of the district of
Ohio, three hundred dollars the mar
shall of the district of Indiana, two hun
dred dollars the marshal of the district
of Illinois, .one hundred and fifty dol
lars; the marshal of the district Of Mis-,
sissippi, one hundred and fifty dollars
the marshal of the district Of Louisiana,
one hundred and fifty dollars; the mar
shall of the district of Alabama, one hun
dred and fifty dollars; the marshal of the
district Of Columbia, fifty dollars the
marshal of the Missouri territory, one
hundred dollars; the marshal of the
Michigan territory, enc hundred dollars
the marshal of the Arkansas territory,
one hundred dollars.
SEC. S. Ind be it further enacted,
That every person whose usual place of
abode shall be in any family, on the said
first Monday in August, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty, shall be re-
turned as of such family; and the name
of every person who shall be an inhabi-
tant Of any district or territory, without a
settled place of residence, shall be in
serted in the column Of the schedule
which is allotted for the heads of fami-
lies in the division where he or she shall
be on the said first Monday in August !;
and every person occasionally absent at
the time of enumeration, as belonging to
the place in which he or she usually re-
sides in the United States.
SEC. 6 ind be it further enacted,
That each and every free person, more
than sixteen years of age, whether heads
of families or not, belonging to any fami-
ly within any division, district, CT terri
tory, made or established within the
United States, shall be, and hereby is,
obliged to render to the assistant OF the
division, Il required, true account, to
the best of his or her knowledge, Of eve-
ry person belonging to such family, re-
spectively, according to the several de-