The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-06-22


ness; the quantity, kind, and value Of raw ma
terial and fuel consumed; the kind of motive
power, machinery, structure, OF resource; the
average number of hands employed, male and
female, with the average cost Of male and fe-
male labor; the annual quantities, and kinds,
and values.
SCHEDULE 5, relating TO social statistics,
calls for the name of the town, county, or city;
the aggregate valuation of real and personal es-
tate, separately; aggregate taxes assessed; the
colleges, academies, free schools, other schools,
school houses, money raised by tax for schools
last year, money raised in other ways, and
money received from the public funds for
schools; the public Libraries and number of vol
umes; the name, class, times of issue, and cir
cuation Of periodicals, including newspapers,
and information as to the season-whether this
has produced average crops, what crops are
short, to what extent, and what is the aver
age per year; also particular information re-
speeding the number, color, nativity, and cost of
supporting paupers; the criminals convicted,
the number in prison, their color, and ma
tivity the cost Of labor, including the average
wages TO farm hand per month, hired by the
year and boarded; the average wages Of day
laborer, without board, and with board; the av-
erage payment 10 a carpenter per day, without
board; the average wages to a female domestic
per week, with board, and the average price of
board TO a laboring man per week also, the
number Of churches, the number of persons
each will accommodate, and the value Of the
churches.
SCHEDULE calls for the name of every
person who died during the year ending LIST
June, 1850, whose usual place of abode at the
time of his death was in the family visited;
with the age, sex, and color of such person,
whether free or slave, married or widowed;
with the nativity, month in which the death
occurred, occupation, and disease, OF cause of
death.
A portfolio, in which the schedules may be
carefully preserved, will be sent to each of the
agents employed; and accompanying each set
of blank schedules will be one set filled up,
that no misapprehenson may arise respecting
the manner of filling up.
pamphlet, containing the Census bill and
particular instructions 10 the marshals and as
sstants, will accompany each set of papers. He
will, as soon as this pamphlet is issued, supply
To our readers synopsis of the information
and directions il may contain, together with
other matters of interest relating to this subject
We would here remark, that upon the CEN
sus office, and upon all its agents, delicate
and important duty rests; and that while great
prudence, caution, and circumspection will ne
cessarly be observed by them, they stll can
not wholly perform all that is required of them,
without the cooperation of their fellow citizens
throughout the republic. To every homestead, to
every place of business and labor, and to every
field, the agents Of this Office should receive
kind welcome, and il should be the earnest de-
sire of every one to impart to them all the in
formation in his possession. 1t is the happi-
ness, the prosperity, the welfare of the millions
that our government seeks to promote; and the
knowledge now TO be attained is essential TO
the intelligent legislation of Congress upon sub
jects nearest to the interests of the masses of
the people. Let there be, therefore, entire
harmony and concert of action, and let our fell
low-citizens in every region Of our wide domain
vie with each other in giving the requisite aid
and information to those who may visit them
upon this mission.