Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-07-01
For the Portage Sentinel.
The Census Law.

inst. contains the Law providing for the
taking Of the seventh and subsequent Cen
suses OF the United States, and to fix the
number Of the members Of the House of
and provide for their
future npportionment among the several
States" The Law. together with six
large schedules, containing list of ques-
tions under their appropriate hends, are loo
burdensone for your columns; we compile
from the Schedules the following statistics
10 be ascertained by the respective Deputy
Marshals throughout the United States in
the discharge of their duties. Persons may
ascertain by examining the schedules, what
information they are required 10 furnish
the Deputies. who will soon commence the
d scharge of their duties under this law,
and will facilitate matters by having the
desired information collected and in readi-
ness for the officers when called upon for
the same.
Schedule, No. Free Inhabitants.
Dwelling houses numbered III the order
of visitation; families numbered IN the or
Ger OF visitation; name of every person
whose usual place of abode on the 1st Of
June, 1850, was in this family. Descrip-
ton: age, sex, white, black or mulatto.-
Profession. occupation, or trade OF each
male person over fifteen years Of age F;
value of real estate owned; place Of birth,
naming the State, territory or country !;
married within the year; attended school
within the year; persons over twenty years
of age who cannot read and write; wheih-
er deaf ard dumb, blind, insane, idiotic,
pauper or convict.
Schedule, No. 2.-Slaue Inhabitants.
Name of slave owners number Of
slaves. Description: age, sex, color; fu-
gitives from The State; number manumil-
ted; deaf and dumb, insane or idiotic.
Schedule, No. 3.-Agricuztural Produc.
lions.
Names Of owners, agent or manager ct
the farm; acres Of land. improved, unim-
proved; cash value of farm value of larm
implements and machinery. Liue stock:
horses, mules and asses, working oxen,
milch cows, other cattle, sheep, swine, the
value Of live stock, the value of animals
slaughtered during the year. Produce:
bushels of wheat. Indian corn, oats, pounds
Of rice, tobacco, bales Of ginned cotton Of
400 lbs. each, pounds of wool, bushels Of
beans, peas, buckwheat, barley, potatoes
Irish or sweet; value Of orchard produc-
tons in dollars; gallons Of wine; value of
produce of market garden; pounds butter
and cheese; ions Of hay; bushels Of clover
and other grass seeds; pounds of hops,
hemp-tons o. dew rotted and water rot
ted; pounds of fax; bushels of flax seed,
pounds of silk cocoons; pounds Of maple
sugar; hogsheads Of cane sugar of 1000
pounds each; gallons of molasses; pounds
OF honey and beeswax; value Of ome-made
manufactures.
Schedule, No. 4.-Producis Of Industry.
Name of corporation. company, or in
dividua producing articles to the annual
value of $500; name of business, manu-
laclure. or product; capital invested in real
and personal eslaie in the business; raw
materials used. including fuel-quantil:es,
kinds, value; kind OF motive power, ma
chinery, structure, or resource; average
number of hands employ female:
wages s-average monthly cost Of male la
Dor, average monthly cost Of female labor;
annual product-qualities, kind and value.
Schedule, No. 5.-Social Statistics.
Name Of town, county. or city; average
value of real and personal estate; how val
ued; aggregate amount o! taxes assessed
state, county, parish, town; road tax-how
paid; public schools-number OF colleges,
number of academies, number of free
schools. number OF school houses. amount:
of money raised by tax for schools last
year, raised in other ways for schools last
year, received from public funds for schools
last year Public libraries-social college,
academy, public schools, sunday school
number, volumes; periodicals., including
newspapers. name. class. how often pub
lished, number of circulation. Seasons: ::
has this season produced average crops;
what crops are short; to what extent; what
is the average per year. Public puupers:
whole number of paupers supported during
the past year, number supported on the lst
day of June, native. white, black, foreign;
cost Of supporting paupers during the year;
criminals-numbsr convicted Of crime du-
ring the year ending lsl June, 1850; in
prison on the Isl of June, 1850; native or
foreign, white, black. Cost Of Labor
average wages 10 farm hands per month.
hired by the year and boarded; average
wages Of day laborer, with and without
board; average paymen: 10 carpenter per
day, without board; average wages TO a
female domestic per week, with board;
average price Of board to a laboring man
per week. Religious aoorship: number of
churches; number of persons each will ac-
commodate; value of churches.
Schedule, No. 6.-Persons who Died.
Name of every person who died during
the year en1Ing June l, 1850, whose usual
place of abode at the time Of his death was
in this family. Descriptions: age, sex,
white. black or mulatto-free or slave;
married or widow I'd. Mace of birth nam.