Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-06-15
TnkinRfha Censns.

dtIcHlloH VI ouE IedueIS W ", we give IL dH-
other insertion this week. The law requires
that the census shall be completed by the first
of October, and it will readily be perceived by
all, that in order to get through by that time,
it will be necessary for "every inhabitant" to
be prepared to answer the questions of the
Marshal To enable the Marshal to take
down some fourteen thousand names, and the
age, sex, color, &c, of each; the number of
farms, improved aud unimproved, number of
acres to each farm, value thereof; the num-
Der of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, &c that
each person owns, with their value, and the
hundred other things required at his hands,
besides travelling some t'Oetve or fourteen
hundred miles, he will need a ready compli
ance with the law on the part of every one,
and by careful perusal of this article, every
resident of the county can be prepared to an
swer the questions. The Census bill which
has met the approval of Congress has six
schedules, and we shall refer briefly to each
of them:
The first relates to the free inhabitants and
the name of every one, with his abode on the
1st of June, is to be given. Profession, occup-
pation place of birth, married or single, age,
deaf or dumb pauper or convict, insane or
idiot, white or black, nOnability to read, if over
90 years of age, are all to be given.
Schedule two, relates to slave inhabitants,
the owners of slaves and the number of slaves;
the fugitives from the slave States, and the
number manumitted, with their age, sex, col
or, and natural Affections.
Schedule three, relates to productions of
agriculture: to the names of fowners agents.
and managers; the acres of land improved
and unimproved; the cash value of farms,
and value of all farming implements; the hor-
ses, mules, and asses; the working oxen, milch
COWS, and other cattle; the sheep and swine; +;
value of live stock, and animals slaughtered
during the year the bushels wheat beans,
peas, buck wheat, barley, potatoes, (lrish and
sweet,) clover, grass seed, rye, corn, oats, fax
seed, the pounds of rice aud tobacco, the
bales of ginned cotton, (4oo bis, each) the va
ue of orchard products, market gardens, pounds
of cheese and butter, flax, hops, silk cocoons
and maple sugar. tons of water and dew rot
ted hemp, hogsheads of sugar 1000 lbs. each)
gallons Of molasses, and value of home made
manufactures.
| Shedule four, names the products of indus
try the name Of corporation. company, or in
dividual producing annually articles of the val
value Of $500, each kind of business, capital
invested in real and personal estate; quantity,
kind, and value of raw material used, includ-
ing fuel, the kind of motive power, the average
number of hands employed, the number and
cost of male and female labor, and the annual
quantity, kind, and value of feach product
! Schedule FIVE, relates to social statistics, as
the aggregate value of real and personal estate
the State, county, parish, town, and road-tax
the colleges, academies, schools, free and 9TH
erwise; the amount raised for schools, and re-
ceived for them from public funds, the libra
ries and newspapers; the public paupers, and
their color, birth, and cost; Sunday schools
the churches, their name, and the number
each will accommodate; the criminals convict
ed and in prison during the year; the average
of wages by the year, month and day, and
whether with or without board, and the aver
age and short crops
Schedule six, asks for the name of every
person who died during the year; the age
sex, color, whether married or single, month
of death, place of birth, disease, profession, OF
trade.
Thus ends the list, comprising ninety-twc
questions in the six schedules. The informa-
ton expected is as to the year ending June /
1850. Should all the information here emu.
merated be received, it is plain enough thai
the country will not only be much wiser thar
it is, but be put in the possession of knowledge
which may be turned to most useful account
:. 1t is made the duty of heads of families, Oh
their agents, to give all necessary information
to the Marshal that he may require. That
our readers may fully understand their duty
we publish the following sections ofthe Census
law:
SEC. Is. Aad be 1t further enacted, Tha
each and every free person more than twenty
years of age, belonging to any family residing
in any subdivision, and in case of the absence
of the heads aud other members of any suci
family, then any agent of such family shall be
and each of them hereby is required, if there
to requested by the marshal or his assistant
to render true account to the best of his or
her knowledge, of every person belonging tc
such family, in the various particulars requlr
|, ed in and by this act, and the tables thereto
subjoined, on pain of forfeiting thirty dollars
to be sued for and recovered in an action o
debt by the assistant, to the sSse Of the Unitec
States. E
SEC. 16. And be it. further enacted, That al
fines and penalties herein providedfor may b'
, enforced in the courts of the United States
) within the States or Territories where suct
offence shall have been committed, or forfeit
ure incurred.
When the Census was taken in 1910, ther'
,, was prevailing opinion with portion of thu
inhabitants, thatit was done for the purpose o
! taxation, and consequently very imperfect re
turns was had from may portions of the coun
try. But it is presumed at this day of news
paper reading, there are none who retain 81
ridiculous an idea, and that such difficulty viii
now be entirely avoided, and that thereby th'
present Census will be the most complete ant
authentic of any ever taken.
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