The North-Carolina standard., 1850-06-19
THE CENSUS ACT.

The Census bill having passed both Houses o.
Congress and received the signature of the Presi
dent, is now law. Its provisions are very full
precise and discriminating; and as piece of legis.
ation it is worthy of the age, its progress and in
creasing civilization.
An important feature was added to the bill in the
form of an amendment offered by Mr.. Vinton in the
House of Representatives. This clause enacts that
if provision shall not be made by Congress to take
the census in 1850 by the first Of June, the present
shall remain in force, and the Secretary of the In
terror is empowered to proceed at in the work
In connexion with this it is further provided that
until a new apportionment of representation in the
lower House shall be made by Congress, the number
I of members in the House shall not exceed two hun
dred and thirty-three. Two matters of importance
and often of great difficulty, here simpli6ed and
made definite and easy. When the census returns
all come in, the Secretary of the INTERIOR taking
the aggregate federal population of the United States
and dividing the whole number by two hundred and
thirythree, may ascertain at what is be the
ratio of representation. 1t will then be very sim.
pie matter to allot to each State the number of
sentatives to which it is entitled, and notify the
Governor of the same. That brief process is all tina,
is necessary, should this act remain permanent, in
order arrange the troublesome business of new ap-
portionments every ten years.
The Census act contains six schedules. of which
an abstract may not be uninteresting:
The first relates to the free Inhabitants and the
of every one, with his abode the lst of June,
is to be given. Profession, occupation, place of
birth, married or single, age, deaf dumb, pauper
or convict, insane or idiot, white black, nonabi-
ty to read, if over twenty years of age, all to be
given.
Schedule two relates to slave inhabitants, the
ers of slaves, and the number of slaves the fug-
tives from the slave States, and the number manu-
mited. with their age, sex, color, and natural aic
tons.
Schedule three relates to productions of agricul-
ure the names of owners, agents, and managers
the acres of land improved and unmproved the
cash value of farm, and value of all farming mple-
ments the horses, mules, and asses; the working
oxen, milch cows, and other cattle; the sheep and
swine value of live stock and of animals slaughter
ed during the year; the bushels of wheat, beans,
peas, buckwheat, barley, potatoes, Qrsh and sweet
clover, grass-seed, rye, corn, oats, ax-seed, the
ton, 4OO lbs each the value of orchard, products,
marked-gardens, pounds of cheese and butter, fax,
hops, silk cocoons and maple sugar, tons of water
and dew-rotted hemp, hogsheads of sugar, IOOO lbs.
each,) gallons of moasses, and value Of homemade
Schedule four names the products of industry, the
name of each corporation, company, individual
producing annually articles of the value of $500,
each kind of business. capital invested in real and
personal estate, quantity, kind, and value of raw
terial used including 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 each product.
Schedule five relates to social statistics, the aggre
gate value OF real and personal estate the State,
county, parish town. and road tax; the colleges acade
mics, schools, free and otherwise the amount raised
for schools and received for them from public funds;
the libares and newspapers the pnbc paupers, and
their color, birth, and cost Sunday schools; the
churches, their name, and the number each will
commodate ; the criminals convicted and in prison
during the year; the average OF wages by the year,
month"; and day, and whether with or without board ;
and the average and short crops.
Schedule six asks for the name of every person
who died during the year the age sex, color wheth
married single, month of death, place Of birth,
disease, profession trade.
Thus ends the list, comprising nnety-two ques-
tions in the six schedules. The information expect
ed is as to the year ending June l, 1850.
Baltimore American, June 3.