Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-08-17
THE CENSUS oF 1850.

and collecting the statistics OF the county,
as required by and act of Congress. We
give below copy of the questions which the
Marshall is required 10 ask, and which our
fellow.citizens are required 10 answer under
the penalty of $40 for each refusal, that our
readers may understand and be prepared TO
give the information required.
SCHEDULE |, Requires an inventory of.he
free inhabitants, with the number Of dwelling
houses numbered in the order Of visitation
the number of families the name of every
person abiding in each family, age, sex, and
color being indicated, and the occupation oi
each male person over 10 years OF age 'he
birth place of each those married wihinih
year, those attending school, those over 20
years who cannot read or write The deal,
dumb, blind insane, diotic, pauper, or con-
vict.
SCHEDULE 2, Relates 10 slave inhabitants,
giving the names of owners, number OF
4 slaves with the age, and color; fugi,ives
from the States; number manumitted; num-
ber of deaf and dumb, blind, insane; or idio-
| tic.
SCHEDULE 3, Relates TO the productions Of
agriculture, and of the name of the owner,
and agent or manager of The farmj number
unimproved; cash value of the farm value
of implements and mnchineryj the live stock
including horses, mnles, asses, working oxen,
mich cows, other cattle, sheep and swine !;
the value Of live stock value of animals
slaughtered during the year; bushels of
whea, produced of rye, Indian corn ard
oats; pounds of rice and tobacco; bales of
ginned cotton pounds of wool bushels Of
beans and peas.
SCHEDULE a, Calls for the products of in
dustry, with the name of the corporation,
company or individual producing articles 10
the annual value OF FIVE hundred dollars the
name of the business, manufacture, or pro-
duct; capital invested in real or personal
estate in such business; the quantity, kind,
and value of raw material and fuel consum-
ed the kind of motive power, machinery;
structure, or resource the average number
of hands employed, male and female, with
!
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 estate, 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 volumes the name,
class, times of issue, and circulation of pero-
ideals including newspapers, and information
as TO the season-whelher this has ptoduced
average crops, what crops are short, 10 what
extent, and to what is the average per year
also particular information respecting the
number, color, nativity, and cost OF support
ing paupcrs; the criminals convicted, the
number in prison, their color and nativity
the cos, cf labor, including the average wa
ges to farm hand per month, hired BY the
year, and boarded the average wages of a
day laborer without board, and with board
without board +; the average wages to ie
! male domestic per week, with board, ant
the average price of board to a laboring mar
per week also the ndmber of churches
the number Of persons each will atcommo
date, and the value of the churches.
e SCHEDULE 6, Calls for the name Of every
l. person who died during the year ending Is
: June, 1850, whose usual place of abode a
: the time of his death was in the family visi
l. ted with the age, sex, and color of sucl
o person, whether free or slave, married or wi
# dowed with the nativity, month in whicl
e the death occurred, occupation, and disease
Y. or cause of death.
ID We should here remark, that upon the cen
II sus office, and upon all lis agents. delcai
lie and important duty rests and that Will
s. great prudence, caution, and circumspec,io
a. will necessarily be observed by them, the
y still cannot wholly perform all that is requir
er ed Of them without The cooperation Of the
Iy fellow citizens throughout the Republic 7
lie every homestead, to every place of busine:
re and labor, and 10 every field: the agents {
#, this office should receive kind welcome
il and it should be the earnest desire of ever
10 one to impart 20 them all the information
lie his possession. 1t is the happiness, the pro
n. perity; the welfare of the millions that OF
m government socks to promote; and tn
:. knowledge now to be attained is essential
:, the intelligent legislation of Congress upc
subjects nearest 10 the interests of the ma
ses of the people. Let there be, therefor
entire harmony and concert of action, al
,ir let out fellow.cilzens in the different tow
tn ships and boronghs vie with each other;
na giving promptly the requisite aid and info
IN, nation to the Assistant Marshal, when
mt calls on them.
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