The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-05-26
United states Census.

United states Census
We call attention to the Instructions & |
General Hamilton to the Assistant Mar
shals for taking the census which VIII be
found in to-day's paper. The taking OF
the census is considered by all parties
and 10y all intelligent persons ofgreat i'm
portanee And tits essential tnat the |
work should be accurately done in ali its
parts 1t is to be commenced the first
of June and completed in six weeks. It'll
is necessary, not only for the Assistant
Marshais to understand their business
and be active in the discharge of their
duties, but the people should be prepared
and ready to give the required informal
tioll-especially the head of every fani-
| ly For the purpose Of enabling the peo-
pie to be the better prepared we publish
the instructions OF the Marshal to his AS
sistants and append the following
| from the Milwaukee Neacs:
| THE COMING CENsUs,-Ye Yesterday Uni
ted States marshal Hamilton, of this CITY,
received over a ton of blanks for the use
of the assistant marshals who are TO take
the census Of 1870. These blanks consist
of three forms Of schedules. Schedule
one, which is of the most Importance, EN-
braces twenty questions to which answers
are to be obtained by the census taker
The first column for answers 70 the ques-
lions gi-es the number Of the dwelling
houses, next the number of families, and
then the name of every person whose
place of abode on the first day of June,
1870 was in the family indicated. Col
umps tour five and six, give the age at
last birthday. or if under one year, the
months, the sex, male or female, and the
color, white, black, mElatto, Chinese or
Indian, of each person. Seven gives the
profession, occupation or trade Of each
person, ralo or female. Eight and nine
give the value Of real estate and personal
estate. Ten the place of BIRTH naming
state or territory in the United States or
the country if of foreign birth Eleven
and twelve give the paren-age of both
father and mother of each person Thir-
teen gives the months of infants less than
a year old, and fourteen gives the month
of marriages during the year. Fifteen
sixteen and seventeen give those who at
tended school during the year, and those
WAC cannot read or write Eighteen is
for those who arc deaf and dumb, blind
insane or idiotic Nineteen and twenty
give the number of male citizens Of Uni
ted States Of twenty-one years of age and
upwards whose right to vote is denied or
abridged on other grounds than rebel
lion or other crime. The other two
schedules are OF less general interest, one
of them relating to mortality and the
other to products of industry.
These forms are we'll arranged While
they are simple, they are also designed to
give full and satisfactory exhibit of the
growth of the country during the past
| ten years if the work of canvassing is
properly done Marshal Hamilton has
taken particular pains to appoint only
those who are unquestionably competent
to perform this duty in Wisconsin, yet
every citizen should take an active inter
est in seeing that the work is thoroughly
and correctly done. If any person is out
of town, or if by any other cause a name
should he omitted, 1t is the duty of who.
}, ever knows of the fact to see that the
omission is corrected Much depends
upon having this census complete. The
! omission of a few names may cause a
: lcounty to lose a legislative representa-
tive or the state a congressman, for the
next ten years. In some of the cities of
tother states, we notice that committees
are being appoir ed to look after the dep
luty marshals and see that their work is
correctly done. This would not be bad
plan for the cities and villages of Wis
consin to adopt. But whether this is
done or not every man should consider
himself a self appointed committee to act
in the matter. In the collection of prop
erty statistics the same interest should be
felt as the report of this department of
the census will be comparatively value
less unless it is correct 1t should also
be remembered that no facts regarding
the value of property furnished the cen
sus takers, ever can be used for the pur-
pose of taxation.