New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-26
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only been sent to the { flee of the Stat.
I Registrar Of Voters bat slso 10 the Bullet,
for publication:
Ntw ORLEANS. August n, 1875.
To Colonel Wright, State Reaistrsr Of Census:
| SIR:We, the undersigned citizers of thu
| third ward, respectfully represent that the
census returns Of the third wsrd are incom
plete, defective, and do not show correctly
Che population of said ward. :,
In very many instances, within ont owl
knowledge, resident citizens have not been
called upon to make report of themselves
and families. while in other instances in.
complete returns have been made and in
| numerous instances the party having left q
paper to be flied ont by the householder,
omitted to call back for the same. Hence
no return has beep made whatever.
We respectfully ask that suitable per
son be employed 10 20 around said ward
and make the proper corrections, that a
M. A. Roger, Ne. 25Sle Lafayette street.
John Hart, corner Of Howard and Lafs-
yette streets.
L, Duffy, No. 12s Magnolia street.
E. Kennedy, No. IS Notre Dame street. =.
Edw. VOrstNr, No. 20 Common street.
"A. Wizard. No. l40 Magnolia street.
James Finney, No. 2l3 Liberty street.
v. u
8. McNamara, No: AS Magazine street.
Jack Graeser, No. 81 Magazine street.
John Maoner. No. 100 Magnolia street.
Thomas Egan, No. I04 Magnolia street.
j. A. Finney, No. 400 Gravier street.
A. Pltard. No. 80 Prieur street.
Thomas Byrnes; No. 404 Common street.
joseph b. Wilmuth, No.74 Locust street.
1t 10 proper to mske.a few suggestions to
the siguers- Of this communication. It
comes rather late. Early in March de.
tailed plan of the system Of taking the
census was published. At various times in
April statements were made in oil the
papers that blanks would be distributed at
all the hOuses of New Orleans, to be flied
up and collected 90 the thirtieth of The
month. AL persons not receiving ono were
publicly requested to notify the Office. The
law gave twenty days for corrections. From
the first dsy of May continual requests have
been made by Colonel Wright, by notices
published in .Epglisb, German and Feench,
for all persons to aid his Office in correcting
errors. Every document received from
sgec:s or citizens has been preserved.
Every person calling at the Office, OF send
ing notice BY mail, has received courteous
attention. =. 90"
Four months have been devoted to max.
ing these corrections. Not one notice OF
error, or request for correction, has been
received frsm the third ward until the on
shove republished. La another ward Col
onel Wright found, in June last. there we're
sufficient errors to warrant revision, and
it IVES, made If the census had been as
enormously taken in the third ward, the
fact would have been long since discovered
and tho work corrected.
That there ere errors il 'unquestionable.
A perfect census 10 an impossibilit$ with
the limited means - the disposal Of the
registrar. Even il. he did not daily meet
With Indifference, ignorance, neglect. re.
'fusals to answer proper question:, conceal
meus and downright opposition, sbsolute
accuracy would be beyond his reach. Only
him 10 obtain that.
But no injustice has been done the third
ward. tss quota, 22,O94, is fully equal to
the estimate usually given to IL, and is an
increase by corrections made by the can
vassers themselves Of eighty five over the
result first publish ed. 1t 10 impossible,
without mourning an uniustifabls expense,
to take the returns from the printer and
make further corrections. They could
easily have been made if these citizens had
gone in the months of May, june, or oven
July. and shown them to tho registrar in
detail instead of waiting four months and
publishing bare accusation OF them in .
ne Ssbapef when it 10 too late.