The counties of Warren, Essex and Clinton shall compose the sixteenth district. The counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin shall compose the seventeenth district. The counties of Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga and Schenectady shall compose the eighteenth district. The counties of Delaware, Otsego and Chenango shall compose the nineteenth district. The counties of Jefferson, Lewis and Herkimer shall compose the twentieth district. The county of Oneida shall compose the twenty-first district. The counties of Madison and Oswego shall compose the twenty-second district. The counties of Onondaga and Cortland shall compose the twenty-third district. The counties of Cayuga, Wayne and Seneca shall compose the twenty-fourth district. The counties of Ontario, Livingston and Yates shall compose the twenty-fifth district. The counties of Tioga, Tompkins, Broome and Schuyler shall compose the twenty-sixth district. The counties of Chemung, Steuben and Allegany shall compose the twenty-seventh district. The counties of Monroe and Orleans shall compose the twenty-eighth district. The counties of Genesee, Niagara and Wyoming shall compose the twenty-ninth district. The county of Erie shall compose the thirtieth district. The counties of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus shall compose the thirty-first district. CHAPTER III. CHAP. 140. AN ACT relative to the Census or Enumeration of the PASSED May 7, 1845. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: $1. An enumeration of the inhabitants of this State is to be taken at the end of every tenth year after the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five. 20 N. Y., 453. CHAP. III Census when to be taken. PART I. Blank re printed. $ 2. The secretary of state shall, in every such tenth year turns to be cause uniform blank returns and abstracts in conformity to the forms and provisions herein contained, together with copies of this act, to be printed, for the purpose of taking such enumeration and obtaining other statistical information. § 3. The secretary of state shall, on or before the first day of June, in such every tenth year, transmit in such manner as he may think proper, to each of the county clerks, twice as many of such blank returns and copies of this act as there are election districts in their respective counties. To be sent to county clerks. Marshal for each elec to be ap pointed. $ 4. The common council in each of the cities, and the tion district supervisor, town clerk, and town superintendent of common schools in each of the towns in this state, shall respectively convene at some convenient place in each of such cities and towns, on or before the first Monday in July in every such tenth year, and shall appoint a marshal in and for each election district of the state, as heretofore provided in the third section of this act, whose duty it shall be to enumerate the inhabitants therein, and to perform the other duties prescribed by this act. A certificate of such appointment, under the hands of the clerk of the common council, and of the supervisor, town clerk and town superintendent aforesaid, shall be made, in which certificate the boundaries of the district assigned to the person so appointed shall be clearly and specifically described. To be fur blank returns. $5. It shall be the duty of each county clerk, on or before nished with the fifteenth day of July in every such tenth year, to forward to the town clerk of each of the towns in his county, and to the clerk of the common council in any of the cities, a sufficient number of the blank returns and copies of this act, so as aforesaid transmitted to him by the secretary of state, to supply each marshal of such town or city, on demand, with duplicate sets. Duty of marshals. Form of returns. $ 6. Immediately after receiving such blank returns and copies of this act, every such marshal shall proceed to enumerate, truly and accurately, the inhabitants residing in the election district for which he shall have been appointed, by making actual inquiry at every dwelling-house, or of the head of every family residing therein; and to obtain the statistical information required by this act, by such convenient means as may be in his power. $ 7. Each marshal shall enter in the blank return received by him the particulars of the enumeration so made, and of the statistical information so obtained, in the following manner and form, viz.: RETURN OF THE ENUMERATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF DISTRICT No. IN THE TOWN OR (WARD) OF WITH THE OTHER STATISTICAL INFORMATION REQUIRED BY LAW TO BE OBTAINED IN SUCH DISTRICT. 17 18 19 20 No. of marriages in the same family during the year preceding. E No. of births in the same family during the Males. Females. Males. Females. year preceding. No. of deaths in the same family during the year preceding. No. of members of the same family born in the state of New York. No. of members of the same family born in any of the New England states. No. of members of the same family born in any of the other states in the Union. No. of members of the same family born in Mexico or South America. No. of members of the same family born in Great Britain, or its possessions. | No. of members of the same family born in France. | No. of members of the same family born in Germany. No. of members of the same family born in other parts of Europe. No. of children in the same family between the ages of 5 and 16 years. No. of children in the same family attending common schools. No. of children in the same family attending private or select unincorporated schools. No. of children in the same family attending academies or incorporated seminaries of learning other than colleges. No. of children in the same family attending colleges or universities. No. of yards of fulled cloth manufactured in the same family during preceding year. No. of yards of flannel and other woollen cloths, not fulled, manufactured in the same family during preceding year. No. of yards of linen, cotton, or other thin cloth, manufactured in the same family during the preceding year. | ă No. of acres of improved land occupied by the same family. No. of acres of barley under cultivation. Quantity of barley raised therefrom during preceding year. No. of acres of pease under cultivation. No. of bushels raised. No. of acres of beans. Quantity raised. No. of acres of buckwheat. Quantity raised. No. of acres of turnips. Quantity raised. No. of acres of potatoes. Quantity raised. No. of acres of flax. Quantity raised. (Pounds.) No. of acres of wheat sown. | No. of acres of wheat harvested. | Quantity of wheat raised. No. of acres of corn sown. Quantity harvested. No. of acres of rye sown. Quantity harvested. No. of acres of oats sown. Quantity harvested. | No. of neat cattle owned by the family. | Under one year old. Over one year old. No. of cows milked. | No. of pounds of butter made during preceding year. No. of pounds of cheese made during preceding year. No. of horses owned by said family. | No. of sheep owned by said family. | Under one year old. | Over one year old. | No. of fleeces. No. of pounds of wool. No. of hogs owned by said family. | No. Value of raw materials used and manufactured in each. Dollars. Value of manufactured articles in each. Dollars. No. Value of raw materials used and manufactured in each. Dollars. Value of manufactured articles in each. Dollars. | No. Value of raw materials used and manufactured in each. Dollars. Value of manufactured articles in each. Dollars. No. Value of raw materials used and manufactured in each. Dollars. Value of manufactured articles in each. Dollars. No. Value of raw materials used and manufactured in each. Dollars. Value of manufactured articles in each. Dollars. No. Value of raw materials used and manufactured in each. Dollars. Value of manufactured articles in each. Dollars. No. of yards of cotton cloth manufactured in each. Yards. No. Value of raw materials used and manufactured in each. Dollars. Value of manufactured articles in each. Dollars. No. of yards of woollen cloth manufactured in each. Yards. No. of yards of cotton and woollen cloth manufactured in each. Yards. | No. Value of raw materials used and manufactured in each. Dollars. Value of manufactured articles in each. Dollars. No. Value of raw materials used and manufactured in each. Dollars. Value of manufactured articles in each. Dollars. | No. Value of raw materials used and manufactured in each. Dollars. Value of manufactured articles in each. Dollars. |