This schedule is to be filled up in the following manner:

Insert in the heading the name or number of the district, town, or city, of the county or parish, and of the State, and the day of the month upon which the enumeration was taken. This is to be attested on each page of each set, by the signature of the assistant.

The several columns are to be filled as follows:

1. Under heading 1*, entitled "Dwelling-houses numbered in the order of visitation," insert the number of the dwelling-houses occupied by free inhabitants, as they are visited. The first house visited to be numbered 1; the second one visited, 2; the third one visited, 3; and so on to the last house visited in the subdivision. By a dwelling-house is meant a separate inhabited tenement, containing one or more families under one roof. Where several tenements are in one block, with walls either of brick or wood to divide them, having separate entrances, they are each to be numbered as separate houses; but where not so divided, they are to be numbered as one house.

If a house is used partly for a store, shop, or for other purposes, and partly for a dwelling-house, it is to be numbered as a dwelling-house. Hotels, poor-houses, garrisons, hospitals, asylums, jails, penitentiaries, and other similar institutions, are each to be numbered as a dwelling-house; where the house is of a public nature, as above, write perpendicularly under the number, in said column, the name or description, as "hotel," "poor-house," etc.

2. Under heading 2, entitled "Families numbered in the order of visitation," insert the number of the families of free persons, as they are visited. The first family visited by the assistant marshal is to be numbered 1; the second one visited, 2; and so on to tbe last one visited in his district.

By the term family is meant, either one person living separately in a house, or a part of a house, and providing for him or herself, or several persons living together in a house, or in part of a house, upon one common means of support, and separately from others in similar circumstances. A widow living alone and separately providing for herself, or two hundred individuals living together and provided for by a common head, should each be numbered as one family.

The resident inmates of a hotel, jail, garrison, hospital, an asylum, or other similar institution, should be reckoned as one family.

3. Under heading 3, entitled "The name of every person whose usual place of abode on the 1st day of June, 1850, was in this family," insert the name of every free person in each family, of every age, including the names of those temporarily absent, as well as those that were at home on that day. The name of any member of a family who may have died since the 1st day of June is to be entered and described as if living, but the name of any person born since the 1st day of June is to be omitted. The names are to be written, beginning with the father and mother; or if either, or both, be dead, begin with some other ostensible head of the family; to be followed, as far as practicable, with the name of the oldest child residing at home, then the next oldest, and so on to the youngest, then the other inmates, lodgers and boarders, laborers, domestics, and servants.

All landlords, jailors, superintendents of poor-houses, garrisons, hospitals, asylums, and other similar institutions, are to be considered as heads of their respective families, and the inmates under their care to be registered as members thereof, and the details concerning each designated in their proper columns.

Indians not taxed are not to be enumerated in this or any other schedule.

By place of abode is meant the house or usual lodging place of a person. Any one who is temporarily absent on a journey, or for other purposes, without taking up his place of residence elsewhere, and with the intention of returning again, is to be considered a member of the family which the assistant marshal is enumerating.

Students in colleges, academies, or schools, when absent from the families to which they belong, are to be enumerated only as members of the family in which they usually boarded and lodged on the 1st day of June.

Assistant marshalls are directed to make inquiry at all stores, shops, eating-houses, and other similar places, and take the name and description of every person who usually slept there, provided such person ts not otherwise enumerated.

Inquiries are to be made at every dwelling-house, or of the head of every family. Those only who belong to such family, and consider it their home or usual place of abode, whether present or temporarily absent on a visit, journey, or a voyage, are to be enumerated. Persons on board of vessels accidentally or temporarily in port, those whose only habitation was the vessel to which they belong, those who are temporarily boarding for a few days at a sailors' boarding or lodging house, if they belong to other places, are not to be enumerated as the population of a place.

The sailors and hands of a revenue cutter which belongs to a particular port should be enumerated as of such port. A similar rule will apply to those employed in the navigation

of the lakes, rivers, and canals. All are to be taken at their homes or usual places of abode, whether present or absent; and if any live on board of vessels or boats who are not so

enumerated, they are to be taken as of tbe place where the vessel or boat is owned, licensed, or registered. And the assistant marshals are to make inquiry at every vessel and boat employed in the internal navigation of the United States, and enumerate those who are not taken as belonging to a family on shore; and all persons of such description in any one vessel are to be considered as belonging to one family, and the vessel their place of abode. Tbe assistants in all seaports will apply at tbe proper office for lists of all persons on a voyage at sea, and register all citizens of the United States who have not been registered as belonging to some family.

Errors necessarily occurred in the last Census in enumerating those employed in navigation, because no uniform rule was adopted for the whole United States. Assistant marshals are required to be particular in following the above directions, that similar errors may now be avoided.

4. Under heading 4, entitled "Age," insert in figures what was the specific age of each person at his or her last birthday previous to the 1st of June, opposite the name of such person. If the exact age in years can not be ascertained, insert a number which shall be the nearest approximation to it.

The age, either exact or estimated, of everyone, is to be inserted.

If the person be a child under 1 year old, the entry is to be made by the fractional parts of a year, thus: One month, one-twelfth; two months, two-twelfths; three months, three-twelfths, and so on to eleven months, eleven-twelfths.

5. Under heading 5, entitled "Sex," insert the letter M for male, and F for female, opposite the name, in all cases, as the fact may be.

6. Under heading 6, entitled "Color," in all cases where the person is white, leave the space blank; in all cases where the person is black, insert the letter B; if mulatto, insert M. It is very desirable that these particulars be carefully regarded.

7. Under head 7, entitled "Profession, occupation, or trade of each person over 15 years of age," insert opposite the name of each male the specific profession, occupation, or trade which the said person is known and reputed to follow in the place where he resides—as clergyman, physician, lawyer, shoemaker, student, farmer, carpenter, laborer, tailor, boatman, sailor, or otherwise, as the fact may be. When more convenient, the name of the article he produces may be substituted.

When the individual is a clergyman, insert the initials of the denomination to which he belongs before his profession—as Meth. for Methodist, R.C. for Roman Catholic, O.S.P. for Old School Presbyterian, or other appropriate initials, as the fact may be. When a person follows several professions or occupations, the name of the principal one only is to be given. If a person follows no particular occupation, the space is to be filled with the word "none."

8. Under the heading 8 insert the value of real estate owned by each individual enumerated. You are to obtain the value of real estate by inquiry of each individual who is supposed to own real estate, be the same located where it may, and insert the amount in dollars. No abatement of the value is to be made on account of any lien or encumbrance thereon in the nature of debt.

9. Under the heading 9, "Place of birth." The marshal should ask the place of birth of each person in the family. If born in the State or Territory where they reside, insert the name or initials of the State or Territory, or the name of the government or country if without the United States. The names of the several States may be abbreviated.

Where the place of birth is unknown, state "unknown."

10. Under No. 10 make a mark, or dash, opposite the name of each person married during the year previous to the 1st of June, whether male or female.

11. Under heading 11, entitled "At school within the last year." The marshal should ask what member of this family has been at school within the last year; he is to insert a mark, thus, (1), opposite the names of all those, whether male or female, who have been at educational institutions within that period. Sunday schools are not to be included.

12. Under heading 12, entitled "Persons over 20 years of age who can not read and write." The marshal should be careful to note all persons in each family, over 20 years of age, who can not read and write, and opposite the name of each make a mark, thus, (1). The spaces opposite the names of those who can read and write are to be left blank. If the person can read and write a foreign language, he is to be considered as able to read and write.

13. Heading 13, entitled "Deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper, or convict." The assistant marshal should ascertain if there be any person in the family deaf, dumb, idiotic, blind, insane, or pauper? if so, who? and insert the term "deaf and dumb," "blind," "insane," and "idiotic," opposite the name of such persons, as the fact may be. When persons who had been convicted of crime within the year reside in families on the 1st of June, the fact should be stated, as in the other cases of criminals; but as the interrogatory might give offence, the assistants had better refer to the county record for information on this head, and not make the inquiry of any family. With the county record and his own knowledge he can seldom err.

Should a poor-house, asylum for the blind, insane, or idiotic, or other charitable institution, or a penitentiary, a jail, house of refuge, or other place of punishment, be visited by the assistant marshal, he must number such building in its regular order, and he must write after the number, and perpendicularly in the same column (No. 1,) the nature of such institution—that it is a penitentiary, jail, house of refuge, as the case may be; and in column 13, opposite the name of each person, he must state the character of the infirmity or misfortune, in the one case, and in the other he must state the crime for which each inmate is confined, and of which such person was convicted; and in column No. 3, with the name, give the year of conviction, and fill all the columns concerning age, sex, color, etc., with as much care as in the case of other individuals.

This schedule is to be filled up in the following manner: Insert in the heading the number or name of the district, town, city, and the county or parish, and of the State in which the slave inhabitants enumerated reside, and the day of the month upon which the enumeration was taken. This is to be attested on each page of each set, by the signature of the assistant marshal. The several columns are to be filled up as follows:

1. Under heading 1, entitled ‘‘Name of slave holders,’’ insert, in proper order, the names of the owners of slaves. Where there are several owners to a slave, the name of one only need be entered, or when owned by a corporation or trust estate, the name of the trustee or corporation.

2. Under heading 2, entitled ‘‘Number of slaves,’’ insert, in regular numerical order, the number of all slaves of both sexes and of each age, belonging to such owners. In the case of slaves, numbers are to be substituted for names. The number of every slave who usually resides in the district enumerated is to be entered, although he may happen to be temporarily absent. The slaves of each owner are to be numbered separately, beginning at No. 1, and a separate description of each is to be given. The person in whose family, or on whose plantation, the slave is found to be employed, is to be considered the owner—the principal object being to get the number of slaves, and not that of masters or owners.

3. Under heading 3, entitled ’’Age,’’ insert, in figures, the specific age of each slave opposite the number of such slave. If the exact age can not be ascertained, insert a number which shall be the nearest approximation to it. The age of every slave, either exact or estimated, is to be inserted. If the slave be a child which, on the 1st of June, was under 1 year old, the entry is to be made by fractional parts of a year; thus, one month old 1-12th, two months 2-12ths, three months 3-12ths, eleven months 11-12ths; keeping ever in view, in all cases, that the age must be estimated at no later period than the 1st of June.

4. Under heading 4, entitled ‘‘Sex,’’ insert the letter M for male, and F for female opposite the number, in all cases, as the fact may be.

5. Under heading 5, entitled ‘‘Color,’’ insert, in all cases, when the slave is black, the letter B; when he or she is mulatto, insert M. The color of all slaves should be noted.

6. Under heading 6 insert, in figures, opposite the name of the slave owner, the number of slaves who, having absconded within the year, have not been recovered.

7. In column 7, insert opposite the name of the former owner thereof, the number of slaves manumitted within the year. The name of the person is to be given, although at the time of the enumeration such person may not have held slaves on the 1st of June. In such case, no entry is to be made in column No. 2.

8. Under heading 8, entitled ‘‘Deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic,’’ the assistant should ascertain if any of these slaves be deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic; and if so, insert, opposite the name or number of such slave, the term deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic, as the fact may be. If slaves be found imprisoned convicts, mention the crime in column 8, and the date of conviction before the number in vacant space below the name of the owner. The convict slaves should be numbered with the other slaves of their proper owner.

This schedule is to be filled up in the following manner:

Insert in the heading the name or number of the district, town, or city, the county or parish, and the State, in which the persons described resided. This is to be attested on each page of each set, by the signature of the assistant marshal.

The several columns are to be filled up as follows:

1. Under heading 1 insert the "name of every person who died during the year ending June 1, 1850, whose place of abode at the time of his death was in the family." The family in which the death occurred from disease is to be considered as having been the place of abode of the deceased. It is intended that the names of all those who died, from whatever cause, within each subdivision within the last year previous to June 1, should be obtained and inserted. Where the death was sudden, or the result of accident, the usual place of abode should be given, although the death may have occurred during temporary absense and in another family.

Under heading 2, entitled "Age," insert in figures opposite the name the specific age in years of each person at the last birth day. If the exact age cannot be ascertained, insert a number which shall be the nearest approximation to it. The age in years, either exact or estimated, is in all cases to be inserted. If the person be a child which was under one year old, the entry is to be made in the fractional part of a year.

3. Under heading 3, entitled "Sex," insert the letter M for male, or F for female, opposite the name in all cases.

4. Under heading 4, entitled "Color," in all cases where the person is white leave the space blank. In all cases where the person is black, insert the letter B. If mulatto, the letter M.

5. Under heading 5, entitled "Free or slave," in all cases where the person is free, leave the space blank. In all cases where the person is a slave, make a letter S opposite his or her name.

6. Under heading 6, entitled "Married or widowed." This column only applies to the free inhabitants. The spaces opposite all slaves are to be left blank. When the deceased, being a free person, has been married, and the wife, or husband, as the case may be, survived, insert (M.) When the deceased has been married, but left no wife, or husband, as the case may be, insert (W.) In all other cases where the deceased is unmarried, or whether it is not known whether he or she was ever married, leave the space opposite such names blank.

7. Under heading 7, entitled "Place of birth." The marshal should ascertain the place of birth of the deceased. If unknown, he should insert "unkown." If born in the town, city, or district where the deceased died, or in a foreign country, insert the name of the State, Territory, government, or country of birth.

8. Under heading 8, entitle "Month in which the person died," insert in all cases the month when the death occurred, opposite the name of the deceased. Should it happen that the date is not known, insert "unknown."

9. Under heading 9, entitled "Profession, occupation, or trade," insert the specific profession, occupation, or trade which the person was known or reputed to follow. Where the deceased, being an adult, had no particular occupation, insert the word "none;" when it is unknown, insert "unknown."

10. Under heading 10, entitled "Disease or cause of death," insert the name of disease or cause of death opposite each name. The usual name given to a disease is to be inserted. When unknown, state "unknown;" where by accident, as steamboat explosion, so state; where the death was sudden, but natural, say "sudden," and enter also the cause.

11. In column 11, state the number of days' sickness. If of long duration, insert C for chronic.

Remarks.—At the bottom of the page is left a space for remarks, where the assistant marshal should state any particular malady which has been prevalent in his district, and any cause which may account for the same. He is desired to state the character of the water, the character of the soil or rocks, kind of timber which grows naturally, the existence of natural fertilizers, (as lime, or marl, or ores,) or any other facts of interest relating to mines, seasons, or any particular or unusual natural phenomena—in fine, record any interesting event or circumstance connected with the history of his region for which he may find space.

In every case where the assistant has reason to believe that a portion of the information sought to be obtained by this schedule can be more accurately ascertained from any reliable bills of mortality, the facts may be abstracted from such registry, according to the form of this schedule, and the same rate of compensation will be allowed as if taken by actual visitation. It is, however, only admissible to avail one's self of such information where the record is of the most reliable nature or character.

The act of May 23, 1850 designated the Mortality Schedule as schedule No. 6. The Census Board updated it to schedule No. 3.

This schedule is to be filled up in the following manner: Insert in the heading the name of the district, town, or city, and the county or parish, and the State in which the farms enumerated are located, and insert the date when the enumeration was made. This is to be attested on each page of each set by signing the schedule.

In many agricultural returns the amount stated must sometimes be estimated, as the number of bushels of wheat or of oats; but under other headings, as to the number of live stock, the precise number or amount can usually be stated. The assistant must use his discretion in assisting a farmer to estimate fairly and accurately the amount of his crops when he keeps no exact account; and in all instances it is desired to make the nearest approximate returns which the case will admit of.

The returns of all farms or plantations, the produce of which amounts to one hundred dollars in value, are to be included in this schedule; but it is not intended to include the returns of small lots, owned or worked by persons following mechanical or other pursuits, where the productions are not one hundred dollars in value.

This schedule is to be filled up in the following manner: Insert in the heading the name of the district, town, or city, and the county or parish, and the State in which the farms enumerated are located, and insert the date when the enumeration was made. This is to be attested on each page of each set by signing the schedule.

In many agricultural returns the amount stated must sometimes be estimated, as the number of bushels of wheat or of oats; but under other headings, as to the number of live stock, the precise number or amount can usually be stated. The assistant must use his discretion in assisting a farmer to estimate fairly and accurately the amount of his crops when he keeps no exact account; and in all instances it is desired to make the nearest approximate returns which the case will admit of.

The returns of all farms or plantations, the produce of which amounts to one hundred dollars in value, are to be included in this schedule; but it is not intended to include the returns of small lots, owned or worked by persons following mechanical or other pursuits, where the productions are not one hundred dollars in value.

1. Under heading 1, entitled "Name of owner, agent, or manager of the farm" insert the name of the person residing upon or having charge of the farm, whether as owner, agent, or tenant. When owned or managed by more than one person, the name of one only should be entered.

2 and 3. Under general heading, "Acres of land," and under particular heading, "Improved," insert the number of acres of improved land; by which is meant, cleared land used for grazing, grass, or tillage, or which is now fallow, connected with or belonging to the farm which the assistant marshal is reporting. It is not necessary that it should be contigous; but it must be owned or managed by the person whose name is inserted in the column.

Under heading "Unimproved," insert the number of acres of unimproved land connected with the farm. It is not necessary that it should be contigous to the improved land; but may be a wood lot, or other land at some distance, but owned in connexion with the farm, the timber or range of which is used for farm purposes.

4. Under heading No. 4, "Cash value of farm," include the actual cash value of the whole number of acres returned by you as improved and unimproved. In this, as in all cases where an amount of money is stated, make your figures represent dollars; thus, if the cash value of the farm be five thousand dollars, insert simply the figures 5,000. This rule must be particularly and carefully observed in all cases where amounts of money are to be entered in the columns.

5. Under heading No. 5, "Value of farming implements and machinery," place the aggregate value of all the farming or planting implements, and machinery, including wagons, thrashing machines, cotton gins, sugar mills; in fact, all implements and machinery used to cultivate and produce crops and fit the same for market or consumption.

6 to 12, inclusive, entitled in general heading, "Stock, 1st June, 1850." Insert in the appropriate columns the whole number of animals which belong to the farm on the 1st day of June, the number of each description thereof is to be inserted under the proper headings, taking care that under heading "Other cattle," you insert the number of all cattle not before enumerated, which are one year old and older.

13. Under heading 13, "The value of live stock," insert, in dollars, the cash value of all live stock on hand on the 1st of June.

14. Under heading 14, "The value of animals slaughtered during the year," Insert, in dollars, the value.

15 to 45, inclusive, entitled in general heading, "Produce during the year ending June 1st, 1850." Insert in the appropriate columns the whole number of tons, bales, bushels, pounds, or value, as the heading may call for, for the respective crops raised on the farm duing the year ending the 1st of June. The grain which is gathered in that year is meant, though it may have been sown in 1848.

46. "Value of home-made manufactures." Under this heading is to be included the value of all articles manufctured within the year preceding the 1st day of June, in or by the family, whether for home use or for sale. If the raw material has been purchased for such manufacture, the value of such raw material should not be included; the object being to ascertain the value of manufactures by the family from their own productions, or the value of the labor expended on the productions of others. This discrimination is important.

The act of May 23, 1850 designated the Agriculture Schedule as schedule No. 3. The Census Board updated it to schedule No. 4.

This schedule is designed to contain the returns of all the products of industry (excepting agricultural, which is provided for in the previous schedule) of each producer or establishment.

Should any one object on the ground of not wishing to expose the nature of his business, the assistant marshal should state that it is not desired to elicit any information which will be used or published as concerning the operations of any individual or concern. The individual facts are confidentially imparted and received, and will only be published, if at all, in connexion with and as part of a great body of similar facts, from which it will be impossible to abstract or distinguish those of individual firms or corporations. All aggregate results must be made up of individual statements.

1. Under heading 1, entitled "Name of Corporation, Company, or Individual, producing articles to the value of $500," is to be inserted the name of the owner of the establishment or business inquired into, either individual, company, or corporation, as the case may be.

2. Under heading 2, "Name of business, manufacture, or product," is to be inserted the name of each kind of business, or of each kind of article produced, concerning which information is to be obtained. The question which the assistant marshal should ask is: What is the name of the business you follow, or the name of the principal article or articles you produce? The answer to this question should state the specific name by which the business or article is known in the place where produced.

If an establishment consists of several mills, or is carried on in several different places within the same subdivision, but for the same concern, it is to be considered as one, being owned by one individual or company.

The assistant marshals are directed not to include in this schedule household manufactures and small mechanical operations, where the annual productions do not exceed five hundred dollars.

All kinds of mercantile, commercial, or trading business, where no specific article is produced or manufactured, but which are confined to dealing and exchange of articles of merchandise or manufacture, are not to be included in this schedule.

The first entry in relation to the details of each separate business, in each column, is to be on the same line with the name of the corporation, &c., so as to prevent confusion or mistake.

3. Under heading 3, entitle "Capital invested in real and personal estate in the business," the aggregate amount of the capital, real and personal, is to be inserted.

Under general heading "Raw material used, including fuel," and under heads 4, 5, and 6, the quantity, kind, and value of each material used in the business during the last year are to be inserted.

By "raw material" is meant the fuel, and articles used for the production of a manufacture. An article produced or manufactured by one establishment may be the raw material of another, as copper ore, the article produced by the miner, is the raw material of the copper smelter; or pig iron, the article produced at the furnace, is the raw material used by the rolling mill. Hides are the raw material of the tanner, which leather, the article he produces, is the raw material in the manufacture of boots and shoes.

The number of entries in all cases, and in each column, should be limited to six lines. The first four (in case that number be required) should specify the most prominent and important articles; the last line, the kind and value of fuel; and under the headings "Quantity" and "Kinds," the terms "Other articles," or "Miscellaneous," should include the value of all other materials used.

In several kinds of business, such as quarrying, mining, &c., no raw material be used, the spaces on this general heading are to be left blank.

4. Under heading 4, entitled "Quantities," is to be inserted the quantity of each article used, as far as it can be ascertained. By quantity is meant the usual mode and terms of expressing the weights, measurement, or amount of the articles when bought and sold—as pounds of tallow, bales of cotton, reams of paper, tons or bushels of coal, bushels or barrels of salt, &c.; and the initial letter of such terms should precede the amount, as T. for tons, B. for bales, Bush. for bushels, Bl. for barrel, &c.

5. Under heading 5, entitled "Kinds," insert an ordinary brief name, designating the artcle referred to. When the quantity cannot easily be stated and expressed, the kind and value only need be inserted.

6. Under heading 6, entitled "Values," is to be inserted the whole value of each article specified and named in the two preceding columns. This value is always to represent the cost of the article at the place where it is used. Opposite the term "Other articles," or "Miscellaneous," when such terms are used, is to be inserted the aggregate value of all the articles not previously specified; when there are several articles included, the aggregate value need only be stated.

7. Under heading 7, entitled "Kind of motive power, machinery, structure, or resource," is to be inserted—1st, in regard to motive power, as water, steam, horse, wind, or otherwise, as the fact may be. 2d, in regard to machinery, the number of spindles, looms, power printing presses, mills, and runs of stones, saw mills, number of saws, or other appropriate amount of the quantity and kind of machinery. 3d, in regard to other kinds of structure or resource, as furnaces, number of fires; bloomeries, number of fires; stone quarries, mines of any kind, ships, vessels, or boats used for fishing, &c.

8 and 9. Under the general heading, "Average No. of hands employed," is to be inserted, under Male and Female, columns 8 and 9, the average number of each sex employed during the year in the manufacture or business. These numbers are to be estimated either by an average of the whole year, or by selecting a day which about the average number was employed, and inserting the number on such a day as the average.

10 and 11. Under the general heading, "Wages," is to be inserted the average monthly amount paid for all the labor of all the hands, male and female, employed in the business or manufacture during the course of the year. In all cases when the employer boards the hands, the usual charge of board is to be added to the wages; so that cost of labor is always to mean the amount paid, whether in money, or partly in money and partly in board; and the average number of hands and the average monthly wages are to be returned, so that by dividing the latter by the former the result will show the average earnings of individuals. This is also to include the individual labor of a producer, working on his own account, whose productions are separately enumerated.

12, 13, 14. Under the general heading, entitled "Annual products," is to be inserted the quantity, kind, and value of each produced during the whole year. It will require great care to fill this column properly. When several articles are manufactured, the first four only need be particularly specified, and the remainder classed under a general heading of "Other articles," and the aggregate value of such articles carried out, the quantity beging omitted; or, where otherwise impracticable in any case, the aggregate value, without the specific quantity or kind. In stating the value of the products, the value of the articles at the place of manufacture is to be given, exclusive of the cost of transportion to the market.

The act of May 23, 1850 designated the Industry Schedule as schedule No. 4. The Census Board updated it to schedule No. 5.

The information required in this schedule is not to be ascertained entirely by personal inquiry of individuals, but in part from the public records and reports, and public offices of towns, counties, States, or other sources of information.

The information which it purposes to obtain should be separately entered for the civil subdivisions of each assistant division as far as practicable, even when there are several of such towns, &c., in one assistant marshal's district. The title of the schedule is to be filled by inserting after the words "Social Statistics" the name of the division, county, and State where situated, and the signature of the assistant marshal on each return of each separate blank. In filling this schedule, the matters relating to taxation and valuation will necessarily be obtained from the county records.

1. Under heading 1, entitled "Name of town, county, or city," insert name of the district, town, city, township, ward, or parish of such division.

2. Under heading 2, entitled "Aggregate valuation of real and personal estate," insert, as the fact may be, opposite real, the amount in dollars (omitting cents in all cases) of the aggregate valuation of all the real estate in the division; and opposite personal, the aggregate valuation of all the personal estate in the division. Add these together, if your district includes a whole county, and insert the amount as the total valuation of the town or county. In some places no distinction is made between the real and personal estate. In such cases, the aggregate value of both only is to be inserted in column No. 2 and the word "and" to be written between the words "real" and "personal," and the other spaces are to be left blank. After "How valued," state the title of the officers who rated the value as previously stated.

The "true valuation" of all property should be estimated at what is its cash value in the place where it is situated. In some places, however, it is valued by appraisers at two-thirds or one-half of its just value, and the assessment made upon such valuation. If in the estimate of an estate it is valued at other than its true worth, the true valuation should be stated, which may easily be done by adding the proper per centum to the recorded valuation.

3. Under the heading "Aggregate amount of taxes assessed," and in the appropriate columns, insert the name of each tax assessed, and the amount of each kind. Where the public records are appealed to for valuation and taxes, great care will be necessary to avoid confusion. Where these returns do not exist with reference to the subdivisions, one or more assistants in a county may omit them, when he knows them to be returned by another; but he must state the fact on the face of his own schedule, and the same fact must appear in the schedule of the one taking the same, viz: that it is for the entire county.

After "How paid," is to be entered the manner in which a certain tax is paid. As the fact may be, insert the words cash, work, or half cash, half work, &c.

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13. These columns are to include an account of all places where educational instruction is imparted to the youth of the land. Where there are more than one of a particular kind in your district, you may give the number of such in column No. 6; and if there be but one of a particular character, you will place the figure in this column.

Under the heading "Rank or kind," you are to insert the character of the educational institution; specify whether it be a college, academy, female seminary, public school, military, theological, or other school. After such description, give the usual number of teachers or professors in column 8; then, under the proper heading, (9,) state the average number of scholars in regular attendance.

10. Under this heading give the amount annually realized from any permanently invested fund. You are not to give the amount invested, but the annual resource or return from such investment.

Under heading 11 you are to state the amount received by each institution from taxes assessed for educational purposes. If no record exists from which you can ascertain the amounts received by each in the way of taxes, insert at the foot of the column (11) the gross amount of taxes assessed in your district for school purposes.

12. Under this heading will will give the amount received the past year from State or district appropriations, not including any part of the tax assessed for this special purpose.

13. Under column 13 you should include the amounts annually received from sources not enumerated in the other columns.

18, 19, and 20. In these columns you are to give in regular order an account of the number and kind of libraries, and the number of volumes contained therein. Where private libraries contain 1,000 volumes or more, the particulars relating thereto should be given. This will only be known by inquiry of individuals, who may be supposed to possess such collections, and the assistant should not overlook the same.

21, 22, 23, and 24. Under the heading "Newspapers and periodicals," record the character and circulation of every paper and periodical published in your district. Cases exist where the publication purports to be issued simultaneously in two or more places; in such instances the whole number is to be entered where the printing is done.

You are to state each account separately: first enter the name of the publication, then its character, whether scientific, literary, political, religious, medical, or agricultural. If religious, give the initial of the denomination; also if political.

25, 26, 27, and 28. Under the heading entitled, "Religion," insert a separate account of churches, and other places of worship, belonging to all religious denominations, in the town or county described, including halls and chapels, if statedly used as places of public worship. By number of sittings is meant the number of seats for individuals in such places of worship, or the number of persons they will accommodate.

Under the "Value of church property," is to be inserted the present value of each of the churches or chapels, including the lands and estate, real and personal, owned by such religious societies. If a chapel or other place of worship is rented, its value is not to be included; in such case you must include the name of denomination and the number of members, leaving blank the column numbered 28. As it is possible for a society to have property without a place of worship, the value of such property should be given in column No. 28. The facts relating to churches may generally be obtained with perfect accuracy from the pastor or clergyman having the same in charge; and, in case of his absence, application should be made to a warden, elder, or trustee.

Under column 30 you must give the whole number of paupers of American birth who have received public support within the year, and under column 31 must be entered the whole number of paupers, born out of the United States, who have been supported, in whole or in part, within your subdivision.

The whole number of those public paupers, native, supported on the 1st June, is to be inserted in No. 32; and the number of those of foreign birth, supported on the 1st June, in column 33. The cost of the support of all public paupers within your subdivision is to be inserted in column 34.

It is presumed that the facts with reference to columns 30 and 31 may be inserted from your public records; the facts with reference to 32 and 33 will be obtained with certainty by population schedule No. 1. The cost of support can be obtained, it is presumed, from your county, parish, or other records. You will avail yourself of the best sources of information within reach; and, where the exact amount cannot be obtained, insert the nearest estimate at which you may be enabled to arrive.

The directions with reference to "Pauperism" will apply to columns 35, 36, 37, and 38.

The information called for in the six columns relating to wages is so simple, and so plainly set forth in the headings thereof, that it is deemed unnecessary to add thereto.