7 z6 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Several Districts of the United States, etc. This was a folio of 

 78 pages, published in 1801. The cost of this census was $66,609.04. 



1810. The report of this census was in two folio volumes : I. 

 Aggregate Amount of each Description of Persons within the 

 United States, etc. This was an oblong folio of 90 pages, but it 

 does not show the date of publication. II. A Series of Tables 

 of the Several Branches of American Manufactures, exhibiting 

 them in every County of the Union, so far as they are returned in 

 the Reports of the Marshals and of the Secretaries of the Terri- 

 tories, and of their Respective Assistants, in the Autumn of the 

 Year 1810; together with Returns of Certain Doubtful Goods, 

 Productions of the Soil and Agricultural Stock, so far as they 

 have been received. Quarto, 170 pages. Edited by Tench Coxe, 

 and published May 30, 1813. The cost of the census of 1810 was 

 $178,444.67. 



1820. I. Census for 1820, etc., a folio of 164 pages, published in 

 1821. II. Digest of Accounts of Manufacturing Establishments, 

 etc., a folio of 100 pages, printed in 1823. Cost of the census, 

 $208,525.99. 



1830. Fifth Census or Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the 

 United States. This volume was a large folio of 163 pages, printed 

 in 1832. ' This report was so wretchedly printed that Congress 

 required by law a republication, which was made the same year, 

 under the immediate direction of the Secretary of State. The 

 erroneous and corrected editions are bound together. This repub- 

 lication enhanced the cost of this census to $378,543.13. 



1840. I. Compendium of the Enumeration of the Inhabitants 

 and Statistics of the United States, a folio of 379 pages, printed in 

 1841. II. Sixth Census or Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the 

 United States, a folio of 470 pages, 1841. III. Statistics of the 

 United States, etc., a large, oblong folio of 410 pages, 1841. IV. 

 Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary and Military Service, with 

 their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, etc. Quarto, 196 pages. 

 The total cost of these censuses was $833,370.95. 



1850. I. The Seventh Census of the United States, quarto of 

 1022 pages, 1853. II. Statistical View of United States, octavo of 

 400 pages, 1854. III. Mortality Statistics of the Seventh Census, 

 etc., octavo, pp. 304, 1855. IV. Digest of the Statistics of Manu- 

 factures, octavo, pp. 143, published in 1859 as Senate Executive 

 Document, No. 39, second session Thirty-fifth Congress. Cost up 

 to September 30, 1853, $1,318,027.53. There were three or four 

 subsequent appropriations for this census, amounting to about 

 $11,000. 



1860 . I. Preliminary Report of the Eighth Census, 1860, oc- 

 tavo, 294 pages, 1862. II. Final Report, in four quarto volumes, 

 as follows : Vol. I. Population, pp. 694. Published in 1864. Vol. 



