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sheared; of pounds of butter made; of pounds of cheese made; of 

 dozens of eggs gathered; of cattle slaughtered, and of their value; of 

 sheep slaughtered, and their value; of hogs slaughtered, and their 

 value; the number of grist mills of steam power, of water power, and 

 run of stone, and bushels of grain, and kinds of same ground; the num- 

 ber of saw mills of steam power, of water power, feet of lumber and 

 thousands of shingles made; the number of quartz mills, and stamps and 

 amalgamating pans in use; the tons of quartz crushed, and quantity and 

 value of the different kinds of minerals produced ; the number of min- 

 ing and irrigating ditches or canals, [and] the length and capacity of 

 each; the number of toll bridges, toll roads, turnpikes, railroads, and 

 the number of miles of each ; the number of and kinds of manufacturing 

 establishments of every description, and the quantity and value of arti- 

 cles manufactured, and of such other things as the Secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture may direct statistics to be taken of. All the 

 above statistics shall be taken of the preceding year. 



Sec. 2. Each Assessor shall, on or before the first day of October, 

 make up. in duplicate, a report of the statistics which the first section 

 of this Act requires to be taken ; and, having attached his oath or affirm- 

 ation to each, as to its correctness, shall file one copy thereof with the 

 Board of Supervisors of his county, and shall transmit the other, by 

 mail, to the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, at Sacramento, 

 and pay the legal postage thereon. This report shall be made in such' 

 form as the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture may direct, and 

 upon blanks to be furnished by him ; and for making such report, and 

 for all time necessarily spent in collecting the statistics required, in ad- 

 dition to the time necessary for making the assessment, the Assessor 

 shall receive the same per diem, to be audited and paid in the same man- 

 ner as for making up the assessment; provided, however, that the several 

 Boards of Supervisors are hereby prohibited from auditing or allowing 

 any salary or compensation to any Assessor for over one half the time 

 spent by himself, or any of his Deputies, in making the assessment or 

 collecting the statistics required, until such Assessor shall have produced 

 the receipt of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture for the 

 report herein required; and provided, also, that the Assessor who shall 

 make up and present the best and most comprehensive statistical report 

 of the productions of his county, district, or township, together with 

 the best general descriptive report of the characteristics and capabilities 

 of his county, district, or township, shall receive the sum of seventy-five 

 dollars; and the Assessor who shall make up such second best statistical 

 and general report, shall receive the sum of fifty dollars; such premiums 

 to be awarded by the State Board of Agriculture, and paid out of the 

 money appropriated by the Legislature to the State Agricultural Society 

 for premiums. 



Sec 3. It is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of the State 

 Board of Agriculture to prepare blank forms for gathering and reporting 

 the statistics, and cause a sufficient number of the same to be printed, 

 and transmitted to each Assessor in the State, before the first day of 

 March of each year, together with a circular containing full instructions 

 to said officers. He shall, also, prior to the first day of December of 

 each year, compile, from the returns of the Assessors, tables of the agri- 

 cultural, mineral, and manufacturing productions of the State, and, in 

 connection with the report of the transactions of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture, furnish the same to the Governor, who shall cause such report and 

 statistics to be printed and published annually, and shall communicate 



