STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 407 



CI RCULAE. 



State of California, Office of Surveyor-General 

 Sacramento, March 12th, 1866, 



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To the Hon. Board of JSupervisors, and to fJie 



Countt/j District, or Township Assessors of County : 



Gentlemen : — I beg leave to call your immediate attention to the fol- 

 lowing Act to provide for the collection of statistical information, which 

 has just become a law, and to request that its provisions may be strictly 

 complied with. 



It has heretofore been the duty of the several Assessors to report this 

 information to this office, but from the fact that the penalty provided by 

 law has never been enforced, loose and carelessly prepared reports, and 

 in many instances no reports whatever, have been furnished, and the 

 statistical tables heretofore publislied with the annual reports of this 

 office have consequentlj^ tended rather to mislead, than to give informa- 

 tion to those seeking it. 



The value to the State of correct reports of its agricultural and indus- 

 trial interests cannot be too highly estimated, and if you will aid me to 

 the extent of complying with your part of this law, they shall be cor- 

 rectly^ reported. 



The reports sent in this year must be from Januarj^ first, eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty-five, to January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. 



Assessors will be required to present their reports to the Supervisors 

 of their respective counties for examination, and to obtain their approval ; 

 and in addition to the articles enumerated in the sheets already sent out 

 this year, they are requested to report the following information : Tons 

 of beets, and value; pounds of peanuts; sugar cane — acres, tons, and 

 value ; cotton — acres, pounds, value ; miles of ditch exclusively for agri- 

 cultural purposes, and cost of same. « 



Before another year a new set of blanks will be sent cmt, Avhich will be 

 in more convenient form, and will, so far as consistent with the object to 

 be attained, simplify the method of collection. 



I have the honor to be, gentlemen, 



Kespectfully, your obedient servant, 



• J. P. HOUGHTON, 



Survej'or- General. 



AN ACT 



To provide for the Collection of Information relating to the Agricultural and 



other industrial pursuits of this IState. 



[Approved March 10, 1866.] 



The Feople of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assemhlij, do 



enact as follows : 



Section 1. It shall be the duty of the several County, District, and 

 Township Assessors of this State, at the time of making their annual 



