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quent to tiie preceding revision pay noihing. This object is even 

 announced in the ukase of the 30th June, 17^4, for the fifth revi- 

 sion. The piinciples ot this gentral eniiaieration were, that nobody 

 might be exempt from the revision, and that every one siiould Ije 

 registered according to age, sex, and station in life. See the Mani- 

 festo of Nor. 22, 1781, sect. 1 and 12. 



The method followed in this enumeration is almost that of Son- 

 Tienfels. Printed formulas were sold at a low price^ which the 

 magistrates distributed in the towns to the overseers, directors, old 

 men, farmers ; but nobody was obliged to purchase this formula^ 

 and the report might be written on a bit of oidinary paper. The 

 third section is particularly remarkable, where it is said, " it is 

 necessary to note down in the reports for the country the number of 

 inhabitants and of tlieir domestics, according to their age and sex, 

 adding the number of new establishments made since the last revi- 

 sion, and noticing whence the peasants have been brought for the 

 new habitations, noticing likewise if any town has been ruined by 

 any accident, and to what place the inhalitants iiave retired." In 

 this order we perceive a Superior object to that of the finances and 

 military levies, an object truly economical. A knowledge thus 

 accurate of all the changes wliich have taken place in the country 

 must constitute the best foundation of a political legislator, 'i here 

 can be no doubt that answers have been given to the^e questions, 

 put with so much wisdom, but I am uninformed as to the result. A 

 general table would have made us acquainted with tlie progress of 

 agriculture and of industry in the country- The data respecting 

 tlie results of this fourth revision are diiferent from each otlier, and 

 imperfect. Georgi says there were 12,527/>99 males subject to the 

 direct impost, and 310,630 exempt from it. Storch includes the 

 tw'o sums of Georgi when he states the number at 12,838,529 j 

 but Hermann gives in all probability the true sum total witen he 

 makes it I3,17<^/H1 males. The difference between tiie two 

 statements is 3'}0,8a2. I conceive the first numl)er te be the 

 amount of the rcvisionaries ; the second, that of the inhabitants of 

 towns and merchants ; and the difference, the number of nul)les 

 and clergy. Such differences always exi^i in the data of statistical 

 writers, and even in official reports. All these sums may be accurate. 

 The difference probably arises merely from taking a particular sum 

 for the total. The number of w(»mcn is totally wanting, and on 

 that account the amount of the fourth revision is in part unknown. 



The filih revision, ordered in \'i'^-\, and terminated in l/^^). 

 included likewise all the inhabitants of Russia, with the usual 

 exceptions ; that i> to say, excluding the two capitals, the army, the 

 Noinade"., and the |jcople who support tlicmselves liy hunting. Jt 

 Wfl« executed with nuich exactness during the reifin ot I'aul J< 

 JliMice it is one of the most remarkable enumerations made in 

 Ku^fiia. 1 have been lucky enough to obtain the results of this 

 <"numeration, though thoy have not been made public. 1 have 

 received Iwo statoincnu) of the jTtjpulation from this liftii revision. 



