Progress of Population and Wealth 



CHAPTER V. 



THE CENSUS OF 1830, BEING THE FIFTH DECENNIAL ENUMERATION 

 UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. 



In the act of Congress which directed the fifth census, some im- 

 portant deviations from the preceding acts were introduced. Thus 

 it numbered the population as it was on the 1st day of June, instead 

 of the 1st of August, as had been previously done, so that the in- 

 crease shown, on a comparison with the preceding census, was not 

 as heretofore, for ten years, but for nine years and ten months. 

 There were also a greater number of divisions according to age, 

 both in the white and coloured population.* The whites of each 

 sex were arranged under thirteen heads, as follows : 



* There were also columns for the deaf, and dumb, and blind, of different ages, 

 which will be hereafter noticed. 



