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IX. 



Observations on the Statistics of Van Diemens Land 

 fur 1848 ; compiled from Official Records iti the Colo- 

 nial Secretary's Office; and inihlished hy Order of 

 His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor . By James 

 Barnard, Esq. [Read 10th October, 1849.] 



Table 1 is a comprehensive summary of the Population 

 of Van Diemen's Land, as ascertained hy the Census taken 

 on the 31st Decemher, 1847*; from which it appears, that 

 the numher of souls in the Colony on that day was 70,164. 

 Of this aggregate, 47,828, or 68 per cent., were males, and 

 22,336, or 32 per cent., were females. Taking the sexes 

 together, it will he found hy analysis that the free immigrants 

 form 20 per cent., persons horn in the Colony 26 per cent., 

 and persons who have emerged into freedom 10^ percent., — 

 making the total free population 02^ per cent., exclusive of 

 the troops (3 per cent.), and the scanty remnant of 

 Aborigines. 



Of the Convicts, the Ticket- of-1 cave holders are 8 per cent., 

 those in Government employ 14 per cent., and Pass-holders 

 in service 122" per cent., — making in all BAj per cent, of the 

 entire population. 



The increase in numbers upon the Census of 1842 is 

 11,262, or 19 per cent., for the five years ending in 1847, 

 averaging Sf per cent, annually ; and for the 23 years since 



* This Census has been already partly illustrated in Tasmanian Journal, (vol, 3, 

 part 6, p. 4,D0.) 



