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of inquiry were stated in the act, and from thence found 

 their way into the Revised Statutes first published in 1828- 

 30. 



Its results were printed in the appendix of the legisla- 

 tive journals of 1826, a small edition on finer paper being 

 taken from the same type. The classification was meagre ; 

 no distinction was made between whites and colored, and 

 the ages by sex were arranged as under 18, between 18 

 and 45, and over 45. The number liable to military duty, 

 and the number of deaf and dumb, of insane and of idiotic 

 were reported, distinguishing the latter by sex, as under 

 10, and from 10 to 25. The number supported by charity 

 or by friends was also stated, and a few percentage tables 

 were now for the first time introduced into the state cen- 

 sus, showing the relative number of these unfortunates to 

 the total population. Its agricultural statistics, included 

 acres improved, and the number of neat cattle, horses, 

 swine and sheep, and the same results of domestic manu- 

 factures as the census of 1821. 



The census of 1835 was taken as before, and the blanks 

 were extended to include the blind, and to embrace some 

 nine on ten specific branches of industry, leaving the re- 

 mainder altogether out of the account. 



Its results were printed on one side of a huge page of a 

 thin folio volume, and the arrangement compares strictly 

 with that of the census of 1825, excepting that the number 

 of male and female births and deaths during the year pre- 

 vious, and the number of blind were separately reported. 

 This labor presents no growth of ideas whatever, with 

 this slight exception, so far as applies to personal statis- 

 tics. In the line of manufactures, it presents the number 

 of establishments and the value of products for twenty 

 different kinds of manufacture, supposed to be most 

 generally distributed. Of cotton and woolen cloths, it 

 also presents the number of yards made. 



