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The numbering of the houses about to be undertaken in country 

 districts was necessary in order to estimate the number of house- 

 holders' schedules required and also in order to afford the best possible 

 itinerary to the official enumerators. 



In the case of estates in which the manager was ex-officio en- 

 umerator the actual numbering of the houses was left to the Manager's 

 discretion, all that was required was that he should ensure the 

 enumeration of every person sleeping in any building on his estate on 

 the night of March lOth, 1911. 



Managers were requested to notify the District Officers of any 

 instances of houses within the boundaries of their estates having 

 numbers affixed to them by the official numberers. In such cases the 

 houses in question would be excised from the District House List. 



The total number of houses on an estate was, however, required 

 for Census purposes and the number of persons resident thereon was 

 also required to render it possible to estimate the nunber of the house- 

 holders' schedules to be issued to the estate. 



For these reasons Managers would be requested to furnish in- 

 formation on Census Form 9, Estates Statistical Return. 



As regards the item " Planted Area " of estates, the total planted 

 area of all estates in a district was the only derived figure which 

 would be published, and no figures in respect of individual estate^ 

 would be divulged. On receipt of Form 9 from estates an estimate 

 of the schedules required for each estate would be made and this 

 estimated number of schedules would be forwarded to the manager by 

 the middle of February, 1911. There would, thus, be time for mana- 

 gers to report any shortage of schedules to the District Officer before 

 enumeration commenced. In the case of estates, the managers would 

 probably have to appoint persons to cany out the preliminary 

 enumeration and make the entries for the coolies on the schedules. 

 Any person so appointed should be thoroughly capable of filling in 

 schedules correctly and neatly in English. 



The various houses on the estate should be divided up amongst 

 the persons appointed to carry out enumeration in such a manner 

 that all houses on the estate are allotted to some enumerator or other. 

 During the three or four days prior to the Census day, the lOth March, 

 191 1, the enumerators should fill in the particulars required in respect 

 of all persons living in the houses allotted to them and the Manager 

 should be in possession of all schedules by noon on the lOth March, 

 191 1, to afford an opportunity of seeing that they are properly filled 

 in. 



Coolies should, as far as is reasonable, be prevented from leaving 

 the estate on the night of lOth March, 1911, and early on the morning 

 of the nth March the manager should hold a muster or musters of 

 all persons on the estate at convenient places. He should check the 



