AM 
TO PROVIDE FOR TAKING 
FUTURE ENUMERATIONS 
OF THE 
XnijabUautB of tt)ie State, 
AND 
FOR PROCURING USEFUL 
STATISTICAL TABLES, 
PASSED APRIL 8, 1826- 
ALBANY: 
PRINTED BY PACKARD & VAN BENTHUYSEN 
i8a*' AX ACT 
To provide for taking future Enumerations of the 
Inhabitants of this State, andfor procuring useful 
Statistical Tables. 
Passed April 8, 1825. 
I. Be it enacted by the people of the State of New- 
York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That 
the Common Council in each of the cities, and the su- 
pervisors, town clerk and assessors of each of the 
towns in this state, shall respectively convene at some 
convenient place in each of the said cities and towns, 
on or before the first Monday in J uly next, and on or 
before the first Monday of July at the end of every 
ten years thereafter ; and shall appoint one discreet 
and proper person, to be called a marshal, in each 
town and ward, to take an enumeration of the inhabi- 
tants in each of the said cities and towns, and to per- 
form the other duties enjoined upon them by this act. 
II. And be it further enacted, That the Secreta- 
ry of this state shall, without delay, in this present 
year, and shall also, without delay, in the several 
years, when future enumerations are required to be 
ken by virtue of this act, and of the constitution of this 
state, cause blank returns, in books or otherwise, to 
be printed, in conformity to the provisions of this act j 
and shall, on or before the first day of May next, and 
on or before the first day of May in the several years 
when future enumerations are required as aforesaid 
to be taken, cause to be transmitted by mail to the 
clerk of the city of New-York, twenty copies of the 
said returns, and to each of the county clerks in this 
state twice as many of the said returns as there are 
wards and towns in their said counties respectively j 4 
and shall also, at the same time, transmit in like man- 
ner to each of the clerks aforesaid, a like number of 
copies of this act; and it is hereby made the duty of 
the said clerks respectively, on or before the fifteenth 
day of July next, and in like manner on or before the 
fifteenth day of July in the several years when future 
enumerations are required as aforesaid to be taken, to 
distribute the said blank returns and copies of this act, 
among the several marshals appointed according to 
this act, one blank return, and one copy of this act, be- 
ing hereby allowed to each of such marshals. 
III. And be it further enacted, That the said mar- 
shals shall, without delay, on receiving such blank re- 
turns and copies of this act, proceed to take a true 
and accurate enumeration of the inhabitants residing 
in the said cities, towns and wards, for which they 
shall have been respectively appointed, and enter the 
same in their returns, so to be delivered to them as 
aforesaid, in manner following, that is to say : In the 
first column, the name of the head of each family ; in 
the second column, the whole number of male persons 
in that family, including its head if male; in the third 
colmmn, the whole number of female persons in that 
family, including its head if female ; in the fourth 
tumn, the whole number of male persons in that same 
family, subject to militia duty, and being between the 
ages of eighteen and forty-five years ; in the fifth 
column, the whole number of male persons in the 
same family qualified to vote at elections for state and 
county officers, by virtue of the constitution of this 
state ; in the sixth column, the whole number of per- 
sons in the same family, (being included in the second 
and third columns,) who are aliens not naturalized ; 
in the seventh column, the whcde number of persons 
in the same family who (included as aforesaid) are 5 
paupers ; in the eighth column, the whole number of 
persons (included as aforesaid) who are persons of co- 
lour not taxed ; in the ninth column, the whole num- 
ber of persons of colour in the same family who are 
taxed ; and in the tenth column, the whole number 
of persons of colour in the same family who are taxed 
and qualified to vote at elections for state and county 
officers, but that number not to be included in the 
ninth column ; and the said marshals shall also enter 
in a separate class of columns succeeding the above, 
and on the same returns, the following particulars, viz : 
First, the whole number of deaf and dumb, of ideots 
and lunatics, in said town or ward for which they shall 
have been appointed, distinguishing sexes, ages and 
circumstances ; the whole number of married female 
persons in each family under the age of forty-five 
years : Secondly, the whole number of unmarried fe- 
male persons in each family between the ages of six- 
teen and forty-five years : Thirdly, the whole num- 
ber of female persons in each family unmarried, under 
the age of sixteen years : Fourthly, the whole num- 
ber of marriages in each family, where the female 
married person resided during the year preceding, 
and the whole number of births and deaths in each 
family during the like time, distinguishing the sexes; 
and the returns so made out as aforesaid, shall be cer- 
tified by the said marshals so taking the same, to be 
true to the best of their knowledge and belief, and 
subscribed and sworn to before any judge, justice of 
the peace, master in chancery or commissioner au- 
thorised to take affidavits, who shall certify such attes- 
tation ; and such marshals respectively shall, on or be- 
fore the first day of December next, and on or before 
the first day of December in the several years in which 
such enumerations shall be required to be taken as 6 
aforesaid, cause the said returns by them made out as 
aforesaid, to be delivered to the county clerks of the 
counties respectively in which they shall have been 
appointed. 
IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the 
duty of each county clerk, on receiving the returns of 
such enumeration, and before the second Tuesday of 
January next, and before the second Tuesday of Jan- 
nnary next after, in the several years in which such 
enumerations are required to be taken as aforesaid, to 
make and forward to the Secretary of State, by mail, 
an abstract under his hand and the seal of his county, 
containing the sum total in each ward and town in his 
county, (specifying the same towns and wards by 
name,) of the particulars required to be stated in the 
several columns as aforesaid, by the marshals taking 
such enumeration ; and such county clerk shall also 
make out and state the sum total of such particulars re- 
spectively in his county ; and it shall be the duty of 
the Secretary of State to prepare and forward to the 
several county clerks in this state, printed blanks of 
such abstract so required to be made and returned as 
aforesaid, for their use. 
V. And be it further enacted, That the accounts 
for the services of the marshals taking any enumera- 
tion under this act, and of the county clerks respec- 
tively for services under this act, shall be audited by 
the supervisors of the county where the services are 
performed, and shall be assessed, collected and paid 
as part of the contingent expenses of the same county: 
And further, It shall be the duty of the Secretary of 
this state, after receiving the abstracts required to be 
sent to him by the county clerks as aforesaid, to make 
and report to the legislature a general account of any 
enumeration taken under this act, specifying such 7 
enumeration as taken in the several wards and towns 
in this state, and a recapitulation of the whole. 
VI. Jlnd be it further enacted, That the marshals 
to be appointed under and in virtue of this act, for the 
purpose of taking any enumeration in pursuance there- 
of, shall make actual inquiry at every dwelling house, 
or of the head of every family, and if any person so in- 
quired of shall refuse to give the information required, 
or shall knowingly or willingly give false information 
to the marshal engaged in taking such enumeration, 
concerning any of the particulars which such marshal 
is required to state in his returns, the person so offend- 
ing shall pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be 
recovered with costs of suit, before any court having 
cognizance thereof, by and in the name of the com- 
misssoners of common schools, for the benefit of the 
common schools in their respective towns, and whose 
duty it shall be to prosecute therefor, on the complaint 
of the marshal ; and if any person or persons, or bo- 
dies corporate, whose duty it shall be to appoint mar- 
shals to take any enumeration under this act, or if any 
marshal appointed to take such enumeration, or any 
county clerk, or any other person on whom any duty 
is injoined by this act, shall refuse or neglect to per- 
form the same, or shall otherwise misdemean himself 
therein, every such person so offending shall forfeit 
and pay to the people of this state the sum of two hun- 
dred dollars, to be sued for and recovered by the At- 
torney-General, with costs of suit, by information or 
action of debt, in any court of record having cogni- 
zance thereof. 
VII. Jlnd be it further enacted, That every per- 
son whose usual place of abode shall be in any family 
on the first day of July next, or on the first day of Ju- 
ly in every year in which an enumeration is required 8 
to be taken under this act, shall be returned as of such 
family ; and every person occasionally absent at the 
time of taking such enumeration, as belonging to that 
place in which he usually resides in this state. 
VIII. And be it further enacted, That the mar- 
shals aforesaid shall respectively, at the time they take 
such enumeration, ascertain as nearly as may be, and 
take the number of acres of improved land occupied by 
each person ; the number of neat cattle ; the number 
of horses, sheep and hogs owned by each family ; the 
number of yards of fulled cloth ; the number of yards 
of flannel and other woollen cloths not fulled ; the 
number of yards of linen, cotton or other thin cloths 
manufactured in the domestic way, in each family, 
during the year next preceding ; also the number of 
grist mills, saw mills, oil mills, fulling mills, carding 
machines, cotton and woollen factories, iron works, 
trip hammers, distilleries and asheries ; and for those 
purposes, the Secretary of this state shall cause pro-* 
per additional columns to be made to the blank re- 
turns, to be by him provided in manner aforesaid, 
which said returns shall be made out, sworn to, and 
returned in the same manner as the other returns ; 
and the said per sons taking the same shall be compen- 
sated in like manner as for their other services under 
this act, and the Secretary shall make and report an 
account of the returns made under this section of the 
act, in the same manner as he is directed to make and 
report an account of the census by the preceding sec- 
tions of this act. 
STATE OF NEW-YORK, 
Secretary's Office. 
I certify the preceding to be a true copy of an original act of the 
legislature of this state on file in this office. 
J. V, N. YATES, Secretaryt 
Albany, April 29, 1825.