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SCHEDULE of the whole number of persons within the divifion allotted to A. B.

Nam of county, parih, town-
ship, town or city where
the family refides.

Name of head of family.

Free white males under ten years
of age.

Free white males of ten and under
fixteen.

rice white males of lixteen and
under twenty-fix, including
heads of families.

Free white males of twenty-lìx and
under forty-five, including
heads of families.

fice white males of forty-five and
upwards, including heads of
families.

free white females under ten years
of age.

Free white females of ten years”
and under fixteen.

Free white females of fixteen and
under twenty-fix, including
heads of families.

Free white males of twenty-lix
and under forty-five, including
heads of families.

Free white females of forty-five
and upwards, including heads.
of families.

All other tree perfons, except
Indians, not taxed.

Slaves.

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Penalty Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every on affif- affiftant, failing to make a proper return, or tants ma- making a falfe return of the enumeration to the marshal or the fecretary (as the cafe may be) within the time by this act limited, shall forfeit the fum of two hundred dollars.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Marthals marshal and fecretaries fhall file the feveral and fecre- returns aforefaid, with the clerks of their refile their fpective district or fuperior courts (as the cafe affiftants may be) who are hereby directed to receive and carefully preferve the fame: And the marwith the fhals, or fecretaries, refpectively, fhall on or clerks of before the first day of September, one thoufand eight hundred and one, tranfmit to the and make Secretary of State, the aggregate amount of aggre- each description of perfons within their respective districts or territories. And every the Secre- marfhal or fecretary failing to file the returns of his affiftants or any of them, with the clerks of their refpective courts as aforefaid, or failing to return the aggregate amount of each defcription of perfons in their respective diftricts or territories, as the fame fhall appear from faid returns, to the Secretary of State, within the time limited by this act, fhall, for every fuch offence, forfeit the fum of eight hundred dollars; all which forfeitures fhall be recoverable in the courts of the districts or territories where the offences fhall be committed, or in the circuit courts to be held within the fame, by action of debt, information or indictment; the one half thereof to the ufe of the United States, and the other half to the informer; but where the profecution fhall be firft inftituted on behalf of the United States, the whole fhall accrue. to their use. And for the more effectual dif

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covery of offences, the judges of the feveral Certain district courts in the feveral diftricts, and of judges to the supreme courts, in the territories of the give this United States, as aforefaid, at their next fef charge to fions, to be held after the expiration of the the grand time allowed for making the returns of the juries. enumeration hereby directed, to the Secretary of State, fhall give this act in charge to the grand juries, in their respective courts, and fhall cause the returns of the feveral affiftants to be laid before them for their infpection.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That every Compenaffiftant shall receive at the rate of one dollar, fation to for every hundred perfons by him returned, affiftants. where fuch perfons refide in the country, and where fuch perfons refide in a city or town, containing more than three thousand perfons, fuch affiftant fhall receive at the rate of one dollar for every three hundred perfons, but where, from the difperfed fituation of the inhabitants in fome divifions, one dollar for every one hundred perfons fhall be infufficient, the marshals or fecretaries, with the approbation of the judges of their respective districts or territories, may make fuch further allowance to the affiftants in fuch divifions, as fhall be deemed an adequate compenfation: Provided, the fame does not exceed one dollar for every Compenfifty perfons by them returned. The feveral fation to marthals and fecretaries fhall receive as fol- the mar lows: The marshal of the diftri&t of Maine, thals. two hundred dollars; the marfhal of the diftrict of New-Hampshire, two hundred dollars ; the marshal of the district of Maffachusetts, three hundred dollars; the marfhal of the diftrict of Rhode-lfland, one hundred and fifty dollars; the marshal of the district of Connecticut, two hundred dollars; the marthal

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of the diftrict of Vermont, two hundred dollars; the marshal of the diftrict of New-York, three hundred dollars; the marshal of the district of New-Jersey, two hundred dollars; the marthal of the district of Pennsylvania, three hundred dollars; the marfhal of the district of Delaware, one hundred dollars; the marshal of the diftrict of Maryland, three hundred dollars; the marfhal of the district of Virginia, five hundred dollars; the marshal of the diftrict of Kentucky, two hundred and fifty dollars; the marfhal of the district of North-Carolina, three hundred and fifty dollars; the marshal of the district of SouthCarolina, three hundred dollars; the marfhal of the diftrict of Georgia, two hundred and fifty dollars; the marfhal of the district of Tenneffee, two hundred dollars; the fecretary of the territory of the United States northweft of the Ohio, two hundred dollars; the secretary of the Miffifippi territory, one hundred dollars.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacled, That every person whose usual place of abode fhall be in any family on the aforefaid first Monday in Auguft next, fhall be returned as of such family, and the name of every perfon, who fhall be an inhabitant of any diftrict or territory, but without a fettled place of refidence, fhall be inferted in the column of the aforefaid schedule, which is allotted for the heads of families in that divifion where he or she shall be, on the faid first Monday in August next, and every perfon occafionally absent at the time of the enumeration, as belonging to that place in which he or she ufually refides in the United States.

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Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That each Free perand every free perfon, more than fixteen years. of age, whether heads of families or not, be- 16 years old to give longing to any family within any divifion, informadiftrict or territory made or established with- tion to the in the United States, fhall be, and hereby is affiftants. obliged to render to fuch affiftant of the division, a true account, if required, to the best of his or her knowledge, of all and every perfon belonging to fuch family refpectively, according to the several defcriptions aforefaid, on pain of forfeiting twenty dollars, to be fued for and recovered by fuch affiftant, the one half for his own ufe and the other half to the use of the United States.

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Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That each affiftant fhall, previous to making his returns Affiftants to the marshal or fecretary (as the cafe may to poft up be) cause a correct copy, figned by himself, of the schedule containing the number of in- the numhabitants within his divifion, to be fet up ber of inat two of the most public places within the habitants, fame, there to remain for the inspection of &c. all concerned, for each of which copies the faid affiftant fhall be entitled to receive two dollars; provided, proof of the schedule. having been fo fet up and fuffered to remain, fhall be tranfmitted to the marfhal or fecretary (as the cafe may be) with the return of the number of the perfons, and in cafe any affistant shall fail to make fuch proof to the marshal or fecretary, as aforefaid, he shall forfeit the compenfation by this act allowed him.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary Secretary of State fhall be, and hereby is au- of State thorized and required to tranfmit to the mar- inftrucfhals of the feveral ftates and to the fecreta- tions for

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