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Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Philadelphia: Child and Swaine, 1791. 56 p. (Dubester 1)
Printed by order of the House of Representatives. [Washington, D.C.: 1801]. [iv], 36 p. (Dubester 8)
Tables present for the United States as a whole by districts and territories, and for individual districts and territories by counties and towns, data showing number of free white males and females by age, all other free persons except Indians not taxed, slaves, and totals in each town, county, etc.
Added t.-p. (without imprint): "A statement of the arts and manufactures of the United States of America, exhibiting I. A collection of facts, evincing their benefactions to agriculture, commerce, navigation and the fisheries, and their subserviency to the public defence, with an indication of certain existing modes of conducting them, peculiarly important to the United States; II. A collection of additional facts, tending to show the practical foundation, actual progress, condition and establishment of the American arts and manufactures, and their connexion with the wealth and strength of the United States. Together with one series of tables of the several branches of American manufactures, exhibiting them by states, territories and districts, so far as they were returned in the reports of the marshals and of the secretaries of the territories, and their respective assistants, in the autumn of the year 1810; together with similar returns of certain doubtful goods, productions of the soil, and agricultural stock, so far as they have been reported: and another series of tables of the several branches of American manufactures, exhibiting them in every county in the Union, so far as they were returned in the reports of the marshals, and of the secretaries of the territories and their respective assistants, in the autumn of the year 1810; which tables were prepared in execution of an instruction of Albert Gallatin, Esquire, Secretary of the Treasury, given by him in obedience to a resolution of Congress of the 19th day of March, 1812." An extensive description of the manufactures in 1810 is followed by tables which have title, "Tabular statements of the several branches of American manufactures, exhibiting them I. By states, territories, and districts; II. By counties, cities and towns . . . Philadelphia, Printed by A. Cornman, Junr. 1813." The tables present data showing the quantity and dollar value of various products of manufactures returned in the census. (Dubester 11)
A table presenting aggregate returns for the United States by states and territories is followed by tables for individual districts (states and territories) with data showing number of free whites, slaves, and free colored persons by sex and age, as well as number of foreigners not naturalized, number of persons engaged in agriculture, number of persons engaged in commerce, number of persons engaged in manufactures, all other persons except Indians not taxed, plus the total amount in each county, parish, township, town, or city. These tables are preceded by a letter of transmittal which explains some of the delayed returns, a copy of the circular addressed to the marshals of each district outlining the scope of the census, and the forms and schedules to be used in the enumeration of the population and manufactures. (Dubester 15)
The edition of the Fifth Census . . . corrected at the Department of State under the supervision of the Secretary of State was published the same year as the first print of the census results upon direction of Congress. The two editions, of which the corrected one contains the statistics ultimately used as a basis for Congressional reapportionment, were bound in one volume and preceded by a summary of the results of the enumerations of 1790-1820 inclusive. . . . The results of the enumeration present data for each state and territory by minor civil divisions showing number of free white persons, slaves, and free colored persons by sex and age, as well as the number of white persons, slaves, and colored who were deaf and dumb, and blind, and the number of white aliens by age. Each state table is followed by a general recapitulation and the last table summarizes the data for the United States as a whole. (Dubester 19)
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