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An Act to provide for the taking the Census of the State of Alabama for the year 1850. 1849 40 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0394 and id is 1 raw text is: 40 shall be the duty of said secretary to notify the sheriffs of the counties where the election was held; and the sheriff of the proper county (in case it be the election of a judgeof the county court, or other inferior court,) shall give the casting vote, to be certified before a justice of the peace, and by such sherff transmitted to the secretary of state, within forty days of said election. But if the tie shall have occurred in the election, of any judge of the circuit court, then and in that event the casting vote shall pertain to the sheriff of the county which shall have the largest popula- tion, according to the returns of the census of the State taken next last preceding the election. APPROVED 9 February, 1850. [No. 7.1 -AN ACT To provide for the taking the Census of the State of Ala- bama for the year 1850. SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That the commissioners' courts of roads' and cormissioners'revenue in the several counties of this State be and they 'J ' are hereby authorised and required, previous to the first day taker. of April next, to appoint in each of the counties of the State one fit pe'rson to take the census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the respective counties, for the year one. thousand eigLt hundred and fifty ; and the person so appointed shall take and subscribe, before he enters upon Hi oath. the duties of his office, the following oath, viz: I -- do solemnly swear (qr affirm) that I will faithfully take the census and correctly enumerate the inhabitants of - county according to the true intent and meaning of the act to provide for taking the census of the State of Alabama for the year one thousand eight hundred 'and fifty, approved the - day of -, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, so help me God; which oath shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the proper county. SEc. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the takerinmakingduty of the census taker appointed as aforesaid to make enumeranon. persogal application to, and enumerate all persons not heads of families, and to make like application to all heads of families within the county for which he shall have been appointed for a true estimate of all the members thereof; such estimate to contain an enumeration of the whole tnm-

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