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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0448 and id is 1 raw text is: 19 -1858-'54.
[No. 7.] AN ACT
To take the census of the State of Alabama for the year 1855.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly con-
vened, That the court of county commissioners in each ^gen,utakr of
county of this State shall, at their regular February term,
1855, appoint some suitable person to take the census or
enumeration of the inhabitants of their respective counties
for the year 1855; and the person so appointed shall, be-
fore lie enters upon the duties of his office, take and sub-
scribe the following oath, to-wit: I, -, do solemnly
swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully take the census and
correctly enumerate the inhabitants of county, ac-
cording to the act to take the census 9f the State of Alabama
for the year 1855, 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. Be itfurther enacted, That it shall be the duty of Duty of census
the census taker appointed as aforesaid, to make personal taker,
application to and enumerate all persons not heads of fami-
lies, and to make like application to and enumeration of all
heads of families within the county for which lie shall have
been appointed; and the enumeration so made shall desig-
nate, in separate columns, the number of white males under
twenty-one years, white males over twenty-one years, white
females over twenty-one years, white females under twenty-
one years, showing the total of each class; and such enu-
meration shall also contain the whole number of slaves, and
the whole number of free persons of color.
SEC. 3. Be it fither enacted, That the ,aid census taker
shall make an enumeration of all the insane white persons,
cpileptics and idiots in his county respectively, designating
those within the county at the time of the enumeration,
and those, being citizens of the State, who are sent abroad.
SEC. 4. He it farther enacted, That th'3 subjoined form rorm to be used.
shall be used in the enumeration provided for in this act;
and the secretary of State is hereby required to send printed
copics of this act and the subjoined formula to the judge of
probato of each county of this State by the first of January,
1855, for the use of the census taker in each county respec-
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