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An Act to provide for taking an Enumeration of the Inhabitants in the state of Missouri. 1820 36 (1820)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 80 CHAP. XVIII. An Act providing that Justices of the Peace who fall within the limits of new Counties shall be Justices of the Peace therein. Be it, enacted by the General .desembly of the state of 1ie- souri, That each person elected a justice of the peace at the pre-_ .usticc who sent session, for any county of this state, heretofore estabbehed, fall in new and who may reside within the limits of any new county, establish- counties to ed or which may be established at the present session of the gen- act therein. cral assembly, shall be ajustfce of the peace in and for the new coun- ty in. which he may reside. [.piliroved, Aovember 16, 1820. CHAP. XIX. An Act to -rovide for taking an Enumeration of the Inhabitants in the state of Missouri. Sue. 1. Be it enacted by the General .asenbly of the state of Sheriffs to fiesouri, That it ;hall be the duty of the sheriffs in each county take emune-within this state, to take an enumeration of the inhabitants who ration of in- shall be residents within their respective counties, on the first day habitants. of September next, according to their respective color and sex, distinguishing the free white malcs from the free white females,# and distinguishing the free persons of color from the slaves, and how to dis- also distinguishing those bound to service for a term of years, and tinguish designating in separate columns, those under ten years of age them. those of ten and under eighteen; those of eighteen and under twen- ty-one years; those of twenty-one and under forty-five ycals, und those of forty-flye years of age and upwards. . SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That each of the said sheriffs or Sheriff to their deputies, before entering upon their duties, shall take an take oath. oath or affirmation before some judges or justices of the peace in the form following, to wit: I. A B, do solemnly swcar or affirm form ofoatl.(as the case may be) that I will take a just and true enumeration, according to law, of all the inhabitants who shall be residents with- in the county of on the first day of September, eighteen hun. dred and twentypone, and make a true'return thereof to the govern- or for the time being, on or before the first Mlonday in November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one-Privided, proviso, that it shall be the duty of the sheriffs throughout the state, in the return of the enumeration authorized by this act, to specify the number of inhabitants living in each township of their respective counties, agreeably to the provisions of this act. compensa. Sre. 3. Be it further enacted, That the sheriff shall be allowed tionl out of the state treasury two dollars for every day he has been so employtd in taking the enumeration aforesaid, the time he has been so employed, to be settled by the county court--Provided, that no sheriff shall be allowed for more than twenty days in tak. ing such enumeration, at the discretion ofthe county court. SEo. 4. .4nd be itfurther enacted, That any sheriff failing or ne- pcnalty on glcting to perform the duties prescribed in this act, shall forfeit

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