Show the first census 1 the first census taken in 1700 cov ered only population the count was made within a year from the date ot the inauguration of president washington and the assembling of the first congress ot the united states the enumerators took the name of the bead of each family together with the total number of persons in the family classified as free or slave The count bebon on th farat monday tn august 1700 and the law gave nine months for the completion of the work rouble this time elapsed however before all the returns were in corn then was slow and uncertain the americans of that day particularly ticul arly in tho rural districts re carded the census enumerators with some suspicion and there were those who thought these agents of the fed eral government really aimed at getting on which to base an increase of taxes the report of the first censa Is contained in an octavo c volume of fifty six pages discolored and crumbling with age this little book Is very rare the census bureau has two of the few copies in existence and the library of congress one A comparison of this little book eight by five inches in size with the hundred and more quarto volumes twelve by nine inches with an aggregate of more than pages which the census bureau issues in the course of a decide illustrates strikingly the expansion of the census wor kNew york herald tribuna ji |