Show the cost of Census Taking the difference between the cost of 0 securing the returns from the six simple questions asked in 1790 and that ot of the extended ioury made a century later is illustrated by the per capita cost which in 1790 was cents and in 1900 cents la in I 1 1790 virginia was wag the must most populous lousI state in the union having inhabitants the records ol of the treasury department show that at the first census the cost of making tho the enumeration in that state was 90 moreover at that enumeration the underpaid assistant marshals supplied their own blanks an item which vas use of considerable im ln in the days alien all paper was made laboriously by hand in 1900 the population lallon of 0 matue maine about i most nearly approximated that of virginia in 1790 at the twelfth census the cost ol of actual enumeration in maine including the pay of 0 supervisors vas use or more than three fourths of 0 the amount expended tor for the enumeration me ration of the entire united states in 1790 though the pay of oc an enumerator in 1900 did not dot exceed the wages ot of an intelligent day laborer the century |