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Show The First Census The first ceusus, taken ir 1700 covered cov-ered only population. The couni was made within a year from Hie dale ot the inauguration of President Washington, Wash-ington, ind the assembling of the Kirst congress of the United Slates. The enumerators tool; the name of the head of each family, together wilh the total number of persons in the family classified us free or slave. The count begun on the first Monday In August, 1700. and the law gave nine months for the completion of the work. Double this time elapsed, however, before all the returns were in. Communication Com-munication then was slow and uncertain. uncer-tain. The Americans oi that day. particularly par-ticularly in the rural districts, regarded re-garded the census enumerators with some suspicion, and there were those who thought il.ese agenis of the federal fed-eral government really aimed at get-ling get-ling inforinri ion on which to base an increase o. taxes. The report of the first ccnsL" Is contaiiud iu an octuv; I ) volume of fifty-six pages. Discolored and crumbling with age, this little hook 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 live inches In size, with the hundred and more quarto volumes, twelve by nine Inches, with an aggregate aggre-gate of more than 40.IHH) pages, which the census bureau issues in the course ; of a dee -de. Illustrates strikingly the j expansion of the census vvurL New : York Herald Tribune. j |