Report on census taking in Massachusetts, 1919-1922.

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Report on census taking in Massachusetts, 1919-1922.

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From 1790 to 1837, population censuses in Massachusetts were limited to those taken decennially by the federal government under constitutional provision. Starting in 1837 the General Court authorized state decennial censuses to supplement the federal ones, for determining representation in the legislature and other purposes. These state censuses have been conducted by authority of constitutional and statutory provisions under the auspices of the secretary of the Commonwealth. From 1874 to 1919 the Bureau of Statistics took over the actual operation of the state decennial census from the secretary's office. Census taking in Massachusetts is a typescript of a two-part report by Charles F. Gettemy, director of the Bureau of Statistics from 1907 to 1919, of which the first part, An historical survey of census taking in Massachusetts, was published in 1919. The second part, Organization and procedures based upon the state census of 1915, exists only in typescript.

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Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics

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Census information for Concord was taken by Massachusetts authorities in 1765, 1778, 1865, and 1875 and by federal authorities every tenth year from 1790. The census act of 1870 contained a provision whereby the federal government undertook the compilation of the returns of all states making a midway enumeration on the federal blanks. Several states compiled and forwarded their schedules to Washington. As there was then no permanent census office, the results were never tabulated. Alfred B. Warr...

Gettemy, Charles F. (Charles Ferris), 1868-

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