State census, 1820.

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State census, 1820.

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The 1820 population census, authorized under an 1819 act, was compiled in each county by census commissioners appointed by the county commissioners courts and filed with the Secretary of State. Each county return includes name of county and for each household: name of head of household; numbers of free white males 21 yrs. or older; other white inhabitants; slaves and servants; free Negroes and mulattoes. Each return also includes signature of census commissioner certifying census, date certified, and recapitulatin of totals.

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The Office of Secretary of State, successor to the territorial Secretary, was established by the 1818 Constitution to keep both the state archives and a register of the Governor's official acts. The Secretary was appointed by the Governor until the 1848 Constitution made the office elective. In 1873, the Dept. of Archives and Index was created to "make and keep proper indexes to the executive records and all public acts, resolutions, papers and documents" filed with the Secretary of State. This ...