State census, 1835.

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State census, 1835.

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The 1835 population census, authorized under an 1829 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 hosuehold; numbers of free white males and females in decennial age group (e.g., ages 0-9, 10-19, 20-29); numbers of male and female Negroes and mulattoes; indentured or registered servants and their children, French Negroes and mulattoes held in bondage; total number of inhabitants in household; number of males subject to duty in state militia; and type (e.g., gristmill) and number of manufacturing establishments. Each return also includes signature of census commssioner certifying return, date certified, and occasional recapitulations of totals. Returns are included for Fayette, Fulton, Jasper, and Morgan Counties only. A summary account which lists no individual names also is included for Cook County.

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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 ...