State census, 1840.

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State census, 1840.

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The 1840 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 occassionally local subdivisions. Entries for each household includes: name of head of household; numbers of free white male and females in each decennial age group (e.g., 0-9, 10-19, 20-29); numbers of male and female Negroes and mulattoes, indentured and registered servants and their children, and French Negroes and mulattoes held in bondage; number of males subject to duty in the state militia; total number of inhabitants in household, and type (e.g., sawmill, gristmill) and number of manufacturing establishments. Each return also includes signature of census commissioner certifying return, date certified and frequent recapitulations 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 ...