Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec:[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly

That hereafter it shall be the duty, of the commissioners appointed to take the census of the several counties of this State, in addition to the duties now required of them, to set down in a separate column, the names of all persons who are not permanent citizens of such county, but who, for the time being, may be engaged upon any of the public works in such county

Sec: 2. Said commissioners shall also set down in separate columns the names and ages of all deaf and dumb persons residing in their respective counties.2

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For an act to amend “An act to provide for the taking of the census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the State,” approved January 13^th 1829.

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1On January 9, 1835, the House of Representatives passed a resolution instructing the Committee on Education to inquire into the expediency of amending the law regulating the census. William Gordon from the Committee on Education introduced HB 118 in the House on January 16, 1835. On January 17, the House referred it to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 20 with a substitute, in which the House concurred. The House engrossed the bill for a third reading but took no further action.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 256, 303, 322, 334.

2On January 13, 1829, the General Assembly passed “An Act to Provide for the Taking of the Census, of Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the State.” The act stipulated which persons should be enumerated and how they should be distinguished. The act distinguished free white persons from persons of color. It divided free whites by sex and classes, with separate columns for age in ten-year increments. For persons of color, it had separate columns for free males and females, for indentured or registered servants and their children, and for French persons of color held in bondage.
“An Act to provide for the taking of the census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the state,” 13 January 1829, The Revised Laws of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: Greiner & Sherman, 1833), 115-18.