From the Secretary of State in relation to the Census of the State. STATE OF NEW-YORK, SECRETARY'S OFFICE, Albany, 28th January, 1836. TO THE SPEAKER of the AsseMBLY: SIR-I have the honor to transmit herewith a general, account of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the State, and of other statistical information for the year 1835, together with a recapitulation of the whole, and a communication addressed to the Legislature in relation thereto. Respectfully, your most obedient servant, [Assem. No. 114.] 1 JOHN A. DIX. REPORT, &c. The Secretary of State has the honor to transmit herewith a general account of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the State for the year 1835, together with a recapitulation of the whole, as required by section 12, page 91, of the first volume of the Revised Statutes. The general account of the enumeration consists of transcripts of the returns of the county clerks, the blanks for which were prepared at this office, and which cannot be abridged consistently with the preservation of all the facts they contain. The recapitulation consists of the additions of the columns in the returns of the county clerks, exhibiting the aggregate sums in the return of each county. These returns are so voluminous, that it will probably not be practicable to print them and correct the proof sheets before the first of April. The Secretary of State has, therefore, deemed it proper to prepare and communicate herewith a table containing: 1. The whole number of inhabitants in each county; 2. The number of males; 3. The number of females; 5. The number of paupers; 6. The number of persons of color not taxed; 7. The number of inhabitants in each county, deducting male aliens, paupers, and persons of colour not taxed. This table furnishes all the data, which are contained in the returns, for a reapportionment of members of Assembly and for the re-organization of the Senate districts, provided for by the sixth and seventh sections of the first article of the constitution of the State. The Secretary of State deems it his duty to call the attention of the Legislature to the fact, that under the enumeration of the last year, the number of male aliens only has been ascertained. By the Revised Statutes, section 7, volume 1, page 88, each marshal is directed to enter in his return the particulars of the enumeration and of the statistical information to be obtained by him according to a form therein prescribed. By this form only "the male persons" "who are aliens, not naturalized," are required to be ascertained. It was prepared and incorporated into the body of the statutes by the revisers, and the error was undoubtedly inadvertent: Nor did any one discover the relation, which it bears to the constitutional provision with regard to an alteration of the Senate districts, and a reapportionment of members of Assembly, until it was too late to repair it by an amendment of the statute. The consequence is, that the female aliens will constitute a part of the basis, on which the apportionment of members of Assembly and the organization of the Senate districts are to be made, unless the Legislature shall devise some mode of estimating their number. Probably, the number of females not naturalized in each county will bear to the number of males of the same class therein about the same proportion, which the whole number of male persons in the county bears to the whole number of females. Thus, the county of Albany, according to this rule, would have 3,384 females not naturalized; the whole number of aliens would be 6,765, and the population, deducting aliens, paupers and persons of color not taxed, 51,471. The county of Allegany, by the same rule, would have 137 females not naturalized; the whole number of aliens would be 280, and the population, deducting aliens, paupers, and persons of color not taxed, 34,778. The whole number of females in the State not naturalized, according to this mode of estimating them, would amount to 80,018; and if this number be added to the number of male aliens, paupers, and persons of color not taxed, it will leave the basis for reapportioning members of Assembly and reorganizing the Senate districts at 1,962,523, instead of 2,042,541, as given in the last column of the annexed table. It would seem by this table that there were but two paupers in the county of Madison on the 1st of July, the day to which the enumeration refers. This must be a mistake. By table C, accompanying the report of the Secretary of State, transmitting abstracts of the reports of the superintendents of the poor, Assembly Document No. 72 of the present session of the Legislature, it will appear that 256 indigent persons were relieved or supported in Madison county during the year ending the 1st of December, 1835, and that there were in the county poor-house on that day, 83 paupers. The number on the first of July may have been somewhat less; but the disparity is so great as to authorize the belief that the inmates of the county poor-house were not enumcrated at all In general, the census and the reports of the superintendents of the poor correspond as nearly, with respect to the number of paupers in the different counties, as could be expected, when it is considered that the enumeration under the former was on the 1st day of July, and under the latter, on the 1st day of December. In Chautauque, Chenango, Rockland, Tompkins and Wayne, there is a considerable disagreement; but not so great, perhaps, in either ́ case, as to be of any practical importance, although the Secretary of State has deemed it proper to advert to the fact. The persons in the state prison at Sing-Sing are returned in a separate column at the end of the return of the county of Westchester, and are included in the annexed table as a part of the total population of the county. It does not appear by the return of the county of Cayuga whether the persons in the state prison at Auburn are included in the enumeration of the inhabitants of the town. The addition to the ordinary business of this office, by reason of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the State, is such, that the Secretary of State found it necessary to employ another clerk some days before the commencement of the session of the Legislature. As the proof sheets of the returns are to be examined and corrected, it is not probable that his assistance can be dispensed with until the 1st of May. An appropriation of one hundred and thirty-five dollars is, therefore, respectfully asked to compensate sate him for his services, which, at that rate of compensation, would be equal to four hundred dollars per year. The general account of the enumeration cannot be printed in octavo form with the other legislative documents, without folding the sheets and making one or more extremely inconvenient volumes. It is, therefore, respectfully suggested, whether it should |