SPECIAL SCHEDULE.-AVERAGE RETAIL PRICES OF NECESSARIES OF LIFE.

GENERAL STATEMENT.

1. Name of firm, corporation or individual making return.

2. Post-office address: state; county; town or city.

3. In what business are you engaged (as butcher, provision dealer, grocer, merchant, general store, etc.)?

4. How long have you been engaged in your present business, or how long has the stand been occupied for the same business?

5. Table showing the average retail prices of provisions, groceries, and other leading articles of consumption; also prices of board and house rent:

(NOTE.-In filling out this table please give retail prices and prices that will be a fair average of the year, if possible. If this can not be done, give prices on or about June 1 of each year.)

5. Table showing the average retail prices of provisions, etc.-Continued.

6. Please state if prices are average prices per year or prices on or about June 1.

WEALTH, DEBT, AND TAXATION.

[The inquiries relating to " Valuation and taxation," etc., at the censuses of 1850, 1860, and 1870 are contained in the schedule for "Social statistics."

The special schedules used at the censuses of 1880 and 1890 called for a separate return for each state, county, or other civil division to which sent, and where the inquiries are tabular in form they have been so reproduced.]

CENSUS OF 1880.

ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY IN CITIES AND TOWNS.

Report in relation to the Assessment of Property in the City or Town of
County of......, state of

made the

day of

1. Do you assess real estate at its full value, or at some lower rate?

2. By what standard do you determine its value?

1880.

3. Do you assess improved property on the same basis or by the same standard as town lots or lands used for agricultural purposes?

4. Are dwelling houses assessed on the same basis as business blocks and manufactories? (Please answer in detail, if possible.)

(a) What per cent, in your opinion, does the assessed value of town lots and farming lands bear to the true value?

(b) What per cent does the assessed value of improved lots and dwelling houses bear to the true value?

(c) What per cent does the assessed value of business blocks, stores, etc., bear to the true value?

(d) What per cent does the assessed value of real estate used for manufacturing purposes bear to the true value?

5. What per cent, in your opinion, does the assessed value of all real property bear to the true value?

Please state in detail, if possible, how you arrived at your conclusions, giving any instances of recent sales of real estate, the class of property sold, the amount such pieces of property sold for, and the value put upon the same property by the assessor.

a If the expenses of improvements (such as paving, cleaning streets, etc.) are charged upon the individuals directly benefited, please so state.

REAL ESTATE EXEMPT FROM TAXATION.

Character of property, whether church, educational, charitable, railroad or

other-give details.

(a)

a Several blank lines are printed in schedule.

FINANCIAL CONDITION OF COUNTIES.

Total receipts (a) from taxation for all purposes except schools.
Total receipts from taxation for school purposes.

Total receipts from state tax for all purposes except schools.
Total receipts from state tax (or apportionment) for schools.

a Only the tax of the county, as a county, is desired. The taxes of municipal corporations, townships, or school districts should not be included.