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ANNO REGNI
VICTORIÆ BRITANNIARUM REGINÆ VICESIMO TERTIO.
AT the General Assembly of the
Province of New
Brunswick begun and holden at Fredericton on the
twenty fourth day of June, Anno Domini One thousand
eight hundred and fifty seven, in the Twenty first Year of
the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA
, by the Grace
of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and
Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and from thence
continued by several prorogations to the ninth day of
February, One thousand eight hundred and sixty ; being
the Fourth Session of the Eighteenth General Assembly
convened in the said Province.
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CAP. XLIX.
An Act to provide for taking a Census.
Section.
1. Governor in Council to appoint Enume-
rators,
2. Who shall take account at time and in
manner prescribed.
3. Governor in Council to appoint time and
mode of taking Census, &c. Schedule
of enquiries to be published.
4. Enumerators to be furnished with copies
of Schedule, forms and instructions.
5. Discretion for expedition sake : official
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Section.
6. Authority to ask necessary questions ;
penalty as to answers.
7. Digest of Returns ; Abstract for Legisla-
ture.
8. Enumerators’ accounts of time employed,
and rates of remuneration.
9. Cities of Saint John and Fredericton to
be deemed Parishes ; Woodstock and
Moncton, Districts.
10. Meaning of term ‘Census.’
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Passed 9th April 1860.
BE it enacted by
the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative
Council, and Assembly, as follows: -
1. The Governor in Council shall appoint
in each and every
Parish of every County such and so many persons, to be
styled
Enumerators, for taking the Census, as he may deem advisable,
and may divide large and populous Parishes into Districts
and
appoint an Enumerator to each District.
2. Every Enumerator shall at the time and
in the manner
prescribed by the Governor in Council, take the account
of the
number of persons who shall be actually found at the time
of
the taking such account, or to which it shall relate,
in the Pa-
rish or District for which he may be appointed, together
with
the other particulars prescribed by the Governor in Council.
3. The Governor in Council shall appoint
the time, and
prescribe the mode of taking the said Census, and make
such
rules and regulations to guide and govern the Enumerators
in
their enquiries, and generally to carry out the object
and pro-
visions of this Act ; and shall specify the various enquiries
to
be instituted by the Enumerators, and cause a Schedule
of
such enquiries, methodically arranged, to be published
in the
Royal Gazette at least two months before such time.
4. The Provincial Secretary shall furnish
every Enumerator
with a sufficient number of copies of the said Schedule
and the
necessary forms and instructions required for taking the
said
Census.
5. Every Enumerator shall at the time so
specified proceed
to take the said Census, and an account in writing of
the va-
rious particulars contained in the aforementioned Schedule,
adopting such mode of procedure as, consistent with his instruc-
tions, will enable him with the greatest expedition and
correct-
ness to obtain the information required, and shall prepare
therefrom answers to the said questions, in the form required
by his instructions, and sign the same, attest thereto,
and make
return to the Provincial Secretary.
6. Every Enumerator is hereby authorized
to ask any ques-
tion prescribed in the said Schedule of any person within
the
Parish or District for which he is appointed, to enable
him to
make the said enquiry, and correctly to ascertain the
result ;
and every person refusing to answer, or wilfully giving
a false
answer to any such question shall, for every refusal or
false
answer, pay not more than five pounds, in the discretion
of the
Justice before whom complaint shall be made.
7. The Governor in Council shall appoint
one or more per-
sons to digest the said Return, and shall cause an Abstract
thereof to be laid before the Legislative Council and
House of
Assembly at the next Session of the Legislature after
the com-
pletion of such Abstract.
8. Every Enumerator shall transmit to the Office
of the
Provincial Secretary an Account, duly attested, of the
number
of days he has been actually employed in taking the Census,
with every other information necessary, to enable the
Governor
in Council to test the correctness of the Account ; and
he shall
be allowed at the rate of ten shillings for every day
he is so
employed, to be paid by Warrant of the Governor in Council
on the Treasury.
9. For the purposes of this Act the Cities of Saint
John and
Fredericton shall be deemed Parishes, and the Towns of
Woodstock and Moncton respectively shall each be deemed
a
District of their respective Parishes.
10. In this Act, 'Census' shall mean
the taking an account of
the Population and such other enquiries relative thereto,
or
relative to the Agricultural, Mechanical, Lumbering, or
other
resources, or such other Statistics as the Governor in
Council
shall prescribe.
11. This Act shall come into operation and
be in force the
first day of January which will be in the year of our
Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty one.
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