This volume is a full compendium of the Census Statistics of the United States from the earliest period, together with all of the tables embraced in the quarto publication of 1850, with the few exceptions noted below. To these have been added a large amount of information collected for the first time from the returns and from other official sources, with illustrative notes and ratIo and comparative tables.

This volume includes county tables in the following particulars — of population, white, free colored and slave, native and foreign, male and female, in 1850, with the aggregate in 1840, and the changes of county organization within that time; of college, private school and public school scholars, with the revenues appropriated to each; the total educational income; the illiterate; the number of persons within the school age, and the actual average of scholars in the year; of the number of farms; and the capital, product and amount of labor in manufactures, mining and the mechanic arts. The occupations and the number of births, marriages and deaths are given in States and in great sections of the Union, and the specific ages and nativities in all the leading cities.

Contents:

• Introductory Remarks
• Part I. Territory
• Part II. Population (colonial population, population of the United States, white population of the United States, free colored population, slave population of the United States, aggregate population)
• Part III. Moral and social condition (religious worship, education, the press, public libraries, charities, wages, crime)
• Part IV. Industry (agriculture, manufactures, commerce, internal improvements);
• Part V. Property, Revenue, Taxation, etc. (indians, miscellaneous, public domain, patent office)
• Part VI. Cities, Towns, Counties, etc. (by States and Territories)
• Population of Cities, Towns, etc.
• California State Census of 1852
• Appendix— age and sex of the white and free colored population in the leading Northern and Northwestern cities; age and sex of the white and free colored and slave population in the leading cities of the slaveholding states; nativities of the inhabitants of the leading cities; and ages of persons who died between June 1, 1849 and June 1, 1850,