CENSUS

In Ancient History, a population return of the Roman citizens, including a valuation of each man's property, and a registration of his tribe, family, children, and servants. The secondary senses of the word are, a tax levied according to the above-mentioned valuation; and the amount of any individual's property. A senator's census was the amount of property nece ary for a member of the senate, which was equal to between JE6000 and £7000 of our money;but this was raised by August us to about jE10,000. A knight's census was something more than JE3000. The term census, in modern political phraseology, signifies an enumeration of the inhabitants of a country; such as has taken place in England by an act of parliament in 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, 1841. [s. 220]