census (sens us)

[L., a registering and rating of persons and property, a census, a censor's list, registered property, wealth, ginning with 1790; and many of the States take an interples of England and Scotland was made in 1801. Since then a census, including Ireland, has been taken every ten mediate census. The first actual enumeration of the peo years. In some countries a census is taken at intervals of three, five, or six years. By the first census , taken in 1790-three years after the call the population of the United States amounted to 3,394,563. Calhoun , Works, I. 170. census-paper (sen's us-pā"pėr), п. A schedule or form left with the head of each household on an occasion of taking the census, to be filled up with the names, ages, occupations, etc., of all the members of the household, and to be given up to the enumerators on the statutory day.