No. 5.

IN ASSEMBLY,

January 8, 1846

COMMUNICATION

From the Secretary of State, transmitting a general account of the enumeration of the inhabitants of this State, &c. &c.

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

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Albany, Jan. 8th, 1846.

To the Speaker of the Assembly:

SIR

I herewith transmit the general account of the census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the State, and of the other statistical information for the year 1845, specifying the result thereof in the several towns, wards and counties, with a full recapitulation of the whole, and a communication addressed to the Legislature in relation thereto.

REPORT.

STATE NEW YORK,
SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

Albany, Jan. 8th, 1846.

The Secretary of State, in compliance with the 12th section of the act passed May 7th, 1845, chapter 140, has the honor herewith to transmit a general account of the enumeration of the inhabitants of this State, with the results thereof, in the several towns, wards, cities, and counties of the State, for the year 1845, with a recapitulation of the whole.

The general account of the enumeration consists of the copies of the abstracts required to be made to this office by the county clerks, the blanks having been prepared here and forwarded to those officers for the purpose, and contain the aggregate result or sum total of the enumeration, and statistical information of every town and ward in the respective counties and cities in the State, and the recapitulation comprehends an alphabetical list of the counties and the additions of the columns of the returns of the county clerks, which exhibit the aggregate results in each county, the whole being brought into one grand total.

These returns are so particular and voluminous that it probably will not be practicable to correct the proof sheets and print them before the middle or latter part of the session, and I have therefore thought proper to prepare and herewith to transmit the following tables :

I. A table containing the whole number of inhabitants of each County; the number of males; the number of females; the number of persons entitled to vote for all officers elective by the people; the number of aliens not naturalized; the number of paupers; the num

ber of persons of color not taxed; and the number of inhabitants in each county, deducting "aliens not naturalized, paupers and persons of color not taxed."

II. A table arranging the counties in the Senate districts as now organized, with a recapitulation of the enumeration above stated.

III. A table showing the arrangement of the Congressional districts by counties and wards, and the population upon which the apportionment of members of Congress is based and the ratio established by act of Congress.

IV. A table giving the whole population of the State, the population upon which the apportionment of Senators and Members of Assembly is based by the Constitution, the ratio for each, and the number of members of Assembly to which each county is entitled, and showing the fractions above the required population in all cases where there is an excess.

These tables exhibit all the facts furnished by the returns which will be required to enable the Legislature to make a re-apportionment of members of Assembly and re-organize the Senate districts, in accordance with the sixth and seventh sections of the first article of the Constitution of the State, and to make such alterations in the Congressional districts as may be deemed expedient.

The total number of paupers in the State, on the first day of July last, as appears from the table of recapitulation, was 8,909. The aggregate number of this description of persons in the several county poor-houses on the 1st day of December, 1844, as appears from the report made by the Secretary of State on the 14th of March, 1845, Assembly Documents, No. 197, was 7,549. No reports however had been received from the counties of Albany, Fulton, Hamilton and Suffolk, in which, as now reported, there were, on the first day of July last, 553 paupers.

There is considerable difference in the number of paupers reported by the superintendents of the poor, in the document above referred to, from the counties of Allegany, Chautauque, Genesee, New-York, Rockland and Warren, and those contained in the census returns, being less in the latter, than appears by the former reports, but it is not in any case, as the Secretary believes, of sufficient magnitude to have