54th Congress, 2d session. House documents, v. 18. No. 5; Report of Secretary of Interior, v. 5, pt. 1; Education, 1896.
Publication Title:
54th Congress, 2d session. House documents, v. 18. No. 5; Report of Secretary of Interior, v. 5, pt. 1; Education, 1896.
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54th Congress, 2d session. House documents, v. 18. No. 5; Report of Secretary of Interior, v. 5, pt. 1; Education, 1896.
Corporate Agency Authors:
Sheep-Bound Reserve and Congress of United States
Sort Author:
Sheep-Bound Reserve
Date:
[May 1898]
Publish Date ISO Format:
1898-05-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
18980501
Publication End:
18980531
Corporate/Agency Author:
Sheep-Bound Reserve
Publication month:
8
Publication year:
1898
Notes:
[3494]
Notes:
[3494]
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NOTE.—When the Document Checklist was compiled, in 1895, but 8 volumes of Census reports had been issued in the sheep set, and the compilers were not informed as to the form in which the remaining volumes were to be issued. So far as could be judged from the volumes then issued, each separate book was to be made a distinct part of volume 50, House miscellaneous documents, 52d Congress, 1st session. The only Census volume which at that time had been issued in parts in the sheep set was the Compendium, and in that case part 1 of the Compendium was published as part 3 of volume 50 and part 2 of the Compendium as part 4 of volume 50. Assuming that other parted volumes would be treated on the same plan, 30 serial numbers[3008-3037] were assigned for the Census set. When the remaining volumes appeared, it was found, however, that the plan of publication had been changed. Part 3 of the Compendium was issued as part 4 of volume 50, the same as part 2, Compendium, had been. Both parts of Wealth, Debt, and Taxation were back titled as part 2 of volume 50; Insurance, 2 parts, both were part 5, volume 50; Population, 2 parts, both part 8; Transportation, 2 parts, both part 11; Manufactures, 3 parts, all part 12; Crime, Panperism, and Benevolence, 2 parts, both part 14; Vital and Social Statistics, 4 parts, all part 18. This notation is somewhat ambiguous and misleading. As part 1 of part 5 is devoted to Life insurance, the user would be likely to assume that the following parts would treat of the same subject, and the reader who consulted part 2 of part 5, the theme of which is Pile insurance, would almost necessarily assume that part 1 must relate to the same topic. So with part 11, of which one of the parts or volumes into which it is divided treats of Laud transportation and the other of Water transportation. Evidently convenience in the use of the set would have been increased by giving each volume of each part of volume 50 a distinct number. But as this was not done, and as it was not known how many parts there would be, the plan that had been begun was followed out, and but one serial number was assigned to each part. Now it is found that the completed Census takes up but 18 [3008-3025] of the numbers that had been assigned to it. leaving in the Checklist an ugly gap of 12 numbers [3026-3037], which cannot be filled up because the numbers following, up to 3588, have been assigned and cannot now be changed. It therefore seems advisable, if not necessary, to recast the serial numbers for the 11th Census set, and thus take up the 12 numbers now unused.
The serial numbers, beginning with 3008, should therefore be changed as below, following the notation of the back-titles as found on the Congressional edition of the Census volumes and reproduced herewith (see Checklist, p. 95):
3008 v. 50, pt, 1.
3009 v. 50, pt. 2, pt. 1.
3010 v. 50, pt. 2, pt. 2.
3011 v. 50, pt. 3, pt. 1.
3012 v. 50, pt. 4, pr. 2.
3013 v. 50, pt. 4, pt. 3.
3014 v. 50, pt. 5, pt. 1.
3015 v. 50, pt. 5, pt. 2.
3016 v. 50, pt. 6.
3017 v. 50, pt. 7.
3018 v. 50, pt. 8, pt. 1.
3019 v. 50, pt. 8, pt. 2.
3020 v. 50, pt. 9.
3021 v. 50, pt. 10.
3022 v. 50, pt. 11, pt. 1.
3023 v. 50, pt. 11, pt. 2.
3024 v. 50, pt. 12, pt. 1.
3025 v. 50, pt. 12, pt. 2.
3026 v. 50, pt. 12, pt.3.
3027 v. 50, pt. 13.
3028 v. 50, pt. 14, pt. 1.
3029 v. 50, pt. 14, pt. 2.
3030 v. 50, pt. 15.
3031 v. 50, pt. 16.
3032 v. 50, pt. 17.
3033 v. 50, pt. 18, pt. 1.
3034 v. 50, pt. 18, pt. 2.
3035 v. 50, pt. 18, pt. 3.
3036 v. 50, pt. 18, pt. 4.
This will leave number 3037 open for the Statistical Atlas, which is the only publication of the 11th Census remaining unissued. The Commissioner of Labor, in charge of the Census, in his final report, dated October 5, 1897, says that "the Final Reports of the 11th Census consist of 25 volumes." These 25, however, make 26 in the sheep set, because Occupations, which in the cloth is included in Population, part 2, is separately bound in the sheep. The Abstract of the 11th Census is not one of the parts of volume 50, House miscellaneous documents, 52d Congress, 1st session, but is issued in the Congressional set as House miscellaneous document 185, 53d Congress. 2d session, and bound in volume 1 of the House miscellaneous documents of that session. The serial number of the volume is 3229. This is the 1st edition of the Abstract, printed in 1894. The 2d edition, printed in 1896, has not been issued as a Congressional document.