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CONCLUSION.

pp. 218-222

We have to thank Colonel Sir Henry James, R.E., for supplying us with the area of parishes and townships in the Northern counties, so far as they were ascertained by the Ordnance Survey Department, on July 1st, 1863. Lieut.-Colonel G, A. Leach, Assistant Tithe Commissioner, also rendered us valuable assistance.

The Superintendent Registrars and the Registrars of Births and Deaths discharged their numerous duties under the Census Act ro our entire satisfaction. Some alterations were made in the scales of fees, so as to pay the several officers as equitably as possible; and the expense of all the operations in the country and in the central office amounted to 1/17d. per head on the population. The cost per 1,000 was 5l. 9s. in 1841, 5l. 4s . in 1851, and 4l, 15s. 5d. in 1861. We cannot bring our labours to a close without expressing the sense we entertain of the efficient services rendered by the clerks appointed to this establishment by the Lords of the Treasury. In the preparation of the Abstracts they worked ten hours daily during several months, and in the performance of all the tasks assigned to them in the various branches of the inquiry they evinced intelligence and a degree of assiduity which could hardly have been looked for amongst persons temporarily employed on duties to which they were for the most part unaccustomed. Nor should we be doing justice to the officers and clerks of the General Register Office who were engaged on the Census, more particularly to Mr. W. Clode and Mr. G. Wyatt, who filled prominent positions in superintending important branches of the work, and also Mr. Bacon and Mr. Williams, if we did not express the acknowledgments due to them for the valuable assistances which from their previous pursuits they have been enabled to afford us in the execution of this work.

We have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient and faithful Servants,

GEORGE GRAHAM, Registrar General.

WILLIAM FARE.

JAMES T. HAMMICK.

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