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Rh .] The number and kind of trees growing in cultivated or planted forests; the number of nurseries and the acreage of each; number and kind of fruit trees, berries, vines, etc., and the orchard products for the preceding year.

.] The number and kind of manufactories and the amount of capital invested; the number of bands employed; the wages paid to employes; the amount of raw material used and the total product and its value for the preceding year.

.] The number and kind of mines operated; the amount of capital invested; the number of hands employed; and the wages paid to employes; the total amount of material mined, and its value for the preceding year.

.] Тһе male and female population of each county, township, town and city and the number of blind, deaf and dumb, insane, and idiotic in each assessing district.

§ 3. .] Each Assessor shall perform the service required of him by a personal visit to each dwelling house and to each family in his township or city, and shall ascertain by enquiries made of some member of each family, if anyone can be found capable of giving the information, but if not, then to the agents of such family, and if the agents cannot be found, then he shall obtain the information specified in this act from the most reliable source; and he shall also visit, personally, the farms, mills, shops, mines, and other places in his district respecting which information is required, as specified on the blanks furnished by the Territorial Statistician, and shall obtain all such information from the best and most reliable sources.

§ 4. .] The County Clerk or Auditor of each county shall furnish the county, township, town and city Assessors of his county such blanks as may be necessary for taking the aforesaid statements, which said blanks shall be furnished by the Territorial Statistician to the County Clerks or Auditors, together with printed instructions defining and explaining the duties of the Assessor in colecting the statistics required by this act, and the County Clerks or Auditors shall, within thirty days after the aforesaid statements are returned to them by the Assessors, make out and forward a tabular statement thereof, by assessing districts, properly verified, to the Territorial Statistician.

§ 85. .] The services herein required of the several assessors of the Territory shall be performed at the same time that they perform their services under the general assessment laws and in connection therewith. They shall not be allowed for such services separately, but for the time employed in collecting the statistical information herein provided for, and the takiug of the general assessment they shall be allowed and paid as for one and the same service, and thecounty, township, town and city Assessors shall be paid in the same manner and shall receive the same pro rata per