ASSESSORS.
CHAPTER 15.
DUTIES AS COMPILERS OF STATISTICS.
AN ACT, Providing for the Collection and Compilation of the Statistics of the Territory of Dakota.
Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
§ 1. Statement required-return.] That it shall be the duty of the several county, township, town and city Assessors of the Territory of Dakota, at the time of taking lists of property for taxation in each year; to require each person, company and corporation in his county, town, city or ward, to make a statistical statement of facts relating to agriculture, horticulture, manufactures, mining, etc., in the manner provided for in this act and specified in the instructions which shall be given by the Territorial Statistician, and the said Assessor shall make such other statistical returns, not herein mentioned as may be required by the Territorial Statistician, of and through the County Clerks or Auditors; and each Assessor shall make a return of such statements in tabulated form to the County Clerk or Auditor of his county at the time of returning the list of property fer taxation.
§ 2. Contents.] The statistical statement mentioned in the foregoing section shall contain, among other things answers properly classified, to the following questions:
Agriculture.] The number of farms, the number of acres under fence; the number of acres cultivated (or to be cultivated) in each crop for the current year, together with the acreage and product for the year immediately preceding of wheat, corn, oats, rye, buckwheat, barley, flax, potatoes, beans, peas, sorghum, cultivated and wild hay, hops and other farm produce.
Stock.] The number of mules, horses, milch cows and other cattle, sheep and hogs subdivided into the breeds or classes to which they respectively belong; the number of pounds of wool clipped, and the dairy products for the current year.
