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The Census Act 1800 – also known as the Population Act 1800 – (41 Geo. 3. (G.B.) c. 15) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which enabled the first Census of England, Scotland and Wales to be undertaken. The census was carried out in 1801 and has been repeated almost every ten years thereafter.
1 January – legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [1] 10 March – the first British census is carried out (under terms of the Census Act 1800), with the Scottish counts undertaken by schoolmasters. The population of Scotland is ...
Shortly after, in 1800, Abbot appointed Rickman his Private Secretary. Rickman is credited with drafting the first bill which became the 1800 Census Act , the full title of which was An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution thereof , which became law in December 1800.
The 1800 United States census was the second census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 4, 1800. It showed that 5,308,483 people were living in the United States, of whom 893,602 were slaves. The 1800 census included the new District of Columbia.
Census Act 1800; Criminal Lunatics Act 1800; D. Depredations on the Thames Act 1800; G. Glasgow Police Act 1800; M. Making of Bread, etc. Act 1800; Mutiny Act 1800; N.
Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year, and exact population figures are for countries that were having a census in the year 1800 (which were on various dates in that year). The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1, pages 21 to 24, which cover population ...
While it was not the first book on population, Malthus's book fuelled debate about the size of the population in Britain and contributed to the passing of the Census Act 1800. This Act enabled the holding of a national census in England, Wales and Scotland, starting in 1801 and continuing every ten years to the present.
An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual an Act, passed in the third Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled, "An Act for the recovering of small Debts, and for the relieving of poor Debtors in London;" [j] and an Act, passed in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, to explain and ...