Census Act 1865 (SA)

ANNO VICESIMO OCTAVO ET VICESIMO NON0

A.D. 1865.

No. 4.

AI Act for tukbrg n Census of Sowth Australia in the yeay one thou-

sand eight hz~ndrcd and sixty-six.

[Assented to, 4th August, 1865.1

HEREAS it is expedient that provision should be made for Pmmblee

taking a census of South Australia in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six-Be it therefore Enacted by the Gover- nor-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

Mayor and Councillors of every Municipality within the limits of give the information	such Municipality, the Justiccs of the Peace beyond the limits required by thie Aot.
of the district of any District Council, and the District Council of
every district within the limits of such district, shall, and they are
hereby required and directed to cause gGnera1 notices to be affixed on the several Court Houses, Police Stations, and such other con-
spicuous places as they shall deem proper, within the said Province, requiring every householder, employer of servants, and propfietor or occupier of land therein, to be prepared, upon a certain day, to
be also appointed by such Proclamation, or on the clays immediately
subsequent thereto, to give all such information as may be required
by any form or forms to be hereafter dctcrmined on and p~blished
by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Executive Council in the said Gazette, at least thirty days before the day or days fixed for taking the said census. 2. The

1. On or before such day in the year one thousand eight hundred ~, " { ~ ~ t ~ ~ 2::"

and sixty-six, as shall hereafter be appointed by Proclamation of in c o m p i c u o ~

the Governor-in-Chief, published in the Government Gazette, the ~ ~ ~ to ~ & , ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ,

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m ~ r n o r to appoint 2. The Governor shall divide the whole Province into such

persons to collect the

rnf"nrmtion	number of districts as may be deemed most suitablc for the purposes
by this A C ~.	of this Act, and shall appoint, by notice in the Government Gazette, one or more proper persons in each district to collect the information required; and the said persons shall, on the day proclaimed for taking the census as aforesaid, and on the days immediately subse- quent thereto, if one day shall not be sufficient, proceed to take an account, in writing, of the number of persons at that time being within the limits of their respective districts, and inform thcnlsclves of the several particulars specified in the said form or fbrms, dis- tinguishing thc County or reputed County, in which each such person shall be and reside; and the better to enable the persons appointed as aforesaid to take such accounts, they are hereby autho- rized and empowered to ask such questions of the persons residing or being within their respective districts, concerning themselves, and the number, quality, age, and trade or calling of the persons con- stituting their respective families, and all such other particulars as shall be necessary to fill up the said form or forms, and every such person refusing or neglecting to answer, or wilfully giving a false answer to any such question, shall, for every such refusal or neglect, or false answer, forfcit and pay a sum not exceeding Five Pounds nor less than Forty Shilling% at the discretion of the Justice or Justices before whom complaint thereof shall be made.
Peraon8 appointed

aforesaid, to deliver 3. The persons so to be appointed as aforesaid shall, within four-

over their R C C O ~ ~ ~ of teen days after the time proclaimed for taking the ensu us as afore-

Chief Secretary said, appear before some Justicc of the Peace for the said Yrovince, the

within a certain time. and produce the original accounts taken in writing and subscribed

by- them, and shall make a declaration of the truth of the same in

the form containcd in thc Schedule hereunto annexed, marked A, before the said Justice of the Peace, who is hereby authorized to

take such declaration, and shall answer all such questions-conccrn-

ing such accounts as shall be put; to them by the said Justice of	the Peace; and the persons so to Le appointed as aforesaid,	shall, within four teen days of making such dccl wation as aforesaid,
transmit to the Chief Secretary of the said Province, the original accounts so taken in writing and verified by their declaration, as aforesaid, and if any such person shall fail or neglect to take such accounts, or shall knowingly make any false statement therein, or shall omit to verify or transnlit the same in manner hcreby required, or shall refuse to answer, or wilfully give a false anamer to any question, he shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay for every such offence, a sum not exceeding Pivc Founds nor less than Forty Shillings, at the discretion of the Justice or Justices before whom complaint thereof shall be made.

A ~ ~ Q W R ~ C Q to the

person appointed by 4. It shall be lawful for the Governor to cause an allowance for

t h ~ Governor, the number of days which any such person, appointed as aforesaid, shl l be actually employed in taking such account as aforesaid, at a rate not exceeding Thirty Shillings per day.

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recovered in a summary manner, before any two or more Justices m a summary way. 5. All fines imposed under and by virtuc of this Act shall be Thee to be reoovered

of the Peace; and all such fines, when recovered, shall be paid, one

half to the informer or person who shall sue for the same, and the

other moicty to the 'l'rcnsurcr, on behalf of Hcr Majesty, Her heirs,

and successors, for the public uses of the said Province.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

D. DALY, Governor,

SCHEDULE

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SCHEDULE REFERRED TO.

Form of Declaration,

I do hereby rrolernnly and sincerely declare, that the returns, numbcred from

to inclusive, severally signed by me, contain a true statement of the

treveral particulars therein specified, to the best of my knowledge and belief,

Declared before me at 1

(Signed)

tbia day of

18 .

Addaids : Printed by authoxity, bp W. C, Cox, Government hinter, Victoria-aquare.