Excerpt from The Decennial Census 1955: Population and Legal Voters of Massachusetts In accordance with the provisions of General Laws, Tercentenary Edition, Chapter 9, section 7, as amended, and Article XXI of the Amendments to the Constitution as appearing in Article LXXI thereof, a census of the inhabitants of Massachusetts as of January 1, 1955, was taken under the jurisdiction of the mayor of each city and the selectmen of each town on forms provided by the Secretary of the Commonwealth and in accordance with his instructions. This census consisted of enumerating the inhabitants of each municipality by name, address, sex, and age on family cards. Further information was taken on persons 16 years of age and over as to their being employed or unemployed. It was further amplified to show the classifications of housewife, student, retired and veteran and if a veteran of which war or wars. The cards, together with a sworn state ment of the total number of persons enumerated, were forwarded to the office of the Secretary from each of the 351 'municipalities in the Commonwealth for verification and tabulation. In accordance with the provisions of General Laws, Tercentenary Edition, Chapter 9, section 6, as amended, the special enumeration of legal voters required by Articles XXI and XXII of the Amendments to the Constitution as appearing in Article LXXI thereof, was determined by obtaining a sworn statement from the election commissioners or registrars of voters in each city and town of the Commonwealth, of the number of registered voters in their respective cities or towns on January 1, 1955, specifying in the case of cities the number of registered voters in each ward, and in towns of twelve thousand inhabitants or over which vote in precincts, the number of registered voters in each precinct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.