Excerpt from Census of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1905, Vol. 3: Prepared Under the Direction of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor; Manufactures and Trade There are three features of this, the third volume of the series present ing the results of the Decennial Census of the Commonwealth for 1905, which distinguish it in a marked degree from the corresponding volume of the Census of 1895 giving statistics of Manufactures, namely (1) the inclusion of statistics of Trade as distinct from Manufactures, a new requirement of the Census law of 1901; (2) the exclusion of hand trades and neighborhood industries, so called; and (3) the manner in which the results of this Census have been tabulated for presentation in print. Pursuant to the provisions of the Census law of 1904 requiring a Census of Trade to be taken in addition to the customary Census of Manu factures, a schedule was sent to every individual, firm, or corporation en gaged in mercantile business in the Commonwealth during the year 1904. Before this schedule was prepared, a Special agent of the Bureau visited leading mercantile houses in order to ascertain what line of information would be of most value to merchants and dealers of all classes, and also to ascertain whether the books were kept in such a manner that the facts desired could be obtained. The schedule was approved in December, 1904, by the Governor and Council, and work on the collection of the statistics was begun early in January, 1905. 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.