Agricultural History Review, Volume 48 Part 2 (2000), pp. 223–228

This paper examines the administration of the 1866 livestock census, drawing upon a newly discovered collection of Inland Revenue circulars. Using these it amplifies and corrects our previous accounts of the exercise, showing how procedures developed as practical problems were identified. The key figures in the census were the Surveyors of Inland Revenue. The occupiers to whom the census forms were to be sent were identified by the Surveyors from the Schedule A and B books maintained by them and it was they who collated the returns locally. It seems that the census was successful, but for reasons which are unclear, future censuses were undertaken by the Revenue's excise officers. 

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