1880 Census Supervisor District Formation, 1879, Pennsylvania
  
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  THE CENSUS.
  
  FORMATION OF THE SUPERVISORS' DISTRICTS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
  
  Supervisors Must be Residents of the Districts in Which they Apply
  From.  Offices that Will Control the Local Appointments.
  
  WASHINGTON, November 16.- The formation of the Supervisors' districts
  under the provisions of the Census act of March 8, 1879, has been
  completed, except in regard to the States of Massachusetts and
  California, and approved by Secretary Schurz.  The details are of
  interest for the reason among others that the appointment of
  Supervisors must be made in each instance by selecting from the
  applicants resident within the boundaries of the respective
  districts.  These important offices, which will practically control
  the thousands of local appointments necessary for the work of taking
  the census, are to be filled by the end of January.  General Walker
  says that in the formation of districts reference has been had solely
  to the exigencies of enumeration, date, geographical features of the
  States and to the existing conditions of settlement, occupation and
  intercommunication.  The following are the Pennsylvania districts:

    First district - Philadelphia county.

    Second district - Chester, Delaware and Lancaster counties.

    Third district - Berks, Dauphin, Lebanon, Northumberland and
  Schuylkill counties.

    Fourth district - Bucks, Carbon, Lehigh, Montgomery and Northampton counties.

    Fifth district - Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Montour,
  Pike, Sullivan, Wayne and Wyoming counties.

    Sixth district - Bradford, Cameron, Lycoming, McKean, Potter,
  Susquehanna and Tioga counties.

    Seventh district - Adams, Clearfield, Clinton, Cumberland,
  Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder, Union
  and York counties.

    Eighth district - Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana,
  Somerset and Westmoreland counties.

    Ninth district - Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence and Washington counties.

    Tenth district - Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Elk, Erie,
  Forest, Jefferson, Mercer, Venango and Warren counties.
  
  Altoona Tribune, Monday, November 17, 1879, page 1