Literal question
<span class="h3">Instructions for filling up the Column headed "Rank, profession or occupation"</span></p>
<p> The superior titles of peers and the other persons of rank to be inserted, as well as any high office which they may hold. Magistrates, aldermen and other important public officers to state their profession after their official title.</p>
<p><span class="em">Army, navy, and civil service </span>- Add after the rank, "Army", "Artillery", "Royal Navy", "Mariners", "East India Company's Service", as the case may be -distinguishing those on half-pay. Persons in the Civil service to state the department to which they are attached, after their title or rank; those on the superannuation list to be so distinguished. Chelsea, Greenwich, and other pensioners, to be clearly designated.</p>
<p> <span class="em">Clergymen</span> of the Church of England to return themselves as "Rector of ____", "Vicar of _____", "Curate of ____", etc., or as not having cure of souls. They are requested not to employ the indefinite term "Clerk". Presbyterian Ministers and Roman Catholic Priests to return themselves as such, and to state the name of the church or chapel in which they officiate. Dissenting Ministers to return themselves as "Independent Minister of ____ Chapel", "Baptist Minister of ____ Chapel", etc. Local or occasional preachers must return their ordinary occupations.</p>
<p> <span class="em">Legal profession</span>-Barristers to state whether or not in actual practice; Officers of any Court, etc., to state the description of office and name of Court. The designation "Attorney" or "Solicitor" to be confined to those whose names are actually upon the Roll. Persons in Solicitors' offices should distinguish whether "Solicitor's, Managing, Articled, Writing, or General Clerk."</p>
<p>Members of the <span class="em">Medical profession </span>to state the university, college, or hall of which they are graduates, fellows, or licentiates -- also whether they practice as physician, surgeon, or general practitioners, or are "not practicing".</p>
<p><span class="em">Professors, teachers, public writers</span>, authors and scientific men -- to state the particular branch of science or literature which they teach or pursue, artists, the art which they cultivate, graduates should their degrees in this column.</p>
<p><span class="em">Persons engaged in commerce</span>, as merchants, brokers, agents, clerks, commercial travellers, to state the particular kind of business in which they are engaged, or the staple in which they deal.</p>
<p>The term <span class="em">farmer</span> to be applied only to the occupier of land, who is to be returned -- "Farmer of [317] acres, employing [12] labourers"; the number of acres, and of in and out-door labourers, on March 31st, being in all cases inserted, sons or daughters employed at home or on the farm, may be returned -- "Farmer's son," "Farmer's daughter."</p>
<p>In <span class="em">Trades</span> the master is to be distinguished from the journeyman and apprentice, thus - (Carpenter-master employing [6] men)"; inserting always the number of persons of the trade in his employ on March 31st.</p>
<p>In the case of <span class="em">workers in mines or manufactures</span>, and generally in the constructive ARTS, the particular branch of work, and the material, are always to be distinctly expressed if they are not implied in the names, as in "Coal-miner", "Brass-founder", "Wool-carder", "Silk-throwster". Where the trade is much sub-divided, both trade and branch are to be returned thus -- "Watchmaker-finisher"; "Printer-compositor".</p>
<p>A person following <span class="em">more than one distinct trade</span> may insert his occupations in order of their importance.</p>
<p><span class="em">Messengers, porters, labourers, and servants</span>, to be described according to the place and nature of their employment.</p>
<p>Persons following no profession, trade, or calling and holding no public office, but deriving their income chiefly from land, houses, mines, or other real property, from dividends, interest of money, annuities, etc, may designate themselves "Landed proprietor", "Proprietor of iron mines", "Proprietor of houses", "Fund-holder", "Annuitized", etc. as the case may be. Persons of advanced age who have retired from business to be entered thus - "Retired silk merchant", "Retired watchmaker", etc.</p>
<p><span class="em">Almspeople</span>, and persons in the receipt of parish relief should, after being described as such, have their previous occupation inserted.</p>
<p><span class="em"> Women and children</span>, - The titles or occupations of ladies who are householders to be entered according to the above instructions. The occupations of women who are regularly employed from home, or at home, in any but domestic duties, is to be distinctly recorded. So also of children and young persons. Against the names of children above five years of age, if daily attending school, or receiving regular tuition under a master or governess at home, write "Scholar", and in the latter case add "at home".
