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 and Navy</span>- Add after the rank, "Army," "Artillery," "Royal Navy," "Royal Engineers, " "Mariners," "East India Service," as the case may be. Officers on "half- pay," or "retired, " to be so described. Chelsea, Greenwich, and other Pensioners, to be so designated
<br />Persons in the <span class="em">Civil Service </span>to state the Department to which they are attached, after their rank; those on the Superannuation List to be so distinguished. </p>
<p><span class="em">Clergymen</span> of the Church of England to return themselves as "Rector of ____," "Vicar of _____," "Curate of ____," etc., or "without cure of souls. " They are requested not to employ the indefinite term "Clerk". Roman Catholic Priests, and Minister of Foreign Churches, 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," "Wesleyan Minister, of ____ Chapel," etc. Local or occasional preachers must return their ordinary occupations; but may add "Local Methodist preacher,"etc., etc.</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. Clerks in Solicitors' offices should distinguish whether Solicitor's Managing, Articled, 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, Dentist, Oculist, General Practitioner, etc., 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, Commercial travellers, to state in all cases the particular kind of business in which they are engaged, or the staple in which they chiefly deal. Members of the Stock Exchange, East India Merchants, etc., may be so described.</p>
<p>Commercial <span class="em">Clerk</span>-always add in what branch of business. [Note: Clerks in the Civil Service, and in Solicitors' officers, should be distinguied as above directed.]</p>
<p>The term <span class="em">farmer</span> to be applied only to the occupier of land. Example: "Farmer of 317 acres, employing 8 laborers and 3 boys;" the actual number of acres, and of men and boys employed on the far, on April 8th, being in all cases inserted. Sons or daughters employed at home or on the farm, may be returned: "Farmer's son," "Farmer's daughter." <span class="em">Farm Servants </span>sleeping in the Farmer's house must be described in the schedule as "Carter," "Dairymaid," etc., as the case may be.</p>
<p>An out- door <span class="em">Laborer </span>working on a farm must be described as "Agricultural Laborer;" "Shepard," etc., as the case may be.</p>
<p>In <span class="em">Trades, Manufactures,</span> or other Business, the Employer must, in all cases, be distinguished; Example: "Carpenter-Master, employing 6 men and 2 boys;" inserting always the number of persons of the trade in his employ, if any, on April 8th. In the case of <span class="em">Firms</span>, the number of persons employed should be returned by one partner only.</p>
<p>In the case of <span class="em">Workers in Mines or Manufactures</span>, and generally in the <span class="em">Arts</span>, 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," "Silk-throwster". Where the trade is much subdivided, both Trade and Branch are to be returned thus: "Watchmaker-finisher;" "Printer-compositor".</p>
<p><span class="em">Artisans and Mechanics </span>should invariable state their particular branch of art or business.</p>
<p><span class="em">Weaver </span>should always write "Silk," "Wool," "Worsted," "Cotton," etc., before this general term, so as to express distinctly the material he weaves, thus: "Silk- Weaver."</p>
<p><span class="em">Messengers, Porters, Laborers, and Servants</span>, to be described according to the place and nature of their employment on the day of the Census.</p>
<p>A person following more than one distinct Business should insert his several occupation in the order of their importance.</p>
<p>Persons following no profession, trade, or calling and holding no public office, but deriving their income chiefly from land, houses, mines, dividends, interest of money, annuities, etc., may designate themselves "landed proprietor," "proprietor of iron mines," "proprietor of houses," "fund-holder," etc. as the case may be. Persons of advanced age who have retired from business may be entered thus: "retired farmer," "retired grocer", etc.</p>
<p>Persons in Almshouses, after being described as such, should state their previous occupation inserted.</p>
<p><span class="em"> Women and children</span> to be entered according to the above Instructions. The occupations of those who are regularly employed from home, or who follow any business at home, to be distinctly recorded. Against the names of children, daily attending school, or receiving regular tuition, write "Scholar."</p>
<p><span class="h3">List the members of this family, of visitors, and of servants, who slept or abode in this dwelling on the night of Sunday, April 7th, 1861.</span></p>
<p><span class="em">Rank, profession, or occupation</span>
<br />Before filling in this column, you are requested to read the instructions on the other side.</p>
<p>[See: instructions for filling up the column headed "rank, profession or occupation."]
<br />____ Rank, profession, or occupation
