"I am a census taker for the city of baffalow. our city has groan very fast in resent years and now in 1865 it has becum a hard and time comsuing job to count all the peephill.

There are not many that can do this work as it is nesesarie to have a good ejchashum, which a lot of pursons still do not have.   Anuther atribeart need for this job is good spelling for meny of the peephill to be counted can hardly speek inglish, let alone spel there names!"