Excerpt from Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: Containing Authoritative Statistics for the Period 1901-1907 and Corrected Statistics for the Period 1788 to 1900 BY the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Commonwealth 'is empowered to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth, with respect to, inter alia, Census and Statistics. In exercising the power so conferred, a Census and Statistics Act was passed in 1905, and' in the year following the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics was created. The publication here presented is therefore the first authoritative Year Book issued under the Federal Constitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.