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TABLE 15

OCCUPATION: 1866-1896

                                                                                           
            All Occupations    
                          Percent     Agri-                                                 Other
Sex and      Number a/     of pop.   cultural-    Laborers c/ Mechanics  Professional       occu-  
census year               over 15    alists b/                               workers d/    pations

Both sexes:
  1866           ---         ---       8,258         5,025      1,146             512           ---
  1872           ---         ---       9,670         4,772      5,115             582           ---
  1878        24,795        59.4       8,763         7,871      2,606                 5,555
  1884        39,541        68.1      10,968        12,351      3,919                12,303
  1890        41,073        61.8       5,377        25,466      2,802             638         6,790
  1896        55,294        70.2       7,570        34,438      2,265           1,224         9,797


Male:
  1890        38,930        83.6       5,280        23,863      2,690            483         6,614
  1896        51,705        91.0       7,435        32,027      2,265            942          9,036


Female:
  1890         2,143        10.8          97         1,603          112               155        176
  1896         3,589        16.3         135          2,411         ---              282          761
                                                                                            
   a/   May include workers under 15.

   b/   "Agriculturalists" to 1884; "framers" and "planters and ranchers" for 1890; and "farmers and
agriculturalists," "rice planters," "coffee planters," and "ranchers for 1896.

   c/   "Laborers" in 1866, 1890, and 1896; "plantations laborers" in 1872 and "contract laborers" in 

1878 and 1884.

   d/ "Professionalists" in 1866; "clergymen," "teachers," "licensed physicians," and "lawyers" in
1872; "professional men and teachers" in 1890; and "doctors," "lawyers," and "other professions" in
1896.

  Source:  Schmitt, p 77.