Chapter 57. to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses", approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine
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CHAP. 57.— An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses", approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.April 20, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Tenth and subsequent censuses.1879, ch. 195.20 Stat., 473.Matter relating to, free of post age through the mails.Indorsement to avoid payment of postage a misdemeanor, penalty for.1879, ch. 195.20 Stat.., 473.Schedules one and four amended.
That all mail matter of whatever class? relative to the census and addressed to the Census Office, to the Superintendent, his chief clerk, supervisors or enumerators, and in- dorsed, “Official business, Department of the Interior, Census Office”, shall be transported free of postage; and if any person shall make use of any such indorsement to avoid the payment of postage on his private letter, package, or other matter in the mail, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a fine of three hundred dollar's, to be prosecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Sec. 2. That the seventeenth section of an act entitled “An act to provide for the taking of the tenth and subsequent censuses” be amended by striking out so much thereof as provides that schedule one contain an inquiry as to the naturalization of foreign-born persons, and that schedule four contain an inquiry relating to the ownership of the public debt of the United States, by whom owned, and the respective amounts: *Provided,* That the Superintendent of the Census shall collect *Proviso.*Owner ship of public debt.and collate, as far as possible, by experts and agents and from officers of the government, information in relation to the ownership of the public debt of the United States.
Sec. 3. That section seventeen of the act aforesaid be so amended asSee. 17, Amended. to allow the report which the Superintendent of the Census is required to obtain from railroad corporations, incorporated express companies,Fiscal year of corporations. telegraph companies, and insurance companies to be made for the fiscal year of the incorporation or company having its termination nearest to the first of June, eighteen hundred and eighty. Sec. 4. That section nineteen of the aforesaid act shall be amendedSec. 19,Amended.Enumeration of cities. so as to require the enumeration to commence upon the first day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty, and further so as to require that the enumeration of population in cities haring over ten thousand inhabitants shall be taken within two weeks from the first day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty.
Sec. 5. That section five of the act aforesaid shall be amended so asSec. 5,Amended.Enumerators, appointment of. to allow that in case it shall occur in any enumeration district that no person qualified to perform and willing to undertake the duties of enumerator resides in that district, the supervisor may appoint any fit person, resident in the county, to be the enumerator of that district. Sec. 6. That section nine of the act aforesaid be, and the same herebySee. 9,Amended.List of population of district to be filed with clerk of court, payment for. is, so amended as to require each enumerator, immediately after completing the enumeration of the population of his district and before forwarding the same to the supervisor, to make and file in the office of the clerk of the county court or in the office of the court or board administering the affairs of the county to which his district belongs a list of the names, with age, sex, and color, of all persons enumerated by him, which he shall certify to be true, and for which he shall be paid at the rate of ten cents for each one hundred names.
He shall give noticeNotice of filing and correction of lists. by written advertisement at three or more public places in his district that he'Will be at the court house of said county on the fifth day after filing said list, not including Sunday, from nine o’clock ante meridian to six o’clock post meridian and the following day for the purpose of correcting his enumeration by striking out or adding the designation of persons improperly enumerated or omitted; and on the days so designated lie shall, in accordance with said notice, proceed to correct, on 76 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 57, 58. 1880. such reliable information as he may obtain, all omissions and mistakes in Examination of witnesses.Corrections t o be made known to bystanders.Time to wake returns extended fifteen days.such enumeration, and to that end he may swear and examine witnesses, who shall testily subject to the pains and penalties of perjury. The result of such inquiry for correction and the whole number of persons by him enumerated, he shall make known to the bystanders, if any.
And the time given enumerators by said act to make return to supervisors is hereby extended fifteen days. And each enumerator shall be paid for his services in correcting his schedule of inhabitants as required by this act a sum to be fixed by the Superintendent of Census, in no case to Oath of office prescribed by sec. 7 amended to conform.exceed two dollars and fifty cents per day. And that the oath of office prescribed by section seven of said act be so amended as to authorize and require the making and filing the list of inhabitants as required by this act.
Sec. 7. Appropriation for additional services of enumerators. That to pay the enumerators for the additional services required by this act, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 8. Alaska. The Superintendent of Census shall collect and publish the statistics of the population, industries resources of the district of Alaska, with such fullness as he may deem expedient, and as he shall find practicable under the appropriations made, or to be made, for the expenses of the tenth census.
Approved, April 20, 1880.