Chapter 19. to require the Superintendent of Census to ascertain the number of people who own farms and homes, and the amount of mortgage indebtedness thereon
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CHAP. 19.— An Act to require the Superintendent of Census to ascertain the number of people who own farms and homes, and the amount of mortgage indebtedness thereon.February 22, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Eleventh Census.Enumeration of owners of farms, mortgages, etc. That it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Census, in addition to the duties now required of him by law, to ascertain the number of persons who live on and cultivate their own farms, and who live in their own homes, and the number who hire their farms and homes, and the number of farms and homes which are under mortgage, the amount of mortgage debt, and the value of the property mortgaged.
He shall also ascertain whether such farms and homes have been mortgaged for the whole or part of the purchase money for the same, or for other purposes, and the rates of interest paid upon mortgage loans. Sec. 2. That for the purposes of this act the sum of one millionAppropriation, dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not other wise appropriated. Sec. 3. That the provisions of sections thirteen, fourteen, fifteenPenalties, etc.Vol. 25, pp. 764,765. and sixteen of the “Act to provide for taking the Eleventh Census and subsequent censuses,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall apply to the provisions of this act.
Approved, February 22, 1890.