Chapter 153. amendatory of an act entitled “An act to provide for the taking of the Eleventh Census”July 6, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Eleventh Census
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CHAP. 153.— An Act amendatory of an act entitled “An act to provide for the taking of the Eleventh Census”July 6, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Eleventh Census. That sections Informal ion from productive industries.fifteen and seventeen of the act entitled “An act to provide for taking the Eleventh and subsequent censuses” approved March first, eighteen hundred and Vol. 25, p. 765.eighty-nine, be and the same are hereby, amended so that the Superintendent of Census shall be required to obtain from every incorporated and unincorporated company, firm, association, or person engaged in any productive industry the information called for and specified in the general and special schedules heretofore approved or to be hereafter approved by Penalty for not answering, etc.the Secretary of the Interior.
And every president, treasurer, secretary, agent, director, or other officer of every corporation engaged in such productive industry, and every person, firm, manager, or agent of unincorporated companies, and members of firms, associations, or individuals likewise engaged in such productive industry, from which or whom answers to any of the inquiries contained in the said schedules are herein required, who shall, if thereto requested by the Superintendent of Census, supervisor, enumerator, or special agent, or each or any of them, wilfully neglect or refuse to give true and complete answers to any inquiry or inquiries contained in the said schedules, or shall wilfully give false information in respect thereto, shall be deemed guilty 87 of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to which may be added imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year.
And all acts or parts ofRepeal. acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, July 6, 1892.