Chapter 389. Relating to the Twelfth and subsequent censuses, and giving the Director thereof additional power and authority in certain cases, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 389.— An Act Relating to the Twelfth and subsequent censuses, and giving the Director thereof additional power and authority in certain cases, and for other purposes. May 10, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Census. Appointment of superintendent of printing, etc., authorized. Vol. 30, p, 1014. That in addition to the power and authority conferred upon the Director of the Census by an Act entitled “An Act to provide for taking the Twelfth and subsequent censuses,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, said Director of the Census shall have power, and is hereby authorized, to appoint and employ, as the necessity therefor may arise, one superintendent of printing, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, and to appoint and employ such number of skilled mechanics and other persons in the Census printing office as may be necessary to carry into effect the preliminary printing and binding provided for in said Act, at the same compensation as is paid for similar work in the Government Printing Office.
Sec. 2. Chief clerk Census Office to act as superintendent of buildings, etc. That the chief clerk of the Census Office shall act as superintendent, and have general charge of all buildings occupied for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Census, and shall receive therefor the sum of three hundred dollars, in addition to his regular salary. Sec. 3. Salary of the Director. That the salary of the Director of the Census shall be seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum.
Sec. 4. Additional compensation of supervisors. That in addition to the sum provided to be paid to supervisors of census in section eleven of an Act entitled “An Act to provide Vol. 30, p. 1017. for taking the Twelfth and subsequent censuses,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the Director of the Census is hereby authorized and directed to pay to each supervisor, as further compensation, a sum equal to two per centum of the amount paid to the enumerators for taking the census in said supervisor’s district: *Proviso*. —minimum payment. *Provided*, That the amount of such additional or further compensation to be paid to each supervisor shall in no case be less than two hundred and fifty dollars.
Approved, May 10, 1900.