Chapter 3048. To amend section seven of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for a permanent Census Office,” approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and two
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CHAP. 3048.— An Act To amend section seven of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for a permanent Census Office,” approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and two. June 7, 1906. [[H. R. 12064](/us/bill/34/hr/12064).] [[Public, No. 202](/us/pl/34/202).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Census Office.Vol. 32, p.52. amended. That section seven of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a permanent Census Office.” approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 7. Special reports.Decennial collection of statistics for.That after the completion and return of the enumeration anti of the work upon the schedules relating to the products of agriculture and to manufacturing and mechanical establishments provided for in section seven of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- nine, entitled ’An Act to provide for taking the Twelfth and subsequent censuses,’ the Director of the Census is hereby authorized decennially to collect statistics relating to the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes; to crime, including judicial statistics pertaining thereto, provided that such statistics shall include information upon the following questions, namely:
Age, sex, color, race, nativity, parentage, literacy by race, color, nativity, and parentage, and such other questions relating to these subjects as the Director in his discretion may deem proper; to social statistics of cities; to public indebtedness, valuation, taxation, and expenditures; to religious bodies; to transport ion by water, and express business; to mines, mining, quarries, and minerals, and the production and value thereof, including gold in divisions of placer and vein, and silver mines, and the, number of men employed, the average daily wage, average working time, and aggregate earnings in the various branches and aforesaid divisions of the mining and quarrying industries; to savings banks and other savings institutions, mort-219gage, loan, and investment companies, and similar institutions: to the fishing industry in cooperation with the Bureau of Fisheries; and everyStreet railways, electric light, etc., statistics collected every five years. five years to collect statistics relating to street railways, electric light and power, telephone, and telegraph business.
And the Director of the Census shall prepare schedules containing such interrogatories as shall in his judgment be best adapted to elicit the information required under the subjects, with such specifications, divisions, and particulars under each head as he shall deem necessary to that end; and all reports prepared under the provisions of this section shall be designated as ‘Special Reports of the Census Office.’ For the purpose of securingSpecial agents. the statistics required by this section the Director of the Census may appoint special agents when necessary, and such special agents shall receive compensation as hereinafter provided.
And the Director ofOfficial Register to be edited, etc., by Director of the Census.[R. S. secs. 198, 508, 510. pp. 31, 84, amended](/us/rs/s198/s508/s510/p31/p84). the Census shall edit, index, and publish the Official Register of the United States, and the provisions of existing law imposing that duty upon the Department of the Interior are hereby repealed, and the data to be included in the Official Register, which is now required to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior, shall hereafter be transmitted to the Director of the Census.
” " Approved, June 7, 1906.