Chapter 63. To amend section eight of an Act to provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses, approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine
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CHAP. 63.— An Act To amend section eight of an Act to provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses, approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine. February 25, 1910.[[H. R. 18364](/us/bill/61/hr/18364).][[Public, No. 63](/us/pl/61/63).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section eight of an ActThirteenth Census.*Ante*, p. 3, amended. entitled. “An Act to provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses,” approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine, be amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 8. That the Thirteenth Census shall be restricted to inquiriesSchedules. relating to population, to agriculture, to manufactures, and to mines and quarries. The schedules relating to population shall include forPopulation.*Post*, p. 877. each inhabitant the name, relationship to head of family, color, sex, age, conjugal condition, place of birth, place of birth of parents, number of years in the United States, citizenship, occupation, whether or not employer or employee, and, if employee, whether or not employed at the date of enumeration and the number of months unemployed during the preceding calendar year, whether or not engaged in agriculture, school attendance, literacy, and tenure of home and whether or not a survivor of the Union or Confederate army or navy; and the name and address of each blind or deaf andDefective, etc., persons. dumb person; and for the enumeration of institutions, shall include paupers, prisoners, juvenile delinquents, insane, feeble-minded, blind, deaf and dumb, and inmates of benevolent institutions.
“The schedules relating to agriculture shall include name, color, andAgricultural. country of birth of occupant of each farm, tenure, acreage of farm, acreage of land under irrigation, acreage of woodland, and characterIrrigation acreage added. of timber thereon, value of farm and improvements, value of farm implements, number and value of live stock on farms and ranges, number and value of domestic animals not on farms and ranges, and the acreage of crops planted and to be planted during the year of enumeration, and the acreage of crops and the quantity and value of crops and other farm products for the year ending December thirty-first next preceding the enumeration.
“The schedules of inquiries relating to manufactures and to minesManufactures, mines and quarries. and quarries shall include the name and location of each establishment; character of organization, whether individual, cooperative, or other form; character of business or kind of goods manufactured; amount of capital actually invested; number of proprietors, firm members, copartners, stockholders, and officers, and the amount of their salaries; number of employees and the amount of their wages; quantity and cost of materials used in manufactures; amount of miscellaneous expenses; quantity and value of products; time in operation during the census year; character and quantity of power used, and character and number of machines employed.
Inquiries 228shall also be made as to the location and character of irrigation Irrigation enterprises added.enterprises; quantity of land irrigated in the arid region of the United States and in each State and county in that section under state and federal laws; the price at which these lands, including water right, are obtainable; the character and value of crops produced on irrigated lands, the amount of water used per acre for said irrigation and whether it was obtainable from national, state, or private works; the location of the various projects and method of construction with facts as to their physical condition; the amount of capital invested in such irrigation works.
Period of enumeration.“The census of manufactures and of mines and quarries shall relate to the year ending December thirty-first next preceding the enumeration of population and shall be confined to mines and quarries and manufacturing establishments which were in active operation during all or a portion of that year. The census of manufactures shall furthermore be confined to manufacturing establishments Factory system.conducted under what is known as the factory system, exclusive of *Proviso*.Animals slaughtered for food.the so-called neighborhood household and hand industries: *Provided*, That the census shall also include an enumeration of the number of cattle, calves, sheep, lambs, hogs, goats, and kids slaughtered All hides produced.for food purposes, and all hides produced, whether taken from animals slaughtered for food purposes or otherwise; during the year next preceding the year of the enumeration of population, irrespective of the character of the establishment in which slaughtered or produced.
Turpentine and rosin industry.“The inquiry concerning manufactures shall cover the production of turpentine and rosin, and the report concerning this industry shall show, in addition to the other facts covered by the regular schedule of manufactures, the quantity and quality of turpentine and rosin manufactured and marketed, the sources, methods, and extent of the industry. Agents for special inquiries.“Whenever he shall deem it expedient, the Director of the Census may charge the collection of these statistics upon special agents or upon detailed employees, to be employed without respect to locality.
Form of inquiries.“The form and subdivision of inquiries necessary to secure the information under the foregoing topics shall be determined by the Director of the Census.” " Approved, February 25, 1910.