Chapter 97. To provide for the fourteenth and subsequent decennial Censuses
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CHAP. 97.— An Act To provide for the fourteenth and subsequent decennial Censuses. March 3, 1919.[[H. R. 11984](/us/bill/65/hr/11984).][[Public, No. 325](/us/pl/65/325).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That a census of the population, Fourteenth Census.Provisions for taking.agriculture, manufactures, forestry and forest products, and mines and quarries of the United States shall be taken by the Director of the Census in the year nineteen hundred and twenty and every ten years thereafter.
The census herein provided for shall include Territory Included.each State, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. 1292Guam, Samoa, and Canal Zone.A census of Guam and Samoa shall be taken in the same year by the respective governors of said islands and a census of the Panama Canal Zone by the governor of the Canal Zone in accordance with plans prescribed or approved by the Director of the Census. Sec. 2. Decennial census period established. That the period of three years beginning the first day of July next preceding the census provided for in section one of this Act shall be known as the decennial census period, and the reports upon the inquiries provided for in said section shall be completed and published within such period.
Sec. 3. Census Office.Additional executive force for census period. That during the decennial census period, and no longer, there may be employed in the Census Office, in addition to the force provided for by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year immediately preceding the decennial census period, an assistant director, who shall be an experienced practical statistician; a chief statistician, who shall be a person of known and tried experience in statistical work; a disbursing clerk; an appointment clerk; a private secretary to the director; four stenographers;
Appointment.eight expert chiefs of division; and ten statistical experts. The assistant director shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The chief statistician, the disbursing clerk, the appointment clerk, the chiefs of divisions, and the private secretary to the director shall be appointed without examination by the Secretary of Commerce upon the recommendation of the Director of the Census. The statistical experts and the stenographers shall be appointed in conformity with the civil service Act and rules: *Proviso*.Preference to women, soldiers, etc.*Provided*, That whenever practicable women and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors shall be employed in the positions herein provided for.
Sec. 4. Duties of officers.Assistant director. That the assistant director shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the Director of the Census. In the absence of the director, the assistant director shall serve as director, and in the Chief clerk.absence of the director and assistant director, the chief clerk shall serve as director. Appointment clerk.The appointment clerk shall perforin the duties assigned him by Disbursing clerk.Additional bond.the Director of the Census.
The disbursing clerk of the Census Office shall, at the beginning of the decennial census period, give bond to the Secretary of the Treasury in the sum of $100,000, surety to be approved by the Solicitor of the Treasury, which bond shall be conditioned that the said officer shall render, quarter yearly, a true and faithful account to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury of all moneys and properties which shall be received by him by virtue of his office during the said decennial census period.
Such bond shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be by him put in suit upon any breach of the conditions thereof. Sec. 5. Compensation during census period.Director, etc. That during the decennial census period the annual compensation of the officials of the Census Office shall be as follows: The Director of the Census, $7,500; the assistant director, $5,000; the chief clerk and three chief statisticians for the divisions of population, manufactures, and agriculture, respectively, $4,000 each; three other chief statisticians for the divisions of vital statistics and statistics of cities, and the chief statistician provided for in section three of this Act, $3,600 each ; the geographer, $3,000 ; the disbursing clerk, $3,000 ; the appointment clerk, $2,750 ; the chiefs of division, $2,500 each; the private secretary to the director, $2,250; the statistical experts, $2,000 each; and the stenographers provided for in section three of this Act, $1,800 each.
Sec. 6. Additional employees *Ante* p. 1265. That in addition to the force hereinbefore provided for and to that authorized by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year immediately preceding the decennial census period, there may be employed in the Census Office during the 1293decennial census period, and no longer, as many clerks with salaries Salary ratings.at the rates of $1,800, $1,680, $1,560, $1,440, $1,380, $1,320, $1,260, $1,200, $1,140, $1,080, $1,020, $960, and $900; one engineer at $1,200; and two photostat operators, at $1,200 each; as many skilled laborers, with salaries at the rate of not less than $720 nor more than $1,000 per annum; and as many messengers, assistant messengers, messenger boys, watchmen, unskilled laborers, and charwomen as may be found necessary for the proper and prompt performance of the duties herein required; these additional clerks and employees to be appointed by the Director of the Census: *Provided*, That the total number of such *Provisos*.Limitation.additional clerks with salaries at the rate of $1,440 or more per annum shall at no time exceed one hundred and fifty: *Provided further*, That Mechanical devices.employees engaged in the compilation or tabulation of statistics by the use of mechanical devices may be compensated on a piece-price basis to be fixed by the director: *Provided*, That hereafter in making Preference to discharged soldiers, etc., and widows of, in Government clerical, etc., appointments.appointments to clerical and other positions in the executive departments and in independent governmental establishments preference shall be given to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, and widows of such, if they are qualified to hold such positions.
Sec. 7. That the additional clerks and other employees provided Civil service examinations for admission.for by section six shall be subject to such special test examinations as the Director of the Census may prescribe, subject to the approval of the United States Civil Service Commission, these examinations to be conducted by the United States Civil Service Commission, to be open to all applicants without regard to political party affiliations, and to be held at such places in each State as may be designated by the Civil Service Commission.
Certifications shall be made by the Selection from eligibles by apportionment, etc.Civil Service Commission upon request of the Director of the Census from the eligible registers so established, in conformity with the law of apportionment as now provided for the classified service, and selections therefrom shall be made by the Director of the Census, in the order of rating: *Provided*, That the requirement as to conformity *Provisos*.Exception.with the law of apportionment shall not apply to messenger boys, unskilled laborers, and charwomen: *Provided further*, That hereafter All examinations to be in State, etc., of applicant.all examinations of applicants for positions in the Government service, from any State or Territory, shall be had in the State or Territory in which such applicant resides, and no person shall be eligible for such examination or appointment unless he or she shall have been actually domiciled in such State or Territory for at least one year previous to such examination: *Provided further*, That the Civil Service Elsewhere, of applicants temporarily absent from legal residence.
Commission shall hold examinations of applicants temporarily absent from the places of their legal residence or domicile in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States where examinations are usually held, upon proof satisfactory to the commission that such applicants are bona fide residents of the States or Territories in which such applicants claim to have legal residence or domicile: *Provided further*, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to abridge the No change of existing law, etc.existing law of apportionment or change the requirements of existing law as to legal residence or domicile of such applicants: *And provided further*, That no person afflicted with tuberculosis shall be appointed Tuberculosis, exclusion, etc.and that each applicant for appointment shall accompany his or her application with a certificate of health from some reputable physician: *And provided further*, That in no instance shall more than one Family limit.person be appointed from the same family: *And provided further*, Temporary exigency appointments.That when the exigencies of the service require, the director may appoint for temporary employment not exceeding six months’ duration from the aforesaid list of eligibles those who, by reason of residence or other conditions, are immediately available; and may also Skilled mechanical operators.appoint for not exceeding six months’ duration persons having had previous experience in operating mechanical appliances in census 1294work whose efficiency records in operating such appliances are satisfactory to him, and may accept such records in lieu of the civil-service Admission of employées with previous experience from other departments, etc.examination: *And provided further*, That employees in other branches of the departmental classified service who have had previous experience in census work may be transferred without examination to the Census Office to serve during the whole or a part of the decennial census period, and at the end of such service the employees so transferred shall be eligible to appointment to positions in any department held by them at date of transfer to the Census Office without examination, but no employee so transferred shall within one year after such transfer receive higher salary than he is receiving at the time of Promotions, etc., during census period, to permanent force.the transfer: *And provided further*, That during the decennial census period and no longer the Director of the Census may fill vacancies in the permanent force of the Census Office by the promotion or transfer of clerks or other employees employed on the temporary force Termination, etc.authorized by section six of this Act: *And provided further*, That at the expiration of the decennial census period the term of service of all employees so transferred and of all other temporary officers and employees appointed under the provisions of this Act shall terminate, and such officers and employees shall not be eligible to appointment or transfer into the classified service of the Government by virtue of Selections from reemployment registers.their examination or appointment under this Act: *And provided further*, That in the selection of the additional clerks and employees provided for by section six the Director of the Census is authorized to use, so far is practicable, the reemployment registers established by Executive order of November twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, so far as the same applies to permanent appointments by competition.
Sec. 8.Schedules of inquiries. That the Fourteenth Census shall be restricted to inquiries relating to population, to agriculture, to manufactures, to forestry Population.and forest products, and to mines and quarries. The schedules relating to population shall include for each inhabitant the name, place of abode, relationship to head of family, color, sex, age, conjugal condition, place of birth, place of birth of parents, nationality or mother tongue of all persons born in foreign countries, nationality or mother tongue of parents of foreign birth, number of years in the United States, citizenship, occupation, whether or not employer or employee, whether or not engaged in agriculture, school attendance, literacy, tenure of home and the encumbrance thereon, and the name and address of each blind or deaf and dumb person.
Agriculture.The schedules relating to agriculture shall include name, color, sex, and country of birth of occupant of each farm, tenure, acreage of farm, acreage of woodland, value of farm and improvements, and the encumbrance thereon, value of farm implements, number of live stock on farms, ranges, and elsewhere, and the acreage of crops and the Irrigation, etc., inquiries.quantities of crops and other farm products for the year ending December thirty-first next preceding the enumeration.
Inquiries shall be made as to the quantity of land reclaimed by irrigation and drainage and the crops produced; also as to the location and character of irrigation and drainage enterprises, and the capital invested in such enterprises. Manufactures, forestry, mines and quarries.The schedules of inquiries relating to manufactures, to forestry and forest products, and to mines and quarries shall include the name and location of each establishment; character of organization, whether individual, corporate, or other form; character of business or kind of goods manufactured; amount of capital actually invested; number of proprietors, firm members, copartners 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; principal miscellaneous expenses; quantity and value of products; time in opera1295tion during the year; character and quantity of power used; and character and number of machines employed.
The census of manufactures, of forestry and forest products, and of Period of enumeration for manufactures, etc.mines and quarries shall relate to the year ending December thirty-first, next preceding the enumeration of population, and shall be confined to manufacturing establishments and mines and quarries which were in active operation during all or a portion of that year. The census of manufactures shall furthermore be confined to manufacturing Factory system.establishments conducted under what is known as the factory system, exclusive of the so-called neighborhood, household, and hand industries.
Whenever he shall deem it expedient, the Director of the Census Agents for special Inquiries.may charge the collection of these statistics upon special agents or upon detailed employees, to be employed without respect to locality. The number, form, and subdivision of inquiries provided for in Forms, etc.section eight shall be determined by the Director of the Census. Sec. 9. That the Director of the Census shall, at least six months Supervisors to be designated, etc.prior to the date fixed for commencing the enumeration at the fourteenth and each succeeding decennial census, designate the number, whether one or more, of supervisors of census for each State, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, and shall define the districts within which they are to act; except that the Discretionary as to Alaska, etc.Director of the Census, in his discretion, need not designate supervisors for Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, but in lieu thereof may employ special agents as hereinafter provided.
The supervisors shall be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce upon the recommendation of the Director of the Census: *Provided*, That the whole *Provisos*.Number.number of supervisors shall not exceed four hundred: *Provided further*, That so far as practicable and desirable the boundaries of the supervisors’ districts shall conform to the boundaries of District boundaries.the congressional districts: *And provided further*, That if in any supervisor’s Temporary filling of vacancies.district the supervisor has not been appointed and qualified ninety days preceding the date fixed for the commencement of the enumeration, or if any vacancy shall occur thereafter, either through death, removal, or resignation of a supervisor, or from any other cause, the Director of the Census may appoint a temporary supervisor or detail an employee of the Census Office to act as supervisor for that district.
Sec. 10. That each supervisor of census shall be charged with Duties of supervisors.the performance within his own district of the following duties: To consult with the Director of Census in regard to the division of his district into subdivisions most convenient for the purpose of the enumeration, which subdivisions or enumeration districts shall be defined and the boundaries thereof fixed by the Director of the Census; to designate to the director suitable persons and with his Employment, etc., of enumerators.consent to employ such persons as enumerators, one or more for each subdivision; to communicate to enumerators the necessary instructions and directions relating to their duties; to examine and scrutinize the returns of the enumerators, and in the event of discrepancies or deficiencies appearing in any of the said returns, to use all diligence in causing the same to be corrected or supplied; to forward the completed returns of the enumerators to the director at such time and in such manner as shall be prescribed, and to make up and forward to the director the accounts of each enumerator in his district for service rendered, which accounts shall be duly certified to by the enumerator, and the same shall be certified as true and correct if so found by the supervisor, and said accounts so certified shall be accepted and paid by the director.
The duties imposed upon the supervisor by this Act shall be performed in any and all particulars in accordance with the orders and instructions of the Director of the Census. 1296 Sec. 11. Pay of supervisors. That each supervisor of the census shall, upon the completion of his duties to the satisfaction of the Director of the Census, receive the sum of $1,500, and in addition thereto $1 for each thousand or major fraction of a thousand of population enumerated in his district, such sums to be in full compensation for all services rendered *Provisos*.Advances,and expenses incurred by him: *Provided*, That of the above-named compensation a sum not to exceed $600, in the discretion of the Director of the Census, may be paid to any supervisor prior to the completion of his duties in one or more payments, as the Director of Emergency expenses.the Census may determine: *Provided further*, That in emergencies arising in connection with the work of preparation for or during the progress of the enumeration in his district, or in connection with the reenumeration of any subdivision, a supervisor may, in the discretion of the Director of the Census, be allowed actual and necessary traveling expenses and an allowance in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 Clerk hire.per day during his necessary absence from his usual place of residence: *And provided further*, That an appropriate allowance to supervisors for clerk hire may be made when deemed necessary by the Director of the Census.
Sec. 12.Enumerators.Duties. That each enumerator shall be charged with the collection in his subdivision of the facts and statistics required by the population and agricultural schedules and such other schedules as the Director of the Census may determine shall be used by him in connection with Personal visits, etc.the census, as provided in section eight of this Act. It shall be the duty of each enumerator to visit personally each dwelling house in his subdivision, and each family therein, and each individual living out of a family in any place of abode, and by inquiry made of the head of each family, or of the member thereof deemed most competent and trustworthy, or of such individual living out of a family, to obtain each and every item of information and all particulars required by this Act, as of date January first of the year in which the enumeration shall be made; and in case no person shall be found at the usual place of abode of such family, or individual living out of a family, competent to answer the inquiries made in compliance with the requirements of this Act, then it shall be lawful for the enumerator to obtain the required information as nearly as may be practicable from the family or families or person or persons living nearest to such Forwarding schedules.place of abode who may be competent to answer such inquiries.
It shall be the duty also of each enumerator to forward the original schedules, properly filled out and duly certified, to the supervisor of his district as his returns under the provisions of this Act; and in the event of discrepancies or deficiencies being discovered in these schedules he shall use all diligence in correcting or supplying the same. Separation of city, etc., returns.In case an enumeration district embraces all or any part of any incorporated borough, village, town, or city, and also other territory not included within the limits of such incorporated borough, village, town, or city, it shall be the duty of the enumerator to clearly and plainly distinguish and separate, upon the population schedules, the inhabitants of such borough, village, town, or city from the inhabitants Commission, etc.of the territory not included therein.
No enumerator shall be deemed qualified to enter upon his duties until ho has received from the supervisor of the district to which he belongs a commission, signed by the supervisor, authorizing him to perform the duties of enumerator, and setting forth the boundaries of the subdivision within which such duties are to be performed. Sec. 13.Assignment of enumeration districts. That the territory assigned to each supervisor shall be divided into as many enumeration districts as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, and, in the discretion of the Director of the Census, two or more enumeration districts may be given to one enumerator, and the boundaries of all the enumeration districts shall be clearly described by civil divisions, rivers, roads, 1297public surveys, or other easily distinguishable lines: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Institutions.enumerators may be assigned for the special enumeration of institutions, when desirable, without reference to the number of inmates.
Sec. 14. That any supervisor of census may, with the approval of Removal, etc., of enumerators.the Director of the Census, remove any enumerator in his district and fill the vacancy thus caused or otherwise occurring. Whenever Amending incorrect returns.it shall appear that any portion of the census provided for in this Act has been negligently or improperly taken, and is by reason thereof incomplete or erroneous, the Director of the Census may cause such incomplete and unsatisfactory enumeration and census to be amended or made anew.
Sec. 15. That the Director of the Census may authorize and direct Interpreters. supervisors of census to employ interpreters to assist the enumerators of their respective districts in the enumeration of persons not speaking the English language, but no authorizations shall be given for Restriction on employing.such employment in any district until due and proper effort has been made to employ an enumerator who can speak the language or languages for which the services of an interpreter would otherwise be required.
It shall be the duty of such interpreters to accompany Duties, etc.the enumerators and faithfully translate the latter’s inquiries and the replies thereto, but in no case shall any such interpreter perform the duties of the enumerator unless commissioned as such by the Director of the Census. The compensation of such interpreter’s Pay.shall be fixed by the Director of the Census in advance, and shall not exceed $5 per day for each day actually and necessarily employed. Sec. 16.
That the compensation of enumerators shall be determined Pay of enumerators.Fixed rates.by the Director of the Census as follows: In subdivisions where he shall deem such remuneration sufficient, an allowance of not less than 2 nor more than 4 cents for each inhabitant; not less than 20 nor more than 30 cents for each establishment of productive industry reported; not less than 20 nor more than 30 cents for each farm reported; not less than 20 nor more than 50 cents for each irrigation or drainage enterprise reported; and 10 cents for each barn and inclosure containing live stock not on farms.
In other Mixed rates.subdivisions the Director of the Census may fix a mixed rate of not less than $1 nor more than $2 per day and, in addition, an allowance of not less than 1 nor more than 3 cents for each inhabitant enumerated, and not less than 15 nor more than 20 cents for each farm and each establishment of productive industry reported. In other subdivisions Per diem rates.per diem rates shall be fixed by the director according to the difficulty of enumeration, having special reference to the regions to be canvassed and the sparsity of settlement or other considerations pertinent thereto.
The compensation allowed to an enumerator Limitation.in any such district shall not be less than $3 nor more than $6 per day of eight hours’ actual field work, and no payment shall be made for time in excess of eight hours for any one day. The subdivisions or enumeration districts to which the several rates of compensation shall apply shall be designated by the Director of the Census at least two weeks in advance of the enumeration. No claim for mileage or Mileage or traveling expenses only when authorized.traveling expenses shall be allowed any enumerator in either class of subdivisions, except in extreme cases, and then only when authority has been previously granted by the Director of the Census; and the decision of the director as to the amount due any enumerator shall be final: *Provided*, That within the limits of continental United States *Proviso*.Domicile, etc., requirements.each supervisor to be appointed or selected under this Act shall be an actual resident of the district, and each enumerator to be appointed or selected under this Act shall, so far as practicable, be an actual resident of the subdivision within which his duties are to be performed ; but an enumerator may be appointed if he be an actual resident of the city, township, or other civil division of which the subdivision in which his duties are to be performed is a part. 1298 Sec. 17.
Payment for services of deceased appointees. That in the event of the death of any supervisor or enumerator after his appointment and entrance on his duties, the Director of the Census is authorized to pay to the widow or legal representative of such supervisor or enumerator such sum as he may deem just and fair for the services rendered by such supervisor or enumerator. Sec. 18. Special agents. Vol, 32, p. 53.That special agents may be appointed by the Director of the Census to carry out the provisions of this Act and of the Act to provide for a permanent Census Office, approved March sixth, nine-teen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental Duties.thereto; and such special agents shall perform such duties in connection with the enforcement of said Acts as may be required of them by the Director of the Census.
The special agents thus appointed shall receive compensation at rates to be fixed Pay.by the Director of the Census, such compensation, however, not to exceed $6 per diem *Provisos*.Additional statistics experts.except as hereinafter provided: *Provided*, That during the decennial census period the Director of the Census may fix the compensation of not to exceed twenty-five special agents, who shall be persons of known and tried experience in statistical work, at an amount not to Piece price allow ances.exceed $10 per diem: *Provided further*, That the Director of the Census may, in his discretion, fix the compensation of special agents on a piece-price basis without limitation as to the amount earned Traveling and subsistence,per diem: *And provided further*, That the special agents appointed under this section shall be entitled to necessary traveling expenses and an allowance in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4 per diem Restriction.during necessary absence from their usual places of residence; but no pay or allowance in lieu of subsistence shall be allowed special agents when employed in the Census Office on other than the special work committed to them, and no appointments of special agents shall be Aid to supervisors.made for clerical work: *And provided further*, That the Director of the Census shall have power, and is hereby authorized, to appoint special agents to assist the supervisors whenever he may deem it proper, in connection with the work of preparation for, or during the progress of, the enumeration or in connection with the reenumeration Use of office force.of any district or a part thereof ; or he may, in his discretion, employ for this purpose any of the permanent or temporary employees of the Authority, etc., conferred.Census Office; and the special agents and employees of the Census Office so appointed or employed shall perform such duties in connection with the enforcement of this Act as may be required of them by the Director of the Census or by the supervisors of the districts to which they arc assigned, and when engaged in the work of enumeration or reenumeration shall have like authority with and perform the same duties as the enumerators in respect to the subjects committed to them under this Act.
Sec. 19.Oath. That every supervisor, supervisor’s clerk, enumerator, interpreter, special agent, or other employee shall take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation, to be prescribed by the Director of Appointments, etc., solely for fitness.the Census. All appointees and employees provided for in this Act shall be appointed or employed and examined, if examination is required by this Act, solely with reference to their fitness to perform the duties required of them by the provisions of this Act and without reference to their political party affiliations.
Sec. 20. Commencement and completion of population enumeration. That the enumeration of the population required by section one of this Act shall be taken as of the first day of January, and it shall be the duty of each enumerator to commence the enumeration of his district on the day following, unless the Director of the Census in his discretion shall defer the enumeration in said district by reason of climatic or other conditions which would materially interfere with the proper conduct of the work; but in any event it shall be the duty of each enumerator to prepare the returns hereinbefore required to be made and to forward the same to the supervisor of his 1299district within thirty days from the commencement of the enumeration of his district: *Provided*, That in any city having two thousand*Proviso*.In cities. district within thirty days from the commencement of the enumeration of his five hundred inhabitants or more under the preceding census the enumeration of the population shall be completed within two weeks from the commencement thereof.
Sec. 21. That if any person shall receive or secure to himself any Punishment for receiving pay for appointments, etc.fee, reward, or compensation as a consideration for the appointment or employment of any person as supervisor, enumerator, or clerk, or other employee, or shall in any way receive or secure to himself any part of the compensation paid to any supervisor, enumerator, clerk, or other employee, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $3,000 and be imprisoned not more than five years.
Sec. 22. That any supervisor, supervisor’s clerk, enumerator, Offenses by employees.Penalty for neglect, etc.interpreter, special agent, or other employee who, having taken and subscribed the oath of office required by this Act, shall, without justifiable cause, neglect or refuse to perform the duties enjoined on him by this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $500; or if he shall, Punishment for unauthorized imparting of information, etc.without the authority of the Director of the Census, publish or communicate any information coming into his possession by reason of his employment under the provisions of this Act, or the Act to provide for a permanent Census Office or Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, he shall be guilty of a felony and shall upon conviction thereof be fined not to exceed $1,000 or be imprisoned not to exceed two years, or both so fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court; or if he shall willfully and knowingly swear or False swearing, etc.affirm falsely as to the truth of any statement required to be made or subscribed by him under oath by or under authority of this Act or of the Act to provide for a permanent Census Office or Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $2,000 or imprisoned not exceeding five years, or both; or Making false, etc., returns.if he shall willfully and knowingly make a false certificate or a fictitious return he shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction of either of the last-named offenses he shall be fined not exceeding $2,000 or be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or both; or if any person who is False information by enumerators, etc.or has been an enumerator shall knowingly or willfully furnish or cause to be furnished, directly or indirectly, to the Director of the Census or to any supervisor of the census any false statement or false information with reference to any inquiry for which he was authorized and required to collect information he shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $2,000 or be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or both.
Sec. 23. That it shall be the duty of all persons over eighteen years Penalty for refusing, etc., information to officials.of age when requested by the Director of the Census, or by any supervisor, enumerator, or special agent, or other employee of the Census Office, acting under the instructions of the said director, to answer correctly, to the best of their knowledge, all questions on the census schedules applying to themselves and to the families to which they belong or are related, and to the farm or farms of which they or their families are the occupants; and any person over eighteen years of age who, under the conditions hereinbefore stated, shall refuse or willfully neglect to answer any of these questions, or shall willfully give answers that are false, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $100.
And it is hereby made unlawful for any individual, committee, Punishment for of fering, etc., inaccurate enumeration of population, etc.or other organization of any kind whatsoever, to offer or render to any supervisor, supervisor’s clerk, enumerator, interpreter, special agent, or other officer or employee of the Census Office engaged in making an enumeration of population, either directly 1300or indirectly, any suggestion, advice, or assistance of any kind, with the intent or purpose of causing an inaccurate enumeration of population to be made, either as to the number of persons resident in any district or community, or in any other respect; and any individual, or any officer or member of any committee or other organization of any kind whatsoever, who directly or indirectly offers or renders any such suggestion, advice, information, or assistance, with such unlawful intent or purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $5,000.
Information required from hotel proprietors, apartment houses, etc.And it shall be the duty of every owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of a hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, when requested by the Director of the Census, or by any supervisor, enumerator, special agent, or other employee of the Census Office, acting under the instructions of the said director, to furnish the names of the occupants of said hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, Penalty tor refusal, etc.tenement, or other building, and to give thereto free ingress and egress to any duly accredited representative of the Census Office, so as to permit of the collection of statistics for census purposes, including the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in said hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other bonding; and any owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of a hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building who shall refuse or willfully neglect to give such information or assistance under the conditions hereinbefore stated shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $500.
Sec. 24.Information from officers of religious organizations, etc. That it shall be the duty of every owner, official, agent, person in charge, or assistant to the person in charge, of any company, business, institution, establishment, religious body, or organization of any nature whatsoever, to answer completely and correctly to the best of his knowledge all questions relating to his respective company, business, institution, establishment, religious body, or other organization, or to records or statistics in his official custody, contained on any census schedule prepared by the Director of the Census under the authority of this Act, or of the Act to provide for a permanent Census Office, approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and two, or Punishment for willfully refusing, etc.of Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto ; and any person violating the provisions of this section by refusing or willfully neglecting to answer any of said questions, or by willfully giving answers that are false, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $10,000, or imprisoned for a period not exceeding one year, or both so fined and imprisoned.
Sec. 25. Use of information. That the information furnished under the provisions of the next preceding section shall be used only for the statistical purposes Publication restricted.for which it is supplied. No publication shall be made by the Census Office whereby the data furnished by any particular establishment can be identified, nor shall the Director of the Census permit anyone other than the sworn employees of the Census Office to examine the individual reports. Sec. 26.Enforcement of pen alties.
That all fines and penalties imposed by this Act may be enforced by indictment or information in any court of competent jurisdiction. Sec. 27.Contingent, etc., expenses allowed. That the Director of the Census may authorize the expenditure of necessary sums for the actual and necessary traveling expenses of the officers and employees of the Census Office, including an allowance in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 per day during their necessary absence from the Census Office, or, instead of such an allowance, their actual subsistence expenses, not to exceed $5 per 1301day; and he may authorize the incidental, miscellaneous, and contingent expenses necessary for the carrying out of this Act, as herein provided, and not otherwise, including advertising in newspapers, the purchase of manuscripts, books of reference, and periodicals, the rental of sufficient quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and the furnishing thereof, and expenditures necessary for compiling, printing, publishing, and distributing the results of the census, the purchase of necessary paper and other supplies, the purchase, rental, exchange, construction, and repair of mechanical appliances, the compensation of such permanent and temporary clerks as may be employed under the provisions of this Act and the Act establishing the permanent Census Office and Acts amendatory thereof or sup plemental thereto, and all other expenses incurred under authority conveyed in this Act.
Sec. 28. That the Director of the Census is hereby authorized Printing forms, etc.to make requisition upon the Public Printer for such printing as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, to wit: Blanks, schedules, circulara, pamphlets, envelopes, work sheets, and other Bulletins, reports, etc.items of miscellaneous printing; that is further authorized to have printed by the Public Printer, in such editions as the director may deem necessary, preliminary and other census bulletins, and final reports of the results of the several investigations authorized by this Act or by the Act to establish a permanent Census Office and Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and to publish and distribute said bulletins and reports.
Sec. 29. That all mail matter, of whatever class or weight, relating Mail matter.Free transmission.to the census and addressed to the Census Office, or to any official thereof, and indorsed “Official business, Census Office,” shall be transmitted free of postage, and by registered mail if necessary, and so marked: *Provided*, That if any person shall make use of such *Proviso*.Penalty for unlawful use of frank.indorsement to avoid the payment of postage or registry fee on his or her private letter, package, or other matter in the mail, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of $300, to be prosecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Sec. 30. That the Secretary of Commerce, whenever he may Information from other departments,etc.deem it advisable, on request of the Director of the Census, is hereby authorized to call upon any other department or office of the Government for information pertinent to the work herein provided for. Sec. 31. That there shall be in the year nineteen hundred and Agricultural and live stock census.To be taken in 1925 and every ten years thereafter.twenty-five, and once every ten years thereafter, a census of agriculture and live stock, which shall show the acreage of farm land, the acreage of the principal crops, and the number and value of domestic animals on the farms and ranges of the country.
The schedule employed in this census shall be prepared by the Director of the Census. Such census shall be taken as of the first day of January and shall relate to the preceding calendar year. The Director of the Officials authorized.Census may appoint enumerators or special agents for the purpose of this census in accordance with the provisions of the permanent census Act. Sec. 32. That the Director of the Census be, and he is hereby, Manufacturing Industries.Biennial reports of statistics of productsauthorized and directed to collect and publish, for the years nineteen hundred and twenty-one, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and for every tenth year after each of said years, statistics of the products of manufacturing industries; and the director is hereby authorized to prepare such schedules as in his judgment may be necessary.
Sec. 33. That the Director of the Census be, and he is hereby, Certified copies of returns to States, courts, etc.authorized, at his discretion, upon the written request of the governor of any State or Territory or of a court of record, to furnish such gov1302ernor or court of record with certified copies of so much of the population or agricultural returns as may be requested, upon the payment of the actual cost of making such copies and $1 additional for certification; Genealogical, etc., data.and that the Director of the Census is further authorized, in his discretion, to furnish to individuals such data from the population schedules as may be desired for genealogical or other proper purposes, upon payment of the actual cost of searching the records Special compilations, etc.and $1 for supplying a certificate; and that the Director of the Census is authorized to furnish transcripts of tables and other records and to prepare special statistical compilations for State or local officials, private concerns, or individuals upon the payment of the *Proviso*.Use restricted.actual cost of such work: *Provided, however*, That m no case shall information furnished under the authority of this Act be used to the detriment of the person or persons to whom such information relates.
Use of receipts.All moneys hereafter received by the Bureau of the Census in payment for labor and materials used in furnishing transcripts of census records or special statistical compilations from such records shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for collecting statistics. Sec. 34.Laws continued.Vol. 32, p. 51. That the Act establishing the permanent Census Office, approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, except as are herein amended, Inconsistent laws repealed.Vol. 38, p. 1.shall remain in full force.
That the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses,” approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine, and Acts amendatory thereof, and all other laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. Approved, March 3, 1919.