Chapter 137.
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CHAP. 137.— Joint Resolution To authorize payment to members of the Army and Navy who were employed as enumerators during the Fourteenth Decennial Census to take the census of persons in the Army and Navy. March 3, 1921. [[S. J. Res. 251](/us/bill/66/sjres/251).] [[Pub. Res., No. 65](/us/bill/66/pubres/65).] Whereas it appears that in making an enumeration of persons in the Preamble.Fourteenth Census.Army and Navy for the Fourteenth Decennial Census, in the judgment of the Director of the Census it was impracticable to do otherwise than, with the official sanction of the Army and Navy, employ officers and enlisted men of the Army and Navy as enumerators, and that such officers and enlisted men were duly employed to make the enumeration and were promised 1361compensation at the rate of 3 cents for each person enumerated; and Whereas the vouchers for such compensation have been disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on the ground that payment thereof was unwarranted; and Whereas it further appears that in the judgment of the Director of the Census the census of the military and naval forces was taken more accurately by reason of the assurance of compensation to such enumerators than if it had been taken under orders of the War Department:
Therefore be it *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled,* That the appointment of Enumerators in Army and Navy to be paid for services.such enumerators be, and the same is hereby, validated and that the moneys appropriated for the Fourteenth Decennial Census are hereby made available for the payment of their services as such enumerators. Approved, March 3, 1921.