Chapter XLIII. supplementary to the Act entitled “An Act providing for the taking of the seventh and subsequent Censuses of the United States, and to fix the Number of the Members of the House of Representatives, and to provide for their future Apportionment among the several States.”August 30, 1850.1850, ch. 11.
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Chap. XLIII.— An Act supplementary to the Act entitled “An Act providing for the taking of the seventh and subsequent Censuses of the United States, and to fix the Number of the Members of the House of Representatives, and to provide for their future Apportionment among the several States.”August 30, 1850.1850, ch. 11. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary Compensation for taking the census in California, etc., increased. of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to increase the compensation allowed the marshals or agents, and their assistants, for taking the seventh census in California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico, so as to secure the prompt and faithful execution of the work.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That in enumerating persons residing Persons removed from any State or Territory of United States prior to June 1, 1850, and residing in California, etc., to be enumerated. in California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico, the several assistant marshals or agents shall include those who may have removed from their residence in any State or Territory of the United States prior to the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and settled subsequent to that date in either of the said countries.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That each assistant marshal or agent shall be paid for making out and returning complete copies of Compensation for making complete copies of census returns.1850, ch. 11. the original census returns, as required in the eleventh section of the act to which this is a supplement, eight cents for each page of the two copies of the original census returns required to be furnished by the eleventh section of the act to which this is a supplement.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That in any of the districts of the United States where causes beyond the control of the marshal shall have tended to delay the taking of the census, so that the same could not be taken, and return thereof made, within the time prescribed by Extension of time granted.1850, ch. 11.Proviso. the act of twenty-third May, the Secretary of the Interior may, if he sees proper, extend the time to any day not later than the first January, eighteen hundred and fifty-one: *Provided,* That the said Secretary may extend the time for completing the census in California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico, to such time as, in his discretion, may be deemed advisable.
Approved, August 30, 1850.