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CONGRESS. (THE CENSUS.) 



" SEC. 9. That the director of the census shall, 

 at least six months prior to the date fixed for 

 commencing the enumeration at the twelfth and 

 each succeeding decennial census, designate the 

 number, whether one or more, of supervisors of 

 census to be appointed within each State and 

 Territory, the District of Columbia, Alaska, and 

 the Hawaiian Islands, who shall be appointed by 

 the President, by and with the advice and con- 

 sent of the Senate: Provided, That the whole 

 number of such supervisors shall not exceed 300: 

 And pror tiled further. That wherever practicable 

 and desirable the boundaries of the supervisors' 

 districts shall conform to the boundaries of con- 

 gressional districts. 



" SEC. 10. That each supervisor of census shall 

 be charged with the performance, within his own 

 district/of the following duties: To consult with 

 the director of the census in regard to the di- 

 vision of his district into subdivisions most con- 

 venient for the purpose of the enumeration, which 

 subdivisions shall be declared and the boundaries 

 thereof fixed by the director of the census; to 

 designate to the director suitable persons, and, 

 with the consent of said director, to employ such 

 persons as enumerators within his district, one 

 or more for each subdivision and resident there- 

 in: but in case it shall occur in any enumeration 

 district that no person qualified to perform and 

 willing to undertake the duties of enumerator 

 resides in that subdivision the supervisor may 

 employ any fit person to be the enumerator of 

 that subdivision; to communicate to enumerators 

 the necessary instructions and directions relating 

 to their duties; to examine and scrutinize the re- 

 turns of the enumerators, and in event of dis- 

 crepancies or deficiencies appearing in the returns 

 for his district, to use all diligence in causing the 

 same to be corrected and supplied; to forward to 

 the director of the census the completed returns 

 for his district in such time and manner as shall 

 be prescribed by the said director, and to make 

 up and forward to the director the accounts re- 

 quired for ascertaining the amount of compensa- 

 tion due to each enumerator in his district, which 

 accounts shall be duly sworn to by the enumera- 

 tor, and the same shall be certified as true and 

 correct, if so found, by the supervisor, and said 

 accounts so sworn to and certified shall be ac- 

 cepted by the said director, and payment shall be 

 made thereon by draft in favor of each enumer- 

 ator. The duties imposed upon the supervisor 

 by this act shall be performed, in any and all 

 particulars, in accordance with the instructions 

 and directions of the director of the census : Pro- 

 ridcd, That if the supervisor of any district has 

 not been appointed and qualified on the ninetieth 

 day preceding the date fixed for the commence- 

 ment of the enumeration, the director of the 

 census may appoint a special agent, who shall 

 be a resident of the same district, to perform the 

 work of subdivision into enumeration districts: 

 And provided, That any supervisor who may 

 abandon, neglect, or improperly perform the 

 duties required of him by this act may be re- 

 moved by the director of the census, and any 

 vacancy thus caused or otherwise occurring dur- 

 ing the progress of the enumeration may be filled 

 by the director of the census. 



" SEC. 11. That each supervisor of census shall, 

 upon the completion of his duties to the satis- 

 faction of the director of the census, receive the 

 sum of $125, and in addition thereto, in thickly 

 settled districts, $1 for each thousand or major- 

 ity fraction of a thousand of the population enu- 

 merated in such district, and in sparsely settled 

 districts $1.40 for each thousand or majority 



fraction of a thousand of the population enumer- 

 ated in such district; such sums to be in full 

 compensation for all services rendered and ex- 

 penses incurred by him, except that in serious 

 emergencies arising during the progress of the 

 enumeration in his district, or in connection with 

 the re-enumeration of any subdivision, he may, 

 in the discretion of the director of the census, 

 be allowed actual and necessary traveling ex- 

 penses and an allowance in lieu of subsistence 

 not exceeding $3^ per day during his necessary 

 absence from his usual place of residence, and 

 that an appropriate allowance for clerk hire may 

 be made when deemed necessary by the director 

 of the census: Provided, That in the aggregate 

 no supervisor shall be paid less than the sum of 

 $1,000. The designation of the compensation per 

 ^thousand, as provided in this section, shall be 

 'made by the director of the census at least one 

 month in advance of the date fixed for the com- 

 mencement of the enumeration. 



" SEC. 12. That each enumerator shall be 

 charged with the collection, in his subdivision, of 

 facts and statistics required by the population 

 schedule, and such other schedules as the director 

 of the census may determine shall be used by him 

 in connection with the census, as provided in 

 section 7 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 credible and worthy of trust, or of such in- 

 dividual living out of a family, to obtain each 

 and every item of information and all particulars 

 required by this act as of date June 1 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 w r ith 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 per- 

 son or persons living nearest to such place of 

 abode; and it shall be the duty of each enumera- 

 tor to forward the original schedules, duly certi- 

 fied, to the supervisor of census of his district 

 as his returns under the provisions of this act; 

 and in the event of discrepancies or deficiencies 

 being discovered in his said returns he shall use 

 all diligence in correcting or supplying the same. 

 In case the subdivision assigned to any enumer- 

 ator 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, or 

 either, it shall be the duty of the enumerator of 

 such subdivision to clearly and plainly distin- 

 guish and separate, upon the population sched- 

 ules, the inhabitants of all or any part of such 

 borough, village, town, or city, as may be em- 

 braced in the subdivision assigned to such enu- 

 merator, from the inhabitants of the territory 

 not included therein. No enumerator shall be 

 deemed qualified to enter upon his duties until 

 he has received from the supervisor of census of 

 the district to which he belongs a commission, 

 under his hand, authorizing him to perform the 

 duties of an enumerator, and setting forth the 

 boundaries of the subdivision within which such 

 duties are to be performed by him. 



" SEC. 13. That the subdivision assigned to any 

 enumerator shall not exceed 4,000 inhabitants as 

 near as may be, according to estimates based on 

 the preceding census or other reliable informa- 



