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CONGRESS. (EXPOSITIONS.) 



whoever shall willfully fail or refuse to render 

 such true account shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined 

 in a sum not exceeding ,$100. And every presi- 

 dent, treasurer, secretary, director, agent, or other 

 officer of every corporation, and every establish- 

 ment of productive industry, whether conducted 

 as a corporate body, limited liability company, 

 or by private individuals, from which answers to 

 any of the schedules, inquiries, or statistical in- 

 terrogatories provided for by this act are herein 

 required, who shall, if thereto requested by the 

 director, supervisor, enumerator, or special agent, 

 willfully neglect or refuse to give true and com- 

 plete answers to any inquiries authorized by this 

 act, or shall willfully give false information, shall 

 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 thereof 'shall be fined not exceeding $10,000, to 

 which may be added imprisonment for a period 

 not exceeding one year. 



" SEC. 23. That all fines and penalties imposed 

 by this act may be enforced by indictment or 

 information in any court of competent jurisdic- 

 tion. 



" SEC. 24. That the director of the census may 

 authorize the expenditure of necessary sums for 

 the traveling expenses of the officers and em- 

 ployees of the Census Office and the incidental 

 expenses essential to the carrying out of this 

 act, as herein provided for, and not otherwise, 

 including the rental of sufficient quarters in the 

 District of Columbia and the furnishing thereof 

 and the maintenance of the printing outfit in the 

 Census Office. 



" SEC. 25. That the director of the census is 

 hereby authorized to print and bind in the Census 

 Office such blanks, circulars, envelopes, and other 

 items as may be necessary; and to print, pub- 

 lish, and distribute from time to time bulletins 

 and reports of the preliminary and other results 

 of the various investigations required by this act. 



" SEC. 26. That in case the director of the cen- 

 sus deems it expedient he may contract for the 

 use of electrical or mechanical devices for tabu- 

 lating purposes: Provided, That in such case due 

 notice shall be given to the public, and no system 

 of tabulation shall be adopted until after a prac- 

 tical test of its merits in competition with other 

 systems which may be offered. 



" SEC. 27. That all mail matter, of whatever 

 class, relative to the census and addressed to the 

 Census Office, the director of the census, assist- 

 ant director, chief clerk, supervisors, enumerators, 

 or special agents, and indorsed * Official business, 

 Department of the Interior, 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 indorse- 

 ment 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 compe- 

 tent jurisdiction. 



"SEC. 28. That the Secretary of the Interior, 

 on request of the director of the census, is here- 

 by authorized to call upon any other department 

 or office of the Government for information perti- 

 nent to the work herein provided for. 



" SEC. 29. That such records, books, and files as 

 relate to preceding censuses, and the printing- 

 office outfit used in the eleventh census, and such 

 furniture and property of whatever nature used 

 at the eleventh census as may be necessary in 

 conducting the work of the Census Office and can 

 be spared from present uses, shall be transferred 

 to the custody and control of the Census Office 



created by this act. The said furniture and prop- 

 erty shall be inventoried by the proper officers 

 of the Department of the Interior when such 

 transfer is made, and a copy of the inventory filed 

 and preserved in the office of the Secretary of the 

 Interior and of the director of the census. 



" SEC. 30. That upon the request of the gov- 

 ernor of any State or Territory, or the chief of- 

 ficer of any municipal government, the director 

 of the census shall furnish such governor or 

 municipal officer with a copy of so much of the 

 population returns as will show the names, with 

 the age, sex, color, or race, and birthplace only 

 of all persons enumerated within the territory in 

 the jurisdiction of such government, upon pay- 

 ment of the actual cost of making such copies; 

 and the amounts so received shall be covered into 

 the Treasury of the United States, to be placed 

 to> the credit of, and in addition to, the appro- 

 priations made for taking the census. 



" SEC. 31. That the director of the census shall 

 provide the Census Office with a seal containing 

 such device as he may select, and he shall file 

 a description of such seal with an impression 

 thereof in the office of the Secretary of State. 

 Such seal shall remain in the custory of the di- 

 rector of the census, and shall be affixed to all 

 certificates and attestations that may be required 

 from the Census Office. 



" SEC. 32. That for the organization and equip- 

 ment of the Census Office to perform the pre- 

 paratory work necessary to carry out the pro- 

 visions of this act the sum of $1,000,000, to be 

 available on the passage of this act, is hereby 

 appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, and to continue avail- 

 able until exhausted. Of said appropriation such 

 amount as may be considered by the director of 

 the census to be necessary for immediate pre- 

 liminary printing may be expended under the 

 direction of the public printer. And the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior shall submit to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury, on or before Oct. 1, 1899, fur- 

 ther estimates for the work herein provided for. 



"SEC. 33. That the act entitled 'An Act to 

 provide for the taking of the eleventh and sub- 

 sequent censuses,' approved March 1, 1889, and 

 all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the 

 provisions of this act are hereby repealed." 



Expositions. An act was passed by Congress, 

 and approved by the President, March 3, 1899,. 

 to encourage the holding of a pan-American ex- 

 position on the Niagara frontier, within the coun- 

 ty of Erie or Niagara, in the State of New York, 

 in the year 1901. In the House of Representa- 

 tives Mr. Alexander, of New York, said in ex- 

 planation of the measure: 



"Mr. Speaker, it is proposed by the people of 

 Buffalo and western New York to hold a pan- 

 American exposition in 1901. It is to be inter- 

 national in its character, but confined to the 

 countries of North, South, and Central America. 

 At the last session of Congress Senate concurrent 

 resolution No. 141, approved by the President on^ 

 July 8, 1898, gave encouragement to this enter-* 

 prise; and based upon that encouragement and 

 recognition by Congress the people of Buffalo and 

 of western New York took up the matter with 

 great energy. 



" They have practically secured recognition 

 from at least three countries of Central and 

 South America; they have received assurances 

 from a large number of exhibitors from Central 

 and South America that their exhibits will be 

 transferred after the close of the Paris Exposi- 

 tion to the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo; 

 they have received substantial assurances that- 



