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enumerator who will call for it, a record of the crops and products 

 of the farm cultivated for 1899. Otherwise the statistics of that 

 farm may be lost. 



No iuformation gathered by census officials will be disclosed to 

 private individuals, or assessors, or tax-collectors, or rivals in 

 business at any stage of the work. It will be used and published 

 impersonally, never in connection with the name of the person or 

 corporation to whom it relates, or by whom it was given. The 

 law on this subject is as follows : — 



"Section 21. That any supervisor, supervisor's clerk, enumerator, 

 interpreter, special agent or other employe, who shall, without the author- 

 ity of the Director of the Census, communicate to any person not 

 authorized to receive the same, any information gained by him in the 

 performance of his duties, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars." 



The law reaches citizens as well as officers, requiring them to 

 give to the enumerators correct and full information as set forth 

 in the Census Act, and provides fine and imprisonment for " wil- 

 fully neglecting or refusing " to do so. 



Those wishing to make suggestions or ask for information con- 

 cerning the pending census, should address the Director of the 

 Census, Washington, D.C. Their communications will be welcome 

 and will receive prompt attention. 



