may be employ mitted to them, and no appointments of special agents shall be made for clerical work: And provided further, That the Director of the Census is hereby authorized in his discretion to employ the clerical force of the Census Office Clerical force for such field work as may be required to carry out the ed for field work. provisions of sections seven, eight, and nine, in lieu of employing special agents for that purpose; and such employees when so employed shall be allowed, in addition to their regular compensation, actual necessary traveling expenses and an allowance in lieu of subsistence not exceed ing three dollars per day during their necessary absence from the Census Office. All employees of the Census Office shall be citizens of the United States." Expenses. Employees. Citizenship. Printing office abolished. Sec. 11. Printing and The printing office established in the Census Office is hereby abolished to take effect July first, nineteen hundred and two, and the outfit and equipment therein shall be turned over to the Public Printer; and the Director of the Census is hereby authorized and directed to have printed, published, and distributed, from time to time, bulletins publishing. and reports of the preliminary and other results of the various investigations authorized by law; and all of said printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer at the Government Printing Office. Distributed. Sec. 12. The supplemental acts amendatory of the Act of March Acts repealed, third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, approved February first, nineteen hundred, May tenth, nineteen hundred, June second, nineteen hundred, February twentythird, nineteen hundred and one, are hereby repealed; and all provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hun- Provisions indred and ninety-nine, inconsistent with this Act are hereby pealed. repealed. consistent tistics. re (32 Stat., 747.) The Director of the Census be, and hereby is, authorized Irrigation staand directed, upon the completion of the volume of agri-June 30, 1902. cultural statistics, the year eighteen hundred and ninetynine, to complete and bring up to date of the crop year of nineteen hundred and two, the statistics relating to irrigation, the area of land reclaimed, the cost and value of the works, and such other information as can be obtained bearing upon the present condition of irrigation. The unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, for salaries and necessary expenses for taking and compiling results of the Twelfth Census is hereby reappropriated and made available for continuing the work of taking the Twelfth Census, and for all expenses, including cost of all printing, arising under and authorized by the Act to provide for a permanent Census Office, approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and two, including the purchase of necessary law books, books of reference and periodicals, and manuscripts: Provided, Appropriation June 25, 1902. continued. (32 Stat., 456.) That estimates in detail for the expenses of the perma- Detailed estinent Census Office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred mates. Repeal of amendatory acts construed. July 1, 1902. when. and four and annually thereafter shall be submitted in the regular Book of Estimates. The repeal of the supplementary acts amendatory of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, (32 Stat., 571.) enumerated in section twelve of the Act of March sixth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act to provide for a permanent Census Office," shall not be construed to Effective, take effect until the termination of the temporary organization of the office as provided in the last-named Act: And provided further, That the disbursing clerk of the Census Office may pay out of the census fund on or after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, to employees Employees not of the office who are not to be reappointed on July first, reappointed al- for whatever leave of absence the Director of the Census may, in his discretion, allow them, not to exceed, however, the annual leave authorized by existing law; such payment to be in addition to the salary due them for services rendered to that date. lowed pay for leave. Philippine cen- Whenever the existing insurrection in the Philippine Islands shall have ceased and a condition of general and complete peace shall have been established therein and the Sec. 6 (32 Stat., fact shall be certified to the President by the Philippine 693). Commission, the President, upon being satisfied thereof, shall order a census of the Philippine Islands to be taken by said Philippine Commission; such census in its inquiries relating to the population shall take and make so far as practicable full report for all the inhabitants, of name, age, sex, race, or tribe, whether native or foreign born, literacy in Spanish, native dialect or language, or in English, school attendance, ownership of homes, industrial and social statistics, and such other information separately for each island, each province, and municipality, or other civil division, as the President and said Commission may deem President may necessary: Provided, That the President may, upon the employ Bureau request of said Commission, in his discretion, employ the service of the Census Bureau in compiling and promulgating the statistical information above provided for, and may commit to such Bureau any part or portion of such labor as to him may seem wise. of the Census. Census to com prehend. Mar. 3, 1899. "A census of the population, of deaths, and of the manufacturing, mechanical, and agricultural products of the (30 Stat., 1014.) United States shall be taken in the year nineteen hundred, and once every ten years thereafter. See. 1. Transferred employees. Sec. 5. And provided further, That employees in existing branches of the departmental service, whose services may be specially desired by the Director of the Census, not exceeding six in all, may be transferred without examination, and at the end of such service the employees so transferred shall be eligible to appointment in any department without additional examination, when vacancies exist. a See sec. 6, page 83; sec. 12, page 85. how collected. Sec. 6. Population Sec. 7. schedules. The collection of the information required by this Act Information, shall be made, under the direction of the Director of the Census, by supervisors, enumerators, and special agents, as hereinafter provided. The Twelfth Census shall be restricted to inquiries Inquiries comprehended in relating to the population, to mortality, to the products (Twelfth) Census of agriculture and of manufacturing and mechanical estab- Proper lishments. The schedules relating to the population shall schedules. comprehend for each inhabitant the name, age, color, sex, conjugal condition, place of birth, and place of birth of parents, whether alien or naturalized, number of years in the United States, occupation, months unemployed, literacy, school attendance, and ownership of farms and homes; and the Director of the Census may use his discretion as to the construction and form and number of inquiries necessary to secure information under the topics aforesaid. The mortality schedules shall comprehend for Mortality each decedent the name, sex, color, age, conjugal condition, place of birth, and birthplace of parents, occupation, cause and date of death, and, if born within the census year, the date of birth. The form and arrangement of the schedule and the specific questions necessary to secure the information required shall be in the discretion of the Director. The schedules relating to agricul- schedules. ture shall comprehend the following topics: Name of occupant of each farm, color of occupant, tenure, acreage, value of farm and improvements, acreage of different products, quantity and value of products, and number and value of live stock. All questions as to quantity and value of crops shall relate to the year ending December thirtyfirst next preceding the enumeration. The specific form and division of inquiries necessary to secure information under the foregoing topics shall be in the discretion of the Director of the Census. The schedules of inquiries relat- Manufacturing ing to the products of manufacturing and mechanical schedules. establishments shall embrace the name and location of each establishment; character of organization, whether individual, cooperative, or other form; date of commencement of operations; character of business or kind of goods manufactured; amount of capital invested; number of proprietors, firm members, copartners, or officers, and the amount of their salaries; number of employees, and the amount of their wages; quantity and cost of materials used in manufactures; amount of miscellaneous expenses; quantity and value of products; time in operation during the census year; character and quantity of power used, and character and number of machines employed. The form and subdivision of inquiries necessary to secure the information under the foregoing topics relating to manufacturing and mechanical industries shall be in the discretion of the Director of the Census. The information collected shall be of and for the fiscal year of such corporations or establishments having its termination nearest to Agricultural Schedules with- and preceding the first of June, nineteen hundred. drawn from enu merators. Manufactures. Mortality. Hawaiian Is Whenever he shall deem it expedient, the Director of the Census may withhold the schedules for said manufacturing and mechanical statistics from the enumerators of the several subdivisions in any or all cases, and may charge the collection of these statistics upon special agents, to be employed without respect to locality. In cities or states where an official registration of deaths is maintained the Director of the Census may, in his discretion, withhold the mortality schedule from the several enumerators within such cities or states, and may obtain the information. required by this Act through official records, paying therefor such sum of money as may be found necessary, not exceeding two cents for each death thus returned. The Alaska and Director of the Census is also authorized and directed to lands. make suitable provisions for the enumeration of the population and products of Alaska and the Hawaiian Íslands, for which purpose he may employ supervisors and enumerators or special agents as he may deem necesCensus reports sary. The only volumes that shall be prepared and published in connection with the Twelfth Census, except the Special Reports hereinafter provided for, shall relate to population, mortality and vital statistics, the products of agriculture, and of manufacturing and mechanical establishments, as above mentioned, and shall be designated as and constitute the Census Reports, which said reports shall be published not later than the first day of July, nineteen Tables includ-hundred and two. The report upon population shall include ed in population a series of separate tables for each state, giving by counties the number of male persons below and above the age of twenty-one years, their color, whether native or foreign born, whether naturalized or not, and their literacy or English terms illiteracy. All terms expressing weight, measure, distance, or value shall be expressed in the terms of the English language as spoken in this country. defined. report. to be used. Supervisors. 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 consent of the Senate: Provided, Number limit- That the whole number of such supervisors shall not ed to 300. Districts. Supervisor's duties. Sec. 10. Enumeration districts. exceed three hundred: And provided further, That whereever practicable and desirable the boundaries of the supervisors' districts shall conform to the boundaries of Congressional districts. 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 division of his district into subdivisions most convenient for the purpose of the enumeration, which Employment 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 of enumerators. Director, to employ such persons as enumerators within his district, one or more for each subdivision and resident therein; 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 Instruct enurelating to their duties; to examine and scrutinize the Examine returns of the enumerators, and in event of discrepancies Correct defects or deficiencies appearing in the returns for his district, to in returns. 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 merators. turns. re certify enumera Performed in as shall be prescribed by the said Director, and to make Make up and up and forward to the Director the accounts required for tors' accounts. ascertaining the amount of compensation due to each enumerator in his district, which accounts shall be duly sworn to by the enumerator, 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 accepted by the said Director, and payment shall be made thereon by draft. The duties imposed upon accordance with in favor of each enumerator. the supervisor by this Act shall be performed, in any and instructions. all particulars, in accordance with the instructions and directions of the Director of the Census: Provided, That Failure in if the supervisor of any district has not been appointed qualification of and qualified on the ninetieth day preceding the date fixed supervisor. for the commencement of the enumeration, the Director Special agent of the Census may appoint a special agent, who shall be a may be appointresident of the same district, to perform the work of sub-ed to subdivide division into enumeration districts: And provided, That Removal of suany supervisor who may abandon, neglect, or improperly pervisor for negperform the duties required of him by this Act may be lector for negremoved by the Director of the Census, and any vacancy Vacancies. thus caused or otherwise occurring during the progress of the enumeration may be filled by the Director of the Census. district. of supervisors. Each supervisor of census shall, upon the completion Compensation of his duties to the satisfaction of the Director of the Census, receive the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and in addition thereto, in thickly settled districts, one dollar for each thousand or majority fraction of a thousand of the population enumerated in such district, and in sparsely settled districts one dollar and forty cents for each thousand or majority fraction of a thousand of the population enumerated in such district; such sums to be in full compensation for all services rendered and expenses incurred by him, except that in serious emergencies arising during the progress of the enumeration in his dis |