Penalty.

of any maker, brewer, or distiller of beer or other intoxicating liquors outside of said district, or other person or corporation to sell or deliver any beer or other intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday.

SEC. 2. That any person violating the provisions of this Act shall on conviction thereof in the police court on a prosecution in the name of the District of Columbia be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every offense. Approved, March 3, 1899.

March 3, 1899.

Twelfth Census.

Census Office.
Director.

CHAP. 419.—An Act To provide for taking the Twelfth and subsequent censuses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a census of the popula tion, of deaths, and of the manufacturing, mechanical, and agricultural products of the United States shall be taken in the year nineteen hun. dred, and once every ten years thereafter.

SEC. 2. That there shall be established in the Department of the Interior a Census Office, the chief officer of which shall be denominated the Director of the Census. It shall be his duty to superintend and direct the taking of the Twelfth Census of the United States, in accordance with the laws relating thereto, and to perform such other duties as may be required of him by law. The Director of the Census shall be appointed, as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and Assistant Director. shall receive an annual salary of six thousand dollars; and there shall also be an Assistant Director of the Census, to be appointed in like manner, who shall be an experienced practical statistician, and shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to establish a census bureau permanent beyond the Twelfth Census.

Proviso.

Permanent bureau not established.

Assistant to act in absence of Director.

Statisticians, clerks,

etc.

SEC. 3. That during the absence of the Director of the Census, or when the office of Director shall become vacant, the Assistant Director shall perform the duties of the Director.

SEC. 4. That there shall also be in the Census Office, to be appointed by the Director thereof in the manner hereinafter specified, five chief statisticians, who shall be persons of known and tried experience in statistical work, at an annual salary of three thousand dollars each; a chief clerk, one disbursing clerk, and one geographer, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars each; five expert chiefs of division and two stenographers, at an annual salary of two thousand dollars each; ten clerks of class four, fifteen clerks of class three, twenty clerks of class two, and such number of clerks of class one, and of clerks, copyists, computers, and skilled laborers, with salaries at the rate of not less than six hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars per aunum, to be appointed from time to time, as may be found necessary for the proper and prompt performance of the duties herein required Bond of disbursing to be undertaken. The disbursing clerk herein provided for shall, before entering upon his duties, give bond to the Secretary of the Treasury in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, which bond shall be conditioned that the said officer shall render a true and faithful account to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, quarter-yearly, of all moneys and properties which shall be received by him by virtue of his office, with sureties to be approved by the Solicitor of the Treasury. Such bond shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be by him put in suit upon any breach of the conditions thereof.

clerk.

Captain of the watch, messenger, etc.

The Director of the Census may also appoint one captain of the watch, at a salary of eight hundred and forty dollars per annum; two messengers, and such number of watchmen, assistant messengers, and laborers, at salaries of six hundred dollars each per annum; messenger boys, at salaries of four hundred dollars each per annum; and char

women, at salaries of two hundred and forty dollars each per annum, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Examinations.

Provisos.

-not applicable to

SEC. 5. That the chief clerk and the chief statisticians provided for in section four of this Act, and all other employees authorized by this Act below the Assistant Director of the Census, shall be appointed by the Director of the Census, subject to such examination as said Director may prescribe: Provided, That no examination shall be required in the case of enumerators or special agents, nor of employees below enumerators, etc. the grade of skilled laborers at six hundred dollars per annum. And provided further, That employees in existing branches of the Employees trans departmental service, whose services may be specially desired by the ice. 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.

ferred from civil serv

By whom information collected.

Scope of census.
Schedules.

-of population.

SEC. 6. That the collection of the information required by this Act shall be made, under the direction of the Director of the Census, by supervisors, enumerators, and special agents, as hereinafter provided. SEC. 7. That the Twelfth Census shall be restricted to inquiries relating to the population, to mortality, to the products of agriculture and of manufacturing and mechanical establishments. The schedules relating to the population shall 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 each dece of mortality. dent 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 agriculture shall comprehend the following of agriculture. 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 thirty-first 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 relating to the products of manufacturing facturing, etc., estaband mechanical establishments shall embrace the name and location of lishments. 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 and preceding the first of June, nineteen hundred. Whenever he shall deem it expedient, the Director of the Census may withhold the schedules tion by special agents. 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

-products of manu

Date of information collected.

Obtaining informa

Islands.

lished.

—from official records. 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 Alaska and Hawaiian returned. The Director of the Census is also authorized and directed to make suitable provisions for the enumeration of the population and products of Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, for which purpose he may employ supervisors and enumerators or special agents as he may Volumes to be pub deem necessary. 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 des ignated as and constitute the Census Reports, which said reports shall be published not later than the first day of July, nineteen hundred and two. The report upon population shall include 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 illiteracy. All terms expressing weight, measure, distance, or value shall be expressed in the terms of the English language as spoken in this country.

Collection of special statistics.

Provisos.

Publication of reports on mines, etc. Schedules of interrogatories.

SEC. S. That after the completion and return of the enumeration and of the work upon the schedules relating to the products of agriculture and to manufacturing and mechanical establishments provided for in section seven of this Act, the Director of the Census is hereby authorized to collect statistics relating to special classes, including the insane, feeble-minded, deaf, dumb, and blind; to crime, pauperism, and benev olence, including prisoners, paupers, juvenile delinquents, and inmates of benevolent and reformatory institutions; to deaths and births in registration areas; to social statistics of cities; to public indebtedness, valuation, taxation, and expenditures; to religious bodies; to electric light and power, telephone and telegraph business; to transportation by water, express business, and street railways; to mines, mining and minerals, and the production and value thereof, including gold, in divisions of placer and vein, and silver mines, and the number of men employed, the average daily wage, average working time and aggregate earnings in the various branches and aforesaid divisions of the mining industry: Provided, That the reports herein authorized relating to mines, mining, and minerals shall be published on or before July first, anno Domini nineteen hundred and three. And the Director of the Census shall prepare schedules containing such interrogatories as shall in his judgment be best adapted to elicit the information required under these subjects, with such specifications, divisions, and particu lars under each head as he shall deem necessary to that end. For the purpose of securing the statistics required by this section, the Director of the Census may appoint special agents when necessary, and such special agents shall receive compensation as hereinafter provided. The statistics of deaths and births provided for in this section shall be obtained from, and restricted to, the registration records of such States and municipalities as possess records affording satisfactory data in necessary detail, in the discretion of the Director, the compensation for the transcription of which shall not exceed two cents for each birth or death reported. The statistics of special classes, and of crime, pauperism, and benevolence specified in this section shall be restricted to institutions containing such classes: Provided, That at the time of the census enumeration the data relating to these classes may, in the discretion of the Director of the Census, be collected by the enumerators of such institutions, who shall receive compensation therefor at rates not exceeding, in per capita districts, five cents for each name enuCensus reports not merated and returned. The collection of statistics authorized by this to be delayed. section shall be made at such time or times and in such manner as will

Special agents.

Statistics of deaths and births obtained

from State records.

of crime, etc., from

institutions.

-collection of by enu

merator.

not interfere with nor delay the rapid completion of the census reports provided for in section seven of this Act, and all reports prepared under the provisions of this section shall be designated as "Special Reports of the Census Office."

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 consent of the Senate: Provided, That the whole number of such supervisors shall not exceed three hundred: And provided further, That wherever practicable and desirable the boundaries of the supervisors' districts shall conform to the boundaries of Congressional districts.

Supervisors.

Provisos.

-limit of number.

Boundaries of dis

tricts.

Duties of supervis

ors.

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 division of his district into subdivisions most convenient 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 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 relating to their duties; to examine and scrutinize the returns of the enumerators, and in event of discrepancies 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 accounts. completed returns for his district in such time and mauner as shall be prescribed by the said Director, and to make up and forward to the Director the accounts required for 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 in favor of each enumerator. 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: Provided, That if the supervisor of any district has not been appointed and qualified on the ninetieth day pre- to act. ceding the date fixed for the commencement 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 removed by the, Director of the Census, and any vacancy thus caused or otherwise occurring during the progress of the enumeration may be filled by the Director of the Census.

Supervising to be under Director, etc.

Prorisos.

Where special agent

Removal of supervisor, etc.

SEC. 11. That each supervisor of census shall, upon the completion Supervisors of his duties to the satisfaction of the Director of the Census, receive pensation, etc. 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 serv ices rendered and expenses incurred by him, except that in serious emergencies arising during the progress of the enumeration in his district, or in connection with the reenumeration of any subdivision, he

com.

may, in the discretion of the Director of the Census, be allowed actual and necessary traveling expenses and an allowance in lieu of subsistence not exceeding three dollars 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 -minimum payment. paid less than the sum of one thousand dollars. 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 commencement of the enumeration.

Proviso.

Duties of enumer ators.

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 seven 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 individual living out of a family, to obtain each and every item of information and all particulars required by this Act as of date June first 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 with 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 person or persons living nearest to such place of abode; and it shall be the duty of each enumerator to forward the original schedules, duly certified, 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 enumerator 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 distinguish and separate, upon the population schedules, the inhabitants of all or any part of such borough, village, town, or city, as may be embraced in the subdivision assigned to such enumerCommission of enu- ator, 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.

merator.

Subdivision; limit,

etc.

Proviso. Institutions.

Removal of enumer

ator.

tion.

SEC. 13. That the subdivision assigned to any enumerator shall not exceed four thousand inhabitants as near as may be, according to esti mates based on the preceding census or other reliable information, and the boundaries of all subdivisions shall be clearly described by civil divisions, rivers, roads, public surveys, or other easily distinguished lines: Provided, That enumerators may be assigned for the special enumeration of institutions, when desirable, without reference to the number of inmates.

SEC. 14. That any supervisor of census may, with the approval of the Director of the Census, remove any enumerator in his district and Amendment of un- fill the vacancy thus caused or otherwise occurring. Whenever it satisfactory enumera- shall appear that any portion of the enumeration and census provided for in this Act has been negligently or improperly taken, and is by reason thereof incomplete or erroneous, the Director of the Census may cause such incomplete and unsatisfactory enumeration and census to be amended or made anew under such methods as may, in his discretion, be practicable.