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 474 ronrrrirrn couennss. suss. rn. cu. 195. 1879. tend and direct the taking of the Tenth 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. Superintendent. Sec. 3. The Superintendent of Census shall be appointed by·the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and he shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of Employees. the Interior may appoint a chief clerk ol' the Census Office, six clerks of class four, ten clerks of class three, nfteen clerks of class two, with such number of clerks of class one, and of copyists and computers at salaries of not less than seven hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars, as may be found necessary for the proper and prompt compilation and publication of the results of the enumeration of the census herein provided to be taken. And upon such compilation and publication of said census, said office of Superintendent shall cease, and the period of service of said clerks shall end. Supervisors. Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Interior shall, on or before the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty, designate the number, whether one or more, of supervisors of census, to be appointed within each State or Territory, who shall be residents of the State or Territory. The supervisors shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The total number of such Oath of since. supervisors shall not exceed one hundred and fifty. The Superintendent and the supervisors shall, before entering upon the duties of their offices, respectively, take and subscribe the following oath or aihrmation: I, —-— -—-— (Superintendent or supervisor as the case may be), do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and perform and discharge the duties of the office of (Superintendent or supervisor, as the case may be), according to law, honestly and correctly, to the best of my ability; which oaths shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior. Duties of super- Sec. 5. Each supervisor of census shall be charged with the perform- Vi¤<>1'¤· ance, within his own district, of the following duties: To propose to the Superintendent of Census the apportionment of his district into subdivisions most convenient for the purpose of enumeration; To designate to the Superintendent of Census suitable persons, and, with the consent of said Superintendent, to employ such persons as enumerators within his district, one for each subdivision, and resident therein, who shall be selected solely with reference to their fitness, and without reference to their political or party affiliations, according to the apportionment approved by the Superintendent of Census; To transmit to enumerators the printed forms and schedules issued from the Census Office, in quantities suited to the requirements of each subdivision; To communicate to enumerat ors the necessary instructions and directions relating to their duties, and to the methods of conducting the census, and to advise with and counsel enumerators in person and by letter, as freely and fully as may be required to secure the purposes of this act; and under the direction of the Superintendent of Census, and to facilitate the taking of the census with as little delay as possible, he may cause to be distributed by the enumerators, prior to the taking of the enumeration, schedules to be nlled up by householders and others; To provide for the early and safe transmission to his office of the returns of enumerators, embracing all the schedules lilled by them in the course of enumeration, and for the due receipt and custody of such returns pending their transmission to the Census Office; To examine and scrutinize the returns of enumerators, in order to ascertain whether the work has been performed in all respects in compliance with the provisions of law, and whether any town or village or integral portion of the district has been omitted from enumeration; To forward to the Superintendent of Census the completed returns of his district in such time and manner as shall be prescribed by the said Superintendent, and in the event of discrepancies or deficiencies appearing in the returns from his district, to use all diligence in causing the same to be corrected