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 766 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 319. 1889. valuation and public indebtedness, recorded indebtedness, and to statistics relating to railroad corporations, incorporated express, telegraph and insurance companies, a list of the names, organizations, and length of service of surviving soldiers, sailors and marines, and the widows of soldiers, sailors an marines. €<2“*?¤¤*<>¤ of SPWW Sec. 18. That each enumerator in his subdivision shall be charged °°mS°°°' with the collection of the facts and statistics required by each and all the several schedules, with the following exceptions, t0_ w1t_: In Deaths. cities or States where an oiiiicial registration of deaths is maintained, the Superintendent of Census, may in his discretion, withholdthe mortality schedule from the several enumerators within such cities or States, and may obtain the statistics required by this act through oihcial records, aying therefor such sum as may be found necessary, not exceeding the amount which is by this act authorized to be paid to enumerators for a similar service, namely two cents for each M¤¤¤f•¤*¤¤=S· ¢*¢- death thus returned. Whenever he shall eem it expedient, the Superintendent of Census may withhold the schedules for manufacturing, mining, and social statistics from the enumerators of the several subdivisions, and may charge the collection of these statistics mmpmymem or ex- upon experts and special agents, to be employed without respect_to ¥’°“s‘ locality. And said Superintendent may employ experts and special agents to investigate and ascertain the statistics of the manufacturing, railroad, fishing, mining, cattle, and other industries of the country, and of telegraph, express, transportation, and insurance companies as he may designate and require. _Prepe.rationo£ques- And the·Su erintendent of Census shall, with the approval of the “°“’” Secretary of Cie Interior, prepare schedules containing such inter- ` rogatories as sha1l;i1rhis'judgment, be best adapted to elicit this information, with such s ecifications, divisions, and particulars under ` each head as he shall dleem necessary to that end. Such experts and ouui, em., or ex- special agents shall take the same oath as the enumerators of the we several subdivisions, and shall have equal authority with such enumerators in respect to the subjects committed to them, and they shall ray. receive compensation at rates to be nxed by the Superinten ent of pmrm. Census with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: Pr01—z`¤g;•g¤¤¤m¤¤¤ of Sec. 19. That the enumeration required by this act shall commence mmm °°’ on the first Monday of June, eighteen hundred and ninety, and be taken as of that date, and each enumerator shall prosecute the canvass of his subdivision from that date forward on each week-dav without intermission, except for sickness or other ur ent cause; and any unnecessary cessation of his work shall be suffllzient ground for his removal and the appointment of another person in his place ; and any person so appointed shall take the oath required of enumerators, and shall receive compensation at the same rates. And it shall be the duty of each enumerator to complete the enumeration of his district, www? 1%- and to (prepare the returns hereinbefore required to be made, and to Y. ’ ‘ forwar the same to the supervisor of his district on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety, and in any city having over ten thousand inhabitants under the census of eighteen hundred and eighty, the enumeration of population shall be taken within two weeks from the first Monday of June; and any delay beyond the dates_ above respectively, on the part of any enumerator, shall be sufficient cause for withholding the compensation to which he would be entitled by compliance with the provisions of this act. until roof satisfactory to the Superintendent of Census shall be furnishecljthat such delay was by reason of causes beyond the control of such enu- ` merator. umn or cos:. SEQ. 20. That the sum of six million four hundred thousand dollars is hereby iixed and limited as the maximum cost of the census herein provided for, exclusive of printing, engraving, and binding,