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 1016 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Srzss. Ill. Ch. 419. 1899. -f¤>¤=<>¤i¤i¤* *°°°¤‘d¤· 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 A1•¤kn¤dH¤v•¤¤¤ returned. The Director of the Census is also authorized and directed m"'°"‘ to make suitable provisions for the enumeration of the population and products of Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, for which purpose he may employ supervi ors and enumerators or special agents as he may V·>l¤m•¤w¥»•r¤1»- deem necessary. The only volumes that shall be prepared and pubmm lished 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 iirst 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 person 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. . contests or spear 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 author- _ ized to collect statistics relating to special classes, including the insane, feeble-minded, deat, dumb, and blind; to crime, pauperism, and benevolence, including prisoners, paupers, juvenile delinquents, and inmates of benevolent and retbrmatory institution ; 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 atbresaid divisions of the mining Proviaoa. industry: Provided, That the reports herein authorized relating to P,1;,‘{“§f§,§§f,‘Q,_Z{,_"` mines, mining, and minerals shall be published on or before July first, Scgeqnles vf imr- 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- Special ¤s¤¤¤¤· 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 smimcs or deaths special agents shall receive compensation as hereinafter provided. The 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 T¤:h¤rg:¤•;.¤¤¤·. f¤·<»¤¤ death reported. The statistics of special classes, and of crime, pau- _“’ " "' °‘ perism, and benevolence specified in this section shall be restricted to -¤·>11~cn·>¤ of bywu- institutions containing such classes: Provided, That at the time of the '“°”““"‘ census enumeration the data relating to these classes may, in the dis— cretion 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 enuh•{;¤3:;;:J¤m Mt merated and returned. The collection of statistics authorized by this ` section shall be made at such time or times and in such manner as will
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