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 4 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. l. Ch. 7. 1900. entitled "An Act to provide for taking the Twelfth and subsequent censuses," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, Additional employ- said Director of the Census shall have power, and is hereby authorized, °°S °“th°m°d‘ to appoint and employ, as the necessity therefor may arise, one ur— chasing agent, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; _ two chiefs of division, at an annual salary of two thousand dollars each; five clerks of class four; six clerks of class three, and eight clerks of class two; to employ such number of special agents, not exceeding thirty-five in all, as may be proper and necessary for the purpose of gathering any information or data in relation to or required by the agricultural schedules; to employ special agents to assist the supervisors in large cities whenever he may deem it proper, in connection with the work of preparation for, or during the progress of, the enumeration, or in connection with the reenumeration of any district, or a part thereof; to employ as special agents such of the supervisors of census as he may deem wise and proper, at the compensation provided V<>l· 30·l>-1°l9· for in section seventeen of said Act, the intent and purpose being that the supervisors of census may be appointed special agents at the time they are acting as supervisors, and receive the compensation to which tigglggggggségiggg they are entitled as supervisors, and also as special agents; and the tuba. ’ ’ Director of the Census is authorized and directed to collect statistics relating to all of the deaf, dumb, and blind, notwithstanding the restrictions and limitations contained in section eight of said Act entitled "An Actto provide for takingtheTwelfth and subsequentcensuses:" _;;g>;§%;,,t€_, Pro/vided, That in taking the census of said classes the inquiries shall ` be confined to the following four questions, namely: Name, age, sex, gg}; "‘°·· of S“P‘"‘ and post—office address; and the Director of the Census is hereby specifically authorized to pay such supervisors for their services as special agents the compensation which he may authorize out of any general or special appropriation which may be made for the payment of special agents, and to allow any supervisor of census, in addition to the contingencies provided for in section eleven of said Act, actual and necessary traveling expenses and an allowance in lieu of subsistencenot exceeding three dollars per day during his necessary absence from his usual place of residence in connection with the work of preparation for _ ——o¤¤¤¤ord¤ors. the enumeration; to allow, in fixing the compensation of enumerators, et§¤{$%S§dg;db¤¤kS· not more than five cents for each death reported; to purchase any and "all law books, books of reference, or periodicals, which may be required from time to time in the Census Office, and . ay for the same out of the sum appropriated by the said Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, or any other appropriation hereafter made for the census work, whether there be a specihc authorization for such pur- ··ll¤¤l*· chases or not: Provided, That the aggregate amount of such purchases shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars. Stggflstlcs of liv e Sec. 2. That in addition to the other statistics required to be collected by section seven of said Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, there shall be collected on the agricultural schedules information concerning the number and kinds of live stock not on farms; —p&yof enummms. and the Director of the Census shall have power to pay the enumerators for collecting such information, in his discretion, not less than five nor more than ten cents for each barn or inclosure visited in which _S-’;'gé§;Q·agem may such live stock may be found: Provided, however, That the Director of be appointed. the Census may appoint special agents to gather the information required by this section whenever he may deem it proper. 0,l;§1>;)¤gg};O;¤€;;idg,;; Sec. 3. That in the event of the death of any supervisor or enumerahis services. " for after his appointment and entrance on his duties, the Director of the Census be, and he is, authorized to pay to his widow, if there be one, and if not to his legal re resentative such sum as may be just and fair ger iihe services rqnderecl) by said supervisor or enumerator prior to his eat . Approved, February 1, 1900.