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 52 FIFITYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 139. 1902. eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and the amendments thereto P"f"°°°°‘ and the rules established thereunder; and persons who have served as soldiers in any war in which the United States may have been engaged, who have been honombly discharged from the service of the Lnited States, and the widows of such soldiers, shall have pref- N" ‘”°i“"“°"“'· erencc in the matter df employment; and all new appointments to the permanent clerical force in the Census Office hereby created shall be made in accordance with the requirements of the civil service Act above referred to. $‘,§{f“§,f ;‘f§{,§‘,,{°'°°· Sec. 6. That all the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen · hundred and ninety-nine, relating to the Twelfth Census, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall remain in full force and effect for the taking of the Thirteenth and subsequent censuses. s“cg;E*3gcg;¤§u°*{{;* Sec. 7. That section eight of the Act of March third, eighteen hunvm. so, p. 1016; dred and niuetymine, is hereby amended sons toreadas follows: That '“'“°"°°°‘ after the completion and return of the enumeration and of the work u n the schedules relating to the products of stigriculture and to munugfcturing and mechanical establishments provided for in section seven of this Act, the Director of the Census is hereby authorized decennially t0 collect statistics relating to special classes, including the insane, feebleauinded, deaf, dumb, and bhnd; to crime, {muperism, and benevolence, including prisoners, paupers, juvenile de imiuents, and inmates of benevolent and reformatory institutions; to socia 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 milwags; to mines, minin, quarries and minerals, and the Jxroduction an value thereof, incluiing gold in divisions of Slacer an vein, and silver mines, and the number of men employe, the average daily wage, avcm working time, and aggregate earnings in the various branches aufsforesaid divisions of the mining and quarrying industries until July Grst, nineteen hundred and four. And the Director of the Census shall prepare schedules containing such interrogatories as shall in his judgment be best adagted to elicit the information required under these subjects, with suc specifications, diyisions, and particu- Sv¤<=i•1r¤x>¤r¢¤- lurs under each head as he shall deem necessary to that end; and all reports pre red under the Provisions of this section shall be desigspe¤1n·ge¤¤L nated as " gsecial reports o the Census Office." For the purpose of securing the statistics required by this section, the I)ix·e¢·t,or of the Census mnv appoint special agents when necessary, nnd such special mica; an ents shui} receive compensation as hereinafter provided: Provided, Tim the statistics of special classes, and of crime. uperism, and benevolence specifiedin this section, shall be restricterfgo institutions containing such classes und the 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 V<¤·$0,v- 1016- section eight of said Act entitled “‘An Act to rovide for taking the ¤¤¤*¢<>fi¤·a·¤¤ri¤¤- Twelfth and subsequent census<·s": H·0vided, 'Fhat in taking the cansus of said classes the inquiries shall be confined to the following four ’ _ questions, namely : Name, age, sex, and post-ofiice address. ,§,,'i'§_§E,g{§{{,°f"'°" °‘. Sec. 8. That there shall be a collection of the statistics of the births and deaths in registration areas for the year nineteen hundred and two. and annually thereafter, the data for which shall be obtained only f1·0m and restricted to such registration records of such States and municipalities as in the discretion of the Director possess records aifording satisfactory data in necessary detail, the compensation for ‘ °'”¥‘°“‘**“"“· (She Iilmnscriptéon of which shall not exceed two cents for each birth or eat reporte . F,fg§{',f§ _§§‘},j’:Qgg,gf Sec. 9. That in the year nineteen hundred and five, and every ten years ggsgmrnder facwry thereafter, there shall be a collectnon of the stamstxcs of manufactures,