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 68 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 740-AUG. 31, 1954

§ 24. Special agents, supervisors, supervisors' clerks, enumerators, and interpreters; compensation; details (a) The Secretary may appoint special agents, supervisors, supervisors' clerks, enumerators, and interpreters on a temporary basis to carry out the provisions of this title. Such appointments shall be made without regard to the Civil Service laws or the Classification Act of 1949. The enlisted men and officers of the armed services may be appointed and compensated for the enumeration of personnel of the armed forces. (b) The special agents, supervisors, supervisors' clerks, enumerators, and interpreters appointed under this section shall receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary; and the compensation on a piece-price basis may be fixed without limitation as to the amount earned per diem. (c) The Secretary may authorize the expenditure of necessary slims for travel expenses for attendance at training courses held by the Department of Commerce with respect to any of the work provided for in this title. § 25. Duties of supervisors, enumerators, and other employees (a) Each supervisor shall perform the duties imposed upon him by the Secretary in the enforcement of chapter 5 of this title in accordance with the Secretary's orders and instructions. (b) Each enumerator or other employee detailed to serve as enumerator shall be charged with the collection in his subdivision of the facts and statistics called for on such schedules as the Secretary determines shall be used by him in connection with any census or survey provided for by chapter 5 of this title. (c) Each enumerator shall visit personally each dwelling house in his subdivision, and each family therein, and each individual living out of a family in any place of abode, and by inquiry made of the head of each family, or of the member thereof deemed most competent and trustworthy, or of such individual living out of a family, shall obtain every item of information and all particulars required for any census or survey provided for in chapter 5 of this title. In case no person is found at the usual place of abode of such family, or individual living out of a family, competent to answer the inquiries, the census employee may obtain the required information as nearly as may be practicable from the families or persons living nearest to such place of abode who may be competent to answer such inquiries.

CHAPTER 3—COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF STATISTICS SUBCHAPTER I—COTTON Sec. 41. Collection and publication. 42. Contents of reports; number of bales of linter; distribution; publication by Department of Agriculture. 43. Records and reports of cotton ginners. 44. Foreign cotton statistics. 45. Simultaneous publication of cotton reports.

SUBCHAPTER II—OILSEEDS, NUTS, AND K E R N E L S; FATS, OILS, A N D GREASES 61. Collection and publication. 62. Additional statistics. 63. Duplicate collection of statistics prohibited; access to available statistics.

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