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 430 THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. ll. 1850. HZ-- Of Assistants, their Duties, Liabilities, and Compensation. Assistant to be Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That no assistant shall be £°§mm*sS$>:,°dbY deemed qualified to enter upon his duties, until he has received from °m”sthe marshal, under his hand, such a commission as is provided for in this act, and shall take and subscribe the following oath, or atlirmation, which shall be thereon endorsed, to wit: F¤¤¤ <>{ ¤¤*l¤ I,, an assistant to the marshal of the district of °l am"°m°°' do solemnly swear (or aihrm) that I will make a true and exact enumeration of all the inhabitants within the district assigned to me, and will also faithfully collect the other statistics therein, in the manner provided for in the act for taking the seventh census, and in conformity with all lawful instructions which I may receive, and will make due and correct returns thereof, as required in said act. (Signed.) Which said oath, or aihrmation, may be administered by any judge of a court of record, or any justice of the peace empowered to administer oaths, and a copy thereof duly authenticated shall be forwarded to the marshal by such assistant before he proceeds to the business of the appointment. _Duties of as- Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That each assistant, when ‘*“°~“*S d°“°°d- duly qualified in manner aforesaid, shall perform the service required · of him, by a personal visit to each dwelling·house, and to each family, in the subdivision assigned to him, and shall ascertain, hy inquiries made of some member of each family, if any one can be found capable of giving the information, but if not, then of the agent of such family, the name of each member thereof, the age and place of birth of each, and all the other particulars specified in this act, the tables thereto subjoined, and the instructions of the Secretary of the Interior; and shall also visit personally the farms, mills, shops, mines, and other places respecting which information is required, as above specified, in his district, and shall obtain all such information from the best and most reliable sources; and when, in either case, the information is obtained and entered on the tables, as obtained, till the same is complete, then such memoranda shall be immediately read to the person or persons furnishing the facts, to correct error and supply omissions, if any shall exist. Eachassistant Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That each assistant shall, gs; within one month after the time specified for the completion of the ,,,0,,;;, ,,;,8, th, enumeration, furnish the original census returns to the clerk of the time ¤P¢¢i6¢d· county court of their respective counties, and two copies, duly compared and corrected, to the marshal of the district. He shall aliix his signature to each page of the schedules before he returns them to his marshal, and, on the last page thereof, shall state the whole number of pages in each return, and certify that they were well and truly made according to the tenor of his oath of omce. Assistants- Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That each assistant shall be allowed, as compensation for his services, after the rate of two cents ,,,h,b,m,,,_ B for each person enumerated, and ten cents a mile for necessary travel, to be ascertained by multiplying the square root of the numbcrof dwelling·houses in the division by the quare root of the number of square miles in eachdivision, and the product shall be taken as the number of miles travelled for all purposes in taking this census. _ ,;.;,3;;;,,,,,,;,,,,,,,. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the compensgiqnd t_ for pensation allowed for the enumeration of the inhabitants, th€\'6 shall °P°°` ° “ ‘°°‘ be paid for each farm, fully returned, ten cents ; for each establishment of productive industry, fully taken and returned, fifteen cents; for the social statistics, two per—cent. upon the amount allowed for the enumeration of population, and for each name of a deceased person