The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-03-21
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in the enumeration Of transient persons,
the name Of every person who shall be an
inhabitant Of any district or territory,
without se,tled place Of residence, shall
be inserted in the column of the schedule
which is allotted for the heads of families
in the division where he or she shall be on
the said first day Of June, eighteen hun
dred and forty.
SIC. 3. And be it further Enacted, Tha,
the compensation of the marshal Of Mis-.
souri, shall be three hundred dollars.
Sec. 4. And be It further enacted, Tha.
in lieu of the Eve dollars heretofore provi.
ded as compensation to the assistant for
each OF the two correct copies Of The sche.
dulles containing the number Of inhabitants
within his division, to be set up in two Of
the most public places within the same,
that there be allowed for said copies, and
each assistant shall be entitled to receive,
at the rate of five dollars for ten sheets,
or in that proportion for less number,
and at the rate Of thirty cents for every
sheet over ten in the copy of the retutn.
And in all cases where the assistants to
the msrshals shall have performed the lu-
ties and made the returns required by the
thirteenth section Of the act for taking the
sixth census, they shall be allowed there
for sum equal to twenty per centum on
the allowance made to them respectively,
for the enumeration.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted, That
the copies of returns and aggregate
amounts, directed to be fled by the mar
shsls with the clerks Of the several Dis
trict Courts and Supreme Courts Of the
Territories Of the United States, shall be
preserved by said clerks and remain in
their Offices respectively, and SO much Of
the act to which this is an amendment as
requires that they shall be transmitted by
said clerks to the Depaslmen. Of State is
hereby repealed.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That
i shall be the duty of the Secretary Of
State to cause to be noted all the clerical
errors in The returns Of the marshals and
assistants, whether in the additions, clas-
'ifcation Of Inhabitants or otherwise, and
% direct to be printed in the manner pro-
'ided for in the act to which this is an
the corrected aggregate re-
urns only.
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That
20 much of the thirteenth section OF the
ct Of the third OF March, one thousand
light hundred and twenty-five. as restricts
he weight OF packages by mail. shall no.
PPly to the transmission of papers rela.
ing to the census or enumeration Of the
nhabitants Of the United States, and upon
he transmission Of said papers by the
hail, between the marshals and their as
istants, it shall be lawful for the postmas.
ers to charge periodical pamphlet post
&c only.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
shall &c lawful for the marshal Of any
istrict, to take part in the enumeration
+ portion of his district, and upon his
0 doing he shall have the benefit of the
allotted therefor, as if it
al been done by an assistant. |,
SIC. 8. And be it further enacted, That
,e compensation Of the respective per-
,ns who are employed by the Secretary ,
State III executing the provisions Of this
Ct, shall be fifteen hundred dollars to the ,
lperintending clerk per amman; to the I
scording clerk eight hundred dollars per {
mum; to an assistant clerk six hundred
I'D fifty dollars per annum; and to the
acker and folder six hundred and fifty I
ollars per annum; and the said salaries {
hall commence from the date Of their
ring SO employed, and that Of the per- (
ons to be employed, 10 examine and cor I
sct the returns from the marshals and their ,
ssistants, at the same rates as were paid {
'r the like services rendered under the
ct for taking the fifth census, to be paid e
ut of any money appropriated for carry :
,g into effect the act for taking the sixth 4
ensus Of enumeration of the inhabitants t
the United States. y
SEC. 10. Andbei it further enacted, That {
i acts and parts of acts whose provisions J.
Re inconsistent with the enactments Of t
lis amendatory act, are hereby repealed.
APPROVED, February 26, ls4O. s
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