St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-05-10
Eighth Census of the United States.


census of Floyd County. Mr., Carver
is abundantly qualified to discharge
the duties of this appointment, and
we do not hesitate to say that Mar
sllal Summers has been fortunate, IN
this instance at least, in the selection
of an assistant.
Taking the census is great ma
tional work, of incalculable value to
the people, which is executed once in
ten years. The duties of the under
taking devolvc upon the Z. S. Mar
shals, who appoint their own assist
ants. The General Government has
in each State or Territory one or more
judicial districts, with each of which
is connected Marshal, who acts as
High Sheriff in the District Court OF
the United States.
The assistants who perform the
work of enumeration are paid on a
principle combining in a novel man.
ner compensation for labor and travel
ono which has been found to ope'
rate very fairly and satisfactorily t'
the employees and Government. The
allowance is two cents for each per
son enumerated for each farm, ter
cents for each establishment of pro
ductivc industry, fifteen cents; for
social statistics, two per centum on
the amount allowed for cnumerating
the population and two cents for
each mortality return, with ten cents
for travelling expenses, to be ascer,
tanned by multiplying the square root
of the number of dwclling-houscs in
his district by the square root of the
number of square miles in his division ;
from the product whereof is to he de-
rived the number Of miles travelled,
and eight cents per page for the two
copies.
The first circular to the Marshals
has already emanatcd from the De
partmcnt, and directs those officers tc
qualify for the discharge Of their re
spective duties by oath or affirmation
and instructs them how to sub-divid'
their several judicial districts, tina
this work may commence on the Is
day of June, and be completed ii
every State and Territory within tn
earliest practicable period.
a set of instructions. drawn u
with great particularly and care, i
forwarded to the Marshals, informin!
. them thoroughly of every detail @
this service, and containing direction
: respecting all the minutie of the du
ties Of assistants in the work Of cnu
meration. In the preparation Of thcs
instructions the returns Of the Sc
cnth census were carefully examine
and the cause Of every deticie
r, cy studied, with a view to the I
Of moval of all obscurity and the su
ply Of every needed light to insure
perfect, uniform and carly return
"a results SO that, if any failure shou
y attend the prosecution of any porti
Of the work, it will be clargcable
=. bad appointments by the Marshal
!. which is not anticipated, or indiflc
=, cnce on the part Of the people, whi'
% their general intelligence will not ju
tify any one in experimenting.
The first duty Of the Census Ofiie
n after the receipts of the returns, W
G. consist in making the Compression
re apportionmcnt of members of I
ay House of Representatives among
several States, according to their IT
rcsentativc population.
u" The effect of this wise and saluta
y, provision will be to reduce the pre-
- cnt number of members, which h
~ grown by the admission of new Stat'
" to the number provided by the law
May %, 1850, viz: 233 and, so 10
nc as this law stands unrepealcd,
i'll bring back the number of Repres,
IT,, tativcs every ten years to this sta
~ ing point.
d. The schedules are supplied by
IS. Census Office, and distributed, throu
lst the Marshals, to the assistants, to ca
D! of whom will be furnished suita
and substantial portfolio for the P
i, lection of the returns.
Cd The ;Iarshals are paid at the rate
al from 81 to $l,25 for each one tn
on sand persons returned by the ass
We ants and the latter are paid cert
FIR rates for each entry and for the cop
Mt made, as above stated.
IN The assistants make returns to til
Marshals, and the latter to the Gem
Office. Such is the programme
lis this great operation, which is to
we clude the personal status of near Il
Vi ty millions of people on the LIST 4
ny of June, 1850, and develop the
Is sources of an infant but giant Rep
SUI lic-the whole machinery whereof ,
Tue be conducted without confusion,
u.s. in manner to command public
NC prevail and confidence.
,sc
ed The convention of Boilers at Char
, a ton, managed SO badly that their Oh
man, Mr. Bayard of Delaware, bee;