Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-19
NASHVILLE UNION AND AMERICAN SUNDAY, JUNE 49, 1870
CENSUs-TAKING.
/ Duties and Compensation OF Assist
ant MarShals, etc.

Duties and Compensation OF Assist
ant Marshals, etc.
From the circular containing the census
law prescribing the duties, liabilities and
compensation of Marshals and assistants,
by Francis A. Walker, Census Superintend-
ent, we condense the following for the
benefit of those so engaged, and the gen.
eral Information impaired upon the subject:
Section six provides that if any Marshal
shall, by any arrangement or understand
ing whatever, secure to himself any fee,
reward, or compensation for the appoint
ment of an assistant, or shall in any way
secure to himself any part of the COM
pensation provided by this act for the ser.
vices of assistants, or if he shall knowingly
herein assigned to him, he shall, in any
such case, be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and if convicted in any such case,
shall, for such otfense, forfeit and pay not
less than ono thousand dollars.
BY section ten the doing of the work by
proxy is positively inhibited, making it in
cumbent upon the Assistant Marshal to
give it personal supervision in his district
or subdivision. The section declares that
each assistant, when duly qualified. 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, by 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, tine name of each
member thereof, the age and place of birth
of each, and all the other particulars spe
CITED in this act, the tables thereto sub
joined, and the instructions of the Secre-
tary of the Interior; and shall also visit
personally the farms, mills, shops, mines,
and other places respecting which informa-
ton is required, as above specified, in his
district, and shall obtain all such informa-
ton 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 errors and supply omis-
sions if any shall exist.
AS further regulating the duties of AS
sistants, section eleven provides that each
assistant shall, within one month after
the time specified for the completion of
the enumeration, furnish the original
census returns to the Clerk of the County
Court of their respective counties, and
two copies, duly compared and corrected,
to the Marshal of the district. He shall
afix 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 Office.
Secs. IL and Is provide for the compen-
sation of Assistant Marshals, prescribing
that each assistant shall be allowed, as
compensation for his serI ices, after the
rate Of two cents for each person enumer-
ated, and ten cents mile for necessary
travel, to be ascertained by multiplying
the square root of the number of dwelling
houses in the division by the square root
of the number of square miles in each d.
vision, and the product shall be taken as
the number of miles travelled for all pur
poses in taking this census. And that in
addition to the compensation allowed for
the enumeration of the inhabitants, there
shall be paid for each farm, fully returned,
ten cents; for each establishment of pro-
ductive 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 deceased person returned, two
cents.
The other portions of the circular and
law refer to the details of the business, and
are embraced substantially in the blanks
and instructions with which Assistant Mar
shals are provided,