Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-24

The Census bill, which passed the
House of Representatives on Monday,
amends the old law of 1860, and provides
that one copy instead of two shall be
made of the returns by the Assistant Mar
shall, the copy to be sent to Washington,
and the original to be deposited in the of.
flee of the Secretary of each State and
Territory, instead OF with the county
clerks of the respective counties where
the Marshal resides. The time allowed
for transmitting the copy of the returns to
the Census office is further limited, so that
the returns of populations and mortality
upon schedules shall be sent to that Office
on or before the 10Th day of August next,
and the complete return of all schedules
shall be forwarded to the Census Office
before the first of October. The Secre-
tary Of the Interior is authorized to ex-
tend the time allowed for the return Of
schedules other than those of population
and mortality, in any case when it shall
appear necessary. The population SEIZED
ules are to b. amended so as to take
in the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments and statistics of telegraph lines, fire
and life insurance. Penalties are pro-
vided for refusing to make returns to
Marshals, and all appointments of Mar
shals to be confirmed by the Secretary OF
the Interior. An amendment allowing
congressman at large in States where
there is an excess of two hundred thous.
and of a population in the representative
population over the eighth census.
The Superintendent of the Census has
issued a circular announcing that the act
actual enumerator. Subdivisions can
not be farmed out in whole or in part, nor
can the duty be performed by deputy or
proxy. All that the law allows for this
service must be paid to the men who
actually do the work. Marshals are re-
CURED TO keep this fact distinctly in view,
and to form their sub divisions with ex-
press reference to their enumeration by
single districts.
This plan seems to be not only sensi.
bic, but an economical plan of procuring
the statistics of the ninth census. Here.
tofore the census taking has been liable TO
wanton abuse and extraordinary expeu-
diture that was AS uuwarranted as uncall.
edfor, and the enumeration has been very
carelessly taken,
SPECIE PAYMENTS The following i,
the text of Mr.. Summers bill to strength.
en- the legal reserves of the Nationa
Banks and to provide for the resumption
of specie payments:
1t requires every national bank To re
imburse its legal reserves by the substitu
ton of coin at the rate of one per cent
per month upon the whole amount o
liabilities for the redemption of which
the reserves are required, and provides
such substitution to continue until the
whole amount of legal reserves shall be
come coin, and thereafter every nationa
bank shall hold in its vault an amount OF
coin equal to the amount of reserves re-
CURED DY law. ne second seCIlOD I'll
reefs the Secretary of the Treasury, upoI
the passage of the act, to give public no
tice of the intention OF the Government
TO resume payment in specie upon all it
liabilities not later than the first of Janu
AIRY next, thereafter the payments by the
Treasury to be upon coin basis The
Secretary is also required to retain in tn,
Treasury the coin received from customs
and other sources in excess of the require
ments of the public debts, and such othel
supply of coin as may be necessary in the
execution of the provisions of this act
may be obtained under the act entitled
an act to authorize the purchase of ooir
and for other purposes, approved Marcel
18th, 1862. The bill repeats all the uct
making anything but coin Il legal tender
for debts, public or private; suspends th,
further printing of United States note,
and fractional currency, aud provides fo
the redemC tion and mediation OF mutt
lated fractional currency.