Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-09-13
The Census Law.

The following points of the census
| law will be of interest to many OF
our readers:
The Superintendent of Census
shall be appointed blythe President,
by and with advice and consent of
| the Senate, with an annual salary of
| $4,000. The Secretary Of the in
terror may appoint chief clerk,
six clerks of class four, ten clerks of
class three, fifteen clerks of class
two, and such number of clerks Of
class one, and copyists and comput-
ers, at salaries of not less than 800,
nor more than 81, 900 per annum, as
may be necessary.
The Secretary of the Interior shall,
on or before March ], 1880, designate
the l,iiulbcg, whether one or more,
of supervisors OF census to be sp-
pointed within each State or terri
tory, who shall be residents of the
State or territory. The supervisors
shall be appointed by the President,
by and with the advice and consent
of the senate, the total number
not 10 exceed one hundred and
fifty.
Each Supervisor shall designate
to the Superintendent of Census
suitable persons, and with the con-
sent of said Superintendent employ
persons as enumerators within his
district Zone for each subdivision) |
residing therein, whOshall be select !
ed solely with reference to their |
fitness and without reference to |
their political or party affiliations,
to the apportiOnment APP /
proved by the Superintendent Of |
the Census. Each Supervisor shall,
upon the completion of his duties
to the satisfaction of the Secretary,
receive the sum of $500 in full COM
pensation for services rendered and
expenses incurred by him, except
IN allowance for clerk hire at the
discretion of the Superintendent of
the Census.
The compensation of enumerators
shall be ascertained and fixed as fol-
ows: In subdivisions where the
of Census shall
1eem such an allowance sufficient,
IN allowance not exceeding two
'ents for each living inhabitant, two {
,ents for each death reported, ten
'ents for each farm, and fifteen cents
or each establishments of productive ,
enumerated and returned, /
nay be given in full compensation s
or all services; and no claim for !
Mileage or travelling expenses shall {
,e allowed in such subdivisions
that the subdivisions to [
Viii h the above rate of compensa- \
ion shall apply must be designated I
" the superintendent of Census at
east one month in advance of the
; and no account of the
Ime occupied in enumeration shall !
e required for the purpose of ascer-
aiming and determining the COM !
of enumerators in such
For all other subdi- !
isions, rates of compensation shall
e fixed in advance of the enumer- !,
tion by the Superintendent of Cen !
rs, with the approval of the Secre- =
lry of the Interior, according to !
ne difficulty of the enumeration,
aVing reference to the nature of
ne region to be canVaSsed, and the y
ensity or sparseness Of settlement, !
other considerations pertinent
hereto; but the compensation al .
)Wed to any enumerator i'm any :
istrict east of the one hundredth \
shall not exceed an aver y
ge of four dollars per day of ten Il Il
ours actual field work each; and l
le compensation allowed to any y
lumeratOr in any district west of =
le one hundredth meridian shall II
Ot exceed six dollars per working
ly of equal length. q
The subdivision assigned to any y
shall not exceed four y
lousand inhabitants, according to u
Ie census of eighteen hundred and
Ventyl Provided, that in the
and in the States admit
d into the Union since eighteen pI
lndred and seventy, the supervi- OF
rs of census smayappOint addition m
enumerators i'm cases where, In n,
5 judgement, the census cannot G..
properly taken ia thirty days by TO
ason of the Increase of population
the physical features of the said NJ
strict.