Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-25
The Census.
The Inquiries Which the Enumerators
 will Make.

will Make.
 The census enumerators will begin their work June l, and in cities the lists must be completed within twelve days. In the country the enumerators are allowed the en- tire month of June The following is the family schedule which the enumerators will use:
 Name of street; house number; dwelling houses numbered in order of visitation; fam iies numbered in order of visitation the name of each person whose place of abode, on the first day of June, 1880, was in this family color-white, w.. black, B. mulat- to, Mu. Chinese, c. ; Indian, I. ; sex-male, M. female, F. :; age at last birthday, prior to June 1, 1880; if under year, give months in fractions if born within the census year, give the month relationship of each person to the head of this family-whether wife, son, daughter, servant boarder or other; single mar ried; widowed; divorced, D. married du- ring census year; profession, occupation or trade of each person, male or female; num- Der of months this person has been unem- ployed during the census year; is the person Con the day of the enumerator's visit) sick or temporarily disabled, so as to be unable to attend to ordinary business or duties if so. deaf and dumb; idiotic; insane; maimed crippled, bedridden or otherwise disabled |; attended school within the census year; can not read cannot write; place of birth of this person, naming State or Territory of United States, or country if of foreign birth place of birth of the father of this person, naming the State or Territory of United States, or the country if of foreign birth place of birth of the mother of this person, naming the State or Territory of United States, or the country if of foreign birth. It is to be remembered that members of families alive on June 1 of the present year, but who had died between the date and the time of the enumerator's visit will be in- cluded, although births after that date are left out The work of the enumerators will be made easier, and much time will be saved if every head of 8 family will be prepared with answers to the questions. No child born between the 1st of June and the day of the enumerator's visit is to be counted-he or she must go over to the next census.
 Whoever shall refuse to comply with the requirements of the law in relation to the giving of information is liable, upon convic- tion to pay fine of not exceeding $10O.
 The official directions to enumerators re- quire them to obtain explicit and trustworthy information. Full explanation is given, among other matters, as to visiting each per son Giving out of 8 family in any place of abode" On this score the directions say:
 
 meant all persons occupying lofts in public buildings above stores, warehouses, factories and stables, having no other usual place of abode; persons living solitary in cabins, huts or tents persons sleeping on river boats, canal boats, barges, etc., having no other usual place of abode,E and persons in police stations having no homes. Of the classes just mentioned, the most important, numer- ically, is the first, viz. those persons, chiefly in cities, who occupy rooms in public buildings or above stores, warehouses, fac tories and stables. In order to reach such persons, the enumerator will need not only to keep his eyes open to all indications of such casual residence in his enumeration dis trict, but to make inquiry both of the parties occupying the business portion of such build 1ngs and also of the police. A letter will be addressed from this office to the Mayor of every large city of the United States, request ing the cooperation of the police, so far as 1t may be necessary to prevent the omission of the classes of persons herein indicated It is further provided by law that in case no person shall be found at the usual place | of abode of such family, or individual living out of family, competent to answer the in guiries made in compliance with the require ments of the act, then 1t shall be lawful for the enumerator to obtain the required in formation, as nearly as may be practica- ble, from the family or families, or person or persons, living nearest to such place of abode
 It is the prime object of the enumeration to obtain the name, and the requisite particu- lars as to the personal description of every person in the United States, of whatever age, sex, color, race, or condition, with this single exception, viz: that Indians not taxedn shall be omitted from the en1fmera- tion
 THE OBLIGATION TO GIVE INFORMATION
 It is not within the choice of any inhabitant of the United States whether he shall or shall not communicate the information required by the census law. By the fourteenth section of the act approved March 3, 1879, it is pro- vided
 That each and every person more than twenty years of age belonging to any family residing any enumeration district and in of the absence of the heads and other members of any such family then any agent of such family shall be- and each of them hereby is required thereto requested by the superintendent, supervisor enumerator to render
 true account to the best of his her knowIedge of every person belonging to such family in the various partic required by law, and whoever shall will fully fail refuse shall be guilty of misdemeanor