The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-05-13
THE TENTH CENSUS.
What District Supervisor Paul
is Doing.


the Census for this District, compile
ed and forwarded to the Superin
tendent of Census at Washington
some time ago his subdivisions Of
his district into enumeration dis
tricts, and the same has been af
firmed. The number of these cen
sus, or enumeration districts, is 267
and an enumerator is to be designed
for each one. The task of selecting
proper person for the work in each
district has been a responsible and
delicate one, but is now nearly COM
pleted and the whole list will be
sent to Washington in a few days
for the approval of the Superinten-
dent. After the persons thus de
signated are approved, commissions
| will be issued to each enumerator,
upon receipt and acceptance OF
which the enumerator will have to
take an oath to faithfully perform
the duties imposed by the law.
When this oath has been taken and
forwarded to the Supervisor of
the District, each enumerator will
receive full instructions as to mis-
duties, with all proper blanks, ETC.,
necessary for the work he has to
perform. The enumeration must
be commenced on the 1st day of
June and pursued continuously and
diligently by those engaged until 1t
is completed. After it's compile
tion, the process of posting and
correcting the returns will be gone
through with, in strict accordance
to the amendments to the law given
below. After this correction is
made, the reports will be sent to
tho Supervisor for his inspection,
after that to be forwarded to the
Census office at Washington.
The amendments to the census
act of March, 1879, under which
the coming census of the United
States is to be taken. provides,
among other things, that each emu
merator Immediately after compile
ting the enumeration of the popula-
ton of his district, and before for
warding the same to the Supervis
or, shall make and file in the office
of the clerk of the county court of
the county to which his district be-
longs, list of the names, with age,
sex and color, of all persons emu
merated by him, which he shall Ger
tify to be true, and for which he
shall be paid at the rate Of ten cents
Tor each one hundred names. He
shall give notice by written adver
tisement at three or more public
places in his district that he will be
at the courthouse of said county on
the fifth day after fling said list,
not including Sunday, from g
o'clock ante meridian until O clock
post meridian, and tie following
day, for the purpose of correcting
his enumeration or striking out or
adding the designation of persons
improperly enumerated or omitted;
and, on the days so designated he
shall, In accordance with said no
tice, proceed to correct, on such re-
liable information as he may OBJ
tain, all omissions and mistakes in
such enumeration and to that end
he may swear and examine witness
es, who shall testify subject to the
pains and penalties of perjury.
The result of such inquiry for
correction and the whole mum Der of
persons by him enumerated he shall
make known to the bystanders, if
there be any. And the time given
enumerators to make returns to
Supervisors is extended fifteen days. |
Each enumerator is to be paid for |
this service a sum not exceeding |
two dollars and half per day and |
their oath of office is to include the |
duty of making and filing the list
of inhabitants as required by recent |
legislation.
The following letter from the
Superintendent of the Census will be
of interest to all who are seeking
as enumerators i'll the
coming census:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
CENSUS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, d. c.,
April 81, 1SSO.-Francis NJ. Paul,
esq, Supervisor of Census, Third
District of Tennessee-Sir: This
office is now prepared to announce
the rates of compensation which
Will be paid to enumerators in your
district at the approaching census,
viz: q cents per name and 124
cents per farm, except in the follow
ing cities and towns, where the rate
will be cents per name: Colum
bia, Maury county; Edgefeld, Da-
wilson county; Fayetteville, Lin
coin county; Gallatin, Sumner coun
ty; Lebanon, Wilson county; Pulas
XII, Giles county; Shelbyville, Bed
ford county. For each death re
ported, 5 cents. For establish
ments of productive industry re
ported (manufactures), as fol-
lows: For each establishment re-
turned on the general schedules of
Is cents; for each es-
returned on the special
of manufactures % cents.
The rates are, of course, subject
to the provision of law that no emu
meratoI shall receive in excess
of four dollars ($4), the maximum
per diem, authorized in any case
east OF the Tooth meridian, for each
day of actual service.
Inasmuch as the records of the
ninth census (1S7O) show that in
the rural districts of Tennessee the
number OF names enumerated per
dav was 140, and of farms l3, 1t is
believed that at the rates author
lied above, there should be no diff
Guilty in an energetic, capable emu
merator realizing the full amount
allowed. Very respectfully,
FRANCIS A. WALKER,
Superintendent OF Census.
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