Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-26
THE CENSUS.
THE WORK TO BEGIN IN SACRAMENTO,
AND HOW TO BE CONDUCTED.

Monday, and begin work the next morn
ing. Sacramento City has been divided into
fourteen Enumerator districts. The First
Ward has three districts, the Second ward
three. and each of the other Wards four.
The Enumerators are now being sworn in
and instructed. There are fourteen of these
Enumerators in all for this city They will
receive pay for their work as follows:
The Enumerators receive for the name Of
each living inhabitant, 3 cents for each farm
returned, 20 cents for each establishment of
productive industry returned on general
manufacturing schedule, Is cents; same on
special manufacturing schedules, % cents (;
for each death reported, cents for each
person enumerated on the supplementary
schedules relating to the dependent, defective
and delinquent classes deaf and dumb, blind,
insane, idiOtic criminals, paupers and chill
dren in institutious), 5 cents; for making
lists of names, with age, sex and color, of all
persons enumerated, for each 100 Names 10
cents; for two days attendance at the Court
house to correct schedules, per day, 81 80.
The compensation to any Enumerator east Of
the 100th meridian is not to exceed on an
average of 81 per day for ten hours, and west
of it not TO exceed Sc.
Each Enumeration must visit each dwelling
III his district personally, and every family
therein, and all persons occupying lofts in
buildings, warehouses, factories, stables, ETC.,
or living in solitary cabins, huts or tents,
sleeping on boats or barges, or locked up in
prison.
Every person is bound to answer the ques-
tions of the Enumerators to the best of his or
her knowledge, and if he or she refuses, to
the bastile they so if they can't, or must pay
500.
The Census Commissioner thinks there will
be little trouble in this respect, however, and
says no people in the world are so favorably
disposed towards the work Of the Census
Marshals as the people of the United States
The ladies may as well make up their
minds to give up their claim of right to Sc
crecy as regards age, for each Enumerator Is
instructed to get the ages at all hazards, even
to the fractional part of a month, and they
will draw them out if all the family Bibles
in every district have to be overhauled, and
all the jealous people in the county have to
be interviewed.
The Enumerator is instructed that he is
under no obligation to give every mans &C.
cupation just as he expresses it. If he can
not tell intelligibly what he is, 90 the Emu
merator is to find out what he does, and
characterize his profession accordingly" No
man is to be called commissioner, col
lector, agent, artist, overseer, professor,
treasurer, contractor or Spectator" No
man is to be described as a mechanic, but the
branch of labor followed must be given.
Hatters, glovers, furriers ETC., are not to
be taken to include those who deal in hats
gloves and furs, but those only who make
them up and this applies to all other voca-
tions.
Every Enumeration has to report to the Su-
pervisor OF his district and to the Cen us Su.
perintendent at Washington daily, by postal
card blanks furnished, the number of persons
enumerated by him each day.
There are FIVE blanks for Enumerators
Schedule No. / is for population alone. and
the questions to be asked and answers written
relate TO the names of streets number of the
dwelling-house, number in order OF vista
ton, maine of each person in the house on
June l, 1880; the color, white, black. mu-
latto, Chinaman or Indian age on last birth
day, and if in months, the fractions of the
year, if born within the year ; relationship
of each person in the house to the head OF
the family whether wife, son. daughter,
servant or boarder; whether single, married,
widowed or divorced occupation or trade Of
each person ; male or female number Of
months each person has been employed from
June l, 1879, to June l. 1880; if persons are
sick, whether temporary, blind, deaf, idiot
insane, married, crippled or bed-ridden /;
what caused the sickness, and where the i'll
ness or disability was contracted whether
the person can read or write place of BIRTH
what State or Territory or foreign country
with place Of birth of both father and
mother.
Schedule No. 2 is marked agriculture, ard
relates to farm, the number of persons who
conduct it; the number of acres of land titled
including fallow, grass and rotative crop, pas
ture or meadow, orchards, vineyards, wood
land, forests, old fields and growing wood /;
the value of the farm including land, fences
and buildings, farm improvements and ina
chinery and live stock; cost of building and
repairing fences, and cost of fertilizers pur-
chased during 1879; amount paid for wages
for labor in 1879, including house work. eS-
timatsd value of all farm productions Sold
consumed or on hand in 1879; acreage of
grass lands, mown or rot mown, hay, clover
and grass seed; number of horses OF all kinds !;
mules, asses and neat CATTLE and their pro-
duets, also sheep, swine and poultry on hand
June lst.
Schedule No. 3 is for manufactures. The
Enumerator must ascertain the name OF the
corporation, company or individual doing a
business of $500 per year; name Of the bust
ness, manufacture or productions, capt
tai invested in the business, average
number of hands employed, hours of
labor, wages paid, average days wages,
number of months during the year in opera
power is used-whether water, steam or
horse power if water then the name of the
river or stream and the number of feet fall !;
if steam, tie number of engines and boilers
in use.
The fourth schedule relates wholly to
social statistics, but has recently been with
drawn from the Enumerators.
The mortality schedule, which is numbered
t, must exhibit the names of persons who
died in the census year, personal description.
age on last birthday sex, color-white,
black, mulatto, Chinese or Indian; married,
single, widow or divorced; cause Of death.
name of physician who attended deceased
and where the disease causing death was con-
tracted.
There are seven special and other sched-
ules: First, for insane; second, for idiots !;
third, for deaf mutes fourth, FOR blind /;
fifth, for homeless children sixth, Cor inhab-
itants in prison; seventh, for paupers and
INDECENT persons in institutions.
There are also twelve schedules of manu-
features First, for agricultural implements !;
second, Tor paper mills; third and fourth,
boots shoes and leather; fifth and sixth,
mills; seventh and eighth, -four and gcist-
mills, cheese and butter and condensed milk
factories; ninth and Tenth, slaughteriDg,
meat packing and salt works; eleventh and
twelfth, coal mines and quarries.
The EnumeratOrs for Sacramento are re-
quired to complete their work within four
teen days time. The Enumerators for the
county begin their work next Tuesday also.
The ODD FELLOWS PIcNIo.-The annual
picnic of the Lodges of Odd Fellows in Sac
ramento is to be held at Arcade Grove to-
morrow. The train leaves the new depot at
IS A. NJ. Elsewhere will be found a schedule
of places and hours where baskets may be
left to be conveyed to the cars free OF
charge. The Committee of Arrangements has
made extensive preparations, and the belief
is that the picnic will be in every way sue
cessful.
INCORPORATED. -The Petaluma Transports.
ton Company has filed with the Secretary OF
State It's articles of incorporation. Capital
stock, $4,000. Directors-L. II. Mayer,
Matt. Mayer, Z. 0. Weiner, a. j. Bunner,
E. F. Preston.
ORPHEUs Picnic The Orpheus Club will
hold its annual picnic at Richmond Grove
next Sunday, charging an admission OF 90
cents for each gentleman, ladies going In
free.
MAY QUEEN FEsTIvAL.-The ladies OF St.
PauI's Church hold May-queen festival at
Turner Hall tonight. There will be several
novel features about this social gathering.
AUCTION. & Co.'S furniture, horse
ard borces. gaIe announced for YESTERDAY, is