Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-02-18
TIE NEYT CENSUS.

As June next has been assigned by
the Federal Government for taking the
next Census, It h weli eaolgh for US
oil TO know something about ii, We
clip the following from the Hunting
don Monitor of last week, and from the
initials wo infer that the article eme-
mates IRON j. Simpson Africa, the
Supervisor Of our district, and the facts
and figures given are no doubt correct .
"The tenth census Of the population,
wealth and industry OF the United
States will be taken during the month
of June next. Tho plan for conducting
the work differs materially from that of
any preceding census and the results
will be much fuller and more complete.
Each State has been divided into u
suitable number Of supervisors dis
tricts. In Pennsylvania there arc ten.
For each of those districts supervisor
has been, or will be appointed by tho
President, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, whose duty is /:
To propose to the superintendent, un.
der such general directions as that
officer may give, the appointment of
territory of his district into suitable
sub. districts to designate TO the Su-
perintendent suitable persons, and with
his consent, to employ them as enumer-
ators one for each subdivision and a
resident therein to furnish the enum.
orators with the necessary blanks, in
strnct them relating TO their duties,
and to scrutinizc their returns and see
that their work has been performed in
all respects 10 compliance with law, etc.
The act of 1879 provides that sub.
division assigned any enumerator shall
not exceed four thousand inhabitants.
according to the census OF 1870. The
| superintendent IS disposed, IN Oruer
that the work may be done promptly
and thoroughly, to have the sub-dis.
tricts much smallert than this maximum.
Enumerators are TO be selected solely
with reference to their fitness for the
proper discharge of their duties The
Superintendent remarks on this sub
ject at would not merely be wrong
to the Government but it would be u
positive cruelty to the appointee him.
self, for o supervisor to confer a com
mission as enumerator upon any per
son not of decided clerical aptitude and
of active habits, writing freely, and
good at figures" The compensation
which may be either a specific sum for
each living inhabltant, each death re
ported, etc, or 81 for each ten hours
actual field work, is optional with the
Superintendent and will be decided by
him in advance. A law of this State
approved the 18th day Of May, 1874
declares that every person holding any
Office or appointment OF profit or trust
undor the United States, shall be in
capable Of holding or exercising at the
same time, the Office or appointment
of Justice of the Peace, Notary Public
Mayor, Recorder Burgess or Alder
man of any city, corporate town ol
borough, Constable, Judge, Inspector
or Clerk of election under this Com
monwealth.
All applications for appointment
should be addressed TO the Supervisor
OF the proper district, and, if the writel
desires an acknowledgment of the ro
ccipt thereof, he should inclose stamp
? to pay return postage. Long petitions
, signed by everybody carry littl,
weight. Personal interviews are no
desirable. Tho qualifications Of an ap
plicant can be most clearly shown by
written communications from men o
: good character and standing in hi
neighborhood or county, accompanied
with letter dictated and written by
the applicant himself No appoint
ments can be made until after th,
Supervisor has been commissioned ant
sworn and the sub districting com
pleted,
, This, the seventh district of Penn
sylvania, comprises fourteen counties
for which J. Simpson Africa, OF th,
borough OF Huntingdon, Huntingdon
county, has been appointed and con
firmed as Supervisor. The population
of these counties, and the principa
towns therein, according to the eensu
of 1870 was as tollows