Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-06-06

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ate), OF widow of such person.
3. Relationship to head of family.
4. Whether white, black, mulatto, quad
room, octoroon, Chinese, japanese or Indian
5. Sex.
6. Age at nearest birthday If under one
year give age in months.
Z. Whether single, married, widowed OF
divorced.
8. Whether married during the census yea1
Dune l, 1889. to May 81, 1S9O.)
9. Mother of how many children and mum
Der of these children living.
10. Place of birth.
II. Place of birth of father.
II. Place of birth of mother
49, Number of years in the United States.
A. Whether naturalized
Is. Whether naturalization papers have
been taken out
16. Profession, trade OF occupation.
II. Months unemployed during the census
year Dune /, 1889, to May 81, 1S90)
IS. Attendance at school Gin months) dur
ing the census year Dune /, 1889, to May 81,
1900.
10. Able to read
20. Able to write.
81 Able to speak English. If not, the Ian
guage OF dialect spoken.
%. Whether suffering from acute OF chronic
disease, with name of disease and length of
time afflicted.
%. Whether defective in mind, sight, hear
ing OF speech, OF whether crippled, manned,
OF deformed, with name of defect.
Whpthnr q nriSOnar oOoviot bo,,o1 oce
child Oh pauper.
%. Supplemental schedule and page.
26. Is the home you live in hired OF is it
owned by the head OF by member of the
family?
81. If owned by head OF member of family,
is the home free from mortgage incumbrance?
%. If the head of family is farmer is the
farm which he cultivates hired OF is it owned
by him OF by member of his family?
30, If owned by head Oh member of family,
is the farm free from mortgage incumbrances?
80. If the home OF farm is owned by head
OF member of family and mortgaged, give the
post-office address of owner
THE TINE AND THE PAY.
Two weeks are given for the completion
of the work. The enumerators are author
lied to charge cents for each ordinary
name recorded, the same for each death, Is
cents for each farm visited, 20 cents for
each record of established productive in
dustry, 5 cents for the name of each soldier.
sailor or marine of the late war, and cents
for the widow of such. AS soon as the
work Of enumeration has been completed
the portfolios will be sent to the Census
Bureau at Washington.
INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING REFUsALs TO
ANSWER.
The Superintendent of the Census has
sent out the foil lowing instructions to emu
merators regarding those persons who re-
fuse to answer:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, }
CENSUS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, :
d. c., May 26, 1890.
To the Census EnatanerGt0rs:
You are hereby instructed in cases where
persons refuse to answer the questions on the
population schedule relating to physical and
mental disabilities (22 and 23), or the ques-
tions relating to farms, homes and mortgages
(26 to 80 inclusive), to euter in the proper
column the words 'Refused to answer No
further steps will be necessary on the part of
the supervisor OF enumerators, and all legal
proceedings will be instituted by the Wash
ington office through the department of JUS
tice. Very respectfully,
ROBERT P. PORTER,
Superintendent of Census.
THE PENALTY FOR REFUSAL
The law on the subject may be thus stat
ed: Section 2l91 of the Revised Statutes.
being part of the general census law of
1850, under which the censuses of 1850, 1850
and 1870 were taken, provided a penalty of
$50 for failure to answer either of the in
quiries authorized by law. But the fine
had to be sued for and recovered in a
civil action by the United States Marshal
in the district.
The law of 1879, and again the present
law of 1889, provided a penalty mot exceed.
ing $780," and made q misdemeanor of
wllful failure OF refusal to respond to the
enumerators interrogatories. The present
law also provides that the penalty may be
enforced by Indictment OF appropriate &C.
ton in any court UNITED States Court OF
competent jurisdiction.
WHAT STEPS WILL BE FIRST TAKEN w1Tu
THOSE REFUSING TO ANSWER.
In an interview with the agent of the
Associated press at Washington last week
Superintendent Porter said:
Gas r1c
citizen need give himself any uneasiness
Our enumera tors will not make nuisances O.
themselves. They will present the question.
politely, and if any person sees fit not t.
answer he will not be pressed by the enume
rator whose duty ends with the single asking
Ii the answer is refused the enumerator vii
simply note that fact on the return he send
| to headquarters.
AS 1t is possible that some persons woult
not feel disposed to answer questions put b,
one OF their neighbors, and take the risk O
their affairs becoming a topic of neighborhoo,
gossip, there will be sent, to all persons win
so refuse, circular from the bureau direct
asking them to please submit answers in writ
ing, and in sealed envelope, to the commits
sloner Here, OF course, the chances are tina
nobody who knows them from Adam will eve
see one OF these answers. The papers will b
thrown i'll with thousands, perhaps million
OF others, and put through the machine as i
there were no personal significance attache,
| to them.
eff any one so appealed to still refuse,
have no course left to me but to turn over hi
case to the department of justice to be deal
with as the attorney general sees fit. My dut
Is simply to make compilation of statistic
winch the law calls for. 1 have nothing t.
40 with any prosecutions that may grow GU
OF refusals to answer questions. All thos
matters are to be settled between the person