The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-09
TAKING THE CENSUS.

The law providing for the taking of the eleventh census requires that the supervisors provided for therein shall be appointed on or before March l, 1890, and that not exceeding 175 of them shall be appointed.
 Arkansas has been divided by the superintendent of census, Mir. Porter, into three districts, for each of which there will be appointed one supervi- sor and, It is said by those who know, these appointments are to be made in January.
 The Arkansas districts are com posed as follows,
 First Dlstrict-Arkansas, Chicot, Clay, Craighead. Crittenden, Cross, Desha, Greene, Independence, Jack. son, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lee, Lon oke, Mississippi, Monroe, Philips, Poinsett, Prairie, Randolph, St. Fran. cis, White and Woodruff counties.
 Second District-Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carol, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford, Faulkner, Franklin, Full ton, Izard, Johnson, Logan, Madl- son, Marion, Newton, Pope, Scott, Searcy, Sebastian, Sharp, Stone, Van BSren and Washington counties.
 Third Distrtct-Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clarke, Cleveland, Colum- bia, Dallas, Drew, Garland, Grant, Hampstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Lafayette, Lincoln, Little River, Miller Montgomery, Nevada, Ouach- lta, Perry, Pike, Polk, Pulaski, Sa- line, Seyier, Union and Yell counties.
 It Is the duty of each supe.-sscr in the language of section five of the act "To propose to the superinten- dent of census the division of his district into subdivisions most con venient for the purpose of enumer. ation; to designate to the superinten- dent of census suitable persons, and with the consent of sad superlnten- dent to employ such persons as en- umerators within his district, one for each subdivision ana residents therein, who shall be selected solely with reference to fitness and without reference to their political party affil- iations according to the division ap- proved by the superintendent of cen sus," provided that properly qualified soldiers and sailors shall have the preference Tn these appointments.
 The supervisors are to receive as compensation the sum of one hun dred and twenty five dollars ($l25) "and in addition thereto, thickly set tied districts, one dollar for each thousand" and "in sparsely settled districts one dollar and forty cents for each thousand" enumerated, pro vided that no supervisor shall re ceive less in the aggregate than five hundred dollars ($500).
 The compensation for enumerators ''in subdivision, when the superln- tendent of census shall deem such allowance sufficient" shall not be exceeding two cents for each liv ing inhabitant, two cents for each ucabu, hitOSh SCu1o ioi Oach ihiin twenty cents for each establishment of productive industry. For each surviving soldier, or sailor or widow of such, five cents.
 In other cases the superintendent is to fix the compensation, but this shall in no case be less than $3 per day nor more than $6, when per diem is fixed, nor more than three cents for each inhabitant, twenty cents for each farm and thirty cents for each productive establishment when per capita compensation is al lowed.
 Subdivisions are to be made to contain as nearly as possible 4,000 inhabitants each.