Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-20

It 10 10 End on the Last Day Of the
Present Year.

fcsent Ae8f.
The adjustment Of the Office Of the eleventh
| census after next December is required by a
clause in the deficiency appropriation bill re-
ported today. The bill appropriates 81 900 900
to run the Office to December 81 next and pro-
vides As follows:
That the Office of the eleventh census shall
be abolished and the terms Of the Office OF
superintendent and of all employees appointed
under the provisions Of the act of
March /, 1889, entitled IAN act to
provide for taking the eleventh and subse-
quent censuses," or Of any subsequent act
relating to the eleventh census, shall cease
and terminate after the 3lst day Of Deem
Der, 1898; and thereafter no further ex-
penditures. whether for salaries or expenses.
shall be made on account Of the eleventh
census, except as hereinafter provided.
The unpublished work of the eleventh census
and of the division Of farms, homes and mort
cages shall be completed in the Office Of the
Secretary of the Interior, to whom the records
and other property of the census Office
shall be transferred, and the Secretary Of the
Interior is authorized to employ. from the date
specified in this act, from the force of the
census Office then employed, chief
Of division at a salary Of s2.500 per an
mum; three special agents, who shall be sta
tistical experts. at a compensation OF $6 per day
each, and clerical force for duty in said
division. which force shall consist Of three
clerks Of class four three clerks Of class three.
two of whom shall be practical printers; three
clerks of class two, all Of whom shall be e1-
perienced proof readers, three clerks
of class one. three clerks at a salary
Of $1,000 per snnum, and five conputers at
S120 per annlm; and such chief Of division,
special agents. clerks, and computers shall be
o. a.
sooner. if, in the judgment Of the Sec
Rotary of the Interior. their services can be dis
pensed with. And the Secretary Of the Interior
is hereby authorized to rent necessary rooms
in the city of Washington to carry out the
provisions Of this paragraph at a cost not ex-
ceeding tn. rate of 1900 per aanum.
And the Secretary OF the Interior is further
more authorized to employ from among those
engaged the 3lst dav OF December,
1893. in the division Of farms, homes
and mortgages one expert special agent at sc
per day and sufficient number Of clerks at u
salary OF $1,000 per annum, and coPyists
aud computers to complete the said inves-
tigation by the 30tA day OF September,
1894; and such special agent and all such clerks.
copyists and computers shall be discharged on
said date, or any of them sooner il, in the judg-
ment Of the Secretary of the Interior, their
services can be dispensed with.
Any unexpended balance Of appropriations
made for the eleventh census or for farms.
homes and mortgages which shall remain
on December 81, 1898. shall be applied to
the liquidation of any liabilities incurred in
each of these Investigations. and the remainder
placed under the control of the Sec
Rotary Of the Interior for the purpose
Of preparing for the printer the un-
published work of the eleventh cen
sus and for the completion of the investi-
cation relating to farms. homes and mortgages
a. hereinbefore authorized. but this provision
shall not apply to unexpended balances Of the
several appropriations for printing the final re-
ports of the eleventh census, but such bal
ances shall be applied as provided for in the
several acts.
That the balance of the appropriation Of
$3.50 900 made by the act Of March 8. 1891, for
printing the final reports Of the eleventh GEN.
sus, be, and the same is hereby. made available
for the fiscal year 1884, for the work already
authorized under the limitations and condi-
tons prescribed by said act.