The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-27

| And it shall be the duty of the census
| trustee at once to file with some justice of
r, the peace OF competent jurisdiction COM
plant against such person. Only children
of tho same family shall be listed on one
/ form, and if one person has under his con-
lrol children of different family name, he
shall Use separate form for each family
name.
The census trustee shall arrange the
forms for white and oolored children sep
arately in alphabetical order, according 10
he family name of the children reported
thereon. He shall also make. on a pre-
scflbed form, separate census rolls for
the white ana colored children of his dis
trict. showing the name. aga sex and color
OF each child, and the name Of the parent,
guardian or person having control of said
children by whom II is reported. He shall
also make Il summary of his rolls showing
the number of children of each race that
viii be of the different ages from to 16.
inclusive, on the first day of the next Sep
TENDER, which shall continue to be the
scholastic age, as is now provided by law.
lie snail make oath TO his rolls and sum
maries, and TO the faithful and accurate
discharge of hie duties. deliver the rolls,
together with the forms arranged in alpha
betical order, 10 the county superintendent
ON or before June ] next after his appoint
ment.
Any census trustee who shall willfully
fail or refuse TO include any child within
said ages in his rolls. or shall willtully
make any false reports. roll or summary,
shall be guilty OF false swearing and shall
be punished as prescribed by law for that
offense. And ii the county superintendent
finds or believes that any census trustee
has violated any duty required under this
act such county superintendent shall re-
port said census trustee to the grand jury
OF the county at it's next session after dis
covering such breach of duty. The rolls
and summaries OF the census trustees shall
be preserved by the county superintendent
in his office for three years after they are
filed. The county superintendent shall
make on prescribed form separate CONSOLE
dated rolls for the white and colored chill
dren of his county. showing the name age
and sex of each, together with the number
Of the district in which 1t lives. and the
name of parent or guardian, arranging the
names Of tho children according to the al
phabetical order of their family names. In
making these consolidated rolls he shall
scrutnize carefully the work OF the census
trustees and shall have power 10 summon
witnesses, take affidayis and correct any
errors he may find in any census trustee S
roll and he shall carefully exclude all du-
plieates If he deems 1t necessary, he may
reject any roll, and appoint another census
trustee TO take the census of the district,
in which case he shall not approve the war
rant to pay the census trustee, whose work
has been rejected, for his services. When
the county superintendent has prepared his
consolidated census roll, one for each race,
he shall make a duplicate of Zach and he
shall make affidavit to the correctness OF
both originals and duplicates. The origl-
mails he shall. on or before July /, forward
to the State superintendent of public in
structon at Austin, and the duplicates
shall be filed with the county clerk and be-
come permanent records of his office. The
county superintendent shall forward with
his consolidated rolls an abstract on tho
prescribed form. under oath, showing the |
number Of children of each race of the dif-
ferent years of the school age and the total
number OF children of each race, and the |
total of both races In his county. In maxi
ing his consolidated rolls and in investi- |
eating the work of any census trustee, the ]
county superintendent shall refer to the |
forms and rolls of previous years when |
necessary. and they shall be carefully pre- |
served for this purpose.
The State superintendent shall have au-
thority 10 investigate the census OF any |
county, 10 correct errors. and in extreme |
cases when he believes gross errors have |
or that fraud has been prac- |
'iced, he may, with the approval of the |
state board of education, reject any coun-
Iyls roll and require the census of the !
county to ba retahnn.
For their seryices the census trustee
shall receive cents per capita of the chill
iren of scholastic age taken by
him in country districts and 8
tents per capita in towns OF $500
inhabitants and upward to 5000
inhabitants and cents per capita in cities
Of 1000 or more inhabitants and tho couu-
~ superintendent shall receive cent per
capita Of the scholastic population re-
ported by him. but these amounts shall not
be paid until the census OF the county is
accepted by the State superintendent and
shall be forfeited as follows: The trustees
II his work is rejected by
the county superintendent and the census
Of his district ordered retaken and both
the county superintendent's and the trus-
lees compensation II the census OF the
county is rejected ard ordered by the State
superintendent and State board OF educa-
10 be retaken.
Tho provisions Of this act shall apply
10 the taking OF the cenaus Of community