Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-12-14
the CENSUS.
WHAT ENUMERAToRs WILL HAVE TO DO
AND WHAT THEIR PAY WILL BE.

WHAT ENUMERAToRs WILL HAVE TO DO
AND WHAT THEIR PAY WILL BE.
Director Merriam has issued prelim-
mary circular b airing on the coming
census Work at enumeration must COM
mence June 1 1900, and be finished by
July l, soms districts being required to
be completed by June Is
The compensation 10 be paid to enum-
orators Is fixed, and a minimum rate of
two cents Tor each living inhabitant, two
cents for each death, fifteen cents for
each farm, and twenty cents for each
establishment of productive industry is
provided for all subdivisions where such
allowance shall be deemed sufficient
The maximum rate will not exceed three
cents for each living iDhabitant, three
cents for each death, twenty cents for
each farm, and thirty cents for each
establishment of productive industry,
while in subdivisions where per diem
rates are established, having reference to
the region to be cauYased and the density
or spareness Of settlement, or other con-
siderations pertinent thereto, the compen-
sation allowed to enumerators will not be
less than So nor more than S. per day of
claim for mileage or travelling expenses will
be allowed to any enumerator, and then
only when authority has been previously
granted by the Director of Census.
Any enumeration who, without iusti6a-
BILE cause, neglects or refuses to perform
the duties of his position, after accepting
an appointment and qualifying for the
work, or who communicates TO any person
not authorized to receive the same any
information gained by him in the per-
Torrance of his duties, will be subject TO a
fine of $500
The schedules relating to the population
shall comprehend for each inhabitant tine
name, age, color, sex, conjugal condition.
place of birth and place of birth of parents,
" neither alien or naturalized, number OF
years in the United States, occupation,
months employed, illiteracy, school attend
ance, and ownership of farms and homes /;
and the Director of the Census may use his
discretion as to the construction and form
and number of inquiries necessary to secure
information under the topics aforesaid
The mortality schedules will compre-
bend for each decedent the name, sex,
color, age, copjugal condition, place of
birth, and birthplace of parents, occupation,
cause and date of death and, If born within
the census year, the date of birth
The schedules of inquiries relating to
the products OF manufacturing and me-
ch meal establishments will embrace the
name and location OF each establishment !;
character of organ cation, whether indi-
viddal, cooperative or other form date of
commencement of operations; character of
business or kind of goods manuf ctured !;
amount OF capital INVESTED; number of
proprietors, firm members, co-partners or
officers and the amount of their salaries :;
number of employees. and the amount of
their wages, quantity and cost of materials
used in manufactures amount of miscel-
laneOus expenses quantity and value of
products; time in operation during the
census year character and quantity of
power used and character and number of
machines employed
Every person in New Jersey will be
subjected to the inquiries that have been
mentioned. To insure successful taking
of the census, the Director has prepared a
circular to be sent to New Jersey, and all
other parts of the country, which will set
forth that census officials only will see
the returns; no information gathered by
census officials will ever be disclosed to
private individuals. 1t will be published
impersonally as part of the whole census
report, and never In connection with the
name of the person or corporation to whom
it relates. or by whom it was given. The
law of 1899 provides penalty for violating
this provision"
The circular will say further that " no
Tax Collector or Tax Assessor will be ap-
pointed or can serve as census enumeration,
or will have access TO or be permitted to
know the contents of the farm returns"
In respects to the farms in New Jersey
the enumerator will ask for the size and
value of each farm, the valne of buildings,
and the aggregate value of all machinery,
implements, vehicles, harness, ETC., used
thereon; the color or race of the occupants.
and the amount Of land owned and leased
respectively by the occupants. He will
also ask for the acreage of improved, I'M
improved and irrigated lands
The designation of each CROP that will
be inquired into includes all grains, cotton,
corn. rice, sugar cane, sugar beets, sorg-
hum, hay, clover. wild grasses, gathered
forage, fax, hemp, hops, peanuts, tobacco,
seeds, nuts, tropical fruits, small fruits,
orchard fruits, nursery and greenhouse
stock, broom corn, Irish potatoes, sweet
potatoes, yams, all vegetables, including
the product of all family, truck and
market gardens, ETC., also new or uDusual
crops when found.
The enumerator will also ask for the
number and value of the live stock on the
farm June 1. 1900, which will be reported
under the heads of horses, colts, mules,
asses. cows, heifers, steers, calves, bulls,
ewes, rams, lambs, swine, goats, chickens,
guinea fowl, turkeys, geese, ducks, bees,
etc. The quantity and value OF milk,
cream, butter, cheese, raisins, prunes, mo-
lasses, syrup, sugar, eggs, beeswax, honey,
wool, wine, cider, vinegar, dried and
eVaporated fruits, forest products, poultry
and meat products, and, generally, all
articles made at home or for the home
from farm materials during 1899
1t is the desire of the Census Bureau
that if any person removes from a farm
between the end of the crop year of 1899
and June 1, 1900. he leaves written record
of the products and crops of that farm for
1899 where it will reach the appropriate
enumeratOrs, so that the statistics of his
operations for that year will not be lost.