The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-02-08
TWELFTH CENSUS
or the Tenth District OF Penn.
sylvania.


busy-Sm Counties Comprise Tenth
District Applications Received Daily
Enumerators TO Commence June |.
II. a. Reed of Sudbury, super
visor of the Tenth District of Penn
sylvanla, for taking the twelfth CEN
sus, has been kept verybusy arrang.
ing and laying out the work for en-
umcrators in his district. The dis
trict is composed Of six COUNTIES
Montonr, Northumberland, SNYDER,
Union, Clcarteld and Centre.
Applications are being received
daily from the different districts for
positions asrenumerators.
| The following are extracts from
/ the act:
An act to provide for taking the
twelfth and subsequent census, sec.
W, That the cnumeratoron the 10Th
day OF June 1900, and on the first
day of June of the year in which
each succeeding enumeration shall
be made, and be taken as of that date.
And it shall be the duty of each ell
umcrator to complete the enumera-
ton of his district and to preparcthc
returns herein before required to be
made, and forward the same to the
supervisor Of the census of bis dis
trict, on or before the first day Of
July in such years: Provided, That
in any city having eight thousand
inhabitants or more under the pre-
ceding census the enumeration of the
population shall be taken and COM
.Dleted within two weeks from the
first day ofiune.
Sec. II That each enumerator
shall be charged with the collection
ia his subdivision, of facts and sta
nstics required by the population
schedule, and such other schedules
rs the director of the census may de-
termine shall be used by him in con-
nection with the census, as provided
in section of this act.
1t shall be the duty of each en-
umeratOr to visit personally each
dwelling house in his subdivision,
and each family therein, and each
individual living out ofa family in
any place of abode, and by inquiry
made of the head of each family, or
of the member thereof deemed most
credible and worthy of trust, or of
such individual living out of FAM
lily, to obtain each and every item of
information and all particulars re-
quircd by this act as of date June
first o. the year in which the en-
umeratiOn shall be made. And in
case no person shall be found at the
usual place of abode of such family,
competent to answer the inquiries
made in compliance with the re-
1uirements ofthis act, then it shall
be lawful for the enumerator TO OBJ
tain the required information, as
nearly as may be practicable, from
the family or families, person or
persons living nearest to such place
of abode.
The compensation ofthe enumera-
tors shall be ascertained and fixed by
the director of the census. In sub
divisions where he shall deem such
allowance sufficient, an allowance of
not less than two nOrmOre than three
cents for each living inhabitant and
for each death report; not less than
fifteen nor more than twenty cents
for each farm; and not less than
twenty nor more than thirty cents
for each establishment of productive
industry enumerated and returned
may he given in tull compensation
for all services.
For all other subdivisions per
diem rates shall be fixed by the di-
rector Of the census according to the
difficulty Of enumeration, having re-
ference to the nature of the region
to be canvassed and the density or
sparseness Of settlement, or other
considerations pertinent thereto; but
the compensation allowed to any en-
umerator in any such district shall