Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-10-06
Document Direct From Taft and Bearing Signature
 of Executive
INSTRUCTIONS FOR
 COMPILING CENSUS
Some Information Regard ing Interesting Work
 of Department

Secretary Franklin F. TOwle of the chamber of commerce has just received from President Taft his commission as census supervisor of the Territory of Arizona. The document bears the genuine signature of the president and reads as follows:
 William Howard Taft, president of the United States of America, to all who shall see these presents, greeting:
 Know ye that, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, dili- gence and discretion of Franklin r. Towle, of Arizona. 1 do appoint him supervisor of the thirteenth census for the district of Arizona and do author ize and empower him to execute and fulfil the duties of that office according to law and to have and to hold the said office with all the rights and emol- uments thereunto legally appertaining during the pleasure of the president of the United States for the time being and until the end of the next session of the Senate of the United States and no longer. In testimony whereof l have caused these letters to be made patent and the seal of the department of commerce. and labor of the United States to be hereunto affixed
 ''Given under my hand at the City of Washington, the thirteenth day of August. in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty. By the president.
 CIVILIAN H. TAFT,
 "CHARLES NAGEL, Secretary of Commerce and Labor"
 With the commission, full get of was sent to MT. Towle from the federal census headquarters, m charge of E. Daniel Durand, director of the census appointed by the bureau of commerce and labor. In view of the fact that the census occurs only once every ten years, and for the additional reason that Globe man is charged with securing the census returns from Arizona, it may be of interest to know few of the chief rules regulating. the taking of the census of the United States and territories. By the act of the Senate and of the House of Repre- sentatives it is provided;
 "That census of the population, agriculture, manufactures and mines and quarries of the United States shall be taken by the director of census in the year 1910 and every ten years thereafter. The census herein provided for shall include each state and terri tory on the mainland of the United States. the District of Columbia, and. Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico.
 "That the period of three years be- ginning the first day of July next pre- ceding the census provided for shall be known as the decennial census period and the reports upon the in- quiries provided for shall be completed and published within such period.
 ''That after June IS, 1909, and dur inc the decennial census period only, there may be employed in the census office, in addition to the force provided for by the act of March 6, 1902, entitled An Act to Provide for a Permanent Census Office, an assistant director, who shall be an experienced statisti- elan. geographer, a chief statistician, and appointment clerk, 8 private secre- tary to the director, two stenographers and eight expert chiefs of division.
 'GThat the territory assigned to each spervisor shall be divided into as many districts as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act, and in the discretion of the director of the census, two or more enumeration dis tricts may be given to one enumerator and the boundaries of all the enum' eration districts shall be clearly des- crbed by civil divisions, rivers, roads, public surveys, or other easily distin- guishable lines; provided, that enum orators may be assigned for the special enumeration of institutions, when de- sirable without reference to the number of inmates.
 "That in any city having five thou. sand inhabitants or more, under the preceding census, the enumeration of the population shall be commenced on the l5 day of April aforesaid, and shall be completed within two weeks there aftap ,'