The sun., 1909-02-28
OCTOBER JOB FOR POLICE
SCHOOL CENSLS STRIKES THE
CITY HAIL As INTERESTING.
Comes Just Before Election and Entrusts
Daily House TO House Inquiry TO
the Police-Ir There Are Not Police
Enough bingham Can Appoint More.


4 the Poiice-If There Are Not Police
Enough Bingham Can Appoint More
The city authorities have just discov.
cred a law that was passed by the Legis.
lature last year which has set them to
thinking hard. They do not know ex-
actly what TO make OF 1t AZ yet. Sue
cinctly slated. IL is a mandatory law for
the establishment Of permanent census
board In this city, such board in October
next to take school census" with the
aid OF the police and the police to keep
that census up 10 date by daily record
precinct 10y precinct. thereafter.
While the bill purports to provide only
for census Of school children, it is one
of its provisions which empowers the cen
sus takers to acquire Information regard
ing persons in parental relation thereto
which some Of tire scrutinzers OF the bill
suspect of being a joker, coupled with
the fact that the census is ordered for
October-a convenient and serviceable
ante election date and the further fact
that the information at the City Hall is
that the bill was put through by Senator
Thomas +. Grady. However. it was
/ signed by Gov. Hughes.
! 4 daily census taken by the police,
say the scrutinizers. opens up a prospect
not only OF domioiliary visits la Russo
Z but Of useful information TO the controls
ling political party at election time. The
I bill not only orders the police TO do this
work for the census board but expressly
authorizes the employment of additional
policemen and their appointment from
the eligible list by the Police Commits
sioner il additional police are required.
The law is known as cha pter 2i9 of the
! laws Of 1905 and is entitled An Act in
Relation to a School Census 1t became
a law on May IL, 1905 But the city's
administrative. executive and legal au-
thor!ties have only just awakened to it
and 10 its possibilities. and there have
lately been conferences in the City Hall
to deterrine just what is TO be done.
The bill says:
: A permanent census board is hereby
established in each city Of the first class.
to consist Of tine Mayor. the superin-
teadent Of schools. the police commits
sioner or officer performing duties simi-
lar to those Of police commissioner.
IL gives TO the board power TO make such
rules and regulations as may be necessary
to carry out the provisions Of the act
and power to appoints a secretary and such
clerks and other employees as may be
necessary. and to fix their salaries, The
act goes on:
such board shall ascertain through the .
police force the residence and employ
ments OF all persons between the ages Of
aud "a years residing within such .
cities ana shall report thereon from time |,
to time to the school authorities OF such
cities,
Under the regulations OF such board
during the month OF october, 1919. IL shall
be the duty OF the police commissioners
in the cities OF the first class to cause a CEN
sis Of the children Of their respective cities
to be taken.
Thereafter such census shall he amended
from day to day by the police, precinct
by precinct. as changes OF residence occur
among the children OF such cities within
the ages prescribed in this act and as other
persons come within the aces prescribed
herein and as other persons within such
ages shall become residents Of such cities, !
40 that said board shall always have on
file a complete census OF the names and /
residences Of the children between such |
ages a nd of the persons in parental relation I
thereto.
The act makes II the duty OF persons
in parental relation To any child within 1
the city limits to report to the police sta |
ton Of the precinct in which they reside !
I. Two weeks before any child becomes |
OF the compulsory school age the name !
of such child, its residence, the name OF |
the person or persons in parental relation |
thereto and the name and location OF the |
school TO which such child Is sent as pupil. |
:? In case a child OF compulsory school
age Ia for any cause removed from one
school and sent to another school. or sent
TO work in accordance with the child labor
law, all the facts In relation thereto.
D. In case the residence OF a child is re-
moved from one police precinct to another
police precinct the new residence and
the other facts required in tho two preceding
paragra phs.
T. In case 4 child between the ages of
and 10 becomes a resident of one OF said
cities Of the first class for the first time
the residence and such other facts as the
census board shall require. Such census
shall include all persons between the ages
of and is years, the day of the month and
The year OF the birth Of each OF such per-
sons, their respective residences by street
md number the names OF their parents
Or guardians, such Information relating
10 illiteraoy and to the enforcement of the
child labor and the compulsory education
aw as the school authorities Of the State
and OF such cities shall require and also
such further Information as such authori- ,
lies shall require.
The bill provides that any parent or ,
person having control Of child between
and Is years OF age VINO withholds or re- ,
fuses this information OF gives false in
lorna ton shall be punished by a fine Of ,
1ot exceeding 500 or imprisonment not !
exceeding thirty days. II also orders !
that the money required for the purposes I
of the act shall be paid by the city. The
State Commissioner Of Education is ,
charged with the enforcement Of the act {
The act also provides for school CEN {
,us in cities other than those of the first
,lass. giving the other cities the option
II establishing such a permanent census 4
,oard as above described or of having the
,ensus taken next October and every
ourth year thereafter by the school au- .
horities. The board Of trustees Of every !,
school district is directed TO make SINH q
ar census IN its district The districts =.
must pay the bill. IS