Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-16
CENSUS INFORMATION
FOR GENERAL PUBLIC
Circular Letter Gives Directions
for Answering Questions
INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL
Penalties for Refusing to Give Com
plete Returns

taxing OF the census beginning Oh
April 18th;
On April Is, in the present year.
1910, census of the United States
begins. 1t occurs every 10 years.
1t is the basis Of the distribution
among the States of Representation
in the national House of Represent
atives.
1t is also the means by which the
United States government ascer-
tains the increase in the population,
agriculture, industries, and re-
sources of the nation.
1t is required by the constitution
and by act of Congress.
The information sought will be
used solely for general statistical
purposes. 1t will neither be pub
lished nor used ia any other way to
disclose facts regarding any indi-
vidual or enterprise.
The census is not, never has been.
and cannot be employed to obtain
information that can be used in any
way in the assessment of property
for the purposes of taxation or the
collection of taxes. national. State
or local; for deportation procc, j.
ings; eXtradition measures; army
or navy conscription; compulsory
school attendance; child labor law
prosecutions; quarantine regula-
tions: or in any way 70 affect the
life, liberty, or property of any
person.
1t has nothing whatever to do
with the detection, arrest, prosecu-
ton, or punishment CT any person.
for any suspected, or actual, viola
ton oil law, whether Of a city. or
State, or the national government.
or of a foreign nation.
The census inquiries are defined
by act of Congress. The questions
on the schedules are framed by the
director of the census in conformity
with that act. They apply to all
persons living in the United States
on April Is, next, the Census
Day. The same questions are
asked about each person. All per-
sons must answer all the questions.
The census law, with reference to
population, requires that the enum-
orators questions shall, for each
inhabitant, call for:
The name, relationship to head
of family. color. sex, age, conjugal
condition, place of birth, place of
birth OF parents, number of years in
the United States, citizenship, occu-
pa ton, whether or not employer or
employee, and, if employee, wheth-
er or not employed at the date of
enumeration april Is. 1910, and
the number of months unemployed
during the preceding calendar year
Q9O9), whether or not engaged in
agriculture, school attendance, lit
eracy, and tenure of home, and
whether or not survivor of the
Union or Confederate army or navy;
and the name and address of each
blind or deaf and dumb person.
The same law, with reference to
agriculture, requires that the enum-
orators questions shall call for:
The name, color, and country of
birth of each occupant of each farm
tenure, acreage of farm, acreage of
WOO Hand and character OF timber
theron, value of farm and improve
ments, value of farm implements,
number and value of live stock
on farms and ranges, and the
acreage of crops planted and to be
planted during the year of enumer-
alton Q9l0), and the acreage of crops
and the quantity and value of crops
and other farm products for the
year ending December thirty-frst
$1,000 next preceding TIE enumera.
tion."
II any adult person refuses OF
willfullv neglects to answer an en-
umerator's questions, or, if any per
son willfully gives answers that are
false, he or she can be arrested, car
ried to court, and fined up to $40,
opI ip,y>r;Snnu,ant