Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-04-29
AS to Absentees.

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AS to Absentees.
II any one In an enumeration district
is temporarily away from home on o
visit or on business or travelling for
pleasure or attending school or college
or sick in hospital such absent per,
son is TO be enumerated and included
with other members of the family
But a son or daughter regularly living
in another locality should not be count.
ed with the family at home.
Servants, laborers or other employ.
ees who live with the family and sleep
in the same house or on the premises
should be enumerated with the family
The census bureau states that there
will be. on the other hand certain
number of persons present and perhaps
lodging and sleeping in districts at
the time of the enumeration who do
not have their usual place of abode
there. These are not to be enumerated
1t must be assumed that they will be
enumerated elsewhere. They should
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certain that they will not be enumcrat
ed anywhere else, enumerate or in
clude with the members of a family
they are enumerating any of the fol
lowing classes:
Persons visiting a family. transient
boarders or dodgers who have some
other usual or permanent place Of
abode, students or children living or
boarding with a family in order to
attend some school, college or other
educational institution in the locality,
but not regarding the place as their
home; persons who take their meals
with family, but lodge or sleep else.
where; servants, apprentices or other
persons employed by family and
working In the house or on the prem
ises, but not sleeping there, or any
person who was formerly in family.
but has since become permanent in
mate Of an asylum, almshouse, home
for the aged. reformatory. prison or
any other institution in which the in
mates may remain for long periods Of
time.
The words dwelling house" and
family" are, for census purposes. civ.
en- a much wider application than they
have In ordinary speech. A dwelling"
is defined rs place in which at the
time Of the census one or more persons
regularly sleep. 1t need not be a house
in the common meaning Of the word.
A Census Family.
A family" as a census term, may
mean a group of individuals who occu-
py Jointly dwelling place or part of
dwelling place or an individual lily.
ing alone in any place of abode. All
the occupants and employees of ho,
tel. If they regularly sleep there, make
up a single family because they occu,
py one dwelling place. and persons liv.
ing alone are regarded as families.
The enumerators are required to en-,
ter ON the schedule the name of every
person whose usual place of abode on
April Is, 1910, was with the family OF
In the dwelling place for which the
enumeration is being made. The head
of the family Is to be entered first
| then the wife. next the children
whether sons or daughters, in the or
der Of their ages, and, lastly, all Other
persons living with the family, wheth
er relatives, boarders, lodgers or serv
ants.
If any adult refuses or willfully neg
lects to answer the questions on th'
enumerator's list or If he or she will
fully gives answers that are false h.
or she will be arrested. carried to court
and fined up to 500. Keepers of ho
tells, apartment houses. boarding ol
lodging houses. tenements or othel
buildings in which people make ther
homes must help the enumeratol
when requested or they will be arrest
ed, carried to court and fined up T.
$500.
1t is everybody's duty to help make
the next census. which is the thir
teenth taken since the year 1890, al
accurate statement of the population
conditions in the United States as the,
actually exist April 10. 1910. 1t Is no
| only their duty: it Is the law,