APPENDICES.

APPENDIX I.

WAR DEPARTMENT ORDER ORGANIZING THE CENSUS.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., September 8, 1899.

I. By direction of the President, a census of the population, of the agricultural products, and of the educational conditions of Porto Rico shall be taken on the 10th day of November, and completed by or before the 20th day of December, 1899.

II. Lieut. Col. J. P. Sanger, Inspector-General, is appointed Director of the Census, with office in Washington. It is made his duty to superintend and direct the taking of the census, and to perform such other duties as may be required of him.

III. Mr. Harrison Dingman is appointed Assistant Director of the Census, with office in the city of San Juan, Porto Rico, and is charged, under the direction of the Director of the Census, with the collection of the information required by this order and such instructions as may be issued.

He will fill all vacancies which may occur among the supervisors of the census and will appoint all enumerators and such special agents as may be necessary, reporting his action to the Director of the Census.

IV. For the purpose of this census the island of Porto Rico is divided into seven census departments, and the following-named citizens of Porto Rico, nominated by the Military Governor, are hereby appointed supervisors of census:

1. Ricardo Hernandez, census department Bayamon.

2. Felix Seijo, census department Arecibo.

3. Luis A. Torregrosa, census department Aguadilla.

4. Manuel Badrena, census department Mayaguez.

5. Enrique Colom, census department Ponce.

6. Luis Muñoz Morales, census department Guayama.

7. Guillermo Riekohl, census department Humacao.

(The islands of Vieques and Culebra are a part of the census department of Humacao; the island of Mona, a part of the census department of Mayaguez. )

Each supervisor shall be duly commissioned by the Secretary of War, and shall be sworn to the faithful performance of duties by the Director or Assistant Director of the Census, or by any civil or military officer authorized to administer oaths in the form and manner prescribed by the Secretary of War.

V. Each supervisor of census shall be charged with the performance, within his department, of the following duties: To consult with the Assistant Director of the Census in regard to the division of his department into enumeration districts most convenient for the purpose of enumeration, which districts shall be declared and the boundaries thereof fixed by the Assistant Director of the Census; to nominate to him suitable persons as enumerators within his department, one for each enumeration district and resident therein; but in case it shall occur in any enumeration district that no person qualified to perform and willing to undertake the duties

of enumerator resides in that department, the supervisor may appoint any fit person to be the enumerator of that district; to communicate to enumerators the necessary instructions and directions relating to their duties, to examine and scrutinize the returns of the enumerators, and in event of discrepancies or deficiencies appearing in the returns for his department, to use all diligence in causing the same to be corrected and supplied; to forward to the Assistant Director of the Census the complete returns for his census department in such time and manner as shall be prescribed by said officer. He will also make up and forward to the disbursing officer of the army designated to make payments in his department, not later than the 25th of each month, the accounts required for ascertaining the amount of compensation due himself, each enumerator in his department, his clerk and messenger, his office rent, and current expenses, which accounts shall be duly certified as true and correct by the supervisor, and said accounts so certified shall be accepted by the disbursing officer so designated, and payment thereon shall be made by draft in favor of each person to whom payment is due. The accounts of enumerators will be sworn to by them and certified as true and correct by the supervisors. The duties imposed upon the supervisors by this order shall be performed, in any and all particulars, in accordance with the instructions and directions of the Secretary of War, and any supervisor who may abandon, neglect, or improperly perform the duties required of him by this order and the instructions he may receive, may be removed by the Assistant Director of the Census, who will report his action to the Director of the Census.

VI. Each enumerator shall be duly commissioned by the Secretary of War, and shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duty by the supervisor of census, or by any civil or military officer authorized to administer oaths, and in the form and manner prescribed by the Secretary of War.

VII. Each enumerator shall be charged with the collection, in his district, of the facts and statistics required by the population schedule, and such other schedules as the Secretary of War may determine shall be used by him in connection with the census. It shall be the duty of each enumerator to visit personally each dwelling house in his district, and each family therein, and each individual living out of a 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 a family, to obtain each and every item of information and all the particulars required by the order prescribed as of the date November 10, 1899. And in case no person shall be found at the usual place of abode of such family, or individual living out of a family, competent to answer the inquiries made in compliance with the requirements of this order, then it shall be lawful for the enumerator to obtain the required information, as near as may be practicable, from the family or families, or person or persons, living nearest to such place of abode; and it shall be the duty of each enumerator to forward the original schedules, duly certified, to the supervisor of census of his census department as his returns under the provisions of this order, and in the event of discrepancies or deficiencies being discovered in his said returns he shall use all diligence in correcting or supplying the same. In case the district assigned any enumerator embraces all or any part of any incorporated township, village, town, or city, and also other territory not included within the limits of such incorporated township, village, town, or city, or either, it shall be the duty of the enumerator of such district to clearly and plainly distinguish and separate, upon the population schedules, the inhabitants of all or any part of such township, village, town, or city, as may be embraced in the district assigned to such enumerator, from the inhabitants of the territorry not included therein. No enumerator shall be deemed qualified to enter upon his duties until he has received from the supervisor of census of the census department to which he belongs the commission authorizing him to perform the duties of enumerator..