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Schedule of R. S.

relative to products of industry.

Schedule number three shall contain inquiries respecting the kind number three; and amount of power employed in establishments of productive industry, and the kind and number of machines in use, together with the maximum capacity of such establishment, where the Superintendent of Census shall deem such inquiry appropriate;

-number four;

And the said superintendent may, when he shall regard it expedient, prepare special blank forms for separate industries.

Schedule number four shall contain inquiries relating to the public relative to towns, indebtedness of cities, counties, incorporated villages, and towns, and school districts;

cities, and coun

ties.

ownership of debt, &c. 1880, April 20, ch. 57, § 2.

-number five; relative to deaths.

tained.

And of the ownership of the public debt of the United States, by whom owned and the respective amounts; and such additional inquiries respecting the same, as well as respecting the public paupers and criminals, as the Superintendent of Census shall deem necessary to seucre full information respecting the numbers and condition of these classes. Schedule number five shall contain inquiries as to the birthplace of the father and mother of each person reported as having died during the year, and as to the usual occupation of each such person.

Railroad corpoThe Superintendent of Census shall require and obtain from every railrations; facts con- road corporation, or the lessee or receiver thereof, the following facts, to cerning, to be ob- exhibit the condition of such corporation, and the condition, character1880, April 20, istics, and operations of the railroad or railroads owned or controlled by ch. 57, § 3, such corporation, or the lessee or receiver thereof, on the first of June of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, to wit:

Express companies; facts concerning, to be obtained.

The name of the corporation or company, with the corporate names of all leased lines; the number of miles projected or authorized by law or charter, with the several terminal points of the same; the number of miles completed, exhibiting separately the length of lines within each State; the number of miles operated during the last complete fiscal year preceding June first, eighteen hundred and eighty; the capital stock allowed by law or charter, and the amount paid up; the amount of funded and of unfunded debt, with period of funded debt, and rate of interest thereon, and the amount of all sinking funds provided for the redemption of such debts; the number of acres of land derived from public grants remaining unsold; the total cost of construction, of equipment, and of all permanent investments, including the cost of purchase of other lines of road and of telegraph lines; the amount and character of rolling stock; the number and class of employees; the receipts of such corporation or company for the last complete fiscal year preceding June first, eighteen hundred and eighty, exhibiting separately the earnings from through freight, from local freight, from passengers, from expresses, and from mails; the expenses of such corporation or company for said fiscal year, exhibiting separately the amount paid for salaries and wages, for fuel, for national, State, and municipal taxes, for interest on bonds and other debts, for dividends, for repairs, for damage to freight and personal injuries; also, the operations of said fiscal year, including mileage of freight, of passenger, and of construction and repair trains separately, the number of passengers carried, and the amount and class of freight transported each way; also, the number, character, and, so far as ascertained, the cause of all casualties by which life was lost, which occurred upon or within the trains, the tracks, or the buildings of said corporation or company during said fiscal year, and the extent of injury to life and limb resulting therefrom; also the terms of all agreements and contracts by which sleeping cars, palace and parlor cars, so called, express cars, and cars of transportation companies, not identical with the corporation or company making the return herein required, are run upon such road or roads, and the extent of such service, and the amount of all receipts therefrom during the said fiscal year.

The Superintendent of the Census shall require and obtain from the owners, proprietors, or managers of every incorporated express company the following facts to wit: Name of corporation or company; capital paid up; total capital stock, and to what extent the same has been watered,

and how often corners have been made on such watered stock; length of lines in miles; whether the business is conducted by rail, vessel, or otherwise; total amount paid to railroads or vessels for use of line or lines; number of officers, number of persons engaged in general administration; number of agents and messengers; total receipts, total expenditures, exhibiting separately amount paid for salaries, for repairs, and for general expenses.

Life-insurance

He shall also in like manner require and obtain, from the owners, pro- Telegraph comprietors, or managers of every telegraph company, the following facts panies; facts conto wit: Name of corporation or company; terminal points connected; cerning. capital and capital paid up; length of lines in miles; miles of wire; number of officers; number of persons engaged in general administration; number of persons engaged as telegraph-operators; the number of messages transmitted by officers of the United States; the number of messages transmitted for the press; the number of messages transmitted for private parties; total number of messages transmitted; total receipts from messages; total expenditures of the company, exhibiting separately the amount expended for salaries, for repairs, and for general expenses. He shall also, in like manner, require and obtain, from the officers or managers of all life insurance companies, the following facts, to wit: companies. Name of company; amount of capital and paid up capital; the number of persons employed in the general administration; the number employed as agents; the total gross assets of the company, exhibiting separately realized assets, deferred and unpaid premiums, and premium notes and loans; total liabilities of the company, exhibiting separately losses adjusted and unadjusted, losses resisted, scrip and other dividends, dividends to policy-holders not applied, reinsurance fund; all other claims, including capital; receipts from cash premiums; receipts from all other sources; total cash expenditures, exhibiting separately amount paid for losses and claims, dividends to stock-holders, dividends to policyholders, commissions, officers' salaries, medical examiners' fees, national, State and local taxation, and all other cash expenditures; amount and character of deposits in each State to secure policy-holders; premiumnote expenditures; the number and amount of policies issued during the year; also exhibiting policies terminating during the year, the number and amount terminated by death, by expiration, by surrender, by lapse, by change; total number and amount of policies in force, and the amount of the premiums; the amount of losses in cash and notes and the percentage of the loss to the total amount of policies in force; percentage of assets to risks in force.

He shall in like manner, require and obtain, from every fire and marine insurance company, the following facts, to wit: Name of company; amount of capital stock; the amount paid up; the number of persons employed in general administration; the number employed as agents; the gross assets of company; the total liabilities, exhibiting separately the amount of losses adjusted, losses unadjusted, losses resisted, reinsurance fund; all other liabilities, including capital; also, the total receipts, exhibiting separately fire premiums, marine and inland premiums, and receipts from all other sources, including interest, dividends, and rents; also the total expenditures, exhibiting separately the number and amount of fire losses, of marine and inland losses, dividends, commissions, officers' salaries, State, national, and municipal taxes, and all other ex

penses.

Fire and marine insurance compa

He may require such other information, as to the subjects of this sec- Other information, as, in his judgment, may be necessary to secure such returns as tion may be re will exhibit the transactions of said several companies.

quired.

Enumerator

SEC. 18. Each enumerator in his subdivision shall be charged with the collection of the facts and statistics required by each and all the several collect facts. schedules, with the following exceptions, to wit:

to

In cities where an official registration of deaths is maintained, the except as to morSuperintendent of Census may, in his discretion, withdraw the mortal- tality in certain ity schedule from the several enumerators within such cities, and may cial registration. cities having offi

obtain the statistics required by this act through official records, paying therefor such sum as may be found necessary, not exceeding the amount which is by this act authorized to be paid to enumerators for a similar service, namely, two cents for each death thus returned.

Experts may be Whenever he shall deem it expedient, the Superintendent of Census employed to collect may withdraw the schedules for manufacturing and social statistics from facts as to manu- the enumerators of the several subdivisions, and may charge the collecfacturing and social statistics in tion of these statistics upon experts and special agents, to be employed without respect to locality.

certain cases. Experts; their employment, oath, duties, pay, &c.

Schedules of in

And said Superintendent may employ experts and special agents to investigate in their economic relations the manufacturing, railroad, fishing, mining, and other industries of the country, and the statistics of telegraph, express, transportation, and insurance companies, as he may designate and require.

And the Superintendent of Census shall, with the approval of the terrogatories to be Secretary of the Interior, prepare schedules containing such interrogaprepared. tories as shall, in his judgment, be best adapted to elicit this information, with such specifications, divisions, and particulars under each head as he shall deem necessary to that end.

Oath and

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Such experts and special agents shall take the same oath as the enuthority of experts merators of the several subdivisions, and shall have equal authority and agents. with such enumerators in respect to the subjects committed to them, and they shall receive compensation at rates to be fixed by the Superintendent of Census with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the same shall in no case exceed six dollars per day and actual traveling expenses

Enumeration to

when to be completed.

SEC. 19 The enumeration required by this act shall commence on the commence first first Monday of June, and be taken as of that date, and each enumeraMonday in June, tor shall prosecute the canvass of his subdivision from that date for1880, and to be prosecuted each ward on each week-day without intermission, except for sickness or week-day. other urgent cause; and any unnecessary cessation of his work shall 1880, April 20, be sufficient ground for his removal and the appointment of another ch. 57, § 4. person in his place; and any person so appointed shall take the oath required of enumerators, and shall receive compensation at the same rates. And it shall be the duty of each enumerator to complete the enumeration of his district, and to prepare the returns herein before required to 1880, April 20, be made, and to forward the same to the supervisor of his district on ch. 57, §§ 4, 6. or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty, and in any city having over ten thousand inhabitants under the census of eighteen hundred and seventy, the enumeration of population shall be taken within two weeks from the first Monday of June; and any delay beyond the dates above respectively, on the part of any enumerator, shall be sufficient cause for withholding the compensation to which he would be entitled by compliance with the provisions of this act, until proof satisfactory to the Superintendent of Census shall be furnished that such delay was by reason of causes beyond the control of such enumerator.

Maximum cost

million dollars.

ch. 57, § 7.

SEC 20. The sum of three millions of dollars is hereby fixed and limlimited to three ited as the maximum cost of the census herein provided for, exclusive of printing and engraving, and it shall not be lawful for the Secretary 1880, April 20, of the Interior or the Superintendent of Census to incur any expense or obligation whatever, in respect to said census, in excess of that sum. And the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for printing and other preliminary expenses is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated which sum shall form part of the three millions fixed as the cost of the census.

Information may SEC. 21. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized whenever be obtained from he may think proper, to call upon any other department or officer of the other departments. government for information pertinent to the enumeration herein required. States taking SEC. 22. That if any State or Territory, through its duly appointed census between officers or agents, shall, during the two months beginning on the first

national censuses

Monday of June of the year which is the mean between the decennial upon depositing censuses of the United States is by this act directed to be taken, take copy thereof with Secretary of Inteand complete a census in all respects according to the schedules and rior may have payforms of enumeration in the census of the United States and shall de- ment toward exposit with the Secretary of the Interior, on or before the first of Sep- penses. tember following, a full and authentic copy of all schedules returned and reports made by the officers and agents charged with such enumeration, then the Secretary of the Treasury shall, upon receiving a certificate from the Secretary of the Interior, that such schedules and reports have been duly deposited, pay, on the requisition of the governor of such State or Territory, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to fifty per centum of the amount which was paid to all supervisors and actual enumerators within such State or Territory at the United States census next preceding, increased by one half the percentage of gain in population in such State or Territory between the two United States censuses next preceding:

Provided: That the blank schedules used for the purposes of the enumeration herein provided for shall be similar, in all respects of form and size of heading and ruling, to those used in the census of the United States.

Supervisors and enumerators may

SEC. 23. The Superintendent of Census, with the consent of the President, may at any time, remove any supervisor of census, and fill any be removed and vacancy thereby caused or otherwise occurring;

And the supervisor of census may, with the consent of the Superintendent of Census remove any enumerator in his district, and fill the vacancy thereby caused or otherwise occurring;

And in such cases but one compensation shall be allowed for the entire service, to be apportioned among the persons performing the same in the discretion of the Superintendent of Census.

vacancies filled.

suses to be taken

SEC. 24. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions Subsequent cenof this act are hereby repealed; and all censuses subsequent to the according to this tenth census shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of this act. act unless Congress shall hereafter otherwise provide. [March 3, 1879.]

CHAPTER 198.

AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN PENSIONERS.

Pension for loss of leg at hip joint.

Be it enacted, &c., That all pensioners now on the pension-rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, for amputation of either leg at the hip joint, shall receive a pension at the rate of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per month from the date of the approval of this act. [March 3, 1879.]

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CHAPTER 200.

AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS BECOMING TOTALLY BLIND IN
THE SERVICE OF THE COUNTRY.

Pension to soldiers and sailors who become totally blind.

March 3, 1879. 20 Stat. L., 484.

Pension to sol

who become total

Be it enacted, &c., That the act of June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, entitled "An act to increase the pensions of certain diers and sailors soldiers and sailors who have lost both their hands or both their feet, ly blind. or the sight of both eyes, in the service of the country", be so construed R. S., §§ 4697, as to include all soldiers and sailors who have become totally blind from 4698. causes occurring in the service of the United States. [March 3, 1879.] 261. 1878, June 17, ch.

CHAPTER 202.

AN ACT TO PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF INFECTIOUS OR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
INTO THE UNITED STATES, AND TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

March 3, 1879.

20 Stat. L., 484.

SECTION

National Board

4796.

1879, June 2, ch.

1. National Board of Health established; mem-
bers, compensation, &c.

-meetings, president of, rules, &c.

Be it enacted, &c.

SECTION

2. duties of

3. Reports of, to Congress; Academy of Science requested to co-operate.

[SECTION 1], That there shall be established a National Board of Health of Health estab- to consist of seven members, to be appointed by the President, by and lished; members, with the advice and consent of the Senate, not more than one of whom compensation, &c. R. S., 66 4792- shall be appointed from any one State, whose compensation, during the time when actually engaged in the performance of their duties under this act, shall be ten dollars per diem each and reasonable expenses, and of one medical officer of the Army, one medical officer of the Navy, one medical officer of the Marine Hospital Service, and one officer from the Department of Justice, to be detailed by the Secretaries of the several Departments and the Attorney General, respectively, and the officers so detailed shall receive no compensation.

11.

61.

1879, July 1, ch.

-meetings, president of, rules, &c.

- duties of.

11.

1879, June 2, ch. 1879, June 14, Res. No. 6, p. 502.'

Said board shall meet in Washington within thirty days after the passage of this act and in Washington or elsewhere from time to time upon notice from the president of the board, who is to be chosen by the members thereof, or upon its own adjournments, and shall frame all rules and regulations authorized or required by this act, and shall make or cause to be made such special examinations and investigations at any place or places within the United States, or at foreign ports, as they may deem best, to aid in the execution of this act and the promotion of its objects. SEC. 2. The duties of the National Board of Health shall be to obtain information upon all matters affecting the public health, to advise the several departments of the government, the executives of the several States, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, on all questions submitted by them, or whenever in the opinion of the board such advice may tend to the preservation and improvement of the public health.

Reports of, to SEC. 3. That the Board of Health with the assistance of the Academy Congress; Acad- of Science, which is hereby requested and directed to cooperate with emy of Science re- them for that purpose, shall report to Congress at its next session a full quested to co-op- statement of its transactions, together with a plan for a national public

erate.

health organization, which plan shall be prepared after consultation with
the principal sanitary organizations and the sanitarians of the several
States of the United States, special attention being given to the subject
of quarantine, both maritime and inland, and especially as to regulations
which should be established between State or local systems of quaran-
tine and a national quarantine system.
* [March 3, 1879.]

CHAPTER 287.

AN ACT FOR THE ALLOWANCE OF CERTAIN CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE ACCOUNTING
OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT, AND FOR OTHER PUR-
POSES.

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SEC. 2. That the agents appointed under the provisions of sections tigate certain two and three of the act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and furnished Army by sixty four, entitled "An act to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court of

claims for stores

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