enumerators.

designate com

pensation.

cinct as existing at the last general election; Provided, further, That in new counties, created since eighteen hundred and eighty, the Commissioner may appoint additional enumerators in cases where, in his judgment, the census cannot be properly taken in thirty days, by reason of the increase of population or the physical features of said district. The boundaries of all sub-divisions shall be clearly described by civil division, rivers, roads, public surveys, or other easily distinguished lines. In case of any census of the State subsequent to the first census, the same rule of subdivision shall apply with reference to the census of the United States last preceding any such State census.

Compensation of SEC. 9. The compensation of enumerators shall be ascertained and fixed, as follows: In sub-divisions where the Commissioner of Census shall deem such an allowance sufficient, an allowance not exceeding three cents for each living inhabitant; two cents for each death reported; fifteen cents for each farm; twenty cents for each establishment of productive industry, and ten cents for each producing mine, enumerated and returned, may be given in full compensation for all services; and no claim for mileage or traveling expenses shall be allowed in such sub-division; Provided, That the sub-division to which the foregoing rate of Commissioner to compensation shall apply, must be designated by the Commissioner of Census at least one month in advance of the enumeration; and no account of time occupied in enumeration shall be required, for the purpose of ascertaining the compensation of enumerators in such sub-division. For the other sub-divisions, the compensation shall be fixed in advance of the enumeration by the Commissioner of Census, as follows: In the territory now comprising the following named counties, to wit: Chaffee, Clear Creek, Conejos, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gilpin, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Lake (outside the city of Leadville), La Plata, Mesa, Montrose, Ouray, Pitkin, Park, Rio Grande, Routt, San Juan, Saguache, Summit and San Miguel, shall not exceed eight dollars per day of eight hours actual field work, each; in Arapahoe (outside the City of Denver), Boulder, Bent, Custer, Costilla, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso (outside the City of Colorado Springs), Fremont, Grand, Huerfano, Jefferson, Larimer, Las Animas, Pueblo (outside the cities of Pueblo, Central Pueblo, and South Pueblo),. and Weld, shall not exceed seven dollars per day of eight hours actual field work, Commissioner to each. And the Commissioner of Census may prescribe prescribe an uniform method and suitable forms for taking the census,

method.

and for keeping account of the time occupied in field work; for the purpose of ascertaining the amounts due to enumerators, severally, under the provisions of this act; and no enumerator shall be paid for more than thirty days' service, and no claim for mileage or traveling expenses shall be allowed, in any sub-division, under the foregoing rates of compensation.

shall refuse or

municate sta

SEC. 10. Any enumerator who, having taken and Enumerator who subscribed the oath required by this act, shall, without neglect to perjustifiable cause, neglect or refuse to perform the duties form. enjoined on him by this act, or shall, without the authority of the commissioner, communicate to any person not Must not comauthorized to receive the same any statistics of property or tistics. business included in his returns, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars; or if he shall wilfully and knowingly make a false oath or affirmation, in case an oath or affirmation is required of him by this act, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be tried and punished therefor, Penalty. as provided by law for the punishment of such offense in other cases.

SEC. II. If any person shall receive or secure for himself any fee, reward, or compensation, as a consideration for the employment of any person as enumerator, or clerk, or shall in any way receive, or secure to himself, any part of the compensation provided in this act, for the services of any enumerator, or clerk, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars.

enumerator.

SEC. 12. Each and every person, more than twenty who shall render years of age, of sound mind, belonging to any family resid- account to ing in any enumeration district, and in case of the absence of the head and other members of such family, then any agent of such family shall be and each of them is, hereby required, if thereto requested by the Commissioner, enumerator or other authorized agent, to render a true account to the best of his or her knowledge, of every person belonging to such family, in the various particulars required by law; and whoever shall wilfully fail or refuse shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor

more than three hundred dollars. Every president, secretary, treasurer, manager or other authorized agent or representative of every corporation, or smelter, mine, mill, manufactory or industry doing business in this State, from which answers to any of the schedules provided for by this act, are herein required, who shall, if thereto requested by the Commissioner, enumerator or other authorized agent, wilfully neglect, fail or refuse to give correct and complete answers to any inquiries authorized by this act, such officer or agent shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than two Penalty for refus- hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months.

ing to give

answer.

Schedule of

inquiries to be prepared by commissioner.

Railroad corporations shall report facts.

SEC. 13. The schedules of inquiries at the first census, or of any subsequent census, shall be prepared by the Commissioner of Census, and shall contain inquiries as to the relation of each person enumerated to the head of the family, whether wife, son, daughter, servant, boarder or other; also the civil condition of each person enumerated; as to the place of birth of each of the parents of every person enumerated; whether native or foreign born, alien or naturalized, physical and mental health, active or disabled, maimed, crippled, insane or idiotic, and whether employed or unemployed, and if unemployed, during what portion of the year; acreage of the several crops reported; kind and amount of power used in establishments of productive industries or mines; kind and number of machines in use; kind, name and number of producing mines, together with the maximum capacity of each establishment; public indebtedness of cities, incorporated villages and towns, counties and school districts; the number of deaths during the year ending May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eightyfive, or the first census, and on the thirty-first day of May of any other year, when a census of the State shall be taken.

SEC. 14. The Commissioner of Census shall require and obtain from every railroad corporation or the lessee or receiver thereof, the following facts, to exhibit the condition of such corporation, and the condition, characteristics and operations of the railroad or railroads owned or controlled by such corporation or the lessee or receiver thereof, on the first of June of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and on the first of June of every year thereafter when such census shall be made, to wit: The name of

tion.

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 in this State, the number of miles operated during the last fiscal year having its termination nearest to June first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and nearest to the first of June when any subsequent State census shall be taken; the capital stock allowed by law or Capital stock. charter, and the amount paid up; the amount of funded and 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 perma- Cost of construcnent 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 employés; the receipts of such corporation or company for the last complete fiscal year preceding June first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, or preceding June first of any other year in which such census shall be taken; exhibiting separately the earnings from through freight, from local freight, from Earnings. 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 or other debts, for dividends, for repairs, for damage to freight, and personal injuries; also the operations of said Personal injufiscal 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 the said fiscal year, and the extent of injury to life and limb resulting therefrom; also, the terms of all agree- Agreements and ments 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 returns 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 Commissioner of Census shall require and obtain from the owners, proprietors or managers of every incorporated ex

ries.

contracts.

nies.

panies.

Express compa- press 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 or otherwise; total amount paid to railroads or other conveyances 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 the amounts paid for salaries, for repairs and for general expenses. He shall also in like manner require and obtain from the owners, propriTelegraph com- etors or managers of every telegraph company the following facts, to wit: Name of corporation or company; terminal points connected; 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 officers or managers of all life insurance companies, doing business in this State, the following facts, to wit: Name of the 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, re-insurance fund; all other claims, including capital; receipts from cash premiums, from dues, assessments; from all other sources; total cash expenditures, exhibiting separately amount paid for losses and claims, dividends to stock holders, dividends to policy holders, 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; premium note expenditures; the number and amount of policies issued during the year; also, exhibiting policies terminating during the

Life insurance companies.