APPENDIX D.

SUMMARY OF UNITED STATES CENSUS LEGISLATION.

[This summary comprehends only the acts and resolves relating to the census that were so indexed. A detailed search of the statutes was not made, but it is believed that substantially all the legislation affecting the census is herein embodied.]

Appropriation for discharging the expense of taking
the fifth census.

250,000.00

Provisions for taking the fifth census.
Appropriation for revision of former statements of
population, and for printing and distributing ab-
stracts thereof.

$200,000 of sums appropriated for taking the census
not being required, passed to surplus fund
Transmission by mail regardless of weight of papers
relating to the fifth census authorized.
Clerks of courts directed to transmit to Department
of State the returns of the first, second, third, and
fourth censuses.

Time for completion and return of enumeration ex-
tended to Aug. 1, 1831.

Copies of returns and aggregate amounts filed by mar-
shals with clerks of district and supreme courts not
to be sent to Department of State, as directed by act
of Mar. 23, 1830.

Errors in returns of marshals and assistants to be
noted and printed.

Assistant marshals who have not been paid, through
delinquency of marshals, to be paid out of census
appropriations.

Apportionment of Congressional Representatives.
Distribution of returns of the fifth census.

Returns of the fifth census to be bound.

Documents containing the fifth census to be transmit-
ted by mail free of postage.

Two copies of fifth census allowed each member of
the Twenty-third Congress who was not a member
of the Twenty-second Congress.

SIXTH CENSUS: 1840.

2,000.00

[-200,000.00]

Construction of section 11 of act of Mar. 3, 1839, in
regard to printing.

Extra compensation allowed the superintending clerk
in charge of the sixth census and to the disbursing
agent of the Department of State.

Time for completion and return of enumeration ex-
tended to Jan. 1, 1842.

20,000 copies of the compendium of the sixth census
to be printed.

Sixth census documents to be bound.

Census of Montgomery County, Md., to be again
taken.

Distribution of the returns of the sixth census.
Payment for printing compendium of the sixth cen-
sus suspended until further order of Congress.
Distribution of the printed returns of the sixth cen-
sus and other documents connected therewith.
Appropriation for expenses of the sixth census, in-
cluding printing, except printing of compendium..

110,000.00

Appropriation for carrying act into effect
Appropriation for transmitting blanks and other cen-
sus matter through the mail, to be paid to the Post-
Office Department.

150,000.00

12,000.00

541

22

445 Compensation of marshals, agents, and assistants in
California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico in-
creased; also, as to manner of enumerating persons
in said territory.

Compensation of eight cents per page allowed assist-
ant marshals for making copies of original returns,
as required by section 11.

Secretary of the Interior authorized to extend time
for taking census in delayed districts to Jan. 1, 1851,
and in California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico
to such time as he may deem necessary.
Appropriation for discharging the expense of taking
the seventh enumeration..

Appropriation for payment of clerks on extra duty in
the census office

1,116,000.00

10,500.00

190,000.00

20

326

461

468

167

sus.

353 Apportionment of Congressional Representatives.
696 Salary of Superintendent of Census not to be increased.
748 Appropriation to defray expenses incurred in taking
the census of the territory of Dakota
Appropriation for defraying the expenses of taking the
census of the territory of Nevada

Appropriation for defraying the expenses of taking
the census of the territory of Colorado
Appropriation to complete the compilation of the
eighth census...

Appropriation for salaries and incidental expenses of
the census office..

Appropriation for payment of salary of Edward Jarvis
for digesting facts as to mortality and diseases in
the eighth census...

Appropriation for payment of total liabilities of the
census office, exclusive of amounts claimed to be due
marshals and assistants.

Appropriation to pay amounts due certain marshals
and their assistants.

172 Appropriation to pay amounts due certain marshals
and their assistants.

Payment directed of claims of loyal citizens of states
lately in rebellion for services in taking the eighth

census.

314 Appropriation for payment of claims under act of
June 24, 1870....

1,450.00

2,500.00

3, 262.68
50,000.00

10, 410. 31

750.00

890.64

56, 933. 69

5, 376.09

170,000.00

5,000.00

Mar. 3, 1873

17

528

Payment directed to census takers of 1860 of sums set
to their credit.

503

514

8

9

Subject-matter of law.

Amount appropriated.

12

233

Compensation of assistant marshals for taking the
ninth census may be increased by the Secretary of
the Interior. (Repealed by act of Mar. 3, 1871.)
Appropriation for expenses to be incurred in taking
the ninth census

Division of Virginia into two judicial districts not to
affect the completion of the ninth census of said

state.

Appropriation for defraying the expenses of taking
the ninth census..

Compensation of assistant marshals for taking the
ninth census may be increased by the Secretary of
the Interior. Resolution of June 9, 1870 (16 Stat. L.,
380), repealed.

Appropriation for payment of increased salaries in
the census office

Such part of appropriation by act of Mar. 3, 1871 (16
Stat. L., 503), as is necessary may be used during
the current year.

Appropriation for increased compensation of assistant
marshals..

Appropriation for defraying expenses of taking the
ninth census:

For payment of marshals and assistant and
deputy marshals..

For clerk hire and miscellaneous expenses
Apportionment of Congressional Representatives.
Appropriation for the expenses of the ninth census...
Appropriation for payment of F. W. Clemmons for
labor in disbursing ninth-census appropriations
Appropriation to reimburse marshals such sum as may
be necessary. (Amount not specified.) The total
amount paid under this appropriation was..
Appropriation to pay Charles W. Seaton for use of
tallying machine.

368 Appropriation for preparing and printing maps to
iflustrate the quarto volumes of the ninth census...
Appropriation for expenses of the ninth census.
Appropriation for preparing, engraving, and printing
maps for the statistical atlas..

$1,000,000.00

1,250,000.00

7,600.00

350,000.00

293,000.00

187,000.00

20,000.00

800.00

12, 111.40

15,000.00

25,000.00

12,000.00

30,000.00