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428 THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 11. 1850. money in the fiscal year ending June thirtiethheighteen hundred and fifty; and for giqzma a the whole year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, pmt6d_ Pp shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro. priated. Approved, May 15, 1850. .. _ ‘ ‘ oo the seventh and subse nent Cen-

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1850, ch. 43. of Representatives, and provide for their future ./Qpportionment mnong the several States. I -- Of the Duties, Liabilities, and Compensation if Marshals. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Marsha]; to United States of America in Congress assembled, That the marshals of

  • ·¤l¤¢¤¤¤¤¤¤¤- the several districts of the United States, including the District of

Columbia and the Territories, are hereby required respectively to cause all the inhabitants to be enumerated, and to collect all the other statistical informatidn within their respective districts, in the manner provided for in this act, and specified in the instructions which shall be given by the Secretary of the Interior, and in the tables annexed, and to return the same to the said Secretary on or before the drst day of November next ensuing, omitting from the enumeration of the inhabitants Indians not taxed; also, at the discretion of said Secretary, any part or all the statistics of the Territories except those of population r Prowiso. Provided, however, And if the time assigned for making the return "shall prove inadequate for the Territories, the said Secretary may ex- Furtnor proviso. tend the same: Provided, further, If there be any district or Territory of the United States in which there is no marshal of the United States, the President shall appoint some suitable person to discharge the duties assigned by this act to marshals. Iflmhals *°· Sec. 2. And be it furtherenacted, That each of said marshals shall, gjigégnl? swear before entering upon his duties, take and subscribe the following oath, or affirmation, before any circuit or district judge of the United States, or before any judge of any State court, to wit: pom, of oath I, , marshal of the district or amrmation. of , do solemnly swear (or arlirm) that I will to the best of my ability enumerate, or cause to be enumerated, all the inhabitants of said district, and will collect, or cause to be collected, the other statistical information within the same, and will faithfully perform all the duties enjoined on me by the act providing for the taking of the seventh census. And when duly authenticated by the said judge, he shall deposite a copy thereof, so authenticated, with the said Secretary of the Interior, and no marshal shall discharge any of the duties herein required, until he has taken and subscribed this oath, and forwarded a copy as aforesaid. 1SE;•;huirn;=5rsh:1 I Sec. find be it further enacted, That each marshal shall separate SCPWQC This di; his district into subdivisions containing not exceeding twenty thousand trier mm mba;- persons in each, unless the limitation to that number causes inconveni-

t   ent boundaries, in which case the numbzr may be larger; and shall

ing 2O_Q0g Pm also est1mate,.from the best sources of in ormation which he is able t0 sons, &o. obtain, the number of square miles in each subdivision, and transmit P¤>ViS¤- the same to the Department of the Interior : Provided, however, That in- bounding such subdivisions, the limits thereof shall be known civil divisions, such as county, hundred, parish, township, town, city, ward or district lines, or highways, or natural boundaries, such as rivers, lakes, Soc. Each gnarshag Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That each marshal shall °° ““p°*“° "‘ appomt an assistant for each such subdivision, who is a resident