ders and certificates that fail to show such facts shall be null and void.

That any person who purposely procures naturalization in violation of the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned not less than one nor more than ten years, or both, and the court in which such conviction is had shall thereupon adjudge and declare the order or decree and all certificates admitting such person to citizenship null and void. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred on the courts having jurisdiction of the trial of such offense to make such adjudication.

That any person who knowingly aids, advises, or encourages any such person to apply for or to secure naturalization or to file the preliminary papers declaring an intent to become a citizen of the United States, or who in any naturalization proceeding knowingly procures or gives false testimony as to any material fact, or who knowingly makes an affidavit false as to any material fact required to be proved in such proceeding, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not less than one nor more than ten years, or both. The foregoing provisions concerning naturalization shall not be enforced until ninety days after the approval hereof.

Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, § 39, 32 Stat. 1222.

This section is part of the act to regulate immigration of aliens into the United States, cited above, other sections of which are set forth ante, under Title XXIX, "Immigration," subtitle "Regulation and Restriction of Immigration in General."

Persons such as those described and excluded from naturalization by this section are not to be permitted to enter the United States, and aiding or assisting any such person unlawfully to do so is punishable by provisions of section 38 of the act.

TITLE XXXI.

THE CENSUS.

ACT MARCH 3, 1899, c. 419, § 1.

Census to be taken.

The provisions of this act relating to the Twelfth Census, not inconsistent with those of Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, remain in force for the taking of the Thirteenth and subsequent censuses, by section 6 of that act, set forth below.

Provisions of this act inconsistent with those of Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, and various supplemental amendatory acts, are repealed by section 12 of that act, set forth below.

Sections 2-5 of this act are entirely superseded by the provisions of Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, §§ 1-5, set forth below; sections 8 and 17 are amended and substitutes therefor are enacted by sections 7 and 10 of that act, set forth below; and section 25 is superseded by the abolition of the census printing office by section 11 of that act, also set forth below; but provisions of the other sections of this act, not inconsistent with the provisions of Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, remain in force, under section 6 of that act, set forth below.

Secs. 2-5. [Superseded. Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, §§ 1-5.]

The provisions of these sections relating to the Census Office, established for taking the Twelfth Census, and the officers, clerks, and employés of that office, are superseded by the similar provisions for a permanent Census Office and the officers, clerks, and employés thereof, contained in Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, §§ 1-5, set forth below.

Sec. 8. [Amended. Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 7.]

This section is amended by Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 7, to read as set forth in that section, below.

Sec. 17. [Amended. Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 10.]

This section is amended by Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 10, to read as set forth in that section, below.

Sec. 25. [Superseded. Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 11.]

The provisions of this section authorizing the printing, etc., in the Census Office, of blanks, etc., and bulletins and reports, are superseded by the abolition of the census printing office and the provisions that such printing, etc., shall be done by the Public Printer at the Government Printing Office, contained in Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 11, set forth below.

ACT FEB. 1, 1900, c. 7.

[Repealed. Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 12.]

This act is expressly repealed by Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 12, set forth below.

ACT MAY 10, 1900, c. 389.

[Repealed. Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 12.]

This act is expressly repealed by Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 12, set forth below.

ACT JUNE 2, 1900, c. 615.

[Repealed. Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 12.]

This act is expressly repealed by Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 12, set forth below.

ACT JUNE 6, 1900, c. 791, § 1.

[Superseded. Act March 6, 1902, c. 139. § 4.1

The provision of this act relating to the annual salary of the appointment clerk is superseded by the provision of Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, 4, set forth below, for a disbursing clerk who shall also act as appointment clerk at an annual salary of $2,500.

ACT FEB. 23, 1901, c. 466.

[Repealed. Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 12.]

This act is expressly repealed by Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 12, set forth below.

ACT MARCH 6, 1902, c. 139. [As amended 1902.]

An Act to Provide for a Permanent Census Office. (32 Stat. 51.) Census Office made permanent.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Census Office temporarily established in the Department of the Interior in accordance with an Act entitled "An Act to provide for taking the Twelfth and subsequent censuses," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby made a permanent office.

Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 1, 32 Stat. 51.

Act March 3, 1899, c. 419. mentioned in this section, is set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1336-1349.

All provisions of said Act March 3, 1899, c. 419, inconsistent with this act, and various supplemental acts amendatory thereof, are repealed by section 12 of this act, set forth below.

The Census Office is transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Commerce and Labor by the act establishing the latter department, Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, § 4, ante, under Title XII A. "The Department of Commerce and Labor."

Continuance of work pertaining to Twelfth Census; time of organization of permanent Census Office.

Sec. 2. That the work pertaining to the Twelfth Census shall be carried on by the Census Office under the existing organization until the first day of July, nineteen hundred and two, when the permanent Census Office herein provided for shall be organized by the Director of the Census.

Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 2, 32 Stat. 51.

Director of Census; salary; duties.

Sec. 3. That the permanent Census Office shall be in charge of a Director of the Census, appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall receive an annual salary

of six thousand dollars. It shall be his duty to superintend and direct the taking of the Thirteenth and subsequent censuses of the United States and to perform such other duties as may be imposed. upon him by law.

Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 3, 32 Stat. 51.

Officers, clerks, and employés of Census Office; bond of disbursing

clerk.

Sec. 4. That there shall be in the Census Office, to be appointed by the Director thereof, with the approval of the head of the Department to which the said Census Office is attached, four chief statisticians, who shall be persons of known and tried experience in statistical work, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars each; a chief clerk, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, who, in the absence of the Director, shall serve as acting director; a disbursing clerk, who shall also act as appointment clerk, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; one stenographer, at an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars; four expert chiefs of division, at an annual salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars each; six clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; and such number of clerks of class one, and of clerks, copyists, computers, and skilled laborers, with salaries at the rate of not less than six hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars per annum, messengers, assistant messengers, watchmen, unskilled laborers, and charwomen as may be necessary for the proper and prompt performance of the duties required by law. The disbursing clerk herein provided for shall, before entering upon his duties, give bond to the Secretary of the Treasury in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, which bond shall be conditioned that the said officer shall render a true and faithful account to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury quarter yearly of all moneys and properties which shall be received by him by virtue of his office, with surety, to be approved by the Solicitor of the Treasury. Such bond shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be by him put in suit upon any breach of the conditions thereof.

Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 4, 32 Stat. 51. Act June 30, 1902, c. 1325, 32 Stat. 506.

The amendment of this section by Act June 30, 1902, c. 1325, cited above, consists in the insertion after the word "watchmen," and before the words "and charwomen," of the words "unskilled laborers."

The appointment of employés of the Office is provided for by the next following section of this act.

All employés of the Census Office must be citizens of the United States, by a provision of section 17 of Act March 3, 1899, c. 419, as amended by section 10 of this act, set forth below.

Estimates in detail for the expenses of the permanent Census Office are to be submitted annually in the regular Book of Estimates, by a provision of Act June 28, 1902, c. 1301, § 1, rost, under Title XLI, "Appropriations."

Appointment of employés of Census Office; preference of honorably discharged soldiers and their widows.

Sec. 5. That all employees of the Census Office, at the date of the passage of this Act, except unskilled laborers, may be appointed by the Director of the Census with the approval of the head of the Department to which said Census Office is attached, and when so ap

pointed shall be and they are hereby placed, without further examination, under the provisions of the civil service Act approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and the amendments thereto and the rules established thereunder; and persons who have served as soldiers in any war in which the United States may have been engaged, who have been honorably discharged from the service of the United States, and the widows of such soldiers, shall have preference in the matter of employment; and all new appointments to the permanent clerical force in the Census Office hereby created shall be made in accordance with the requirements of the civil service Act above referred to.

Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 5, 32 Stat. 51.

The provisions of Act Jan. 16, 1883, c. 27, mentioned in this section, are set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1217–1224.

Payment to employés not reappointed for leave of absence, in addition to the salary due them for services, was authorized by a provision of Act July 1, 1902, c. 1351, set forth below.

Provisions relating to Twelfth Census to remain in force for taking Thirteenth and subsequent censuses.

Sec. 6. That all the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, relating to the Twelfth Census, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall remain in full force and effect for the taking of the Thirteenth and subsequent censuses.

Act March 6, 1902, c. 139, § 6, 32 Stat. 52.

The provisions of Act March 3, 1899, c. 419, relating to the Twelfth Census, mentioned in this section, are contained in sections 6-33 of that act, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1338-1349. Sections 8 and 17 of that act are expressly amended by sections 7 and 10 of this act, set forth below.

All provisions of Act March 3, 1899, c. 419, inconsistent with this act, are repealed by section 12 of this act, set forth below.

Collection of special statistics decennially.

Sec. 7. That section eight of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: That after the completion and return of the enumeration and of the work upon the schedules relating to the products of agriculture and to manufacturing and mechanical establishments provided for in section seven of this Act, the Director of the Census is hereby authorized decennially to collect statistics relating to special classes, including the insane, feeble-minded, deaf, dumb, and blind; to crime, pauperism, and benevolence, including prisoners, paupers, juvenile delinquents, and inmates of benevolent and reformatory institutions; to social statistics of cities; to public indebtedness, valuation, taxation, and expenditures; to religious bodies; to electric light and power, telephone, and telegraph business; to transportation by water, express business, and street railways; to mines, mining, quarries and minerals, and the production and value thereof, including gold in divisions of placer and vein, and silver mines, and the number of men employed, the average daily wage, average working time, and aggregate earnings in the various branches and aforesaid divisions of the mining and quarrying industries until July first, nineteen hundred and four. And the Director of the Census shall prepare schedules containing such interrogatories as shall in his judgment be best