An Act to Authorize the Continuance in Office of Certain Officers and Employees of the Census Bureau for the Purpose of Directing the Preparation of the Census Report Contemplated by Act Numbered Four Hundred and Sixty-Seven

August 29, 1903

ACT NO. 862

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CONTINUANCE IN OFFICE OF CERTAIN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE CENSUS BUREAU FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF THE CENSUS REPORT CONTEMPLATED BY ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN

WHEREAS the work of collecting information in the Philippine Islands for census purposes, as contemplated by Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-seven, as amended, has been practically completed: Therefore, HTcADC

SECTION 1. The services of the present Director of the Census in the compilation and tabulation of the census return and the preparation of the report of the census shall be continued in Washington upon the same terms as those upon which he has served in the Philippine Islands; and the services of the two assistant directors of the census authorized by Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-seven shall be continued in Washington until the completion of the census report, at the rate of three hundred dollars, United States currency, per month each, such salaries to commence upon their reaching Washington, and their present salaries, as authorized by Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-seven, to continue until that time: Provided, however, That they shall consume only the usual time in proceeding from Manila to Washington.

SECTION 2. Authority is hereby given to the Director of the Census to take with him to Washington as his assistant Lieutenant T.B. Taylor, United States Army, upon the same terms as are now in force as to his employment; and further to take with him two secretaries at the salaries now received by them: Provided, however, That the detail of Lieutenant Taylor as above provided shall be duly authorized by the proper military authority.

SECTION 3. The chief clerk and the disbursing officer of the Census Bureau shall be continued in office for a period of three months from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and three, for the purpose of settling up delayed accounts and of receiving and transmitting to the Director of the Census at Washington census schedules and other documents relating to the census.

SECTION 4. The Disbursing Agent of the Insular Government in Washington is hereby authorized and directed to disburse the salaries of the officers and employees of the Census Bureau retained in office under this authority after their arrival in Washington and for the time they are in transit from Manila to Washington.

SECTION 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. aScITE

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, August 29, 1903.