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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
February
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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Washington, Feb. 3.- The work of appointing 175 census supervisors ig nearly completad. Forty thousand enumerators will be engaged in collecting the statistici under their direction. Superintendent Porter directs that preferonce beglv n to honorably dischargod soldiors aml .úlors in the selection of enumerators. In rich agricultural regions, lie states, '2,000 or 2,500 inhabitants may safely be included in an enumerated district, and the samo limit is to bo observed in cities having over 10,000 inhabitants. In the appointment of enumerators it will be found advisable, Mr. l'ortor states, to select men who have bad somo previous experienee of ofücial duty. Township assessors and other local officers, postmasters at small offices, country physicians and schoolteachers are regarded as likely to prove competent. Mr. Porter adds that he Ís aware of no law making women ineligble for appointment as enumerators. Washington-, Feb. 4.- The superintendent of the census has appointed John Hyde, of Nebraska, and Mortimer Whitehead, of New Jersey, chief special agents for the collection of the statistics of agriculture.

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