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ThirtiethCongress,
SecondSession,
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By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled..
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5 		That the Secretary of State ^the Attorney General^, ^(^the Secretary of the Home Department,
if such office is by law created^)^, and the Postmaster General shall con
stitute and be a Board to be styled the Census Board: that it shall be the duty of the said Board to prepare and cause to be printed such forms and schedules as may be necessary for the full enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, and also proper forms and schedules for collecting in statistical tables under proper heads such information as to mines, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, education, and other topics as will exhibit a full view of the pursuits, industry, education, and resources of the country, it being provided that the number of said inquiries, exclusive of the enumeration, shall not exceed one hundred, and that the expense incurred in preparing and printing said forms and schedules shall not exceed ten thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Board shall have power to appoint a Secretary, whose remuneration shall be determined by Congress upon the completion of the duties assigned to the Board.
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03/01/1849
Passed the House of Representatives
March 1st AD 1849
Attest
Tho. J Campbell
Clerk
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H R. 813.
An Act To make arrangements for taking the Seventh Census
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03/03/1849
In the Senate of the U. States
March 3, 1849.
Resolved, That this Bill pass with an amendment.
Attest
Secretary.
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Select Com Census
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March 2 repts
24 Cameron no [?]
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Hos. concurs.
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[?] to strike out what relates to Home Dept and insert Attorney General
agreed & passed
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In Senate of the United States,
March 3d 1849.
Resolved, That the Bill from the House of Representatives entitled
“An Actto make arrangements for taking the seventh Census,” do pass, with the following
Amendment
Lines 4 and 5. Strike out “the Secretary of the Home Department, (if such office is by law created,” and insert the Attorney General
Attest
Asbury Dickins.
Secretary.
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H. R. 813.
Amendment.

Partially Printed Document, 4 page(s), Volume Volume 2, RG 233, Entry 362: Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the House, 1847-1849, NAB ,