he must examine and scrutinize to see | obtain the information from persons that their work has been performed in living nearest. He must forward the full compliance with the law. To forward original schedules, duly certified, to the to the Census Office complete returns of Supervisor of his district. his district; also the accounts to ascertain the amount of compensation due to each enumerator. DUTIES OF ENUMERATORS. It is the duty of each Enumerator to visit personally each dwelling-house in his subdivision and each family therein, each individual living out of the family, making inquiry from the head of each family, or the member thereof deemed most worthy of trust, or the individual out of the family, to obtain all the information and particulars required. If no person of the family is competent to give the answers, the Enumerators may Enumerators will be allowed, in subdivisions where such allowance is deemed sufficient, not exceeding 2 cents for each living inhabitant, 2 cents for each death reported, 10 cents for each farm, and 10 cents for each establishment of productive industry enumerated and returned. For all other subdivisions their compensation to be fixed by the Superintendent, with the approval of the Secretary, according to the difficulties of the enumeration, which shall not average in any district east of the one hundredth meridian to exceed $4 per day of ten hours' work, and west of said meridian not to exceed $6 per day. BUREAU OF EDUCATION. This Bureau was established by the act of Congress, March 2, 1867, which declared the purpose and duties of the same to be to collect statistics and facts showing the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and to diffuse such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country. 1 66 1 translator 1 clerk... Per Annum. ..$3000 The management of the office is intrusted to the Commissioner of Education, subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. The Commissioner 1 assistant messenger........................................................... 4 copyists, each.......... 1800 1800 1800 1600 1600 1400 900 720 AUDITOR OF RAILROAD ACCOUNTS. The act of Congress of June 19, 1878, | to prescribe a system of reports to be established the Office of Auditor of Railroad Accounts as a Bureau of the Interior Department. DUTIES OF THE AUDITOR. It is his duty, under and subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, rendered to him by the railroad companies whose roads are in whole or in part west, north, or south of the Missouri River, and to which the United States have granted any loan of credit or subsidy in bonds or lands; to examine the books and accounts of each of said rail road companies once in each fiscal year, and at such other times as may be deemed by him necessary to determine the correctness of any report received from them; to assist the Government directors of any of said railroad companies in all matters which come under their cognizance whenever they may request such assistance; to see that the laws relating to said companies are enforced; to furnish such information to the several Departments of the Government, in regard to tariffs for freight and passengers, and in regard to the accounts of said railroad companies, as may be by them required, or in the absence of any request therefor, The Director and members of the Survey are prohibited from having any personal or private interests in the lands or mineral wealth of the region under sur vey, and cannot execute any examinations or surveys for private parties or corporations. For this service the sum of $100,000 was appropriated by Congress. ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. The act of Congress of March 3, 1877, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to appoint a Commission, to consist of three skilled entomologists, to report upon the depredations of the Rocky Mountain locusts in the Western States and Territories, and the best practicable methods of preventing their recurrence, or guarding against their invasions, and appropriated the sum of $18,000 to meet their expenses; and further appropriations for continuing and completing the work of said Commission of $10,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1879 and 1880, have been made. OFFICERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNDER INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. RECORDER OF DEEDS. It is his duty to record all deeds and other instruments in writing authorized to be recorded, and perform all required services connected therewith. Legal Fees. For filing, recording, and indexing, or for making certified copy of any instrument containing 200 words or less, 50 cents, and 15 cents for each additional 100 words; for each certificate and seal, 25 cents; for searching book extending back two years or less, 25 cents, and 5 cents for each additional year; for recording town plat, 3 cents for each lot; for filing and indexing any Inspector of Gas Meters.... paper required by law to be filed in his 1 assistant.......... REGISTER OF WILLS. The Register of Wills for the District of Columbia receives his compensation by fees allowed by law for registering wills, etc. INSPECTOR OF GAS METERS. Per Annum. .$2000 1000 GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. The Government Hospital for the Insane was organized under the act of March 3, 1855. It is situated on the highlands, across the Anacostia River, southeast of Washington, in full view of the Capitol. The objects of the institution are the humane care and enlightened curative treatment of the insane of the army and navy, marine corps, and revenue-cutter service of the United States, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia. EXTENT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. The extent of the grounds belonging to the United States, connected with the Government Hospital for the Insane, is four hundred and twenty-five acres, more or less. About one thousand persons receive treatment in the Government Asylum for the Insane yearly. There is a farm and garden belonging to the institution, upon which the inmates work, and it is found that, besides being sources of profit and income to the institution, they interest the inmates, quicken a new life, and afford a diversion and a solace to them, and thus aid to restore their reason. The estimated value of the products of the farm and garden for the year 1879 was $17,571.89. lows: Appropriated from the Treasury of The original hospital edifice, with its two detached buildings for the colored The total receipts of the institution for insane, was designed to accommodate the fiscal year ended June 30, 1879, were three hundred and fifty patients, with $176,809.41, which were derived as foltheir attendants; it has been extended and enlarged at different times, so that its present capacity may be fairly estimated at six hundred patients. The Relief Building, now in process of completion, will afford room for more than two hundred cases where the insanity is of a mild type. The number of inmates in January, 1880, was eight hundred and sixty. The buildings connected with the hospital, not occupied by patients, are a boiler-house, a laundry, a bake-house, with store-rooms, a machine-shop, with carpenter- and blacksmith-shops, a pumphouse, a porter's lodge, a gas-house, a stable, and a stock-barn, with piggery and hen-house. With the exception of the stock-barn, all of these buildings are substantial brick structures. There are also eleven dwelling-houses. The United States has invested more than half a million dollars in this hospital property. By the United States.... ..$150,000.00 the District of Columbia and Total. FORCE EMPLOYED. 26,809.41 .$176,809.41 COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB. The Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb was established by act of Congress of February 16, 1857, as a corporation, to have perpetual succession. It is situated in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. The real and personal property of the institution must not be devoted to any other purpose than the education of the deaf and dumb, nor can any portion of the real estate be sold, except under authority of a special act of Congress. OFFICERS. REGULATIONS. The academic year is divided into three terms, the first beginning on the Thursday before the last Thursday in September, and closing on 24th of December; the second beginning the 2d of January, and closing the last of March; the third beginning the first of April, and closing the Wednesday before the last Wednes The President of the United States, patron; a President of the Institution; a Secretary and a Treasurer; a Board of Directors, consisting of eight persons, one of whom shall be a Senator of the United States, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and two Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House. Salaries and wages, per annum,day in June. $29,000. ADMISSION OF PUPILS FROM THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. It is made the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, upon satisfactory evidence produced by the President of the Columbia Institution that any deaf and dumb person of teachable age, belonging to the District of Columbia, is in indigent circumstances, and cannot command the means to secure an education, to authorize such person to enter the Institution for instruction. ADMISSION OF PUPILS FROM STATES AND TERRITORIES. The vacations are from the 24th of December to the 2d of January, and from the Wednesday before the last Wednesday in June to the Thursday before the last Thursday in September. There are holidays at Thanksgiving and Easter. The pupils may visit their homes during the regular vacations, and at the above-named holidays, but at no other time, unless for some special, urgent reason, and then only by permission of the President. The bills for the maintenance and tuition of pupils supported by their friends must be paid semi-annually, in advance. The charge for pay-pupils is $150 each per annum. This sum covers all expenses in the primary department except clothing, and all in the college except clothing and books. Deaf-mutes not exceeding forty in number, residing in the several States and Territories, applying for admission The Government of the United States to the collegiate department of the Colum- defrays the expenses of those who reside bia Institution, shall be received upon in the District of Columbia, or whose the same terms and conditions as those parents are in the army or navy, proprescribed for those from the District ofvided they are unable to pay for their Columbia, at the discretion of the President of the Institution. No student coming from either of the States shall be supported by the United States during any portion of the time he remains therein. During the year ended June 30, 1879, there were 118 pupils in the Institution. The receipts for the support of the Institution during that year were $55,202, $51,000 of which was appropriated by Congress, the remainder was made up from the sale of products of the farm belonging to the Institution, and the sale of old material. There were also appropriated by Congress $5000 for improvements on buildings and grounds. education. To students from the States and Territories who have not the means of defraying all the expenses of the college course, the Board of Directors renders such assistance as circumstances seem to require, as far as the means at its disposal for this object will allow. It is expected that the friends of the pupils will provide them with clothing, and it is important that upon entering or returning to the Institution they should be supplied with a sufficient amount for an entire year. All clothing should be plainly marked with the owner's name. All letters concerning pupils or appli cation for admission should be addressed to the President. |