Volume 2
Public Law 11–XLIV
for allowing a reasonable compensation in the parsons who have taken an account of the several manufacturing establishments and manufactures within the United States.
Approved March 3, 1811
Statutory text
An Act
for allowing a reasonable compensation in the parsons who have taken an account of the several manufacturing establishments and manufactures within the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Compensation to persons taking an account of manufacturing establishments.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized to allow such reasonable compensation as he shall deem adequate, for the services of each of those persons who took, under his direction, in pursuance of an act, entituled “An act further to alter and amend An act providing for the third census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,” an account of
[Obsolete.]
1810, ch. 38.
the several manufacturing establishments and manufactures within their several districts: Provided however, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to expend out of the fund already appropriated for taking the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, a sum exceeding thirty thousand dollars.
Approved, .