Public Law 56–389

That in addition to the power and authority conferred upon the Director of the Census by an Act entitled “An Act to provide for taking the Twelfth and subsequent censuses,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, said Director of the Census shall have power, and is hereby authorized, to appoint and employ, as the necessity therefor may arise, one superintendent of printing, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, and to appoint and employ such number of skilled mechanics and other persons in the Census printing office as may be necessary to carry into effect the preliminary printing and binding provided for in said Act, at the same compensation as is paid for similar work in the Government Printing Office.

Sec. 2.

That the chief clerk of the Census Office shall act as superintendent, and have general charge of all buildings occupied for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Census, and shall receive therefor the sum of three hundred dollars, in addition to his regular salary.

Sec. 3.

That the salary of the Director of the Census shall be seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum.

Sec. 4.

That in addition to the sum provided to be paid to supervisors of census in section eleven of an Act entitled “An Act to provide

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for taking the Twelfth and subsequent censuses,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the Director of the Census is hereby authorized and directed to pay to each supervisor, as further compensation, a sum equal to two per centum of the amount paid to the enumerators for taking the census in said supervisor’s district:

Proviso.

—minimum payment.

Provided, That the amount of such additional or further compensation to be paid to each supervisor shall in no case be less than two hundred and fifty dollars.