Public Law 58–1626

That section eight of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a permanent Census Office,” approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

“Sec. 8.

That there shall be a collection of the statistics of the births and deaths in registration areas for the year nineteen hundred and two, and annually thereafter, the date for which shall be obtained only from and restricted to such registration records of such States and municipalities as in the discretion of the Director possess records affording satisfactory data in necessary detail, the compensation for

Charge increased.

Minimum compensation.

the transcription of which shall not exceed four cents for each birth or death reported; or a minimum compensation of twenty-five dollars may be allowed, in the discretion of the Director, in States or cities registering less than five hundred deaths or five hundred births during the preceding year.”

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