Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — The Pay of Census Enumerators. [ARTICLE]

The Pay of Census Enumerators.

The following letter explains itself, and is published for the’ information of those who have written Supervisor Sharp concerning the subject: * Dip artm ext or thk Intxrior, ) Census Orncs V Washington, D. C., April 22, 1880. ) John ft Sharp, Supervisor of Census, First District of Michigan: Sir: After a careful consideration of the condition of enumeration in your district, I have decided to fix the rate of compensation to enumerators at two and one-fourth cents per name, and twelve and one-half cents per farm, except in cities and town of more than 2,009 inhabitants, where the rates will be two i eeets per name. > “ These rates are subject, of oooree, to the provision at law that no enumerator shall reI delve in excess of s4—ther maximum amount allowed in any case east of tbe Moth meridian —for each dm* of actual service. ' “ Inasmuch as the records of the ninth oeoi sus (1870) show that the Assistant Marshals iu cities enumerated U> average of 200 nature a day,—sometimes reaching 25J,—while In'ordinary agricultural districts the Assistant Marshals usually took from 100 to 250 names, besides gathering the statistics of ten to twenty farms, it Is believed that, at the rated authorised above, there.should be no diOculty Very Vauus, “Superintendent of Census.** -Detroit Bat.