Mar. 1, 1889.

The Act entitled "An Act to provide for the taking ofCensus act, the Eleventh and subsequent censuses," approved March Inconsistent first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and all laws and provisions reparts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

pealed.

Sec. 33.

Feb. 25, 1903.

For a clerk of class four, to act as census clerk, and for Census clerk. rent, salaries, heat, and light incident to the proper care and preservation of the records of the Eleventh and previous censuses, six thousand eight hundred dollars.

propriated for

The unexpended balance of the census appropriation, Balance reapwhich by the proviso in the Act approved June twenty-Philippine eighth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act mak-Mar. 3, 1903. ing appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Gov- (32 Stat., 1059.) ernment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes," which was reappropriated and made available for continuing the work of taking the Twelfth Census, and for all expenses arising under and authorized by the Act to provide for the permanent Census Office, approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, made available for the purposes indicated in said proviso during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four; and that said balance, or so much thereof as may be needed for the purpose, be, and the same is hereby, also made available for such expenditures as may become necessary in complying with the proclamation of the President, dated September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, pursuant to the provisions of section six of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," including the cost of temporarily employing such number of persons as may be necessary for the performance of said work, at a compensation not to exceed that which has heretofore been paid employees in the Census Office for doing similar work, such persons to be selected and employed by the Director at such dates and for such periods of time as he may deem proper.

The Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to transfer to the Census Office all of the schedules, records, and volumes of reports of the eleven decennial enumerations from seventeen hundred and ninety to eighteen hundred and ninety, inclusive, that may be in the possession of the Department of the Interior, which transfer shall not change the allotment of such reports heretofore made to Senators and Representatives; and the Director of the Census is hereby authorized, upon the request of a governor of any State or Territory, or the chief officer of any municipal government, to furnish such governor or municipal officer with copies of so much of

Transfer of reoords.

Jan. 12, 1903. (32 Stat., 767.)

questing State

said files or records as may be requested, at the discretion of the Director of the Census, upon payment of the actual cost of making such copies; and the amounts so received shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States, to be placed to the credit of and in addition to the appropriation made for the taking of the census.

Resolution re- Whereas the registration of deaths at the time of their authorities to co-occurrence furnishes official record information of much Bureau of the value to individuals; and

operate with

Census.

Feb. 11, 1903.

Whereas the registration of births and deaths, with (32 Stat., 1231.) information upon certain points, is essential to the progress of medical and sanitary science in preventing and restricting disease and in devising and applying remedial agencies; and

Whereas all of the principal countries of the civilized world recognize the necessity for such registration and enforce the same by general laws; and

Whereas registration in the United States is now confined to a few States, as a whole, and the larger cities, under local laws and ordinances which differ widely in their requirements; and

Whereas it is most important that registration should be conducted under laws that will insure a practical uniformity in the character and amount of information available from the records; and

Whereas the American Public Health Association and the United States Census Office are now cooperating in an effort to extend the benefits of registration and to promote its efficiency by indicating the essential requirements of legislative enactments designed to secure the proper registration of all deaths and births and the collection of accurate vital statistics, to be presented to the attention of the legislative authorities in nonregistration States, with the suggestion that such legislation be adopted; Now, therefore,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States hereby expresses approval of this movement and requests the favorable consideration and action of the State authorities, to the end that the United States may attain a complete and uniform system of registration.

CHAPTER IX

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY

A survey of the coast of the United States was authorized by act of Congress of February 10, 1807, and the plans formulated by F. R. Hassler, an eminent scientist of Swiss birth, were adopted. The necessity of securing instruments from abroad and the breaking out of hostilities with England delayed the organization of the Survey under the Treasury Department until 1816. The work had just begun when, by act of April 14, 1818, Congress repealed so much of the statute of 1807 as authorized the employment of other than army and navy officers in the Survey.

No surveys were made under the War Department, and after a full consideration of the unsatisfactory results obtained in the survey made under the Navy Department, as repeatedly suggested by the Secretary of the Navy and others, Congress revived the law of 1807, with somewhat extended scope, by the act of July 10, 1832, and the work was again placed under the Treasury Department. Operations had hardly been resumed before President Jackson on March 11, 1834, directed that the Survey be transferred to the Navy Department. Again the work proceeded so unsatisfactorily that in two years-March 26, 1836it was retransferred by President Jackson to the Treasury Department, where it remained until July 1, 1903, when the Coast and Geodetic Survey was placed under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor by act of Congress approved February 14, 1903.

By the act of March 3, 1843, prompted by suggestions of the expediency of a retransfer of the Survey to the Navy Department, Congress provided that the President should organize a board to make an intelligent and efficient inquiry for the development of a plan of permanent organization for the Survey. The report of this board, giving in detail its plan for reorganization, was approved by the President April 29, 1843, and the work of the Survey has been modeled for the past sixty years on the lines then laid down.

The name "Coast and Geodetic Survey" was authorized by its use in the sundry civil appropriation act approved June 20, 1878.

The authorization of the Coast Survey in 1807 established the first scientific bureau of the Government. As soon as the proper instruments and skilled workmen were provided and the survey was undertaken,

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