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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 44.

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THE NEXT CENSUS.

By Springfield Republican

THE taking of the national census is a costly operation. The eleventh census of the United States, which will be taken early in June, 1890, will cost nearly $6,000,000, or $1,150,000 more than the census of 1880. By the terms of the census bill which lately passed Congress, persons refusing to give proper information may be fined not more than $100, while presidents of railroads and corporations who refuse to give information may be punished with a $10,000 fine and a year in jail. It is to be hoped that would-be humorists, who regard census-taking as a joke, and rejoice in baffling census enumerators, may be reached by the provisions of this bill.—Springfield Republican.