FIFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cus. 134, 139. 1902. 51 Indian lands in the Territory of Oklahoma, and all judicial proceed- m·g‘“°l“l P’°°°°“‘ ings herein authorized, may be commenced and prosecuted in the courts ` of said Oklahoma Territory which may now or hereafter exercise jurisdiction within said reservations or allotted lands. Approved, February 28, 1902. _ CHAP. 139.-An Act To provide for a permanent Census Office. March 6, 1902. Be it enacted the Senate and [[0use (ozfltepresentatives 0 f the United [Pubm N°' W`] States of America in Oongresa assemble , That the Census Office tem- ,€,g{_·;¤=£gi€¤· t b porarily established in the Department of the Interior in accordance 1ished.u Y °S E ` with an Act entitled "An Act to provide for taking the Twelfth and "°l·3°» P· 1014- subsequent censuses," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby made a permanent office. _ Sec. 2. That the work ertainin to the Twelfth Census shall be ,,,.g’Q{'{,“j;*{f"‘ °* carried on by the Census Office under the existing organization until the first day of July, nineteen hundred and two, when the permanent Census Office herein provided for shall be organized by the Director of the Census. _ Sec. 3. That the permanent Census Office shall be in charge of a §’jf,,‘f"· Director of the Census, appointed b the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, wlio shall receive an annual salary of six thousand dollars. It shall be his duty to superintend and direct D““°=- the taking of the Thirteenth and subsequent censuses of the United Stafes and to perform such other duties as may be imposed upon him by aw. Sec. 4. That there shall be in the Census Office, to be appointed by °m°° I°'°°‘ the Director thereof, with the approval of the head of the Department to which the said Census Office is attached, four chief statisticians, who shall be persons of known and tried experience in statistical work., at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars each; a chief clerk, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, who, in the absence of the Directo1·, shall serve as acting director; a disbursing clerk, who shall also act as a pointment clerk, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred db lars; one stenographer, at an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars; four expert chiefs of division, at an annual salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars each; six clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; and such number of clerks of class one, and of clerks, copyists, computers, and skilled laborers, with salaries at the rate of not less than six hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars per annum, messengers, assistant messengers, watchmen, and charwomen as may be necessary PM r-506 for the roper and prompt performance of the duties required by law. The disgursing clerk herein provided for shall, before entering upon 1;;¤(;¤r¤i¤¤s¤\¢rkhis duties, give bond to the Secretary of the Treasury in the sum of u ` twenty-five thousand dollars, which bond shall be conditioned that the said officer shall render a true and faithful account to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury quarter yearly of all moneys and properties which shall be received by him by virtue of his office, with surety, to be approved by the Solicitor of the Treasury. Such bond shall be tiled in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be by him put in suit upon any breach of the conditions thereof. Sec. That all employees of the Census Office, at the date of the pk‘f,€,§§j,f‘*°“ °’ °‘”‘ passage of this Act, except unskilled laborers, may be appointed by ` the Director of the Census with the approval of the head of the Department to which said Census Oihce is attached, and when so appointed shall be and they are hereby placed, without further examination, under the provisions of the civil service Act approved January sixteenth, X§}j§§;¥,;j§’,’f.,;
