be in possession of the office during December, when the compilation of the manufacturing statistics will be pushed rapidly forward.
The work of paying the enumerators for their services has been carried on with the utmost expedition which was consistent with justice to the census and to the Treasury.
It has been necessary to ascertain that each part of the enumerator's work has been properly done before he could safely be paid, and it has also been necessary to guard each statement and payment of account with all the checks which would have been necessary in case of much larger payments. The accounts of 28,410 enumerators have already been stated and settled, involving a total expenditure of $1,820,027.34; of the remaining 2,855 cases the accounts of 1,242 have been stated, and vouchers have been mailed to the enumerators for their signatures. In 1,199 cases the accounts are now in course of adjustment. In 414 cases accounts have been suspended, owing to deficiencies or irregularities in returns, or to the failure of supervisors to make the required statements of time occupied or work done, or to the necessity of still further investigating matters connected with the enumeration. I have no reason to doubt that the present month will see all the enumerators paid for their services, except only in cases where a suspension is required for reasons which are unmistakably connected with some fault, more or less serious, on the part of the enumerator himself.
The total disbursements on account of the Tenth Census to December 1, 1880, are as follows:
| Supervisors of census: | ||
| Salaries | $53,000 00 | |
| Clerk-hire and miscellaneous | 54,801 12 | |
| $107,801 12 | ||
| Enumerators | 1,820,027 34 | |
| Special agents for the collection of the manufacturing statistics of individual cities: | ||
| Salaries | $39,607 93 | |
| Office rent and miscellaneous | 3,825 66 | |
| 43,433 59 | ||
| Special agents at large for the collection of industrial and social statistics: | ||
| Salaries | $82,435 82 | |
| Clerk-hire | 48,777 40 | |
| Traveling expenses | 55,733 01 | |
| Office rent and miscellaneous | 16,903 66 | |
| 203,849 89 | ||
| Census Office: | ||
| Salaries | $288,708 84 | |
| Rent and fuel | 5,769 55 | |
| Furniture and fittings | 25,942 09 | |
| Stationery | 24,464 12 | |
| Printing and binding | 63,310 33 | |
| Traveling expenses and miscellaneous | 8,750 42 | |
| 416,945 35 | ||
| Total | 2,592,057 29 |
