United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 15
Chap. XV.—An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to provide for taking the Sixth census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States”, approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the acts amending the same.
Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 80.
Feb. 26, 1840, ch. 3.
The time allowed for completing enumerations and making returns, extended.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the marshals of the respective States and Territories, who have not, before the passage of this act, completed their enumerations, and made their returns, under the acts hereby amended, to proceed personally and by their assistants to complete such enumerations, and make such returns under the said acts; and the said assistants shall be allowed until the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, to complete their enumerations, and make their returns to the marshals, and the said marshals shall be allowed to make their returns to the Secretary of State at any time before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two:Proviso. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to release such marshals and assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid, unless their returns shall be made within the time prescribed in this act:Proviso. And provided further, That no person be included in the returns made under the present act, unless such persons shall have been inhabitants of the district for which such returns shall be made on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty; and the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby,20,000 copies of compendium or abridgement of 6th census to be printed. authorized to cause to be printed twenty thousand copies of the compendium or abridgment of the Sixth Census, by counties and principal towns, together with the tables of apportionment as prepared at the Department of State, for the use of Congress.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State is Sixth census documents to be bound.hereby authorized to have the Sixth Census documents bound in a plain and substantial manner, the cost of which shall not exceed fifty cents per volume; and that the amount thereof shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
The number of inhabitants of Montgomery co., Maryland to be again taken.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the marshal of the State of Maryland, and he is hereby required, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to cause the number of inhabitants within Montgomery county, in the State aforesaid, to be again taken according to the directions of the act to which this is a supplement, and the same to be returned before the first day of December next, and when so taken and returned shall be considered as the correct enumeration of the inhabitants of the said county:Proviso. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to release such marshal and his assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid:Proviso. And provided further, That no persons be included in the returns made under the present act, unless such persons shall have been inhabitants of the district for which such returns shall be made on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty:Proviso. And provided also, That the said corrected return shall not delay the printing of the Census: and that the said corrected return be printed by itself separately.
Approved, September 1, 1841.