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Show i : A NEW LAW IN. VJ THE ASSESSOR BEGINS A CAMPAIGN JUX .ON STATISTICS. Five Drpnt ei to Canvas the County for . It 1'npulatlnn, Its Intlnstrlal Institutions, Insti-tutions, and Numbe- of Men Cliven Employment, County Assessor Lynch has found a task within a task and is now engaged in tho carrying out of an assignment that the legislature has imposed upon him. At tho last session the territorial nsseinbly passed an net creating a bureau of statistics. That act went into force on Monday morning last, and provides as follows: Tho several county assessors and their deputies, of this territory, $hall at tho time of making the lists of property for taxation, procure from each person erjuired to list property in their county a statement of tho number of acres he Aas under cultivation during the pie reding year, tiie number of acres irrigated, irri-gated, the number of acres he has had ander enclosure for pnsture, the kinds of crops and tho respective acreage thereof; The Amount of Product of such respective crop during the- preceding pre-ceding yeas; nunlbe" of gallons mdde of wine, cidtr. vinegar and sorghum; number of pounds made each of butter, but-ter, cheese, honey and dried fruits of each kind respectively; number of hives of bees: number of pounds of wool shorn; tho number each of milch cows, cattle, horses, mules, nsses, sheep, goats and swine over six months old owned on the 31st day of December of the preceding year. To this statoment tho person is supposed sup-posed to allix his signature and to affirm its correctness under onth. Tho act also provides that any person who is reipiired by the act to give information refusing to do so shall be subject . to a penalty of not less than J5 nor more than $','00, which can be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, and it is made the duly of the county or district attorney of the proper county to l'rnsrcute the Hult nt tho expense of the county for the use of the school fund of such county. This is followed by other provisions that ni:ike it incumbent upon the assessor as-sessor to compile a statement showing w hat has been evpended in each town and citv for buildings, public and private, pri-vate, the amount expended for pub-lie pub-lie works, the number and character of industrial concerns with the roster of people employed, the amount of wages paid, the value of the plant, the amount invested. It is, also required of him that he give tho population. Conforming Con-forming to these provisions Col. Joo Lippman tho popular law librarian has prepared - The Necessary nianks and forwarded them to the various county clerks in the territory. There is sonio doubt among the assessors as to tho matter of compensation and in these cases the assessors havo decided to igore the act. Hero Assessor Lynch has been advised by County Attorney Murphy that the law is plain and the county courts were bound to allow compensation. In addition to other blanks is one providing for a census and after all preparations are completed com-pleted the assessor will appoint five deputies that the work may be dispatched. dis-patched. ' i '', |