Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock

This item includes a letter of which President Roosevelt informs the Secretary of State that he has signed the act to establish a permanent Census Bureau.

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WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON March 6, 1902. Sir: I have signed the Act providing for a permanent Census Bureau. Sect ion two of this Act provides that the work pertaining to the Twelfth Census shall be car- ried on by the Census Office under the existing organi- zation unt il the first day of July, when the permanent Census Office herein provided for shall be organized by the Director of the Census. Section five provides that with your approval, the Director of the Census may ap- point into the permanent Census force in two ways: In the first place, from the present employees of the Cen- sus Office; and in the second place, all new appoint- ments to be made in accordance with the Civil Service law. After any of the present employees of the Census Office have been appointed upon the permanent force they become part of the classified service.