. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. des other interesting historic relics. They have been againenlarged and are rapidly filling up with evidences of Americangenius and skill. Patents
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. des other interesting historic relics. They have been againenlarged and are rapidly filling up with evidences of Americangenius and skill. Patents are granted only after full designs or models have beenpresented and examined by experts, and something found therein new and useful, not known or used by others in this country,and not patented or described in print in this or any othercountry. A patent for an original invention runs for seventeenyears. A patent for a design may run from three and a halfyears to fourteen years. CENSUS OFFICE.—The Secretary of the Interior is chargedwith the duty of taking each decennial census, through and bymeans of a Superintendent of Census. The active work ofenumeration is done by means of Supervisors of districts,specially appointed. These send out enumerators into all thesubdivisions of a district, who gather the facts and figures fromthe people, and return them in a given time. When theyreach the Central Office at Washington they are tabulated and. 260 POLITICAL HISTORY OF printed in the form of Census Reports. The work of census-takingis important, and it is to be regretted that it has never reached,in this country, the perfection it has in some others. This mayseem strange in view of the fact that the United States was thefirst nation to provide in its fundamental law for a periodicalcount of its people. The first census under the Constitutionwas taken in 1790. They have been taken every ten yearssince, and the results duly published. The ^early censuses con-tained but little more
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