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Legislation 1943 - 1954
- Secretarial Order 281 (September 20, 1943) Download PDF [44KB PDF]**
- Cancels the manufacturing census of 1943.
- Secretarial Order (June 27, 1944) Download PDF [55KB PDF]**
- Authorizes a census of state and local governments.
- Secretarial Order (August 17, 1945) Download PDF [52KB PDF]**
- Authorizes a 1946 census of business.
- Census Act of September 7, 1950 Download PDF [774KB PDF]**
- Authorizes a census of governments in 1952 and every five years thereafter. Information on state, territory, county, and municipal governments to be collected on, at a minimum, the following subjects: "taxes and tax valuations, government receipts, expenditures, indebtedness, and employees."
- An Act to Revise, Codify, and Enact into Law Title 13, U.S.C. (August 31, 1954) (P.L. 83-740)
- Collects and codifies the various laws governing the statistical activities of the Census Bureau in Title 13 of the U.S. Code. Current version of U.S. Code Title 13.
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