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On the recordMarch 17, 1950
It is the duty of every person over eighteen years of age to answer all questions in the census schedules applying to him and the family to which he belongs, and to the farm or home occupied by him or his family, and that any person refusing to do so is subject to penalty as provided by law.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Proclamation 2876—Seventeenth Decennial Census

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