Section 17
SEC. 17. No information obtained during the taking of this Census from any corporation, association, partnership, institution, business enterprise, or group of persons having a joint or common interest, howsoever established or constituted, shall be used in any court or in r.ny public office, either as evidence for or against the corporation, association, partnership, institution, enterprise, or group, from which such information emanates, or for the purpose of basing thereon any assessment or collection of taxes or public contributions; nor shall any such information be divulged to any person, except to authorized Census officers acting1 in the performance of their duties; and no Census officer or employee of the Government shall make known to any other person not properly authorized any information contemplated in this section, "which may have been secured during the Census operations; nor shall any report or publication issued under the provisions of this Act contain any information indicated in this section which would serve to identify the corporation, association, partnership, institution, enterprise, group, or property, from which it was secured, without the special consent in writing of the proprietor, officer, director, administrator, manager or legal representative of such corporation, association, partnership, institution, enterprise, group, or property. The receipt by any officer, partner, associate, member, or stockholder of any corporation, association, partnership, institution, business enterprise, or group, of any schedule or form contemplated in this section shall constitute delivery to the corporation, association, partnership, business enterprise* or group, and the fact that such officer, partner, associate, member, or stockholder is not the person who would ordinarily complete such schedule or form shall not relieve him of responsibility for the redelivery of such schedule or form to the proper person, nor shall it relieve such proper person from the responsibility for the completion thereof. SEC., 18. Whenever it shall appear to the President of the Philippines that any portion of the enumeration and Census provided for in this Act is incomplete or erroneous, he may cause such incomplete and unsatisfactory enumeration and Census to be amended or retaken under such methods as may, in hia discretion, be practicable.