Section 19
SEC. 19. No information obtained during the taking of this Census from any person or corporation, association, partnership, institution, business enterprise, or group of persons, having a join or common interest, however established or constituted shall be used in any court or in any public office, either as evidence for or against the person, 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 acting 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 in Census known to any other person not properly authorized 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 person, 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 person, 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, shall it relieve such proper person from the responsibility for the completion thereof.