Federal and state cooperation.

The secretary of state is authorized, so far as practicable, to cooperate with the census bureau of the United States in the gathering, compilation, and publication of census statistics. [S13, §177-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 424; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §26.1 ] 86 Acts, ch 1245, §1978 C93, §9F.1