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We analyze the 2-10~keV X-ray emission of complete samples of AGN and galaxies selected at 12\mum and recently compiled by Rush, Malkan \& Spinoglio (1993). As a necessary complement we also study the IR emissivity of the largest sample of hard X--ray selected AGN (Grossan 1992). Our purposes are to probe the unified scheme of active nuclei and to evaluate the local X--ray volume emissivity of low luminosity and `hidden' AGN. We confirm that X-ray emission is basically restricted to AGN, Seyfert 1's being much more powerful emitters than Seyfert 2's. We find no signal of X-ray emission for the remaining galaxies selected at 12\mum, not even for those having a flat far-infrared spectrum, which would be prime candidates to host hidden AGN. Our result on the local volume emissivity of the Seyfert 1's is fully consistent with those derived from studies of the hard X--ray luminosity function. However the 95\% upper limits to the local emissivity we derive for the Seyfert 2 class and for the most likely `hidden' AGN candidates, severely constrain (and in some cases exclude) models of the X--ray background based on the unified Seyfert scheme. We also find that less than \sim20\% of Seyfert 1-like AGN and less than \sim 50\% of Seyfert 2-like AGN can be `hidden' in the non-Seyfert galaxy samples assuming that the X-ray to 12\mum flux ratios measured in the 12\mum selected samples can be considered typical for these classes of objects. In this case, the number ratio of Seyfert 2 to Seyfert 1 galaxies ranges from 1 to 2

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Hard X-Ray Emission from Extragalactic IRAS 12 Micron Sources: Constraints on the Unified Active Galactic Nucleus Model and the Synthesis of the X-Ray Background