§ 1513. Duties and powers vested in Department

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1903

   Pub. L. 57–552 § 10 · 32 Stat. 825

   Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1513

   (Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 10. That all duties performed and all power and authority now Executive powers, etc., transferred to the Department. possessed or exercised by the head of any executive department in and over any bureau, office, officer, board, branch, or division of the public service by this Act transferred to the. Department of Commerce and Labor, or any business arising therefrom or pertaining thereto, or in relation to the duties performed by and authority conferred by law upon such bureau, officer, office, board, branch or division of the public service, whether of an appellate or revisory character or other-wise, shall hereafter be vested in and exercised by the head of the said Department of Commerce and Labor. All duties, power, authority and jurisdiction, whether supervisory, Authority of Secretory of the Treasury over shipping, etc., transferred. appellate or otherwise, now imposed or conferred upon the Secretary of the Treasury by Acts of Congress relating to merchant vessels or yachts, their measurement, numbers, names, registers, enrollments, licenses, commissions, records, mortgages, bills of sale, transfers, entry, clearance, movements and transportation of their cargoes and passengers, owners, officers, seamen, passengers, fees, inspection, equipment for the better security of life, and by Acts of Congress relating to tonnage tax, boilers on steam vessels, the carrying of inflammable, explosive or dangerous cargo on vessels, the use of petroleum or other similar substances to produce motive power and relating to the remission or refund of tines, penalties, forfeitures, exactions or charges incurred for violating any provision of law relating to vessels or seamen or to informer’s shares of such fines, and by Acts of Congress relating to the Commissioner and Bureau of Navigation, Shipping Commissioners, their officers and employees, Steam-boat-Inspection Service and any of the officials thereof, shall be. and hereby are transferred to and imposed and conferred upon the Secretary of Commerce and Labor from and after the time of the transfer of the Bureau of Navigation, the Shipping Commissioners and the Steamboat-Inspection Service to the Department of Commerce and Labor, and shall not thereafter be imposed upon or exercised by the Repeal of inconsistent laws. Secretary of the Treasury. And all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are, so far as inconsistent, hereby repealed.

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