§ 1515. Records, etc., of bureaus transferred to Department of Commerce

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 § 4 · 32 Stat. 825

   Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1515

   (Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 4 (part), 32 Stat. 826.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 4 (part), 32 Stat. 826.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. That the following-named offices, bureaus, divisions, and branches of the public service, now and heretofore under the. jurisdiction From Treasury Depart meut. of the Department of the Treasury, and all that pertains to the same, known as the Light-House Board, the Light-House Establishment, the Steamboat-Inspection Service, the Bureau of Navigation, the United States Shipping Commissioners, the National Bureau of Standards, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Commissioner-Gen-eral of Immigration, the commissioners of immigration, the Bureau of Immigration, the immigration service at large, and the Bureau of Statistics, be, and the same hereby are, transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Commerce and Labor, and the same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision Census Office. of the last-named Department: and that the Census Office, and all that Birtains to the same, be, and the same hereby is, transferred from the department of the Interior to the Department of Commerce and Labor, to remain henceforth under the jurisdiction of the latter; that the Department of Labor, the Fish Commission, and the Office of Department of Labor, and Fish Commission. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, and all that pertains to the same, be, and the same hereby are, placed under the jurisdiction and made a part of the Department of Commerce and Labor; that the Bureau Bureau of Foreign Commerce. of Foreign Commerce, now in the department of State, be, and the same hereby is, transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor and consolidated with and made a part of the Bureau of Statistics, hereinbefore transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Commerce and Labor, and the two shall constitute one bureau, to be called the Bureau of Statistics, with a chief of the bureau; and that the Secretary of Commerce; and Labor shall have Collection, etc., of statistics. control of the work of gathering and distributing statistical information naturally relating to the subjects confided to his Department; and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby given the power and authority to rearrange the statistical work of the bureaus and offices confided to said Department, and to consolidate any of the statistical bureaus and offices transferred to said Department; and said Secretary shall also have authority to call upon other Departments of the Government for statistical data, and results obtained by them; and said Secretary of Commerce and Labor may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise. That the official records and papers now on file in and pertaining Transfer of records, etc. exclusively to the business of any bureau, oilice, department, or branch of the public service in this Act transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor, together with the furniture now in use in such bureau, office, department, or branch of the public service, shall be. and hereby are, transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor.

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