Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 5 — Statistical and Commercial Information
§ 175. Additional duties of Bureau
Statutory text
It shall be the province and duty of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, to foster, promote, and develop the various manufacturing industries of the United States, and markets for the same at home and abroad, domestic and foreign, by gathering, compiling, publishing, and supplying all available and useful information concerning such industries and such markets, and by such other methods and means as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce or provided by law.
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.
Pub. L. 57–552 § 5 · 32 Stat. 825
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 175
Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 5, 32 Stat. 827
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 5, 32 Stat. 827Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. That there shall be in the Department of Commerce and Bureau of Manufactures. Office force. Labor a bureau to be called the Bureau of Manufactures, and a chief of said bureau, who shall be appointed by the President, and who shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per annum. There shall also be in said bureau such clerical assistants as may from time to time be authorized by Congress. It shall be the province and duty of said Duty of bureau. bureau, under the direction of the Secretary, to foster, promote, and develop the various manufacturing industries of the United States, and markets for the same at home and abroad, domestic and foreign, by gathering, compiling, publishing, and supplying all available and useful information concerning such industries and such markets, and by such other methods and means as may he prescribed by the Secretary or provided by law. And all consular officers of the United Reports from consular officers, States, including consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents, are hereby required, and it is made a part of their duty, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to gather and compile, from time to time, useful and material information and statistics in respect to the subjects enumerated in section three of this Act in the countries and places to which such consular officers are accredited, and to send, under the direction of the Secretary of State, reports as often as required by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor of the information and statistics thus gathered and compiled, such reports to be transmitted through the State Department to the Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1946—Act , repealed last sentence relating to duties of consular officers with respect to the Bureau.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act , substituted the “Secretary of Commerce” for “Secretary of Commerce and Labor”.
Effective Date of 1946 Amendment
Amendment by act , effective three months from , see section 1141 of that act.
Transfer of Functions
Act , transferred certain duties of Department or Bureau of Labor to Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Act , abolished the grade of commercial agent and commercial agent’s function of helping to gather foreign trade information, reference to which formerly appeared in the last sentence of this section. Such last sentence was subsequently repealed by Act .
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, see note set out under section 172 of this title.
Credits
1903–1946 · 5 acts
- 1903Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 5, 32 Stat. 827
- 1906Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 3, 34 Stat. 100
- 1912Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 1, 37 Stat. 407
- 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736
- 1946Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957, title XI, § 1131(23), 60 Stat. 1037.
Show as published
(Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 5, 32 Stat. 827; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 3, 34 Stat. 100; Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 1, 37 Stat. 407; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736; Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957, title XI, § 1131(23), 60 Stat. 1037.)