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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 5 — Statistical and Commercial Information

§ 178. Collection of statistics of foreign and interstate commerce and transportation

Statutory text

It shall be the duty of the officer in charge of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to gather and collate statistics and facts relating to commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, the railroad systems of this and other countries, the construction and operation of railroads, the actual cost of such construction and operation of railroads, the actual cost of transporting freight and passengers on railroads, and on canals, rivers, and other navigable waters of the United States, the charges imposed for such transportation of freight and passengers, and the tonnage transported.

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. Pub. L. 43–129 § 1 · 18 Stat. 344

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 178

    Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 129, § 1, 18 Stat. 352

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 129, § 1, 18 Stat. 352

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

1928—Act , discontinued the report of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to Congress on commercial relations of the United States.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Act , transferred certain duties of Department or Bureau of Labor to Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

Act , transferred Bureau of Statistics from Treasury Department to Department of Commerce and Labor.

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

1875–1928 · 5 acts
  1. 1875Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 129, § 1, 18 Stat. 352
  2. 1903Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829
  3. 1912Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 1, 37 Stat. 407
  4. 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736
  5. 1928May 29, 1928, ch. 901, § 1(105), 45 Stat. 994.
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(Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 129, § 1, 18 Stat. 352; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829; Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 1, 37 Stat. 407; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736; May 29, 1928, ch. 901, § 1(105), 45 Stat. 994.)

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