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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 5 — Statistical and Commercial Information

§ 188. Publication of commercial information

Statutory text

The Secretary of Commerce shall publish official notifications, from time to time, of such commercial information communicated to him by diplomatic and consular officers, as he may deem important to the public interests, in such newspapers, not to exceed three in number, as he may select.

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. R.S. § 211

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 188

    R.S. § 211

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 211

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 211 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 127, § 2, 11 Stat. 60.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Act , substituted “Secretary of Commerce” for “Secretary of Commerce and Labor”.

Transfer of Functions

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

Credits

1903–1913 · 3 acts
  1. R.S. § 211
  2. 1903Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829
  3. 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.
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(R.S. § 211; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.)

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