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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 5 — Statistical and Commercial Information

§ 190. Discussions in commercial reports of partisan questions

Statutory text

No part of the consular and other commercial reports of the Department of Commerce, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, discussing partisan political, religious, or moral questions shall be published.

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. 48–150 · 23 Stat. 322

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 190

    Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 150, 23 Stat. 324

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 150, 23 Stat. 324

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

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

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

Transfer of Functions

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

Credits

1885–1913 · 3 acts
  1. 1885Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 150, 23 Stat. 324
  2. 1903Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829
  3. 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.
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(Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 150, 23 Stat. 324; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.)

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