§ 6. Annual and special reports to President and Congress

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. 1888

   Pub. L. 50–389 § 8 · 25 Stat. 182

   Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 6

   June 13, 1888, ch. 389, § 8, 25 Stat. 183

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   June 13, 1888, ch. 389, § 8, 25 Stat. 183

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 8. That the Commissioner of Labor shall annually make a Reports. report in writing to the President and Congress, of the information collected and collated by him, and containing such recommendations as he may deem calculated to promote the efficiency of the Department. He is also authorized to make special reports on particular subjects whenever required to do so by the President or either House of Congress, or when he shall think the subject in his charge requires it. He shall, on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year, make a report in detail to Congress of all moneys expended under his direction during the preceding fiscal year. Sec. 9. That all laws and parts of laws relating to the Bureau of Labor Bureau merged. Labor created under the act of Congress approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, so far as the same are applicable and not in conflict with this act, and only so far, are Vol. 23, p. 60. continued in full force and effect, and the Commissioner of Labor appointed under said act, approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and all clerks and employees in the Bureau of Labor authorized to be appointed by said act or subsequent acts, shall continue in office and employment as if appointed under the provisions of this act, and until a Commissioner of Labor, other officer, clerks, and employees are appointed and qualified as herein required and provided; and the Bureau of Labor, as now organized and existing, shall continue its work as the Department of Labor until the Department of Labor shall be organized in accordance with this act; and the library, records, and all property now in use by the said Bureau of Labor are hereby transferred to the custody of the Department of Labor hereby created, and on the organization of the Department of Labor on the basis of this act the functions of the Bureau of Labor shall cease.

2. 1976

   Fiscal Year Adjustment Act

   Pub. L. 94–273 § 5(3) · 90 Stat. 375

   Substituted · 29 U.S.C. § 6

   Pub. L. 94–273 substituted “March” for “December”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 94–273 substituted “March” for “December”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (3) section 8 of the Act of June 13, 1888, as amended (29 U.S.C. 6);

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