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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally

§ 553. Freight statistics

Statutory text

In the collection of statistics relating to traffic, the Corps of Engineers is directed to adopt a uniform system of classification for freight, and upon rivers or inland waterways to collate ton-mileage statistics as far as practicable.

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. 62–253 § 1 · 37 Stat. 201

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 553

    (July 25, 1912, ch. 253, § 1, 37 Stat. 223.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 25, 1912, ch. 253, § 1, 37 Stat. 223.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is from part of section 1 of act , popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1912”.

Credits

(July 25, 1912, ch. 253, § 1, 37 Stat. 223.)

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