Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality
Chapter 13 — Immigration and Naturalization Service
§ 1552. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization; office
Statutory text
The office of the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization is created and established, and the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized and directed to appoint such officer. The Attorney General shall provide him with a suitable, furnished office in the city of Washington, and with such books of record and facilities for the discharge of the duties of his office as may be necessary.
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.
Pub. L. 51–551 § 7 · 26 Stat. 1084
Enacted · 8 U.S.C. § 1552
Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 551, § 7, 26 Stat. 1085
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 551, § 7, 26 Stat. 1085Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 7. That the office of superintendent of immigration is hereby Superintendent of immigration to be appointed. created and established, and the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized and directed to appoint such officer, whose salary shall be four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. The superintendent of immigration shall be an officer in the Treasury Department, under the control and supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom he shall make annual reports in writing of the transactions of his office, together with Reports, etc. such special reports, in writing, as the Secretary of the Treasury shall require. The Secretary shall provide the superintendent with a suitable furnished office in the city of Washington, and with such Office,etc. books of record and facilities for the discharge of the duties of his office as may be necessary. He shall have a chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and two first-class clerks.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 342b of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, , 80 Stat. 378.
Amendments
1952—Act , struck out second and fourth sentences relating to duties of commissioner and appointment of an assistant commissioner.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of Functions
For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of this title.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Functions vested by law in Attorney General, Department of Justice, or any other officer or any agency of that Department, with respect to inspection at regular inspection locations at ports of entry of persons, and documents of persons, entering or leaving United States, were to have been transferred to Secretary of the Treasury by 1973 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 2, eff. , 38 F.R. 15932, 87 Stat. 1091, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and employees. The transfer was negated by section 1(a)(1), (b) of Pub. L. 93–253, , 88 Stat. 50, which repealed section 2 of 1973 Reorg. Plan No. 2, eff. .
Functions of all other officers of Department of Justice and functions of all agencies and employees of such Department, with a few exceptions, transferred to Attorney General, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his functions by any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 2, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3173, 64 Stat. 1261, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. See sections 509 and 510 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
History of Immigration and Naturalization Agencies
Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 14, , set out as a note under section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, consolidated the two formerly separate bureaus known as the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization to form the Immigration and Naturalization Service under a Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, which was subsequently transferred from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice by 1940 Reorg. Plan No. V, eff. , 5 F.R. 2223, 54 Stat. 1238, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. See note set out under section 1551 of this title.
Credits
1891–1952 · 11 acts
- 1891Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 551, § 7, 26 Stat. 1085
- 1895Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 177, § 1, 28 Stat. 780
- 1904, Pub. R. 33, 33 Stat. 591
- 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 3, 37 Stat. 737
- 1917Feb. 5, 1917, ch. 29, § 23, 39 Stat. 892
- 1917Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 163, § 1, 39 Stat. 1118
- 1922Mar. 28, 1922, ch. 117, title II, 42 Stat. 486
- 1923Jan. 5, 1923, ch. 24, title II, 42 Stat. 1127
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 14,
- 19401940 Reorg. Plan No. V, eff. , 5 F.R. 2223, 54 Stat. 1238
- 1952June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title IV, § 403(a)(4), 66 Stat. 279.
Show as published
(Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 551, § 7, 26 Stat. 1085; Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 177, § 1, 28 Stat. 780; , Pub. R. 33, 33 Stat. 591; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 3, 37 Stat. 737; Feb. 5, 1917, ch. 29, § 23, 39 Stat. 892; Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 163, § 1, 39 Stat. 1118; Mar. 28, 1922, ch. 117, title II, 42 Stat. 486; Jan. 5, 1923, ch. 24, title II, 42 Stat. 1127; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 14, ; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. V, eff. , 5 F.R. 2223, 54 Stat. 1238; June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title IV, § 403(a)(4), 66 Stat. 279.)