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[CITE: 13USC101]

 
                            TITLE 13--CENSUS
 
           CHAPTER 3--COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF STATISTICS
 
                       SUBCHAPTER V--MISCELLANEOUS
 
Sec. 101. Defective, dependent, and delinquent classes; crime

    (a) The Secretary may collect decennially statistics relating--
        (1) to the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes; and
        (2) to crime, including judicial statistics pertaining thereto.

    (b) The statistics authorized by subsection (a) of this section 
shall include information upon the following questions, namely: age, 
sex, color, nativity, parentage, literacy by race, color, nativity, and 
parentage, and such other questions relating to such subjects as the 
Secretary deems proper.
    (c) In addition to the decennial collections authorized by 
subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the Secretary may compile and 
publish annually statistics relating to crime and to the defective, 
dependent, and delinquent classes.

(Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1158, 68 Stat. 1018.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., Secs. 111, 113 (Mar. 6, 1902, 
ch. 139, Sec. 7, 32 Stat. 52; June 7, 1906, ch. 3048, 34 Stat. 218; June 
18, 1929, ch. 28, Sec. 3, 46 Stat. 21; Mar. 4, 1931, ch. 490, 46 Stat. 
1517; 1939 Reorganization Plan No. II, Sec. 4(e), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 
F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1431; 1940 Reorganization Plan No. III, Sec. 3, 5 
F.R. 2107, 54 Stat. 1232; June 25, 1947, ch. 124, 61 Stat. 163; Sept. 7, 
1950, ch. 910, Sec. 4, 64 Stat. 785).
    Section consolidates part of section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 
ed., with section 113 of such title which also related to statistics 
with respect to crime and to the ``defective, dependent, and delinquent 
classes''.
    ``Secretary'', meaning the Secretary of Commerce, was substituted 
for ``Director of the Census'' to conform with Reorganization Plan No. 
5, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263. See 
Revision Note to section 4 of this title.
    The provisions of section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., 
authorizing statistics relating to transportation by water, and express 
business, to mines, mining, quarries, and minerals, to savings banks and 
other savings institutions, mortgage, loan, and investment companies, 
and similar institutions, and to street railways, electric light and 
power, telephone, and telegraph business, were omitted as superseded and 
covered by sections 121-123 of such title (enacted in 1948), which are 
set out elsewhere in this title. See Distribution Table.
    Section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., also authorized the 
decennial collection of statistics relating to the fishing industry ``in 
cooperation with the Fish and Wildlife Service''. In the basic statutory 
provision (see amendment by act June 7, 1906, ch. 3048, 34 Stat. 218, 
``Fish and Wildlife Service'' read ``Bureau of Fisheries'' and it was 
changed, by the codifiers, in such section 111 to the former designation 
because of 1940 Reorganization Plan No. III, Sec. 3, 5 F.R. 2107, 54 
Stat. 1232, which consolidated the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of 
Biological Survey into one agency to be known as the ``Fish and Wildlife 
Service''. However, at the time of the enactment of the 1906 act, 
referred to above, both the Bureau of the Fisheries, and the Census 
Bureau (then referred to as the ``Census Office''), were in the 
Department of Commerce. The Bureau of Fisheries was transferred to the 
Department of the Interior by 1939 Reorganization Plan No. II, 
Sec. 4(e), 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1431, and it is within that department 
that the Fish and Wildlife Service now functions. Therefore, such 
provision in section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., has been omitted 
from this revised title as obsolete. In any event section 121 of title 
13, U.S.C., 1952 ed. (subchapter I of chapter 5 of this revised title) 
is broad enough to authorize such collection.
    The provisions of section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., which 
authorized statistics relating to religion, and the provisions thereof 
which related to the designation of reports, are set out as separate 
sections in this subchapter; and the provisions thereof which related to 
the preparation of schedules, and which authorized the appointment of 
special agents, are set out in chapter 1 of this title. See Distribution 
Table.
    The proviso in section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., which 
prohibited the collection of statistics relating to religious or church 
membership when the disclosure of such information was prohibited by 
religious or church doctrine, teaching or discipline, has been 
incorporated in chapter 7 of this title. See Distribution Table.
