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[CITE: 15USC1516]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                   CHAPTER 40--DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
Sec. 1516. Statistical information

    The Secretary of Commerce shall have control of the work of 
gathering and distributing statistical information naturally relating to 
the subjects confided to his department; and he shall have the power and 
authority to rearrange the statistical work of the bureaus and offices 
confided to the Department of Commerce, and to consolidate any of the 
statistical bureaus and offices above described. He shall also have 
authority to call upon other departments of the Government for 
statistical data and results obtained by them; and he may collate, 
arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such 
manner as to him may seem wise.

(Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, Sec. 4, 32 Stat. 826.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 601 of Title 5 prior to 
the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

                         Change of Name

    Act Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, 37 Stat. 736, provided that Department of 
Commerce and Labor and Secretary of Commerce and Labor were to be 
thereafter called Department of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 7 section 2276.
