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[CITE: 15USC1518]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                   CHAPTER 40--DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
Sec. 1518. Custody of buildings; officers transferred

    The Secretary of Commerce shall have charge, in the buildings or 
premises occupied by or appropriated to the Department of Commerce, of 
the library, furniture, fixtures, records, and other property pertaining 
to it or acquired for use in its business; and he shall be allowed to 
expend for periodicals and the purposes of the library, and for the 
rental of appropriate quarters for the accommodation of the Department 
of Commerce within the District of Columbia, and for all other 
incidental expenses, such sums as Congress may provide from time to 
time. Where any office, bureau, or branch of the public service 
transferred to the Department of Commerce is occupying rented buildings 
or premises, it may still continue to do so until other suitable 
quarters are provided for its use. All officers, clerks, and employees 
employed on February 14, 1903, in or by any of the bureaus, offices, 
departments, or branches of the public service transferred to the 
Department of Commerce are each and all transferred to said department, 
except where otherwise provided by law. All laws prescribing the work 
and defining the duties of the several bureaus, offices, departments, or 
branches of the public service transferred to and made a part of the 
Department of Commerce shall, so far as the same are not in conflict 
with the provisions of this Act, remain in full force and effect until 
otherwise provided by law.

(Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, Sec. 9, 32 Stat. 829.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, 32 
Stat. 825, as amended, which is classified to sections 175, 1501, 1504, 
1510, 1511, 1512, 1513, 1515, 1516, 1517 to 1519 of this title.

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 603 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.
