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[CITE: 15USC178]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 5--STATISTICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFORMATION
 
Sec. 178. Collection of statistics of foreign and interstate 
        commerce and transportation
        
    It shall be the duty of the officer in charge of the Bureau of 
Foreign and Domestic Commerce to gather and collate statistics and facts 
relating to commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, 
the railroad systems of this and other countries, the construction and 
operation of railroads, the actual cost of such construction and 
operation of railroads, the actual cost of transporting freight and 
passengers on railroads, and on canals, rivers, and other navigable 
waters of the United States, the charges imposed for such transportation 
of freight and passengers, and the tonnage transported.

(Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 129, Sec. 1, 18 Stat. 352; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, 
Sec. 10, 32 Stat. 829; Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 407; 
Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 736; May 29, 1928, ch. 901, 
Sec. 1(105), 45 Stat. 994.)


                               Amendments

    1928--Act May 29, 1928, discontinued the report of Bureau of Foreign 
and Domestic Commerce to Congress on commercial relations of the United 
States.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 
Commerce, see note set out under section 172 of this title.
    Act Aug. 23, 1912, transferred certain duties of Department or 
Bureau of Labor to Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
    Act Feb. 14, 1903, transferred Bureau of Statistics from Treasury 
Department to Department of Commerce and Labor.
