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[CITE: 15USC183]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 5--STATISTICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFORMATION
 
Sec. 183. Report of statistics

    The Secretary of Commerce shall make a report to Congress on the 
first Monday of January in each year, containing the results of the 
information collected during the preceding year, by the Bureau of 
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, upon the condition of the manufactures, 
domestic trade, currency, and banks of the several States and 
Territories.

(R.S. Sec. 259; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, Sec. 1, 19 Stat. 241; Feb. 14, 
1903, ch. 552, Sec. 9, 32 Stat. 829; Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, Sec. 1, 37 
Stat. 407; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 736.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 259 derived from acts Sept. 24, 1789, ch. 20, Sec. 35, 1 
Stat. 92; June 25, 1868, ch. 71, Sec. 5, 15 Stat. 75; June 22, 1870, ch. 
150, Sec. 5, 16 Stat. 162.


                               Amendments

    1877--Act Feb. 27, 1877, struck out ``agriculture'' before 
``manufactures''.

                         Change of Name

    Act Mar. 4, 1913, substituted ``Secretary of Commerce'' for 
``Secretary of Commerce and Labor''.

                          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.
