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[CITE: 15USC188]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 5--STATISTICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFORMATION
 
Sec. 188. Publication of commercial information

    The Secretary of Commerce shall publish official notifications, from 
time to time, of such commercial information communicated to him by 
diplomatic and consular officers, as he may deem important to the public 
interests, in such newspapers, not to exceed three in number, as he may 
select.

(R.S. Sec. 211; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, Sec. 10, 32 Stat. 829; Mar. 4, 
1913, ch. 141, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 736.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 211 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 127, Sec. 2, 11 
Stat. 60.

                         Change of Name

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

                          Transfer of Functions

    Act Feb. 14, 1903, transferred Bureau of Statistics from Treasury 
Department to Department of Commerce and Labor.
