results which the soldiers by their fighting helped to accomplish; I mean the placing of this country in the forefront, not only in war, but in peace."

Secretary Cortelyou replied as follows:

"COMMANDER: It is altogether fitting that under such auspices as these the flag should be raised on the new Department. In asking you to participate in this simple ceremony we were influenced very largely by the reasons you have given in the very appropriate address you have just made. I thank you for being here, with your staff and others, representing the Grand Army of the Republic, and I need hardly assure you that in the work of this Department it will be our constant hope and purpose that nothing shall be done unworthy of that flag."

In this building, besides the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary, the Solicitor, the Chief Clerk, and the Disbursing Clerk, are the Bureau of Corporations, the Bureau of Immigration, and the Department library. The other offices of the Department are located as follows: Bureau of Navigation, Light-House Board, and Steamboat-Inspection Service in the Builders' Exchange, Thirteenth street; Bureau of Statistics in the Adams Building, 1333 F street; Coast and Geodetic Survey and Bureau of Standards at corner of New Jersey avenue and B street SE.; Bureau of the Census, First and B streets NW.; Bureau of Labor, corner of New York avenue and Fifteenth street, and the Bureau of Fisheries at its headquarters in the Mall, Sixth and B streets SW. At the time. of printing this volume, the organization of the Bureau of Manufactures has not been completed.

The law creating the Department transferred to it on July 1, 1903, its subdivisions which had theretofore been independent offices or under the older Executive Departments, and this important date in the life of the new Department was marked by the assembling in the office of the Secretary of its general officers and distinguished guests. The speakers on this occasion were: The Rev. Franklin Noble; the Rev. D. J. Stafford; Secretary Moody, of the Navy Department; S. N. D. North, Director of the Census, and H. B. F. Macfarland, Commissioner of the District of Columbia.

Secretary Cortelyou made an address in which he recounted the work of preliminary organization, and stated that in four months and a half the personnel of the Department had grown from one official, the Secretary, to a total of 10,125 persons in Washington and the country at large; he spoke of the great opportunities before the Department in aiding and guiding the commerce and industries of the country, and of the principles upon which the Department would administer the laws defining its powers. In closing, he said:

"To-day the new Department moves forward, and as it takes its place by the side of the other great Executive establishments it will catch the step and the swing of their onward movement in the nation's progress and prosperity.

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"No other Department has a wider field, if the just expectations of the framers of the legislation are realized. None will have closer relations with the people or greater opportunities for effective work. While we can not dedicate a new and imposing structure to the uses of the Department, we can at least, and I am sure we all do, dedicate ourselves to the work which Chief Executives have recommended and Congress in its wisdom has set apart to be done. In this spirit I have thought it altogether fitting and proper that we should have these brief exercises, and that in them we should emphasize the fact that if we are to have the highest success as a nation in our commercial and industrial relations, whether among ourselves or with other peoples, we must keep ever to the front and dominant always those sturdy elements of character and the dependence upon Divine guidance which were so signally shown by the founders of the Republic, and to which we can not too often revert in these busy and prosperous times which make memorable for us the opening years of the new century."

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ORGANIC LAWS OF THE DEPARTMENT

Official designation.

Department of Commerce and Labor.
Light-House Board (including Light-
House Establishment).

Bureau of the Census a

Coast and Geodetic Survey..

Bureau of Statistics

Bureau of Foreign Commerce.....

Bureau of Standards a...

Steamboat-Inspection Service........

Seal and Salmon Fisheries.

Bureau of Fisheriesa..

Bureau of Labora...

Bureau of Navigation..

Bureau of Immigration.

Bureau of Corporations.
Bureau of Manufactures

See next page.

Organic acts, etc.

Federal jurisdiction of aids to navigation first assumed by
act of Aug. 7, 1789. Light-House Service reorganized and
placed on its present footing by act of Aug. 31, 1852 (10
Stat., 119).

First census taken under act of Mar. 1, 1790. Present status of
Bureau established by act of Mar. 6, 1902 (32 Stats., 51.)
Survey first authorized by act of Feb. 10, 1807. Reorganized and
placed on present footing under act of Mar. 30, 1843 (5 Stats.,
640). Name authorized by sundry civil act of June 20, 1878.
First law authorizing statistics by Treasury Department, act
of Feb. 10, 1820. Bureau of Statistics organized and placed
on its present footing by act of July 28, 1866 (14 Stats., 330).
Organized as a statistical office in the State Department by
act of Aug. 16, 1842 (5 Stats., 507). Organized as Bureau of
Statistics, State Department, by act of June 20, 1874. Name
changed to Bureau of Foreign Commerce in consular appro-
priation act for year 1898, effective July 1, 1897.
Work of this office first authorized by Senate resolution of
May 29, 1830. Name "Office of Construction of Standard
Weights and Measures" first used in appropriation act of
Aug. 5, 1882. Organized as at present by act of Mar. 3, 1901
(31 Stats., 1449).

First steamboat-inspection law. July 7, 1838. Service reor-
ganized and placed on present footing, practically, by act
of Feb. 28, 1871 (Title 52, R. S.).

Regulation of these fisheries first established by joint resolu-
tion of July 27, 1868; sections 1954 et seq., Revised Statutes,
and acts approved Dec. 29, 1897 (30 Stats., 226), and Mar. 3,
1899 (Alaskan code) (30 Stats., 1280).

First Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries appointed by act of
Feb. 9, 1871. Commission reorganized under act of June 20,
1888 (25 Stats., 1). "United States Fish Commission" first
used in act of Dec. 15, 1877.

Organized by act of June 27, 1884, as a bureau of the Interior
Department. Reorganized as the Department of Labor by
act of June 13, 1888 (25 Stats., 182).

Established by act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stats., 118). Shipping
Commissioners placed under Bureau of Navigation by
Treasury Departinent order of July 18, 1884.

Federal control of immigration assumed by act of Mar. 3,
1891 (26 Stats., 1081). Immigration laws codified by act of
Mar. 3, 1903. "Bureau of Immigration' first used in act of
March, 1895.

Authorized by act of Feb. 14, 1903 (32 Stats., 825).
Authorized by act of Feb. 14, 1903 (32 Stats., 825),

a This name adopted by Secretary's order of July 1, 1903.