of the Treasury by virtue of any law in relation to the exclusion from and the residence within the United States, Chinese excluits territories and the District of Columbia, of Chinese and sion. persons of Chinese descent, are hereby transferred to and conferred upon the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and the authority, power and jurisdiction in relation thereto now vested by law or treaty in the collectors of customs and the collectors of internal revenue, are hereby conferred upon and vested in such officers under the control of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may designate therefor. to Congress by Sec. 8. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall annually, Annual reports at the close of each fiscal year, make a report in writing Secretary of Comto Congress, giving an account of all moneys received merce and Labor. and disbursed by him and his Department, and describing the work done by the Department in fostering, promoting, and developing the foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, and the transportation facilities, of the United States, and making such recommendations as he shall deem necessary for the effective performance of the duties and purposes of the Department. He shall also from time to special reports. time make such special investigations and reports as he may be required to do by the President, or by either House of Congress, or which he himself may deem necessary and urgent. partment. Expenditures. ings. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall have Property of Decharge, in the buildings or premises occupied by or appro-Sec. 9. priated to the Department of Commerce and Labor, of the library, furniture, fixtures, records, and other property pertaining to it or hereafter 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 Rented buildDepartment of Commerce and Labor within the District of Columbia, and for all other incidental expenses, such sums as Congress may provide from time to time: Provided, however, That where any office, bureau, or branch of the public service transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor by this Act is occupying rented buildings or premises, it may still continue to do so until other suitable quarters are provided for its use: And provided further, That all officers, clerks, and em- ployees with bu ployees now employed in or by any of the bureaus, offices, reaus. departments, or branches of the public service in this Act transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor are each and all hereby transferred to said Department at their present grades and salaries, except where otherwise provided in this Act: And provided further, That all Previous laws laws prescribing the work and defining the duties of the bureaus. several bureaus, offices, departments, or branches of the public service by this Act transferred to and made a part of the Department of Commerce and Labor shall, so far as the same are not in conflict with the provisions of this Transfer of em concerning these Jurisdiction over these bu Secretary of Labor. Sec. 10. Act, remain in full force and effect until otherwise pro- a All duties performed and all power and authority now reaus vested in possessed or exercised by the head of any executive departCommerce and ment in and over any bureau, office, officer, board, branch, or division of the public service by this Act transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor, or any business arising therefrom or pertaining thereto, or in relation to the duties performed by and authority conferred by law upon such bureau, officer, office, board, branch or division of the public service, whether of an appellate or revisory character or otherwise, shall hereafter be vested in and exercised by the head of the said Department of Commerce and Labor. over matters re Jurisdiction All duties, power, authority and jurisdiction, whether lating to mer supervisory, appellate or otherwise, now imposed or conchant shipping. ferred upon the Secretary of the Treasury by Acts of Congress relating to merchant vessels or yachts, their measurement, numbers, names, registers, enrollments, licenses, commissions, records, mortgages, bills of sale, transfers, entry, clearance, movements and transportation of their cargoes and passengers, owners, officers, seamen, passengers, fees, inspection, equipment for the better security of life, and by Acts of Congress relating to tonnage tax, boilers on steam vessels, the carrying of inflammable, explosive or dangerous cargo on vessels, the use of petroleum or other similar substances to produce motive power and relating to the remission or refund of fines, penalties, forfeitures, exactions or charges incurred for violating any provision of law relating to vessels or seamen or to informer's shares of such fines, and by Acts of Congress relating to the Commissioner and Bureau of Navigation, Shipping Commissioners, their officers and employees, Steamboat-Inspection Service and any of the officials thereof, shall be and hereby are transferred to and imposed and conferred upon the Secretary of Commerce and Labor from and after the time of the transfer of the Bureau of Navigation, the Shipping Commissioners and the Steamboat Inspection Service to the Department of Commerce and Labor, and shall not thereafter be imposed upon or Acts repealed. exercised by the Secretary of the Treasury. And all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are, so far as inconsistent, hereby repealed. Trade Relations, ment. Sec. 11. Bureau of A person, to be designated by the Secretary of State, State Depart shall be appointed to formulate, under his direction, for the instruction of consular officers, the requests of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; and to prepare from the dispatches of consular officers, for transmission to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, such information as pertains to the work of the Department of Commerce and Labor; and such person shall have the rank and salary of a chief of bureau, and be furnished with such clerical assistants as may from time to time be authorized by law. a In connection with sec. 10, see extracts from opinions of AttorneyGeneral, page 34. transfer statisti work to Depart bor. La The President be, and he is hereby, authorized, by order, President may in writing, to transfer at any time the whole or any part cal or scientific of any office, bureau, division or other branch of the ment of Compublic service engaged in statistical or scientific work, merce and from the Department of State, the Department of the Sec. 12. Treasury, the Department of War, the Department of Justice, the Post-Office Department, the Department of the Navy or the Department of the Interior, to the Department of Commerce and Labor; and in every such case the duties and authority performed by and conferred by law upon such office, bureau, division or other branch of the public service, or the part thereof so transferred, shall be thereby transferred with such office, bureau, division or other branch of the public service, or the part thereof which is so transferred. And all power and authority conferred by law, both supervisory and appellate, upon the department from which such transfer is made, or the Secretary thereof, in relation to the said office, bureau, division or other branch of the public service, or the part thereof so transferred, shall immediately, when such transfer is so ordered by the President, be fully conferred upon and vested in the Department of Commerce and Labor, or the Secretary thereof, as the case may be, as to the whole or part of such office, bureau, division or other branch of the public service so transferred. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage: Provided, however, That the provisions of this Act other than those of section twelve in relation to the transfer of any existing office, bureau, division, officer or other branch of the public service or authority now conferred thereon, to the Department of Commerce and Labor shall take effect and be in force on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and three, and not before. Date of taking effect. Sec. 13. Salaries, etc., Labor. Mar. 3, 1903. and "For payment of the salaries and expenses of the Depart- Department of ment of Commerce and Labor, established by the "Act to Commerce establish the Department of Commerce and Labor," approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, (32 Stat., 1081.) for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four, as follows: Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secre- Secretary. tary of Commerce and Labor, at the rate of eight thousand Private secredollars per annum; private secretary to the Secretary, at tary to secretary. the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; Assistant SecAssistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor, at the rate retary. of five thousand dollars per annum; private secretary to Private secrethe Assistant Secretary, at the rate of one thousand eight Secretary. a Appropriation acts are not included in this volume except where they contain general legislation. This act is given on account of its historical value, being the first appropriation made for the Department of Commerce and Labor; and also on account of its usefulness in the work of organization. tary to Assistant Clerk. Commissioner Chief Clerk. hundred dollars per annum; chief clerk, at the rate of Disbursing three thousand dollars per annum; disbursing clerk, at the Chief, Bureau rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; chief of Manufactures. of the Bureau of Manufactures, at the rate of four thousand of Corporations. dollars per annum; Commissioner of Corporations, at the Deputy Com-rate of five thousand dollars per annum; Deputy Commismissioner. sioner of Corporations, at the rate of three thousand five reau of Corpora- hundred dollars per annum; chief clerk to the Bureau of Corporations, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum; in all, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Chief clerk, Bu tions. Clerks, messengers, etc. Contingent ex penses. Books. Stationery. plies, etc. For such number of clerks of class four, clerks of class three, clerks of class two, clerks of class one, clerks at the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum, clerks at the rate of nine hundred dollars each per annum, clerks at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum, messengers, assistant messengers, and for the services of such other persons, at a rate of compensation not exceeding one thousand dollars each per annum, as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may deem to be requisite and necessary in his office and in the Bureaus of Manufactures and Corporations, in addition to the employees that may be transferred hereunder from the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and the Bureaus of Manufactures and Corporations, namely: For the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars), stationery, furniture and repairs Furniture, sup to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lighting and heating; for the purchase, exchange, and care of horses and vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, and adding machines, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, fifty thousand dollars. Rent. Printing, etc. Special agents. For rent of necessary quarters for the offices of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and the Bureaus of Manufactures and Corporations, sixteen thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the offices of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and the Bureaus of Manufactures and Corporations, to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, seventy-five thousand dollars. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of such special agents in the Bureau of Corporations, and for per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding four dollars per day to each of said special agents, while absent from their homes on duty, and for actual necessary |