ports on the enforcement of the United States Cotton Futures Act; on the United States Warehouse Act; on the enforcement of the United States GrainStandards Act; and enforcement of the Standard-Container Act.

Distribution, reports, lists, indexes, mailing lists, maps, and correspondence.— See Department publications, pages 88-90.

INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE BOARD.

Principal administrative officials.-Chairman; Executive Officer.

General information and duties.-The Insecticide and Fungicide Board, created December 22, 1910, assists the Secretary of Agriculture in the enforcement of the insecticide act of 1910. Samples of insecticides are collected in the open market and examined to determine whether or not they are adulterated or misbranded under the provisions of the act.

Publications.-Decisions based on the board's findings are contained in Service and Regulatory Announcements. The results of investigational work are published in the series of the appropriate bureau represented on the board (Bureaus of Entomology, Chemistry, Plant Industry, or Animal Industry).

FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD.

Principal administrative officials.-Chairman; Secretary; Entomological Inspectors; Pathological Inspectors; In charge of Entry of Plants and Plant Products under Restriction.

General information and duties.-The Federal Horticultural Board, created August 21, 1912, assists the Secretary of Agriculture in the enforcement of the plant-quarantine act of August 20, 1912. It is also charged with work looking to the eradication of the pink bollworm of cotton.

Publications.-Decisions based on the board's findings are issued in the Service and Regulatory Announcements. The results of investigational work are published in the series of the appropriate bureau having representation on the board (Bureaus of Plant Industry and Entomology and the Forest Service).

Part IX. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.

(For location of department and bureaus, see page 190.)

Principal administrative officials.—Secretary of Commerce, Assistant Secretary, Chief Clerk and Superintendent, Disbursing Clerk, Chief of Division of Appointments, Chief of Division of Publication, Chief of Division of Supplies. General information and duties.-The Secretary of Commerce is charged with the work of promoting the commerce of the United States and its mining, manufacturing, shipping, fishery, and transportation interests. His duties also comprise the following:

(1) The administration of the Lighthouse Service and the aid and protection to shipping thereby.

(2) The taking of the census, and the collection and publication of statistical information connected therewith.

(3) The making of coast and geodetic surveys.

(4) The collection of statistics relating to foreign and domestic commerce. (5) The inspection of steamboats, and the enforcement of laws relating thereto for the protection of life and property.

(6) The supervision of the fisheries as administered by the Federal Government.

(7) The supervision and control of the Alaskan fur-seal, salmon, and other fisheries.

(8) The jurisdiction over merchant vessels, their registry, licensing, measurement, entry, clearance, transfers, movement of their cargoes and passengers and laws relating thereto, and to seamen of the United States.

(9) The regulation of the enforcement and execution of the act of Congress relating to the equipment of ocean steamers with apparatus and operators for wireless communication.

(10) The custody, construction, maintenance, and application of standards of weights and measurements.

(11) The gathering and supplying of information regarding industries and markets for the fostering of manufacturing.

(12) And the formulation (in conjunction with the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Treasury) of regulations for the enforcement of the food and drugs act of 1906 and the insecticide act of 1910.

(13) He has power to call upon other departments for statistical data obtained by them.

Upon the organization of the Federal Trade Commission, created by the act approved February 26, 1914, the Bureau of Corporations ceased to exist as a bureau of the Department of Commerce and became a part of the Federal Trade Commission, and all pending investigation and proceedings of the former bureau were taken over by the Federal Trade Commission.

It is his further duty to make such special investigations and furnish such information to the President or Congress as may be required by them on the foregoing subject matters and to make annual reports to Congress upon the work of said department.

The Chief of the Diviston of Publications is charged by the Secretary of Commerce with the conduct of all business the department transacts with the Government Printing Office; the general supervision of printing, including the editing and preparation of copy, illustrating and binding, the distribution of publications, and the maintenance of mailing lists. The advertising done by the department is in his charge. He also keeps a record of all expenditures for the publishing work of the department and conducts the correspondence it entails.

Publications. The division of publications issues at intervals a list of publications of all bureaus of the Department of Commerce available for distribution. It issues also, at the end of each month, a list of those printed during that month.

An Annual Report of the operations of the division is printed at the end of each fiscal year. This report is submitted to Congress and printed as a congressional document, in compliance with section 92 of the act of January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. L., 623).

These can be obtained by application to the Chief of Division of Publications, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C.

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS.

Principal administrative officials.-Director, Chief Clerk, Chief Statistician for Finance and Municipal Statistics, Chief Statistician for Manufactures, Chief Statistician for Population, Chief Statistician for Vital Statistics, Expert Special Agent in Charge of Revision and Results, Geographer, Expert Chiefs of Divisions.

General information and duties.-The Bureau of the Census is charged with the duty of taking the decennial censuses of the United States, of making certain other statistical investigations at regular intervals, and of collecting such special statistics as may be authorized by law from time to time. The act establishing the permanent Census Bureau requires that, after the completion of the regular decennial census, the Director of the Census shall decennially collect statistics relative to the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes; crime, including judicial statistics pertaining thereto; wealth, public indebtedness and expenditures, and taxation; religious bodies; transportation by water; and the fishing industry, in cooperation with the Bureau of Fisheries. Every five years statistics must be collected relating to manufactures, street railways, electric light and power stations, and telephone and telegraph business. Annual statistics must be gathered relating to births and deaths in States and cities maintaining efficient registration systems; the finances and various governmental activities of cities having populations of 30,000 and over; the production and distribution of cotton; and the quantity of leaf tobacco on hand. Decennial, quinquennial, and biennial publications.-Under this heading are listed publications issued at intervals of ten years, five years, and two years, each being the latest of the series to which it belongs. There are also given a few which are not issued at regular intervals. All publications are of quarto size unless a different size is stated.

Population, 1910. (a) General report and analysis. (Vol. 1. Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 1,373 pp.) Number, distribution; apportionment of representation; area; density of population; center of population; urban and rural population; population of cities; color; race, nativity; parentage (native or foreign); sex; marital condition; conjugal condition; birthplace; foreign born; mother tongue of foreign white stock; language, native, of foreign white stock; year of immigration; naturalization; citizenship of foreign born; age; voting age; militia age; school attendance; illiteracy; inability to speak English; dwellings and families; homes and families; ownership of homes. (The 16 chapters of this volume are also issued in the form of separate bulletins.) (b) Reports by States, with statistics for counties, cities, and other civil divisions—Alabama to Montana. (Vol. II, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 1,160 pp.)

(c) Reports by States, with statistics for counties, cities, and other civil divisions-Nebraska to Wyoming; Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. (Vol. III, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 1,225 pp.).

Vols. II and III. Color; race; nativity; parentage; foreign born; sex; age; voting age; school age, and attendance; illiteracy; dwellings and families; homes and families; urban and rural; population in cities; citizenship of foreign born; naturalization; marital condition. (The contents of Vols. II and III are also issued in the form of separate bulletins, each relating to an individual State and to the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Porto Rico.) (d) Occupation Statistics. (Vol. IV, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 615 pp.)

This volume presents statistics showing number of gainfully employed persons 10 years of age and over, classified according to occupation in which engaged and according to sex, age, color or race, nativity, and parentage. (A summary of this report has been issued, in bulletin form. Two other bulletins have also been issued, one relating to cities of 100,000 and over, and the other to cities of 25,000 to 100,000.)

Agriculture, 1909 and 1910. (a) General report and analysis. (Vol. V, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 927 pp.) Acreage; value of farms and

farm property; tenure; tenancy; mortgages; color or race of farmers; nativity of farmers; live stock and live-stock products; slaughtering on farms; crops; irrigation; plantations in the South. (The 12 chapters of this volume are also issued in the form of separate bulletins.)

(b) Reports by States, with statistics for counties-Alabama to Montana. (Vol. VI, Thirteenth Census Reports; 977 pp.)

(c) Reports by States, with statistics for counties-Nebraska to Wyoming; Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. (Vol. VII, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 1,013 pp.) Vols. VI and VII. (State sections appear in alphabetical order. The more important statistics are presented separately for each county in each State.) Number, size, and value of farms; value of farm property; acreage, improved and unimproved; improved and unimproved land; domestic animals; poultry; bees; tenure; tenancy; color or race of farmers; nativity of farmers; mortgages; live stock and live-stock products; slaughtering on farms; crops; irrigation. (The contents of these volumes are also issued in the form of separate bulletins, each relating to an individual State and to the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Porto Rico.)

The census of agriculture is taken decennially.

Manufactures, 1909. (a) General report and analysis. (Vol. VIII, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 845 pp.) Topics: Persons engaged in manufactures; proprietors, officers, and employees; employees; wage earners; capital; salaries and wages; cost of materials and fuel; expenses; power; products; value added by manufacture; character of ownership (corporation, individual or other); hours of labor; localization of industries.

(b) Reports by States, with statistics for principal cities. (Vol. IX, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 1,404 pp.) Topics: Persons engaged; proprietors, officers, and employees; wage earners; power, capital; salaries and wages; cost of materials and fuel; expenses; products; value added by manufacture. (The contents of this volume have been issued in the form of separate bulletins, each relating to an individual State and to the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico.)

(c) Reports for Principal Industries. (Vol. X, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 979 pp.) Topics: This volume contains reports for 54 leading industries and groups of industries, in which are given statistics similar in scope to, but in greater detail than, those presented in Vol. VIII. (The contents of this volume have been issued in the form of 49 bulletins, 1 relating to manufactures in 13 metropolitan districts, and 48 relating to individual industries and groups of industries.)

Manufactures, 1914. Abstract; octavo, 722 pages. (The census of manufactures is taken quinquennially. The detailed results of the last inquiry, which covered the industrial operations of the calendar year 1914, have been published in the form of two series of bulletins, one containing statistics for individual States and the other for individual industries. These bulletins will later be bound together in the form of two or three large quarto volumes. The scope of the census is substantially the same as that for 1909.)

Mines and Quarries, 1909. Vol. XI, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 369 pp.) Topics: Persons engaged; proprietors, officers, and employees; salaries and wages; hours of labor; products; cost of materials and supplies; royalties; rent; expenses; power; capital; character of organization (corporation, firm, individual, and other); contract work. (The sections of this report which relate to coal mining and to iron mining, respectively, have been published in the form of separate bulletins, one, of 55 pages, entitled "Coal," and the other of 25 pages, entitled "Iron mines.") (The census of mines and quarries is taken decennially. Annual statistics in regard to mineral products are published by the United States Geological Survey.) Abstract of the Thirteenth Census, 1910. (569 pp., without supplement.) This publication presents condensed statistics relative to population (except occupations), agriculture, manufactures, and mines and quarries. It is issued in 53 editions, one without supplement and each of the others containing a supplement presenting detailed statistics relating to the four subjects named, for some one State and for the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Porto Rico. The State supplements are also issued separately.

Benevolent Institutions, 1910. (411 pp.) Topics: Institutions for the care of children; homes for care of adults or of adults and children; hospitals; sanitariums; dispensaries; institutions for the care of the blind and deaf; number and sex of inmates; receipts; expenditures; value of property.

Insane and Feeble-minded in Institutions, 1910. (217 pp.) Topics: Sex; color; race; nativity; parentage; age: marital condition of insane; illiteracy of insane; occupation of insane prior to admission to institution; alcoholic psychosis among insane; general paralysis among the insane; names and locations of institutions. (The statistics in this report are also presented, in condensed form, in Bulletin 119, of 99 pp.)

Paupers in Almshouses, 1910. (141 pp.) Topics: Sex; color; race; nativity; parentage; age; marital condition; illiteracy; occupation prior to admission; physical condition; mental or physical defects; children born in almshouses; names and locations of almshouses. (The statistics in this report are also presented, in condensed form, in Bulletin 120, of 99 pp.)

Prisoners and Juvenile Delinquents, 1910. (About 400 pp.) Sex; color; race; nativity; offense; sentence; names and locations of institutions. (The statistics in this report are also presented in condensed form in Bulletin 121, of 130 pp.)

The Blind in the United States, 1910. (282 pp.) Topics: Sex; age; color; race; nativity; nationality; marital condition; oceupation. (A summary of the contents of this report is presented in Bulletin 130, of 52 pp.)

Deaf Mutes in the United States, 1910. (220 pp.) Topics: Sex; color; race; nativity; age; age at which deafness occurred; cause; lip-reading; deaf relatives; marital condition; school attendance; occupations. (A portion of the statistics contained in this report are given in an eight-page preliminary announcement entitled "The Census of the Deaf and Dumb, 1910.")

Summary of State Laws Relative to the Care of the Dependent Classes, 1913. (Octavo; 343 pp.) Topics: Paupers; blind; deaf and dumb; sick; infirm; homeless children; insane; feeble-minded; inebriates; soldiers, sailors, and marines. Statistical Directory of State Institutions, 1913. (About 200 pp.) (In press.) Names and locations of State institutions for feeble-minded, insane, criminalistic, epileptic, inebriate, tuberculous, blind, deaf, deformed, and dependent; inmates, employees, expenditures.

Marriage and Divorce, 1867-1906. Part I. Summary, laws, and foreign statistics. (549 pp.) Topics: Marriages; marriage rates; divorces; divorce rates; divorces among Negroes; causes of divorce; intemperance as a cause of divorce; alimony; residence; duration of marriage when terminated by divorce; children; occupation of husband; remarriage of divorced persons; suicide among the divorced; laws relating to marriage and divorce; marriage and divorce in foreign countries. Part II. General tables. (850 pp.) Topics: Cause; libellant; duration of marriage when terminated by divorce; children; county statistics. (A summary of the statistics contained in this report is presented in Bulletin 96, of 71 pp.)

Religious Bodies, 1906. Part I. Summary and general tables. (576 pp.) Topics: Denominations; organizations; date of establishment; ministers; salaries of ministers; sex of members; language used in conduct of services; seating capacity of churches; value of property; debt; parsonages; Sunday schools; Negro organizations. Part II. Separate denominations. (670 pp.) History; doctrine; polity; organizations; sex of members; capacity of churches; seating capacity of churches; value of church property; debt; parsonages; Sunday schools. (A summary of the contents of this report is presented in Bulletin 103, of 149 pp.)

Statistical Atlas of the United States, 1914. (Text, 99 pp.; maps, charts, and diagrams, 503 pls.) The statistical atlas contains maps, charts, and diagrams by which are shown graphically some of the principal census statistics relating to population, agriculture, manufactures, mines and quarries, cotton, finances of cities, mortality, religious bodies, marriage and divorce, and insane in hospitals.

Wealth, Debt, and Taxation, 1913. Volume I. (886 pp.) Topics: Estimated value of public and private wealth; National and State indebtedness and funds and investments; county and municipal indebtedness and sinking-fund assets; taxation and revenue systems of State and local governments; assessments and taxes. Vol. II. (756 pp.) Topics: National and State revenues and expenditures and public properties of States; county revenues, expenditures, and public properties; municipal revenues, expenditures, and public properties. (The eight sections of this report have also been published in the form of separate bulletins.) (The inquiry relating to wealth, public debt, and taxation is made decennially.)

Electrical Industries, 1912. (a) Central electric light and power stations and street and electric railways. (440 pp.) Topics: Central electric light