Chapter 145. to provide for the appointment of a commission to investigate the question of the Tariff
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CHAP. 145.— An Act to provide for the appointment of a commission to investigate the question of the Tariff.May 15, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Tariff commission. That a commission is hereby created to be called the “Tariff Commission,” to consist of nine members. Sec. 2. Nine commissioners Compensation. That the President of the United States shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint nine commissioners from civil life, one of whom, the first named, shall be the president of the commission.
The commissioners shall receive as compensation for their services each at the rate of ten dollars per day when engaged in active duty, and actual traveling and other necessary expenses. The Stenographer and messenger.Compensation,commission shall have power to employ a stenographer and a messenger; and the foregoing compensation and expenses to be audited and paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 3. Duties. That it shall be the duty of said commission to take into consideration and to thoroughly investigate all the various questions relating to the agricultural, commercial, mercantile, manufacturing, mining, and industrial interests of the United States, so far as the same may be necessary to the establishment of a judicious tariff, or a revision of the existing tariff, upon a scale of justice to all interests; and for the purpose of fully examining the matters which may come before it, said commission, in the prosecution of its inquiries, is empowered to visit such different portions and sections of the country as it may deem advisable.
Sec. 4. Report. That the commission shall make to Congress final report of the results of its investigation, and the testimony taken in the course of the same, not later than the first Monday of December, eighteen hundred and eighty two; and it shall cause the testimony taken to be printed from time to time and distributed to members of Congress by Printing report and testimony.the Public Printer, and shall also cause to be printed for the use of Congress two thousand copies of its final report, together with the testimony.
Approved, May 15, 1882.