Chapter 393. to promote agriculture, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 393.— An Act to promote agriculture, and for other purposes.June 18, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Agriculture statistics. That sections seventeen hundred and twelve and seventeen hundred and thirteen, in chapter two, under title eighteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to consuls and commercial agents be, and they are hereby, so amended that they shall read as follows:
" “Sec 1712. Consuls and commercial agents of the United States[R. S., sec. 1712, p. 306, amended](/us/rs/t/s1712/p306).Consuls to furnish commercial information. in foreign countries shall procure and transmit to the Department of State authentic commercial information respecting such countries, of such character and in such manner and form and at such times as the Department may from time to time prescribe. And they shall also procure and transmit to the Department of State, for the use of the Agricultural statistics for Agricultural Department.Agricultural Department, monthly reports relative to the character, condition, and prospective yields of the agricultural and horticultural industries and other fruiteries of the country in which they are respectively stationed; and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby required and directed to embody the information thus obtained, or so much thereof as he may deem material and important, in his monthly bulletin of crop reports.
” “Sec. 1713. Every consular officer shall furnish to the Secretary[R. S., sec. 1713, p. 306, amended](/us/rs/t/s1713/p306).Prices current. of the Treasury, as often as shall be required, the prices current of all articles of merchandise usually exported to the United States from the port or place in which he is situated; and he shall also furnish Agricultural prod-to the Secretary of the Treasury, at least once in twelve months, the prices current of all articles of merchandise, including those of the farm, the garden, and the orchard, that are imported through the FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 393, 394. 1888.187 port or place in which he is stationed. And he shall also report as toImplements. the character of agricultural implements in use, and whether they are imported to or manufactured in that county; as to the character and extent of agricultural and horticultural pursuits there. That part of the information thus obtained which pertains to agriculture shall be transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as the same shall have been received by him, to the Commissioner of Agriculture, who shall include the same, or so much thereof as he may deem material and important, in his annual reports, stating the said prices in dollars and cents, and rendering tables of foreign weights and measures into their American equivalents.
” " Approved, June 18, 1888.