Chapter 23. To consolidate the work of collecting, compiling, and publishing statistics of the foreign commerce of the United States in the Department of Commerce
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CHAP. 23.— An Act To consolidate the work of collecting, compiling, and publishing statistics of the foreign commerce of the United States in the Department of Commerce. January 5, 1923.[[S. 3295](/us/bill/67/s/3295).][[Public, No. 379](/us/pl/67/379).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the control Customs Statistics.Office of in New York customhouse transferred to Department of Commerce from the Treasury.and with it the expense of operation of the office known as the Bureau of Customs Statistics under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Treasury, now located in the customhouse, city of New York, State of New York, including all officers, clerks, and other employees of that bureau, official records, papers, mechanical and office equipment, furniture, and supplies now in use, be, and the same hereby is, transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Commerce.
The Secretary of Commerce Consolidation with Statistics Division authorized.is hereby authorized, if by him deemed advisable, to consolidate the said Bureau of Customs Statistics with the Division of Statistics of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce into one office, located in either Washington or New York, or partly in either place, in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce; that the statistical bureau hereby Bureau to be located in New York custom-house.authorized to be located in New York under the jurisdiction and control of the Department of Commerce continue to occupy the premises in the New York customhouse which are now occupied by the Bureau of Customs Statistics, and that additional space as needed be assigned in the same building for its use by the Secretary of the Treasury upon request of the Secretary of Commerce.
All Appropriations for collecting customs revenue applicable for office expenses, etc.*Ante*, p. 1094.of the unexpended appropriations or allotments from appropriations available for the maintenance and expense of operation of the said 1110Bureau of Customs Statistics are, from the time when this Act takes effect, deducted from the appropriation of the Department of the Treasury for collecting revenue from customs and transferred to the appropriation for the Department of Commerce, to be available for the current fiscal year from the time of such transfer for expenditure in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, for personal services, rental, or purchase of mechanical, tabulating, duplicating, and other office machinery, devices, furniture, and supplies, including their exchange or repair; subsistence, traveling and transportation expenses of employees for official purposes; telegraph, telephone, and all other contingent expenses not specifically included in the foregoing.
Sec. 2. Monthly reports of imports and exports to be furnished collectors at ports. Special reports to Treasury. That the Department of Commerce will furnish monthly to the collectors at the several ports a tabulation in detail showing the quantities and values of the merchandise imported and exported from their respective districts, and will furnish the Treasury Department upon request such special reports as may be necessary from time to time. Sec. 3. In effect January 1, 1923.
That this Act shall take effect and be in force on the 1st day of January, 1923. Approved, January 5, 1923.