sation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment. (37) Stat. 737.) These provisions were part of section three of the "Act to create a Department of Labor" cited above. Previous provisions of the section, transferring the Bureau of Labor and the Commissioner of Labor from the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department of Labor, are set forth ante, § 934. The duties of the Bureau of Labor Statistics were prescribed, and the powers of the Secretary of Labor in the performance thereof were defined, by section 4 of this act, post, § 945. The provisions of Act May 30, 1908, c. 236, mentioned in this section, are set forth post, §§ 8923-8929. Provisions relating to the former Department of Labor and Commissioner of Labor, and prescribing their powers, duties, etc., are set forth post, §§ 946-953. § 945. (Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 4.) Powers of Bureau; collection and reports of statistics of labor conditions, etc.; powers of Secretary of Labor. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, shall collect, collate, and report at least once each year, or oftener if necessary, full and complete statistics of the conditions of labor and the products and distribution of the products of the same, and to this end said Secretary shall have power to employ any or either of the bureaus provided for his department and to rearrange such statistical work and to distribute or consolidate the same as may be deemed desirable in the public interests; and said Secretary shall also have authority to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and said Secretary of Labor may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise. (37 Stat. 737.) Before the transfer of the Bureau from the Department of Commerce and Labor to this Department by this act, certain duties of the Bureau, prescribed by Act June 13, 1888, c. 389, § 7, post, § 948, in regard to ascertaining the cost of production in foreign countries of articles dutiable in the United States, were transferred to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, in the Department of Commerce and Labor, in connection with provisions for consolidating the Bureau of Manufactures and the Bureau of Statistics in that Department into said Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, made by Act Aug. 23, 1912, c. 350, § 1, ante, § 873. Other provisions of said Act June 13, 1888, c. 389, and of subsequent acts, relating to the former Department of Labor and Commissioner of Labor, or to the Bureau of Labor in the Department of Commerce and Labor, are set forth post, §§ 946-953. § 946. (Act June 13, 1888, c. 389, § 1.) Former Department of Labor; design and duties. There shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity. (25 Stat. 182.) This was the first section of the act to establish the former Department of Labor, which was afterwards transferred to and made part of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and again transferred to this Department, to be known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics therein, as stated in the note at the beginning of this chapter. Provisions of sections 2, 7, 8, and 9 of this act, relating to the appointment, etc., of the former Commissioner of Labor and his powers and duties in said former Department of Labor, which may be applicable to the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, are set forth post, §§ 947, 948, 951, 953. Section 3 of this act provided for a chief clerk and other clerks and employés, at specified salaries, in said Department of Labor, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Labor, and for an allowance to special agents for traveling expenses, and for employment of temporary experts, assistants, etc. The power of appointment thereby vested in the Commissioner could not be exercised by him after the transfer of the Department to the Department of Commerce and Labor and subsequently to this Department, he being no longer the head of the Department. And the provisions of the section had been practically superseded by the different specific provisions for clerks and employés made in the annual appropriation act, each act providing for the fiscal year next following. They were also superseded by the provision of Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, creating this Department, that there should be in the Department certain officers named, "and such other clerical assistants, inspectors, and special agents as may from time to time be provided for by Congress," made by section 2 of the act, ante, § 933. The appropriations for the Bureau of Labor in the Department of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year 1914 were by Act March 4, 1913, c. 142, § 1, 37 Stat. 783, and were made available for expenditure in and by the Department of Labor by provisions of Act May 1, 1913, c. 1, 38 Stat. 2. The appropriations for the fiscal year 1917 were by Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 1, 39 Stat. Said appropriations further provided for allowances to special agents and employés while traveling, and for employment of experts and temporary assistants, such as were authorized by this section. Section 4 of this act provided that during the absence of the Commissioner, or when the office should become vacant, the chief clerk should perform the duties of Commissioner. No provision for a chief clerk has been made by recent appropriations for the Bureau, but instead thereof, provision has been made for a "Chief Statistician, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $3,000." Section 5 of this act related to the bond to be required of the disbursing clerk of the former Department. Recent appropriations have made no provision for a disbursing clerk for the Bureau, and a disbursing clerk for the Department was provided for by the act creating it, Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 2, ante, § 933. Section 6 of this act provided that the former Commissioner of Labor should have charge of the building, property, records, etc., of the former Department of Labor. It was superseded, on the transfer of the Bureau to the Department of Commerce and Labor, by provisions of Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, establishing that Department, giving the Secretary of Commerce and Labor charge of the buildings, property, records, etc., of the Department, made by section 9 of that act, ante, § 861, and on the subsequent transfer of the Bureau to this Department, by similar provisions relating to the Secretary of Labor, made by Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 6, ante, § 936. Section 7 of this act prescribed the duties of the former Commissioner of Labor. Certain of said duties were transferred to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in the Department of Commerce and Labor, in connection with the provisions establishing said Bureau by the consolidation of the Bureau of Manufacturers and the Bureau of Statistics, in that Department, by provisions of Act Aug. 23, 1912, c. 350, § 1, ante, § 873. § 947. (Act June 13, 1888, c. 389, § 2.) Commissioner; appointment and term of office; salary. The Department of Labor shall be under the charge of a Commissioner of Labor, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; he shall hold his office for four years, unless sooner removed, and shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars per annum. (25 Stat. 182.) See note to preceding section of this act, ante, § 946. The Department was to be known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Commissioner as the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, by provisions of Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 3, ante, § 944. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with rates of salaries or compensation appropriated by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation acts are repealed, and the rates of salaries or compensation of officers or employés appropriated for in said acts are to constitute the rate of salary or compensation of such officers or employés, respectively, until otherwise fixed by an annual rate of appropriation or other law, by Act July 16, 1914, c. 141, § 6, post, § 3228a. The officers and employés of the United States whose salaries are appropriated for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1916, Act March 4, 1915, c. 141, 38 Stat. 1049, are established and continued from year to year to the extent that they are appropriated for by Congress, by § 6 of said act, post, § 3228b. Unless otherwise specially authorized by law, no money appropriated by any act shall be available for payment to any person receiving more than one sal ary, when the combined amount of said salaries exceeds $2,000 per annum, with certain enumerated exceptions, by Act May 10, 1916, c. 117, § 6, as amended by Act Aug. 29, 1916, c. 417, post, § 3230a. § 948. (Act June 13, 1888, c. 389, § 7.) Duties of Commissioner. The Commissioner of Labor, in accordance with the general design and duties referred to in section one of this act, [is specially charged to ascertain, at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully-Specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, or approximate cost, of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece; and hours employed per day; and the profits of the manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living, and the kind of living]. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner also to ascertain and report as to the effect of the customs laws, and the effect thereon of the state of the currency, in the United States, on the agricultural industry, especially as to its effect on mortgage indebtedness of farmers; [and what articles are controlled by Trusts, or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor and what effect said trusts, or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices]. He shall also establish a system of reports by which, at intervals of not less than two years, he can report the general condition, so far as production is concerned, of the leading industries of the country. The Commissioner of Labor is also specially charged to investigate the causes of, and facts relating to, all controversies and disputes between employers and employees as they may occur, and which may tend to interfere with the welfare of the people of the different States, and report thereon to Congress. The Commissioner of Labor shall also obtain such information upon the various subjects committed to him as he may deem desirable from different foreign nations, and what, if any, convict made goods are imported into this country, and if so from whence. (25 Stat. 183.) See notes to sections 1 and 2 of this act, ante, §§ 946, 947. The provisions of this section inclosed in brackets, specially charging the former Commissioner of Labor to ascertain the cost in other countries of producing articles dutiable in the United States, etc., and making it his duty to ascertain and report what articles are controlled by trusts, etc., and the effect of said trusts, etc., on production and prices, were superseded by the transfer of the duties therein prescribed to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in the Department of Commerce and Labor, before the transfer of this Bureau from that Department, in connection with provisions consolidating the Bureau of Manufactures and the Bureau of Statistics into said Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, by Act Aug. 23, 1912, c 350, § 1, ante, § 873. The Department was to be known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Commissioner as the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, by provisions of Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 3, ante, § 944. § 949. (Act March 2, 1895, c. 177, § 1.) Bulletin as to condition of Labor, etc. The Commissioner of Labor is hereby authorized to prepare and publish a bulletin of the Department of Labor, as to the condition of labor in this and other countries, condensations of State and foreign labor reports, facts as to conditions of employment, and such other facts as may be deemed of value to the industrial interests of the country, and there shall be printed one edition of not exceeding ten thousand copies of each issue of said bulletin for distribution by the Department of Labor. (28 Stat. 805.) This was a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation acts, accompanying appropriations for the former Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1896, cited above. The Department was to be known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Commissioner as the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, by provisions of Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 3, ante, § 944. The Commissioner was authorized to compile, as part of the bulletin of the Department, an abstract of the main features of the official statistics of cities having over 30,000 population, by a provision of Act July 1, 1898, c. 546, § 1, post, § 950. The printing of extra copies of the Bulletin was provided for by Act June 6, 1900, c. 791, § 1, post, § 7107. § 950. (Act July 1, 1898, c. 546, § 1.) Bulletin to contain abstract of statistics of certain cities. The Commissioner of Labor is authorized to compile and publish annually, as a part of the Bulletin of the Department of Labor, an abstract of the main features of the official statistics of the cities of the United States having over thirty thousand population. (30 Stat. 648.) This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1899, cited above. See notes to provision of Act March 2, 1895, c. 177, § 1, ante, § 949. § 951. (Act June 13, 1888, c. 389, § 8.) Reports by Commissioner. The Commissioner of Labor shall annually make a report in writing to the President and Congress, of the information collected and collated by him, and containing such recommendations as he may deem calculated to promote the efficiency of the Department. He is also authorized to make special reports on particular subjects whenever required to do so by the President or either House of Congress, or when he shall think the subjects in his charge requires it. He shall, on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year, make a report in detail to Congress of all moneys expended under his direction during the preceding fiscal year. (25 Stat. 183.) See notes to sections 1 and 2 of this act, ante, §§ 946, 947. The Department was to be known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Commissioner as the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, by provisions of Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 3, ante, § 944. Provisions for the printing and distribution of the reports of the Commissioner of Labor were made by the Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, § 73, par. 16, post, § 7068. A bound copy of the Congressional Record was to be furnished gratuitously to the Department of Labor by an amendment of the Printing and Binding Act of Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, § 73, par. 55, by Act Jan. 30, 1903, c. 338, to read as set forth post, § 7090. § 952. (Act April 30, 1900, c. 339, § 76, as amended, Act April 8, 1904, c. 948.) Reports of statistics of Labor, etc., in Hawaii. It shall be the duty of the United States Commissioner of Labor to collect, assort, arrange, and present in reports in nineteen hundred and five, and every five years thereafter, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the Territory of Hawaii, especially in relation to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and to all such other subjects as Congress may by law direct. The said Commissioner is especially charged to ascertain the highest, lowest and average number of employees engaged in the various industries in the Territory, to be classified as to nativity, sex, hours of labor, and conditions of employment, and to report the same to Congress. (31 Stat. 155. 33 Stat. 164.) These provisions were part of section 76 of the act entitled “An act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii," as amended to read as set forth here by Act April 8, 1904, c. 948, cited above. The Commissioner of Labor was to be known as the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, by a provision of Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, § 1, ante, § 944. § 953. (Act June 13, 1888, c. 389, § 9.) Laws relating to former Bureau of Labor continued in force so far as applicable. All laws and parts of laws relating to the Bureau of Labor created under the act of Congress approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, so far as the same are applicable and not in conflict with this act, and only so far, are continued in full force and effect. (25 Stat. 183.) See notes to sections 1 and 2 of this act, ante, §§ 946, 947. Act June 27, 1884, c. 127, 23 Stat. 60, mentioned in this section, which established the Bureau of Labor, was superseded by this act. Further provisions of this section, for the transfer of the clerks and employés, and the library, records, and property of the former Bureau to the Department of Labor, and that, on the organization of the Department, the functions of the Bureau should cease, are omitted here, as temporary merely, and executed. CHAPTER C The Bureau of Immigration The office of Superintendent of Immigration in the Treasury Department was created by Act March 3, 1891, c. 551, § 7, 26 Stat. 1085, and the Superintendent was designated Commissioner-General of Immigration, under the heading "Bureau of Immigration," by Act March 2, 1895, c. 177, § 1, 28 Stat. 780. The Commissioner-General and the Bureau of Immigration were transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor by the act establishing that Department, Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, § 4, ante, § 857. Thereafter the designation of the Bureau was changed to Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization by Act June 29, 1906, c. 3592, § 1, 34 Stat. 596. On the creation of the Department of Labor by Act March 4, 1913, c. 141, 37 Stat. 736, the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization was transferred to the Department of Labor, and the Bureau was divided into two Bureaus, to be known thereafter as the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization. This chapter includes the provisions of said acts and those of other acts which remain in force and may be applicable to the Bureau of Immigration in the Department of Labor. Sec. 956. Duties of Commissioner-General as 957. Amendment of Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, and prior acts relating to alien immigration. Sec. 958. Refunding head tax erroneously collected. 959. Duties and powers of Commissioner-General as to administration of immigration laws; regulations; contracts; detail of immigration officers. 960. Division of Information in Bureau; distribution of aliens admitted among the several States; agents of States at immigrant stations. 960a. Motor vehicles for enforcement of immigration and Chinese exclusion laws; purchase, etc., payment for. § 954. (Act March 3, 1891, c. 551, § 7.) Former office of Superintendent of Immigration in Treasury Department; salary; status; reports; office accommodations; clerks. The office of superintendent of immigration is hereby created and established, and the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized and directed to appoint such officer, whose salary shall be four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. The superintendent of immigration shall be an officer in the Treasury Department, under the control and supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom he shall make annual reports in writing of the transactions of his office, together with such special reports, in writing, as the Secretary of the Treasury shall |