Skip Skip The amendment was agreed to. The Clerk rezid as follows: SEC.23. Amt Abife:, That there shall be establishedin and attachedtothe Deptof the Treasury a bureau to be styled the Bureau of Statistics, and the SecyTreasuryis hereby authorizedto appoint a Director to superintend and conduct the businessof saidburenu, whophall bepaid an annual salary of And it shal be the duty of the Director of the diurenu of Statistics to prepare the report on the statisticsof commerceand navigation. exportsand imports, now required by law tobe submittedannually to Congressby the Secretary91' the treasury: and Enidreport, embrac1ngthereturns of the commerce and navigation, the exports and importsof the U.S.to the closeof the fiscal year, shall be submitted to Congressin a printed form on orhcforo the Ist day of Decembernext succeeding; and the said Director, as soon as practicable after the organization of this office shall under the direction of the SecyTreasury, prepare and publish monthly reports of the exports and imports of the U.S.including the quantities and values of goodswarehoused or Withdrawnfrom warehouse and such other statistics relative to the trade and industry of the conntryas the SecyTreasury may consider expedient. And the Director of the Bureauof Statistics shall also prepare aronlleadn, nual statementof all vessels registered. en and licensed under the laws of the U.S.togetherwith the nameand tonnageof each vessel, the classto which she belongs, as to build and rigging. the nameof her home port, and such other information as the SecyTreasury may deemproper to embody therein; and to enable the said Director tofurnish the information required.the SecyTreasury shall have power, under such regulations as he shall prescribe, to establish and providfa system of numbering all vesselsso registered. enrolled and licensed; and each vessel so numbered shall have her number deeply carved or otherwise permnnontl markedon hermain beam: and if at any time she a all ceaseto be so marked such vesselshall beno longer recognizedas a vessel of the U.S. The said Director shall also prepare an annual statement of: all merchandise passingin transit through the U.S. to foreign countries, each deeoriptiori of merchandise.so fares practicable. warehoused. Withdrawn from ware house for consumption.for exportation, for transportation to other districts and remaining in the ware housent tho end of each fiscalyear; and to aid him in the dischargeof these duties, the several clerks now employed in the preparation of statistics in the Treasury dept or any bureau thereof shall be placed under hi! supervision and direction. It shall be the further duty of said Director to collect, digest and arrange, for the use of Congress the statistics of the manufactures of the U.S. their localities. sources of raw material. markets, exchangesWith the producing regionsof the countr. transportation of products. wages, and such it or conditions asare found to affect their prosperity. The said Director shall also collect.digest and arrange mining for the useofConuress the statisticsof the industry of the U.S. the number and location of the mines, the products, wages of labor employed therein and such other mattersas may exhi it. the condition and affectthe prosperity of that branch of industry. And the suit Director shall also annually preparea report. to be laid before Congress concerning the general course and influence of trade with foreign countries, exhibiting the distribution of the domesticexports of the U.S. amonir them and the exchangeof commodities with them, and the cost of production in the respective countrieswhereverattainable; which report shall extend to such particulars and shall be arranged in such mount r and form as may be require by the Secretaryef th Treasury. And for all these purposes the t ‘ltldDirector shall haveaccess to the statistics papers, and records of the several Depts of the Government; and, in addition to the clerical service'horeinbefore provided. the SecyTreasury shall detail such other clerks as may be necessiirytofully carry out the provisions of thisnot. And the expensesof the Bureau of Statistics for clerical service.publication of reports, otntionery. books and statistical periodicals and papersrequired bytho bureau shall bedefrayed on the order and approval of the SecyTreasury, out of any moneys in the Treasury not gtherwise appropriated. And all letters and documents to and from the Director of the Bureau of Statistics. relating to the duties and businessof his office shall be transmitted by mail free of postage.