such as immigration, banking, railroads, internal commerce, and statistics of foreign countries, as well as monographs on foreign and domestic trade in particular commodities.

Statistical Abstract of the United States. The Statistical Abstract of the United States is an annual volume which has been issued every year beginnirg with 1878. It contains summary statistics, both official and unofficial, on every phase of American life on which reliable statistics have been collected. It contains also briefer summary statistics on foreign countries.

Commerce Reports. Commerce Reports is a weekly publication through which the Bureau distributes the greater part of the information regarding conditions in foreign countries collected by the officers of the Bureau and of the Consular Service. This publication was first issued monthly by the State Department in October, 1880, under the title Consular Reports. In 1898 the publication of daily “ Advance Sheets of Consular Reports” was started by the State Department. On July 1, 1903, when the Department of Commerce and Labor was created and the Bureau of Foreign Commerce in the State Department was abolished, this publication was transferred to the Bureau of Statistics of the new department, the title of the daily issue being changed to “ Daily Consular Reports” on September 12, 1903, and the title of the monthly issue becoming

Monthly Consular Reports ” with the October issue. On July 1, 1905, both publications were transferred to the Bureau of Manufactures, the title of the daily issue being changed to “Daily Consular and Trade Reports ” on July 17, 1903, and that of the monthly issue to “Monthly Consular and Trade Reports” with the July number. The monthly publication was discontinued with the issue for June, 1910, and was never resumed. When this publication was issued by the State Department the same material appeared in the Advance Sheets and the Monthly Reports. After the transfer to the Department of Commerce and Labor, the daily and the monthly became distinct publications, matter of immediate interest appearing in the daily and the longer articles being published in the monthly. From February 28 to July 5, 1910, the daily issue was suspended and a weekly took its place. The daily issue was again resumed on July 5, 1910, and continued to be issued by the Bureau of Manufactures and later by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce until August 31, 1921, when it again became a weekly.

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The title was changed to Commerce Reports with the issue of January 2, 1915.

Supplements to Commerce Reports were first issued in 1915. These consisted of the annual reports of consuls, and were published until the end of 1920, when they were discontinued and the more important reviews were printed in Commerce Reports. When Commerce Reports became a weekly, the publication of the annual reviews of consuls was discontinued for a time, but was resumed in 1922; at first they were issued as Supplements with the subtitle

Trade and Economic Review No. ." On July 1, 1921, there was begun the publication of a monthly supplement to Commerce Reports with the subtitle, “ Survey of Current Business.” While at present a considerable portion of this monthly is devoted to statistics of foreign trade and foreign countries, the greater part of it is devoted to domestic statistics. This is really a departmental publication, the greater part of the work being done by the Bureau of the Census. It has no organic relation to Commerce Reports, and was probably made a supplement to that publication because this was the only method by which more that one thousand copies could be printed under the law providing for government publications. In May, 1922, another series of supplements was started with the subtitle “Trade Information Bulletin." These bulletins were first issued in March, 1922, but Nos. I to 22 were not supplements to Commerce Reports, the first issue as a supplement being No. 23.

Foreign Tariff Notes. Foreign Tariff Notes is a quarterly publication consisting mainly of material reprinted from Commerce Reports regarding changes in tariffs of foreign countries. This series was started in 1910.

Foreign Tariff Series. This series, started in 1906, consists of monographs relating to the tariff or regulations of a single country or dealing with the tariff on related classes of articles in several countries.

Special Agents Series. The publications in the Special Agents Series embody the results of investigations made by the foreign representatives of the Bureau known successively as commercial agents, special agents, and trade commissioners. The numbering of the separate reports began with No. 34, published in 1910, although numbers have been assigned to the publications which were published between 1906 and 1910 and which were later assigned to the series. These earlier issues were published under the general title “ Reports on Trade Conditions," at first by the Department of Commerce and Labor without the name of any subordinate bureau, and later by the Bureau of Manufactures.

Special Consular Reports. The Special Consular Reports consist mainly of compilations of reports made by consular officers. This series was published by the State Department from 1890 to 1903 (Vols. I to 26), by the Bureau of Statistics from 1903 to 1905 (Vols. 27 to 36), by the Bureau of Manufactures from 1905 to 1912 (Vols. 37 to 53) and by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce after 1912 (Vols. 54 to 84).

Industrial Standards Series. This series consists of standard specifications for industrial materials that have been prepared by the Government and by technical societies and organizations, with accurate and reliable translations of them into foreign languages. Sixty-two standard specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials have been translated into Spanish and sixty-one specifications into French. These are printed in separate pamphlets, with the English text and foreign language on facing pages.

Miscellaneous Series. This series includes all other publications of the Bureau which give the results of investigations, but which do not fall within the series described above, including statistical publications other than those heretofore described. The publications of the former Cost of Production Division appeared in this series. The serial numbering began with No. 5, published in 1910 by the Bureau of Manufactures, Nos. I to 4 being assigned to publications previously issued.

Unclassified Publications. Publications not bearing the name of a series are issued from time to time as necessity arises. Among these may be mentioned an annotated catalogue, a list of publications, circulars descriptive of the work of the Bureau and its several divisions, confidential bulletins regarding specific opportunities for trade in foreign countries, schedules of imports and exports, and rules and regulations.

APPENDIX 4

LAWS

(A) INDEX to Laws Activities China Trade Act, administration of...

.42 Stat. L., 849

42 Stat. L., 1113 Cost of production studies, authority for transfer to Tariff Commission

.39 Stat. L., 796 Directory of foreign buyers, compilation of.

.42 Stat. L., 1114 Export industries, studies of

.42 Stat. L., 47

42 Stat. L., 1113 Investigations in foreign countries..

..33 Stat. L., 681 Licensing of traveling salesmen

.42 Stat. L., 1028 Promoting commerce with Europe

.42 Stat. L., 1112 Promoting commerce with Far East...

.40 Stat. L., 804

42 Stat. L., 1113 Promoting commerce with South and Central America....38 Stat. L., 500

42 Stat. L., 1112 Promotion of manufacturing industries..

..32 Stat. L., 825 Raw materials and manufactures, studies of...

.42 Stat. L., 1113 Sources of crude rubber and other products, investigation of

.42 Stat. L., 1536 Statistics, appropriation for.

.42 Stat. L., 1536 Exports by rail

.27 Stat. L.,689 Imports and exports....

.R. S. 335

R. S. 336 Shipments to noncontiguous possession...

-32 Stat. L., 172 Transfer of compilation from Treasury Department..42 Stat. L., 1109 Tariffs of foreign countries, study of....

.33 Stat. L., 138

37 Stat. L., 407

42 Stat. L., 1114 Appropriations Appropriations fiscal year 1924...

42 Stat. L., 1112

42 Stat. L., 1536 Duties and Powers Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

.37 Stat. L., 407 Bureau of Manufactures...

-32 Stat. L., 825 Chief of Bureau in State Department to prepare reports for Department of Commerce.

....R. S. 337 To report exports by rail..

.R. S. 337

Duties and Powers-Continued
Consular Officers
To furnish information.....

.R. S. 1712

R. S. 1713 To furnish statements of exports...

.20 Stat. L., 273 To make commercial report...

.32 Stat. L., 825 Director of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Annual statistics....

R. S. 336

R. S. 341

18 Stat. L., 352 Monthly statistics...

.....R. S. 339 Quarterly statistics.

.18 Stat. L., 352 Secretary of Commerce General

.32 Stat. L., 825 Licensing commercial travelers in foreign countries.. .42 Stat. L., 1028 To direct accounts to be kept by collectors of customs.. To direct publication of statistics......

.R. S. 339 To prescribe form of statistical statement.

.R. S. 251 To print annual statement of exports and imports.

.R. S. 265 To print report on commerce and navigation..

.R. S. 263 To report on domestic trade....

.R. S. 259 Under China Trade Act..

.42 Stat. L., 849 Organisation Clerks for Commercial Attaches....

...38 Stat. L., 500

42 Stat. L., 64

42 Stat. L., 1112 Commercial Attaches, general......

.38 Stat. L., 500

42 Stat. L., 1112 May be recalled for duty in Department...

..42 Stat. L., 64

42 Stat. L., 1112 Creation of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce...37 Stat. L., 407 Creation of Bureau of Manufactures...

.32 Stat. L., 825 Creation of Department of Commerce.

.32 Stat. L., 825

37 Stat. L., 736 District and coöperative offices......

....42 Stat. L., III2 Statistical work may be transferred to Department of Commerce

..32 Stat. L., 825 Statistical work transferred from Treasury Department. .42 Stat. L., 1109 Trade Commissioners may be recalled for duty in Department