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## Legislation 1942 - 1954

                        - Federal Reports Act of 1942 (December 24, 1942) (P.L. 77-831)  Download PDF   [333KB PDF]                           - Coordinates federal reporting requirements in order to eliminate duplication and reduce costs and burdens on the business community.
                        - Executive Order 9232 (August 20, 1942)  Download PDF   [97KB PDF]                           - Transfers responsibility for the sample surveys conducted by the Works Progress Administration, and responsibility for the Statistical Abstract of the United States to the Census Bureau.
                        - Secretarial Order 281 (September 20, 1943)  Download PDF   [50KB PDF]                           - Cancels the manufacturing census of 1943.
                        - Secretarial Order (June 27, 1944)  Download PDF   [59KB PDF]                           - Authorizes a census of state and local governments.
                        - Secretarial Order (August 17, 1945)  Download PDF   [54KB PDF]                           - Authorizes a 1946 census of business.
                        - Census Act of September 7, 1950  Download PDF   [267KB PDF]                           - Authorizes a census of governments in 1952 and every five years thereafter.  Information on state, territory, county, and municipal governments to be collected on, at a minimum, the following subjects: "taxes and tax valuations, government receipts, expenditures, indebtedness, and employees."
                        - An Act to Revise, Codify, and Enact into Law Title 13, U.S.C. (August 31, 1954) (P.L. 83-740)                            - Collects and codifies the various laws governing the statistical activities of the Census Bureau in Title 13 of the U.S. Code.  Current version of U.S. Code Title 13 .

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