Year: 1867

ment of the treasury bureau to be styled " the
bureau of Statistics" and the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby authorized to appoint direc-
tor to- superintend and control the business of
said bureau who shall be paid an annual salary of
thirty five hundred dollars. And it shall be the
duty of the director of the bureau Sstatistics TO
prepare the report on the statistics 81 commerce
and navigation, exports and imports, now requir-
ed by law to be submitted annually to Congress
by the Secretary of the Treasury; and said report
embracing the returns Of The commerce and navi-
CATION the exports and imports of the United
States to the close of the fiscal year, shall be sub
mitted to Congress in printed form on or before
the first day of December next succeeding; and
the said director as as practicable after the
organization of this Office shall under the drec-
ton of the Secretary of the Treasury, prepare and
publish monthly reports of the exports and i'm
ports of the United States, including the quanti-
ties and values of goods warehoused or withdrawn
from warehouse, and such otherstatistics relative
to the trade and industry of the country as the
Secretary of the Treasury may consider eXpedient
And the director of the bureau of statistics shall
also prepare an annual statement of vessels reg
istered enrolled, and licensed under the laws Of
the United States, together with the class, name,
tonnage, and place of registry Of each vessel, and
such other information as the Secretary of the
Treasury may deem proper to embody therein;
and to enable the said director to furnish the in
formation required the Secretary of the Treasury
shall have power, under such regulations as he'
shall prescribe, to establish and provide system
OF numbering vessels so registered, enrolled, and
licensed; and each vessel so numbered shall have
her number deeply carved or otherwise pcrman
emily marked on her main beam; and il at any
time she shall cease to be so marked, such vessel
shall be no longer recognized as a vessel of the
United States The said director shall also pre-
pare annual statement of all merchandise pas
sing in transit through the United States to foreign
countries, each description of merchandise, so far
as practicable, warehoused, withdrawn from ware
house for consumption, for expectation, for trans
portatioD to other districts, and remaining in the
warehouse at the end of each fiscal year. 1t shall
be the farther duty of said director to collect, di
gest, and arrange, for the use of Congress, the
statistics OF the manufactures ofthe United States,
their localities, sources of material mark cts,
eXclangesW lth the producing regions of The coun-
try, transportation of products, wages, and such
other conditions as are found to affect their pros
perlty; and to aid him in the discharge of these
duties, the several clerks now employed in the
preparation of statistics in the treasury depart
ment, or any bureau thereof, may be placed under
his supervision and direction and, in addition,
the Secretary of the Treasury shall detail such
other clerks as may be necessary to fully carry
out the provisions of this act And the expenses
of the bureau of statistics for clerical service pub
lication of reports, stationery, boels and stat.-
tical periodicals and papers required by the bu-
reau shall be betrayed on the order and approval
of the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any
moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriat-
ed. And all letters and documents to andfrom
the director of the bureau of Statistics relainsto
the duties and business of his office, shall be trans
mittcd by mail free OF postage ~


Sec. A. And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to sus-
pend tie collection in any of the States hereto
fore declared in instruction, of the direct tax i'm
posed by an act of Congress passed August fifth,
eighteen hundred and sixty one, entitled {" An act
to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay
interest on the public debt, and for other pur
poses," until January first, eighteen hundred and
siXty-eight


Approved, July 2s, 1866.