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 826 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 552. 1903. shall receive a salary of eight thousand dollars per annum, and whose term and tenure of office shall be like that of the heads of the other R. S.,sec.158,p-26. Executive Departments; and section one hundred and fifty-eight of ”m°"d€d‘ the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to include such Department, General provisions and the provisions of title four of the Revised Statutes, including all °p§’l§°j“l»]l§j€ It-,p_26, amendments thereto, are hereby made applicable to said Department. Seek - The said Secretary shall cause a seal of office to be made for the said Department of such device as the President shall approve, and judicial notice shall be taken of the said seal. clygiiggt S¤<=*°*¤*Y· Sec. 2. That there shall be in said Department an Assistant Secretary ’of Commerce and Labor, to be a pointed by the President, who shall receive a salary of five thousand) dollars a year. He shall erform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or re uiredp by law. There shall also be one chief clerk and a disbursing dlerk and such other clerical assistants as may from time to time be authorized by cékugigor rigfeggetg Congress; and the Auditor forthe State and other Departments shall aueiiucgiiums. receive and examine all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the office of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and of all bureaus and offices under his direction, all accounts relating to the Light- House Board, Steamboat-Ins ction.Service, Immigration, Navigation, Alaskan fur-seal fisheries, this National Bureau of Standards, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Census, De artment of Labor, Fish Commission ` and to all other business within the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and certify the balances arisin thereon to the » Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants and send fortTiwitl1 a copy of each certificate to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. m§°°¤ °* 1** Sec. 3. That it shall be the province and duty of said Department ' to foster, promote, and develop the foreign an domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, the labor interests, and the transportation facilities of the United States; and to this end it shall be vested with jurisdiction and control of the departments, bureaus, offices, and branches of the public service hereinafter specred, and with such other powers and duties as may be m};;€foQ_*0,;,i;i;;°1;{f;§‘ prescribed by law. All unexpended appropriations, which shall be cmusssn-ea. ’ ’ available at the time when this Act takes eifect, in relation to the various offices, bureaus, divisions, and other branches of the public service, which shall, by this Act, be transferred to or included in the Department of Commerce and Labor, or· which may hereafter. in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be so transferred, shall become available, from the time of such transfer, for ex ienditure in and by the De artment of Commerce and Labor and shall be treated the same as though said branches of the public service had been directly named in the laws making said appropriations as parts of the Department of Commerce and Labor. under the direction of the Secretary of said Department. k,f,f.*§§°“· “‘“·· "““" Sec. 4. That the following-named offices, bureaus, divisions, and branches of the public service, now and heretofore under the jurisp,,${}§f{§,,€'°""“"' D°` diction of the Department of the Treasury, and all that pertains to the same, known as the Light-House Board, the Light-House Establishment, the Steamboat-Inspection Service, the Bureau of Navigation, the United States Shipping Commissioners, the National Bureau of Standards, the Coast and Geodetic Survey. the Commissioner-Gem eral of Immigration, the commissioners of immigration, the Bureau of Immigration, the immigration service at large, and the Bureau of Statistics, be, and the same hereby are, transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Commerce and Labor, and the same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision °“"““ °“°°· of the 1ast—named Department; and that the Census Office, and allthat Bertains to the same, be, and the same hereby is, transferred from the epartment of the Interior to the Department of Commerce and