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 830 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. CHS. 552,553. 1903. relating to the remission or refund of iines, penalties, forfeitures, exactions or charges incurred for violating any provision of law relating tovessels or seamen or to informer’s shares of such fines, and by Acts of Congress relating to the Commissioner and Bureau of Navition, Shipping Commissioners, their officers and employees, Steamggatlnspection Service and any of the oihcials thereof, shall be and hereby are transferred to and imposed and conferred upon the Secretary of Commerce and Labor from and after the time of the transfer of the Bureau of Navigation, the Shipping Commissioners and the Steamboat-Inspection Service to the Department of Commerce and Labor, and shall not thereafter be imposed upon or exercised by the hem! of i¤¢¤¤¤*¤*· Secretary of the Treasury. And all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent m M"` with this Act are, so far as inconsistent, here y repealed. g<;·gg;¤;,¤;g°m*;; m Sec. 11. A person, to be designated by the Secretary of State, shall prepare mszmmem, be appointed to formulate, un er his direction, for the instruction of °°j;w p lm consu r officers, the requests of the Secretary of Commerce and 'Labor; and to prepare from the dispatches of consular officers, for - transmission to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, such informa- ’ tion as pertains to the work of the Department of Commerce and Ra¤k,s¤1¤ra¤¢<=- Labor; and such person shall have the rank and salary of a chief of bureau, and be furnished with such clerical assistants as may from time to time be authorized by law. Tz¤¤;¤f<¤r¤¤r¤¤i*¢¤{ Sec. 12. That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, by gziiigliiiiiieitcbslggit. order in writing, to transfer at any time the whole or any part of any ’”°“‘°- office, bureau, ivision or other branch of the public service engaged in statistical or scientific work, from the Department of State, the Department of `the Treasury, the Department o War, the Department of Justice, the Post-Ofhce Department, the Department of the Navy A or the Department of the Interior, to the Department of Commerce and Labor; and in every such case the duties and authority performed by and conferred by law upon such office, bureau, division or other branch of the public service, or the part thereof so transferred, shall be thereby trans erred with such office, bureau, division or other branch of the public service, or the part thereof which is so transferred. Aythopryggd i><>·v· And all power and authority conferred by law, both supervisory and m mmaappellate, upon the department from which Such transfer is made, or the Secretary thereof, in relation to the said office, bureau, division or other branch of the public service, or the part thereof so transferred, shall immediately, when such transfer is so ordered by the President, be fully conferred upon and vested in the Department of Commerce and Labor, or the Secretary thereof, as the case may be, as to the whole or part of such office, bureau, division or other branch _ of the public service so transferred. FHM- Sec. 13. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and ¥m¥j,gr,,,m_t,¤g after its passage: Irovided, fzmveeser, That the provisions of this Act umm.` pep., Juiy 1, other than those of section twelve in relation to the transfer of any “’%;,,,_ ,,_ Im existing office, bureau, division, officer or other branch of the public service or authority now conferred thereon, to the Department of Commerce and Labor shall take effect and be in force on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and three, and not before. Approved, February 14, 1903. _Ff{br¤{¤rr_1jt}9Q3;_ CHAP. 553.-.-in Act To increase the efiiciency of the Army. {mein-. ya. ss. l 4 Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 f Rqn*esenz‘ative.s of the United gigsé, glut, com Stafes of America in Congress cwsenzbfecl, That there is hereby estabemtimmi lished a General Staff Corps, to be composed of officers detailed from the Army at large, under such rules as may be prescribed by the President.