Design and Duties of Bureau Generally

THE CODE OF THE LAWS
OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TITLE 29 – LABOR
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CHAPTER 1. LABOR STATISTICS
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

§1. Design and duties of bureau generally
The general design and duties of the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall be to acquire
and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects
connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word,
and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of
laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social,
intellectual, and moral prosperity.
(June 13, 1888, ch. 389, § 1, 25 Stat. 182; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 4, 32 Stat. 826;
Mar. 18, 1904, ch. 716, 33 Stat. 136; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 3, 37 Stat. 737.)