Reports of the Department of Commerce. Report of the Secretary of Commerce and Reports of Bureaus

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927
 

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Página 262 - Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions, and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries...
Página 262 - That it shall be the province and duty of the Bureau of Mines, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to conduct Inquiries and scientific and technologic Investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization...
Página 251 - ... of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of Congress approved...
Página 251 - ... cents a mile, incurred in the performance of his duties, together with his actual and reasonable expenses for transportation of instruments, which shall be certified and sworn to under such instructions as shall be given by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
Página 237 - ... Commerce], shall have general superintendence of the commercial marine and merchant seamen of the United States, so far as vessels and seamen are not, under existing laws, subject to the supervision of any other officer of the government. . . . He [the Commissioner of Navigation] shall also investigate the operation of the laws relative to navigation, and annually report to the Secretary of the Treasury [Secretary of Commerce] such particulars as may, in his judgment, admit of improvement or...
Página vii - Bureau of the Census. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Bureau of Standards. Bureau of Fisheries. Bureau of Lighthouses.
Página 185 - Compared with 1920, the last available statistical report, there was a decrease of 5 per cent in the number of...
Página 278 - In order to define more exactly what is meant by the phrase "similar in all respects" in the definition of a permissible explosive, namely, "A permissible explosive is an explosive which is similar in all respects to the sample which has passed certain tests prescribed by the Bureau...
Página 22 - Accordingly, the task of establishing, maintaining, and operating aids to navigation along air routes was assigned to the Lighthouse Service ; the mapping of air routes to the Coast and Geodetic Survey ; and the scientific research for the improvement of air-navigation aids to the Bureau of Standards.
Página 172 - Pacific halibut and such investigation shall be undertaken as soon as practicable. The commission shall report the results of its investigation to the two governments and shall make recommendations as to the regulation of the halibut fishery of the North Pacific Ocean, including the...

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