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Three. Of the Patent Office. 



Four. Of the Bureau of Education, 



Five. Of the Bureau of Ethnolotry- 



Six. Of the Army Medical Museum. 



Seven. Of the Department of Agriculture. 



Eight. Of the Fish Commission. 



Nine. Of the Botanic Gardens. 



Ten, Of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



Eleven. Of the Geological Survey. 



Twelve, Of the Naval Observatory. 



Res. April 12, 1892, No. 8, 27 Stat. 395. 



REV. ST. SEC. 1712. 



Reports by consuls on agricultural and horticultural industries in foreign coun- 

 tries, for use of Department of Agriculture; information to be embodied In 

 monthly crop reports. 



Sec. 1712. Consuls and commercial agents of the United States 

 in foreign countries shall * * * procure and transmit to the De- 

 partment of State, for the use of the Agricultural Department, 

 monthly reports relative to the character, condition, and prospective 

 yields of the agricultural and horticultural industries and other 

 fruiteries of the country in which they are respectively stationed; 

 and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby required and directed 

 to embody the information thus obtained, or so much thereof as he 

 may deem material and important, in his monthly bulletin of crop 

 reports. 



Rev. St. sec. 1712, as amended by act June 18, 1888, c. 39.3, 25 Stat. 186. 



REV. ST. SEC. 1713. 



Reports by consular officers of information pertaining to agriculture; informa- 

 tion to be Included in annual report of Commissioner [Secretary] of 

 Agriculture. 



Sec, 1713. Every consular officer shall furnish to the Secretary' of 

 the Treasury, as oft^n as shall be required, the prices current of all 

 articles of merchandise usually exported to the United States from 

 the port or place in which he is situated; and he shall also furnish 

 to the Secretary of the Treasury, at least once in twelve months, the 

 prices current of all articles of merchandise, including those of the 

 farm, the garden, and the orchard, that are imported through the 

 port or place in which he is stationed. And he shall also report as to 

 the character of agricultural implements in use, and whether they are 

 imported to or manufactured in that country; as to the character 

 and extent of agricultural ajid horticultural pursuits there. That 

 part of the information thus obtained which pertains to agriculture 

 shall be transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as the 

 same shall have been received by him, to the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, who shall include the same, or so much thereof as he may 

 deem material and important, in his annual reports, stating the said 

 prices in dollars and cents, and rendering tables of foreign weights 

 and measures into their American equivalents. 



Rev. St, sec. 1713, as amended by act June 18, 1888. c. 393, 25 Stut. 186. 



