Act No. 222 Section 1

Section 1

SECTION 1. Whereas the President of the United States, through the Secretary of War, has directed the establishment of four Departments, to wit, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce and Police, the Department of Finance and Justice, and the Department of Public Instruction, and has appointed person to be Secretaries or heads of such Departments: Now, therefore, The Department of the Interior shall embrace within its executive control the Bureau of Health, the Quarantine Service of the Marine Hospital Corps, the Bureau of Forestry, the Bureau of Mining, a Bureau of Agriculture, a Bureau of Fisheries, the Weather Bureau, a Bureau of Pagan and Mohammedan Tribes, the Bureau of Public Lands, the Bureau of Government Laboratories, and the Bureau of Patents and Copyrights.

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