Section 6
SEC. 6. All public officers of the Philippine Islands are authorized and required to render to the Chief Statistician, on his request, regular or special reports on all matters coming to their knowledge in the performance of their official duties, in so far as the information possessed by them or contained in their records relates to a subject under duly authorized investigation, and is not of a confidential nature. The regular reports required of public officials shall, as far as possible, take the form laid down in the statutes of the United States for similar reports to the several statistical Bureaus of the Federal Government on the same or cognate subjects, or such forms as shall be prescribed by law. When any of the special reports called for from any office involve a larger amount of labor than can be performed by the regular force of that office without interference with their regular duties, the Chief Statistician shall delegate an employee or employees of the Bureau to assist in compiling such reports.