13 U.S.C. § 131

Collection and publication; five-year periods

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The Secretary shall take, compile, and publish censuses of manufactures, of mineral industries, and of other businesses, including the distributive trades, service establishments, and transportation (exclusive of means of transportation for which statistics are required by law to be filed with, and are compiled and published by, a designated regulatory body), in the year 1964, then in the year 1968, and every fifth year thereafter, and each such census shall relate to the year immediately preceding the taking thereof.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1958–1960 · leading case: Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Walter L. Dilger, Sec'y, Beatrice Foods Co., 276 F.2d 739 (7th Cir. 1960).
Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Walter L. Dilger, Sec'y, Beatrice Foods Co., 276 F.2d 739 (7th Cir. 1960). · cites it 2× “This report is required by Act of Congress ( 13 U.S.C. § 131 ). Your report is confidential and only sworn Census employees will have access to it.”
United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp., 21 F.R.D. 568 (S.D.N.Y. 1958). “The reports, referred to as Forms BC 67 J, were submitted to the Bureau of Census to aid that agency in preparing five year censuses of manufactures and other businesses required by 13 U.S.C. § 131 . The defendants do not oppose production of copies of the reports so filed by…”
Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Orton, 175 F. Supp. 77 (S.D.N.Y. 1959). “The census was taken pursuant to the provisions of Title 13 U.S.C. § 131 , providing for preparation by the Secretary of Commerce, in each fifth year, of a census of manufactures.”
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