Excerpt from Consular Reports; Commerce, Manufactures, Etc, Vol. 55: Nos; 204, 205, 206, and 207; September, October, November, and December, 1897 You will perceive that the Secretary of State is authorized by the foregoing to change the name of the Bureau of Statistics of this Department to the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, and that the pro vision for the maintenance of the Bureau Of Statistics is made to apply with the same force and effect to the Bureau of Foreign Com merce. As the appropriation becomes available on the rst of July, I respectfully ask authority from you to carry the legislation speci fied into effect. The reasons for making the change, as stated to Congress and approved by that body, are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.