Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards

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and assayer; and the accuracy of those used at the Mint at Philadelphia shall be tested
annually, in the presence of the assay commissioner, at the time of the annual examination
and test of coins."
Act of 4 March 1913 (37 Stat. 736)—An Act To create a Department
of Labor.
Be it enacted . . ., That . . . the Department of Commerce and Labor shall here.
after be called the Department of Commerce, and the Secretary thereof shall be called
the Secretary of Commerce, and the Act creating the said Department of Commerce and
Labor is hereby amended accordingly.
Act of 4 March 1913 (37 Stat. 945)—An Act Making appropriations
to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes. [This
act, by inference, recognized the testing of materials for the Federal Govern-
ment, not specified in the Organic Act of the Bureau or elsewhere, as a
function of the Bureau.]
Hereafter materials for fireproof buildings, other structural materials, and all
materials, other than materials for paving and for fuel, purchased for and to be used
by the government of the District of Columbia, when necessary in the judgment of the
commissioners to be tested, shall be tested by the Bureau of Standards under the same
conditions as similar testing is required to be done for the United States Government.
Act of 29 July 1914, 38 Stat. 573 (Public Law 155, 63 Congress)—
[Transfer of miscellaneous testing laboratory in Bureau of Ohemistry, De-
partment of Agriculture, to NBS]
The salaries of employees of the Department of Agriculture transferred to the
Department of Commerce for the purpose of testing miscellaneous materials, including
the supplies for the Government departments and independent establishments, may be
paid from July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, from the appropriation of $20,000
in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen
hundred and fifteen, made for testing miscellaneous materials under the Bureau of
Standards.
Act of 3 March 1915, 38 Stat. 930 (Public Law 271, 63 Congress)—
An Act Making appropriations for the naval service. - . -
[NBS representation on National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]
An Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is hereby established, and the President
is authorized to appoint not to exceed twelve members, to consist of two members from
the War Department, from the office in charge of military aeronautics; two members
from the Navy Department, from the office in charge of naval aeronautics, a represent.
ative each of the Smithsonian Institution, of the United States Weather Bureau, and
of the United States Bureau of Standards; together with not more than five additional
persons who shall be acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or
military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences: