United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 2
II. Resolution on the subject of Arts and Manufactures.
Information obtained under the act of May 1, 1810, ch. 38, to be digested.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to employ a person to digest and reduce to such form, as shall be deemed most conducive to the interests of the United States, a statement of the number, nature, extent, situation and value of the arts and manufactures of the United States, together with such other details, connected with these subjects, as can be made from the abstracts and other documents and returns, reported to him by the marshals and other persons employed to collect information in conformity to the second section of the act of the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and ten, and such other information as has been or may be obtained, which the subject will admit of; and that he report the same to Congress.
Approved, March 19, 1812.