foregoing. He is ex officio chairman of the Federal Reserve Board created by act approved December 23, 1913, known as the Federal reserve act.

ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY.

To the Assistant Secretary in charge of fiscal bureaus is assigned the general supervision of all matters relating to the following bureaus, offices, and divisions: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; the Office of the Treasurer of the United States; the Bureau of Internal Revenue; the Bureau of the Mint; the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury; the auditors of the several departments; the Register of the Treasury; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants; the Division of Loans and Currency; the Division of Mail and Files; the Division of Printing and Stationery; the Division of Public Moneys; the Secret-Service Division; and the office of the disbursing clerk.

To the Assistant Secretary in charge of customs is assigned the general supervision of the Division of Customs, Division of Special Agents, of all matters pertaining to the customs service, and the Bureau of War-Risk Insurance.

To the Assistant Secretary in charge of miscellaneous divisions of the Treasury Department is assigned the general supervision of matters relating to the following bureaus and divisions: Public Health Service, Supervising Architect, the selection of sites for public buildings, Revenue-Cutter Service, Life-Saving Service, Appointment Division; General Supply Committee, section of surety bonds, and all ́unassigned business of the department.

CHIEF CLERK.

The chief clerk is the chief executive officer of the Secretary, and, under the direction of the Secretary and Assistant Secretaries, is charged with the enforcement of departmental regulations general in their nature; is by law superintendent of the Treasury Building, and in addition superintends the Winder, Cox, Butler, and Auditors' Buildings; has direct charge of motor trucks, horses, wagons, etc., belonging to the department; the direction of engineers, machinists, watchmer, firemen, laborers, and other employees connected with the maintenance and protection of the Treasury Building and annexes; the expenditure of appropriations for contingent expenses; the administrative control of appropriations made for Government exhibits at various expositions; the supervision and general administration of the General Supply Committee; handles offers in compromise cases; the custody of the records, files, and library of the Secretary's office; the custody of all sites for proposed public buildings in Washington; the checking of all mail relating to the personnel of the Treasury Department; the handling of requests for certified copies of official papers, and the charge of all business of the Secretary's office unassigned.

FISCAL BUREAUS AND OFFICES.

COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY.

The Comptroller of the Currency is the chief officer of that bureau of the Treasury Department which is charged with the execution of all laws passed by Congress relating to the issue and regulation of the national currency, generally known as national-bank notes, secured by United States bonds; and under the supervision of the Federal Reserve Board is also in charge of the issue of circulating notes to Federal reserve banks.

In addition to these powers the comptroller exercises general supervision over all national banks throughout the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, in the matter of their organization and regulation. He is vested with the power to appoint receivers and to enforce penalties prescribed for violations of the national-bank act. Under the Federal reserve act he executed and issued the certificates or charters for the Federal reserve banks. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency are both ex officio members of the Federal Reserve Board.

Reports of condition of all national banks are made to the comptroller not less frequently than five times a year, by the banks, and also periodically by the nationalbank examiners appointed by him.

His powers are exercised under the general supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, but under the law his annual report is made direct to Congress; all other bureaus of the Treasury Department report to Congress through the Secretary of the Treasury.

TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES.

The Treasurer of the United States is charged with the receipt and disbursement of all public moneys that may be deposited in the Treasury at Washington and in the subtreasuries, and in the national-bank depositories; is redemption agent for national-bank notes; is trustee for bonds held to secure national-bank circulation

and public deposits in national banks, and bonds held to secure postal savings in banks; is custodian of miscellaneous trust funds; is fiscal agent for paying interest on the public debt and for paying the land-purchase bonds of the Philippine Islands, principal and interest; is treasurer of the board of trustees of the Postal Savings System; and is ex officio commissioner of the sinking fund of the District of Columbia.

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

The commissioner has general superintendence of the collection of all internalrevenue taxes, the enforcement of internal revenue laws; appointment of internalrevenue employees; compensation and duties of gaugers, storekeepers, and other subordinate officers; the preparation and distribution of stamps, instructions, regulations, forms, blanks, hydrometers, stationery, etc.

DIRECTOR OF THE MINT.

The Director of the Mint has general supervision of all the mints and assay offices of the United States. He prescribes the rules, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the transaction of business at the mints and assay offices, receives daily reports of their operations, directs the coinage to be executed, reviews the accounts, authorizes all expenditures, superintends the annual settlements of the several institutions, and makes special examinations of them when deemed necessary. All appointments, removals, and transfers in the mints and assay offices are subject to his approval.

Tests of the weight and fineness of coins struck at the mints are made in the assay laboratory under his charge. He publishes quarterly an estimate of the value of the standard coins of foreign countries for customhouse and other public purposes. An annual report is prepared by the director, giving the operations of the mint service for the fiscal year, printed in the Finance Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, and giving the statistics of the production of the precious metals in the United States and the world for the calendar year.

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY.

The Comptroller of the Treasury, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, prescribes the forms of keeping and rendering all public accounts except those relating to postal revenues and the expenditures therefrom. He is charged with the duty of revising accounts upon appeal from settlements made by the auditors. Upon the application of disbursing officers, the head of any executive department, or other independent establishment not under any of the executive departments, the comptroller is required to render his advance decision upon any question involving a payment to be made by them or under them, which decision, when rendered, governs the auditor and the comptroller in the settlement of the account involving the payment inquired about. He is required to approve, disapprove, or modify afl decisions by auditors making an original construction or modifying an existing construction of statutes, and certify his action to the auditor whose duties are affected thereby. Under his direction the several auditors superintend the recovery of all debts finally certified by them, respectively, to be due the United States, except those arising under the Post Office Department. He superintends the preservation by the auditors of all accounts which have been finally adjusted by them, together with the vouchers and certificates relating to the same. He is required, on his own motion, when in the interests of the Government, to revise any account settled by any auditor. In any case where, in his opinion, the interests of the Government require, he may direct any of the auditors forthwith to audit and settle any particular account pending before the said auditor for settlement. It is his duty to countersign all warrants authorized by law to be signed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

The Auditor for the Treasury Department receives and settles all accounts of the Department of the Treasury, including all accounts relating to the customs service, the public debt, internal revenue, Treasurer and assistant treasurers, mints and assay offices, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Revenue-Cutter Service, Life-Saving Service, Public Health Service, public buildings, and Secret Service.

AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

The Auditor for the War Department receives and settles all accounts of the Department of War, including all accounts relating to the military establishment, armories and arsenals, national cemeteries, fortifications, public buildings and grounds under the Chief of Engineers, rivers and harbors, the Military Academy, and the Panama Canal.

AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

All claims and accounts arising under the Department of the Interior, which includes those having relation to the protection, survey, and sale of public and Indian lands, the reclamation of arid public and Indian lands, Army and Navy pensions, Indian affairs, Geological Survey, Bureau of Education, Bureau of Mines, Patent Office, Capitol Building and Grounds, Freedmen's Hospital, Howard University, Columbia Institution for the Deaf, Government Hospital for the Insane, Hot Springs Reservation, the Yosemite and other national parks, and the construction of railroads in Alaska, are required to be examined and settled in this office.

AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.

The Auditor for the Navy Department receives and settles all accounts of the Department of the Navy, including all accounts relating to the Naval Establishment, Marine Corps, and the Ñaval Academy.

AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

The Auditor for the State and other Departments receives and settles the accounts of the White House; the two Houses of Congress; the Supreme Court; the Departments of State, including the expenses of the Diplomatic and Consular Service; Justice, covering expenses of United States courts; Agriculture, including its field service; Commerce; Labor; also the accounts of the following governmental establishments: Government Printing Office; Interstate Commerce Commission; Smithsonian Institution and National Museum; District of Columbia; Civil Service Commission; the Federal Reserve Board; the Federal Trade Commission; and all boards, commissions, and establishments of the Government not under the administration of any executive department.

AUDITOR FOR THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

The Auditor for the Post Office Department receives and examines all accounts of the office of the Postmaster General and of all bureaus and offices under his direction; all postal and money-order accounts of postmasters and foreign administrations; all accounts relating to the transportation of mails, and to all other business within the jurisdiction of the Post Office Department; and certifies the balances arising thereon to the Postmaster General for accounts of the postal revenue and expenditures therefrom, and to the Secretary of the Treasury for other accounts. He also receives and examines reports and accounts of postmasters operating postal savings banks, and accounts for expenditures from the appropriation for continuing the establishment, maintenance, and extension of the postal savings depositories. He registers, charges, and countersigns the warrants upon the Treasury issued in liquidation of indebtedness; superintends the collecting of debts due the United States for the service of the Post Office Department and all penalties imposed; directs suits and all legal proceedings in civil actions; and takes all legal measures to enforce the payment of money due the United States for the service of the Post Office Department, and for this purpose has direct official relations with the Solicitor of the Treasury, Department of Justice. He receives and accepts, with the written consent of the Postmaster General, offers of compromise under sections 295 and 409, Revised Statutes. He is required to submit to the Secretary of the Treasury quarterly statements of postal receipts and expenditures, and to report to the Postmaster General the financial condition of the Post Office Department at the close of each fiscal year.

REGISTER OF THE TREASURY.

The Register of the Treasury signs all bonds of the United States, the bonds of the District of Columbia, the Philippine Islands, the city of Manila, the city of Cebu, and the Porto Rican gold loans, and keeps records showing the daily outstanding balances thereof. He certifies to the Treasurer of the United States, the Auditor for the Treasury, and the Loans and Currency Division, Secretary's Office, the interest due on United States loans at inte est periods; also gives an administrative examination to paid interest checks received from the Treasurer, and transmits the same to the Auditor for the Treasury. He examines, assorts, and records all paid interest coupons and all other United States securities redeemed, and keeps records of the outstanding principal and interest of the bonded indebtedness of the Government.

BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing designs, engraves, prints, and finishes all of the securities and other similar work of the Government, embracing United States notes, bonds, and certificates, national-bank notes, Federal reserve notes, internalrevenue, postage, and custom stamps, Treasury drafts and checks, disbursing officers'

checks, licenses, commissions, patent and pension certificates, and portraits authorized by law of deceased Members of Congress and other public officers; also all postage stamps and all securities issued by the Bureau of Insular Affairs to our insular possessions.

MISCELLANEOUS BUREAUS.

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.

The act approved August 14, 1912, changed the name of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service to the Public Health Service, and considerably increased its powers and functions. The bureau of the service at Washington comprises seven divisions, each under a commissioned officer. The operations of these divisions are coordinated, and are under the immediate supervision of the Surgeon General.

Through the Division of Scientific Research and Sanitation are conducted the scientific investigations of the service and the operations of the Hygienic Laboratory at Washington, established for the investigation of contagious and infectious diseases and matters relating to the public health. The advisory board of the Hygienic Laboratory consists of eight scientists, eminent in laboratory work in its relation to public health, detailed from other departments of the Government and appointed from endowed institutions. The board may be called into conference with the Surgeon General at any time, the meetings not to exceed 10 days in any one fiscal year. The Surgeon General is required by law to call a conference of all State and Territorial boards of health or quarantine authorities each year, the District of Columbia included, and special conferences when called for by not less than five of said authorities, and he is also authorized to call additional conferences when, in his opinion, the interests of public health demand it. He is charged with the enforcement of the act of July 1, 1902, "An act to regulate the sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products in the District of Columbia, to regulate interstate traffic in said articles, and for other purposes." He has supervision of special investigations upon leprosy conducted in Hawaii under the act of July 1, 1905.

Through the Division of Foreign and Insular Quarantine and Immigration the Surgeon General enforces the national quarantine laws and prepares the regulations relating thereto. He has control of 44 Federal quarantine stations in the United States, and others in the Philippines, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, and supervises the medical officers detailed in the offices of the American consular officers at foreign ports to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States. Under section 17 of the act approved February 20, 1907, he has supervision over the medical officers engaged in the physical and mental examinations of all arriving aliens.

Through the Division of Domestic (Interstate) Quarantine is enforced section 3 of the act of February 15, 1893, relating to the prevention of the spread of contagious or infectious diseases from one State or Territory into another. This includes the suppression of epidemics and the sanitation of interstate carriers.

Through the Division of Sanitary Reports and Statistics there is collected information of the sanitary condition of foreign ports and places and ports and places within the United States, including the existence of epidemics. This information, with morbidity and mortality statistics, domestic and foreign, is published in the weekly Public Health Reports and transmitted to State and municipal health officers and other sanitarians and to collectors of customs.

Through the Division of Marine Hospitals and Relief professional care is taken of sick and disabled seamen at 23 marine hospitals and 123 other relief stations. The beneficiaries include officers and crews of registered, enrolled, or licensed vessels of the United States and of the Revenue-Cutter Service and Lighthouse Service; seamen employed on vessels of the Mississippi River Commission and of the Engineer Corps of the Army; keepers and surfmen of the Life-Saving Service. A purveying depot for the purchase and issuance of supplies is maintained at Washington. Physical examinations of keepers and surfmen of the Life-Saving Service, of officers and seamen of the Revenue-Cutter Service, and the examinations for the detection of colorblindness in masters, mates, and pilots are conducted through this division, and the medical evidences of disability in claims for benefits against the Life-Saving Service are reviewed.

In the Division of Personnel and Accounts are kept the records of the officers and of the expenditures of the appropriations.

Through the Miscellaneous Division the various service publications are issued, including the annual reports, public health reports and reprints, public health bulletins, bulletins of the Hygienic Laboratory and Yellow Fever Institute, and the transactions of the annual conferences with State health authorities.

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COAST GUARD.

The Captain Commandant of the Coast Guard is charged by law with the administration of the Coast Guard, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Headquarters are located at the Treasury Department. The act of January 28, 1915, provided that the Coast Guard be created in lieu of the then existing Revenue-Cutter Service and the Life-Saving Service, and to be composed of those two organizations. It also provided that it shall constitute a part of the military forces of the United States, and shall operate under the Treasury Department in time of peace and operate as a part of the Navy, subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, in time of war or when the President shall so direct.

In general the duties of the Coast Guard may be classified as follows: Rendering assistance to vessels in distress and saving life and property; destruction or removal of wrecks, derelicts, and other floating dangers to navigation; extending medical aid to American vessels engaged in deep-sea fisheries; protection of the customs revenue; operating as a part of the Navy in time of war or when the President shall direct; enforcement of law and regulations governing anchorage of vessels in navigable waters; enforcement of law relating to quarantine and neutrality; suppression of mutinies on merchant vessels; enforcement of navigation and other laws governing merchant vessels and motor boats; enforcement of law to provide for safety of life on navigable waters during regattas and marine parades; protection of game and the seal and other fisheries in Alaska, etc.; enforcement of sponge-fishing laws.

To assist the Captain Commandant in conducting the business of his office there are established at headquarters the following divisions:

Division of operations: Having cognizance of matters relating to the personnel and operations of the service.

Division of matériel: Having cognizance of matters relating to supplies, outfits, equipment, accounts, and the files.

Division of construction and repair: Having cognizance of matters relating to the construction of and repairs to the hulls of vessels and boats, stations, wharves, and all other property.

Division of engineering: Having cognizance of matters relating to the construction of and repairs to the motive power of vessels and boats and the machinery of all other property.

Division of inspection: Having cognizance of matters relating to the inspection of vessels, stations, boats, and all other property.

Under the direction of the Captain Commandant statistics are prepared regarding the loss of life and property on account of wrecked vessels in American waters. He is also required to acquaint himself, as far as practicable, with all means employed in foreign countries which may seem to affect advantageously the interests of the Coast Guard, and to cause to be properly investigated all plans, devices, and inventions for the improvement of life-saving apparatus for use at the stations which may appear to be meritorious and available.

SUPERVISING ARCHITECT.

Subject to the direction and approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the duties performed by the Supervising Architect embrace the following: Securing cessions from States of jurisdiction over sites and the payment for the same; preparation of drawings, estimates, specifications, etc., for, and the superintendence of the work of, constructing, rebuilding, extending, or repairing public buildings; the care, maintenance, and repair of public buildings, the direction of the operating force in public buildings, and the supply of furniture, carpets, lighting fixtures, mechanical equipment, safes, and miscellaneous supplies for use of custodians' and engineers' forces in the care of public buildings.

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

SECRETARY OF WAR.

The Secretary of War is head of the War Department, and performs such duties as are required of him by law or may be enjoined upon him by the President concerning the military service.

He is charged by law with the supervision of all estimates of appropriations for the expenses of the department, including the military establishment; of all purchases of Army supplies; of all expenditures for the support, transportation, and maintenance of the Army, and of such expenditures of a civil nature as may be placed by Congress under his direction.