OFFICIAL DUTIES.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

The Secretary of State is charged, under the direction of the President, with the duties appertaining to correspondence with the public ministers and the consuls of the United States, and with the representatives of foreign powers accredited to the United States; and to negotiations of whatever character relating to the foreign affairs of the United States. He is also the medium of correspondence between the President and the chief executives of the several States of the United States; he has the custody of the Great Seal of the United States, and countersigns and affixes such seal to all executive proclamations, to various commissions, and to warrants for the extradition of fugitives from justice. He is regarded as the first in rank among the members of the Cabinet. He is also the custodian of the treaties made with foreign States, and of the laws of the United States. He grants and issues passports, and exequaturs to foreign consuls in the United States are issued through his office. He publishes the laws and resolutions of Congress, amendments to the Constitution, and proclamations declaring the admission of new States into the Union.

ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF STATE.

The Assistant Secretary of State becomes the Acting Secretary of State in the absence of the Secretary. Under the organization of the Department the Assistant Secretary, Second Assistant Secretary, and Third Assistant Secretary are charged with the immediate supervision of all correspondence with the diplomatic and consular officers, and are intrusted with the preparation of the correspondence upon any questions arising in the course of the public business that may be assigned to them by the Secretary.

CHIEF CLERK.

The chief clerk has the direction of the consular service and general supervision of the clerks and employees and of the business of the Department.

DIPLOMATIC BUREAU.

Diplomatic correspondence and miscellaneous correspondence relating thereto.

CONSULAR BUREAU.

Consular correspondence and miscellaneous correspondence relating thereto.

BUREAU OF INDEXES AND ARCHIVES.

Opening, indexing, and registering all correspondence to and from the Department; the preservation of the archives.

BUREAU OF ACCOUNTS.

Custody and disbursement of appropriations under direction of the Department; charged with custody of indemnity funds and supply bonds; care of the property of the Department.

BUREAU OF ROLLS AND LIBRARY.

Custody of the rolls, treaties, etc.; promulgation of the laws, treaties, Executive orders and proclamations; care and superintendence of the library and public documents; care of papers relating to international commissions.

BUREAU OF APPOINTMENTS.

Matters relating to appointments, applications, and recommendations for office, etc.; the preparation of commissions, exequaturs, consular bonds, and warrants of extradition, the Department Register, and diplomatic and consular lists; custody of the Great Seal.

BUREAU OF CITIZENSHIP.

Examination of applications for passports, issuance of passports and authentications thereof, registration, etc., under act of March 2, 1907, in reference to expatriation of citizens and their protection abroad, keeping of necessary records thereunder, and correspondence relating thereto.

BUREAU OF TRADE RELATIONS.

Preparation of instructions to consular officers for reports to be printed by the Department of Commerce and Labor; revision and transmission of such reports to said Department and to other branches of the Government service, and compilation of commercial information for the use of the Department of State.

DIVISION OF FAR EASTERN AFFAIRS.

Diplomatic and consular correspondence, on matters other than those of an administrative character, in relation to China, Japan, Korea, Siam, Straits Settlements, Borneo, East Indies, India, and in general the Far East.

OFFICE OF THE LAW CLERK.

Editing and indexing the laws, resolutions, public treaties, and proclamations for publication in the Statutes at Large.

SUPERINTENDENT OF BUILDING.

The superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department building is the executive officer of the commission created by Congress, consisting of the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy, for the government of this building. He has charge of, care, preservation, repairing, warming, ventilating, lighting, and cleaning of the building, grounds, and approaches, and disburses the special appropriations for this purpose; he has charge of all the employees of the building proper, and appoints them by direction of the Secretaries.

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY.

SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

The Secretary of the Treasury is charged by law with the management of the national finances. He prepares plans for the improvement of the revenue and for the support of the public credit; superintends the collection of the revenue, and directs the forms of keeping and rendering public accounts and of making returns; grants warrants for all moneys drawn from the Treasury in pursuance of appropriations made by law, and for the payment of moneys into the Treasury; and annually submits to Congress estimates of the probable revenues and disbursements of the Government. He also controls the construction of public buildings; the coinage and printing of money; the administration of the Life-Saving, Revenue-Cutter, and the Public Health and Marine-Hospital branches of the public service, and furnishes generally such information as may be required by either branch of Congress on all matters pertaining to the foregoing.

ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY.

To Assistant Secretary Reynolds is assigned the general direction and supervision of all matters pertaining to the customs service, and all matters relating to the public business assigned to the following divisions: The division of customs and the division of special agents.

To Assistant Secretary Winthrop is assigned the general direction and supervision of all matters relating to the public business and assigned to the following bureau, offices, and divisions: The Office of the Supervising Architect; the Office of the Chief Clerk and Superintendent; the Office of Internal Revenue; the Bureau of Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States; the Office of the Life-Saving Service, and the division of Revenue-Cutter Service.

To Assistant Secretary Coolidge is assigned the general direction and supervision of all matters relating to the public business assigned to the following bureau, office, and divisions: The Office of the Director of the Mint; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; the secret service division; the division of public moneys; the division of loans and currency; the division of bookkeeping and warrants; the division of printing and stationery, and the division of mails and files.

CHIEF CLERK.

The chief clerk is the general executive officer of the Department, and, under the immediate direction of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, is charged with responsibility for the enforcement of Departmental regulations general in their nature, superintends all buildings occupied by the Department in the District of Columbia, and expenditures for the care of all public buildings under control of the Secretary of the Treasury, and has the custody of the records, files, and library of the Secretary's office.

SUPERVISING ARCHITECT.

The duties of the Supervising Architect are subject to the direction and approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. They embrace the following subjects-matter: The selection of sites for public buildings; securing necessary State cession of jurisdiction; the preparation of estimates, drawings, etc., for approval by the cabinet officers, as required by law, preliminary to the erection of court-houses, custom-houses, postoffices, marine hospitals, etc.; securing, under what is known as the Tarsney Act, competitive designs, and completing all arrangements thereunder; arranging all details incident to the Government entering into contracts for construction, etc. He is also charged with the duty of maintaining and keeping in repair all buildings under the control of the Treasury Department not in the District of Columbia; maintaining and keeping in a proper state of efficiency and capacity all heating apparatus and hoisting systems in these buildings, including those in the District of Columbia; and control of the supply of vaults, safes, etc., for all public buildings.

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 all 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 examines all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury and all bureaus and offices under his direction. 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, LifeSaving Service, Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, public buildings, secret service, and all other business within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Treasury, and certifies the balances arising thereon.

AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

The Auditor for the War Department audits and settles all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the Office of the Secretary of War, and of all bureaus and offices under his direction; 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, the Isthmian Canal Commission, and to all other business within the jurisdiction of the Department of War.

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AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

The Auditor for the Interior Department audits and settles all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior, and of all bureaus and offices under his direction; all accounts relating to the protection, survey, and sale of public lands and the reclamation of arid public lands, the Geological Survey, army and navy pensions, Indian affairs, Howard University, the Government Hospital for the Insane, the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, the Patent Office, the Capitol and grounds, the Hot Springs Reservation, the reimbursement from accrued pensions of the expenses of the last sickness and burial of pensioners under the act of March 2, 1895, and all other business within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.

AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.

The Auditor for the Navy Department examines and settles all accounts of the Navy Department, including the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, and all offices and bureaus under his direction, certifying the balances arising thereon to the Secretary of the Treasury and sending a copy of each certificate to the Secretary of the Navy.

AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

The Auditor for the State and other Departments receives, examines, and certifies the balances arising thereon to the division of bookkeeping and warrants all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the Offices of the Secretary of State, the Attorney-General, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and of all bureaus and offices under their direction; all accounts relating to all other business within the jurisdiction of the Departments of State, Justice, Agriculture, and Commerce and Labor; all accounts relating to the Diplomatic and Consular Service, the judiciary, United States courts, judgments of the United States courts, and Court of Claims relating to accounts settled in his office, Executive Office, Civil Service Commission, Interstate Commerce Commission, District of Columbia, Court of Claims, Smithsonian Institution, Territorial governments, the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Public Printer, Library of Congress, Botanic Garden, and accounts of all boards, commissions, and establishments of the Government not within the jurisdiction of any of the Executive Departments.

AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

The Auditor for the Post-Office Department audits and settles all accounts for salaries and incidental expenses of the Office of the Postmaster-General and of all bureaus and offices under his direction; all postal and money-order accounts of postmasters, 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 countersigns and registers 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 405, Revised

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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 at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, and San Francisco, and in the national-bank United States depositories; is redemption agent for national-bank notes; is trustee for bonds held to secure national-bank circulation and public deposits in national 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 special disbursing officer for the school fund of the Indian Territory and for the Philippine Islands tariff fund; is agent for paying interest on Spanish indemnity certificates, and is ex officio commissioner of the sinking fund of the District of Columbia.

Assistant Treasurer and Deputy Assistant Treasurer of the United States, authorized by the Treasurer, with the consent of the Secretary of the Treasury, to act in the place and discharge any or all of the duties of the Treasurer of the United States.

REGISTER OF THE TREASURY.

The Register of the Treasury signs and issues all bonds of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Spanish indemnity, the three series of Philippine Islands public improvement bonds, and the city of Manila, P. I., bonds, and transmits to the Treasurer of the United States schedules showing the name of every individual, corporation, etc., holding registered bonds and entitled to receive interest thereon. He receives, examines, and registers coupon bonds exchanged for registered bonds or redeemed and registered bonds transferred and finally redeemed. He receives, examines, arranges, and registers all redeemed United States notes, gold certificates, silver certificates, Treasury notes, detached interest coupons, interest checks on registered bonds, redeemed fractional currency, and all other United States securities redeemed and destroyed; also all customs, internal-revenue, and postage stamps condemned for imperfections and destroyed. He is represented on the committee having in charge the destruction by maceration of certain of the United States securities, etc., mentioned herein.

COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY.

The Comptroller of the Currency has, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, the supervision of the national banks; the organization of national banks; the preparation and issue of national-bank circulation; the examination and consolidation of the reports of national banks, and the redemption and destruction of notes issued by national banks.

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 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. appointments, removals, and transfers in the mints and assay offices are subject to his approval.

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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 custom-house and other public purposes. Two annual reports are prepared by the Director, one giving the operations of the mint service for the fiscal year, printed in the Finance Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, the other giving the statistics of the production of the precious metals for the calendar year.

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

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

PUBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE.

The Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service is charged with the supervision of the marine hospitals and other relief stations of the service and the care of sick and disabled seamen taken from merchant vessels of the United States (ocean, lake, and river) and vessels of the Light-House Service and officers and men of the Revenue-Cutter Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and surfmen of the Life-Saving Service. This supervision includes the purveying of medical and other supplies, the assignment of orders to medical officers, the examination of requisitions, vouchers, and property returns, and all matters pertaining to the service. Under his direction all applicants for pilots' licenses are examined for the detection of color-blindness. Ordinary seamen on request of the master or agent are examined physically to determine their fitness before shipment, and a like examination is made of the candidates for admission to the Revenue-Cutter Service and candidates for appointment as surfmen in the United States Life-Saving Service. He examines also and passes upon the medical certificates of claimants for pensions under the laws governing the Life-Saving Service.

He is charged with the framing of regulations for the prevention of the introduction and spread of contagious disease and is also charged with the conduct of the quarantine service of the United States.