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 through the courts to enforce penalties prescribed for violations of the national-bank act. The comptroller, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, also appoints all national-bank examiners. Under the Federal reserve act he executed and issued the certificates or charters for the Federal reserve banks. The Comptroller of the Currency is ex officio a member 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, Federal reserve bank notes, and Federal reserve 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 of Internal Revenue has general superintendence of the collection of all internal-revenue taxes; the enforcement of internal-revenue laws and the national prohibition act; appointment of internal-revenue employees; compensation and duties of inspectors, agents, and other subordinate officers; the preparation and distribution of instructions, regulations, stamps, 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. 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 standaru 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 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 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, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, public buildings, Secret Service, and War Risk Insurance Bureau.

AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

The Auditor for the War Department receives and settles all accounts and claims 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, St. Elizabeths Hospital, 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 and claims of the Department of the Navy, including all accounts relating to the Naval Establishment, Marine Corps, and the Naval 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; United States Shipping Board; Food and Fuel Administrations; Council of National Defense; Federal Board for Vocational Education; National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Eight Hour Commission; United States Tariff Commission; United States Employees' Compensation Commission; War Trade Board; Alien Property Custodian; and United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation; 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 and 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 receives, examines, records, and files all paid and canceled securities representing the interest and principal of the public debt of the United States, and keeps records of the outstanding principal of such indebtedness. He examines and approves for credit in the public debt account the Treasurer's monthly report of paid interest coupons, redeemed and purchased securities, and certifies to and transmits such accounts to the Auditor for the Treasury.

THE FEDERAL FARM LOAN BOARD.

The Federal Farm Loan Board is charged with the administration of the Federal farm loan act. It established the 12 Federal land banks, delimits their respective districts, appoints the temporary directors and 3 members of the permanent board of directors of each of them, supervises their operations, appoints their registrars and appraisers, and has power to grant charters to national farm loan associations and joint-stock land banks. It makes appraisal of farm lands and prepares and publishes amortization tables. It supervises the operation of national farm loan associations and joint-stock land banks. It is its duty to disseminate by publications of its own and through the press matter setting forth the advantages to borrowers and investors of the system of loans established by the act. It may authorize Federal land banks to appoint agents for the making of loans to farmers in counties which fail to form farm loan associations. It has the power to revise and alter rates of interest charged by Federal land banks; to grant or refuse to Federal land banks or joint-stock land banks authority to make any specific issue of bonds; to control charges made to borrowers for expenses incident to the making of loans; to require Federal land banks to meet their obligations to each other, and to exercise such incidental powers as are necessary or requisite to fulfill its duties and carry out the purposes of the Federal farm loan act.

BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing designs, engraves, prints, and finishes all moneys and securities of the Government, embraced under the following: United States notes, bonds, certificates of indebtedness, certificates, national bank notes, Federal reserve notes, Federal reserve bank currency, internal revenue, postage, thrift, war savings, customs stamps, and Treasury warrants, Treasury drafts and checks, disbursing officers' checks, licenses, passports, commissions, patent and pension certificates, portraits of deceased Members of Congress and other public officers authorized by law, and all postage stamps, moneys, and securities authorized by the Bureau of Insular Affairs for the insular possessions of the Government.

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, one section, and the chief clerk's office, the operations of which are coordinated and are under the immediate supervision of the Surgeon General.

The Division of Scientific Research conducts the scientific investigations of the service. Intensive studies of diseases of man, including influenza, malaria, pellagra, pneumonia, trachoma, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever; of child, school, mental, and industrial hygiene; of rural sanitation; of public health administration; of morbidity; of milk; and of water supplies and sewage are carried on from special headquarters in the field in cooperation with State and local health authorities. Technical and purely laboratory studies are conducted at the Hygienic Laboratory in Washington, at special field laboratories, and at the leprosy investigation station in Hawaii. Information thus obtained is disseminated through publications, correspondence, lectures, and conferences with health authorities concerning the results of field studies in their jurisdictions. Through the division the department enforces the act of July 1, 1902, to regulate the sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine. The division is in charge of control measures of trachoma, through the establishment of hospitals and clinics, in the Appalachian Mountain district and other points where the disease is prevalent. The Surgeon General is required by law to call an annual conference of State and Territorial health authorities, and special conferences may also be called at any time. For advice in respect to scientific investigations he may convene the advisory board of the Hygienic Laboratory. 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.

The Division of Sanitary Reports and Statistics collects and publishes information regarding the prevalence and geographic distribution of diseases dangerous to the public health in the United States and foreign countries. Court decisions, laws, regulations, and ordinances pertaining to the public health are compiled, digested, and published. Its publications contain articles on subjects relating to the public health. This division issues the Public Health Reports (weekly) and Supplements to, and Reprints from, the Public Health Reports.

Through the Division of Marine Hospitals and Relief, hospital care and treatment is provided for beneficiaries at 22 marine hospitals and 26 Public Health Service hospitals, including 9 sanatoria for tuberculosis and 7 for mental and nervous diseases. Medical examination and out-patient treatment is provided at 2,510 other relief stations. The beneficiaries include seamen and officers of registered, enrolled, or licensed merchant vessels of the United States and of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service; keepers and assistant keepers of lighthouses; civil employees injured while in the performance of their duty; discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines, Army and Navy nurses, who are patients of the War Risk Insurance Bureau; seamen employed on vessels of the Mississippi River Commission and of the Engineer Corps of the Army; keepers and surfmen of the Coast Guard; and employees of vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. A purveying depot for the purchase and issuance of supplies is maintained at Washington. Physical examinations are made of members of the Coast Guard; for the detection of color blindness in masters, mates, and pilots; claimants under the War Risk Insurance Bureau; claimants under the Employees' Compensation Commission; applicants for vocational training by the Federal Board for Vocational Education; and applicants for positions in the classified civil service. The medical evidence of disability in claims for benefits against the Coast Guard is reviewed.

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

The Division of Venereal Diseases was created by act of Congress in July, 1918, "(1) to study and investigate the cause, treatment, and prevention of venereal dis

eases; (2) to cooperate with State boards or departments of health for the prevention and control of such diseases within the States; and (3) to control and prevent the spread of these diseases in interstate traffic." The division is organized to carry out the duties assigned to it by the act. Cooperative venereal disease clinics have been established in approximately 300 locations. At these clinics venereally infected persons are receiving modern scientific treatment and are controlled by laboratory methods. State boards of health are being cooperated with by the service in 46 States which have qualified to receive their share of allotments from the ChamberlainKahn funds. A comprehensive Nation-wide campaign for securing the necessary educational publicity regarding the seriousness of venereal diseases is being carried on. Hundreds of various agencies are cooperating with the Public Health Service in the extension of this work. Interstate quarantine regulations to prevent the spread of these diseases in interstate traffic have been promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury.

In order to coordinate the educational work carried on by the various divisions of the Public Health Service, and especially to extend the educational services which the bureau can render to the public at large, a Section of Public Health Education was established in April, 1919. As at present carried on, the section aims to constitute itself a national center or clearing house on the subject of public health education. Plans are under way whereby all the ordinary vehicles of publicity and education will be utilized. This will involve the preparation of press bulletins and the utilization of stereomats and plates, the publication of lithographed health posters, the organization of a lecture service, the administration of a loan library of stereoptican slides and moving pictures, the preparation and organization of traveling exhibits, the maintenance of a public health information bureau, and the employment of such other educational methods as the circumstances may indicate. It is planned to carry on these activities in close cooperation with State and local health authorities and with important national health organizations. In addition, the Public Health Bureau issues a great number and variety of health publications, consisting of laboratory and technical bulletins, popular health pamphlets, publications for the assistance of health officers, and also posters, placards, and charts.

The chief clerk has charge of the following: (1) Appointments, promotions, and discipline of the clerical personnel of the bureau. (2) Office quarters occupied by the bureau in Washington, and equipment therein. (3) Furnishing supplies of stationery and blanks to the bureau and field stations. (4) The official files of the bureau and the receipt and dispatch of mail. (5) The bureau library. (6) Procuring of printing through the Government Printing Office, and supervision of the appropriation therefor.

COAST GUARD.

The 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 in time of peace and under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy in time of war. Headquarters are located at present in the Darby Building, Fourteenth_and E Streets NW. 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 Commandant in conducting the business of his office there are established at headquarters an inspector, having cognizance of matters relating to the inspection of vessels, stations, boats, and all other property, and the following divisions:

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