ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY.

To Assistant Secretary Norton 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.

To Assistant Secretary Hilles 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 Curtis 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.

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 keeping in repair all buildings under the control of the Treasury Department not in the District of Columbia; 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.

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 bureau's 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

Statutes.

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 Panama Canal loan, the sundry loans of the Philippine Islands, the city of Manila sewer and water loan, and the District of Columbia loan, 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 the upper halves of all redeemed United States notes, gold certificates, silver certificates, and Treasury notes; detached interest coupons, interest checks on registered bonds, redeemed fractional currency notes, 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 above.

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.

The Surgeon-General, in the interest of the public health, is authorized to call conferences at least once a year of the state and territorial boards of health, quarantine authorities, and state health officers (the District of Columbia included) for the purpose of considering matters relating to the public health.

Under the law he is charged with the direction of the hygienic laboratory for the investigation of contagious and infectious disease and other matters relating to the public health; with the publication of the weekly Public Health Reports of the United States, including the collection and publication of vital statistics, and is responsible for the proper enforcement of the "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," approved July 1, 1902.

Under the interstate-quarantine law, he is charged with preparing the rules and regulations, under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, necessary to prevent the introduction of certain contagious diseases from one State to another, and he has also supervision of the medical inspection of alien immigrants.

He is charged with the control of an experiment station for the study of the prevention and cure of leprosy, now in course of establishment on the island of Molokai, Hawaii, under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE.

The Captain Commandant of the Revenue-Cutter Service is Chief of the Division of Revenue-Cutter Service and has charge, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the organization and government of the Revenue-Cutter Service.

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 printed from steel plates, embracing United States notes, bonds, and certificates, national-bank notes, internalrevenue, postage, and customs 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.

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.

It is the duty of the General Superintendent to supervise the organization and government of the employees of the service; to prepare and revise regulations therefor as may be necessary; to supervise the expenditure of all appropriations made for the support and maintenance of the Life-Saving Service; to examine the accounts of disbursements of the district superintendents, and to certify the same to the accounting officers of the Treasury Department; to examine the property returns of the keepers of the several stations, and see that all public property thereto belonging is properly accounted for; to acquaint himself, as far as practicable, with all means employed in foreign countries which may seem to advantageously affect the interest of the service, 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; to exercise supervision over the selection of sites for new stations the establishment of which may be authorized by law, or for old ones the removal of which may be made necessary by the encroachment of the sea or by other causes; to prepare and submit to the Secretary of the Treasury estimates for the support of the service; to collect and compile the statistics of marine disasters, as contemplated by the act of June 20, 1874, and to submit to the Secretary of the Treasury, for transmission to Congress, an annual report of the expenditures of the moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the Life-Saving Service and of the operations of said service during the year.

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.

He also has supervision of the United States Military Academy at West Point and of military education in the Army, of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, of the various battlefield commissions, and of the publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.

He has charge of all matters relating to national defense and seacoast fortifications, army ordnance, river and harbor improvements, the prevention of obstruction to navigation, and the establishment of harbor lines; and all plans and locations of bridges authorized by Congress to be constructed over the navigable waters of the United States require his approval. He also has charge of the establishment or abandonment of military posts, and of all matters relating to leases, revocable licenses, and all other privileges upon lands under the control of the War Department.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR.

To the Assistant Secretary of War is assigned the general direction and supervision of all matters relating to rivers and harbors; bridges over navigable waters of the United States; leases, revocable licenses, and all other privileges upon lands under the control of the War Department; inspections relating to the military establishment; recruiting service, discharges, commutation of rations, courts-martial, and other questions relating to enlisted men, including clemency cases and matters relating to prisoners at military prisons and penitentiaries.

He also has charge of all matters relating to the militia; the supervision of miscellaneous claims and accounts; matters relating to national cemeteries, boards of survey, open-market purchases, and medals of honor.

The Assistant Secretary of War is also vested with authority to decide all cases which do not involve questions of policy, the establishment or reversal of precedents, or matters of special or extraordinary importance.

ASSISTANT AND CHIEF CLERK.

Under the immediate direction of the Secretary, the Assistant and Chief Clerk has the custody of the records and files, and is charged with supervision of the receipt, distribution, and transmission of the official mail and the correspondence of the Secretary's Office; of all matters affecting the civil force of the War Department, and the departments at large; War Department printing and binding, and official advertising and job printing for the Army and the War Department; War Department supplies; routine calls for information from the records; expenditures from appropriations for contingent expenses and stationery for the War Department, and matters of routine character not requiring the personal action of the Secretary or the Assistant Secretary of War.

GENERAL STAFF.

The General Staff Corps was organized under the provisions of act of Congress approved February 14, 1903. Its principal duties are to prepare plans for the national defense and for the mobilization of the military forces in time of war; to investigate and report upon all questions affecting the efficiency of the Army and its state of preparation for military operations; to render professional aid and assistance to the Secretary of War and to general officers and other superior commanders and to act as their agents in informing and coordinating the action of all the different officers who are subject to the supervision of the Chief of Staff, and to perform such other military duties not otherwise assigned by law as may be from time to time prescribed by the President.

The Chief of Staff, under direction of the President, or of the Secretary of War under the direction of the President, has supervision of all troops of the line, of The Adjutant-General's department in matters pertaining to the command, discipline, or administration of the existing military establishment, and of the Inspector