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press bulletins, copies of texts, and information sent to foreign services; preparation and distribution through local news agencies of material suitable for publication in the foreign press in explanation of American policies and activities; communication to Members of Congress, governors of States, universities, magazines, chambers of commerce, and other organizations of bulletins and texts of official documents which will be helpful in understanding the foreign policy of the United States; distribution of daily press summaries and special articles to officers of the department; preparation and publication of the Information Series and of Foreign Relations.

DIVISION OF LATIN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

Diplomatic and consular correspondence, on matters other than those of an administrative character, in relation to Central America, Panama, South America, and the West Indies.

DIVISION OF MEXICAN AFFAIRS.

Diplomatic and consular correspondence, on matters other than those of an administrative character, in relation to Mexico.

DIVISION OF FAR EASTERN AFFAIRS.

Diplomatic and consular correspondence, on matters other than those of an administrative character, in relation to Japan, China, and leased territories, Siberia, Hongkong, French Indo-China, Siam, Straits Settlements, Borneo, East Indies, India, and in general the Far East.

DIVISION OF NEAR EASTERN AFFAIRS.

Diplomatic and consular correspondence, on matters other than those of an administrative character, in relation to Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia,_Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Abyssinia, Persia, Egypt, and colonies belonging to countries of this series.

DIVISION OF WESTERN EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Diplomatic and consular correspondence, on matters other than those of an administrative character, in relation to Great Britain (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and British colonies not elsewhere enumerated), Portugal, Spain, France, Morocco, Belgium, the Kongo, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Denmark, and Liberia.

DIVISION OF POLITICAL INFORMATION.

The collection of political (including ethnological and social) information; the coordination of this information according to a standardized system, and the dissemination of the data thus obtained in response to the needs of the executive officers of the department; the maintenance of historical records; the establishment and the custody of the map collection of the department, and the drafting of such special maps as may be required for the use of the department.

CONSULAR BUREAU.

Consular correspondence and miscellaneous correspondence relating thereto.

BUREAU OF APPOINTMENTS.

Custody of the great seal and applications for office, and the preparation of commissions, exequaturs, warrants of extradition, Departmental Register, diplomatic and consular lists, and consular bonds; correspondence and other matters regarding entrance examinations for the foreign service.

DIVISION OF PASSPORT CONTROL.

Examination of applications for passports; issuance of passports; receiving and filing duplicates of evidence, registration, etc., under act of March 2, 1907, in reference to expatriation of citizens and their protection abroad; keeping of necessary records thereunder; conduct of correspondence in relation to the foregoing.

BUREAU OF INDEXES AND ARCHIVES.

Recording and indexing the general correspondence of the department; charge of the archives.

BUREAU OF ACCOUNTS.

Custody and disbursement of appropriations and indemnity funds, and correspondence relating thereto.

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; authentications.

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 controls the construction and maintenance of public buildings; the coinage and printing of money; the administration of the Coast Guard and the Public Health 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. He is ex officio chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, created by act approved December 23, 1913, known as the Federal reserve act; ex officio chairman of the Federal Farm Loan Board, created by act approved July 17, 1916, known as the Federal farm loan act; and president of the central executive council of the Inter-American High Commission, and chairman of the United States section of that commission.

ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY.

To the Assistant Secretary in charge of fiscal affairs is assigned the general supervision of all matters relating to the fiscal bureaus, offices, and divisions, as follows: The Federal Farm Loan Board; the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; the Office of the Treasurer of the United States; the Office of the Director of the Mint; the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury; the auditors for the several departments; the Register of the Treasury; the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants; the Division of Deposits; the Division of Loans and Currency; the Division of Public Moneys; the Savings Division; the Secret Service Division; the office of the disbursing clerk; the Government actuary; the Commissioner of the Public Debt; and the Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits.

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: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Supervising Architect, the selection of sites for public buildings, Coast Guard, Appointment Division, Gen

eral Supply Committee, Section of Surety Bonds, Division of Mail and Files, Printing and Stationery Division, and all unassigned business of the department.

To the Assistant Secretary in charge of Internal Revenue and Customs is assigned the general supervision of all matters pertaining thereto.

To the Assistant Secretary in charge of Foreign Loans is assigned the supervision of all matters pertaining to foreign loans and finance, the United States Section of the Inter-American High Commission, and payments, advances, and loans to the railroads under the transportation act, 1920.

To the Assistant Secretary in charge of War Risk Insurance and Public Health is assigned the supervision of those bureaus.

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, Auditors', Arlington, and Treasury Annex Buildings, and all other Treasury Buildings in the District of Columbia except the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; has direct charge of motor trucks, horses, wagons, etc., belonging to the department; the direction of engineers, machinists, watchmen, 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 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; recommendation for 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. 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 custom house 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; 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 depart

ment.

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.

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