GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AT WASHINGTON. 



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All clothing accounts of the army are adjusted 

 finally, also property accounts ot Indian agents. 

 Office established March 3. 1817. 



Third Auditor. Remaining accounts of the 

 "War Department, army pension, Military 

 Academy, horse claims, claims miscellaneous, 

 etc. Office established, March 3, 1817. 



Fourth Auditor. Accounts of the navy, in- 

 cluding pay, pensions, and prize-money. Office 

 established March 3, 1817. 



Fifth A uditor. Accounts of the State De- 

 partment and internal revenue, census, Smith- 

 sonian Institution, National Museum, etc. Office 

 established March 3, 1817. 



Sixth Auditor, in the Post-Office Depart- 

 ment building. Adjusts finally all account? for 

 postal service, subject to appeal to the First 

 Comptroller. Collects debts, etc., of the Post- 

 Office Department. Office established July 2, 

 1836. 



Treasurer of the United *State*. Office es- 

 tablished Sept. 2, 1789. In charge of all public 

 moneys on deposit in the Treasury at Washing- 

 ton, in nine sub- treasuries at Boston, New 

 York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, 

 San Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago, and Cincin- 

 nati, and in the national bank United States 

 depositaries. Pays the interest on the public 

 debt and salaries of members of the House of 

 Representatives. Trustee of bonds for national 

 bank circulation and custodian of Indian trust 

 fund bonds. Salary, $6,000. 



Register of the Treasury. Office established 

 Sept. 2, 1789. Official book-keeper of the 

 United States. Prepares an annual statement 

 to Congress of all receipts ancU disbursements 

 of public funds, signs and issues all bonds, and 

 registers warrants. Salary, $4,000. 



Comptroller of the Currency. Office estab- 

 lished June 3, 1864. Under direction of the 

 secretary, he controls the national banks. The 

 number of these is 294. Salary, xo.OOO. 



Solicitor. Chief law-officer of the Treasury, 

 with special cognizance of revenue frauds. Ap- 

 proves bonds, etc. Salary, $4,000. 



Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Office 

 established July 1, 1862. Duties, assessment 

 and collection of internal taxes, preparation of 

 instructions and stamps. The work of the 

 office is in 8 divisions, viz., appointments, law, 

 tobacco, accounts, distilled spirits, stamps, as- 

 sessments, revenue agents. Salary, $6,000. 

 The total number employed in the service is 

 3,218. A laboratory, with chemist and micros- 

 copist, for tests of oleomargarine, under the 

 act of 1886, is attached to this bureau. 



Director of the Mint. Salary, $4,500. The 

 total number of employes in the 3 mints and 

 6 assay offices in the United States is 948. The 

 amount of silver required to be coined monthly, 

 by act of Feb. 28, 1878, is $2,000,000. 



Supervising Architect of Treasury. Office 

 established 1853. Salary.' $4,500. The total 

 number employed on public buildings is 655. 



Comm ixsioner of Xav if/a tion . Salary, $3, 600. 

 Number of employes, 46. 



Sujierintendent of the Lif, rvice. 



Service reorganized June 18. lary, 



$4,000. The number of life-saving stations is 

 213; of employes, 242. 



Superintendent of Steamboat Inspection. 

 Salary, $3,5110. Ik- presides at meetings of 

 Board of Supervising Inspectors on the third 

 Wednesday in January. The number of em- 

 ployes is 164. 



Supervising Surgeon- General of Marine Hos- 

 pital Service. Instituted 1799; office, No. 

 1421 G Street, N. W. Salary, $4,000. The 

 number of employes is 406. 



Light-House Board. Organized Aug. 31, 

 1862; employs 1,321 persons. 



The following bureaus occupy separate build- 

 ings, viz. : 



Bureau of Engraving and Printing, corner 

 Fourteenth and B Streets, S. W. The number 

 of employe's is 895. The number of sheets of 

 securities produced in 1888 was 38,038,939; 

 cost, $948.819.29. The chief of the bureau has 

 a salary of $4,000. 



Bureau of Statistics, No. 407 Fifteenth 

 Street, N. W. The number of employes is 

 35. The chief of the bureau has a salary of 

 $3,000. It furnishes annual reports on com- 

 merce and navigation, internal commerce, an- 

 nual statistical abstract, quarterly reports on 

 commerce, navigation, and immigration, 

 monthly statement of imports and exports, re- 

 ports on total values of foreign commerce and 

 immigration, of exports of breadstuff's, of pro- 

 visions, of petroleum and cotton. 



Coast and Geodetic Survey. Building south 

 of the Capitol. Reorganized April 29, 1843. 

 The superintendent's salary is $6,000. Besides 

 annual reports to Congress, it publishes maps 

 and charts of our coasts and harbors, books of 

 sailing-directions, and annual tide-tables. The 

 number of employes is 173. 



War Department Established Aug. 7, 1789; 

 occupies the north wing of the State. War, and 

 Navy Department Building. The total num- 

 ber in the service, including the army of the 

 United State, Signal Corps, etc., is 31,958; in 

 the department proper, 1,536. All duties of 

 the military service, purchase of supplies, trans- 

 portation, etc., devolve upon the Secretary of 

 War. who is also invested with affairs of a 

 civil nature. He provides for the taking of 

 meteorological observations, arranges the 

 course of studies at the Military Academy, 

 supervises the work and expenditures of the 

 engineer corps, and purchases real-estate for 

 national cemeteries. He controls the appro- 

 priation of the Mississippi River Commission, 

 and directs the construction of piers or cribs 

 by owners of saw-mills, the removal of sunken 

 vessels obstructing navigation, etc.. and regu 

 lates bids for contracts. The headqmirters of 

 the army are in the War Department. The 

 standing" army of the United States numbers 

 27.159 men. The army appropriation for the 

 fiscal year 1888 was $23.724.718.69. Salary 

 of the'general, $13,500. Chiefs of bureaus of 



