Ill order that no contiict should ai iso ])etweeii the Executive Depart- 

 ments notation and that of any ot" the independent publishing offices, 

 two letters are used in all other notations, as follows: 



CS = Civil Service Commission. 



DC= District of Columbia. 



FC = Fish Commission. 



FS = Freedman's Savings and Trust Company. 



GN = Geographic Names Board. 



GP= Government Printing Office. 



IC = Interstate Commerce Commission. 



Ju — Judiciary (United States courts, etc.). 



La = Labor Department. 



LC = Library of Congress. 



NA = National Academy of Sciences. 



NH = National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. 



Pr = President of United States. 



SI = Smithsonian Institution. 

 These two lists give the complete letter symbols, and the arrange- 

 ment on the shelves is strictly ulpha])etical taking them as a whole. 

 Of course, the publications of the Fish Commission and the Labor De- 

 partment have since the 1st day of July, 1903, been classified among 

 the publications of the Commerce and Labor Department, of which 

 thev are now bureaus, but their publications as separate publishing 

 offices are left under the old classification. 



Bureau^ office^ or division symhol. 



A s3mibol having been supplied for the Departments and independent 

 publishing offices, one for each of the bureaus, offices, and divisions 

 of such Departments or publishing offices Avas next considered. 



The figure 1 following the Department or independent publishing 

 office symbol was fixed upon to represent the Secretary of the Depart- 

 ment or the chief executive officer of any of the independent publish- 

 ing offices, and is alwa3^s used for such, thus — 



Al = Agriculture Department, Secretary's office. 



Wl =War Department, Secretary's office. 



GPl = Government Printing Office, Public Printer's office. 



Beginning with figure 2, the numbers are applied in numerical 

 order to the various publishing bureaus, oflices, and divisions, these 

 having been arranged alphabetically when the classification was 

 applied; new offices to l)e added at the end of the list of a Department 

 and assigned the next number. 



This of course does not provide for an alphabetical arrangement of 

 the bureaus, offices, etc., in the future, but does furnish a distinctive 

 symbol for each without limit. 



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