ORGANIZATION 6i 



Direct responsibility for routine matters of administration 

 is centered in the office of the Chief Clerk. This office con- 

 tains the followng units: Accounts, Stenographic, Person- 

 nel, Files, Messenger Service. 



The Accounts Unit has charge of bookkeeping, property 

 accountability, etc.; primarily with respect to the Service as 

 a whole; secondarily as regards supervision of the accounts 

 of the several parks and monuments. 



The Personnel Unit deals with appointments, records of em- 

 ployees, etc. The duties of the other units are sufficiently de- 

 scribed by their titles. 



Field Service. The Field Service includes all of the 

 National Park Service not permanently employed in the na- 

 tional capital. From this has developed the frequently em- 

 ployed arrangement of classifying the Park Service into two 

 principal branches — the Service in the District of Columbia, 

 and the Field Service. The latter comprises all those park 

 superintendents, monument custodians, engineers, rangers and 

 subordinate employees whose work lies away from Washing- 

 ton and directly in and with the parks and monuments them- 

 selves. In other words, they constitute the line of the Na- 

 tional Park Service; the Washington organization, the stafif. 

 The organization of the Field Service in general is gone into 

 in some detail in the paragraph below entitled "Individual Park 

 Organization," and additional comment upon it is unnecessary, 

 save in one particular. This has to do with the Civil Engi- 

 neering and Landscape Engineering Sections, commonly re- 

 ferred to collectively as the Field Service At Large. 



This most important part of the Field Service is referred 

 to as "At Large" partly because its work lies everywhere 

 throughout the system, not being confined to any park or sec- 

 tion of the country; partly, and primarily, because of the 

 method of its creation. No direct appropriations have ever 

 been made for its personnel, and the fund for salaries is ob- 

 tained by deducting a percentage from the various park appro- 



