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He is authorized to make all necessary regulations for the government of the life-saving service not inconsistent with law; also to dispose of to the best advantage, after · due condemnation by a board of survey, such articles or materials belonging to the service as may from long continued use or other cause become unserviceable. (Act June 20, 1874.)

He is empowered to remit or mitigate any penalty imposed in the act to provide for this service, or to discon tinue any prosecution thereunder, upon an ascertainment of the facts, in such manner as may seem to him proper. (Act June 20, 1874.)

317. The Secretary may authorize the surveyor of any port of delivery to enroll and license vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, in like manner as collectors of ports of entry are authorized to do. (R. S., § 4344.)

318. The Secretary is required to direct the administration of the steamboat inspection laws. (R. S., §§ 4403, 4405, 4407, 4414, 4415, 4430, 4458, 4459, 4460, 4461, 4462, 4472, 4489.)

319. He may grant permission to the owner of any steam vessel to use any invention or process for the utilization of petroleum or other mineral oils or substances in the production of motive-power, and may make regulations concerning the application and use of the same for such purpose. (R. S., § 4474.)

320. He is by law ex officio President of the Lighthouse Board, and is authorized to convene the board whenever in his judgment the exigencies require it. Under his superintendence, the board discharges all administrative duties relative to the construction, illumination, inspection, and care of light-houses, light-vessels, beacons, buoys, seamarks, and their appendages. (R. S., §§ 4654, 4656, 4658, 4666, 4667, 4669.)

321. The Secretary may assign to any of the collectors of the customs the superintendence of such light-houses, beacons, light-ships, and buoys as he may deem best. He may regulate the compensation of the respective keepers of light-houses, and may, on the recommendation of the Light-house Board, discontinue from time to time such lights as may become useless, or unnecessary. He may also, on like recommendation, from time to time reëstablish any lights which have been thus discontinued, when in his judgment it is required by public convenience or the necessities of commerce. He may, after a week's notice to the public, sell and convey any real estate no longer used for light-house purposes, excepting the site of the old light-station at Nayatt Point, which he is directed by special act to withhold from sale. (R. S., §§ 4672, 4673, 4674, 4675; act February 24, 1874.)

322. He may make allowances to the officers and men of the army and navy, while employed on the coast-survey service, for subsistence, in addition to their compensation, as he may deem necessary, not exceeding that allowed by the Treasury regulations of May 11, 1844. (R. S., § 4688.)

323. He is authorized to dispose of the maps and charts of the survey of the coast of the United States at such prices and under such regulations as may from time to time be determined upon by him, and to distribute a number of copies of each sheet, not to exceed three hundred, among foreign governments, and to departments of our own Government, and to such literary and scientific associations as •he may designate. (R. S., § 4691.)

324. It is his duty to give proper directions to the officers of the customs, and to the military officers commanding any fort or station upon the sea-coast, in respect of the provision of law requiring them to aid in the execu

tion of the quarantine and health laws of any State. (R. S., §§ 4792, 4793, 4795, 4796.)

325. He is required from time to time to appoint a surgeon to act as supervising surgeon of marine-hospital service, and to direct him in his duties. (R. S., § 4802.) See Stats. 18, p. 377.

326. He is required to place to the credit of the "fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen " the sums collected by the customs officers under the provisions of the law imposing a tax upon seamen for hospital purposes, which fund shall, under his direction, be employed for the care and relief of sick and disabled seamen employed in vessels of the United States. (R. S., § 4803.)

327. He is authorized, under certain restrictions, to lease or sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, for cash, after due public notice, such marine-hospital buildings and lands as he may deem advisable, and to make and deliver the needful conveyances. The proceeds are to be applied by him to the marine-hospital establishment. (R. S., § 4806; also act March 3, 1875.)

328. He is empowered to inspect or cause to be inspected the books, records, correspondence, and all other documents of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. (R. S., § 5256.)

329. He is empowered, upon application made, to remit fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred under the provis ions of law relating to registering, recording, enrolling, or licensing vessels; also any fine or penalty imposed by the laws relating to steam vessels; and to thereupon direct that any prosecution which has been instituted for recovery shall cease and be discontinued, upon such terms as he deem reasonable and just. (R. S., §§ 5292, 5293, 5294.) 330. It is made his duty from time to time to institute such investigations as may be necessary to detect and pre

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vent frauds and abuses in any trade or transactions which may be licensed between inhabitants of loyal States and of States in insurrection. (R. S., § 5307.)

331. He is empowered to prohibit and prevent the transportation in any vessel, or upon any railroad, turnpike, or other road or means of transportation within the United States, of any property, where there are satisfactory reasons to believe that such property is intended for any place under control of insurgents against the United States, or where there is imminent danger that the property will fall into the possession or under the control of such insurgents. (R. S., § 5312, 5320.)

5. The Management of the Public Accounts.

332. The Secretary of the Treasury is required to cause all accounts of the expenditures of public moneys to be settled within each fiscal year, except where the distance of the places where such expenditure occurs may be such as to make further time necessary; and in respect of expenditures at such places, he, with the assent of the President, may establish fixed periods at which a settlement shall be required. (R. S., § 250.)

333. He is required to lay before Congress at the commencement of each regular session, accompanying his annual statement of the public expenditure, the reports which may be made to him by the Auditors charged with the examination of the accounts of the War and Navy Departments, showing the application of the money appropriated for those departments for the preceding year. (R. S., § 260.) 334. He is required to lay before Congress annually, in the month of December, an abstract in tabular form of the separate accounts of moneys received from internat duties or taxes in each of the States, Territories, and collection districts. (R. S., § 261.)

335. He is likewise required to transmit to Congress a copy of each of the accounts kept by the superintendent of the Treasury buildings, of all amounts expended under the head of contingent expenses of the several bureaus of the Treasury Department, and of all amounts paid for furniture and repairs of furniture, and those received from the disposal of old furniture. (R. S., § 262.)

336. When a claim is made against any executive department involving disputed facts or questions of law, and the amount in controversy exceeds three thousand dollars; or where the decision will affect a class of cases or furnish a precedent for the future action of any executive department in the adjustment of a class of cases; or where any authority, right, privilege, or exemption is claimed or denied under the Constitution of the United States, the head of such department may cause such claim, with all the vouchers, papers, proofs, and documents pertaining thereto, to be transmitted to the Court of Claims. And the Secretary of the Treasury may, upon the certificate of any Auditor or Comptroller of the Treasury, direct any account, matter, or claim of the character, amount, or class described, to be transmitted, with all the vouchers, papers, documents, and proofs pertaining thereto, to the said court for trial and adjudication; provided that no case shall be so referred unless it shall belong to one of the several classes of cases which the said court may, under existing laws, take jurisdiction of on the voluntary action of the claimant. (R. S., 1063.)

337. He is required, whenever the President, without the advice and consent of the Senate, designates, authorizes, or employs any person to perform the duties of any office, to communicate such notice as he shall receive thereof to all the proper accounting and disbursing officers of his department. (R. S., § 1774.)

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