SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY: (Continued.)

SECTION.

May make allowances to officers and men of army and
navy on coast-survey duty......

May execute quarantine and health laws..............................................
May dispose of maps and charts of coast survey..
To appoint Supervising Surgeon of Marine Hospitals...
Disposition of fund for marine hospitals......
May sell or lease marine hospitals.....

322
324

323

325
326

327

To inspect books, &c., of Union Pacific Railroad... 328, 329
Duty of investigation in cases of frauds...

330

To prohibit transport of property to insurrectionary
district..

331

........ 332-341

332

Management of public accounts.......

To cause settlements of same to be made within fiscal
year, unless.........

To lay before Congress Auditors' reports as to applica-
tion of appropriations for War and Navy Depart-
ments........

Also statements of receipts from internal taxes.....
Also account of Superintendent of Treasury buildings.
May send a claim to Court of Claims, when.......
To advise accounting officers of designation of person
to an office.....

All warrants of, to specify the appropriation....
To apply balances only to expenses of fiscal year,
except......

...............

333

334

335
336

337

338

339

340

341

As to covering balances in the Treasury.
To report claims allowed to Congress....
As to public property and miscellaneous..... ....... 342-346
Approval of sale by Solicitor of certain class of prop-
erty......

May contract for securing abandoned property.
Deposit of funds of Smithsonian Institution..........
May defer operations on public buildings.
May set aside selection of site for same.

Office of Secretary, organization of divisions in, &c... 349-358
First and Second Assistant, duties of............................
Appeal from decision of collector in customs cases.. 386, 387
Decision on same final, unless.....

To call five-twenty bonds by public notice..

Balances of adjusted accounts certified to by Regis-
ter......

To be furnished annual estimates by Postmaster-Gen-

eral.......

SECRETARY OF WAR:

General duties of....

In absence of, Chief Clerk to sign requisitions....

SECRETARY OF WAR: (Continued.)

SECTION.

Custody of department books, property, &c............... 100
Directs purchase, transportation, &c., of army sup-
plies.........

To control army transportation.....

101, 102
103

To provide for meteorological observations and storm
signals........

104

Also for signal stations, reports, and signals......... 105, 106
To furnish soldiers duplicate of discharge certificate.... 107
To detail employees to administer oaths to accounts... 108
May sell surplus charts to navigators.......

109

To report to Congress appropriations, estimates, and
balances.........

110

Also contracts and expenditures for contingent ex-
penses.....

111

Also proposals for buildings or materials..

Also examinations, &c., as to river and harbor surveys
Also returns of State militia...

112

113

114

To permit trading at military post on frontier.
To issue arms, &c., to colleges, &c..........
To assemble an army retiring board....

May detail army officers as instructors at West Point..
To regulate care, purchase, &c., of army supplies.. 120-122
To select commissary sergeants......

To commute rations of coffee for extract of coffee, &c.
To regulate supplies of ordnance and stores....
To designate board to examine for appointment as
assistant surgeon...

124

125

126

To appoint hospital stewards

127

115

116

117

May order gratuitous issue of clothing to soldiers, &c.,
when....

119

123

118

To detail non-commissioned officers to signal duty...... 128
To establish regulations for examination of non-com-
missioned officers for appointment as commissioned
officers.........

For examination of appointees to Military Academy...
To exercise general charge over academy, &c..........
To assign Judge-Advocate as law professor in.......
Duties as to military prison at Rock Island..
To direct Adjutants-General of States as to returns of
militia.........

To distribute quota of arms, &c., to States......
To entertain appeals from decision of Chief of Engi-
neers in charge of Washington Aqueduct, and to
receive his reports as Superintendent of Public
Buildings..

135

136

Duties as to bounty, prize-money, &c., to colored sol-
diers and marines, &c.......

Custodian of retained bounty fund..............................................................................

137

138

SECRETARY OF WAR: (Continued.)

SECTION.

To require written contracts, and copies to be filed in
Returns Office........

To furnish forms, &c., to officers making contracts.....
To furnish transportation to certain persons.........
To admit army officers, soldiers, and employees to
hospital for insane.....

Purchase of land for national cemeteries by.

...........

139

140

141

142

143

144

To cause erection of porter's lodge at entrance of same
To appoint superintendent of each national cemetery.. 144
To detail officer to inspect same, &c.........

To cause graves to be marked and register of burials to
be kept.........

Duties as to island of Mackinac and National Park....
To establish water gauges for lower Mississippi and
tributaries....

To authorize Chief Clerk to sign requisitions..........
To control improvement of Mississippi River...
To operate, &c., certain military telegraphs................. 151,
Duties as to disbursements......

Duties as to tolls of Louisville and Portland canal......
As to contracts and material for public improvements.
To erect headstones over soldiers' graves...
Publication of official records of War of the Rebellion.
Contingent expenses of his department, by whom set-
tled..

145

574, 593

Requisitions of, recorded by proper Auditors
Receipts and expenditures, account kept, by whom 574, 593
May require report of Second and Third Auditors.

when.....

SHIPS AND VESSELS:

Remission of forfeiture of, in certain cases....
Certain trade in foreign vessels permitted, when........
Register to wrecked foreign vessel, when repaired, &c.
New certificate of registry to issue, when.....
Numbering of registered and enrolled vessels........
Yachts may be licensed and exempt from entry and
clearance.

........

574, 593

225

226

308

311

312

313

317

319

396-411

Surveyor of port of delivery authorized to enroll.........
Use of petroleum, &c., as motive power.

Navigation Division, duties of, as to.....

Registering, &c., of, and marine documents to...... 396-398

Protection of passengers in, also of emigrants....... 396, 404

Entry and clearance of, requisites of.............

Copies of registry certificate on file with Register.......
Change of master, name, &c., of record, where..
Title to, of record in Register's office............

SHIPS AND VESSELS: (Continued.)

Allowance to, for carrying letters, when.
Searches and seizures of letters on board of...

SIGNALS:

Secretary of War to provide for, &c.........

To detail non-commissioned officers to signal duty.
Naval signal office.......

SIXTH AUDITOR:

SECTION.

903

904

105

128

1090

Origin and organization of office of............... 637, 638, 640
Duties of Auditor and Deputy..

To settle accounts of Post Office Department.......
To make quarterly settlements......

...............

To report to Postmaster-General, when..................................... ............
To report delinquents to same......

639-654

641

641

641

641

To register, charge, and countersign Postmaster-Gen-
eral's warrants..

641, 650, 852

Appeal from decision of, to First Comptroller....... 642
To superintend collection of penalties and debts due
Post Office Department........

To keep separate account of money-order business.....
Quarterly statements of expense of postal service.........
Compromise of judgments.......

To furnish certified papers for suit, when...........
May administer oaths.......

Remission of penalties by.

Copies of papers certified by, evidence in court........
Application of payments made by postmaster execut-
ing new bond....

649

651

To notify Postmaster-General of deficiency in post-
master's accounts........

651

Transcript of money-order account, prima-facie evi-
dence in court.....

652

To show financial condition of Post Office Department
annually..

653, 846

To report compensation of postmaster, when..............
Examining Division, office of.....

Foreign Mail, Pay, and Money-order Divisions. 662, 663, 667
Postmaster-General to notify of appointments and
removals......

President may suppress, &c................

855

21

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION:

Accounts for preservation of collections in, where set-
tled.........

636

SOLDIERS:

Lost discharge certificates of, to be furnished, when... 107
Bounty, prize-money, &c., due colored soldiers and

marines....

137

To conduct suits in Supreme Court and Court of Claims,

Office of, a Bureau of Department of Justice........ 985-987
Transfer of assistant, &c., to that department..

987

Organization, origin, and purpose of office of.................... 986, 988
Written opinions of, may be required by Attorney-

General......

989, 991

To perform duties by direction of Attorney-General... 990
To prosecute and defend suits, when......
Has charge of certain books, &c..

991, 992

993

To charge United States attorneys with customs bonds
delivered for suit.

To take cognizance of frauds on revenue...
To establish regulations for collectors of customs, Uni-
ted States attorneys, and marshals......

994, 995

996

To instruct United States attorneys, marshals, and
clerks of court as to suits....

To direct prosecutions under national banking laws...
To report moneys collected.....
Reports to, by........

997

997

998

999

1000-1002

Copies of papers under seal of, evidence in court........ 1003
To direct suit against delinquent officers reported by
Comptroller.

1004

To examine certain official bonds for approval................. 1005
To receive reports of seizures...
1006

To issue distress warrants against delinquent officers.. 1007
Compromise by, of claims of the United States.. 1008, 1022
May appoint agent to bid in lands for the United States'
on execution......

1009

To sell, &c., lands acquired in payment of debt.......... 1010
In charge of lands and property so acquired and of all
trusts, &c.

May release same by deed, when......

1012

1012