SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY: (Continued.)
To designate common carriers for transportation of
dutiable goods
May establish bonded warehouses for transportation
purposes..
And the route of transit, form of bond, &c....
May designate certain routes to Mexico...
Refund of duties by.........
Authority as to drawback of duties............
May extend or cancel export bonds, when...
Remission of forfeiture on seized goods under $500
value
May allow compensation to district attorneys, when...
Remission by, of forfeiture vessels in certain cases.....
May permit foreign vessels to unload Canadian prod-
ucts, when.
May allow extra compensation to internal-revenue col-
lectors
To designate collector of internal revenue to have
charge of export goods subject to tax, when........
May restore surplus of sales under distraint for taxes..
Awards to informer under internal-revenue laws.......
Abatement of internal taxes on distilled spirits by......
Compromise of internal-revenue cases......
To permit free withdrawal of alcohol by scientific insti-
tutions......................
Authority as to fraudulent claim for drawback....
May alter stamps, &c., of internal revenue..
Restoration of proceeds of sale under internal-revenue
forfeitures
Authority as to frauds on internal revenue.............................................
Discharge of insolvent debtors.......
To retain moneys due States and apply same to in-
debtedness...
May sell light-house property, when....................
May withhold payments to railroad companies, when.. 241
May remit additional duty on transportation bond...... 242
Remission of fines, penalties, and forfeitures......... 243, 244
Compensation to informers and others by....
General-order warehouse to be established by......
As to indebtedness of Pacific railroad companies........
May cause reliquidation and refund of duties in certain
To withhold payment to public creditors indebted to
the United States........
Safe-keeping and disbursement of public money by. 252–279
To direct penalty in bonds of disbursing officers.............. 252
May authorize assistant to sign warrants..........
May authorize receipt of gold and bullion on deposit... 254
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY: (Continued.)
To issue certificates therefor receivable for duties.
Estimates of revenue and expenditures by........
Reports to Congress as to estimates, contracts, &c..
To report moneys expended at custom-houses.....
Also number of persons employed............
To publish statement of quarterly receipts, &c..........
Also Treasurer's weekly statement of balances, when..
May designate officer to disburse appropriation for
public buildings.........
Collectors of internal revenue as disbursing officers.....
May designate depositaries for internal-revenue mon-
eys...
May allow drawback on liquors and other articles....... 261
May direct penalty in bonds of Assistant Treasurers
and mint officers......
May employ special agents to disburse.
May direct at intervals payments into Treasury.........
May direct deposits elsewhere than with depositaries,
when.......
May transfer moneys from one depositary to another...
To examine depositaries' books by special agents..
May direct examinations of books, &c., of receivers of
public moneys...
To suspend disbursing officers, when....
May allow additional expenses of disbursing officers.... 270
May make extra compensation to collectors of eustoms,
when..........
Estimates of appropriations, duty as to.......... 272, 273, 274
To draw warrant on Treasury for moneys appropri-
ated.........
Warrants to specify what, and to be charged on books
in his office.........
To report balances of appropriation to proper Auditor.
To include same in surplus-fund warrant, when.........
To carry unexpended balances to surplus fund.........
May designate national banks as depositaries.......
To instruct certain officers as to United States notes
and securities, to prevent fraud............
Support, &c., of public credit by........
To prescribe form and denomination of United States
notes, &c.........
To set apart sinking fund and keep record of bonds
applied.....
May apply proceeds of gold to cancellation of certain
bonds...
To pay any interest due on public debt.
May anticipate such payment....
May purchase coin......
May replace destroyed or defaced bonds.....
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY: (Continued.)
Also lost registered bonds.....
May issue registered bonds in lieu of coupou bonds...... 291
May exchange five per cent. bonds for those of loan of
1858........
District of Columbia three-sixty-five bonds.......
To pay judgments of Court of Alabama Claims.
To set apart fund in trust for Ute Indians..........
To issue silver coins in redemption of fractional cur-
rency.......
Reduction of circulation of legal-tender notes, when....
Redemption of bonds in coin for account of sinking
fund.........
Issue of coin for legal tenders........
Legal tenders, in such case, to be retired on destruction
of fractional currency.
To report statistics, commerce, &c., to Congress an-
nually
To report persons employed in Coast Survey......
Appointment of Comptroller of Currency on recom-
mendation of.........................
To apportion circulation of national banks.......
To direct coinage and assay of bullion, &c.........
As to fur-bearing animals in Alaska..................................................................
May prohibit importation of cattle, when.......
To protect domestic trade-mark of watch manufacturers.
May nationalize wrecked foreign-built vessel, repaired,
&c.....
May nationalize vessels owned by residents of Alaska..
To provide forms for registry of vessels..........
May authorize new certificate of registry, when.......... 311
May license yachts and exempt them from entering or
clearing......
To provide system of numbering registered vessels, &c. 312
To establish life-saving stations on the coasts, &c... 314, 316
May employ keepers, &c., for same.............................................................
May sell materials of same...............................
May remit penalties incurred in connection with that
service.........
May authorize surveyor of port of delivery to enroll
vessels.........
To direct enforcement of steamboat inspection laws....
May promote use of petroleum and other oils for motive
power of vessels......
President ex officio of Light-house Board......................................
May assign superintendence of light-houses, &c., to
collectors of customs....
May regulate pay of keepers.........
May discontinue and re-establish lights, when...... 321,
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY: (Continued.)
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... 325
Disposition of fund for marine hospitals..........
May sell or lease marine hospitals.........
To inspect books, &c., of Union Pacific Railroad... 328, 329
Duty of investigation in cases of frauds.......
To prohibit transport of property to insurrectionary
Management of public accounts.......
To cause settlements of same to be inade within fiscal
year, unless......
To lay before Congress Auditors' reports as to applica-
tion of appropriations for War and Navy Depart-
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..
As to covering balances in the Treasury..
To report claims allowed to Congress.........
As to public property and miscellaneous.....
Approval of sale by Solicitor of certain class of prop-
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.................... 355, 356
Appeal from decision of collector in customs cases.. 386, 387
Decision on same final, unless.....
To call five-twenty bonds by public notice............ 416, 417
Revenue marine, vessels in charge of.
May convene Light-house Board....
Marine hospitals under direction of...
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.)
Custody of department books, property, &c............... 100
Directs purchase, transportation, &c., of army sup-
plies........
To control army transportation......
To provide for meteorological observations and storm
signals.........
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...
May sell surplus charts to navigators.......
To report to Congress appropriations, estimates, and
balances......
Also contracts and expenditures for contingent ex-
penses.....
Also proposals for buildings or materials.............................
Also examinations, &c., as to river and harbor surveys
Also returns of State militia.....
To permit trading at military post on frontier...
To issue arms, &c., to colleges, &c.......
To assemble an army retiring board.......
May order gratuitous issue of clothing to soldiers, &c.,
when......
To commute rations of coffee for extract of coffee, &c. 124
To regulate supplies of ordnance and stores........
To designate board to examine for appointment as
assistant surgeon.................
May detail army officers as instructors at West Point.. 119
To regulate care, purchase, &c., of army supplies.. 120-122
To select commissary sergeants.......
To appoint hospital stewards
To detail non-commissioned officers to signal duty......
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 abolish arsenals when unnecessary.
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......
Duties as to bounty, prize-money, &c., to colored sol-
diers and marines, &c......
Custodian of retained bounty fund..
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