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...........

145

146

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......

147

148

149

150

To authorize Chief Clerk to sign requisitions......................
To control improvement of Mississippi River......................
To operate, &c., certain military telegraphs.......... 151, 152
Duties as to disbursements.....

153

154

155

156

156

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

when......

SHIPS AND VESSELS:

520

.... 574, 593

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....

Surveyor of port of delivery authorized to enroll......... 317
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.........

3. Carnemer - Divisions.............
Scobertion Jivisious...

658. 659

660, 661

Perez, MG. Pav, uai Moter-ortier Divisions. 662, 663, 667
Postinestir-General to Jotify of appointments and
pernovais

ALAVE TRADE:

President mar singress, &c.
AMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION:

Acconuts for preservation of collections in, where set-

ned...

SOLDIERS:

855

.... 636

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

marines.........

..... 137

To conduct suits in Supreme Court and Court of Claims,

Under supervision of Attorney-General...
SOLICITOR OF TREASURY:

Sale of property by

Discharge of seized or attached property by
Delinquent officers reported to, for suit....
Under supervision of Attorney-General..

Office of, a Bureau of Department of Justice.....

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

994, 995

To take cognizance of frauds on revenue.

996

To establish regulations for collectors of customs, Uni-
ted States attorneys, and marshals...

997

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

997

To direct prosecutions under national banking laws... 998
To report moneys collected.....
Reports to, by.

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..........

1012

SOLICITOR OF TREASURY: (Continued.)

SECTION.

May stipulate for discharge of public property from
attachment or seizure.........

To prosecute defaulting contractors for public-printing
paper........

1013

..... 1014

Fees to special counsel in prize cases, allowance of, by.. 1015
Law library in office of......

1017

Has charge of Secret Service Division.......
Duties as to remissions of fines, &c.....

1018

..... 1019

His consideration of questions arising under customs
laws.........

1020

Official bonds, contracts, and legal instruments for his
examination

1021

Printed regulations of instructions to officers, &c.. 1023–1025
SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION. (See Claims.)

SPECIAL AGENTS:

In departments generally, bond of.......

Of Treasury, appointment, number, and duties..

Under charge of Division of Special Agents....
Assignment of, accounts of, &c...

Of internal revenue, Division of...

SPECIAL AGENTS, DIVISION OF:

Duties of Division of, in office of the Secretary of the
Treasury

Assignment of special agents and accounts of.........

Smuggling, prevention of...

Supervision of customs officers by..

Of transportation of goods by..

30, 48

200

436

436

791

436-440

436

437

438

439

440

Of warehouse and bonded-route bonds by..

Trade with Mexico and Canada, regulation of, by...... 440

STAMPS:

Internal revenue, accounts for, where settled.......
Accounts of stamp agents for...

Questions as to, where considered.....

636

636

784

Division of, in Post Office Department...

Internal revenue, issue, safe-keeping of, &c...........

Postal stamps, envelopes, &c., sale of, how regulated..

Preparation of postal stamps and envelopes....
Of same for official use...

STATE DEPARTMENT:

Organization of................

Seal of, in custody of the Secretary of State..

790

886

886

887

943

55, 81

57

Rolls, library, and archives of, Revolutionary arch-

Indexes and Archives, Bureau of...

Accounts of, settled by Fifth Auditor.....

Disbursing clerk of, accounts, where settled...

STATIONERY:

Contracts for, by executive departments......

Division of, in office of Secretary of the Treasury, du-

ties of...

STATISTICS, BUREAU OF:

Division of, in State Department

Report of, by Secretary of the Treasury.

Purpose and duties of.....

Chief of, duties generally.

To prepare reports of exports and imports......

Also annual statement of registered vessels, &c......

Also of warehoused goods transported, &c
Also statistics of manufactures...

Divisions of, and organization.

Division of, in State Department...

SECTION.

94

90

631

636

52

433-435

92

300

480

481

483

484

485

486

487

92

974

1371

Of suits and crimes to be reported by the Attorney-
General.....

Of education.....

STATUTES, UNITED STATES:

Publication and distribution of, by Secretary of State..
STEAM ENGINEERING:

59

Bureau of, in Navy Department, duties of................. 1086
SUITS:

Transcript of accounts prima-facie evidence in...... 580, 594
Conducted by officers of the Department of Justice.. 956, 957
Against officers of Congress, Attorney-General to de-
fend.....

966

Special counsel in, commissioned by Attorney-General.. 970
Reports of, to Congress..

Prosecution and defense of, by Solicitor of the Treas-
ury

974

991, 992

997, 1023-1025

Instructions to United States attorneys and others
in
Under national bank laws directed by Solicitor of the
Treasury

998

To be reported to Solicitor of the Treasury......... 1000-1002
Against, delinquent officers, directed by Solicitor of
Treasury

SUPPLIES:

Contracts for, by executive departments....

..... 1004

52

Care, purchase, and accountability for.................. 120-122
Ordnance and ordnance stores regulated by Secretary

of War ....

SURGEONS:

Board of examination for army assistant...........

125

126