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Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s, theCommissioner of Internal Revenue, the Treasurer of the UnitedStates, the Register of the Treasury, the Comptroller of the Cur-rency, the Director of the Mint, and the First, Second, Third, Fourth,Fifth, and Sixth Auditors. Then there are the offices of the Super-vising Architect, who has charge of the erection of public buildingsthroughout the country ; the Light-house Board, the Bureau of Sta-tistics, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Life-Saving Ser-vice, the Secret Service, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Rev-enue Cutter and Marine Hospital Service, the Construction of Stand-ard Weights and Measures, and the Steamboat Inspection Service.All the sub-departments are under the general supervision of theSecretary of the Treasury, and it must be admitted that this distin-guished official has a great deal to engage his time and attention ifhe faithfully performs his duty. If a secretary carefully verifieseverything in the sub-departments ; if he is determined to know all
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THE BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. i8o PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. about the official acts of his subordinates — and many secretarii-shave been scrupulously particular in this respect — he must give alihis time to the work, and even then he can hardly master the fulldetails of the colossal transactions of the Treasury Department. There are sub-treasuries in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Bal-timore, Cincinnati, New Orleans, St. Louis, and San Francisco ; andmints in Philadelphia, San Francisco, New Orleans, Carson, Ne-vada ; and Denver, Colorado. Assay offices are also located in NewYork, Helena, Montana ; Boise City, Idaho ; Charlotte, North Car-olina ; and St. Louis. All these financial institutions are under thesupervision of the Secretary of the Treasury. They are of greatimportance, and transact a very large business. They are sustainedat a yearly cost of $1,556,000. The First Comptroller is familiarly called the autocrat of theTreasury, as he has been given remarkable power

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