The national Republican., 1860-11-30
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

quired at an early day TOR the use OF the Patent |
Office, for which it was originally intended.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The Treasury Department consists of the Off
ces of the Secretary Of the Treasury, two Comp |
trollers, Commissioner Of the Customs, six Au- |
ditors, Treasurer, Register Solicitor Lighthouse
Board, and Coast Survey.
The following is brief indication of the duties |
of these several Offices, and of the force employed
therein, respectively:
Secretdry's OFce.-Hon. Howell Cobb, Secre- |
tary of the Treasury; Hon. Philip Clayton, Assist
ant Secretary; one Engineer in Charge; one |
Architect and three Draughtsmen temporarily
employed, and twenty three Clerks. The Secre-
tary of the Treasury is charged with the general
supervision of the fiscal transactions of the Gov
ernment, and Of the execution of the laws con-
cerning the commerce and navigation of the
United States. He superintends the survey of
the coast, the lighthouse establishment, the ma
rine hospitals OF the United States and the con-
struction of certain public buildings for custom
houses and other purposes.
FIRST ComptroAers OGce-Hon. William Me-
dill Comptroller, and fifteen Clerks. He pre-
scribes the mode of keeping and rendering ac-
counts for the civil and diplomatic SERVICE as
well as the public lands and revises and certi6es
the balances arising thereon.
Second Comptroller's O6iee.-J. NJ. Cuts, Esq,
Comptroller, and seventeen Clerks. He prescribes
the mode OF keeping and rendering the accounts
of the Army, Navy, and Indian departments of
the public service, and revises and certifes the
balances arising thereon.
Office of Comn,issioner of Customs.-Samuel
Ingham, ESQ.,, Commissioner, and eleven Clerks.
He prescribes the mode OF keeping and rendering
the accounts of the customs, revenue, and dis
bursements, and for the building and repairing
custom houses, &c. and revises and certifies the
balances arising thereon.
First AUDITORS OGce.-Thomas L. Smith, ESQ.,,
First Auditor, and nineteen Clerks. He receives
and adjusts the accounts of the customs revenue
and disbursements, appropriations and expend-
tures on account of the civil list, and under
private acts of Congress, and reports the balances
to the Commissioner of the Customs and the
First Comptroller, respectively, for their decision
| thereon.
| Second auditors Ofce.-Thomas J. D. Fuller,
| Second Auditor, and twenty-one Clerks. He re-
| ceives and adj justs all accounts relating to the
pay, clothing, and recruiting of the army, as well
| as armories, arsenals, and ordnance, and all ac-
counts relating to the Indian department, and
reports the balances TO the Second Comptroller,
| for his decision thereon.
Third auditors OGce-Robert j. Atkinson,
ESQ.,, Third Auditor, and seventy eight Clerks.
He receives and adjusts all accounts for subsist-
| ence of the army, Notifications, Military Acad-
| emy military roads, and the Quartermasters de-
partment, as well as for pensions, claims arising
from mill ary services previous to 1915, and for
no ses and other property lost in the military
service, under various acts OF Congress- and re-
ports the balances to the Second Comptroller, for
his decision thereon.
Fourth auditors OGce.-A. J. O'Bannon, Esq,
| Fourth Auditor and sixteen Clerks. He receives
| for Of tha
Navy Department, and reports the balances to
the Second Comptroller, for his decision thereon
FIN auditors Otce.-Bartholome Fuller,
ESQ.,, Fifth Auditor and six Clerks. He re-
ceives and adjusts all accounts for diplomatic
and similar services performed under the drec-
ton of the State Department, and reports the
balances to the First Comptroller, for his decision
thereon.
Sixth auditors OGce.-Dr. Thomas NJ. Tate,
Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office De-
partment and one hundred and fourteen Clerks.
He receives and adjusts all accounts arising from
the service OF the Post Office Department. His
decisions are final, unless an appeal be taken in
Twelve months to the First Comptroller. He
superintends the collection of all debts due the
Post Office Department, and all penalties and
forfeitures imposed on postmasters and mail con-
tractors for falling to do their duty; he directs
suits and legal proceedings, civil and criminal
and taxes all sucn measures as may De autnOr-
lied by law to enforce the prompt payment Of
moneys due to the Department; instructing Uni
ted States attorneys marshals, and clerks, on all
matters relating thereto; and receives returns
fromeach term of the United States courts, of the
condition and progress of such suits and legal
proceedings; has charge of all lands and other
properly assigned to the United States in pay
ment Of debts dye the Post Office Department
and has power ID sell and dispose of the same
for the benefit of the United States.
TTedsurer's 0Gce-Samuel Casey, Esq, Treas
urer, and thirteen Clerks. He receives and keeps
the moneys Of the United States in his OWE
office and that Of the repositories created by the
act OF the 9th of August, l846, and pays out the
same upon warrants drawn by the Secretary O
the Treasury, countersigned by the First Comp
: troller and upon warrants drawn by the Post
master General, and countersigned by the Sixth
Auditor, and recorded by the Register. He alst
holds public moneys advanced by warrant t
disbursing officers, and pays out the same upoI
|, their checks.
: Registers OGce-Finley Bigger, Esq., Register
and twenty mine Clerks He keeps the accounts
of public receipts and expenditures; receives
the returns and makes out the official statemen
= of commerce and navigation OF the United States
and receives from the First Comptroller anC
Commissioner of Customs all accounts an(