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placed in one cabinet officer the situa-
ton is different.
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placed in one cabinet officer the situa-
ton is different.
Can Shift Duties.
For this reason the President in his
executive order says:
With the approval Of the President,
the Secretary of the Interior shall have
the power, by order or regulation, to
consolidate, eliminate, or redistribute
the bureaus, agencies, Offices or activ-
tiles and/or their functions. in the De-
partment of the Interior in so far as
such action may be required to carry
out the purposes of the consolidation
herein ordered, and by rules and regu-
lations not inconsistent with law to fix
the functions thereof and the duties,
powers and titles of their respective
executive heads"
And to get full benefit of the special
training of Army engineers, but to fore
stall conflict of authority between mill
tary and civilian officials, he directs
that commissioned officers of the Corps
of Engineers, United States Army, shall
continue to be detailed by the Secre-
tary of War upon request of the Secre-
tary of the Interior for work on rivers
and harbors projects; but while so de-
tailed they shall be under the direction
of the Secretary of the Interior, and
their pay and allowances shall be
charged against the appropriations for
the projects to which they are assigned.
As directed in the executive order,
here is where the greater Budget Bu-
reau comes in.
The President transfers to the Budget
Bureau:
81. The powers and duties now exer-
6ir EvTf
which relate. to the designing, prescrib-
ing and installation of accounting
forms. systems and procedure in the
several executive departments and in
dependent establishments, except that
the controller general shall retain the
power and duty to prescribe the form
and manner in which accounts shall be
submitted to his office for audit.
Y. The powers and duties now exer-
ciSed by the General Accounting Office
which relate to the administrative ex-
animation of fiscal officers accounts
and claims against the United States
and the adequacy and effectiveness of
the administrative examination of ac-
counts and claims in the respective de-
partments and establishments and the
adequacy and effectiveness of depart
mental inspection of the Offices and ac-
counts of fiscal officers.
"3. The Bureau of Efficiency"
Limits Its Powers.
The General Accounting Office was
created with the distinctive duty of
auditing Government accounts, as an
agency cut apart from all Government
departments or units thereof, but. the
Presidents finds that by Interpretation"
this office has extended its powers and
duties into the field of administration
affecting various departments and es-
adjustments. So, under the authority
given him by Congress. the President
divorces the controller general from
any ''interpreted' administrative duties.
He turns over to the Budget Bureau the
duty "of developing the forms, systems
and procedure of accounting and the
administrative examination of ac-
counts" He turns over also the Bureau
of Efficiency as an investigation agency
for the Budget Bureau.
In explaining his action in clearing
away the grounds for Interpretation"
of administrative powers from the Gen