?s^ BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME FROM THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF 1891 1^ (..2rrM3..'^^-^- ^^-^/l:' 6896-1 DATE DUE _^ ^-^^ »1^ firttm l^ GAYLORO PRINTED IN U.S.A. Z1223.Z7'^l93" """'^'■^''>' library "'l&iiimiiiiiiSii^^^ oljn 3 t — UNITEDISTATES PUBLIC DOCUMENTS A HANDBOOK OF UNITED STATES PUBLIC ~ DOCUMENTS BY Elfrida Everhart MINNEAPOLIS THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY 1910 ~ IUZ-. 1-. in v: j' I'la^ A-z-vB^^be COPYRIGHT THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY 1910 TO MY FATHER Cornell University Library The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029557604 PREFACE In the following pages there is a twofold attempt to define the province of the various publications issued by the federal government. The effort has been made, first, to outline for the average inquirer the field covered by the publishing divi- sions ; and, second, to direct the student to matter necessary in his researches. Realizing the difficulties encountered in dealing with so extensive a subject the primary objects sought have been simplicity of arrangement and untechnicality of treatment. There is so extensive a store of material in the Government's documents that an elaborate and detailed trea- tise would constitute an enormous volume ; and while this, no doubt, would be valuable, it would be useless as a ready tool for immediate and practical service. Personal contact and experience with the demands of the public have been the basis in the preparation of the Handbook and rigid adherence to official authority, the test for accuracy. It is strange that the student regards Public Documents in pretty much the same light as he does other works of reference, while the average librarian shrinks from them as if they were tomes in unknown tongues. When the subject matter alone is considered, the United States Public Documents will claim first place as a constantly-increasing cyclopaedia of subjects useful to the community. Furthermore this is in reality their field. For their kindly encouragement, generous advice, invalua- ble assistance, and excellent suggestions my keenest obligation and heartiest appreciation are extended to Miss Adelaide R. Hasse, Mrs. Myrta Lockett Avary, Miss Ethel Everhart, Mr. Lawrence J. Burpee, Dr. Thomas M. Owen, and many others who have helped with pertinent criticism. My thanks are due also to those branches of the Government that have responded promptly and graciously to my requests. ■ Elfrida Everhart. November 1909. CONTENTS Introduction Part One. Congressional Documents. Chapter i. Early Congressional Documents Chapter 2. Serial Documents Chapter 3. Congressional Record and Its Predecessors. Chapter 4. Other Congressional Documents II 17 27 31 Chapter i Chapter 2 Chapter 3, Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6, Chapter 7 Chapter 8, Chapter 9 Part Two. Department Publications. Agriculture Department 41 Commerce and Labor Department 79 Interior Department loi Justice Department 129 Navy Department 135 Post Office Department 155 State Department 163 Treasury Department 173 War Department 197 Part Three. Publications of Independent Publishing Offices of the Government. Civil Service Commission ; District of Co- lumbia ; Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company ; Geographic Board ; Government Printing Office 233 Interstate Commerce Commission ; Judiciary 247 Library of Congress 257 National Academy of Sciences; President; Smithsonian Institution ; Spanish Treaty Claims Commission 265 Analytical Index 275 Chapter i. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. INTRODUCTION Definition.— According to a law passed on June 23, 1874, during the 43d Congress ist Session, the term "PubHc Docu- ments" is defined to include "all publications printed by order 1/ of Congress or either House thereof." Other authorities call these publications United States Documents, Government Documents, or perhaps, most correctly, Federal Documents. However, Government Documents is the term generally em- ployed. I, 2.* Character. — The Public Documents embody the proceed- ings of Congress, the results of its sessions in the form of laws, reports, special investigations, and miscellany; the is- sues of each of the nine Executive Departments, with the reports of subordinate divisions; and the reports of affiliated subordinate commissions, institutions, offices, bureaus, and associations. The wealth of material contained in these docu- ments can only be realized when the provinces of the nu- merous publishing divisions are understood. Every docu- ment is carefully prepared and on such subjects as science, technology, economics, useful arts, statistics, and similar fields, is reliable and authoritative. As to history, anthropol- ogy, ethnology, labor problems, public and international law, diplomatic relations, and commerce, all these are admirably handled. Each of these broad subjects includes hundreds of minor topics which are often elaboratel)^ treated. For example un- der history, there are not only the official records of naval and military engagements, both domestic and foreign, but also many special treatises on genealogy, early Americana, and individual state records. Under agriculture we have treatises on the habits, care, uses, and diseases of American ♦Numerals at the end of paragraphs refer to lists of authorities at the end of the Introduction and of each cliapter throughout the work. /^ 2 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS animals and plants; soil surve3^s; meteorological, food, irriga- tion, -and forest reports ; road improvement. Science is rep- resented by chemistry, geology, biology, botany, entomology, zoology, astronom}^, and other branches. And so taking up economics, sociology, political science, and other subjects each subdivision might be enumerated. Broadly speaking it is the purpose of the government to publish matter on all sub- jects that may pertain to the welfare of the people at large. Thus it can readily be seen that, properly handled, these Public Documents can be made the most vtseful and compre- hensive of reference works as, in character, they cover a broader and more extensive field than any other collection. Manipulation. — The prejudice of years is much to blame for the distaste the sight of a public document arouses in the mind of the average reader. This dissatisfaction is gradually dying out and the true worth of the Government's publica- tions is beginning to be appreciated. If approached systemat- ically with the idea of ignoring occasional discrepancies the Public Documents will be found simple as a whole and even when seemingly difficult, they can be mastered with slight eiTort. As a matter of fact the cause of much of the dislike has been the general rule of inconsistency that prevails in earlier issues. If closely examined it will be found that this occurs only in minor detail. When, therefore, the subject matter is mastered, the secondary features and their irregu- larities can be ignored, and the problem is solved. In order to handle Public Documents intelligently a com- prehension of the duties and characters of each of the Execu- tive Departments, and other publishing offices mvist be clearly in mind. If once this general impression be received, the lesser idiosyncrasies resolve themselves into easily explained discrepancies, and the rest of the way is clear. Such a prepara- tion demands only a little patience which by its results is amph' rewarded. Printing Law of 1895 and Subsequent Legislation. — For fifteen or twenty years prior to 1895 there had been great agi- tation in the library world regarding the systematic distribu- INTRODUCTION 3 tion and representative allotment of the publications of the United States Government. All these years of struggle and defeat were at last rewarded by the passage of the Printing Law on January 12, 1895. This law is a revision of all pre- ceding legislation relating to Public Documents and provides for their printing, distribution, and cataloguing, as well as re- organizes the Government Printing Office. While the 1895 ^^'^ was for a time well received, it has been found necessary to amend it, particularly in regard to remedying a certain tardiness in distribution and a duplica- tion of documents. The most recent law in this direction was the resolution passed on January 15, 1908, during the 60th Congress ist Session which somewhat amends a law passed March i, 1907. This last resolution is particularly noteworthy on account of its providing for an immediate distribution of documents and a regulation against unnecessary duplication. 3. 4, 5- Number of Documents Printed. — Each Congress grants annually to the Government Printing Office an appropriation to cover the cost of printing all Public Documents of that year. Every department of the Government has a specified apportionment of this fund. The number of documents printed varies according to their subject matter. Some reports being intended for limited purposes are issued in small editions; others have reached a million copies, while the generally pop- ular documents range from one hundred thousand to five hun- dred thousand copies. This applies to departmental issues. Of Congressional Documents (those ordered printed by Congress), unless otherwise specified, only the Usual Number is printed. While the Printing Law of 1895 fixed the Usual Number at 1682 it has since been increased to 2474. Of these 2474 copies, 1 197 are bound and called Reserve and the re- mainder, 1277, left unbound, is known as the Up Number. 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, II. Distribution. — The Government Printing Office is con- cerned with the publication, distribution, and cataloguing of the United States Public Documents. The head of the Office 4 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUINIEXTS is the Public Printer, who has charge of the entire establish- ment, and who, by law, is required to be a "practical printer versed in the art of bookbinding." The Superintendent of Documents, who is subordinate to the Public Printer, has charge of the distribution to institutions, sale, domestic ex- change, and cataloguing of the Government's publications. Consequently all communications from the public at large should be directed to him. When the Usual Number of a Congressional document is printed it is distributed as follows: Of the Reserve, 1197 copies, 452 are held to be bound by orders of Delegates, Rep- resentatives, or Senators, while 615 are bound and delivered to the Superintendent of Documents, who distributes them to designated depositories. The remainder is sent to the Sen- ate and House Libraries and to the Library of Congress. If Members of Congress so desire, the Reserve held to their account may be specially bound in half morocco or a binding not more expensive ; while if not called for within two years, all such documents revert to the Superintendent of Documents, who is authorized to have these bound in cloth and distributed to libraries. Of the Up Number, 1277 copies, 616 are delivered to the Superintendent of Documents, and the remainder to the Senate and House Document Rooms, the Secretary of Senate, the Clerk of House of Representatives, the Legations, the Executive Mansion, the State Department, the Library of Congress, and the Governor-General of the Philippines. For departmental editions which exceed the Usual Num- ber the methods of distributing are at present unsatisfacto- rily complex. According to law as it now stands the Super- intendent of Documents receives copies for Depository Libraries; while each Congressman, and publishing divi- sion is also allowed to distribute documents in their several allotments. Realizing the unnecesary confusion and waste- ful duplication hereby entailed, these officials and divisions have, as a whole, turned over their library mailing lists to the Superintendent of Documents and in this way great economy INTRODUCTIOX 5 is gained. According to official statistics the latter received in 1907, 2,795,805 documents and distributed 1,032,498. The distribution of documents to foreign exchanges is carried on by the International Exchange Service of the Smithsonian Institution. 3, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Sale. — The above section applies to the free distribution of the Public Documents. Although most of the Government's publications are free for public institutions, a few are sold to these at cost, while all private individuals are now required to pay for documents formerly furnished without charge. The Superintendent of Documents is "authorized to sell at cost any public document in his charge, the distribution of which is not otherwise provided for. Only one copy can be sold to the same person, excepting Members of Congress, or to libraries or schools." While the sale of most of the United States Public Documents is in the hands of the Superintend- ent of Documents, the Hydrographic Office still sells its own publications. However, all such variations are noted in the current Monthly Catalogue where explicit directions are given in regard to the purchase of all documents there listed. 12, 17. Libraries. — The libraries to which United States Public Documents are sent are divided into the three following classes, to each of which, through the Superintendent of Doc- uments, the Government sends all or a selected number of its publications without charge and franked through the mails. Designated Depository Libraries had their origin before 1813 when certain Public Documents were authorized to be distributed by special legislation to selected institutions ; but it was not imtil that year that a permanent provision was made for this purpose. Subsequent resolutions were passed until 1857 ^^^ 1^5^ when the present system of Depository Lib:*aries had its origin. Then the Printing Law of 1895 re- vised all preceding legislation, and the present system was established. Of the four classes of libraries the Designated Depositories are most important because they receive all Public Documents allowed to be distributed. For an official 6 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS list of such documents, see Bulletin 7 of the Documents Of- fice. On an average each Designated Depository Library receives nearly one thousand books a year vi^hich occupy not more than fifty feet shelf space. The Depository Libraries are chosen as follows : (a) All State and Territorial libraries, (b) One library from each Congressional District to be named by the Member from that District, (c) One library from the State or Terri- tory at large to be named by the Senator or Delegate from that State or Territory, (d) The following federal deposi- tories : The libraries of the Executive Departments, excepting the Commerce and Labor Department. The libraries of the Naval and Military Academies. The libraries of the Land Grant Colleges. The library of the Philippine Government. The only requirement involved is that each of these libra- ries, unless belonging to colleges, should have a thousand books outside of those issued by the Government, and that the Public Documents when received should be made avail- able for free use by the people though not to be removed from the building nor disposed of in any way without proper au- thority. At present the total number of these depositories is six hundred and sixteen. Geological Depository Libraries have been authorized since 1887 with later legislation until 1896, since when they conform to the present regulations. Each Representative, Senator, and Delegate is authorized to name four of these libraries for his district or state, to which are forwarded the publications of the Geological Survey only, numbering from fifty to seventy-five documents each year. There are nearly two thousand Geological Depository Libraries. Official Gazette Depositories receive the weekly Official Gazette. Each Senator, Representative, or Delegate can fur- nish the names of eight public libraries having over one thou- sand volumes, for this privilege. INTRODUCTION 7 Miscellaneous Libraries is the designation superseding that of the earlier Remainder libraries since 1905. These embrace a number of small public and school libraries to which all surplus documents answering their needs are sent on appli- cation. 3, 6, 12, 18, 19. Forms in Which Issued. — The United States Public Doc- uments vary in size from a small thirty-two mo. volume to a large folio. They are bound in sheep, cloth, buckram, duck, leather, imitation Russia, half morocco, as well as com- ing out in pamphlet form. Up to the 60th Congress the Con- gressional Series is bound in sheep, and while the body of departmental editions is in cloth or paper covers, it is also bound in the other forms which furthermore embrace the special bindings for Members of Congress. Since the 6oth Congress a standard cloth edition has been adopted for both Congressional and departmental publications. While in the past there has been considerable duplication - — a document coming out frequently in two and often in three or more forms — the present tendency is to reduce such waste of material with the result that the latest enactment, Public Resolution Number 3 of January 15, 1908, has reduced this duplication to a minimum. 5, 6, 7. AUTHORITIES. 1. Monthly Catalogue — February 1908. 2. Statutes at Large — A^olume 18. 3. Statutes at Large — Volume 28. 4. Library Journal. 5. Monthly Catalogue — January 1908. 6. Statutes at Large — Volume 34. 7. Government Printing Office — Report, 1906. 8. Publications Division — Bulletin 3. 9. Congressional Printing Investigation Commission — Re- port — Volume 2. 8 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 10. Superintendent of Documents — Report, 1905. 11. Congressional Printing- Investigation Commission — -Re- port — Volume I. 12. Superintendent of Documents — Report, 1907. 13. Statutes at Large — Volume 33. 14. 60th Congress ist Session — House Documents 561, 601, et al. 15. Documents Office — Leaflet 10. 16. Smithsonian Institution — Report, 1906. 17. Monthly Catalogue — May 1908. 18. Documents Office — Circular 22. 19. Superintendent of Documents — Reports, 1904, 1905, 1907. PART ONE CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS. Under this division are classed the publications issued from Congress as a whole or either House thereof, giving not only accounts and results of its proceedings but also other documents of specific nature authorized to be printed. The main publications are the American State Papers, and other early documents, the Serial Documents, the Congressional Record and its predecessors, and some miscellaneous issues. For each of these is given historical and explanatory data, as well as forms in which issued. Only those documents of o-eneral interest are outlined. CHAPTER I. EARLY CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS. American Archives. — This is also known as the Docu- mentary History of the American RevoUition, or the Docu- mentary History of the EngHsh Colonies in North America. In accordance with an act of Congress passed on March 2, 1833, Peter Force and his associate, Matthew St. Clair Clarke, were authorized under contract with the State Department to prepare and publish a work entitled the "Documentary History of the American Revolution." Their plan was to issue in six series a work that was to embrace the discovery, settlement, and history of our country from 1492 to 1789, by the reproduction not only of published state documents, but also of private papers, narratives, journals, and news- papers. The series was to be divided thus : 1. The origin of the several colonies; their charters, bills of rights, etc., and the public papers previous to and their condition in 1763. 2. From 1763 to the Congress of 1765 at New York. 3. From 1765 to the Congress of 1774 at Philadelphia. 4. From 1774 to the Declaration of Independence. 5. From 1776 to the peace of 1783. 6. From 1783 to the organization of the present federal government in 1789. Unfortunately Congress made appropriation for the fourth and part of the fifth series only which cover the early Revolu- tionary period from 1774 to 1776. Nine volumes were issued from 1837 to 1853, six volumes in Series Four, and three vol- umes in Series Five, each volume being chronologically ar- ranged and separately indexed. The collection of manuscripts, pamphlets, documents, and 12 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS papers known as the Force collection was purchased with his library in 1867 by Congress for a hundred thousand dollars and added to the Library of Congress. On account of their incomplete and confused condition little hope is held for their reproduction, i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Journals of the Continental Congress. — Of these there have been several editions. The first was in thirteen volumes, separate!}' indexed, and covered the period from Sept. 5, 1774, to Nov. 3, 1788; Volumes One and Two were printed by R. Aitken, Volumes Three and Seven by J. Patterson, A^olumes Four, Five, and Eight by D. C. Claypoole, and the rest by J. Dunlap. By order oE Congress in 1799 a reprint was published in thirteen volumes by Richard Folwell of Philadelphia of which Volume One was issued in 1801. Later in 1823 a second reprint in four volumes, each sepa- rately indexed, was printed by Gideon and Way, or Way and Gideon. This edition is known as the Public Journals of the Continental Congress or the Journals of the American Con- gress and covered the period from Sept. 5, 1774, to March 3, 1789, according to Poore, and the second edition of the Check- list; while the Catalogue of the Senate Library for 1908 gives the latter date as Nov. i, 1788. Beginning in 1904 there has been issued under the editor- ship of Worthington Chauncey Ford from the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress the Journals of the Conti- nental Congress from 1774 to 1789. These contain reproduc- tions of original manuscripts, journals and other records from the Library of Congress collection which have never been printed in full. Each volume is well indexed. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10. Secret Journals of the Continental Congress. — These are also known as the Journals (Secret) of the Congress of the Confederation, being in four volumes separately indexed and published for Congress in 1823 by Way and Gideon. Accord- ing to Poore and Ames the period covered is from 1774 to 1788, while the Senate Library Catalogue gives the first date as May 10, 1775. 4, s, 6. EARLY CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS 13 American State Papers. — Owing to irregularities in print- ing", mechanical errors, various disasters, and finally absence of systematic collection, the documents of the first fourteen Congresses are far from complete. However, for ordinary purposes the compilation known as the American State Pa- pers is the most reliable and satisfactory, although these em- brace only selected documents. Their selection was first entrusted by Congress to Walter Lowrie, Secretary of the Senate, and Matthew St. Clair Clarke, Clerk of the House. In 1837 the editorship was placed in the hands of Asbury Dickins and AValter S. Franklin, who then occupied the official positions hitherto held by Lowrie and Clarke. The chief compiler was General William Hickey, who assisted in the preparation of the Papers from the first appropriation in 1831 to the issue of the final volume in 1861. The series was published in thirty-eight volumes from 1832 to 1861 by Gales and Seaton and covers the period from 1789 to 1836, and in one instance extends to 1838. The Papers include a selected number of nearly two thousand five hundred of the most important Public Documents, legis- lative, executive, and judicial. Rare documents such as Ful- ton's pamphlet on the torpedo, the Seminole War, the Pirates AVar, are examples of their contents outside of the general reports. They are chronologically arranged and are divided into the following classes, each volume being separately paged and indexed. Class I. Foreign Relations, 1789-1828, in six volumes. Class 2. Indian Affairs, 1789-1827, in two volumes. Class 3. Finance, 1789-1828, in five volumes. Class 4. Commerce and Navigation, 1789-1823, in two volumes. Class 5. Military Affairs, 1789-1838, in seven volumes. Class 6. Naval Affairs, 1794-1836, in four volumes. Class 7. Post Office Department, 1790-1833, in one vol- ume. Class 8. Public Lands, 1789-1837, in eight volumes. Class 9. Claims, 1789-1823, in one volume. 14 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUxMEXTS Class 10. Miscellaneous, 1789-1823, in two volumes. Of Class 8 (Public Lands) another edition in five volumes covering the period from 1789 to 1834 was published by Duff Green, Congressional Printer. 2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13. State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States. — These were published by T. B. Wait & Sons, Bos- ton, and are known as Wait's State Papers. They covered the period from 1789 to 1809. Three editions were published : the first in six volumes in 1815; the second in ten volumes in 1817 containing important confidential papers never before published; and the third in twelve volumes in 1819. This col- lection was published under the patronage of Congress and while not so important nor complete as the American State Papers, which it resembles in arrangement, it is nevertheless ^■aluable for the proceedings and certain confidential docu- ments of the early Congresses. 4, 5, 13, 14, 15. Journals of the Senate, Legislative. — These were ordered reprinted and were published in five volumes in 1820 by Gales and Seaton. They included the first thirteen Congresses (1789- 1815) and contained those parts of its Journal of which the Senate had no printed copy. 4, 5) I3) 16, 17. Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States. — This was printed in three volumes by Duff Green in 1828 and 1829 by order of the Senate and cov- ered the first twenty Congresses (1789-1829). In 1887 the work was extended to sixteen \-olumes (Vol- umes Fourteen and Fifteen each consisting of two parts) and covered the 21st to the 40th Congress (1829-1869). Finally in 1901 Volumes Seventeen to Twenty-Seven were issued including the 21st to the Sist Congress (1869-1891). Besides being a record of the executive proceedings from the 1st to the Sist Congress (1789-1891) these Journals con- tain also records of the sessions from which the injunction of secrecy has since been removed. Each volume is separately indexed. 5, 6, 13, 16, 18. Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States. — This was reprinted by order of the Flouse in 1826 b}^ EARLY COXGRESSIOXAL DOCUMENTS 15 Gales and Seaton. It is in nine volumes separately indexed and covers the first thirteen Congresses ( 1789-1815). 5, 13. Other Early Documents. — For further information on mis- cellaneous publications issued during the early Congresses reference is made to General Greely's Papers Relating to the Early Congressional Documents (1900), to the Catalogue of the Senate Library (1908), and to Poore's Descriptive Catalogue (1885). AUTHORITIES. 1. American Archives. 2. Larned — Literature of American I-fistory. 3. Ames — List of Congressional Documents. 4. Poore — Descriptive Catalogue. 5. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition). 6. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 7. Monthly Catalogue — March 1908. 8. 46th Congress ist Session — Senate ]\Iiscellaneous Docu- ment 34 (Serial Number 1873). 9. Cumulative Book Index — June 1908. 10. Journals of the Continental Congress. 11. Documents Office — Tables. 12. American State Papers. 13. Greely — Public Documents of the First Fourteen Con- gresses. 14. State Papers and Publick Documents. 15. 14th Congress ist Session — Senate Report, April 3, 1816. 16. Townsend— Handbook of U. S. Political History. 17. i6th Congress ist Session— Senate Journal (Serial Num- ber 25). 18. Document Catalogue— Volume 6. CHAPTER II. SERIAL DOCUMENTS. Serial Documents are those publications issued by Con- gress as a body, and are also known as Congressional Docu- ments, Congressional Series, Serial Numbers, or Sheep-Bound Reserve. For the first fourteen Congresses the American State Papers must represent the Serial Documents. How- ever, as the files of the documents beginning with the 15th Congress (1817) are about complete, it is with these that the Serial Numbers begin. The Serial Number is the excellent scheme originated by Dr. Ames whereby each volume of the Congressional set is separately numbered and runs in contin- uous numerical order from the first session of the 15th Con- gress to the present time. For convenience the American State Papers, though not strictly Serial Documents, are assigned Serial Numbers 01-038; then beginning with the 15th Con- gress 1st session is Serial Number i. At the present date the Serial Number has reached over 5200. Each Congress lasts two years and consists of two regular sessions. The First, known as the "long session," begins on the first Monday in December, unless assembled earlier by the President, and lasts until its adjournment which is generally in August, although there is no fixed date for its termination which must be before the Second Session opens. The Second Session begins on the first Monday of the following Decem- ber and adjourns on March 4th of the next year. There is frequently an extra session convened by the President which is called a Third Session when both Flouses are assembled, or when only the Senate is summoned it is known as a Spe- cial Session of the Senate. The House has never been called alone. i8 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS At present the Serial Documents are divided into Senate and House Journals, Senate and House Reports and Senate and House Documents. From the 15th to the 59th Congress (1817-1907) they included not only records of the official pro- ceedings and administrative reports of the two Houses, but also the Annual Reports of the Executive Departments and other branches of the Government service ; certain special re- ports, bulletins, monographs, and treatises originating there- from; as well as similar works from other federal sources. As a consequence the Serial Documents for these years con- tain an enormous amount of practically encyclopaedic mate- rial. Particular attention is called to the contributions to po- litical science and economy, foreign relations and commerce, ethnology, geology, education, histor}-, military and naval rec- ords, technology, agriculture, international and constitutional law, criminology, labor problems, science theoretic and ap- plied, biography, and statistics. To avoid the duplication of these documents most of which were issued in separate depart- mental editions, often both in paper and cloth, there was a law passed during the 59th Congress 2d session and further amended during the 60th Congress ist session whereby "all annual or serial publications originating in or prepared by an Executive Department, bureau, office, commission, or board," shall be withdrawn from the Serial Documents. i\c- cordingl}^ beginning with the 60th Congress ist Session (1907) the Serial Documents will only contain matter originating in either the Senate or House and will be far less numerous than in the past and also less valuable. From the 15th to the 59th Congress (1817-1907) they have been bound in sheep. From the 60th Congress (1907) the binding will be changed to a standard cloth, i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Senate Journals. — These have been issued for each session of Congress and for special sessions of the Senate since the 1st Congress in 1789. While the Journals of the regular ses- sions are issued separately, those for special sessions of the Senate are included in the issues for the First, Second, or Third Sessions. As original issues for the earlier Congresses SERIAL DOCU.MEXTS 19 are exceedingly rare the special compilations noted on page 14 must be used. Senate Journals record the proceedings of the Senate and contain the Presidents' messages, with the minutes of the sessions represented, and injunctions of secrecy removed from Senate Documents and proceedings. The Appendixes include numerical tables of Senate and House Bills, and of Senate and House Joint Resolutions referring to pages in the Jour- nal where thej^ are mentioned. All Journals are issued in one quarto volume and exhaustively indexed. Although a numbered Serial Document, the Usual Number is reduced in the case of Senate Journals so that only 720 copies are printed. These are distributed to federal depositories and to not more than three libraries in each State and Territory to be desig- nated by the Superintendent of Documents, there being 144 copies for this purpose, i, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. House Journals. — These have been issued for each session of Congress since the first in 1789. Like the Senate Journals the original House Journals for the earlier Congresses are exceedingly rare, so that for these the compilation noted on page 14 must be consulted. The Plouse Journals contain the Presidents' messages, proceedings and mintites of the House, while the Appendixes include the Rules of the House, Ques- tions of Order, and a numerical tabulation of House Bills, Joint Resolutions, and Resolutions; Senate Bills, Joint Reso- lutions, and Concurrent Resolutions ; as Avell as an elaborate index. With the exception of the issues for the 34th Con- gress 1st Session: the 36th Congress ist Session; the 49th Congress ist Session; and the 50th Congress ist Session, all other House Journals have been in one quarto volume. Of the above exceptions there were two-volume editions for the first three, the issue for the 36th Congress ist Session being also in one volume ; while the Journal for the 50th Congress 1st Session was in three volumes. The regulations as to the printing and distribution of House Journals are the same as those governing the Senate Journals, i, 8, 11, 12, 13. 20 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Senate Reports. — These have been issued since the 1st Congress ist Session in 1789. Commencing with the 30th Congress ist Session (1847-1848) was issued the first sepa- rate volume of Senate Reports, the preceding issues being bound with House Documents, House Executive Documents, House State Papers, or Senate State Papers as occasion saw fit. The Senate Reports are briefer than Senate Documents and consist, as indicated by their title, of reports from Senate Committees on such bills as come within their province. Since the 58th Congress 3d Session (1904-1905), in accor- dance with an act passed on January 20, 1905, Senate Reports on Private Bills and Simple and Concurrent Resolutions, being of no interest to the general public, are issued in limited numbers in lettered volumes. They are on file only in the Senate and House Libraries and in the Superintendent of Documents Library. However, all reports on Public Bills are issued as formerly in numbered volumes. Being as a rule very brief, hundreds of reports are bound in one volume, though in the case of a lengthy report such as that on Indian Territory Affairs during the 59th Congress 2d Session there are two volumes for one report. Other instances might be cited where a report covers one or more volumes. Since the 6oth Congress ist Session (1907-1908) Senate Reports are first distributed in signatures but will later be bound in serially numbered documents, i, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. House Reports. — These have been issued since the 1st Con- gress 1st Session in 1789. The earlier House Reports were in- cluded in House Documents, or House State Papers until the i6th Congress ist Session (1819-1820) when they were sepa- rately bound. They contain the reports of House Committees on bills submitted and discussed. The division of House Reports into lettered and numbered volumes, and their distribution are the same as for Senate Re- ports. The number of Reports constituting a volume varies as in the case of the Senate Reports and the present method of distribution is also identical, i, 8, 16, 20. SERIAL DOCUMENTS 21 Senate Documents. — For the first fourteen Congresses these were sometimes designated as Senate Documents, again as Senate Executive Documents, or as Senate State Papers. As has been previously stated these documents are very rare • — a complete file does not exist, v^fhile many of those now ex- tant are in manuscript only. Some of the most valuable may be found in the American State Papers, the Annals of Con- gress, and in the Register of Debates. From the 15th to the 29th Congress (1817-1847) the docu- ments were entitled Senate Documents; from the 30th to the 53d Congress (1847-1895), Senate Executive Documents and Senate Miscellaneous Documents, the first being composed of the more general and important reports and the second consisting of certain special reports, but mainly of brief and less noteworthy documents. Since the 54th Congress (1895) the present title of Senate Documents has been in force. They include at present, that is since the 6oth Congress 1st Session (1907), only those publications originating in the Senate, whereas in the past their range was less restricted. Definition of their character may be best given by a selected list of valuable publications which were issued as Senate Doc- uments. Among these are presidential messages, annual re- ports of the departments, commercial and financial reports, accounts of explorations, geological reports, Pacific Railroad surveys, interoceanic ship canals. Civil War reports, Alabama claims, fisheries, elections, charters, constitu- tions, hydraulic engineering, private land claims, emigration of Indians, technical education, art, industry, treaties, con- ventions, military engineering, arbitration, memorial address- es, bibliography, national banks, parliamentary law, Congres- sional directory, tarifif, scientific research, foreign dependen- cies and relations, etc. The contents necessarily vary from year to year with the inclusion of material on current affairs. Since the 60th Congress ist Session, the Senate Documents, that are too small for separate binding, are first distributed in paper form and these issues will later be replaced by bound volumes when 22 lL\NDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCU.MEXTS a sufficient number accumulates under a suitable classification to make a ^'olume. i, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, i5, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30. House Documents. — These have been issued since the ist Congress in 1789 and range in title from House Documents, House Executive Documents, House Executive Papers, House Miscellaneous Papers to House State Papers, until the isth Congress (1817). Like Senate Documents the House Docu- ments of the first fourteen Congresses are incomplete and often exist only in manuscript. They also may be found in the American State Papers, the Annals of Congress, or in the Reg- ister of Debates when of particular public interest. They un- derwent the changes of title as indicated for the Senate Docu- ments for the dates given, being first House Documents, then House Executive and House Miscellaneous Documents, and finally House Documents. Since the 6oth Congress ist Ses- sion, they contain only those documents originating in the House and although their field is less wide than formerly they form as before the body of the Serial Documents. Some of the most valuable publications occurring as House Documents are : annual reports of the Executive Departments and other branches of the Government, selected bulletins on important topics, opinions of the Attorney-General, astronomical inves- tigations, appropriations, boundary disputes, exposition re- ports. Geological Survey publications, Labor Bureau pub- lications, treaties, elections, memorial addresses, AVar of Re- bellion naval and military records, mineral industry, historical contributions, American Historical Association reports, indus- trial and economic contributions, ethnological bulletins, Smith- sonian reports, astronomical and meteorological investigations, agricultural reports, foreign relations, science, technical and applied; in short all of the most important publications deemed worthy of preservation for the information of the general pub- lic were included in this series. At first there was little discrimination between the docu- ments of the Senate and of the House, annual reports from federal departments coming out in one and again in the other SERIAL DOCUMEXTS J3 form. Later there was a line drawn and distinction as to the documents of the two series was detinitely settled. Since the 6oth Congress ist Session (1907) the distribu- tion and binding of the House Document conform to those of the Senate, i, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 18, 29, 31. Order of Serial Numbers. — Necessarily all these documents are arranged according to the Serial Number beginning with the 15th Congress. Since the 54th Congress 2d Session, with occasional instances in the 54tli Congress ist .Session, each Congressional volume has been either labeled, or stamped with the Serial Number. Since the 60th Congress the Serial Num- bers, being omitted, have to be assigned by means of Sched- ules. For documents before the 54th Congress, Serial Num- bers must be assigned by means of the Tables in the Revised Checklist, officially known as the Tables of and Annotated Index to the Congressional Series of United States Public Documents. From the 15th to the 29th Congress, (1817-1847). Serial Numbers were assigned to documents in the following order: Senate Journal (S. J.) Senate Documents (S. D.) Flouse Journal (H. J.) House Documents (H. D.) House Reports (H. R.) From the 30th to the 53d Congress (1847-1895) : Senate Journal Senate Executive Documents (S. E. D.) Senate ^Miscellaneous Documents (S. ^l. D.) Senate Reports (S. R.) Elouse Journal House Executive Documents (H. E. D.) House jNIiscellaneous Documents ( H. ^L D.) House Reports From the 54th to the 57th Congress ist Session (1895-1902) : Senate Journal Senate Documents Senate Reports 24 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCU^IENTS House Journal House Documents House Reports Since the 57th Congress 2d Session (1902) the present system: Senate Journal House Journal Senate Reports House Reports Senate Documents House Documents In the case of Special Senate Sessions the Journals, Docu- ments, and Reports are embraced in the documents of the reg- ular sessions or, if especially important, are separately serially numbered and their order is indicated in the Revised Check- list, Document Catalogues, and Indexes as well as in the Numerical Tables, i, 15, 16, 18, 26, 27, 28, 29. Analysis of Each Volume. — The Senate and House Jour- nals, with the exceptions noted on page 18, are issued each in one volume. The Senate and House Documents vary in number of volumes according to contents. Each volume is separately numbered for every session and is composed of one or more documents, or a part of a document, which doc- uments, individually paged, were also numbered separately for each session until the 60th Congress (1907) ; since when they have been numbered consecutively for each Congress. The Senate and House Reports are issued in numbered volumes for each session but the reports themselves are num- bered consecutively for each Congress. AUTHORITIES. 1. Documents Office — -Tables. 2. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition). 3. 59th Congress 2nd Session — Documents. 4. Townsend — Handbook of U. S. Political History. SERIAL DOCUMENTS 25 5. Constitution of the U. S. — Article 2, Section 3. 6. Statutes at Large — Volume 34. 7. 6oth Congress ist Session — Public Resolution 3. 8. Greely — Public Documents of the First Fourteen Con- gresses. 9. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 10. 59th Congress ist Session — Senate Journal (Serial Num- ber 4902). 11. Statutes at Large — Volume 28. 12. Monthly Catalogue — ^July 1907. 13. 59th Congress 1st Session — House Journal (Serial Num- ber 4903)- 14. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue. 15. Document Catalogues. 16. Documents Office — Numerical Tables. 17. Statutes at Large — Volume 33. 18. Document Index 11. 19. 59th Congress 2nd Session — Senate Reports. 20. 59th Congress 2nd Session — House Reports. 21. American State Papers. 22. Annals of Congress. 23. Register of Debates. 24. Poore — Descriptive Catalogue. 25. 59th Congress 2nd Session — Senate Documents. 26. Serial Numbers 3413, 3414, 3420, etc. 27. Document Catalogue — Volume i. 28. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 29. Document Index 12. 30. Monthly Catalogue — ^January 1908. 31. 59th Congress 2nd Session — House Documents. 32. Monthly Catalogue — December 1908. CHAPTER III. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD AND ITS PREDE- CESSORS. Annals of Congress. — This is sometimes called Gales' De- bates and Proceedings of Congress, while the running title is History of Congress. In forty-two volumes published from 1834 to 1856 by Gales and Seaton, these cover the ist to the i8th Congress 1st Session (1789-1824). Being a private publica- tion, Congress purchased two thousand copies. These volumes contain the Debates and Proceedings of Congress, important state papers and public documents, and public laws. .-\s, with one exception of a discussion of a contested election, the Senate sat behind closed doors until the 3d Congress 2d Ses- sion, the details of its earliest sessions are necessarilv mea- gre ; it was not until 1794 that this secrecy was abandoned, so from this date its proceedings were available for publica- tion. The debates and other public documents of the Con- gresses represented are not given in full ; a selection is made of the most important, and e.xcept in rare instances, these are abridged. The impeachment trials of Blount, Pickering, and Chase, and the trial of Aaron Burr are examples of interest- ing historical data here contained. Each volume is bound in sheep, separately indexed, and arranged chronologicall}-. Sen- ate Documents alwa-\'s preceding those of the House, i, 2, 3. 5, 6, 7, 8. Register of Debates. — Called also Congressional Debates, this is in fourteen volumes some composed of several parts, in all twenty-nine books, and published from 1825 to 1837 by Gales and Seaton. It begins where the Annals of Congress ended (i8th Congress 2d session, 1824) and covers the 25th Congress ist session (1837). Copies were subscribed for by 28 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS Congress from lime to time for its use and distribution. Only the most important debates are recorded ; and, although given in abstract, are reliable. There are also selected state papers, presidential messages, laws, public documents, etc. The form and arrangement are similar to the Annals of Congress of which this is merely a continuation, i, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9. Abridgment of Debates of Congress. — This is a reliable private compilation edited by T. H. Benton, published by Ap- pleton from 1857-1861, and left unfinished in sixteen volumes covering the Debates only of the years from 1789 to 1850. These volumes follow the arrangement and general plan of the Annals of Congress and were compiled from it as well as from the Register of Debates and from the Official Reported Debates by John Rives who founded the Congressional Globe. I, 3, 4, 6, ID, II. Other Early Debates. — Besides these there have been several important private compilations of debates. Among them are two volumes printed in 1796 in Philadelphia for Benjamin Franklin Bache. These cover the Debates of the House during the 4th Congress 2d session, and are appar- ently unabridged. The Debates of the first Senate are fully preserved in the Journal of William Maclay from Pennsylvania, which was edited by G. ^^^ Harris, and published in Harrisburg in 1880. 8. Congressional Globe. — This is in forty-six volumes, each composed of a varying number of parts, edited and published from 1834 to 1873 by various firms; Volumes One to Eighteen by Blair and Rives, Volumes Nineteen to Thirty-Four by John C. Rives, Volumes Thirty-Five to Thirty-Seven by F. and J. Rives, and the rest by F. and J. Rives and George A. Bailey, to whom Congress made appropriation for the purchase of as many volumes as it needed. The Globe embraces the 23rd to the 42nd Congress (1833-1873). Throughout the arrangement is consistent, that is, chronological, with precedence given to the Senate. The following is an historical sketch of its con- tents. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD AND ITS PREDECESSORS 29 Volumes One to Twenty (23d to the 31st Congress, 1833- 1851) on the title pages read: Sketches of the Debates and Proceedings, but with the 32d Congress (1851) the words "Sketches of the" were omitted, and all speeches were either printed in full or only slightly abridged. Except in the case of Volume Forty-Five (42d Congress 2d session, 1872) which has a separate index volume, the indexes to the Globe will be found as a rule at the beginning of each volume. In the Appendixes are given speeches held for revision and also the following documents : up to Volume Thirty-Sev- en (39th Congress, 1867) they contained the Presidents' mes- sages and annual reports of Cabinet Officers; and up to Vol- ume Thirty-One (37th Congress ist Session, 1861) a table of appropriations; beginning with Volume Twenty-Two (32d Congress 2nd session, 1852) the United States laws are given. Each appendix is separately indexed, i, 3, 5, 6, 7, 13. Congressional Record. — Published in numbered volumes since 1874, this begins with the 43rd Congress in 1873 and is a record of the proceedings of Congress taken from the official stenographic reports of the Senate and House. It is the suc- cessor of the Congressional Globe which it resembles in form and general scheme of arrangement, with the exception that its contents are limited to the proceedings of Congress only; all other matter being eliminated. The debates and speeches are given in full, making the Record invaluable for references to the proceedings of either House. Each volume covers one session and consists of several parts paged continuously and separately bound. Appendixes contain speeches held for revision and withheld from the main work. These are either included in the last volume of each session or themselves form the last volume. The index is published in a separate volume except when the Record makes but one volume for a session and it is then included in this volume. It is in two parts : the first is the index proper, being alphabetical by author and subject fol- lowed by an index to the Appendix; the second is known as the History of Bills and Joint Resolutions being a numerical 30 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS tabulation of Senate Bills and Senate Joint Resolutions (S. B. and S. J. R.) and of House Bills and House Joint Resolu- tions (H. B. and H. J. R.). In looking for a subject in I'art One, if there is a Senate or House Bill on this selected sub- ject, the bill number is given so that one has to turn to Part Two and locate the bill in the numerical list where the page is given. In other cases the page is indicated directly in the main index. It is issued daily in paper while Congress is in session and is supplied with frecjuent indexes. When- the session is over the Record is bound, and sent to replace the current paper editions. i, 5, 6, 7, 14. AUTHORITIES. 1. Larned — Literature of American History. 2. Annals of Congress. 3. Poore — Descriptive Catalogue. 4. Benton — Abridgment of Debates. 5. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition). 6. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 7. Ames — List of Congressional Documents. 8. Greely — Pulilic Documents of the First Fourteen Con- gresses. 9. Register of Debates. 10. Pittsburgh Carnegie Library — Catalogue ist Series — \'ol- ume I. 11. National Cyclopaedia of American Biography — Volume 3- 12. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography — Volume 5- 13. Congressional Globe. 14. Congressional Record. CHAPTER IV. OTHER CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS. Besides the Serial Documents published by order of Con- gress and originating in ever}- branch of the Government, and the Congressional Record, the official organ of Congress in regard to its daily proceedings, there are other documents of which Congress is the author, that are of special interest. Congress. Acts, numbered and issued for each session since the 1st Congress (1789), are known as Public and Private Acts; the first covering a broader field, the second pertaining to indi- viduals. Acts are the outgrowth of bills presented to Con- gress upon which it has deliberated and later passed as laws, or statutes. At the end of every Congress all acts are edited hv the State Department, bound, and form part of the volume or volumes known as the Statutes at Large. Each act is first published in slip form but is not distributed except on application to the Rolls and Library Bureau of the State De- partment. I, 2, 3, 4. Appropriations, New Offices, etc., has been issued for each session of Congress since the 19th Congress ist Session. This report shows appropriations required for the departments and officers of the Government, with a chronological history of bills. In the Serial Documents. 5, 6. Memorial Addresses, also called Eulogies, have been is- sued since the death of Washington in 1799. These consist of eulogies on deceased Presidents, ^dembers of Congress, and other public officials delivered by their associates in Congress. Issued separately and, as a rule, duplicated in the Serial Doc- uments. 7, 8, 9, 10, II, 18. 32 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS Official Congressional Directory known as the Congres- sional Directory has been issued since the nth Congress ist Session in 1809, being, at present, compiled for the use of Con- gress by the Joint Committee on Printing. It contains bio- graphical sketches of Congressmen for the sessions represent- ed, duties of the various branches of the Government, foreign, consular, and diplomatic officers, residence of Congressmen and other officials, term of service, location of Government buildings, etc. Briefly described, it is a complete handbook of all matters of general importance likeh' to be of service to Members of Congress. For long sessions it is issued in three editions, and for short sessions in two. These are issued sep- arately in cloth and, from the 47th Congress ist session (1881) to the 59th Congress 2d session (1907) are combined and pub- lished as Serial Documents. 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19. Resolutions are divided into two classes: 1. Joint Resolutions numbered for each session of Con- gress are those adopted by both Houses, and require the approval of the President. When this sanction is obtained they have the same effect as law. Joint resolutions are known as (a) Resolutions and as Public Resolutions, both of these being numbered in the same series, thus : Resolution Number I, Public Resolution Number 2, Resolution Number 3; Pub- lic Resolutions signifying those referred to by the Speaker, (b) Private Resolutions, referring to individuals, are very few, there being generally one for a session. 2. Concurrent Resolutions are unnumbered and are less numerous than Joint Resolutions. They are adopted by both Houses and can be made law without the approval of the President. All Joint and Concurrent Resolutions are, at the end of every Congress, edited by the State Department, and like Acts, included in the Statutes at Large. They may also be obtained in slip form from the Rolls and Library Bureau of the State Department, i, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21. 'General Publications cover a great variety of subjects ranging from administrative and routine accounts to special OTHER CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS 33 compilations on patriotic subjects, as well as including reports of investigations, committees, and other business that comes before Congress as a body. While many are issued separate- ly, most are published in the Serial Documents. 11, 22, 23. House. Also known as the Lower House, the House of Represen- tatives is entirely a legislative body and is composed of Rep- resentatives from each state whose election is based on the population. 2. Bills numbered and issued for each session since the ist Congress in 1789 represent "all legislative propositions which can come before the House." They are known as Public Bills and Private Bills, the first being concerned with more general legislation while the second embrace "all bills for the relief of private parties, bills granting pensions, and bills removing political disabilities." Bills are the preliminary drafts of the laws which are later adopted and passed by both Houses as Acts. All bills for raising revenue must originate in the House. Abstracts of bills are tabulated in the Senate and House Journals and in the Congressional Record indexes. All bills are issued in limited editions, 625 copies for Public and 250 copies for Private ; these being distributed to the House and Senate Document Rooms. 15, 16, 24, 25, 26. Calendars issued since 1901 for the 56th, S7th, and sgth Congress, contain the records of the business of the House, accounts of House Bills and the final action thereon, with an index to public and private laws and resolutions. In the Seri- al Documents. 27, 28, 29, 30. Contingent Expenses also known as the Annual Reports of the Clerk of the House has been issued regularly since 1824; a few earlier volumes dating from 1802. This is the outgrowth of the President's message in 1798 giving the ac- count of expenditures by Congress for the government in 1797. At present these reports give the names and compensa- tions of all employees of the House; the expenditures from 34 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS the contingent fund ; the amounts drawn from the Treasury, stationery accounts, and balances. Issued since the i8th Con- gress 2d session (1824) in the Serial Documents. 5, 11, 23, 31, 32, 33. 34- Financial Reports made annually since 1891 by the Ser- geant-at-Arms are very brief tabulations of "money drawn and disbursed by him." In the Serial Documents. 31, 35, 36. Inventories of books have been submitted annually, with a few lapses, by the Doorkeeper since 1881. They contain lists of books, maps, and pamphlets in the House Folding Room. In the Serial Documents. 31. 35, 37, 38. Inventories of Property have been submitted by the Door- keeper irregularly from 1865 to 1885 and annually since 1887. These are tallies of all property in charge of the Doorkeeper including the furniture of all rooms in his care. In the Serial Documents. 7, 11, 35, 39. Lists of Property submitted annually by the Sergeant-at- Arms since 1891 are very brief and consist of inventories of office furniture in his charge. In the Serial Documents. 7, II. 35. 40. Manuals are the outgrowth of the Rules of the House pre- pared for the 1st Congress in 1789, and similar subsequent A\'orks varying in title. At present the title page reads : Consti- tution of the United States, Jefferson's Manual; the Rules of the House of Representatives ; and a Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice. This indicates the character of the con- tents. Since the 47th Congress (1882J, House Manuals are is- sued for two sessions of each Congress. Since the 54th Con- gress 1st Session (1896) the Manuals have been duplicated in the Serial Documents. 3, 5, 12, 23, 35, 41. Resolutions numbered and issued for each session since the 1st Congress ist Session originate in the House as Simple Resolutions and are divided into Joint Resolutions and Con- current Resolutions, for definitions of which see page 32. A resolution differs from an order in that the former is the ex- pression of facts, principles, opinions, and purposes; while the latter is a command. On being passed by both Houses these OTHER CONGRESSIOXAL DOCUMEXTS 35 resolutions become the legal resolutions noted on page t,2. The same law as to the printing and distribution of Bills ap- plies to Resolutions which are similarly tabulated in abstract in the Senate and House Journals and in the Congressional Record indexes. 16, 24, 26, 42, 43. General Publications consist of publications concerned with administrative and routine duties, as well as miscella- neous documents on a variet)^ of subjects which are discussed before the House. Except for an occasional cloth or pamphlet issue, generally in the Serial Documents. 3. 11. Senate. Also known as the "Upper House" having precedence of the House of Representatives, this body is composed of Sen- ators elected from all the States, each State being entitled to two regardless of its population. The functions of the Senate are executive, legislative, and judicial. 2. Annual Reports of the Secretary issued since 1823 are en- tirely financial and give full and complete statements of the "receipts and expenditures of the Senate." A general index to these Reports from 1823 to 1900 will be found as Senate Document 290 of the 56th Congress ist Session in Serial Num- ber 3843- In the Serial Documents. 5, 12, 44. Bills correspond to House Bills. (See page 33.) Manuals like House Manuals are also the outgrowth of the Rules prepared by the Committee in 1789 and subsequent editions irregularly issued. At present the Senate Manual con- tains the Rules of the Senate and Index, Jefferson's Manual and Index, Rules for Impeachment Trials, Constitution and Index, Rules for the Regulation of the Senate Wing of the Capitol, Standing Orders, Declaration of Independence, Ar- ticles of Confederation, Ordinance of 1787, list of Senators since 1789, ratification of the Constitution by the thirteen original states, their population, area, and dates of admit- tance, area and formation of the other states, dates of the establishment of territories and other statistics, electoral votes since 1789, lists of all Justices of the Supreme Court and 36 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Cabinet Officers since 1789. As a rule there is a new edition issued during- each Congress published separately and, with the exception of the issue for 1899, duplicated since 1896 in the Serial Documents. 5, 11, 12, 23, 34, 45, 46, 47, 49. Receipts for Sales of Condemned Property issued annually by the Sergeant-at-Arms since 1890 is a brief list of waste paper, furniture, old horses, and harness sold during the year. In the Serial Documents. 7, 35, 48, 50. Resolutions correspond to House Resolutions. (See page 34.) Statements of Property are two annual reports ; the first being made by the Secretary since 1870, with occasional lapses, and consisting of a tabulation of office furnishings in his pos- session; the second being made by the Sergeant-at-Arms, since 1871, with a few lapses in early issues, also consists of inventories of office furnishings in his charge. Both are in the Serial Documents. 7, 12, 51, 52. General Publications correspond to those issued by the House. (See page 35.) AUTHORITIES. 1. Statutes at Large — Volume 34. 2. Townsend — Handbook of U. S. Political History. 3. Monthly Catalogues. 4. Monthly Catalogue — May 1908. 5. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 6. S9th Congress ist Session — Senate Document 535 (Serial Number 4939). 7. Documents Office — Tables. 8. Congressional Printing Investigation Commission — Re- port. 9. 58th Congress 2nd Session — Senate Document 321 (Se- rial Number 4626). 10. 57th Congress 2nd Session — House Document 465 (Serial Number 4544). OTHER CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS 37 11. Document Catalogues. 12. Poore — Descriptive Catalogue. 13. Documents Office— Checklist (2nd edition). 14. Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. 15. Bouvier — Law Dictionary. 16. House Manual — 59th Congress ist Session. 17. Statutes at Large — Volume 33. 18. Memorial Addresses. 19. Official Congressional Directories. 20. Century Dictionary. 21. Monthly Catalogue — December 1907. 22. Patriotic Studies. 23. Documents Office — Numerical Tables. 24. Annals of Congress — Volume i. 25. Congressional Record — Indexes. 26. Statutes at Large — Volume 28. 27. Document Catalogue — Volume 5. 28. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 29. Monthly Catalogue — April 1907. 30. 56th Congress 2nd Session — House Document 513 (Se- rial Number 4174). 31. Documents Office — Bulletin 7. 32. Documents Office — Bulletin 9. 33. Contingent Expenses — 1905. 34. Document Indexes. 35. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume i. 2,6. 59th Congress ist Session — House Document 26 (Serial Number 4984). 37. 47th Congress ist Session — House Miscellaneous Docu- ment 9 (Serial Number 2035). 38. Inventory of Books — 1905. 39. Inventory of Property — 1905. 40. List of Property — 1905. 41. House Manuals. 42. 59th Congress 2nd Session — House Journal (Serial Num- ber 5059). 38 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS 43. 59th CongTess 2nd Session — Senate Journal (Serial Num- ber 5058). 44. Secretary of Senate — Report' 1906. 45. Senate Manual — 59th Congress 1st Session. 46. Document Catalogue — Volume 2. 47. Document Catalogue — Volume 4. 48. 31st Congress 2nd Session — Senate Miscellaneous Docu- ment 6 (Serial Number 2819)-. 49. Senate Manuals. 50. Receipts '■' * * — 1905. 51. 41st Congress 3rd Session — Senate Miscellaneous Doc- ument 8 (Serial Number 1442). 52. 59th Congress 2nd Session — Senate Document 6 (Serial Number 5069). PART TWO DEPARTMENT PUBLICATIONS. Under this division are classed the publications of the nine Executive Departments. In describing these, the following scheme has been adopted. First is given an historical sketch of the Department as a whole, followed by its duties, and a list of its main subordinate divisions. Each of these divisions is in turn outlined on a similar plan giving the date of its origin, its purpose, and then an enumeration of its publica- tions. The publications are described by title, date of first appearance, scope, and form of issue. Unless otherwise stated all Annual Reports date from the establishment of the De- partment, Bureau, or Division to which they belong. These documents are known as Annual or Special Reports, Bulletins, Circulars, Monographs, Papers, particular titles be- longing to various departments such as Orders, Regulations, and Manuals, and a miscellany of unnumbered or special documents which for convenience are designated as General Publications. Publications issued from the main Department are classed under the division of Secretary; in the case of the Justice Department under Attorney-General, and in that of the Post Office Department under Postmaster-General. While almost the entire field of Public Documents has been out- lined, explained, or described, a few publications of ephemeral or little value, have been omitted. The Agriculture, Interior, and Commerce and Labor De- partments are those publishing documents of greatest inter- est to the general public; while issues of the Xavy, \Yar, Treasury, and State Departments are invaluable, they appeal rather to a special class. The Post Office and Justice Depart- 40 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS merits are represented b}^ few reports, their character being along administrative hnes. The Treasury, War, and Commerce and Labor Depart- ments, ha\'e their important documents serially numbered on the back of each title page. This has no connection with any other numbering and is useful only as a means of occasional identification, though as a rule it is not used at all. The form adopted for names of departments has been that generally accepted as the most simple and sensible thus : Agriculture Department, General Land Office, Naval Intelli- gence Office, giving the preference to leading word of title and the popular use rather than to inverted order or full official designation. Where publications are described as being duplicated in the Serial Documents, it must be understood that this duplica- tion includes no reports made later than the 59th Congress 2d Session (1907) ; and, in the case of annuals, these are dated not later than 1906. (See page 18.) CHAPTER I. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT. Although from the first the question of encouraging agri- culture had been advocated by the Government, it was not until 1836 that any decided steps were taken in this direc- tion. In that year Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents, undertook without any governmental aid except the use of franks, the distribution of seeds and plants to farmers. In 1839 the first appropriation of $1,000 was alloted this Ag- ricultural Division of the Patent Office, which was itself sub- ordinate to the State Department. In 1862 the Agriculture Division became the Agriculture Department, an independent office, and in 1889 it was raised to an executive department. The character of the publications of the Agriculture De- partment is most extensive, embracing not only the interests of the farmer, but also topics that apply to the general public. \Ve find treatises on stock raising, importation of domestic animals, prevention of disease, game protection, plant inves- tigation and propagation, insects, forest preservation and cul- tivation, statistics, food adulteration, dietetics, road improve- ment, soil surveys, chemical analyses of food products, sani- tary engineering, landscape gardening, preservation of perish- able products, cooking recipes, accounts of rare species of plants and animals, arbor day programs, medical botany, dis- infectants, and other topics equally valuable. To the practical farmer, the college, business, and professional man, the house- wife, and even to the school child, these documents make their appeal. It can readily be seen that this is the most important publishing department of the Government so far as scope of its publications is concerned. Xot only does the Agriculture Department issue the greatest number of documents, excell- 42 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS ing those of the other Departments, but its output is also that of eminent authorities, the results of whose investigations are standards of accuracy, thoroughness, and recent discovery. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Accounts and Disbursements Division. This was originally a branch of the Secretary's Office but it became a separate division in 1889. It audits, adjusts and pays all accounts and claims against the Department; decides questions involving the expenditure of public funds; prepares advertisements and schedules for annual supplies, and letters of authority; writes, for the signature of the Secretary, all let- ters to the Treasury Department pertaining to fiscal matters; examines and signs requisitions for the purchase of supplies, and issues requests for passenger and freight transportation ; prepares the annual estimates of appropriations and transacts all other business relating to the financial interests of the De- partment. Annual Reports issued since 1892 are included in the De- partment Report. General Publications on financial transactions, such as ap- propriations, pay, fiscal regulations, and expenditures are is- sued occasionally. In paper. i, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13. Agrostology Division. The Agrostology Division was established in 1895 and in 1901 merged into the Plant Industry Bureau. It dealt with grasses and forage plants, their cultivation and use, with numerous scientific investigations regarding their range, va- rieties, etc. Annual Reports were issued from 1895 to 1901, the last was included in the Plant Industry Bureau Report for that year. The previous reports were included in the Department Re- port as well as issued separately. Bulletins were numbered and 25 were issued from 1895 to 1901. In paper- AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 43 Circulars were numbered and 36 were issued from 1895 to 1901^. In paper. General Publications though originating from this Divi- sion were published in a numbered series from the Secre- tary's OfHce or from some other division of the Department. 2, 5, 10, II, 12, 14. Animal Industry Bureau. The Animal Industry Bureau was established in 1884 to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumo- nia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals. The report on Diseases of Cattle has had an enormous cir- culation, and with its companion volume on the Diseases of the Horse, the several editions of which approximate 900,000 copies, forms the basis of veterinary science throughout the country. Meat inspection, the manufacture of butter and cheese, dairy schools, poultry culture, medical and veterinary zoology, transportation regulations, various diseases of do- mestic animals and their preventives, all are represented and treated from a practical as well as from a scientific stand- point. The Animal Industry Bureau is composed of the fol- lowing divisions, all of whose publications, however, are is- sued from the main Bureau : — Quarantine, Pathological, Biochemic, Dairy, Zoology, Experiment Station, Editorial, Animal Husbandry, and Inspection. Annual Reports issued since 1884, are very exhaustive, consisting of numerous treatises as well as an administrative report, of which reprints are generally made,. These reports are issued as Serial Documents, while an abbreviated report of the chief forms a part of the Department Report. Annual Reports to Congress issued since 1887 relate to the work, expenditures and administrative details of the Bu- reau. In the Serial Documents. Bulletins have been numbered and issued since 1893. With the exception of Bulletins 19 and 27 which are duplicated in Serial Documents, these are in paper. -14 HAXDI'.OOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS Circulars have l:)een numbered and issued since 1893. In paper. Maps of Infected Districts showing ihcise infected with splenetic fe\'er ha\-c' been issued at irregular intervals since 1891. In paper. Meat Inspection Rulings numbered and issued since 1906 are signed by the Secretary of Agriculture and deal with the regulations rccjuired by the Pure Fc)od Act of 1906. In slip form. Orders called U. A. I. Orders ha\e been numbered and issued since 1897; from 1.885 to this date 90 unnumbered Orders had been published. These are signed by the Secre- tary of Agriculture and relate to quarantine, transportation, exportation, and inspection of cattle. They are subject to numerous Amendments which are issued bearing the number of the Order to which each belongs and also its indi\idnal number, as there are sometimes a dozen ijr more Amendments referring to one Order. Both are issued in paper, the (3rders sometimes being collected and issued in cloth. Press Bulletins numbered and issued since 1905 for the use (if the press relate to the work and publications of the Bureau. In paper. Rules ha\e been numbered and issued since 1906 with num- bered Amendments to each rule. These Rules, subject to re- ^'ision, deal \vith the inspection and transportation of cattle. In slip form. Service Announcements numbered and issued since 1907 are brief accounts concerned with administrative routine and are nut of any outside interest, being confined to Bureau dis- tribution. In paper. General Publications issued at irregular intervals, bear on rfiutine and technical business and include directories and lists of officials, iustructions, regulations, etc. Generally in paper and occasiorfelly in the Serial Documents, i, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. AGRICULTURE DEPARTAJENT 45 Appointment Clerk. The Appointment Clerk belongs to the Secretary's office and has charge "of all questions affecting appointments, transfers, promotions, reductions, details, furloughs, and re- movals in their relation to the Civil Service regulations" etc. Annual Reports have been issued since 1895, excepting- from 1898 to 1900. That for 1901 b'eing only in pamphlet form, while subsequent reports are also included in the Department Report ; those from 1895 to 1897 being only in the latter form. 2, 7, 20. Biological Survey Bureau. The Biological Survey Bureau was created in 1886 as the Division of Ornithology and iMammalogy, or Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy. In 1896 it became the Bio- logical Survey, and in 1905 the Biological Survey Bureau. As the Animal Industr}^ Bureau is concerned with domes- tic animals and is of a strictly technical character, the Bio- logical Sur\'ey Bureau deals with game protection, geograph- ical distribution of animals, accounts of species, preservation of beneficial and eradication of injurious species, economic relation of birds and mammals, and similar topics. While scientific in scope it is the necessary complement of the Ani- mal Industry Bureau. It is composed of three divisions whose publications are issued from the main Bureau : — Biological Surveys and Investigations of the Geographical Distribution of Mammals and Birds; Investigations to Determine the Re- lation of Birds and Mammals to Agriculture, Their Food, Hab- its, etc. ; Supervision of Matters Relating to the Protection of Game and the Importation of Foreign Birds and Animals. Annual Reports are issued separately in paper and also in- cluded in the Department Report. Bulletins have been numbered and issued since 1889 and are composed of numerous treatises which are often issued again as pamphlet reprints. In paper. ^ Circulars have been numbered and issued since 1886. In paper. 46 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCmiENTS North American Fauna has been numbered and issued since 1889 and consists of scientific monographs which are in turn issued as pamphlet reprints. In paper. General Publications originating in the Bureau are issued, like the Agrostology General Publications; that is in a num- bered series from the Secretary's Office, or under the author- ship of another division of the Department. In paper, i, 2, 5, 7> 8, 21. Botany Division. The Botany Division was established in 1869 and in 1901 merged into the Plant Industry Bureau. It was con- cerned with the accounts of plants, their uses, diseases, ex- termination, and propagation, treated from both scientific and popular standpoints. Annual Reports were issued separately as a rule in paper and always included in the Department Report. That for 1901 was combined with the Plant Industry Bureau Report for the year. Bulletins were numbered and 29 were issued from 1886 to 1901. Except Bulletin 26, which is duplicated in the Serial Documents, these were in paper. Circulars were numbered and 30 were issued from 1894 to 1902. In paper. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium were issued from 1890 to 1902 in seven numbered volumes from the Botany Division. Since 1902 they have been trans- ferred to the National Museum to which in 1896 the Herbari- um was returned from the Agriculture Department where the Smithsonian Institution had placed it in 1868. The Contribu- tions treat of scientific investigations on botanical subjects and are intended for the student rather than for the practical agri- culturist. Each volume, as a rule, consists of several mono- graphs which are reprinted as separate pamphlets. In paper. Inventories were numbered and 8 were issued since about 1899; this is the date of the second, that of the first being unknown. These tabulate seeds imported, distributed AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 47 and collected. Inventory Number 9 and subsequent issues are now published as Plant Industry Bureau Bulletins. In paper. General Publications dealt with North American grasses, plant breeding and seed selection, instructions, rules, etc. In paper, i, 2, 5, 8, 10, 22, 23, 24. Chemistry Bureau. The Chemistry Bureau was established in 1862 as the Chemistry Division, and in 1901 became the Chemistry Bureau. Its duties are confined "to questions of agricultural chemistry of public interest and other chemical investigations referred to it b}^ the Government. Such investigations include studies on the effects of cold storage on foods, and physiolog- ical experiments to determine the effects of food preservatives and artificial colors on health and digestion. The execution of the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906, constitutes an im- portant part of the work." The work accomplished on vari- ous foods, their digestibility, adulteration, manufacture, prep- aration, and preservation is comprehensible not only to the student but also in their practical application to the house- wife. The following divisions form the Bureau : Foods, Sugar Laboratory, Dairy Laboratory, Miscellaneous Laboratory, Drugs, Contracts Laboratory, Chief Inspector's Office, Mi- crochemical Laboratory, Leather and Paper Laboratory, Food Research, Special Investigations on Physiological and Bacteri- ological Chemistry, Enological Technology, Nitrogen Deter- minations, and the Influence of Environment on the Compo- sition of Agricultural Products. Annual Reports are outlines of work accomplished and general routine. They are brief and are issued since 1889 separately in paper, as well as included in the Department Re- port. Bulletins have been numbered and issued since 1883. They cover such subjects as Commercial Fertilizers, Sugar Manufacture, Canned Vegetables, Foods and Food Adulter- ants, Vinegar Making, Pharmacy and Drug Laws, American 48 IIAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Wines, Table Sirups, and others equally valuable ; as well as contain the proceedings of the Association of Official Agri- cultural Chemists. Parts of these bulletins are re-issued as reprints in pamphlet form. In paper. Circulars have been numbered and issued since 1894. These, while less extensive than the Bulletins, cover the same field. In paper. Food Inspection Decisions abbreviated F. I. D. haA^e been issued since 1905 "for the information of importers and ex- porters of food products, and of the puljlic." Each Decision is numbered and the pamphlets contain sometimes 25, again 4 or only one of the Decisions of the Secretary of Agricvdture. The pamphlets are numbered according to the Decisions they contain. Beginning with Number 65, and omitting Num- bers 66-68 which were published by this Bureau, the Decisions have been issued from the Food and Drug In- spection Board. (See page 56.) In paper. General Publications cover topics similar to those outlined above. In paper- i, 2, 5, 7, 8, 25, 26, 27. Chief Clerk. Tlie Chief Clerk appointed since 1862 belongs to the Secretary's Office. He has general supervision of clerks and employees and of the correspondence, records, and expendi- tures. General Publications thus far consist of a leaflet on Gov- ernment representatives in Indian Reservations. In paper. 2.7. The Entomological Commission. The Entomological Commission was transferred from the Interior to the Agriculture Department in 1881 and in 1890 was discontinued. (.See page 107.) Its few publications dealt with injurious insects. Annual Reports consisted of only five. The first. 1878, was issued under the direction of the Geological and Geo- graphical Survey of the Territories, the second as a publication AGRICULTURE DEP.\RT.\rEXT 4.) of the Interior Department; while the remaining three were issued by the Commission. In the Serial Documents. A feu- pamphlet reprints of important papers were also published. Bulletins were numbered and none issued from the Agri- culture Department; Numbers 1-2 being under the direction of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, and the remainder, Numbers 3-7, under that of the Interior Department. Circulars consisted of twelve issued from the Interior, but none from the Agriculture Department. (See page 108.) i, 2, 5,8. Entomology Bureau. The Entomology Bureau was established in 1863 as the Entomology Division and in 1904 became the Ento- molog}- Bureau. Its purpose is to obtain and disseminate "in- formation regarding injurious insects afifecting field crops, fruits, small fruits, and truck crops, forests and forest prod- ucts, and stored products ; to stud)^ insects in relation to dis- eases of man and other animals and as animal parasites ; to experiment with the introduction of beneficial insects and with the fungous and other diseases of insects ; and to con- duct experiments and tests with insecticides and insecticide machinery. It is further charged with investigations in agri- culture and sericulture." Much is done in connection with the National Museum, and also concerning the identification of insects submitted by public institutions and private individ- uals. The Bureau is organized under the following sections: Investigations of Insects Affecting Tropical Fruits ; Insects Affecting Deciduous Fruits ; Truck Crop and Small Fruit In- sect Investigations; Forest Insect Investigations; Insecticide and Insecticide Machinery; Insects Aft'ecting Shade Trees and Ornamental Plants ; Insects in Relation to Diseases of Man and Other Animals and as Animal Parasites; Apicultural, and Sericultural Investigations ; Introduction of Foreign Benefi- cial Insects ; Gypsy and Brown-Tail Moth Investigations ; General Investigations. 50 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Annual Reports are mainly administrative and are issued separately in paper since 1879 as well as included in the De- partment Report since 1863. Bulletins consist of the Old Series issued in 33 numbered pamphlets from 1883 to 1895, and the New Series issued in numbered pamphlets since 1895, which consists of reports on original work accomplished by the Bureau and pertains to the field described above. Occasionally parts of these Bulletins are issued as pamphlet reprints. In paper. Circulars are in two series. The 1st Series consisted of over 40 pamphlets. As these were deemed unworthy of being con- sidered publications, they are very scarce and only three, Num- ber I, undated. Number 18, 1885, Number 22, 1885, are known to exist. The 2d Series has been regularly numbered and is- sued since 1891. This contains in briefer form similar sub- jects treated in the Bulletins. In paper. Insect Life was in eight volumes covering the years from. July 1888 to July 1895; Volume 8 published in 1897, being an index to the preceding seven volumes. Each volume at first consisted of twelve monthly bulletins, which later decreased to five ; there being occasional pamphlet reprints of important articles. This "periodical was devoted to the economy and life habits of insects especially in their relation to agriculture." After 1895 the class of matter here treated was transferred to- the New Series of Bulletins and to the Technical Series. In paper. Technical Series consists of numbered pamphlets issued since 1895. These represent the strictly scientific side of en- tomology and are of more interest to the student than to the average reader. In paper. General Publications consist of bibliographies, catalogues of exhibits, special reports, and reprints. In paper and some- times duplicated in the Serial Documents, i, 2, 5, 7, 8, 26,. 28. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 51 Experiment Stations Office. In 1862 Congress passed a law granting to individual States a portion of the public lands for the benefit of colleges dealing with the industrial arts. In these, agriculture was to be taught together with other technical courses. Such institutions were called Land Grant Colleges. Twenty-five years later, by the Hatch Act of 1887, Agricultural Experiment Stations, in con- nection with these Colleges, were established under State supervision, itself subordinate to the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Treasury. This act provided for the yearly Con- gressional appropriation of $15,000 to each State and Territory for the maintenance of Experiment Stations, which must be parts of Land Grant Colleges there situated. In 1890 the j\Ior- rill Act provided for a Congressional stipend of $15,000 yearly to every Land Grant College, with an annual increase of $1,000 until the income reached $25,000. Each Land Grant College is required to make an annual report to the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior. The management of the Experiment Stations is under local authority supervised by the Secretary of Agriculture. In 1888 the Experiment Stations Office was established in order to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to better dis- charge his duties in regard to the numerous Experiment Sta- tions under his supervision, and to represent his authority in all matters connected with these institutions. The duties of the Office include : 1. Relations with American and foreign institutions for agricultural research together with the supervision of ex- penditures of the Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States. 2. Preparation of publications mainly based on those of Experiment Stations. 3. Management of Experiment Stations in Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam. 4. Relations with Agricultural Colleges and Schools, Farmers' Institutes, and kindred organizations at home and 52 IIAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS abroad, and the general promotion of agricultural education in the United States. 5. Investigations on the nutritive value and economy of human foods. 6. Irrigation and drainage investigations. The last two are done in co-operation with Agricultural Colleges and Ex- periment Stations. All publications of the Office are serially numbered, the document number appearing in the upper left hand corner of every publication. This document number is merely a kind of identification check. They are designated in catalogues as Publications or as Documents. Annual Reports of the Director to the Secretary of Agri- culture are administrative. In paper and also included in the Department Report. Annual Reports to Congress have been issued since the second in 1896, the first never having been printed. These are first submitted to the Governors of the States where the Sta- tions are located who transmit them to the Secretary of Agri- culture b}' whom they are laid before Congress. They are more detailed than the preceding Annual Reports, and give statis- tics, full accounts of work accomplished by each Station with illustrations. Issued in the Serial Documents and sometimes duplicated as Bulletins, with occasional pamphlet reprints of separate papers. Bulletins ha\ e been numbered and issued since 1889. These embrace all subjects treated by the Experiment Stations and are important scientific monographs on agricultural and die- tetic subjects; as well as reports of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations Conventions, organization lists of Sta- tions and Colleges, etc. Occasional pamphlet reprints of parts of these Bulletins are published; the Bulletins coming out in paper or cloth, with sometimes a duplication in the Serial Documents. Circulars have been numbered and issued since 1889. They are similar in character of contents to the Bulletins, though not so exhaustive, giving abstracts of investigations rather than full details. In paper. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 53 Miscellaneous Bulletins were issued in three numbers from 1889 to 1891 when the series was discontinued. These record- ed the Proceedings of Conventions of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations later included in the preceding Bul- letins. In paper. Food and Diet Charts were numbered and 4 were issued in 1896. In paper. Irrigation Investigation Schedules were 4 numbered cir- culars. The first, a postal card, was undated, the second was published in 1899. In paper. Experiment Station Record is in numbered volumes is- sued since September 1889. Volume i consisted of six bi- monthly issues; since Volume 2 (August 1890) the Record has come out monthly. Beginning with Volume 20, there will be published during each year four extra issues, called ab- stracts, which will contain accumulated material. These num- bers will be bound with the regular issues; the change neces- sitating two volumes to the year; each volume containing six regular and two extra numbers and, in all probability, com- mencing with January and Juh^ It is a magazine of wide range and of considerable importance to the technical reader and consists of abstracts and reproductions from Experiment Station and Department publications, technical journals, and current literature, both domestic and foreign, arranged under the following subjects: 1. , Agricultural Chemistry. 2. Meteorology — Water. 3. Soils — Fertilizers. 4. Agricultural Botany. 5. Field Crops 6. Horticulture. 7. Forestry 8. Diseases of Plants. 9. Economic Zoology — Entomology. 10. Foods — Human Nutrition. 11. Animal Production. 12. Daily Farming — Dairying — Agrotechny. 54 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS 13. \^eterinary Medicine. 14. Rural Economics. 15. Agricultural Education. 16. Miscellaneous. The last embraces notes of current interest in regard to men and events affecting the preceding general divisions. Vol- umes 1-3 were arranged according to Stations of which the reports were abstracted ; with Volume 4 the present scheme began under the editorship of specialists in each of the lines selected. There are occasional pamphlet reprints of articles contained. The Record is published on heavy paper with a complete index to every volume. Experiment Station Work is in numbered volumes, issued since 1897, and gives a resume of investigations and progress of the Experiment Stations. This is also numbered con- secutively from the first and published as Farmers' Bulletins. In paper. Farmers' Institute Lectures have been numbered and is- sued since 1904. Each pamphlet is a syllabus of an illustrated lecture on agricultural topics. In paper. General Publications consist mainly of lists of publica- tions, directories of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, with an occasional account of special research. In paper and occasionally duplicated in the Serial Documents. Alaska Agricultural Experimext Statioxs. The Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations were es- tablished permanently in 1899 as a result of previous inves- tigations begun in 1897. They deal with field experiments, live stock, and agricultural surveys of the country. Annual Reports have been issued since 1897 on the prog- ress of the work. The reports from 1897 to 1900 and 1905 were issued as Experiment Station Bulletins; while those from 1901 to 1904 and from 1906 to 1908 were issued sepa- rately in paper and all, except 1906, were also included in the Office Report. Bulletins numbered and issued Since 1902 are on a variety AGRICULTURE DEPARTAIENT 55 of topics peculiar to the agricultural interest of the locality. In paper. Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station. The Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station was first organized in 1895 as a private institution by the Hawaii Sugar Planters' Association and was officially established in 1901. Annual Reports issued since 1900 deal with results of ex- periments with "coffee, tobacco, rice, forage crops, fiber and horticultural plants, and investigations in vegetable pathology and entomology." The first report and the one for 1905 were issued as Experiment Station Bulletins; while those from 1901 to 1904- were issued separately in paper and included in the Office Report. The reports for 1906-1907 were issued in paper. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1901, are monographs on agricultural topics treated at the Station. In paper. Press Bulletins numbered and issued in English with occasional translations into the Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese languages, contain notes of minor importance and preliminary reports. In paper. Porto Rico Agricultur.\l Experi}.iext Station. The Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station was established in 1901. It deals with fruit and vegetable culti- vation, animal industry, entomology, etc., peculiar to the locality. Annual Reports began with a preliminary report in 1900 which was one of the General Publications of the Office; the reports from 1901 to 1904 were issued separately in paper and included in the Office Report, while the Reports for 1905, 1906, and 1907, were issued, the first as an Experiment Station Bulletin ; the last two in separate pamphlets. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1902, the date of the second (Number i being published in 1903) are monographs in English with a separate edition in Spanish. In paper. 56 I-IAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Circulars numbered and issued since 1903, (the second dated Jan. 2, 1904) treat of agricultural topics and are, with the exception of Number 2, duplicated in Spanish. In paper. I, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 22. 26, 29, 30, 32-40. Fiber Investigations Office. In 18S9 the Statistics Division was engaged in fiber in- vestigations and ni 1890 a separate section for this purpose was created in the Division. In 1891 the section became in- dependent under the title Fiber Investigations Office and so remained until 1898 when it was assigned to the Botany Divi- sion, ^^■hich in turn was merged into the Plant Industry Bu- reau in 1901. Its duties were the discussion and inxestigation (if matters relating to the cultivation, commercial value, util- ity, and production of fibers, such as hemp, flax, jute, leaf fibers, etc. Annual Reports issued from 1890 to 1897 were brief ac- counts of work accomplished. Published separately in paper and included in the Department Report except those from 1894 to 1895 which are to be found only in the latter form. Reports were 11 numbered pamphlets issued from 1890 to 1898, Number i, ist edition, being issued as Number i of the Miscellaneous Series Bulletin of the Statistics Bureau. These were of the same character as bulletins and related to the fiber industry, its cultivation, etc. In paper. General Publications were concerned with duties of the Office and were issued either from the Secretary's Office or from another division of the Department. These publications came out in paper, a few of particular value being issued in tlie .Serial Docttments. i, 2, 5, 8. Food and Drug Inspection Board. I'he Fiiod and Drug Inspection Board was organized in 1907 as part of the Secretary's Office and deals with the in- spection required by the Pure Food and Drugs Law of 1906. Food Inspection Decisions beginning with Number 65 and AGRICULTURE DEPARTiMENT 57 omitting Numbers 66-68 which were issued from the Chem- istry Bureau (see page 48), have been issued by the Board un- der the supervision of the Secretary. In paper. Notices of Judgment numbered and issued since 1908, refer to the Food and Drugs Act. In paper. 2, 7, 67. Foreign Markets Division. The Foreign Markets Division was instituted in 1894 as the Foreign Markets Section and in 1902 became the Foreign Markets Division ; in 1903 it was merged into the Statistics Division. Its character was commercial, deaHng with foreign and domestic output, opportunities for Amer- ican farmers in regard to export, development of agriculture, and foreign crop reports. Annual Reports issued from 1897 to 1903 were brief ac- counts of results accomplished. In paper and also included in the Department Report. Bulletins were numbered and 37 were issued from 1895 to 1903. They dealt with world markets, foreign trade, and other commercial data. In paper. Circulars were numbered and 26 were issued from 1895 to 1903. In briefer form they covered the same field as the Bul- letins. In paper. General Publications were issued from the Secretary's Office or from some other division of the Department. In paper, rarely in the Serial Documents. 2, 5, 10, 22, 41, 42, 43, 44. 45- Forest Service. The work in forestry began in 1876. The Forestry Divi- sion was organized in 1881 by the Department but was not recognized by Congress until 1886; in 1901 it became a Bureau and in 1905 the Forest Service. It "collects and disseminates information of practical value bearing on the maintenance, improvement, extension, and utilization of American forests; examines into and reports on the desirability of creating new National Forests on public lands, and of extending or modify- 58 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS ing the present Forest boundaries, and gives expert assistance to timber land owners, public and private, to secure the intro- duction and practice of forest management. It has the tech- nical and business management of the National Forests, ex- ercising under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture jurisdiction in all matters involved in the protection, use, and occupancy of the Forests, including the free use of timber and stone, timber sales, grazing, rights of way and other uses." The service is composed of the Forester's Office and the fol- lowing branches : Operation, Silviculture, Grazing, and Products. Annual Reports issued since 1883 are general accounts of the year's work. Published since 1886 separately in paper, and also included in the Department Report. The Reports from 1883 to 1885 and from 1894 to 1895 were issued only as part of the Department Report. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1887 are important monographs on subjects relating to forestry. Reprints of parts of these are issued in pamphlet form. The Primer of Forestry is a notable example of their worth. A\'ith one or two exceptions, when they are duplicated in the Serial Docu- ments and in cloth, the Bulletins are issued in paper. Circulars numbered and issued since 1886 are of the same character as the ISulletins and are briefer. In paper. Field Programs issued monthly excepting from January to June 1905, since August 1904, deal with the operations of the Service and its schedules for the time indicated. In paper. Forest Planting Leaflets have been numbered and issued since 1906. The numbers are sometimes omitted from these issues but they can be assigned by the last Checklist. These consist of directions for planting trees in various localities. In paper. Forest Products. (See page 83.) Press Bulletins numbered and issued since 1900 for the use of the press, give current notice of all matters relating to the Service likely to be of popular interest. In paper. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 59 Reports on Forestry were issued in 4 numbered volumes from 1878 to 1884. These were lengthy monographs and were the forerunners of the present Bulletins. Volumes i and 4 were issued in cloth only and \^olumes 2 and 3 were also duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications consist of lists of publications of the Service, location, area, and other information on forest re- serves, notes on forest trees, and general miscellany. Usually in pamphlet form, though sometimes in cloth or in the Serial Documents, i, 2, 5, 7, 8, 46, 47. Gardens and Grounds Division. The Gardens and Grounds Division was established in 1862 as the Experimental Gardens and Grounds, in 1868 it Ijecame the Gardens and Grounds Division and in 1901 it was merged into the Plant Industrj'- Bureau. The Division was concerned with the investigation of new varieties of vegetables and fruits, their suitability to certain climatic conditions, their diseases and remedies, and similar experi- mentation. Annual Reports were brief and covered the work of the Division. There were frequent lapses in the early years. The report for 1901 forms part of the Plant Industry Bureau Report for that year. Occasionally issued separately in paper though as a rule included in the Department Report. Circulars consist of only one issued in 1897. This was on Tea Culture in South Carolina. In paper. 2, 5, 8, 10. 48. Illustrations Division. The Illustrations Division was established in 1890 and abolished in 1894. It dealt entirely with the preparation of the illustrations needed by the Department and its divi- sions. Annual Reports were issued from 1890 to 1893. They were very brief and were included in the Department Report. 8, 49, 50. 6o HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Irrigation Inquiry Office. The Irrigation Inquiry Office was established in 1890 and discontinued in 1896. Its work was along the lines of artesian and underground water investigation and similar inquiry. Annual Reports issued from 1890 to 1895, with the excep- tion of 1892, were brief. The first two were in paper and also included in the Department Report, while those from 1893 to 189s were issued only in the latter form. Bulletins consisted of only one, issued in 1893. This \\'as an abstract of a selected number of state laws on irrigation and water rights. In paper. General Publications issued at irregular periods, formed the body of the Office's reports. They contained some ex- ceptionally valuable monographs on artesian wells. In paper with occasional duplication in the Serial Documents. A few were issued in the numbered series from the Secre- tary's Office. 2, 5, 8. Labor Employment Board. The Labor Employment Board was established in 1902 and is concerned with the employment of unskilled labor in the Department. General Publications issued at rare intervals since 1902 are regulations for appointment. In paper. 2, 5. Library. The Library had its origin in 1869 by the transfer of the works on agriculture from the Patent Office to the new building assigned the Agriculture Department. In 1871 it was officially recognized by the appointment of a librarian. From the last account (1907) the Library contains 95,660 volumes mainly on agricultural topics and correlated sciences, also an excellent collection of general reference works. The Librarian has entire charge including the management, clas- sification, and purchase of books, the preparation of lists and AGRICULTURE DEP.XRT.MENT 6i bibliographies, and the distribution of the Department's pub- lications to foreign countries. Annual Reports issued since 1894, with the exception of the years 1895 to 1897, are purely administrative. In paper and also included in the Department Report with the excep- tion of the Reports for 1894 and 1898 which were only in the latter form. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1894, consist mainly of lists of accessions to the Library, with occasional bib- liographies on agricultural topics, poultr-\', mushrooms, etc. In paper. Catalogue Cards for the publications of the Agriculture Department, issued from about 1900 until discontinued in 1906, were free of charge to specified libraries. These are still prepared by the Library but are now sold by the Library of Congress to all libraries, except those of Agricultural Col- leges and Experiment Stations to which they are sent free of charge. These v\-ere by author and subject and indexed many of the pulDlications of the Department. Lists of Duplicates numbered and issued since 1901 are lists of exchange offers. In paper. General Publications consist of notices and lists. In paper, i, 2, 7, 8, 10, 18, 51, 52, 53. Microscopy Division. As a result of investigations begun in 1871, the ]\Iicro- scopy Division was organized in 1885, and discontinued in 1895. It was concerned with diseases of fruit, as well as with mushroom culture and insecticides. Annual Reports issued from 1872 to 1894, with the excep- tion of from 1877 to 1884, covered the work of the Division. In the Department Report and issued in paper from 1889 to 1893- Food Products was in three numbers, issued from 1891 to 1894, on edible and poisonous mushrooms, and pure and ficti- tious lard. In paper. 62 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCU.MEXTS General Publications consisted of three, on fibrine and bac- teria, the microtome, and naphthaline. In paper. 2. 5, 8. Plant Industry Bureau. The Plant Industry Bureau was organized in 1901 1)}' the consolidation of the following divisions: Agrostolog}', Botany, Gardens and Grounds, Pomology, Seed, Seed and Plant Introduction, Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, and the Arlington Experimental Farm. It is concerned with the stud)^ of plant life in all its relations to agriculture and is divided into thirty-two groups corresponding to the divi- sions of other bureaus. These groups deal with Plant Pa- thology. Diseases of Fruits, Forest Pathology, Plant Life History, Cotton Breeding, Tobacco, Corn, Alkali and Drought Resistant Plant-Breeding, Soil Bacteriology and AN'ater Puri- fication, Tropical and Subtropical Plants, Drug and Poisonous Plants and Tea Culture, Physical Laboratory, Taxonomic In- vestigations, Farm ^lanagement. Grain, Arlington Experi- mental Farm Tthe Bureau's field laboratory at \A'ashington ), Crop Technology and Fiber Plants, Sugar Beet, AA'estern Agricultural Extension, Dry Land Agriculture, Pomologic- al Collections, Field Investigations in Pomology, Experi- mental Gardens and Grounds, Seed and Plant Introduction, Seed Laboratory, Forage Crops, Congressional Seed Distri- bution, Grain Standardization, Mississippi Valley Laboratory, Subtropical Laborator}- and Garden, Plant Introduction Garden, South Texas Garden, Cotton Culture Farms, and Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Annual Reports are administrative. In paper and also included in the Department Report. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1901 are the published results of work accomplished by the Bureau and its branches. They consist of inyentories continued from the Botany Divi- sion, numerous monographs on \-egetables, forage crops, nuts, etc. There are a few pamphlet reprints of important articles. In paper. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 6,3 Circulars numbered and issued since 1908 deal briefly with the Bureau's investigations. In paper. General Publications are on seed and plant introduction, horticultural investigation, and the distribution of novelties and specialties. In paper, i, 2, 5, 7, 22, 54. Pomology Division. The Pomology Division was established in 1886 and merged into the Plant Industry Bureau in 1901. It was organized for the benefit of those interested in fruit growing, nut culture, etc., and dealt with all matters bearing on this field. Annual Reports issued from 1886 to 1901, the last forming part of the Plant Industry Bureau Report, Avere administra- tive. In paper and also included in the Department Report; however those for 1886 and 1888 were only in the latter form . Bulletins were numbered and 10 were issued from 1888 to 1901, on fruit culture. In paper. Circulars were numbered and 3 were issued from 1896 to 1897, containing brief notes on fruit and nut culture. In paper. General Publications except one treatise on nut culture, were issued in a numbered series from the Secretary's Office. In paper. 2, 3, 5, 8. Public Roads Office. The Public Roads Office was established in 1893 ^s the Road Inquiry Office, in 1899 changed to the Public Roads Inquiries, and in 1905 became the Public Roads Office. It conducts investigations and experiments regarding road- building materials and methods of road construction ; makes chemical and physical tests of road materials and materials of construction relating to agriculture ; gives expert advice on road administration and road construction ; as well as co- operates with schools and colleges in matters bearing on highway engineering. 64 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Annual Reports are administrative. In paper and also included in the Department Report; however those for 1894 and 1895 were issued only in the latter form. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1894 relate to investi- gations and work accomplished by the Office, state laws, etc. In paper. Circulars numbered and issued since 1894 embrace topics similar to those in the Bulletins, though in briefer form; also reports on the condition of roads of every state in the Union. In paper. General Publications consist mainly of brief circulars on roads, lists, etc. In paper, i, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 26, 55. Publications Division. The Publications Division originated in 1889 as a section of the Statistics Division. Established in 1890 as the Rec- ords and Editing Division, in 1895 it became the Publica- tions Division. Its duties are: — "(i) The preparation, and editing of the manuscripts for the publications of the Depart- ment including the Yearbook, Annual Reports, Bulletins, etc. (2) The preparation, printing, and distribution of Farmers' Bulletins. (3) Supervision and equitable assign- ment of the printing fund. (4) General direction of expen- ditures under the appropriaticjn, including artists' materials, and material and labor in the distribution of documents. (5) Supervision of the printing and binding done for the Depart- ment. (6) Preparation of drawings for illustrations, of wood- carvings, of photographs. (7) Distribution of Department publications. (8) Preparation and distribution of official in- formation and of advance notices." Annual Reports are administrative. These were issued by the Editor from 1868 to 1871 and were included in the Department Report; from 1872 to 1889 none were issued, except a report by the Secretary in 1889 relating to the estab- lishment of the Division ; with 1890 began the Annual Reports from the regularly organized Division. In paper and also included in the Department Report. AGRICULTURE DEPARTiMENT 65 Bulletins numbered and issued since 1896 embrace indexes to various reports of the Department, history of the Depart- ment, and similar matter. In paper. Circulars numbered and issued since 1901 resemble the above in briefer form. In paper. Lists of Bulletins and Circulars of the Agriculture Depart- ment available for free distribution, have been issued at ir- regular intervals since 1897. In paper. Monthly Lists of Publications issued since 1892 list all publications of the Department for the months published. In paper. Press Notices are "synoptical notices of publications which are about to appear. Distributed in large numbers to the press for copy." In paper. Price Lists of publications for sale by the Superintendent of Documents have been issued in numbered editions at ir- regular intervals since 1896. In paper. General Publications include miscellaneous topics such as sketches of the Department, exhibits, lists, etc. In paper. I, 2, 5, 7, 8, 56. Secretary. The Secretary from 1862 to 1888 was known as the Commissioner, and in 1889 became the Secretary of Agricul- ture. He "exercises personal supervision of all public busi- ness relating to the agricultural industry. He appoints all the officers and employees of the Department with the exception of the Assistant Secretary and the Chief of the Weather Bureau, who are appointed by the President, and directs the management of all the Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices em- braced in the Department. He exercises advisory supervision over Agricultural Experiment Stations which receive aid from the National Treasury, has control of the quarantine stations for imported cattle, of interstate quarantine rendered neces- sary by sheep and cattle diseases, and of the inspection of cat- tle-carrying vessels, and directs the inspection of domestic and imported food products under the meat inspection and pure 66 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS food and drugs laws. He is also charged with the duty of us- ing rules and regulation for the protection, maintenance, and care of the national forest reserves. He is also charged with carrying into effect the laws prohibiting the transporta- tion Ijy interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and excluding from importation certain noxious ani- mals, and has the authority to control the importation of oth- er animals." The Secretary's office consists of the Assistant Secretary, Chief Clerk, Appointment Clerk, Solicitor, and Supply Division Chief, and the Food and Drug Inspection Board. Annual Reports began in 1837 as a two-page statement in the Patent Office Report where it was included until 1861, forming a separate volume since 1849; issued from the Agri- culture Department from 1862 to 1893 in one volume ; begin- ning \\ith 1894 in two, the latter known as the Yearbook. The first volume is the Annual Report proper containing the ad- ministrative report of the Secretary and those of the sub- ordinate Bureaus, Divisions, etc., of the Department. In cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents, the Reports of the Secretary and of the Bureaus coming out as separate pamphlet reprints. Circulars numbered and issued since 1896 are brief state- ments on a variety of agricultural subjects. In paper. Department Reports have been numbered and issued since 1862, numbers being assigned to preceding reports by Number 59 issued in 1899. These are not Annual Reports but are mono- graphs on popular and scientific topics, many of which are selected from the General Publications of other Bureaus of the Department and are here numbered as a regular series. Except for one or two duplications in the Serial Documents, these are issued in paper. Farmers' Bulletins have been numbered and issued since 1889. Thev are the most popular of any of the Department's publications, often 700,000 copies of one Bulletin are pub-, lished, and one has exceeded 1,000,000 copies. They consist of monographs, contributed by every branch of the Agri- AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 67 culture Department, that bear on matters of interest to the farmer and others engaged in similar pursuits. Each Bul- letin is carefully edited, with practicality the object in view. The numbered series from the Experiment Stations Office called Experiment Station ^^'ork is duplicated also in the Farmers' Bulletins and numbered consecutivel3^ In paper. Miscellaneous Circulars consisted of 3 numbers. The date of the first is unknown ; the second and third were published in 1897. These were on the Castor Oil Plant and the Missis- sippi River Flood. In paper. Miscellaneous Special Reports were numbered and 10 were issued from 1883 to 1886. They treated of various agricul- tural subjects. In paper. Monthly Reports in 13 numbered volumes issued from 1863 to 1876, dealt with "reports on the condition of the crops, on special subjects of interest to farmers, and meteoro- logical observations received from the Smithsonian Institu- tion." Published separately. Special Reports were numbered and 65 were issued from 1877 to 1883, consisting of notes on the condition of crops and miscellaneous monographs on such subjects as grape cul- ture, cattle diseases, tea, farm animals, etc. As the character of these reports was mainly statistical they were later trans- ferred to the Statistics Bureau. In paper. Yearbook issued since 1894 forms part two of the Annual Report. It may be briefly described as an annual cyclopaedia of all topics relating to agricultural products, their cultiva- tion, improvement, and manufacture. Of interest not only to the horticulturist, but also to the general reader. The illustra- tions are excellent and the index exhaustive. In cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Important articles are also separately issued as pamphlet reprints. General Publications consist not only of publications orig- inating from the Secretary's Office but also of contributions from other divisions of the Department, regulations, general and special orders, etc. Occasional important reports are 68 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCU.MEXTS duplicated in the Serial Documents, the others are issued in paper, i, 2, 5, 7, 8, 57, 58. Seed and Plant Introduction Section. The Seed and Plant Introduction Section was organized in 1898 as a section of the Seed Division and transferred in the same year to the Botany Division ; about January i, 1901 it became independent and in July 1901 was merged into the Plant Industry Bureau. Circulars were numbered and 2 were issued in 1900 and 1901 on horse-radish and cucumbers. In paper. Inventories were issued in 9 numbers. Numbers 1-8 (date of the second, 1899) from the Botany Di\ision, Num- ber 9 from the Plant Industry Bureau as Bulletin 5. (See page 62.) 2, 5. Seed Division. The Seed Division was organized in 1868 and in 1901 merged into the Plant Industry Bureau. It was concerned entirely with seed distribution and statistics thereof. Annual Reports issued with occasional lapses from 1868 to 1896, were brief administrative accounts. With the excep- tion of those for 1893 and 1896 which were in paper, the others were also included in the Department Report. Seed Distribution was an annual report of the Special Agent issued from 1894 to 1900 and was a brief statistical tabulation. The reports for 1894 and 1896 were also issued separately in paper, the others were included in the Depart- ment Report. 2, 5, 8. Silk Section. The Silk Section since 1884 a part of the Entomology Bureau, became independent in 1889 and was discontinued in 1891. It was concerned with silk worm culture. Annual Reports issued in 1889 and 1890 were administra- tive. In paper and also included in the Department Report. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 69 Bulletins consisted of a manual on silk worm culture is- sued in 1890. In paper. 2, 5, 8. Soils Bureau. The Soils Bureau was organized in 1894 under the Weather Bureau as the Agricultural Soils Division. In 1895 it became independent and from 1897 to 1901 was called the Soils Division. In 1901 it was made a Bureau. It is en- trusted with the "investigations, survey, and mapping of soils; the investigations of the cause and prevention of the rise of alkali in the soil, and the drainage of soils; and the investigation of the methods of growing, curing, and fermen- tation of tobacco in the different tobacco districts." It is di\'ided into the following divisions : Laboratories, Soil Sur- ^•ey, Fertility Investigations, Soil Erosion. Annual Reports are administrative and are issued since 1896 separatel}' in paper as well as included in the Depart- ment Report ; the two preceding reports appearing onh^ in the latter form. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1895 'are on analyses of soils, soil-moisLure, instruments, alkali soils, tobacco cul- ture, etc. In paper. Circulars numbered and issued since 1894 cover the same general topics as the Bulletins but are \ery brief. In paper. Field Operations is an annual publication. The first was published as a Department Report of the Secretary, in 1899, the succeeding issues are from the Soils Bureau. It consists of soil surveys and descriptions of various sections of the Unit- ed States adapted to agriculture, a kind of practical geological survey for the use of the farmer. In two large volumes since 1903, the first being the text, the second containing maps. In cloth and duplicated in Serial Documents. A few important papers are issued as pamphlet reprints. General Publications consist of lists and general accounts of soil survey, tobacco growing, etc. In paper, i, 2, 5, 7, 10, 59- 70 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Solicitor. The Solicitor appointed since 1905 belongs to the Secre- tary's Office and is its legal adviser. Annual Reports issued since 1907 are very brief. In pa- per and also included in the Department Report. Circulars numbered and issued since 1908 are concerned with legal affairs only. In paper. General Publications consist thus far of a compilation of laws applicable to the Agriculture Department. In paper. 2, 7, 60, 61. Statistics Bureau. The Statistics Bureau was established in 1863 as the Statistics Division and in 1904 became a Bureau. It "collects information as to the condition, production, etc. of the prin- cipal crops, and the statistics of farm animals through the State agents, through separate corps of county and other au- thorities, traveling agents, special foreign agents assisted by consular and other authorities. Coordinates, tabulates, and records statistics on agricultural production, distribution, and consumption, the authorized data of governments, institutes, societies, boards of trade, and individual experts, prepares spe- cial statistical bulletins upon domestic and foreign agricultur- al subjects, and issues monthly crop reports for the informa- tion of producers and consumers. Investigations made along the lines of land tenure, country life, education, transporta- tion, and various branches of rural economics." It is organized into the following: Crop Reporting Board, Domestic Crop Reports Division, Field Service, Special Field Service, Production and Distribution Division, formerly the Foreign Markets Division, Editorial Division and Library. Annual Reports issued since 1863 are administrative. Those from 1863 to 1888, 1894, and 1902 are included in the De- partment Report, while the others are also issued separately in paper. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 71 Bulletins were numbered and issued under the title ]\Iiscel- laneous Series Bulletins from 1890 to 1901. The word Bulletin was added beginning with Number 9 and since Number 24, issued in 1903, the present title has been in force. They con- sist of statistics of selected crops, wages, transportation, agri- cultural industries, etc. In paper, with occasional pamphlet reprints of important articles. Circulars numbered and issued since 1896 resemble the above in scope of contents. In paper. Crop Circulars unnumbered and issued from 1898 to 1900 were based on telegraphic and other reports in regard to the condition of crops. In paper. Crop Reporter is a monthly publication in numbered vol- umes issued since May 1899. It consists of statistical reports from the numerous domestic and foreign correspondents of the Bureau bearing on the condition of agriculture in the United States and its commercial opportimities. In paper. Monthly Crop Synopsis issued from March 1890 to May 1896 was a synopsis of statistics from the Statistical Report. Issued as a four-page leaflet. Statistical Reports in 36 numbered volumes from 1863 to 1899, were first issued from the Department as Monthly or Bi-Monthly Reports from 1863 to 1876. From January 1877 until September 1883 they were known as Special Reports ; from October 1883 until December 1897 they were renum- bered as Monthly Reports in a new series ; from May 1898 until April 1900 the statistics were issued as Crop Circulars, and in May 1900 they were finally merged into the Crop Reporter. These reports consisted of special and general statistics on all agricultural topics. In paper with occasional pamphlet reprints of important numbers. General Publications are statistical and relate to publica- tions, industrial colleges, tobacco, and the routine of the Bu- reau. In paper, i, 2, 5, 7, 8, 62. Vegetable Physiology and Pathology Division. The Vegetable Physiology and Pathology Division was established in 1886 as the Mycological Section of the Bot- j2 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS any Division ; in 1887 it became the Vegetable Pathology Section ; in 1890 the independent Vegetable Pathology Divi- sion; and in 1895 the Vegetable Pathology and Physiology Division which was finally merged into the Plant Industry Bureau in 1901. It was concerned with the diseases of fruits ■and all vegetable growth, their treatment, recommended fungicides and similar topics. Annual Reports issued from 1886 to 1901, the last form- ing a part of the Plant Industry Bureau Report, were brief ■and administrative. In paper, except those for 1894 and 1895, ■and also included in the Department Report. Bulletins were numbered and 29 were issued from 1891 to 1901 recording the Division's main work, on plant diseases ■and their remedies. With two exceptions. Bulletins 20 and 26. which were duplicated in the Serial Documents, these were issued in paper. Circulars were numbered and 18 were issued from 1886 to 1901. They resembled the Bulletins in scope, being brief accounts of similar subjects. In paper. Journal of Mycology was in 7 numbered volumes ; Volumes I to 4 being a private publication and Volumes 5 to 7 (1889 to 1894) government issues. They consisted of periodic bul- letins on fungicides and plant diseases. In paper with occa- sional pamphlet reprints of important articles. 2, 5, 8, 63. Weather Bureau. The AA^eather Bureau had its origin in the meteorological investigations carried on by the Smithsonian Institu- tion. In 1864 the Commissioner of Agriculture recom- mended the distribution over the entire United States of daily weather reports. This was done from 1870 until 1890, by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army. The AA^eather Bureau was officially recognized in 1890 and in 1891 it was transferred to the Agriculture Department. This Bureau "has charge of the forecasting of the weather; the issue of storm warn- ings ; the display of weather, frost, cold wave, and flood sig- nals, for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and naviga- AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 73 tion; the gauging and reporting of river stages; the mainte- nance and operation of United States Weather Bureau tele- graph and telephone lines, and the collection and transmis- sion of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation, the report of temperature and rainfall conditions for the cotton, rice, sugar, and other interests, the distribution of meteorological information in the interests of agriculture and commerce, and the taking of such meteorological observa- tions, as may be necessary to establish and record the cli- matic conditions of the United States, or as are essential for the proper execution of the foregoing duties." It is composed of the Forecast Di^'ision, River and Flood Service, Climatological, Instrument, Distributing, Marine, Telegraph, Publications, Supplies, and Accounts Divisions, Alonthly Weather Review, Library, Mount Weather Meteor- ological Research Observatory, Weather Bureau Stations and ^^'ork. Annual Reports were issued from 1891 to 1895 in two parts; Part One administrative. Part Two, meteorological. Since 1896 these have been combined in one volume. The administrative report, which is brief, is issued sepa- rately in paper or cloth, included in the Department Report in abstract, and given in full in the Serial Documents. The meteorological tables, which are continuations of a series begun by the Signal Office, are technical investigations connected with the scientific work of the Bureau. Since 1896 these include the administrative reports. In cloth and in the Serial Documents. Occasional reprints of important articles are issued as pamphlets. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1892 are scientific monographs on meteorological subjects, such as climate, humidity, storms, lightning, etc. In paper with occasional pamphlet reprints of important articles. Bulletins lettered and issued since 1893 ^^^ similar in char- acter to the above with much useful information on climatic conditions. In paper. 74 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUAIENTS Cotton Region Weather Crop Bulletins consisted of 4, numbered and issued during October 1905. In paper. Climate and Health was issued monthly in 2 numbered volumes from July 1895 to March 1896 on matters relating to sanitary science. In paper. Cold Wave Bulletin consisted of one broadside issued in 1896. In paper. Bulletins of Mount Weather Observatory are in num- l)ered volumes issued quarterly since January 1908. In paper. Daily River Stages numbered and issued since 1890 give gauge readings of the principal rivers of the United States. Parts 1-3 (1890-1891) were issued from the Signal Office. In paper. Instrument Division Circulars lettered and issued since 1892 are instructi(jns for the use of meteorological instru- ments. In paper. Meteorological Chart of the Great Lakes has been issued from 1897 to 1900 in numbered volumes. Beginning with 1901 two numbers are issued each year. In paper. Monthly Weather Review is in numbered volumes ; first is- sued from the W'eather Bureau beginning with Volume 19 Number 7, July 1891 ; preceding volumes, Volumes 1-19, Num- ber 6, June 1872 to June 1891, being issued from the Signal Office. A main feature is the numerous charts. A few im- portant articles are issued as pamphlet reprints, the Review coming out in paper. River and Flood Service was a monthly report reprinted from the Monthly Weather Review from September 1897 to October 1898. In paper. Sanitary Climatology Circulars were numbered and 4 were issued in 1895. They were concerned with climatic influences on health. In paper. Snow and Ice Bulletins have been issued weekly from De- cember to March since February 1892. First known as Depth of Snow on Ground, in 1896 changed to Snow and Ice Chart, and in 1899, it became the Snow and Ice Bulletin. In paper. AGRICULTURE DEPARTAIENT 75 Special River Bulletins were issued from March 15 to April 29, 1897. In paper. Storm Bulletins numbered for each year have been issued since 1893. They were first known as Lake Storm Bulletins but the present title was adopted in 1894. In paper. Weather Map was issued first tri-daily from January 1871 to June 1888 by the Signal Office; from July 1888 to June 1891 semi-daily ; and on its transfer to the Weather Bureau in July 1891 it maintained this semi-daily issue until October 1895 since when it has been issued daih^ It is distributed to all public institutions, commercial houses, and business cen- ters. It publishes statistics from weather stations throughout the country, showing rainfall, wind velocity, temperature, and barometric pressure, as well as forecasts for the next day. In paper, all stations, numbering 100, distributing copies for the vicinity. National Weather Bulletins are broadsides numbered for each year and issued weekly from April to September and monthly from October to March. Numbers r-2, (1887-1891) were issued by the Signal Office. From 1891 until February 1896 known as the Weather Crop Bulletin ; then the title was changed to Climate and Crop Bulletin; on August 29, 1904 it again became the Weather Crop Bulletin ; and finally in Feb- ruary 1906 the present title was adopted. These relate to crop conditions, seasons for planting, cultivation, and harvesting and are distributed for the benefit of farmers. In paper. General Publications consist of monographs, maps, re- ports on climatic, meteorological and other topics connected with the weather. In paper, i, 2, 5, 7, 8, 26, 52, 64, 65, 66. AUTHORITIES. 1. Publications Division — Bulletin 3. 2. Documents Office — Checklist (3rd edition). 3. Executive Departments. Organization. 4. Ames — List of Congressional Documents. 76 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 5. Documents Office — Department List i. 6. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition). 7. Publications Division — Circular i. 8. Library (Agriculture Department) — Bulletin 9. 9. Agriculture Department — Report, 1895. 10. Agriculture Department — Year-book, 1897. 11. Document Catalogue — Volume 2. 12. Document Catalogue — Volume 5. 13. Accounts and Disbursements Division — Publications. 14. Agrostology Division — Publications. 15. Mallory — Compiled Statutes^Volume i. 16. Statutes at Large — Volume 23. 17. Animal Industry Bureau — Diseases of the Horse (1907). 18. Agriculture Department — Report, 1907. 19. Animal Industry Bureau — Publications. 20. Appointment Clerk — Annual Reports. 21. Biological Survey Bureau — Publications. 22. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 23. Botany Division — Publications. 24. Plant Industry Bureau — Bulletins 5, 66, 97, et al. 25. Chemistry Bureau — Publications. 26. Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. 27. Chemistry Bureau — Food Inspection Decisions 1-25, 26, 33-36- 28. Entomology Bureau — Publications. 29. Experiment Stations Office — Bulletins. 30. Statutes at Large — Volume 12. 31. Statutes at Large — Volume 26. 32. Experiment Stations Office — Bulletin 80. 33. Experiment Stations Office — Report, 1906. 34. Monthly Catalogue — June 1907. 35. Monthl}^ Catalogue — September 1907. 36. Experiment Stations Office— Report, 1903. 37. Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations — Publications. 38. Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station — Publications. 39. Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station — Publica- tions. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT 77 40. Monthly Catalogue — May 1908. 41. Agriculture Department — Report, 1897. 42. Agriculture Department — Report, 1902. 43. Agriculture Department — Report, 1903. 44. Foreign Markets Division^Publications. 45. Document Catalogue — Volume i. 46. Forest Service — Publications. 47. Forest Service — Report, 1906. 48. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume i. 49. Agriculture Department — Report, 1890. 50. Agriculture Department — Report, 1893. 51. Library (Agriculture Department) — Publications. 52. Agriculture Department — Report, 1906. 53. Agriculture Department — Report, 1900. 54. Plant Industry Bureau — Publications. 55. Public Roads Office — Publications. ; 56. Publications Division — Publications. 57. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 58. Agriculture Department — Publications. 59. Soils Bureau — Publications. 60. Solicitor (Agriculture Department) — Publications. 61. Monthly Catalogue — March 1908. 62. Statistics Bureau — Publications. 63. Vegetable Physiology and Pathology Division — Publi- cations. 64. Weather Bureau — Publications. 65. Signal Office — Reports 1890, 1891. 66. Monthly Catalogue — April 1908. C-'j. Monthly Catalogue — July 1908. CHAPTER II. COMMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT. This was created an executive department in February 1903. In July of the same year it absorbed the following bu- reaus from other departments, and the hitherto independent commissions : Light House Board. Light House Establishment. Steamboat Inspection Service. Navigation Bureau. U. S. Shipping Commissioners. National Bureau of Standards. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Commissioner-General of Immigration. Commissioners of Immigration. Immigration Bureau. Statistics Bureau. Census Office. Labor Department. Fish Commission. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries Office. Foreign Commerce Bureau. Including the Secretary's Office, the Manufactures Bureau, and the Corporations Bureau, the Department is organized into fourteen publishing divisions. The Commerce and Labor Department is "charged with the work of promoting the commerce of the United States, and its mining, manufacturing, shipping, fishery, transporta- tion, and labor interests. Also the investigation of the organi- zation and management of corporations (excepting railroads) engaged in interstate commerce ; the gathering and publica- tion of information regarding labor interests and labor con- 8o HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS troversies in this and other countries ; the administration of the Light House Service and the aid and protection to ship- ping thereby; the taking of the Census and the publication of statistical information connected therewith ; the making of coast and geodetic surveys; the collection of statistics relat- ing to foreign and domestic commerce; the inspection of steamboats and the enforcement of laws relating thereto for the protection of life and property; the supervision of the fisheries law administered by the Federal Government; the supervision and control of the Alaskan fur-seals, salmon, and other fisheries; the jurisdiction over merchant vessels, their registry, licensing, measurement, entry, clearance, transfers, movement of their cargoes and passengers, and laws relating thereto, and to seamen of the United States; the supervision of the immigration of aliens, and the enforcement of the laws relating thereto, and to the exclusion of the Chinese ; the- custody, construction, maintenance, and application of stand- ards of weights and measurements ; and the gathering and supplying of information regarding industries and markets, for the fostering of manufactures. It has power to call upon other Departments for their individual statistical data, and also to make any special investigations that may be required."' I, 2, 3, 4, 5- Alaskan Fisheries Division. For convenience this title is adopted although not strictly- correct as the Division is known as the Fur-Seal and Salmon Fisheries of Alaska, Alaskan Salmon Fisheries, or the Alas- kan Fur-Seal Service. The protection of these fisheries was. intrusted to the Treasury Department in i868, while the pro- hibition of fur-seal killing was instituted in 1897, the super- vision having been in force since 1872. There is, however, a contract permitting the fur-seals on the islands of St. Paul and St. George to be taken by a large company from 1890 to 1910. This Alaskan Fisheries Division is under the immediate- COMMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT 8i supervision of the Secretary and deals with the regulation and inspection of the canneries and fisheries. In 1902 the President directed the Commissioner of Fish- eries to investigate the salmon fisheries of Alaska during the season of 1903. This work was undertaken by the Commerce and Labor Department when it absorbed the Fish Commis- sion in 1903. Annual Reports give the condition of the salmon industry as to yield, canning, inspection, regulation, labor, lists of packing companies, and recommendation for future work. The first report was issued separately, those for 1904 and 1905 were in separate form and also included in the Depart- ment Report; no report has been issued since 1905 except as a resume in the Department Report. General Publications have been accounts of work done and supply the place of annual reports for 1906 and 1907. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8. Census Bureau. In an act approved on March i, 1790 the "marshals of the judicial circuits of the United States were required to cause the number of inhabitants within their respec- tive districts to be taken," with certain exceptions as to Indians, etc. The first report was submitted to the President, the second through the sixth to the State De- partment, and from the seventh through the twelfth to the Interior Department. It was not until 1902 that the Census Office became permanent and in 1903 it became the Census Bureau subordinate to the Commerce and Labor Depart- ment. The Bureau is charged with the collection of all sta- tistics along industrial, economic, and sociological lines that are of value and interest to the public. Annual Reports from the Director, formerly called the Superintendent of the Census, have been issued from 1851 to 1902 from the Interior and since 1904 from the Commerce and Labor Department, the 1903 report being a report on its administration as a permanent bureau. These are brief ad- 8j haxdbook of public documents ministrati\e accounts and are included in the annual reports of the Department to which the Bureau belongs, except the 1903 report which was issued separately only. Bulletins have been issued since the Tenth census (1880). The issues for the Tenth and Eleventh Census (1890) contain preliminary matter that was later incorporated in the Decen- nial Reports. In paper. Beginning- with the Twelfth Census (1900) these Bulletins are regularly numbered and consist of important descriptive monographs on commercial, educational, sociological, and tech- nical subjects. There are annual statistics on cotton, and of cities of over 30,000, as well as vital, financial, population, and other statistics compiled since the publication of the Twelfth Census and supplementing the statistics there in- cluded. Numbers i to 4 were issued from the Interior Depart- ment. Issued in paper and supplied with indexes preparing them for binding and separate cataloging. Decennial Reports have been numbered and issued since 1790. I'he First in one volume was published in 1791 ; a re- cent reprint of Heads of Families here embodied has been issued and is especially ^'aluable for genealogical research. The Second (1800) is also in one volume and was issued in 1801 ; the Third (1810) in two volumes was published in 1811 and 1813; the Fourth (1820) in two volumes was published in 1821 and 1823; the Fifth (1830) in one volume was published in 1832; the Sixth (1840) in four volumes was published in 1841 ; the Seventh (1850) in five volumes was published from 1853 to r854; the Eighth (i860) in five volumes was published from 1862 to 1866; the Ninth (1870) in five volumes was published from 1872 to 1874; the Tenth (1880) in twenty-two volumes was published from 1883 to 1888; the Eleventh (1890) in twenty-nine volumes was published from 1892 to 1895 ! the Twelfth (1900) in ten volumes was published from 1901 to 1902. These reports are the Census proper and the basis of all statistics relating to the population of the United States. The Reports of the Twelfth Census consist of detailed sta- tistics bearing on Population, Agriculture, Manufacture, and COMMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT 83 Vital Statistics. Each of these main subdivisions is treated from every standpoint. The mass of statistical material given is enormous and answers every demand ranging from the percentage of foreign and native born inhabitants in every city or state, to the output of the carriage industry, or the illiteracy of the inhabitants, American and foreign. The pre- ceding Census covered similar matter with less detail, as well as statistics on Mortality, Mining, Commerce, Crime, Pauper- ism, etc. which are now treated in a general way in the De- cennial Reports but are ■ relegated to Bulletins and Special Reports where they are given more fully and at more frequent intervals. The reports of the Tenth and Twelfth Census only are numbered by volume, for the others, volume numbers must be assigned. With the exception of the Reports of the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Census which are duplicated in the Serial Documents, the others are issued in cloth. Abstracts issued for each Census since the Seventh give the main statistics of the Decennial Reports and serve for general reference. In cloth. Compendiums issued for the Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Census, serve as abridgments. They are similar to the Abstracts, though a little more complete. In cloth. Forest Products prepared in cooperation with the Forest Service has been numbered and issued since August 1908. This gives statistics bearing on the consumption of Ameri- can wood. In paper. Monographs issued for the Tenth and Eleventh Census contained matter on Factory Systems, Coke, Petroleum, Newspapers, Ship Building, etc. Most of them were later incorporated in the Decennial Reports. In cloth. Mortality Statistics has been numbered and issued an- nually since 1906, the first report covering the years from 1900 to 1904. It records the vital statistics on births and deaths "in such registration areas, states, and municipalities as ordered by the Director." The first volume was numbered 1st to 5th and was published as a Special Report; beginning 84 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS with the 6th it has been issued as an independent publica- tion. In cloth. Official Register had been issued biennially from 1816 to 1859 from the State Department, and from 1861 to 1905, at the same intervals, from the Interior Department. Since 1906 it has been published by the Census Bureau. Beginning with the issue for 1879 it has been published in two quarto vol- umes, the first containing the names of all government em- ployees except those in the Post Office Department, these con- stituting the second volume. The Official Register is popularly known as the Blue Book and besides including the names of all government officials, civil, military, and naval, also lists all subordinate employees and United States vessels. With the exception of the six issues from 1883 to 1893, which were duplicated in the Serial Documents, the rest are bound sepa- rately. Philippine Census Bulletins for 1903 were published in 1904 in 3 numbered pamphlets which dealt with climate, vol- canoes, and population. In paper. Philippine Census Report for 1903 was published in 1905 and consisted of 4 numbered volumes on the geography, his- tory, and population, mortality, defective classes, education, agriculture, social and industrial statistics. In cloth with a separate edition in Spanish. Special Reports have been issued at frequent intervals since the Twelfth Census and are published independent of the Decennial Reports. They consist of statistics on such sub- jects as Street and Electric Railways, Telephones and Tele- graphs, Manufactures, Women at Work, Central Electric Sta- tions, Benevolent Institutions, Insane and Feeble-minded, etc. In paper or cloth. Statistical Atlas issued since the Ninth Census consists of maps, charts, and diagrams representing topics treat- ed of in the various Census publications. In cloth. General Publications consist of reports on cotton ginning, causes of death, municipal accounting, as well as lists of pub- lications, instructions, reprints, and routine detail. Usuallv COMMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT 85 in paper, i, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 56. Coast and Geodetic Survey. As a result of President Jefferson's recommendation, Con- gress in 1807, appropriated $50,000 for a survey of the coast of the United States. Work was begun in 1816 under the su- pervision of the Treasury Department. Between 1818 and 1832 the Survey was practically abandoned and the instru- ments, records, and funds were deposited in the War Depart- ment. In 1833 field work was resumed and in the next year placed under the Navy Department, being returned to the Treasury Department in 1836. In 1878 the name was changed from Coast Survey to the Coast and Geodetic Survey; and finally in 1903 it became a part of the Commerce and Labor Department. The Survey is "charged with the survey of the coasts of the United States and coasts under jurisdiction thereof, and the publication of charts covering said coasts. This includes base-measure, triangulation, topography, and hydrography along said coasts ; the survey of rivers to the head of tide- Avater or ship navigation, and throughout the Gulf and Japan streams ; magnetic observations and researches, and the pub- lication of maps showing the variations of terrestrial magnet- ism; gravity research; determination of heights; the deter- mination of geographic positions by astronomic observations for latitude, longitude, and azimuth, and by triangulation to furnish reference points for State surveys." As can be readily seen the work done and the reports resulting therefrom are highly technical, and consequently are of interest mainly to the practical navigator and the seacoast and river-front towns. Annual Reports issued since 1832, being preceded by two progress reports in 1816 and 1818, are accounts of work ac- complished. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. 86 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Bulletins numbered and issued since 1888 consist of notes on surveys, currents, tide gauges, metric standards, and other technical matter. In paper. Catalogues of Charts, Coast Pilots, and Tide Tables issued since 1843 consist of Hsts of these publications. In paper and until 1863 also included in the Survey Report. Maps and Charts numbered and issued since 1835 are intended for navigators. In paper. Notices to Mariners have been numbered and issued since 1875, a few earlier editions preceding. At first they were pub- lished quarterly, but since June 1887, monthly. In January 1908 these were absorbed by the Weekly Notices to Mariners published by the Light House Board, thereby forming a joint publication. (See page 92.) In paper. Philippine Islands Notices to Mariners have been num- bered for each year and issued monthly, with some lapses, since March 1901 from the subofifice in Manila. In paper. Philippine Islands Sailing Directions have been numbered and issued since 1902 from the subofifice in Manila. In paper. Special Publications numbered and issued since 1898 are a series of technical monographs. Issued separately. Tide Tables issued annually since 1854 cover the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and are intended for navigators. Until 1866 they were also included in the Survey Report, but since then they are issued separately. Tide Tables, Atlantic Coast issued annually since 1866 are reprints from the Tide Tables. In paper. Tide Tables, Pacific Coast correspond to those issued for the Atlantic coast. United States Coast Pilot, Atlantic Coast, popularly known as the Atlantic Coast Pilot, has been issued since 1875 in numbered editions with frequent supplements for the benefit of navigators. In paper or cloth. United States Coast Pilot, Pacific Coast issued since 1869 corresponds to the Atlantic Coast Pilot. COjNIMERCE and labor department 87 United States Coast Pilot, West Indies issued since 1906 contains directions for navigators along the coast of the West Indies, Porto Rico, and adjacent islands. In paper. General Publications include laws relating to the Survey, maps, charts, rules, regulations, instructions, lists of publica- tions, specifications, expenditures, exhibition leaflets, etc. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents, i, 3, 5, 15, 17. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. Corporations Bureau. The Corporations Bureau was established in 1903 to investigate ''the organization, conduct, and management of the business of any corporation, joint stock company, or cor- porate combination engaged in commerce among the several states and with foreign nations, excepting common carriers subject to the Interstate Commerce Act.", (See page 247.) The work of the Bureau is mainly legal being concerned with corporation law, state incorporations, anti-trust law, unfair competition, taxation, and inefficiency of statutes. Particular attention is given trust regulation, insurance, and other corpo- rations. Documents issued are necessarily few, first on account of the comparatively recent establishment of the Bureau and second, because of the nature of the material to be published. Annual Reports issued since 1904 are brief administrative outlines. Published separately and also included in the De- partment Report. General Publications are monographs on such subjects as the beef industry, interstate commerce law. Standard Oil Company, etc. Published separately and sometimes in the Serial Documents. i, 3, 30, 31, 32. Fisheries Bureau. The Fisheries Bureau was established in 1871 by the appointment of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. For thirty-three years it remained independent, until in 1903 it was made subordinate to the Commerce and Labor Department, and became the Fisheries Bureau. The 88 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS work of the Bureau "comprises: i. The propagation of useful food fishes, including lobsters, oysters, and other shellfish, and their distribution to suitable waters. 2. The inquiry into the causes of decrease of food fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, the study of the waters of the coast and interior in the interest of fish culture, and the in- vestigation of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts, with a ^'iew of determining their food resourc- es and the development of the commercial fisheries. 3. The collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations." Annual Reports before 1905 were not onh' administrative, but also technical, containing special papers on the condition of the fishing industry, propagation of fishes, and their intro- duction and distribution. Beginning with 1905 the reports are purely administrative, the special papers being omitted. Published separately and duplicated in the Department Re- port, earlier reports being duplicated in the Serial Documents. Bulletins issued in numbered volumes since 1881, consist of monographs on matters pertaining to fish and fish culture, commercial, scientific, and general. These are of interest not only to the coast and river towns, but also to the general pub- lic. The accounts of some of the fishing adventures are partic- ularly entertaining. In cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Statistical Bulletins have been numbered and issued since 1897; Numbers i to 7 being without numbers. Numbers 8 and 9 being called Bulletins, and beginning with Number 10 they have been entitled Statistical Bulletins, They are confined entirely to accounts of the fishing industry. In paper. General Publications include financial tables of expendi- tures, as well as important reports on such subjects as the Habits and Diseases of Fishes, Sponge Culture, Utilization of Skins of Aquatic Animals, Dredging Operations, and the like. Published separately or- in the Serial Documents, i, 5, 12, 14, 17, 30, 33, 34. COMiMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT 89 Immigration and Naturalization Bureau. Since 1820 first from the State and later from the Treas- ury Department, there had been reports made on immigra- tion; but it was not until 1891 that the Bureau was regularly- established under the Treasury Department. In 1903 it was transferred to the Commerce and Labor Department as the Immigration Bureau, and in 1906 it became the Immigration and Naturalization Bureau. It is "charged with the admin- istration of the laws relating to immigration, and of the Chinese exclusion laws, also the naturalization laws. It supervises all expenditures under the appropriations for ex- penses of regulating immigration, enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act, and the Enforcement of the naturalization laws. It causes alleged violation of the immigration, Chinese ex- clusion, and alien contract-labor laws to be investigated, and when prosecution is deemed advisable submits evidence for that purpose to the proper United States district attorney." Owing to the character of its duties few publications are is- sued by the Bureau. Annual Reports issued since 1820 are administrative and give the results of special investigations. Published from 1892 to 1903 as numbered Treasury documents, since 1904 they have been issued separately and also included in the Commerce and Labor Department Report. Immigration Statement and Inward Passenger Move- ment issued monthly since February 1906 shows the in- crease of population by immigration. This is a continuation of a publication formerly published by the Statistics Bureau when under the Treasury Department and known as Alien Arrivals in the United States. In paper. General Publications bear on immigration laws, inspection, foreign conditions, and routine detail. Published separately or in the Serial Documents, i, 5, 6, 7, 12, 19, 30, 35, 36, 37. Labor Bureau. The Labor Bureau was organized in 1885 in accordance with an act passed in 1884 and placed under the Interior De- 90 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS partment. In 1888 it became the independent Labor Depart- ment and in 1903 it was made subordinate to the Commerce and Labor Department as a Bureau. This is one of the most important publishing divisions of the Government, its issues being of vital interest on all points relating to labor and la- bor problems, both domestic and foreign. It is "charged with the duty of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity. It is especially charged to investigate the causes of and facts relating to all controversies and disputes between employers and employees as they may occur, and which may happen to interfere with the welfare of the people of the several States," as well as of the foreign possessions of the United States. Annual Reports have been numbered and issued since 1885, each treating of a special phase of labor. For example the first is on Industrial Depression ; the second and twentieth on Convict Labor; the third, tenth, sixteenth, and twenty-first on Strikes and Lockouts ; the sixth and seventh on Cost of Production; the eighth on Industrial Education; etc. The first four reports, 1885 to 1888, were published separately in cloth and also included in the Interior Department Report; since then the}^ have been duplicated as indi\'idual Serial Doc- uments. Bulletins numbered and issued bi-monthly since Novem- ber 1895 keep abreast with all current news relating to labor and labor legislation. They include articles on various sociolog- ical topics, such as : Cooperative Communities, Public Baths, Sweating System, Child Labor, as well as accounts of all cur- rent legislation affecting labor and recent developments. In paper and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Monographs on Social Economics issued in 1901 by the Labor Department exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition COMMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT 91 consisted of six brief pamphlets on representative social top- ics of general interest at the time. Several of the pamphlets were duplicated in other publications of the Bureau. In paper. Reports of the Commissioner of Labor on Hawaii have been issued irregularly since 1901. Three reports have been made: the first in 1901, the second in 1902, and the third in 1905. Hereafter they are to be made every five years. The first and third were issued in the Serial Documents and the second as a Bulletin. Special Reports have been numbered and issued since 1889. These are lengthy reports resulting from investigations of va- rious branches of sociology; some of the subjects treated are on Marriage and Divorce, Compulsory Insurance, Coal-]\Iine Labor, Digest of Labor Laws. Published separately and ex- cept for the first, third, and sixth, duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications are devoted to reports on labor and briefer accounts of special topics. Published separately or in the Serial Documents, i, 5, 7, 12, 17, 19, 21, 24, 30, 38, 39. Lighthouse Board The Lighthouse Board grew from the Lighthouse Es- tablishment authorized in 1789, with subsequent legislation. The Board was organized in 1852 as a branch of the Treasury Department and in 1903 transferred to the Commerce and Labor Department. Its purpose is to provide lights for all navigable waters and to attend to all the details of construc- tion, maintenance, inspection, and control. Its duties relate to lighthouses, light-vessels, lighthouse depots, buoys, bea- cons, fog signals, and their appendages ; the entire Lighthouse Establishment being under its control. The United States is divided into sixteen lighthouse districts, each of which is in charge of two officials — an inspector, who is a Navy ofificer, and an engineer, who is an Army officer. Annual Reports are purely administrati^'e and are the only publications of the Board that are of general interest. Former- ly issued as part of the Finance Report; then separately as 92 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS numbered Treasury documents; and since 1904 included in the Commerce and Labor Department Report. Bulletins numbered and issued monthly since 1891 are technical and are intended for the Establishment. In paper. Circulars numbered and issued for each year give the names of officials connected with the Establishment. In paper. Weekly Notices to Mariners have been combined since January 1908 with the Monthly Notices to Mariners published by the Coast and Geodetic Survey (see page 86), thereby forming a joint weekly publication. In paper. General Publications include district reports and miscella- neous issues svich as the lists of lights, lists of signals, regula- tions, etc. Usually in paper, i, 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 20, 30, 40, 41, 42. Manufactures Bureau. The Manufactures Bureau was provided for in 1903, but not organized until 1905. Its purpose is to "foster, pro- mote, and develop the various manufacturing industries of the United States, and the markets for the same at home and abroad, domestic and foreign, by gathering, compiling, pub- lishing, and supplying all available and useful information concerning such industries and such markets, and by such other methods and means as may be prescribed by the Sec- retar}^ or provided by law." Annual Reports issued since 1905 are brief administrative accounts. In paper and also included in the Department Re- port. Commercial Relations was published annually by the Foreign Commerce Bureau of the State Department since 1855 ; in 1903 transferred to the Statistics Bureau of the Com- merce and Labor Department; and in 1904 assigned to the Manufactures Bureau. This consists of annual reports from consular officers on the commerce, industries, navigation, etc. of their respective districts, together with much geographical and historical information. Published separately and dupli- cated in the Serial Documents. COMMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT 93 Consular Reports, Annual were a numbered series issued from 1908 to 1909 for the fiscal and calendar year of 1907. The}^ were the separate reports which were later comlMued to form the Commercial Relations. In paper. Daily Consular and Trade Reports have been issued dail}-, except on Sundays and holidays, since January 3rd, 1898 as advance sheets of the monthly edition. They give the latest news on manufacturing and industrial interests. In paper. Monthly Consular and Trade Reports in numbered vol- umes were issued from 1880 to 1903 from the State Depart- ment; from 1903 to 1905 from the Statistics Bureau of the Com- merce and Labor Department ; and in 1905 transferred to the ^Manufactures Bureau. These are individually numbered from the first and deal with matters pertaining to manufacturing, based on reports made by consuls and other Government officials in foreign countries who report upon the condition of markets, articles sold and those in demand, suggestions for American export, current notes on trade conditions, and lead- ing articles on special topics. Published separately and du- plicated in the Serial Documents. Review of the World's Commerce has been issued as an introduction to the Commercial Relations since 1894; a brief resume having been issued in the same for 1880-1881. It is an abstract giving annual statements and statistics on the manu- facturing and shipping industries of the world. Published separately and also included in the Commercial Relations. Special Consular Reports are in numbered volumes issued since 1889. These are devoted to lengthy reports on special industrial topics, technological, agricultural, municipal, and manufacturing subjects such as those on gas engines, irriga- tion, insurance, lace-making, etc. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Tariff Series numbered and issued since 1907 is concerned with reports on the tariff on various commercial articles In paper. General Publications consist mainly of reprints and matter pertaining to the duties of the Bureau. Usually in paper, i, 5, 15, 19, 27, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46. 94 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUilEXTS Navigation Bureau. The Xavigation Bureau was established in 1884 under the Treasury Department and in 1903 transferred to the Com- merce and Labor Department. It is "charged with general superintendence of the commercial marine and merchant sea- men of the United States, except so far as the supervision is lodged with other officers of the Government. It is specially charged with the decision of all questions relating to the is- sue of registers, enrollments, and licenses of vessels and the filing of these documents, with the supervision of laws relat- ing to the admeasurement, letters, and numbers of vessels, and with the final decision of questions concerning the collection and refund of tonnage taxes. It is empowered to change the names of vessels of the United States, and reports annually to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor the operation of the laws relative to navigation." The publications are few and technical in character, consequently of interest onh^ to those immediately concerned in the foregoing duties. Annual Reports are administrative. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents, as well as included as an abstract in the Department Report. Lists of Merchant Vessels numbered and issued annually since 1869 give official numbers, signal letters, and names of vessels. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications are few in number and technical in character ; one on Navigation and Merchant Alarine Laws is worthy of mention for its importance to the public at large. Published separately or in the Serial Documents, i, 5, 6, 7, 24, 47. Secretary. The Secretary is in charge of the entire Department and from his office issues numerous publications which include his personal reports as well as those issued from the Depart- ment as a whole. Under his direction are the Chief and Dis- bursing Clerks, and the Appointments, Printing and Publi- o o CO;\IMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT 95 cations (formerly the Printing Di\asion), and Supplies Divi- sions. Annual Reports are administrative and include the reports if the subordinate divisions of the Department, all of which are issued separately and, combined, form a Serial Document. Circulars numbered and issued since 1903 are concerned with departmental routine. In paper. Decisions numbered and issued since 1903 refer to ap- pealed cases. In paper. General Publications deal with routine and also special re- ports on the trade conditions of foreign countries, proceedings of the National Council of Commerce and of the Labor Con- ference, rules, regulations, tables of documents received and distributed, etc. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. I, 3, 5, 6, 12, 30, 48, 57. Standards Bureau. The Standards Bureau received official recognition when in 1901 it was established as the National Bureau of .Standards under the Treasury Department; heretofore it had formed a part of the Coast and Geodetic Survey known as the Standard Weights and Measures Office. In 1903 it was trans- ferred to the Commerce and Labor Department and became the Standards Bureau. The duties of the Bureau are the "cus- tody of the standards ; the comparison of the standards used in scientific investigations, engineering, manufacturing, com- merce, and educational institutions, with the standards adopt- ed or recognized by the Government ; the construction, when necessary, of standards, their multiples and subdivisions ; the testing and calibration of standard measuring apparatus ; the solution of problems which arise in connection with standards; the determination of physical constants and properties of ma- terials when such data are of general importance to scientific or manufacturing interests and not to be obtained of sufficient accuracy elsewhere ; the Bureau is authorized to exercise its functions for the Government of the United States, for any state or municipal government within the United States, or 96 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCU.MEXTS for any scientific society, educational institution, firm, corpor- ation, or individual within the United States engaged in man- ufacturing or other pursuits requiring the use of standards or standard measuring instruments, For all comparisons, cali- brations, tests, or investigations, except those performed for the Government of the United States, or State governments, a reasonable fee will be charged." The work of the Bureau includes measures of length, volume, and time, thermometry, pyrometry, optics, spectroscopy, polarimetry, as well as many subjects connected with engineering, electrical, and chemical science. Annual Reports are brief administrative accounts. Pub- lished at first as numbered Treasury documents, since 1904 they have been issued separately and also included in the De- partment Report. Bulletins in numljered volumes, each consisting of several parts, have been issued irregularly since 1906. These record the scientific work of the Bureau and contain elaborate tech- nical treatises. In paper. Circulars numbered and issued since 1902 are on such sub- jects as electrical standards, clinical thermometers, metric system, etc. In paper. General Publications consist of scientific and technical monographs, routine detail and numerous circulars of infor- mation. Usually in paper, i, 5, 7, 24, 35, 49, 50. Statistics Bureau. The Statistics Bureau was first established in 1820 under the Treasury Department; reorganized in 1866; and in 1903 transferred to the Commerce and Labor Department. "The work of the Statistics Bureau which in its early history related almost exclusively to a record of the imports and ex- ports and the movement of vessel tonnage in the foreign trade, lias been extended from time to time by authority of Congress so that it now includes, in addition to many details of the im- ports, exports, and tonnage movements, the statistics of trade with contiguous territory of the United States, statistical and COMMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT 97 other discussions of the internal commerce of the country, the publication of a statistical abstract of the world, the publica- tion of the tariffs of foreign countries, the publication of spe- cial studies in the form of monographs relating to subjects of especial commercial interest, and the supplying to the press of information regarding the foreign and internal commerce of the country." Annual Reports are brief administrative accounts. Pub- lished, with occasional lapses, in the Finance Report ; and since 1904 included in the Department Report. Bulletins have been issued monthly since Jnl}^ 1893, and until July 1898 were known as the Principal Articles of Do- mestic Exports; then chai-ug^ed to Exports of Domestic Bread- stuffs, Provisions, Cotton, and Mineral Oils ; and in Septem- ber 1906 became the Exports of Domestic Breadstuffs, Meat and Dairy Products, Food Animals, Cotton, and Mineral Oils. In paper. Commerce and Navigation of the United States has been issued annually since 1821. These volumes give in detail sta- tistics of imports and exports of the United States, move- ments of vessels, etc. for the years represented. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Imports and Exports has been issued monthly since July 1893, being preceded by a quarterly issue. These issues con- sist of statistical tables bearing on foreign and domestic com- merce. In paper. Internal Commerce has been issued since 1876, first as part of the annual report on Commerce and Navigation and later as part of the Monthlj^ Summary of Commerce and Fi- nance. It is concerned with home products entirely and gives detailed statistics on domestic commerce. For a time it was also published separately. Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance has been is- sued since 1866 first as the Monthly Report of the Director of the Bureau of Statistics; from 1867 to 1868 it was also called Statistical Tables; from 1868 to 1875, Commerce and Navigation; from 1876 to 1893, Summary Statement of Im- 98 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS ports and Exports; in 1894 it became the Monthly Summary of Imports and Exports ; in 1896, the Monthly Summary of Finance and Commerce; and finally in 1899 the present title was adopted. Throughout these years there were other slight variations in title, the annual volumes differing from the monthly issues, and other minor changes. AVith 1894 began the present series of numbered volumes. This gives in detail monthly statistical tables of manufacturers' output, industrial condition, and other commercial news with occasional special papers on important topics. Published separately and since Xovember 1895 duplicated in the Serial Documents. Statistical Abstract issued annually since 1878, is the most important one-volume compilation of statistics published by the government. It embraces the following subjects: Area, Population, Finance, Exports, Imports, Manufactures, Min- ing, Agriculture, Transportation, Prices of Commodities, Mer- chant ^Marine, Miscellaneous. Published separately and, ex- cept the first issue, duplicated in the Serial Documents. Schedules lettered and issued since 1908 give the classifica- tion of commodities and the la^vs and regulations governing the preparation of the monthly statement of imports and ex- ports, superseding all preceding schedules. In paper. General Publications consist of reprints, press notices, ac- counts of expenditures, finance, and special treatises and mon- ographs. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. I. 4. 6, 15, 17, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27. 42, 45, 51. 52. Steamboat Inspection Service. Although as early as 1838 legislation had provided for certain steamboat inspection, it was not until 1852 that the Service was established under the Treasury Department, where it remained until its transfer in 1903 to the Commerce and Labor Department. It is "charged with the duty of in- specting steam vessels, the licensing of the officers of ves- sels, and the administration of the laws relating to such vessels and their officers for the protection of life and prop- ertv. " COMMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTAIENT 99 Annual Reports give besides administrative details, tabu- lations of wrecks, accidents, and other casualties. Published separately and also included as an abstract in the Department Report. Bureau Circulars numbered and issued since 1907, are on technical subjects connected with the Service. In paper. General Publications consist mainly of rules, regulations, lists of employees, etc. Usually in paper, i, 5, 42, 46, 53, 54, 55- AUTHORITIES. 1. Commerce and Labor Department — Organization and Law. 2. Statutes at Large — Volume 32. 3. Documents Ofifice — Checklist (3rd edition). 4. Documents Office — Bulletin 7. 5. Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. 6. Monthly Catalogues. 7. Commerce and Labor Department — Report, 1906. 8. Alaskan Fisheries Division — Publications. 9. History and Growth of the Census. 10. Census Bureau — Publications. 11. Poore — Descriptive Catalogue. 12. Document Catalogues. 13. Commerce and Labor Department — Reports. 14. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume i. 15. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 16. Census Bureau — Report, 1907. 17. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition) 18. Official Register — 1907. 19. Documents Office — Tables. 20. Document Catalogue — Volume i. 21. Document Catalogue — Volume 2. 22. United States Catalogue— 1902-1905. 23. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 5. -0- HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Document Catalogue — Volume 6. Library of Congress — Card. 26. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — \'olume 2. 27. Document Catalogue — Volume 4. 28. Coast Survey — Report, 1891. 29. Coast and Geodetic Survey — Publications. 30. Commerce and Labor Department — Report, 1904. 31. Monthly Catalogue — February 1907. 32. Corporations Bureau — Publications. 33. Fisheries Bureau — Publications. 34. Commerce and Labor Department — Report, 1903. 35. Congressional Printing In\-estigation Commission — Re- port. 36. Immigration and Naturalization Bureau — Publications. 37. Monthly Catalogue — March 1908. 38. Labor Bureau — Publications. 39. Document Index 12. 40. Light-House Board — Publications. 41. Monthly Catalogue — June 1908. 42. Commerce and Labor Department — Report, 1905. 43. ]\Ianufactures Bureau — Publications. 44. Monthly Catalogue — January 1906. 45. Monthly Catalogue — April 1908. 46. ^Monthly Catalogue — [March 1907. 47. Navigation Bureau — Publications. 48. Commerce and Labor Department — Publications. 49. Standards Bureau — Publications. 50. Monthly Catalogue — F"ebruary 190G. 51. Statistics Bureau — Publications. 52. Monthly Catalogue — October 1906. "' 53. Steamboat Inspection Service — Publications. 54. Monthly Catalogue — ^January 1908. 55. Monthly Catalogue — January 1907. 56. Monthly Catalogue — August 1908. 57. Monthly Catalogue — January 1909. CHAPTER III. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. This Department was established in 1849, having hereto- fore formed a part of the State Department known as the Internal Affairs Department. The Interior Department is "charged with the supervision of public business relating to patents for inventions; pensions and bounty lands; the pub- lic lands and surveys; the Indians; education; the Geological Surve}' and Reclamation Service ; the Hot Springs Reserva- tion, Arkansas; Yellowstone National Park, ^^'yoming and Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant Parks, California, and other national parks; forest reservation; distribution of ap- propriations for agricultural and mechanical colleges in the States and Territories; the custody and distribution of certain public documents; and the supervision of certain hospitals and eleemosynary institutions in the District of Columbia. It also exercises certain powers and duties in relation to the Territories of the United States." The Geological Survey, Education Bureau, and Patent Office are the most important publishing di\isions of the Department, i, 2, 3. Alaska, Governor. The Governor of Alaska has been appointed since 1884 to have charge of the Territory. Annual Reports issued since 1887 are accounts of the con- dition of Alaska. There was a preliminary report in 1885, issued independent of the Department Report, while the sub- sequent issues are published separately and also included in the Department Report. 4, 5, 6. Arizona, Governor. The Governor of Arizona has been appointed since 1863 to have charge of the Territory. 102 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUAIEXTS , Annual Reports issued since 1878, excepting 1880 and 1882, are brief administrative accounts. In paper and also included in the Department Report. 5, 7. Attorney-General, Assistant. See page 131. Capitol Building and Grounds Superintendent. The Capitol Building and Grounds Superintendent has been appointed since 1829 under the War Department, sub- sequent legislation following until 1862 when he was trans- ferred to the Interior Department. Before 1902 he was called the Architect of the Capitol. Annual Reports are concerned with accounts of the work of the year. Published separately and also included in the War Department Report from 1853 to 1861, and since 1862 in the Interior Department Report. 5, 8, 9. Casa Grande Ruins. The Casa Grande Ruins were set aside by executi^•e order in Arizona in 1892 under the Act of 1889. Annual Reports giving accounts of the condition of the Ruins are epitomized in the Department Report. However, the issue for 1907 is combined in pamphlet form with the re- ports of the AVind Cave, Crater Lake, Mesa Verde, Sullj^s Hill, and Piatt National Parks. 10, 11. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. The Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb was established in 1857 for the instruction of the deaf and dumb from all the States and Territories. Annual Reports are administrative. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 6, 8, 10, 12, 13. Crater Lake National Park. The Crater Lake National Park was established in 1901 in Oregon. INTERIOR DEPiVRTMENT 103 Annual Reports issued since 1903 are brief accounts of the condition of the Park. Inchided in the Department Re- port, while the issue for 1907 is combined in pamphlet form with the reports of the Casa Grande Ruins and the JMesa Verde, Piatt, Sullys Hill, and Wind Cave National Parks. 9, 10, II, 14. Dakota, Governor. The Governor of Dakota was appointed from 1861 to 1889 to have charge of the Territory which since has become the States of North and South Dakota. Annual Reports issued from 1878 to 1889 excepting 1882, were entirely administrative. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 5, 13, 15, 16, 17. Education Bureau. The Education Bureau was established in 1867 and made subordinate to the Interior Department in 1869. Its duties are "to collect such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and to diffuse such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school sys- tems and methods of teaching as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of effi- cient school systems and otherwise promote the cause of edu- cation throughout the countr}^." The Bureau is further "charged with the education of the diildren of Alaska, and the administration of the endowment fund for the support of colleges for the benefit of agricultural and mechanic arts." The introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska is also un- der the control of the Bureau. Its publications are serially numbered, this serving only as a kind of identification check. Annual Reports consist of: (i) The Annual State- ment submitted since 1887 b}^ the Commissioner, giving a brief summary of the work of the Bureau. Published separate- ly and also included in the Department Report. (2) The An- nual Report proper issued from 1867 to 1888 in one volume. 104 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS and from 1889, excepting the 1894 issue in one volume, in two volumes. This is perhaps the most important current work published on education, being a kind of yearly cyclopaedia of matters pertaining to educational methods at home and abroad, systems of instruction, and special monographs on such sub- jects as compulsory, industrial, and co-education. It includes reports on libraries, museums, and other institutions of an edu- cational character. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents, with reprints of important articles. Bulletins are numbered for each year and have been issued since 1906, although authorized in 1896. These are valuable monographs by eminent educators on educational topics. In paper. Circulars of Information were issued since 1867 ; there being 13 numbered issues up to 1868 which were published as reprints from the departmental edition of the Annual Re- port. From 1873 to their discontinuance in 1903 they were numbered for each year. They were lengthy monographs on pedagogical subjects such as foreign systems of education, foreign institutions, training schools for nurses, the condition of education in the several States, college libraries, etc. In paper. Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska has been issued since 1891 as a numbered annual report, a preliminary report having been published in 1890. It not only gives an account of the condition of the reindeer, and the progress made in their importation ; but also reports on the educational, religious, and social condition of the inhabitants. Published sc]iarately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Special Reports issued since 1869 are exhaustive treatises (in educational subjects. Published separately and occasion- ally duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications co\-er routine detail as well as mis- cellaneous reports. Published separately or in the Serial Doc- uments. I, 2, 3, .8, 9, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. INTERIOR DEPARTMEXT 105 Five Civilized Tribes Commission. The Five Civilized Tribes Commission was created in 1893 as the Dawes Commission, and in 1905 discontinued, its unfin- ished work being carried on by a Commissioner. It dealt with the Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek (or Muscog-ee), and Seminole Indians. Annual Reports issued by the Commission from 1894 to 1905 and since 1906 by the Commissioner give full accounts of the condition of the five tribes. Published separately and also included in the Department Report or issued as a sepa- rate Serial Document. 10, 27, 28, 29, 30. Freedmen's Hospital. The Freedmen's Hospital was established in 1871 un- der the \Y-dT Department and in 1874 transferred to the Inte- rior Department. Its patients are admitted from! all the States and Territories and it also maintains a training school for nurses. Annual Reports are administrative. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 6, 10, 20. General Grant National Park. See page 122. General Land Office. Following preliminary legislation begun in 1789, the Of- fice was established in 1812 under. the Treasury Department, and in 1849 was transferred to the Interior Department. It is charged with the survey and sale of the public lands, pri- vate claims relating thereto and their settlement, and other duties connected with the public domain. Annual Reports issued regularly since 1825 are brief ad- ministrative accounts. For earlier reports consult the Amer- ican State Papers. Published separateh- and also included in the Department Report. io6 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCU.MEXTS Decisions have been issued in numbered volumes since July 1881, the first volume covering two years and succeed- ing volumes varying from annual to semi-annual issues. These are the legal decisions made in cases relating to the public lands and are first prepared in the office of the As- sistant Attorney-General for the Interior Department. He submits them to the Secretary of Interior who, on approval, orders their adoption. Published in signatures and later bound in sheep. Digests have been issued at irregular intervals since 1891, the last edition being cumulative takes the place of the earlier issues; e. g. : the volume for 1891 covers Volumes i to 10 of the Decisions; the volume for 1893, Volumes i to 16; the volume for 1897, Volumes i to 22. The Digests are arranged according to the subject of the Decisions and give reference by volume and page to all cases bearing on the designated topic. In sheep. General Publications consist of matters relating to routine, rules of practice, manner of obtaining land, homestead rights, coal land laws, titles, etc. Published separately or in the Serial Documents, i, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 31. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. The Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, also known as the Powell Survey, originat- ed in 1874 in an appropriation for a survey of Utah. In 1879 it was superseded by the Geological Survey. Annual Reports were issued as : (a) Reports from 1872 to 1875 under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution and preliminary to the organization of the Survej^, both separately and in the Serial Documents. (b) Final Reports from 1876 to 1880 under the Interior Department. These were scientific in character recording the results of investigations. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. IXTERIOR DEPARTMENT 107 Contributions to North American Ethnology consisted of nine numbered volumes issued from 1877 to 1893; however, Volume 8 was never published. PubHshed separately, Vol- umes 2, 5, 6, 7, being duplicated in the Serial Documents. 2, S> 32, 33- Geographical Surveys West of the looth Meridian. See page 208. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. The Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territo- ries, also known as the Hayden Survey, began operations in 1867 and in 1879 was superseded by the Geological Survey. Annual Reports were numbered and 12 were issued from 1867 to 1878. These are valuable accounts of the re- sources of the regions surveyed. The first three reports were published as one volume, and, excepting the 3rd, and the 7th to the nth, were also duplicated in the Serial Documents either as part of the Department Report, or as distinct pub- lications. Final Reports or Monographs in 13 numbered volumes (Volume 4 never published) issued from 1873 to 1890 were confined to scientific subjects relating to geology. Published separately. Volumes 3 and 13 only being duplicated in the Serial Documents. Miscellaneous Publications were numbered and 12 were issued from 1873 to 1880 on geological investigations and spe- cial research. Published separately. Bulletins in 6 volumes, each consisting of numbered parts, were issued from 1875 to 1882. These were scientific monographs. Published separately. General Publications consisted of special reports, maps, and general miscellany. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. Entomological CoiiiMissiox. The Entomological Commission was created in 1877; in 1880 discontinued; and in 1881 its work was assumed by the io8 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Agriculture Department. (See page 48.) It was concerned mostly with locusts. Annual Reports were issued for 1877-1878 and for 1879. Published separately. Bulletins were numbered and 6 were issued from 1877 to 1881. In paper. Circulars were numbered and 12 were issued from 1877 to 1881. In paper. 2, 5, 8, 13, 33. Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel. See page 208. Geological Survey. The Geological Survey was established in 1879 taking the place of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, the Geographical Surveys West of the looth Meridian, and the Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel, the last two being subordinate to the Engineer Department of the War Department. On account of its highly scientific as well as eminently practical value, the Geological Survey ranks as one of the most important divisions of the government. It has "charge of the classification of public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain, and the sur- vey of forest reserves, including the preparation of topograph- ic and geologic maps; also the measurement of streams and determination of water supply of the United States, including the investigation of underground waters and artesian wells ; and also the reclamation of arid lands, including the engineer- ing operations to be carried on by the use of the reclamation fund created by act of June 17th, 1902, from the proceeds of sales of public lands." The Survey is divided into the follow- ing main branches, which in turn are composed of numerous subdivisions: — Geologic, Topographic, Publications, Hydro- graphic, and Administrative Branches, and the Reclamation Service. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT 109 Annual Reports numbered and issued since 1880, un- til 1902 included not only the administrative report, but also technical monographs. The latter became so numerous that the Annual Report sometimes consisted of as many as seven heavy quarto volumes. In 1902. these treatises were consigne-i to a new series entitled Professional Papers, and the Annual Report now reduced to one volume, is a general resume of the year's investigations and the condition of the Survey. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1883 consist of prac- tical and scientific investigations along geological lines, as well as including other sciences related to geology or neces- sary to its researches. Besides reports on the geological top- ics, they include compilations of place names of the United States giving their origin and history, bibliographies of geo- logical publications, etc. The series is in constant demand both by the geologist and those interested in the mineral development of the country. In paper and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Professional Papers numbered and issued since 1902 are the scientific papers which formerly were part of the Annual Report. In paper and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Water Supply and Irrigation Papers numbered and issued since 1896 deal with the distribution of the surface waters of the United States; determine the quantity and fluctuations of flow of rivers, mainly those having importance for water power, irrigation, municipal supplies, or other industrial pur- poses ; give investigations of currents of underground waters, particularly those reached by deep wells, and the determina- tion of the qualities of water as afifecting industrial and mu- nicipal uses. In paper and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Bulletins, Professional Papers, and Water Supply and Ir- rigation Papers are the most valuable and consequently the most widely distributed publications of the Survey. Each is separately numbered, and for convenience the following- classification has been adopted as a guide to their contents: — no HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS A. Economic Geology. 11. Descriptixe Geology. C. Systematic Geology and Paleontology. D. Petrography and ^lineralogy. E. Chemistry and Physics. F. Geography. G- Miscellaneous. H. Forestry. I. Irrigation. J. ^^'ater Storage. K. Pumping Water. L. Quality of Water. AI. General Hydrographic Investigations. X. Water Power. O. Underground Waters. P. Hydrographic Progress Reports. O. Fuels. R. Structural Materials. P. P. Professional Papers. B. Bulletins. W. S. A\'ater Supply and Irrigation Papers. Thus Bulletin 281, Series F, Geography 49, means the 281st Bulletin and the 49th of the Geography Series; or W. S. Number 144, Series L, Quality of AVater 10, the 144th Water Suppl}- and Irrigation Paper, and the loth of the Qualitjr of A\'ater Series. Mineral Resources has been issued annually since 1882 being a continuation of a series published under the Treasury Department from 1866 to 1876, by Browne and later by Ray- mond, on the Mineral Resources West of the Rocky Moun- tains. Each ^'olume consists of statistical and general in- formation concerning the mineral industry of the United States, giving location of deposits, prices, consumption, uses, special articles on minerals, materials, mineral waters, min- eral paints, abrasive materials, etc., by expert authorities. From 1882 to 1893 published separately, from 1894 to 1899 as part of the Survey Annual Report, and beginning with 1900 INTERIOR DEPARTAJEXT in again as an independent publication ; all issues being dupli- cated in the Serial Documents. Monographs numbered and issued since 1890 consist of lengthy treatises on subjects of interest mainly to the geolo- gist. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Doc- uments. Topographic Atlas had its origin in 1882 when the Geo- logical Survey was ordered to make a Geologic Atlas of the United States. In order to fulfill this requirement a topo- graphic map was first necessary and as there was none in existence, this had first to be made before the geologic map was undertaken. This topographic map is issued in the form of large sheets which show the water features, including the sea, lakes, ponds, rivers, and other natural streams, and canal and irrigation ditches; land features including moun- tains, hills, and valleys ; cultural features, or works of man, such as towns and cities, roads, railroads, boundaries, and names. So far almost every state of the Union has been represented, the area covered being about three-tenths of the whole country. Each folio relates to a (quadrangular district giving all the information concerned with its water, land, and cultural features. In paper. Topographic Folios have been numbered and 3 issued since 1898. They were authorized in 1895 as an "educa- tional series of folios for use wherever geography is taught in high schools, academies, and colleges." So far they are on Physiographic Types, Physical Geography, and vari- ous topographic information. In paper. Geologic Atlas has been issued in numbered folios since 1894. "Under the plan adopted for the preparation of a geo- logic map of the United States, the entire area is divided into small quadrangles, bounded by certain meridians and paral- lels, and these quadrangles, which number several thousand, are separately surveyed and mapped. The unit of survey is also the unit of publication, and the maps and description of each quadrangle are issued in the form of a folio. When all the folios are completed, they will constitute a Geologic Atlas 112 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS of the United States. A folio is designated by the name of the principal town or of a prominent natural feature within the quadrangle. It comprises topographic, geologic, economic, and structural maps of the quadrangle, and occasionally other illustrations, together with a general description." Each folio has on its cover a map of the State containing the quad- rangle described. This map designates by heavy and light lines respectively, the quadrangle treated of in the present folio and those in previous issues. Thus in looking for the surveys of California, it is best to turn to the last folio pub- lished for that State, and this will show all sections previously surveyed. In paper. General Publications consist of occasional special reports, lists of publications, and of routine miscellany. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. Reclamation Service. The Reclamation Service was organized in 1902 for the purpose of making surveys and examinations and for putting into effect the various projects for the reclamation of waste and arid lands. The Service is an outgrowth of earlier in- vestigations begun in li Annual Reports are exhaustive descriptions Of the terri- tory surveyed and accounts of engineering operations connect- ed therewith. Published separatel}' and duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications are usually published as part of some of the Survey series, i, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 20, 29, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. Government Hospital for the Insane. The Government Hospital for the Insane was organ- ized in 1855 after preliminary legislation in 1852, for the "most humane care and enlightened curative treatment of the insane of the Army," Navy, District of Columbia, and other em- ployees of the Government. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT 113 Annual Reports issued since 1854 are brief administrative accounts. Published separately and also included in the De- partment Report. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1909 consist of mono- graphs prepared by the staff. In paper. Financial Reports made annually to Cong-ress since 1881, show the receipts and expenditures of the year. Formerly issued as part of the District of Columbia Report but now published as an independent publication in the Serial Docu- ments. 8, 10, 12, 13, 42, 43. Hawaii, Governor. The Governor of Hawaii has been appointed since 1900 to have charge of the Hawaiian Islands. Annual Reports have been issued since 1900, the first cov- ering the period from 1898 to 1900. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 44, 45, 46. Hot Springs Reservation. The Hot Springs Reservation was originally estab- lished in Arkansas in 1832 with subsequent legislation until 1877 when the Hot Springs Commission was appointed to survey, plat, and lay out the city of Hot Springs and a Super- intendent was ordered to report annually to the Secretary of Interior. Annual Reports issued since 1877, with a few lapses, are administrative accounts. Published separately and also in- cluded in the Department Report. 5, 10, 17. Howard University. Howard University was established in 1867 for the "educa- tion of youth in the liberal arts." Annual Reports are brief administrative accounts. Pub- lished separately and also included in the Department Report. 6, ID. 114 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Idaho, Governor. The Governor of Idaho was appointed from 1863 to 1890 to have charge of the Territory. Annual Reports issued from 1878 to 1890, excepting 1882 and 1883, were administrative. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 5, 13, 17, 47. Indian Affairs Office. The Indian Affairs Office is also known as the Indian De- partment, Indian Office, or Indian Bureau. As early as 1789 the War Department was charged with certain duties relating to Indian affairs, though it was not until 1832 that the Commis- sioner of Indian Affairs was appointed. In 1849 this Indian Affairs Office was transferred to the Interior Department. It has "charge of the Indian tribes of the United States (ex- clusive of Alaska), their lands, moneys, schools, purchase of supplies and general welfare." Annual Reports are administrative and statistical, giving the reports from special commissioners, inspectors, etc., on the condition of every tribe. These reports are published separate!}' and combined are also included in the Department Report. General Publications consist of programs, rules, schedules, notices, instructions, lists, routes, decisions, and special re- ports. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. Indian Schools Superintende.\t. The Indian Schools Superintendent was appointed in 1882 as the Indian Schools Inspector, becoming the Superintendent in 1883. Annual Reports record the work of the year with impor- tant addresses, accounts of methods and courses, and other special papers. Published separately and also included in the Office Report. 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 28, 29, 41, 48, 49, 50. INTERIOR DEP.ARTMKXT 115 Indian Commissioners Board. The Indian Commissioners Board was established in 1869 and consists of Presidential appointees who are charged with the supervision of the purchase of Indian suppHes, and the religious, educational, and general welfare of the race. Annual Reports are administrative accounts. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 2, 10, 28, 29. Indian Inspector for Indian Territory. The Indian Inspector for Indian Territory has been appointed since 1898 to exercise "general supervision over the offices of the United States Indian Agent, Union Agency, Superintendent of Schools, Revenue Inspectors, Mining- Trustees, Town-Site Commissioner, and other matters under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department." Annual Reports issued since 1899 are administrative. Pub- lished separately and also included in the Department Report. 10, zy. 49. 51. Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. The Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua was incor- porated in 1889. Annual Reports are administrative. Published separately and until 1903 also included in the Department Report, since then they have been duplicated as independent Serial Docu- ments. 5, 9, 10, 26, 52. Mesa Verde National Park. The Mesa Verde National Park was established in 1906 in Colorado. Annual Reports have been isssued since 1907. The first was combined in pamphlet form with the reports of the Casa Grande Ruins, and of the Wind Cave, Piatt, Sullys Hill, and Crater Lake National Parks; while the report for 1908 was published separately. 10, 11. ii6 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Mine Inspector for Indian Territory. The Mine Inspector for Indian Territory has been ap- pointed since 1891 "for the protection of miners in the Terri- tories.'' Annual Reports issued since 1894 give statistics, names of companies and mines, mining rules, etc. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 10, 30, 53. Mine Inspector for New Mexico. The ^line Inspector for New Mexico, appointed since 1891, inspects coal mines and protects the lives of miners in the Ter- ritories. Annual Reports issued since 1893 are accounts of mines and administration. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 10, 28, 54. Montana, Governor. The Governor of Montana was appointed from 1864 to 1889 to have charge of the Territory. Annual Reports issued from 1878 to 1889, excepting 1880 and 1882, are administrative. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 5, 13, 26, 55. Mount Rainier National Park. The Alount Rainier National Park was established in 1899 in the State of Washington. Annual Reports issued since 1904 are brief accounts of the condition of the Park. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 28, 56, 57. New Mexico, Governor. The Governor of New Mexico has been appointed since 185 1 to have charge of the Territory. Annual Reports issued since 1879, excepting 1880 and 1882, are administrative. Published separately and also in- cluded in the Department Report. 5, 13, 16, 26. INTERIOR DEPART.MEXT u; Oklahoma, Governor. The Governor of Oklahoma was appointed from 1890 to 1907 to have charge of the Territory. Annual Reports issued from 1891 to 1907 are administra- tive. Published separately and also included in the Depart- ment Report. 5, 16, 26, 58, 59. Patent Office. Since 1790 legislation had provided for the granting of patents from the State Department. After subsequent laws the Patent Office was established under the State Department in 1836 and in 1849 transferred to the Interior Department. The Office "is charged with the administration of the patent laws and supervises all matters relating to the issues of let- ters patent for new and useful inventions, discoveries, and improvements thereon, and also the registration of trade- marks, prints, and labels. The Commissioner is by statute made the tribunal of last resort in the Patent Office, and has appellate jurisdiction in the trial of interference cases, in the patentability of inventions, and of registration of trade-marks." The publications of the Office are among the most valuable of the United States Public Documents. Annual Reports consist of: (i) The Annual Report to Congress issued since 1790 for the calendar year which un- til 1871 contained not only the administrative report, but also patents granted with accompanying plates and indexes. Since 1872 these reports contained a general survey of the work accomplished, but the most important features are the indexes. These list according to patent and patentee, regis- trants and trade-marks, labels, prints, disclaimers, designs, etc., all matter contained in the Official Gazette and the Speci- fications and Drawings for the years represented. Published separately and since 1829 duplicated in the Serial Documents. ( 2) The Annual Report to the Secretary of Interior since 1879 for the fiscal year, is a brief summary of the operations of the Office. Published separately and also duplicated in the Serial Documents. liS HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Classification Bulletins have been numbered and issued since 1900; the first four numbers being issued as supplements to the Official Gazette, beginning with Number 5 (1902), as a separate publication. They contain a classification of sub- jects of inventions. In paper. Decisions of the Commissioner and of the United States courts have been issued annually since 1869. Those for 1869- 1871 \\-ere published in one volume, as were those for 1872- 1874 and 1875-1876; since then they have been issued in sep- arate annual volumes. Beginning with 1876 these contain the decisions made by the United States courts in patent cases as well as those of the Commissioner of Patents. Since 1895 the Decisions ha^'e been duplicated in the Serial Documents, previous issues being published separately only. Official Gazette is in numbered volumes issued in weekly parts since 1872 and is the most popular patent publication on account of its frequent appearance and contents. It gives a list of patents granted, with description and illustration, in- terference notices, applications under examination, re-issues, designs, trade-marks, registered and registration applied for, labels, prints, decisions of the Commissioner and of the fed- eral courts. Published separately. Specifications and Drawings has been issued weekly from I\Iay 30th, 1871 to July i8th, 1872, since then monthly in enormous quarto volumes. According to law these publica- tions are deposited only in each of the Executive Departments, in each State and Territorial capitol, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of each Judicial Circuit of the United States, when it is not in the capitol, and in the Library of Congress. Besides there is an allotment of 100 copies to be sold by the Commissioner. The Specifications and Drawings is a trifle fuller in detail and description of patents than is the Official Gazette, but for ordinary purposes the latter is preferable. In the first named, the plates are separated from the description of the patents, whereas in the Official Gazette they are given to- gether. The matter has increased so largely that the present INTERIOR DEPARTMENT 119 monthly issue of the Specifications embraces three volumes. In sheep. Indexes issued annually from 1872 to 1875 cover general and specific topics relating to and appearing in the Patent Office publications. Beginning with 1876 these are included in the Annual Reports. Since 1880 a separate index has been published for each volume of the Official Gazette which later cumulates in the Annual Report. There are also other index- es : one to patents from 1790 to 1836; to inventions from 1790 to 1873; as well as indexes of special subjects and countries. Published separately. General Publications are on many subjects such as lists of inventions, rules of practice, classification, rosters of regis- tered attorneys, patent laws, a catalogue of the library, and a two-volume work published in 1854 and 1859 in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, on meteorological ob- servations. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. 2, 3> 5. 8, 9. II. i3> 36, 46, 60, 61, 62. Pension Bureau. A pension law had been passed in 1792, but it was not until 1833 that the Pension Office was organized. From 1833 to 1840 it was under the War Department, its duties being prescribed by the President; from 1840 to 1849 under the Secretaries of War and Navy; and in 1849 it was trans- ferred to the Interior Department. In 1893 it became a Bu- reau. The Pension Bureau "supervises the examination and adjudication of all claims arising under laws passed by Congress granting bounty land or pension on account of serv- ice in the Army or Navy during the Revolution and all subse- quent wars in which the United States has been engaged." Annual Reports issued since 1826 are administrative and statistical, with records of legislation. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. Decisions of the Interior Department "in cases relating to pension claims and the laws of the United States granting and governing pensions and bounty land claims," have been issued 120 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS in numbered volumes since 1887. Issued first in signatures and later bound in sheep. An index published in 1893 covers A'olumes i to 6. Digests haAe been published in two editions : the first in 1897, the second in 1905. These cover the Decisions re- lating to cases in pensions and bounty lands, with tables of cases cited, reported, o\-erruled, and modified, together with other legal information. In sheep. General Publications include routine detail and some useful historical contributions, such as List of Battles Fought from 1754 to 1900. There are also lists of disqualified attor- neys, pensioning orders, rules, laws, lists of pensioners, rul- ings, etc. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 29, 30, 40, 63, 64. Piatt National Park. The Piatt National Park was established in 1902 in Indian Territory with additions in 1904, as the Sulphur Springs Res- ervation. Annual Reports are epitomized in the Department Report. The issue for 1907 was combined in pamphlet form with the reports of the Casa Grande Ruins and of the Wind Cave, Sul- lys Hill, IMesa Verde, and Crater Lake National Parks. 10, II. Porto Rico, Education Department. The Education Department of Porto Rico was established in 1900. Annual Reports are accounts of educational conditions. Published separately and also included in the Interior Depart- ment Report, in that of the Education Bureau, or in that of the Governor of Porto Rico. (See page 165.) 9, 10, 28, 65, 66, 67. Porto Rico, Interior Department. The Interior Department of Porto Rico was established in 1900 to have charge of public works, buildings, grounds, etc. IXTERIOR DEPARTMENT 121 Annual Reports are administrative. Published separately and also included in the Interior Department Report and in that of the Governor of Porto Rico. (See page 165.) 9, 10 68 69. Porto Rico, Superior Board of Health. The Superior Board of Health of Porto Rico was estab- lished in 1899 by the War Department and in 1905 absorbed by the Health, Charities, and Correction Department. Annual Reports were administrative. The first was includ- ed in the report of the Governor of Porto Rico only, while those for 1901 to 1903 were also included in the Interior De- partment Report. 9, 46, 66, 70, 71. Public Documents Division. The Public Documents Division was established in 1869 by the appointment of a Superintendent of Public Documents and discontinued in 1907. Until the Government Printing Office (see page 236) was reorganized in 1895, the receipt, dis- tribution, sale, and other duties relating to the Government's publications were undertaken by this Division; but since 1895 it had charge only of the Interior Department's documents. Annual Reports were administrative and statistical show- ing the number of documents handled, receipts from sales, and similar detail. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. Checklist. See page 238. Comprehensive Index. See page 240. 6, 8, 28, 12, y^,- Railroads Commissioner. The Railroads Commissioner was appointed from 1878 to 1904 when the office was abolished. Until 1881 he was known as the Auditor of Railroad Accounts. Annual Reports gave statistics and accounts of the year's work. Published separately and also included in the Depart- ment Report. 5, 6, 9, 57, 71. 122 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCU.MEXTS Secretary. The Secretary has entire charge of the Department and the supervision of its duties. From his office are issued his personal pubhcations as well as those from the Department as a whole. Annual Reports are exhaustive administrative accounts, containing- the reports of subordinate divisions and giving full information concerning their operations. Published separate- ly and, combined, form a Serial Document. Decisions. See pages io6 and 119. Register of the Interior Department has been issued since 1877. It is concerned with the Interior Department only, giving an account of its organization, history, employees, presidential appointments and those made by the Secretarj-, location of offices, etc. Published separately. General Publications include reports on expenditures, on special investigations, on the Washington Gas Light Compa- ny, Columbia Railway Company, Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, of the former Surveyors-General and Mine Inspectors of the Territories, and on routine detail. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. 5, 13, 29, 74- Sequoia and General Grant National Parks. The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks in Califor- nia, are under one Superintendent, and were both approved by Congress in 1890. Annual Reports issued since 1891 cover accounts of both Parks and relate to their protection, lands, game, roads, and trails. Published separately and also included in the Depart- ment Report. 75, 76. Sullys Hill National Park. The Sullys Hill National Park was established in 1904 in North Dakota. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT 123 Annual Reports are brief accounts of the condition of the Park. They are epitomized in the Department Report; the issue for 1907 being combined in pamphlet form with the re- ports of the Casa Grande Ruins and of the Crater Lake, Wind Cave, Piatt, and Mesa Verde National Parks. 10, 11. Utah, Governor. The Governor of Utah was appointed from 185 1 to 1896 to have charge of the Territory. Annual Reports issued from 1878 to 1896, excepting 1881 1882, and 1884, were administrative. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 5, 13, 25, Tj, 79- Washington, Governor. The Governor of Washington was appointed from 1853 to 1889 to have charge of the Territory. Annual Reports issued from 1878 to 1889, excepting from 1880 to 1883, were administrative. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 5, 13, 26, 78. Washington Hospital for Foundlings. The Washington Hospital for Foundlings was estab- lished in 1870 for the "reception and care of destitute and friendless children." In 1905 it was placed under the Chari- ties Board of the District of Columbia, though still required to report annually to the Secretary of Interior. Annual Reports issued since 1886 are administrative. Pub- lished separately and also included in the Department Report until 1905, since when they are included in the District of Columbia Report. (See page 234.) 5, 10, 26, 52, 66, 80. Wind Cave National Park. The Wind Cave National Park was established in 1903 in South Dakota. 124 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Annual Reports are administrative. They are epitomized in the Department Report and in 1907 were combined in pam- phlet form with the reports of the Casa Grande Ruins and of the Sullys Hill, Crater Lake, Piatt, and Mesa Verde National Parks. lOj 11. Wyoming, Governor. The Governor of Wyoming was appointed from 1869 to 1890 to have charge of the Territory. Annual Reports issued from 1878 to 1890, excepting 1882 and 1884, were administrative. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 5, 13, 26, 78. Yellowstone National Park. The Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872 in Montana and Wyoming. Annual Reports relate to roads, hotels, tourists, transpor- tation, birds, game, travel, and recommendations. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. 15, 81, 82. Yosemite National Park. The Yosemite National Park was established in 1905 in California. In 1864 it was ceded by Congress to that State with the provision that it be a public park, in 1890 it was placed under the supervision of the Interior Department; and in 1905 California receded it to Congress. Annual Reports issued since 1891 relate to roads, hotels, patrols, fires, game, and recommendations. Published sepa- rately and also included in the Department Report. 5, 10, 26, 80, 83. AUTHORITIES. 1. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 2. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition). INTERIOR DEPARTMENT 125 3. Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. 4. 49th Congress ist Session — Senate Executive Document 115 (Serial Number 2340). 5. Documents Office — Tables. 6. Documents Office — Bulletin 7. 7. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 2. 8. Executive Departments, Organization. 9. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 10. Interior Department — Report, 1906. 11. Monthly Catalogue — February 1908. 12. Monthly Catalogue— December 1907. 13. 47th Congress ist Session — Senate Executive Document 182 (Serial Number 1991). 14. Document Index 10. 15. Poore — Descriptive Catalogue. 16. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 14. 17. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume i. 18. Education Bureau — Publications. 19. Education Bureau — Bulletin 2, 1908. 20. Monthly Catalogues. 21. Interior Department — Reports. 22. Monthly Catalogue — August 1907. 23. Education Bureau — Bulletin i, 1906. 24. Monthly Catalogue — February 1907. 25. Education Bureau — Report, 1888-18S9. 26. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — A'olume 2. 27. Indian Affairs Office — Report, 1894. 28. Documents Office — Bulletin 9. 29. Document Catalogues. 30. Document Catalogue — Volume i. 31. General Land Office — Publications. 32. Geological Survey — Bulletin 227. 33. Geological Survey — Bulletin 222. 34. Geological Survey — Publications. 35. Geological Survey — Report, 1904. 36. Official Congressional Directory — January 1907. 37. Geological Survey — Publications of the U. S. Geological Survey. 126 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 38. Monthly Catalogue — June ic 39. Geological Survey — Topographic Folio I. 40. ^lonthly Catalogue — January 1908. 41. Interior Department — Report, 1882. 42. District of Columbia^Report, 1881. 43. Documents Office — Numerical Tables. 44. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 9. 45. Hawaii, Governor — Report 1907. 46. Document Catalogue — Volume 5. 47. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 10. 48. Statutes at Large — Volume 34. 49. General Laws Regulating Indian Affairs — Volume i. 50. Interior Department — Report, 1883. 51. Indian Inspector — Report, 1907. 52. Document Index 11. 53. ]\Iine Inspector for Indian Territory — Report, 1907. 54. Interior Department — Report, 1893. 55. New Internationa! Encyclopaedia — Volume 13. 56. ]\Iount Rainier National Park — Report, 1907. 57. Interior Department — Report, 1904. 58. New International Yearbook — ^1907. 59. Oklahoma, Governor — Report, 1907. 60. Patent Office — Publications. C)i. Patent Office — Report, 1871. 62. Statutes at Large — Volume 28. 63. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 15. 64. Pension Bureau — Publications. 63. ^lonthly Catalogue — March 1907. 66. Document Index 12. 67. Porto Rico Education Department — Reports. 68. Monthly Catalogue — March 1908. 69. Porto Rico Interior Department — Reports. 70. A\'ar Department — Report, 1900. 71. Interior Department — Report, 1903. yz. Interior Department — Report, 1894. 73. Public Documents Division — Report, 1907. 74. Interior Department — Publications. -jT ' INTERIOR DEPARTMENT 127 75. Sequoia and General Grant National Parks — Report, 1907. 76. Interior Department — Report, 1890. TJ. New International Enc}^clopaedia — Volume 19. 78. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 20. 79. Document Catalogue — Volume 3. 80. Interior Department — Report, 1905. 81. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume 2. 82. Yellowstone National Park — Report, 1907. 83. Yosemite National Park — Report, 1907. CHAPTER IV. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. Although the office of Attorney-General was established in 1789, it was not until 1870 that the Justice Department was created. It is concerned with all questions of law involving the interests of the Government as well as being the legal authority to which the President and the various depart- ments appeal. It also has general supervision over United States prisoners, jails, and penitentiaries. The Department issues few publications and those are strictly legal in charac- ter. I, 2, 3, 4, 5. Attorney for Court of Private Land Claims. The Attorney for Court of Private Land Claims was appointed from 1891 to 1904 when the Court was abolished. Annual Reports were brief tabulations of business and were included in the Attorney-General's Report. 6, 7. Attorney-General. The Attorney-General has been appointed since 1789. He "represents the United States in matters involving legal questions, he gives his advice and opinion when they are re- quired by the President or by the heads of the other Execu- tive Departments on questions of law arising in the adminis- tration of their respective Departments ; he appears in the Supreme Court of the United States in cases of special gravity and importance; he exercises a general superintendence and direction over United States attorneys and marshals in all ju- dicial circuits in the States and Territories; and he provides special counsel for the United States whenever required by any Department of the Government." His office consists of 130 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUAIEXTS an Assistant Attorney-General, Chief Clerk, Disbursing Clerk, Appointment Clerk, Examiner of Titles, Chief Examiner, Su- perintendent of Prisons and Prisoners, and an Accounts Divi- sion. The publications outlined below are issued from the Attorney-General's office and from the Department as a whole. Annual Reports instead of being called the Justice De- partment Reports are known as the Attorney-General's Reports, and have been issued since 1870. They outline the year's work, include the reports of a few subordinate officials, record certain legislation and Supreme Court work, and con- tain numerous exhibits which consist of lists of officials, cases, bankruptcy proceedings, and expenses. The Attorney-Gener- al's Report is issued separately in paper and with the exhibits is also bound in cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Official Opinions have been issued irregularly in numbered volumes since 1852 ; the first volume covering the years from 1789 to 1851. The Government was not charged with the publication of these prior to Volume 13. The arrangement of each volume is simple, the opinions being classed under the department or official submitting the case involved. There is a separate list of acts and resolutions cited, a subject index, and an index-digest. Issued first in signatures, then bound in sheep, and since Volume 17 duplicated in the Serial Docu- ments. Digests of Opinions consist of the first, by Andrews, is- sued in 1857; then followed the Cadwalader edition in 1877; then the Bentley edition which covers Volumes i to 16 of the Opinions (1789 to 1881) ; and lastly the 1907 edition which embraces Volumes i to 25 (1789 to 1905), thereby supersed- ing the preceding compilations. In sheep, the Cadwalader and Bentley editions being also duplicated in the Serial Docu- ments. Register of the Department issued in numbered editions since 1872 is a guide and directory of the Justice Department and its officials. In paper or cloth. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 131 General Publications of which the most important, at the present time, is the two-volume compilation of Federal Anti- Trust Decisions which was published in 1907, are compilations of laws, lists of officials, reports of special commissions, ac- counts of proposed constitutions, and routine miscellany. In paper, cloth, sheep, or in the Serial Documents. 2, 3, 8, 9, iq, IT, 12, 13, 14, IS, 16, 17, 18, 19. Attorney-General to Porto Rico. The Attorney-General to Porto Rico appointed in 1900, after earlier legislation in 1898, has charge of the Supreme and District Courts of that island. Annual Reports are brief accounts of business including a summary of all legal proceedings. Included in the Attorney- General's Report and also in that of the Governor of Porto Rico (see page 165). 20, 21. Attorney-General, Assistant, Court of Claims. The Assistant Attorney-General, Court of Claims appointed since 1868 represents the Attorney-General in the Court. Annual Reports are brief accounts of business transacted and are included in the Attorney-General's Report, i, 18, 22. Attorney-General, Assistant, Indian Depredation Claims. The Assistant Attorney-General, Indian Depredation Claims appointed since 1891 deals with claims against the Indians. Annual Reports are brief accounts of business transacted and are included in the Attorney-General's Report, i, 6, 18. Attorney-General, Assistant, Interior Department. The Assistant Attorney-General, Interior Department has been appointed since 1870 as legal adviser to the Depart- ment. Decisions. See page 106. Digests. See page 106. 132 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Attorney- General, Assistant, Post Office Department. See page 155. Attorney-General, Assistant, Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. The Assistant Attorney-General, Spanish Treaty Claims Commission appointed since 1901 represents the Attorney- General in the Commission. Annual Reports are very brief administrative accounts. Until 1905 they were included in the Attorney-General's Re- port, but from that date only epitomized therein. 7, 20. Librarian. The Librarian was first employed in 1870 as a clerk to receive and distribute certain specified documents. From this grew the present office of Librarian. Annual Reports issued since 1877 are very brief summa- ries of the condition of the Library and statistics of documents received and distributed. Included in the Attorney-Gener- al's Report. 10, 23, 24. Pardon Attorney. A clerk in charge of pardons was first appointed in 1866; in 1868 this office was abolished; but renewed in 1880. In 1891 the Clerk became the Pardon Attorney. Annual Reports issued since 1885 are tabulations of cases and are included in the Attorney-General's Report. i, 10. Solicitor-General. The Solicitor-General appointed since 1870 is next in authority to the Attorney-General and takes the latter's place when absent. He is charged with the business of the Gov- ernment in the Supreme Court and other legal duties. Annual Reports are brief summaries of legal proceedings. In paper and also included in the Attorney-General's Report. JUSTICE DEPARTiMENT 133 General Publications are occasionally published and relate only to legal matters. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Docu- ments. I, 4, 8. Solicitor of the Treasury. The Solicitor of the Treasury has been appointed since 1830, after preliminary legislation in 1820; and in 1870 was transferred to the Justice Department. He is concerned with much of the litigation of the Government and is the law of- ficer of the Treasury Department. Annual Reports are administrative. Before 1880 they were included in the Finance Report, from then until 1905 they were included in the Attorney-General's Report, since when they have only been epitomized therein, i, 7, 8, 9. AUTHORITIES. 1. Executive Departments, Organization. 2. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 3. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition). 4. Bouvier — Law Dictionary — Volume 2. 5. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 11. 6. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume I. 7. Attorney-General — Report, 1904. 8. Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. 9. Attorney-General — Reports. 10. Documents Office — Tables. 11. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume i. 12. Monthly Catalogue — October 1907. 13. Documents Office— Numerical Tables. 14. Attorney-General — Publications. 15. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume 2. 16. 47th Congress ist Session — Senate Executive Document 109 (Serial Number 1990). 17. Monthly Catalogue — November 1906. 134 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS i8. Documents Office — Bulletin 7. 19. Monthly Catalogue — May and June 1907. 20. Attorney-General — Report, 1901. 21. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 22. Xew International Encyclopaedia — Volume 9. 23. Official Register — 1871. 24. Attorney-General — Report, 1877. CHAPTER V. NAVY DEPARTMENT. The Navy Department is one of the oldest of the Executive Departments having been organized in 1798. It has charge of the "general superintendence of construction, manning, arma- ment, equipment, and employment of vessels of war." It is composed of eight main bureaus and of the Marine Corps. The Navy Department is very conservati\'e in regard to the distribution of its documents to others than those connected with the Navy. This is due not only to the technicality of the publications, but also to the fact that there are many of secret character which it would be against the welfare of the country to expose to publicity. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Construction and Repair Bureau. The Construction and Repair Bureau was established in 1842 as the Construction, Equipment, and Repair Bureau, and in 1862 it became the Construction and Repair Bureau. Its duties "comprise the responsibility for the structural strength and stability of all ships built for the Xa\y ; all that relates to designing, building, iitting, and repairing the hulls of ships , turrets, spars, capstans, windlasses, stearing gear, and ventilating apparatus, and after consultation with the Ordnance Bureau, and according to the requirements thereof as determined by that Bureau, the designing, construction, and installation of independent ammunition hoists, and the in- stallation of the permanent fixtures, of all other ammunition hoists and their appurtenances, placing and securing armor after the material, quality, and distribution of the thicknes:i have been determined by the Ordnance Bureau, the permanent fixtures of the armament and its accessories as manufactured 136 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS and supplied by the Bureau ; installing the turret guns, the turret mounts, and ammunition hoists and such other mounts, as require simultaneous structural work in connection with in- stallation or removal ; care and preservation of ships in ordi- nary, and requisitioning for or manufacturing all the equipage and supplies for ships prescribed by the authorized allowance lists. The Construction Bureau also, after conference with the Ordnance Bureau, designs the arrangement for centering the turrets, the cliaracter of the roller paths and their supports, and furnishes that Bureau every opportunity to inspect the in- stallation on board of all permanent fixtures of the armament and accessories supplied by the said Bureau. It has cognizance of all electric turret turning machinery and of all electrically operated ammunition hoists (except turret hoists) the same to conform to the requirements of the Ordnance Bureau as to power, speed, and control. It has also cognizance of sta- tionary electrically operated fans or blowers for hull ventila- tion, boat cranes, deck winches, capstans, steering engines, and telemotors thereof, and hand pumps not in the engine or fire rooms, and of electric launches and other boats supplied with electric motive power. It has charge of the docking of ships, and also designs the ships and the various buildings and shops, so far as their internal arrangements are concerned where its work is executed, and is charged with the operation and clean- ing of dry docks." Annual Reports give lists of vessels repaired, docked, un- der construction and a general summary of work done, with a classified list of vessels. Published separately and also in- cluded in the Department Report. General Publications are as a rule technical in character, being specifications, instructions, accounts of expenditures, etc. Published separately or in the Serial Documents, i, 2, A, 5, 7. 8, 9- Equipment Bureau. The Equipment Bureau was established in 1862 as the Equipment and Recruiting Bureau and in 1890 became the NAVY DEPARTMENT 137 Equipment Bureau. In the same year it also admitted the Naval Observatory as a subordinate branch, and in 1898 the Hydrographic Office. The duties of the Bureau "comprise all that relates to the equipment of all vessels with rigging, sails, anchors, yeomen's stores, furniture not provided by other Bu- reaus, navigation stores, and supplies of all kinds including nautical and navigating instruments and books, stationery, and blank books for commanding and navigating officers ashore and afloat, binnacles, flags, signal lights, running lights, and standing lights on board vessels, including all electrical apparatus for lighting purposes and search lights, logs, leads, lines, and glasses ; log books, ships' libraries, illuminating oil for all purposes, except that used in the engineer department of the steamers, and fuel for steamers, the ropewalks, and the shops for making anchors and cables, rigging, sails, galleys, and cooking utensils, the Naval Observatory, Nautical Al- manac, Compass offices, and pilotage. It has under its con- trol the Hydrographic Office, the collection of foreign sur- veys, publication and supply charts, sailing directions, nautical works, and the dissemination of nautical and hydro- graphic information to the Navy and mercantile marine." Annual Reports cover the Bureau's operations for the year, consisting of statistics and summaries, with the reports of subordinate divisions. Published separately and also in- cluded in the Department Report. General Publications consist of catalogues of ship libraries, accounts of wireless telegraph conventions, notices, manuals of wireless telegraphy, lists of wireless telegraph stations, specifications, directions, and routine miscellany. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. Hydrographic Office. The Hydrographic Office was established in 1846 in con- junction with the Naval Observatory; in 1866 it became sub- ordinate to the Navigation Bureau; and in 1898 it was trans- ferred to the Equipment Bureau. It is the duty of the Of- fice to publish accounts of newly discovered dangers, changes 138 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUAIEXTS in lighthouses and buoys, and otherwise aid navigation by the constant publication of notices, directions, and instructions. Certain of these publications are serially numbered. Annual Reports issued since 1869 are brief administra- tive accounts. Published separately and also included in the Bureau Report until 1906, since when they have been only epitomized therein. American Practical Navigator first issued in 1868 has un- dergone numerous revisions, the last in 1906. It was original- ly by Nathaniel Bowditch and is an "epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy." In sheep. Hydrographic Bulletins numbered and issued weekly since September 1889, are intended for navigators. These succeed- ed the Hydrographic Notices which were published at fre- quent intervals since 1867 and were numbered for each year. In paper. Lists of Lights of the World issued at frequent intervals since 1871 and numbered for each year since 1872, give the name and location, distance visible, height, and fog signals of all lighthouses, light-vessels, buoys, towers, etc. through- out the world. In paper. Notices to Mariners have been issued weekly since 1870 and numbered for each year. In paper. Reprints of Hydrographic Information from Pilot Charts and Hydrographic Bulletins have been numbered and issued since 1909 for popular use. In paper. Sailing Directions issued at frequent intervals since 1872 are intended for navigators. In paper. General Publications include charts, signal codes, tables for navigators, azimuths of celestial bodies, accounts of storms, lists of publications, geographical features of special localities, and routine detail. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. Naval Observatory. As a result of legislation in 1842 the Naval Observatory was established in 1846 as the United States Naval Observ- NA^'Y DEPARTMENT 139 atory and Hydrographic Office. Until 1855 it was popu- larly known as the National Observatory. When first created the Observatory was directly under the supervision of the Navy Department; then from 1862 to 1889 it was under the Navigation Bureau ; and in 1890 was transferred to the Equip- ment Bureau. The duties of the Observatory are "to accurate- ly determine the positions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars for use in preparing the Nautical Almanac ; to test chro- nometers; to issue correct standard time daily; to distrib- ute to vessels of the Navy instruments of precision for navigat- ing purposes; to conduct astronomical investigations of gen- eral and specific scientific interest ; and to publish the Nautical Almanac." Annual Reports issued since 1847, with a few lapses, are administrative. Published separately and also included in the Department or Bureau Report to which they belonged until 1906, since when they ha^e been only epitomized in the Bu- reau Report. Annual Reports of the Board of Visitors issued somewhat irregularly since 1899 are accounts of the condition of the Observatory. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. Publications issued annually since 1838 are numbered ac- cording to volume from 1845 to 1883. The first issue, in 1838. was entitled : Observations by Lieutenant Gillis ; Volumes i to 6 (1845 to 1852), Astronomical Investigations; Volume 7 (1853 to i860), Washington Observations; Volumes 8 to 30 (1861 to 1883), Astronomical and Meteorological Observa- tions; beginning with the volume for 1884 volume numbers were discarded and the title was Observations: from 1891 to 1899 they were called Astronomical, Magnetic, and Meteoro- logical Observations ; and finally in 1900 they were entitled Publications, which are numbered as a 2nd Series and each part assigned a volume number. Published separately and for the most part duplicated in the Serial Documents. 140 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS General Publications are on technical and routine subjects. Usually in the Serial Documents. Compass Office. The Compass Office was established in 1885 under the Navigation Bureau; in 1890 transferred to the Equipment Bureau ; and in 1906 made a part of the Naval Observatory. Annual Reports issued since 1886 are brief accounts of compasses. Included in the Department Report. Nautical Almanac Office. The Nautical Almanac Office was established in 1849 for the purpose of publishing nautical almanacs. Annual Reports are brief administrative accounts. In- cluded in the Observatory Report. American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac has been is- sued annually for three years in advance since 1855. This is for the convenience of vessels going on long voyages. In 1850 Con- gress provided for a publication in which the meridian at Washington should be adopted for astronomical purposes and that of Greenwich for nautical. The Almanac gives "the posi- tion of the moon in right ascension and declination for every hour, and the sun's latitude and longitude for every day in the 3'ear; it shows the obliquity of the ecliptic, the sun's and moon's parallax, aberration, etc. at different times ; it supplies the necessary data for the determination of the real or appar- ent size, position, and motion of the planets and their satel- lites; it fixes accurately the places of the more important stars and gives full details concerning eclipses, occultations, tran- sits, and other celestial phenomena occurring during the year." Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents from 1886 to 1889. American Nautical Almanac is a reprint from the preced- ing issue for mariners. In paper. Astronomical Papers in numbered volumes issued since 1882 are prepared for the American Ephemeris and Nautical NAVY DEPARTMENT 141 Almanac. Being scientific in character, they appeal to the spe- cialist. Published separately. Atlantic Coaster's Nautical Almanac issued annually from 1884 to 1892 corresponded to the Pacific Coaster's Nautical Al- manac. Pacific Coaster's Nautical Almanac issued annually since 1885 contains "in addition to certain astronomical data, tide tables for the Pacific coast of the United States, list of light- houses, lighted beacons, and floating lights on west coast of North and South America, including North and South Pacific islands, direction for manoeuvering in cyclones, regulations for preventing collisions at sea, life-saving instructions, cau- tionar}^ signals, etc." In paper. General Publications include tables, special reports, and rotitine miscellany. Published separately or in the Serial Doc- uments. I, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10-32. Judge- Advocate-General. The Judge-Advocate-General was appointed in 1865 as the Solicitor and Naval Judge-Advocate-General; in 1870 the office was changed to that of the Naval Solicitor and trans- ferred to the Justice Department; in 1878 the office was abol- ished; and finally in 1880 the present Judge- Advocate-General was made an officer of the Navy Department. It is his duty "under the direction of the Secretary of Navy to revise, report upon, and have recorded the proceedings of all courts martial, courts of inquiry, and boards for the examination of officers for retirement and promotion in the Naval service; to pre- pare the charges and specifications and the necessary orders convening general courts martial in cases where such courts are ordered by the Secretary of the Navy; to prepare general orders promulgating the final action of the reviewing author- ity in general court-martial cases; to prepare the necessary orders convening courts of inquiry, boards for the examina- tion of officers for promotion and retirement, and for the ex- amination of candidates for appointment in the Medical Corps, and to conduct all official correspondence relating to courts I-I-' HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS martial, courts of inquiry, and such boards; to examine and report claims of every description filed in the Department; to conduct the departmental correspondence relating to the business connected with the increase of the Xavy, including the preparation of advertisements inviting proposals for the construction of new vessels, or for furnishing materials for use in their construction ; of forms of proposals to be used by bidders in ufifering to construct such vessels or furnish such materials, and forms of contracts to be entered into and bonds to be furnished by such bidders on the acceptance of their proposals, and including also departmental correspondence re- lating to the plans, specifications, and materials of new ves- sels and to proposed changes in the same; to consider and report upon all matter which may be referred to him invoh-- ing questions of law, regulations, and discipline and requiring the Department's action ; the meaning or construction of the general regulations of the Xavy, including those relating to rank of precedence, or to appointments, commissions, promo- tions, and retirement, and to the validity of proceedings in court-martial cases; to conduct the correspondence with the Attorne}--Cjeneral relative to questions of statutory construc- tion submitted for his opinion therein ; to the institution of suits, at the instance of the Xavy Department, and to the de- fense of suits brought by pri\ate parties against the officers or agents of the Department; to answer calls from the Jus- tice Department and from the Court of Claims for informa- tion and papers relating to cases pending in that court and afifecting the Xavy Department ; to examine and report upon the official bonds of pay officers, and all questions presented to the Department relating to pay and traveling expenses of officers, to attend to all correspondence relating to the care of naval prisons and prisoners, and to consider and act upon appli- cations for the removal of the mark of desertion standing against the names of enlisted men of the Xavy or Afarine Corps." Annual Reports are brief summaries of courts martial and other trials, accounts of legislation affecting the Depart- NAVV DEPARTMEXT 143 ment, and reports on prisoners. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. General Publications are issued at rare intervals and per- tain to the foregoing- duties. Usually in paper, i, 2, 4, 14, 16. Marine Corps. The Marine Corps was first established in 1776 and aft- er the adoption of the Constitution again called into existence in 1798. It is in charge of a Commandant who "is responsi- ble to the Secretary of the Xavy for the general efficiency and discipline of the Corps; he makes such distribution of officers and men for duty at the several shore stations as shall appear to him to be most advantageous for the interests of the serv- ice ; furnishes guards for \'essels of the Navy, according to the authorized scale of allowance ; under the direction of the Secretary of Xavy, he issues orders for the movement of of- ficers and troops, and such other orders and instructions for their guidance as may be necessary ; and he has charge and exercises general supervision and control of the recruiting service of the Corps, and the necessary expenses thereof, in- cluding the establishment of recruiting offices." Annual Reports issued regularly since 1841 are brief ad- ministrative accounts. Published separately and, omitting ap- pendixes, also included in the Department Report. General Publications consist of regulations, forms of pro- cedure in naval courts, manuals, estimates, etc. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. 2, 4, 5, 8, 33. Medicine and Surgery Bureau. The Medicine and Surgery Bureau was established in 1842 and is in charge of a Surgeon-General. Its duties "com- prise all that relates to laboratories, naval hospitals and dis- pensaries, the furnishing of all supplies, medicines, and instru- ments required in the Medical Department of the Navy ; has sole control of all buildings erected for its purposes, and de- 144 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS termines upon and furnishes all the stores, etc. used in the medical and hospital departments, materials, instruments, means, and appliances of every kind used for its purposes and controls their inspection, storing, transportation, and prepa- ration; designs, erects, furnishes, and maintains all the build- ings constructed for its purposes outside the limits of navy- yards, and for which it may have estimated ; is charged with the purchase, sale, and transfer of all land and buildings in connection therewith, and with the preservation of the pub- lic property under its control ; designs the various buildings erected within navy-yards for its purpose as far only as their internal arrangements are concerned, and after their comple- tion, has exclusive control of the same, and makes all con- tracts for and superintends all work done under it." Annual Reports are accounts of the health of the Navy and of general administration. Published separately and, omitting appendixes, also included in the Department Report. United States Naval Medical Bulletins issued c^uarterly .-^ince April 1907 contain medical monographs. In paper. General Publications consist of drill regulations for the hospital corps, instructions, specifications, reports on the Na- val Medical School, routine detail, and special reports such as that on the Medical and Sanitary Features of the Russo- Japanese War. Published separately or in the Serial Docu- ments. 2, 4, 8, 28, 34. Naval War Records Office. The Naval War Records Office established in 1884 has charge of the official records of the Navy and of the Depart- ment Library. Annual Reports are brief accounts of work done and of the condition of the Library. Included in the Department Report. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the V\'ar of Rebellion were first in process of compilation in 1884. However it was not until 1894 that the first volume NAVY DEPARTMENT 145 was published. These correspond to the War of the Rebellion Records (see ftage 225), and illustrate all the naval features of the Civil War by giving the reproduction of all official cor- respondence and records. The Naval War Records are not yet completed, the first series being still in course of publica- tion. In all there are to be three series, each composed of numbered volumes. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents, i, 15, 35. Navigation Bureau. The Navigation Bureau was established in 1862. The duties of the Bureau "comprise all that relates to the promul- gation, record, and enforcement of the Secretary's orders to the fleets and to the officers of the Navy, except such orders as pertain to the office of the Secretary; the education of of- ficers and men, including the Naval Academy and technical schools for officers (except the War College and Torpedo School), the apprentice establishment, and schools for the technical education of enlisted men, and to the supervision and control of the Naval Home, Philadelphia ; the enlistment and discharge of all enlisted persons, including appointed petty officers for general and special service. It controls all ren- dezvous and receiving ships and provides transportation for all enlisted persons and appointed petty officers; establishes the complement of crews of all vessels in commission ; keeps the records of service of all squadrons, ships, officers, and men and prepares the Annual Naval Register for publication ; has under its direction the preparation, revision, and enforce- ment of all tactics, drill books, signal codes, cipher codes, and the uniform regulations." It has charge of the Naval Intelli- gence Office, Naval Academy, and Naval Home. Annual Reports are on general administration embracing the reports of the subordinate divisions of the Bureau. Pub- lished separately and also included in the Department Report. Navy Register has been issued since 181 5, annually or semi-annually until 1895, since when it came out in semi-an- nual editions, as a rule in January and July of each year, until 146 HAX'DBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUJNIENTS July 1907 when the latter issue was discontinued. This is a complete directory of the United States Xavy giving the "list and station of the commissioned and warrant officers of the Na\y of the United States, and of the marine corps, on the active list, and the officers on the retired list employed on active dutJ^" stations, navy yards, vessels, and pay tables. PuIj- lished separately, it is duplicated in Serial Documents as the Na\-y Register (cover title) or the Register of the Commis- sioned and W^arrant Officers. Navy and Marine Corps issued monthly since July 1908 is a list and directory of officers, taking the place of the July is- sue of the Navy Register. In paper. General Publications include Orders which are issued daily except on Sundays, and holidaA^s, tables, drills, manuals of arms, special reports on voyages, international law, courses and regulations of naval schools, movements of vessels and re- ports on Xaval Training Stations at Newport and San Fran- cisco, and reports from the Pacific Stations. Published sep- arately or in the Serial Documents. Naval Academy. The Xaval Academy was founded at Annapolis in 1845 as the Naval School and in 1850 became the Naval Academy. It was under the Ordnance and Hydrography Bureau from 1850 to 1862, then transferred to the Navigation Bureau until 1867 when this Bureau had charge of its finances and general ad- ministration only. In 1869 the Academy was withdrawn from the Navigation Bureau, but in 1889 it renewed its connection. The Naval Academy trains and equips men for officers in the United States Navy. Annual Reports of the Superintendent issued since 1852 are very brief administrative outlines. Included in the Naviga- tion Bureau Report. Annual Reports of the Board of Visitors, or Examiners, issued since 185 1, are less brief than the preceding and gWe an account of the present condition and future needs of the NAVY DEPARTAIENT 147 Academy. Published separately and included in the Depart- ment Report. Annual Registers are catalogues of the Academy listing terms, examinations, students, merit roll, courses of instruc- tion, etc. In paper. General Publications consist of regulations, examinations and similar matter. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. Naval Home. The Naval Home is in Philadelphia and was established in 181 1 as the Naval Asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seamen, and mariners. In accordance with a recommendation in 1888 the name was changed from Naval Asylum to Naval Home, and in 1898 it was transferred from the Yards and Docks Bureau to the Navigation Bureau. Annual Reports issued regularly since 1898 are brief and administrative. Included in the Navigation Bureau Report except for 1906 when no report was issued. General Publications consist of estimates, accounts of ex- penses, etc. Usually in Serial Documents. Naval Intelligence Office. The Naval Intelligence Office was established in 1882. Its primary object is to collect information which may be of ser\'- ice in time of war. Consequently much of its work being of a confidential character is not published. Annual Reports issued since 1898 are brief, giving an out- line of the year's work and occasionally a list of the Office's publications. Published separatel}^ and also included in the Navigation Bureau Report. General Information Series in 21 numbered volumes is- sued from 1882 to 1902, embraced the Information from Abroad Series as well as Notes on Naval Progress. These were lengthy monographs and treatises on operations, tactics, ms haxdbook of public docuinients observations, and matter bearing on naval science. Published separately. War Series was in 4 numbers issued from 1883 to 1891. They dealt with naval and military operations of foreign countries and other important accounts of methods in war. They treated of the French Navy during the War with Tunis, War between Chile and the Republics of Peru and Bolivia, Naval and Military Operations in Egypt, and the Chilean Revolution. Published separately, Numbers i to 3 being du- plicated in the Serial Documents. War Notes in 8 numbers from 1898 to 1900 were concerned with the naval operations of the Spanish-American War. They were also called Notes on Spanish- American War. Pub- lished separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications consist of lists of coaling stations, accounts of docking and repairing, translations of marine law, battles, opinions of foreign naval officers, fortification terms, coaling, docking, and repairing stations of the world, lists of ships, etc. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. Naval War College. The Naval War College was established at Newport in 1884 as a professional school for the training of graduates of the Naval Academy and of sea officers in the principles of the art of war. In 1889 it became consolidated with the Tor- pedo Station. Annual Reports are brief and administrative. Included, except for occasional lapses, in the Navigation Bureau Report. General Publications consist of matter relating to the Col- lege courses and also of important treatises on international law. Usually published separately, i, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 19, 22, 30, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47. Ordnance Bureau. The Ordnance Bureau was established in 1842 as the Ordnance and Hydrography Bureau ; in 1862 it became the NAVY DEPARTMENT 149 Ordnance Bureau. "The duties of the Ordnance Bureau comprise all that relates to the torpedo station, naval proving grounds, and magazines on shore ; to the manufacture of of- fensive and defensive arms and apparatus (including torpe- does), all ammunition, and war explosives; procures all ma- chinery, apparatus, equipment, material, and supplies re- quired by or for use with the above ; recommends the arma- ment to be carried by vessels of the Navy; the material, kind, and quality of the armor; the interior dimensions of revolv- ing turrets and their requirements as regards rotation. It fixes within the carrying power of vessels as determined by the Construction and Repair Bureau, the location and com- mand of the armament, and distributes the thickness of the armor; inspects the installation of the permanent fixtures of the armament and its accessories on board ship, and the meth- ods of storing, handling, and transporting ammunition and tor- pedoes; designs and constructs turret-ammunition hoists; de- termines the requirements of all ammunition hoists, and the method of construction of armories and ammunition rooms on board ship, and in conjunction with the Construction and Re- pair Bureau, determines upon their location and that of am- munition hoists. It installs the armament and its accessories which are not permanently attached to any portion of the structure of the hull, excepting turret guns, turret mounts, ammunition hoists, etc., has cognizance of all electrically oper- ated ammunition hoists, rammers, and gun-elevating gear which are in turrets, of electric range finders, of electric train- ing and elevating gear for gun mounts not in turrets, of elec- trically operated air-compressors for charging torpedoes, and of all battle-order and range transmitters and indicators ; de- signs internal arrangements of buildings at navy-yards where ordnance work is performed, designs, erects, and maintains all shops and buildings constructed for its own purposes out- side the limits of navy-yards. It is charged with the pur- chase, sale, and transfer of all land and buildings therewith except at navy-yards, and with the preservation of public property under its control. It determines upon and procures 150 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS all the material, means, and appliances of every kind required in its shops, including fuel and transportation. It superin- tends all work done under it, and estimates for and defrays from its own funds the cost necessary to carry out its duties as above defined." Annual Reports consist since the issue of 1905 of purely administrative detail ; heretofore technical papers were includ- ed, but owing to their confidential character these have been omitted. In these earlier reports the technical papers were often issued as separate pamphlet reprints. The Annual Re- ports are now published separately and also included in the Department Report. General Publications are intended for the use of the Navy only and are rarely distributed to libraries. They consist of notes, specifications, range tables, catalogues of ordnance, and technical investigations and reports on the Naval Gun Fac- tory, Torpedo Station, and Proving Ground. Published sepa- rately or in the Serial Documents, t, 2, 4, 8, 45. Secretary. The Secretary is charged with the general administra- tion of the Department and it is his duty to see that the law is fulfilled in regard to its requirements. From his office are classed all publications issued from the Department as a whole. Annual Reports issued since 1798 include beside the Secre- tary's report, the reports of subordinate Bureaus and other divisions of the Department. For reports prior to 1825 con- sult the American State Papers. In earlier j^ears these con- tained some special reports on technical subjects, but the re- port is now limited to accounts of administration. The Sec- retary's report and the accompanying reports of the Bureaus are issued separately in paper and are later combined in one volume when they are issued in cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Navy Regulations issued since 1818 contain directions for the conduct of officers and men. Published separately. NAVY DEPARTMENT 151 General Publications are very numerous and relate to war- ships, legislation, regulation circulars, naval militia, uniforms, wireless telegraphy, international law. Naval W^ar College course, expenditures, catalogues, lectures, forms of proced- ure, reports on armor, drill and signal books, accessions to Li- brary, orders, surveys, expeditions. The Perry Japan Expedi- tion is one of the most important of the earlier publications. There are also reports relating to the Board on the Cost of Armor Plate and Armor Plant; Army and Navy Joint Board; Asiatic, European, North Atlantic, and South Atlantic Sta- tions; Construction Board; General Board; Guam Island; Guam Survey Board; Commission Investigating Navy De- partment; Methods of Keeping Accounts; Navy Department Library; Personnel Board; and Tutuila. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. 4, 14, 17, 39, 46. Steam Engineering Bureau. The Steam Engineering Bureau was estabhshed in 1862. Its duties "comprise all that relates to the designing, building, fitting out, repairing, and engineering of the steam machinery used for the propulsion of naval vessels, and will also include steam pumps, steam heaters and connections and steam ma- chinery necessary for operating the apparatus by which turrets are turned." Annual Reports issued since 1864 give general operations and statistics of the Bureau. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. General Publications pertain strictly to the Bureau's af- fairs and consist of such matter as reports on copper alloys, specifications, lists of naval inspectors, etc. Usually published separately. i, 2, 4, 5, 30. Supplies and Accounts Bureau. The Supplies and Accounts Bureau was established in 1842 as the Provisions and Clothing Bureau; in 1892 it be- came the Supplies and Accounts Bureau. Its duties "comprise 15^ HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS all that relates to supplying the Xavy with provisions, cloth- ing, small stores, fresh water, and contingent stores in the Paymaster's Department; the reception, care, and custody of all stores not exempt by order from the general storekeeper's system, and the keeping of a proper system of accounts re- garding the same ; the purchase, at shore stations within the United States, of stores and supplies and their custody, trans- fer, and issue upon authorized rec^uisitions, except those of the Medicine and Surgery Bureau, the Marine Corps, and those exempt by Regulation Circular Number 51." Annual Reports of the Paymaster-General are brief and mainh- statistical. Published separately and also included in the Department Report. General Publications consist of notices, specifications, ex- penditures, and memoranda for the information of officers. Published separately or in the Serial Documents, i, 2, 4, 5,8. Yards and Docks Bureau. The Yards and Docks Bureau was established in 1842. Its duties "comprise all that relates to the planning, construc- tion, and maintenance of all docks (including dry docks), wharves, slips, piers, cjuay walls, and buildings of all kinds for whatever purpose needed, within the limits of the Navy- yards, but not of hospitals and magazines outside of those limits, nor of buildings for which it does not estimate. It re- pairs and furnishes all buildings, stores, and offices in the sev- eral navy-yards, and is charged with the purchase, sale, and transfer of all land and buildings connected with the navy- yards; has under its sole control the general administration of the Nav}'-Yards; provides and has sole control of all land- ings, derricks, shears, cranes, sewers, dredging, railway tracks, cars, and wheels, trucks, grading, pa\-ing, walks, shade trees, inclosure walls, fences, ditching, reservoirs, cisterns, fire engines and apparatus, all watch-men and all things necessary including labor, for the cleaning of the yards and the protec- tion of the public property." Annual Reports are summaries of the year's work with NAVY DEPARTiMENT 153 Statistics. Published separately and, with omissions, also in- cluded in the Department Report. General Publications consist of lists of employees, esti- mates, and other matter concerned with the routine of the Bureau. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. 2, 4, 8, 17. AUTHORITIES. 1. Executive Departments, Organization. 2. Official Congressional Directory — April 3. Bouvier — Law Dictionary — Volume I. 4. Documents Office — Tables. 5. Nav)^ Department — Report, 1906. 6. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 14. 7. Monthly Catalogue — December 1907. 8. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 9. Construction and Repair Bureau — Publications. 10. Equipment Bureau — Publications. 11. Navy Department — Report, 1889. 12. Navy Department — Report, 1890. 13. Navy Department — Report, 1898. 14. Document Catalogues. 15. Documents Office — Bulletin 7. 16. Document Indexes. 17. 47th Congress ist Session — Senate Executive Document 37 (Serial Number 1987). 18. Hydrographic Office — Publications. 19. Monthly Catalogues. 20. Naval Observatory — Publications. 21. Monthly Catalogue — January 1907. 22. Document Catalogue — Volume 5. 23. Navy Department — Reports. 24. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume i. 25. Navy Department — Report, 1886. 26. Document Index 12. 154 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 27. Nautical Almanac Office — Publications. 28. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume i. 29. Universal Cyclopaedia — A'olume 4. 30. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume 2. 31. Monthly Catalogue — ]\larch 1907. 32. Navy Department — Report, 1892. 33. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 13. 34. Monthly Catalogue — !May 1907. 35. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies- Volume I. 36. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition). 37. Navigation Bureau — Publications. 38. Doctiments Office — Free List i. 39. Documents Office — Bulletin 9. 40. Naval Academy — Publications. 41. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume 3. 42. Naval Intelligence Office — Publications. 43. Document Catalogue — Volume 4. 44. Navy Department — Report, 1887. 45. Navy Department — Report, 1905. 46. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 47. Monthly Catalogue — July 1908. CHAPTER VI. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. This Department was anticipated in colonial history and temporarily established in 1789 followed by subsequent leg- islation until 1792 when a General Post Office was established. Finally in 1872 the Post Office Department was made a part of the Cabinet, with the Postmaster-General at its head. The duties of the Department cover all that relates to the mails : railway mail service, foreign mails, railway adjustments, con- tracts, inspection, equipment, finance, stamps, money orders, registered mails, classification, redemption, rural delivery, sup- plies, dead letters, and topography. Few publications are is- sued and these are confined to routine matters, i, 2, 3, 4. Attorney-General, Assistant, Post Office Department. The Assistant Attorney-General, Post Office Department, appointed since 1872, is legal adviser to the Department. Annual Reports issued since 1877 with occasional lapses, are brief administrative accounts. In paper and also included in the Department Report, i, 5. Auditor. The Auditor, also known as the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury Department, has been appointed since 1836 to have charge of the financial accounts of the Department. Annual Reports consist of two ; the first issued since 1841 to the Postmaster-General; the second since 1853 to the Secretary of Treasury; both with occasional lapses. In paper or cloth and also included in the Post Office Department and Finance Reports, until 1899 since when the report to the Secre- tary of Treasury has been issued only as a numbered Treas- ury Document. 156 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS General Publications consist of estimates and other finan- cial matters. Usually in the Serial Documents, i, 6, 7. Dead Letter Office. The Dead Letter Office established in 1886 has charge of dead letters. Annual Reports are statistical tables of business trans- acted. In paper and also included in the Department Report. 6, 8, 9. Foreign Mail Service. The Foreign Mail Service established in 1868 has charge of all matters relating to foreign mails. Annual Reports issued since 1882 are brief and administra- tive. In paper and also included in the Department Report. General Publications consist of monthly schedules of mail steamers and occasional reports on routine matters. In pa- per or in the Serial Documents. 5, 7, 9, 11, 12. Money Orders Division. The postal money order system began in 1864 and deals with the transmission of money through the mails. Annual Reports issued since 1874 are statistical. In paper and also included in the Department Report. 5, 6, 9, 10. Postmaster-General. The Postmaster-General has been appointed since the establishment of the Department in 1789. He has "the direction and management of the Post Office Department. He appoints all officers and employees of the Department, except four Assistant Postmasters-General and the Purchas- ing Agent, who are appointed by the President, by and with the consent of the Senate ; appoints all postmasters whose compensation does not exceed $1,000; makes postal treaties with foreign governments, by and with the advice and con- sent of the President; executes contracts, and directs the POST OFFICE DEPART.MENT 157 management of the domestic and foreign mail service." The publications following are those issued from the office of the Postmaster-General and the Department as a whole. Annual Reports are administrative and include the reports of subordinate divisions of the Department. For issues be- fore 1825 consult the American State Papers. The report of the Postmaster-General and most of the accompanying re- ports are issued separately in paper and later combined to form a Serial Document. Postal Guide began as a q-uarterly in October 1874, and has been issued monthly since September 1879. It took the place of a list of post offices issued by the Department from 1789 to 1874; the editions of 1855, 1857, and 1866 were pub- lished by private concerns but were purchased and distributed by the Government ; while those of 1867 and 1870 were Gov- ernment publications known as the Post Office Directory. The Postal Guide is a private publication, subject to subscrip- tion, and serves as an official directory for the postal service. The January number was the Guide proper, while the eleven following issues of each 3'ear were additions and corrections until July 1908, which makes that month the present annual number. In paper. Postal Laws and Regulations is an outgrowth of a colo- nial publication of 1774, followed by the first official edition in 1800. It is issued at frequent intervals. In cloth. Register of the Post Office Department is a directory of its employees issued as occasion may require. In paper. General Publications consist of instructions, accounts of conventions, specifications, rulings on postal matters, finan- ces, expenditures, and general routine. In paper, cloth, or m the Serial Documents. 2, 4, 10, 13, 20. Postmaster-General, First Assistant. The First Assistant Postmaster-General appointed since 1789 has charge of the following divisions: Postmasters' Appointments, Salaries and Allowances, and City Delivery. Annual Reports issued since 1837 with occasional lapses, 158 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS are administrative. In paper and also included in the Depart- ment Report. I, 4, 5, 6, 10. Postmaster-General, Second Assistant. The Second Assistant Postmaster-General appointed since 1810 has charge of the following divisions : Railway Adjustments, Contracts, Foreign Mails, Railway Mail Serv- ice, Inspection, and Equipment. Annual Reports issued since 1847, with occasional lapses, are administrative. In paper and also included in the De- partment Report. I, 4, 5, 10, 12. Postmaster-General, Third Assistant. The Third Assistant Postmaster-General appointed since 1836 has charge of the following divisions : Finance, Stamps, iMoney Orders, Registered Mails, Classification, and Redemp- tion. Annual Reports issued since 1841, with occasional lapses, are administrative. In paper and also included in the Depart- ment Report. I, 4, 5. Postmaster-General, Fourth Assistant. The Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General appointed since 1891, has charge of the following divisions: Rural Delivery, Supplies, Dead Letters, and Topography. Annual Reports issued since 1892 are administrative. In paper and also included in the Department Report, i, 4, 5, 10, 12. Post Office Inspectors and Mail Depredations Division. The Post Office Inspectors and Mail Depredations Divi- sion in charge of a Chief Inspector appointed since 1878, deals with the supervision and protection of the postal service. Annual Reports issued since 1883 are included in the De- partment Report. General Publications deal with routine and consist of cer- POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT 159 tain confidential reports. In paper or in the Serial Documents. I, 5. 6, 10, II, 14. Purchasing Agent's Office. The Purchasing Agent's Office, created in 1904, has charge of the supplies of the Department, with the contracts, pro- posals, bids, and other details relating thereto. Annual Reports issued since 1905 are brief and admini- strative. In paper and also included in the Department Re- port. 9, 15, 16. Railway Mail Service. The Railway Mail Service, established in 1865, deals with tlie railroad handling of the mails. Annual Reports issued since 1878 are administrative. In paper and also included in the Department Report, omitting tables. Daily Bulletins of orders concerning the' Service have been issued in numbered volumes since 1880. In paper. General Publications are confined strictly to routine matter and are usualh^ in the Serial Documents. 5, 9, 10. Registered Mails Division. The Registered Mails Division has charge of the registry svstem which was established in 1865, although it began opera- tions in 1855. Annual Reports issued since 1903 are accounts of the year's work and statistics relating thereto. Included in the Depart- ment Report. 9, 17, 18. Rural Free Delivery. The Rural Free Delivery was established in 1897 after experimental routes begun in 1896. Its object is "to carry mails daily — on a fixed line of travel — to people who would i6o HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS otherwise have to go a mile or more to a post office to receive their mail." Annual Reports are brief administrative accounts. In pa- per and also included in the Department Report. 9, 10. Salaries and Allowances Division. The Salaries and Allowances Division, established in 1883, has charge of the adjustment of salaries of presidential postmasters, of postmasters of the ist, 2nd, and 3rd classes, and of other employees. Annual Reports issued since 1888 are brief statistical ac- counts. In paper and also included in the Department Report. I, 10, II, 19. Topography Division. The Topography Division established in 1872 after legis- lation begun in 1853, has charge of the printing of maps for the postal service. Annual Reports issued since 1S80 are administrative and are included in the Department Report. Post Route Maps, formerly issued monthly, but now com- ing out quarterly in March, June, September, and December, indicate the postal routes covered by the Service. In three forms : in sheets, backed and mounted on rollers, or in pocket size. General Publications are rarely published and are con- cerned with routine matters only. Usually in the Serial Docu- ments. I, 5, 6, 10, 12. AUTHORITIES. 1. Executive Departments, Organization. 2. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 3. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 16. 4. Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. POST OFFICE DEPARTS! EX'T i6i 5- Documents Office — Tables. 6. Post Office Department — Report, 1906. 7. Document Catalogues. 8. Post Office Department — Report, 1887. 9. Post Office Department — Report, 1905. 10. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 11. Documents Office — Bulletin 7. 12. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue. 13. Documents Office— Checklist (2nd edition). 14. Document Catalogue — Volume i. 15. Post Office Department — Report, 1904. 16. Monthly Catalogue — December 1907. 17. Document Indexes. 18. Post Office Department— Report, 1903. 19. Post Office Department — Report, li 20. Monthly Catalogue — July 1908. CHAPTER VIL STATE DEPARTMENT. The State Department is the oldest and consequently the first in precedence of the nine Executive Departments. It was preceded by the Foreign Affairs Department created in 1781, which in turn was the successor of various committees appointed since 1775. In 1789 the State Department was or- ganized. This Department is concerned with the diplomatic and consular service of the United States and with correspond- ing officials of foreign countries; the correspondence with the several states of the Union ; the granting of passports ; the publication of the laws of the Federal Government; and with all matters requiring diplomatic execution. Its publications are few in number and while of great value they appeal to a limited class. The few publications of the Accounts Bureau, Appointments Bureau, Consular Bureau, Chief Clerk, Citizen- ship Bureau, Far Eastern Affairs Division, Law Clerk, Super- intendent of Building, Diplomatic Bureau, Indexes and Ar- chives Bureau, and Trade Relations Bureau, are issued from the Department as a whole, i, 2. American Republics Bureau. The American Republics Bureau was established in 1890 to represent the International Union of American Repub- lics at Washington, as the International Bureau of the Amer- ican Republics. However, its popular and generally accepted designation is the American Republics Bureau. Strictly speaking the Bureau is not a division of the State Department, but is under the direction of a Governing Board composed of representatives from twenty-one republics with the Secretary of State as Chairman. Its duties are concerned with the pro- motion of amity and the commercial intercourse and develop- ment of the North, South, and Central American Republics. i64 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Annual Reports numbered and issued since 1891 and trans- lated into Spanish, Portuguese, and French cover the general routine of the Bureau. Occasionally issued separately, in- cluded as Bulletins or Monthly Bulletins with certain omis- sions, or issued as a whole in the Serial Documents. Bulletins were numbered and 94 were issued from 1891 to 1899 bearing on the commercial relations between the United States and the South and Central American Repub- lics. They related to import duties, as well as contained much descripti\e and historical data. Published separately, and, with a few exceptions, were duplicated in the Serial Doc- uments. Additions to Columbus Memorial Library, also known as the Library Series, has been numbered and issued since July, 1900, and published as a part of the Monthly Bulletins. American Constitutions in numbered volumes issued since 1906 contains the constitutions in their original languages with translations into English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese as the case requires. Published separately. Commercial Directories issued since 1892 are business di- rectories of merchants and manufacturers. Published as Bul- letins, or separately, and often duplicated in the Serial Docu- ments. Handbooks issued since 1891 are descriptive monographs, historical and industrial, on the South and Central American Republics. These were first issued as Bulletins, but later separately as well as included in the Annual Reports or issued as separate Serial Documents. International Sanitary Convention of American Republics, Proceedings have been numbered and issued since 1903, the second in 1906, being in Spanish and English. Published sep- arately and in the Serial Documents. Monthly Bulletins are in numbered volumes issued since- 1893, since April 1908 they are entitled Bulletins. The first three numbers came out as Special Bulletins. Not only do they relate to commerce but they also contain treaties and other diplomatic negotiations as well as all current news of STATE DEPARTMENT 165 genei-al interest relating to the Republics. They are readable periodicals being intended to promote the friendly relations as well as the financial betterment of the countries repre- sented. Before the issue of July 1908 (Volume 27, Num- ber i), the Bulletin was in English followed by French, Span- ish, and Portuguese texts, but since then it will be in two sep- arate parts, the first English, and the second containing the foreign translations. Published separately and, excepting the first four numbers, duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications consist of maps, bibliographies, price lists, import duties, commercial nomenclatures, geographical and descriptive reports, tariffs, patents, trade-marks, and gen- eral miscellany. Published separately or in the Serial Docu- ments. 3-15. Porto Rico, Governor. The Governor of Porto Rico has been appointed since 1900 to succeed the military Governor appointed since 1898. He has entire charge of the civil government of the Island. Annual Reports are transmitted to the President through the Secretary of State and are concerned with the condition of Porto Rico. They are records of the various subordinate divisions of that governnieut and include their Annual Re- ports. Published separately or in the Serial Documents. General Publications are concerned with general routine and the administration of affairs. Published separately or ill the Serial Documents. Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station. See page 55. Porto Rico Attorney-General. See page 131. Porto Rico Auditor. See page 185. i66 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Porto Rico Education Department. See page 120. Porto Rico Health, Charities, and Correction Department. The Porto Rico Health, Charities, and Correction Depart- ment is the outgrowth of the offices of the directors of prisons and of charities, and the Superior Board of Health (see page 121) ; the first two were established in 1900, the third in 1899, but in 1905 they were combined to form the present Depart- ment. Annual Reports form part of the Governor's Report. Porto Rico Insular Police. The Porto Rico Insular Police was organized in 1899 with subsequent legislation in 1901 for the protection of life and property. Annual Reports are concerned entirely with police service. Included in the Governor's Report. PoRTO Rico Interior Department. See page 120. Porto Rico Secretary. The Porto Rico Secretary has been appointed since 1900 as chief assistant to the Governor and as his substitute when absent. Annual Reports deal with the condition of the Island and its government. Included in the Governor's Report. PoRTO Rico Treasury Department. See page 185. 14, 16, 17, 18, 19. Rolls and Library Bureau. The Rolls and Library Bureau, established in 1874, has the STATE DEPART.MEXT 167 "custody of the rolls, treaties, etc., the promulgation of the laws, etc., care and superintendence of the library and pub- lic documents ; care of the Revolutionary archives ; and of papers relating to international commissions." Bulletins numbered and issued since 1893 include the Docu- mentary History of the Constitution, calendars, catalogues, and indexes of important historical papers, and records of States and Territories. Published separately with occasional duplication in the Serial Documents. List of Books and Pamphlets began with the present series as a quarterly in 1892 and in 1895 became a semi-annual pub- lication. It records books, periodicals, pamphlets, and maps on diplomatic affairs, political science, history, and foreign re- lations. PiTblished separately. General Publications consist of circulars, catalogues, recog- nition of foreign governments, and routine miscellany. Pub- lished separately or in the Serial Documents. 2, 14, 15, 20, 21. Secretary. The Secretary has entire charge of the State Depart- ment; he is concerned ''under the direction of the President, with the duties appertaining to correspondence with the pub- lic ministers and consuls of the United States, and with the representatives of foreign countries accredited to the United .States; and to negotiations of whatever character relating to ■ the foreign affairs of the United States. He is also the medi- um of correspondence between the President and the chief executives of the several states of the United States ; he has the custody of the Great Seal of the United States; and coun- tersigns and affixes such seal to all executi\-e proclamations, to various commissions, and to warrants for the extradition of fugitives from justice. He is regarded as the first in rank among the officers of the Cabinet. He is also the custodian of the treaties made with foreign states, and of the laws of the United States. He grants and issues passports, and exe- quaturs to foreign consuls in the United States are issued through his office. He publishes the laws and resolutions of i68 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Congress, amendments to the Constitution, and proclamations declaring the admission of new States into the Union." As be- fore stated most of the publications of the subordinate Bureaus are issued from the State Department as a whole. They are consequently outlined below with the documents from the Secretary's office. Annual Reports corresponding to those of other Depart- ments have never been issued, excepting one in 1896; instead of these the Foreign Relations of the United States has been issued since 1835. For earlier reports consult the American State Papers. It was not until 1861 that it constituted a separate volume. It contains a complete record of the correspondence, and other official business between the United States and for- eign countries. Each volume opens with the President's Mes- sage. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Docu- ments. Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, edited by Jared Sparks, was published in 1829 and 1830 in twelve volumes and contained the foreign correspondence of the United States selected by the President. In 1857 John C. Rives printed an edition in six volumes. In 1833 ^'T^ 1834 there appeared the Diplomatic Corre-- spondence of the United States of America, from the .Signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, loth September, 1783, to the Adoption of the Constitution, March 4, 1789. This work was edited b}^ the Secretary of State and was published in seven volumes. A second edition issued in 1837 by Blair and Rives was reprinted in 1855 by John C. Rives in three volumes. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence, edited by Francis. Wharton, was published in 1889 in six volumes. This contains more data than the Sparks edition, and follows the original text more closely. Published separately and dupli- cated in the Serial Documents. Digests of International Law comprise the Wharton com- pilation issued in three volumes in 1886 followed by an addi- tion of new matter in 1887 in one volume; and the jNIoore STATE DEPART.MEXT 169 compilation in eight volumes published in 1906. Both are pub- lished separately as well as included in the Serial Documents. Diplomatic and Consular Service issued since 1828 at fre- quent intervals during the year is a directory of the Service. Published separately. Diplomatic List is a monthly directory of diplomatic offi- cials. Published separately. Laws of the United States, also known as the Bioren edi- tion, was in ten volumes compiled by J. B. Colvin and pub- lished from 1815 to 1845. It contained legislation of the first twenty-eight Congresses (1789- 1845). Another work of the same title, also known as the Folwell edition, was published in ten volumes from 1796 to 181 1 and edited by Folwell, Carey, Duane, and Weightman respective- ly, each editor beginning a new volume. Register issued, as a rule, annually since 1869, is a com- plete directory and guide to the Department and its officials. Published separately. Statutes at Large is in numbered volumes including the laws of the United States passed, since the First Congress in 1789. From Volumes i to 12 each covered several Congresses, but with Volume 13 (38th Congress) each volume covers only one Congress. These record all public and private acts and resolutions, concurrent resolutions, treaties, and proclamations for the Congresses issued, with copious indexes. In sheep. In 1905 the Government Printing Office published a consoli-' dated index in four volumes to the Statutes at Large from 1789 to 1903. Revised Statutes has been issued in several editions since 1873. It is a compilation of laws from the Statutes at Large in operation for the dates issued. However, on account of the irregularity of issue and the limited distribution, private com- pilations are more serviceable and practical. The designa- tion of editions of the Revised Statutes will be found curious : thus, the First Edition, covering the laws in force frorn 1789 to 1873, is included in Volume 18 of the Statutes at Large; i;o HAXDBOOK OJ- PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Edition 2 covers 1789 to 1878; Edition 2, Supplement Volume I, 1st Edition, covers 1874 to 1881 ; Edition 2, Supplement Volume I, 2nd Edition, 1874 to 1891 ; Edition. 2, Supplement A^olume 2, ist Edition, 1892; and lastly Edition 2, Supplement Volume 2, 2nd Edition, 1891 to 1901. All these second edi- tions, with the exception of the issue for 1892, which was in paper, are in sheep. Pamphlet or Session Laws are the preliminary issues of the Statutes at Large in paper form, giving the legislation made at each session of Congress, and later cumulating in the above-mentioned volumes. General Publications include conference, congress, and convention reports; claims; extraditions; treaties; depart- mental history; lists; circular instructions; permission to ac- cept foreign orders, decorations, or gifts ; appointments ; pro- motions ; rights and duties of consuls ; speeches ; trade- marks; inspection; and reports from various bodies such as the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, International American Con- ference, International Exchange Commission, International Prison Commission, International Prison Congress, Mexican Water Boundary Commission, Nicaraguan Canal Commission, and the Pan-American Railway Commission. Published sep- arately or in the Serial Documents. 4, 6, 10, 14, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. AUTHORITIES. Executive Departments, Organization. History of the Department of State. American Republics Bureau — Publications. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). Documents Office — Checklist (3rd edition). Documents Office — Tables. Monthly Catalogue — January 1906. Document Catalogue — A^'olume 5. STATE DEPARTAIEXT 171 9. American Republics Bureau — Report, 1906. 10. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume i. 11. Monthly Catalogue — May 1907. 12. 52nd Congress ist Session — Senate Executive Document 8 (Serial Number 2895). 13. Monthly Catalogue — November 1906. 14. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 15. Document Catalogue — Volume i. 16. Porto Rico, Governor — Reports. 17. Porto Rico, Governor — Report, 1901. 18. Documents Office — Bulletin 9. 19. Porto Rico, Governor — Report, 1905. 20. Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. 21. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume 2. 22. Poore — Descripti\e Catalogue. 23. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition). 24. !Moore — Digest. 25. ^Vharton — Digest. 26. State Department — Publications. 27. Statutes at Large — Volume 34. 28. Monthly Catalogue — July 1908. CHAPTER VIII. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. The Treasury Department was established in 1789 and has charge of the "management of national finances, prepares plans for the improvement of the revenue, and for the support of the public credit; superintends the collection of the reve- nue and directs the forms of keeping and rendering public accounts and of making returns ; grants warrants for all mon- eys drawn from the Treasury in pursuance of appropriations made by law, and for the payment of moneys into the Treas- ury ; and annually submits to Congress estimates of the prob- able revenues and disbursements of the Government. It also controls tTie construction of public buildings ; the coinage and printing of money; the administration of the Life-Saving, Revenue Cutter, and the Public Health and Marine Hospital branches of the public service, and furnishes generally such information as may be required by. either branch of Congress on all matters pertaining to the foregoing." The documents of this Department are serially numbered, i, 2, 3. Appointments Division. The Appointments Division established in 1876, is con- cerned with administrative duties relating to the officials and employees of the Department. General Publications consist of lists of presidential offi- cers, estimates, etc. Usually in paper, i, 4, 5, 6, 7. Appraisers. The Appraisers are nine presidential appointees con- stituting a Board in office since 1890. They are charged with appraisements and classification for duty of imported mer- chandise. 174 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Annual Reports issued since 1891 are administrative ac- counts and are published as numbered Treasury documents. Decisions. See page 191. Digests. See page 192. Reappraisements of Merchandise, issued weekh^ since 1891, is concerned with tlie duties on imported articles. In paper. General Publications are confined to routine detail. Usu- ally in paper. 8, 9, 10. Auditor for Interior Department. The Auditor for Interior Department, known as the Third Auditor, has been appointed since 1817. He "audits and settles all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the office of the Secretary of Interior, and of all bureaus and offices vmder his direction ; all accounts relating to the pro- tection, survey, and sale of public lands and the reclamation of arid public lands, the Geological Survey, army and navy pensions, Indian afi^airs, Howard University, the Government Hospital for the Insane, the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, the Patent Office, the Capitol and grounds, the Hot Springs Reservation, the reimbursement from accrued pensions of the expenses of the last sickness and burial of pensioners under the Act of March 2nd, 1895, and all business within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.'' Annual Reports issued since 1853 ^'^^ accounts of business transacted. Published as numbered Treasury documents and until 1899 also included in the Finance Report. General Publications consist of financial statements. In paper or in the Serial Documents, i, 3, 10, 11, 12. Auditor for Navy Department. The Auditor for Navy Department, known as the Fourth Auditor and appointed since 1817, "examines and settles all accounts of the Navy Department, including the office of the Secretary of the Navy, and all offices and bureaus under his direction, certifying the values arising thereon to the Sec- TREASURY DEPART M EXT 175 retary of Treasury and sendin;;- a copy of each certificate to the. Secretary of the Navy." Annual Reports correspond to those issued l)y the Third Auditor. Digests of Naval Appropriations have been issued annu- ally since 1897 as numbered Treasury documents. General Publications are concerned entirely with financial affairs. In paper or in the Serial Documents, i, 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13. Auditor for Post Office Department. See page 155. Auditor for State and Other Departments. The Auditor for State and Other Departments, known as the Fifth Auditor and appointed since 1871, is charged with the auditing and settling of accounts for the State, Justice, Agri- culture, and Commerce and Labor Departments ; and of the Judiciar)^, Civil Service Commission, District of Columbia, Smithsonian Institution, Territories, Senate, House, Govern- ment Printing Office, Library of Congress, and other boards, commissions, and establishments not within the jurisdiction of any of tlie Executive Departments. Annual Reports correspond to those issued by the Third Auditor. General Publications are entirely financial. In paper or in the Serial Documents, i, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14. Auditor for Treasury Department. The Auditor for Treasury Department, known as the First Auditor and appointed since 1789, has charge of all finan- cial accounts of the Department and its subdivisions. Annual Reports correspond to those issued by the Third Auditor. Abstracts of Emoluments, issued since 1893, first by the Customs Commissioner, whose office was abolished in 1894, 176 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS and then by the First Auditor, relate to customs officers. In. the Serial Documents. General Publications consist of circulars, statements of re- funds of customs duties, etc. In paper or in the Serial Docu- ments. I, 3, 10, II, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17. Auditor for War Department. The Auditor for War Department, known as the Sec- ond Auditor and appointed since 1817, has charge of the ac- counts of the Department and its subdivisions. Annual Reports correspond to those issued by the Third Auditor. General Publications are concerned with financial affairs.. In paper or in the Serial Documents, i, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14. Bookkeeping and Warrants Division. The Bookkeeping and Warrants Division was established in 1875, being known at first as the Warrants, Estimates, and Appropriations Division. Combined Statements of Receipts and Expenditures, both apparent and actual, of the United States, have been issued since 1893. The first was published separately, but since 1894 they have been duplicated in the Serial Documents. Comparative Statements of Receipts and Expenditures is- sued monthly since September 1893 cumulate into the Com- bined Statements. In paper. Digests of Appropriations issued annually for the informa- tion of Congress show appropriations required for the year and former deficiencies. Published as numbered Treasury documents. Statements of Balances, Appropriations, and Expenditures have been issued annually since 1893 ^s numbered Treasury documents. Statement of Treasury has been issued daily, excepting^ Sundays and holidays, since January 1895. In March 1900,, the former title. Statement of Condition of Treasury and Re- TREASURY DEPARTMENT 177 ceipts and Expenditures of the Government, was changed to the present designation. In paper. General Publications relate to financial affairs and are usu- ally published as numbered Treasury documents, i, 6, 10 12 Comptroller of Currency. The Comptroller of Currency, appointed in accordance with the Acts of 1863 and 1864, is charged with the supervi- sion of national banks, his bureau being divided into the fol- lowing divisions : Organization, Issue, Reports, and Redemp- tion. Annual Reports are exhaustive, giving statistics relating to state, national, and private banks, trust and 'loan compa- nies and corporations, with many pertinent details and special reports. In abstract they are included in the Finance Report and are issued separately in complete form and, excepting a few earlier issues, are published with accompanying papers as a Serial Document. Abstracts of Reports were iirst issued in October 1863. being a quarterly until 1870, since when they have been is- sued five times a year. They cumulate into the summaries and abstracts of national bank reports published in the Comp- troller's Report. Bulletins numbered and issued weekly since April 1893, contain lists of changes of officers in national banks. In paper. National Bank Act passed in 1874 is published as occasion requires, together with other laws relating to national banks. In cloth. Digests of national bank decisions issued from time to time contain all decisions in force for the years issued. Since 1900 these have been issued in separate cloth volumes, earlier Di- gests being included in the Comptroller's Report. General Publications are issued infrequently and pertain to the routine of the Bureau. Usually in the Serial Documents. I, 2, 3, 10, II, 15, 18, 19. 178 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Comptroller of Treasury. The First and Second Comptrollers were appointed in 1789; in 1894 they were replaced by the present Comptroller of the Treasury who also absorbed the duties heretofore carried on by the Customs Commissioner. Under the direc- tion of the Secretary of Treasury the Comptroller "prescribes the forms of keeping and rendering all public accounts ex- cept those relating to postal revenues and the expenditures therefrom. He is charged with the duty of revising accounts upon appeal from settlements made by the Auditors. Upon the application of disbursing ofScers, the head of any Execu- tive Department, or other independent establishment not under any Executive Department, the Comptroller is required to render his advance decision upon any question involving a payment to be made by them or under them, which de- cison when rendered, governs the Auditor and the Comptrol- ler in the settlement of the account involving the paymenti inquired about. He is required to approve, disapprove, or modify all decisions by Auditors making an original construc- tion or modifying an existing construction of statutes, and certifying his action to the Auditor whose duties are affected thereby. Under his direction the several Auditors superin- tend the recovery of all debts finally certified by them, respectively to be due the United States, except those arising under the Post Office Department. He superintends the pres- ervation by the Auditors of all accounts which have been finally adjusted by them, together with the vouchers and certificates relating to the same. He is required on his own motion, when in the interest of the Government, to revise any account settled by any Auditor. In case where, in his opinion, the interests of the Government require, he may direct any of the Auditors forthwith to audit and settle any particular account pending before the said Auditor for set- tlement. It is his duty to countersign all warrants authorized by law to be signed by the Secretary of Treasury." Annual Reports issued since 1853 by the First and Second Comptrollers and beginning with 1893 by the Comptroller un- TREASURY DEPARTA'IEXT 179 der the reorganization of the office, are concerned with the accounts of the foregoing duties. Until 1898 these were in- cluded in the Finance Report, but beginning with the issue for 1899 they are issued only as numbered Treasury docu- ments. Decisions issued annually in numbered volumes since 1894 indicate the legal transactions of the Department. In paper or in sheep. Digest issued in 1902 covers the Decisions made from Oc- tober 1894, to June 1902 (Volumes i to 8). In sheep. General Publications are of little public interest, being con- cerned mainly with routine. In paper or in the Serial Docu- ments. I, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, II, 18, 20, 21, 22. Customs Division. The Customs Division was established in 1875 as a Divi- sion, following the appointment of a Commissioner in 1849, who later in 1894 was supplanted by the Comptroller of the Treasury. Annual Reports issued from 1853 to 1892 related to cus- toms and financial statistics. In paper and also included in the Finance Report. Abstracts of Emoluments. See page 175. General Publications related to duties, tariff, etc. In pa- per or in the Serial Documents, i, 9, 10, 11, 15. Customs Service. The Customs Service originated in the appointment of collectors in 1820. General Publications are concerned with routine. In pa- per or in the Serial Documents. 8, 10. Engraving and Printing Bureau. The Engraving and Printing Bureau was established in 1862. It "designs, engraves, prints, and finishes all of the securities and other similar work of the Government printed i8o HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS from steel plates embracing United States notes, bonds, and certificates, national-bank notes, int^nal revenue, postage and and customs stamps, Treasury drafts and checks, disbursing officers' checks, licenses, commissions, patent and pension cer- tificates, and portraits authorized by law of deceased members of Congress and other public officers." Annual Reports are entirel)^ administrative and of little general interest. Up to 1885 these were issued as separately numbered Treasury documents, from 1886 to 1898 they were also included in the Finance Report, and since 1899 they have reverted to the first method of issue. General Publications are concerned with routine. In pa- per or in the Serial Documents, i, 3, 9, 12, 14. Government Actuary. The Government Actuary, appointed since 1881, is con- cerned principally with United States bonds. Market Prices and Investment Values of outstanding se- curities of the United States has been issued monthly since April 1901. In paper. General Publications are few in number and relate to bonds. Usually in paper. I, 12, 23. Internal Revenue Commissioner. The Internal Revenue Commissioner, appointed since 1862, has the "general superintendence of the collection of all internal-re\enue taxes, the enforcement of internal-revenue laws ; emplo3mient of internal-revenue agents ; compensation and duties of gaugers, store-keepers, and other subordinate officers ; the preparation and distribution of stamps, instruc- tions, regulations, forms, blanks, hydrometers, stationery, etc." Annual Reports issued since 1866 cover the routine out- lined above. As an abstract, since 1863, these are issued sep- arately in paper and also included in the Finance Report; they are published as a whole in cloth, being numbered Treas- ury documents and duplicated in the Serial Documents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT i8i Circulars numbered and issued since January 1882 con- tain regulations relating to distilleries, alcoholic liquors, to- bacco, oleomargarine, playing cards, etc. In paper. Compilations of Decisions of the Internal Revenue Com- missioner, issued in numbered volumes since 1898, are re- prints of the weekly editions of Treasury decisions relating to the internal revenue. Published as numbered Treasury ■documents. Digests are issued irregularly. The last volume, published in 1906, covers the decisions made from 1864 to 1898, thereby taking the place of earlier digests. In paper. Internal Revenue Laws have been issued in 1886, 1889, 1894, 1900, with a supplement to the last in 1901, giving all laws in force for the 3^ears published. Consequently the last edition supplants the preceding issues. Published as num- bered Treasury documents. Regulations are numbered and issued by the Commission- er "as occasion requires." The two most important are : the Gauger's Manual which gives regulations, instructions, and tables for the Service in dealing with spirituous liquors ; and the Gauger's Weighing Manual which gives regulations and tables for determining the taxable quantity of distilled liquors by weighing. Published as numbered Treasury documents. General Publications include abstracts of laws in force, specific regulations, instructions, lists, etc. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents, i, 3, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 24, 25- Life-Saving Service. The Life-Saving Service was established in 1878 as a separate division, having formerly been subordinate to the Revenue Marine Service under which life-saving stations had been established since 1874. It "supervises the organiza- tion and government of the employees of the Service ; pre- l)ares and revises regulations therefor as may be necessary; supervises the expenditure of all appropriations made for the support and maintenance of the Life-Saving Service; exam- i82 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS incs the accounts of disbursements of the district superintend- ents, and certifies the same to the accounting offices of the Treasury Department; examines the property returns of the keepers of the several stations, and sees that all public prop- erty thereto belonging is properly accounted for; keeps ac- quainted, as far as practicable, with all means employed in for- eign countries, which may seem to ad^'antageously afifect the interest of the Service, and causes to be properly investigated all plans, devices, and inventions for the improvement of life- saving apparatus for use at the stations which may appear to be meritorious and available ; exercises supervision over the selection of sites for new stations the establishment of which may be authorized by law, or for old ones the removal of which may be made necessary by the encroachment of the sea or by other causes ; to prepare and submit to the Secretary of the Treasury Department estimates for the support of the Service ; to collect and compile the statistics of marine dis- asters, as contemplated by the Act of June 20th, 1874, and to submit to the Secretary of the Treasury for transmission to Congress, an annual report of the expenditures of moneys ap- propriated for the maintenance of the Life-Saving Ser\ice and of operations of said Service during the year.'' Annual Reports issued since 1876 contain "the reports of the General Superintendent of the Service, detailed statements of the services of life-saving crews, instructions to mariners in case of shipwreck, directions for restoring the drowned, lists of life-saving districts and stations, abstracts of returns of wrecks and casualties to vessels, reports of the Board on Life-Saving Appliances, etc." Published as numbered Treas- ury documents, only one issue — that for 1881 — being duplicat- ed in the Serial Documents. Official Register issued annually is a directory of life-sav- ing officials, districts, and stations. In paper. General Publications consist of instructions, organization and methods, estimates, signal codes, etc. In paper or in the Serial Documents, i, 2, 3, 9, 11, 26. TREASURY DEPARTMENT 183 Loans and Currency Division. The Loans and Currency Division was established in 1876 by the consolidation of the Loans and Currency Divi- sions which were created in 1875. It deals with bonds and the condition of the currency. Caveat Lists formerly known as Registered Bonds Cav- eated upon Books of the Treasury Department have been is- sued monthly, since 1893 as one-page leaflets. Circulation Statements have been issued monthly since 1893 and until January 1900 known as the Statements Show- ing Amounts of Gold and Silver Coins and Certificates, United States Notes, and National Bank Notes in Circulation. Pub- lished as one-page leaflets. General Publications deal with estimates and other details connected with the currency. In paper or in the Serial Docu- ments. I, 7, 12, 15. Mails and Files Division. The Mails and Files Division established in 1876 is con- cerned with the correspondence and care of the documents in the office of the Secretary of Treasury. General Publications refer to the distribution of documents and routine of the Division. In paper or in the Serial Docu- ments. I, 15. Mint Bureau. The United States Mint was established in 1791, but it was not until 1873 that it became subordinate to the Treasury Department. The Director of the Mint "has general super- vision of all the mint and assay offices of the United States. He prescribes rules, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treas- ury, for the transaction of business at the mints and assay offices, receives daily reports of their operations, directs the coinage to be executed, reviews the accounts, authorizes all expenditures, superintends the annual settlements of the sev- eral institutions, and makes special examinations of them when deemed necessary. All appointments, removals, and i84 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCU.MEXTS transfers in the mints and assay offices are subject to his ap- proval. Tests of the weight and fineness of coins struck at the mint are made in the assay laboratory under his charge." Annual Reports of the Director are purely administrative. In cloth and also included, with omissions, in the Finance Report. Production of Precious Metals is an annual report issued since 1880. This contains "statistics of annual production of ])recious metals by States and counties, together with miscel- laneous statistics of production abroad, coinage, deposits, pur- chases, price, imports, exports, etc. of gold and silver." Spe- cial papers on mining, etc. are also found in the earlier reports. In cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Values of Foreign Coins provided for in 1873 as annual estimates are now issued quarterly for the benefit of public officials. These later cumulate in the Annual Reports of the Director. In paper. General Publications consist of coinage laws, mint process- es, history of coinage, regulations, and statistics. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. Assay Commission. The Assay Commission was established in 1873 to test and examine the coins struck at Government mints. Proceedings are administrative accounts. In paper, i, 2, 3, 6, 8, II, 15, 27, 28, 29. Miscellaneous Division. The Miscellaneous Division established in 1875 deals with mercantile marine, captured property, claims, and other duties in the office of the Secretary of Treasury. General Publications consist of reports on the routine of the Division. Usually in paper. I, 10. National Board of Health. The National Board of Health created in 1879 ceased operations in 1883. It consisted of seven presidential appoint- ees and four members from the Army, Navy, Marine Hospital TREASURY DEPARTMENT 185 Service, and Justice Department respectively. "The duties assigned to it were to obtain information as to all matters af- fecting the public health, and to advise the federal and state authorities, on all that related to the protection of the public health, b)^ quarantine and other measures." Annual Reports issued from 1879 to 1885 were accounts of adminstration. With the exception of the report for 1884, these were published in cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents ; the appendixes being also published as separate pamphlets. Weekly Bulletins issued in 4 numbered volumes from 1879 to 1882 resembled tlie present Public Health Reports. (See page 187.) In paper. General Publications consisted of quarterly reports and routine detail. In paper or in the Serial Documents. 30. Porto Rico, Auditor. The Auditor for Porto Rico has been appointed since 1899 under the Military government and continued in office under the reorganization of the government in 1900. He audits and examines the accounts of the government. Annual Reports relate to financial transactions and are in- cluded in the report of the Governor. (See page 165.) Receipts and Expenditures has been issued annually since 1900. In the Serial Documents. 10, 12, 31. Porto Rico, Treasurer. The Treasurer for Porto Rico appointed since 1900 is in charge of the accounts, municipal finances, and similar duties relating to the Island. Annual Reports correspond to those issued by the Porto Rico, Auditor. Receipts and Disbursements has been issued annually since 1900. In the Serial Documents. 10, 12, 32, 33. Printing and Stationery Division. The Printing and Stationery Division was established in 1875 as the Stationery, Printing, and Blanks Division ; and i86 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS in 1901 the name was changed to the present designation. It has charge of the stationery of the Department and the su- pervision of the printing of its documents. General Publications are estimates of appropriations re- quired. In the Serial Documents, i, 10, 12. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. The Public Health and Marine Hospital Service was first established in 1798; reorganized in 1870 as the Marine Hospital Service under the Treasury Department; and in 1902 it became the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. The Surgeon-General is charged "with the supervision of the ma- rine hospitals and other relief stations of the Service and the care of sick and disabled seamen taken from merchant ves- sels of the United States (ocean, lake, and river), and vessels of the Light House Service and officers and men of the Rev- enue Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and surfmen of the Life-Saving Service. This supervision includes the pur- veying of medical and other supplies, the assignment of orders to medical officers, the examination of requisitions, vouchers, and property returns, and all matter pertaining to the Service. Under his direction all applicants for pilots' licenses are ex- amined for the detection of color blindness, ordinary seamen on the request of the master or agent are examined physically to determine their fitness before shipment, or a like examina- tion is made of the candidates for admission to the Revenue Cutter Service and candidates for admission in the United States Life-Saving Service. He examines also and passes up- on the medical certificates of claimants for pensions under the laws governing the Life-Saving Service. "Under the Act of February 15th, 1893, he is charged with the framing of regulations for the prevention of the introduc- tion and spread of contagious diseases and is also charged with the conduct of the quarantine of the United States. "Under the Act of July ist, 1902, the Surgeon-General, in the interest of public health, is authorized to call conferences at least once a year of the State and Territorial health officers TREASURY DEPARTMEXT 187 (the District of Columbia included) for the purpose of con- sidering matters relating to public health. "Under the law of March 28th, 1890, known as the Inter- state Quarantine Law, he is charged with preparing the rules and regulations, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, necessary to prevent the introduction of certain contagious diseases from one State to another, and he also supervises the medical inspection of alien immigrants, which under the law of March 3rd, 1891, is conducted by the medical officers of the Public Health and ]\Iarine Hospital Service. "Under the law of March 3rd, 1905, he is charged with the control of an experiment station for the study of the pre- vention and cure of leprosy, now in course of establishment on the Island of Molokai, Hawaii, under the direction of the Secretary of Treasury." To facilitate the accomplishment of the foregoing duties the Service is composed of the following: — Hygienic Labora- tory, Yellow Fever Institute, and the Marine Hospitals and Relief, Miscellaneous, Personnel and Accounts, Domestic Quarantine, Foreign and Insular Quarantine, Sanitary Reports and Statistics, and Scientific Research and Sanitation Divi- sions. Annual Reports have been issued since 1872, although pre- ceded for many years by earlier and irregular reports. They contain the "reports of the general operations of the Service including the national quarantine service, contracts for the care of seamen, reports of special medical and surgical cases treated at marine hospitals, and of fatal cases, with autopsies, epidemics, etc." and reports of the subordinate divisions of the Service. Published as numbered Treasury documents and since 1903 duplicated in the Serial Documents. Official Lists issued semi-annually are registers of all com- missioned and non-commissioned officers, marine hospitals, quarantine stations, and ships. In paper. Public Health Reports are continuations of the Public Health Bulletins issued weekly from June 13th, 1878 to May 24th, 1879. In 1878 began the Weekly Abstract of Sanitary i88 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUiMENTS Reports issued in numbered volumes and finally in 1896 these last became the present Public Health Reports. Issued week- ly in pamphlet form and at the end of every year bound in cloth. Transactions of the annual conferences of State and Terri- torial health officers with the Public Health and Marine Hos- pital Service have been issued annually since 1903. These consist of discussions relating to the public health. In cloth. Yellow Fever Institute Bulletins numbered and issued since 1902 deal with the prevention and treatment of yellow fever and malaria, and collateral investigations. In paper. General Publications consist of quarantine and other reg- ulations, and the routine of the Service. In paper or in the Serial Documents. Hygienic Laboratory. The Hygienic Laboratory was first established in New York at the Marine Hospital on Staten Island in 1887; and in 1891 transferred to Washington. It is charged with investigations of contagious and infectious diseases and other subjects affecting the public health. It is composed of a Laboratory Corps and the following Divisions : — Pathology and Bacteriology, Zoology, Pharmacology, and Chemistry. Annual Reports are accounts of investigations and are in- cluded in the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service Re- port. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1900 consist of med- ical and scientific monographs by specialists on such subjects as inoculation, disinfectants, milk supply, alcoholism, anti- toxins, and accounts of various diseases. In paper. General Publications consist of a few special reports and accounts of administration. In paper or in the Serial Docu- ments. I, 2, 3, 10, II, 12, 16, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. Public Moneys Division. The Public Moneys Division established in 1875 deals with the amount of public moneys held by depositaries. TREASURY DEPARTMENT 189 General Publications relate to securities, national banks, etc. Usually in paper, i, 10, 41. Register of Treasury. The Register of Treasury appointed since 1789 "sig'ns ana issues all bonds of the United States, the District of Co- lumbia, the Spanish indemnity, the three series of Philippine Islands public improvement bonds, and the City of Manila, Philippine Islands bonds, and transmits to the Treasurer of the United States schedules showing the name of every indi- vidual, corporation, etc. holding registered bonds and entitled to receive interest thereon. He receives, examines, and regis- ters coupon bonds exchanged for registered bonds, or re- deemed and registered bonds transferred and finally re- deemed. He receives, examines, arranges, and registers all re- deemed United States notes, gold certificates, silver certifi- cates. Treasury notes, detached interest coupons, interest checks on registered bonds, redeemed fractional cur- rency, and all other United States securities redeemed or destroyed; also all customs, internal revenue, and postage stamps condemned for imperfections and de- stroyed. He is represented in the committee having in charge the destruction by maceration of certain of the United States securities, etc. mentioned herein. Pie conducts all of- ficial correspondence of the office." To carry out the fore- going duties the Register's office is divided into the two Divi- sions of Loans and of Notes, Coupons, and Currency. Annual Reports are composed mainly of statistics. Pub- lished separately and also included in the Finance Report. General Publications include as the most important a His- tory of the United States Currency. The rest cover routine detail and are published separately or in the Serial Docu- ments. I, 3, 10, 20, 42. Revenue Cutter Service. The Revenue Cutter Service is a military division organ- ized in 1790, and until 1894 known as the Revenue Ma- 190 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS rine Service. It has charge of all matters relating to the maritime interests of the United States, such as smuggling, customs revenue, neutrality, navigation, and quarantine laws, pirac}', robbery, mutiny, protection of fisheries, illegal traffic, and Avrecked property. It also guards the interests of the Life-Saving Service as well as other divisions of the Treasury and the rest of the Executive Departments. Annual Reports are issued in the form of abstracts includ- ed in the Finance Report. General Orders numbered and issued since July 1895 are a continuation of the series called Orders, then changed to Special Orders, and now known as General Orders. These are published for the Service. In paper. Register of the officers and vessels of the Service is is- sued annually as a numbered Treasury document. General Publications consist of circulars, estimates, speci- fications, lists, and interesting records of cruises. Usually in paper or in the Serial Documents. 6, 10, 15, 16, 41, 43. Secret Service Division. The Secret Service Division was established in 1864 and deals with counterfeiting, fraudulent naturalization, and vio- lations of the public lands laws. Annual Reports are brief accounts of the year. In paper and epitomized in the Finance Report. General Publications are few in number and relate to the duties of the Division. Usually in paper. 10, 17, 41, 43. Secretary. The Secretary appointed since 1789 has general supervision of the entire Department. His office is composed of three Assistant Secretaries, a Private Secretary, a Chief Clerk, eight Division Chiefs, and two Disbursing Clerks. From his of- fice are listed his personal reports as well as those from the Department as a whole. Annual Reports known as Finance Reports have been is- sued regularly since 1801, although two earlier reports were TREASURY DEPARTMENT 191 made — one in 1790, the other in 1795. These are entirely administrative and cover the financial transactions of the Department. They also include certain reports of subordinate divisions vi^hich as well as the report of the Secretary are pub- lished separately and when combined form a Serial Docu- ment. Appropriations known as Estimates (relating to the De- partments), Estimates of Appropriations for Collecting Reve- nue, Deficiency Estimates (relating to the Departments), and occasional supplemental estimates and digests of appro- priations have been issued annually or as occasion required since the ist Congress, as well as preceded by certain Esti- mates presented to the Continental Congress. Published separately and in the Serial Documents. Circulars numbered and issued for each year "pertain to the work of the various bureaus and divisions of the Treas- ury Department. They are sometimes signed by the Chief of the Bureau or Division with which they have to do, but more often by the Secretary of the Treasury. In the latter case the name of the Bureau or Division is affixed to the De- partment circular number, with sometimes another serial number for the Bureau or Division. A circular will not be found under its Bureau or Division unless it has this additional serial number, or is signed by the Chief of the Bureau, or un- less the general business of the Bureau happens to be its sub- ject. Each circular will be found under its special subject." In paper. Documents Received and Distributed issued annually since 1895 for the calendar years, is a list of the publications of the Department. In the Serial Documents. Contingent Expenses is an annual statement issued since 1836. In the Serial Documents. Officers Delinquent in Accounts is a brief annual list is- sued since 1896. In the Serial Documents. Treasury Decisions under customs and other laws have been issued in numbered volumes since 1898. These are a continuation of the Synopses of Decisions on Construction of KJ2 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Tariff, Navigation, and other Laws, which were the cumula- tion of a monthly publication known as the Decisions under Tariff, Immigration, and Navigation Laws. The present Deci- sions are published in sheep having first come out in weekly pamphlets as Treasury Decisions mider Customs, Internal Revenue, and other Laws. General Publications consist of digests, and reports relat- ing to public debt and cash, banks, customs, public moneys, depositaries, and other financial accounts. Published sepa- rately or in the Serial Documents, i, 2, 3, 6, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 28, 41, 44, 45, 46. Solicitor of the Treasury. See page 133. Special Agents Division. The Special Agents Division established in 1875 deals with special agents, such as those to fisheries, mines, etc. Annual Reports are brief administrative accounts issued as numbered Treasury documents. General Publications deal with appropriations, special re- ports, and general routine. In paper or in the Serial Docu- ments. I, 10, 12, 14. Supervising Architect. The Supervising Architect has been appointed since 1864. His "duties are of a technical character and are com- plex and varied. They embrace, subject, however, in all cases to the direction and approval of the Treasurer, matters per- taining to the selection of sites for public buildings ; securing necessary State cession or jurisdiction, the preparation of estimates, drawings, etc., for the approval by the Cabinet officers, as required by law, preliminary to the erection of court-houses, customs-houses, post-offices, marine hospitals, etc. ; securing, under what is known as the Tarsney Act, com- petitive designs, and completing all arrangements thereunder ; TREASURY DEPARTMENT 193 arranging all details incident to the Government entering into contracts for construction, etc. He is also charged with the dvity of maintaining and keeping in repair all buildings under the control of the Treasury Department not in the District of Columbia; maintaining and keeping in a proper state of efficiency and capacity all heating apparatus and hoist- ing systems in these buildings, including those in the Dis- trict of Columbia, and the control of the supply of vaults, safes, etc. for all public buildings. He frequently has occa- sion to respond to requests from other Departments in mat- ters requiring architectural or engineering skill." Annual Reports are entirely administrative. Published as numbered Treasury documents. General Publications consist of estimates, accounts of building operations, etc. In paper or in the Serial Documents. I, 3. 20. Treasurer. The Treasurer appointed since 1789 is "charged with the receipt and disbursement of all public moneys that may be deposited in the Treasury at AVashington and in the sub- treasuries at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, and San Fran- cisco, and in the national bank United States depositories; is redemption agent for national bank notes; is trustee for bonds held to secure national bank circulation and public deposits in national banks; is custodian of miscellaneous trust funds; is fiscal agent for paying interest on the public debt and for paying the land purchase bonds of the Philippine Islands, principal and interest; is special disbursing officer for school fund of the Indian Territory and for the Philippine Islands tariff fund ; is agent for paying interest on Spanish in- demnity certificates, and is ex-officio commissioner of the sinking fund of the District of Columbia." Under his direc- tion the foregoing duties are accomplished by the follow- ing: — Assistant Treasurer, Deputy Assistant, Cashier, Chief Clerk, and the National Bank Redemption Agency. 194 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Annual Reports are entirely administrative and consist mainly of statistical tables. Published separately and also included in the Finance Report. Contents of Vaults of the Treasury Department has been issued quarterly since July 1907. In paper. Monthly Statements of outstanding paper currency of each denomination have been issued since August 1893. In paper. Sinking Fund and Funded Debt of the District of Colum- bia is an annual report numbered and issued since 1878, being preceded by earlier reports begun in 1874. Since 1880 it has been made by the Treasurer, having previously been submitted by the Sinking Fund Commissioners. Published as a numbered Treasury document and up to 1887 duplicated in the Serial Documents. Statements of funded indebtedness of the District of Col- umbia are issued quarterly. In paper. Weekly Statements of bonds held in trust for national banks have been issued since July 1907. In paper. General Publications consist of financial statistics and other data. In paper or in the Serial Documents, i, 3, 4, 5, 6, II, 15, 47. AUTHORITIES. Executive Departments, Organization. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition). Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. ^Monthly Catalogue — July 1907. ^Monthly Catalogue — August 1907. Document Catalogues. Alonthly Catalogues, ^lallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume 2. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume i. 3 4 5' 6, 7 8 9 10 II Document Catalogue — Volume 6. Documents Office — Tables. TREASURY DEPARTMENT 195 12. Document Catalogue — Volume 5. 13. Document Catalogue — Volume 3. 14. Document Catalogue — Volume 4. 15. Document Catalogue — Volume i. 16. Document Catalogue — Volume 2. 17. Documents Office — Bulletin 7. 18. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (190S). 19. Comptroller of Currency — Publications. 20. Official Congressional Directory — January 1907. 21. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume i. 22. Comptroller of Treasury — Publications. 23. Monthly Catalogue — June 1908. 24. Internal Revenue Commissioner — Publications. 25. Monthly Catalogue — January 1907. 26. Monthly Catalogue — May 1908. 27. Mint Bureau — Publications. 28. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume 2. 29. Finance Report — 1873. 30. Monthly Catalogue — November 1907. 31. Porto Rico, Governor — Report, 1901. 32. Porto Rico, Governor — Report, 1906. 33. Porto Rico, Governor — Reports. 34. Finance Report — 1902. 35. Public Health and Marine Plospital Service — Publica- tions. 36. Marine Hospital Service — Report, 1872. 2,j. Navy Department — Report, 1882. 38. Documents Office — Bulletin 9. 39. Hygienic Laboratory — Bulletin 8. 40. Hygienic Laboratory — Bulletin 37. 41. Finance Report — 1906. 42. Library of Congress — Card. 43. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 17. 44. Finance Reports. 45. Treasury Department — Publications. 46. Poore — Descriptive Catalogue. 47. Monthly Catalogue — November 1906. CHAPTER IX. WAR DEPARTMENT. This Department, organized in 178^, has charge of "the supervision of all estimates of appropriations for its expens- es, including the military establishment ; of all purchases of army supplies ; of all expenditures for the support, transpor- tation, and maintenance of the Army, and of such expendi- tures of a civil nature as may be placed by Congress under its direction. The super\ision of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and of military education in the Army, of the Ordnance and Fortification Board, of the vari- ous battle field commissions, and of the publication of the Of- ficial Records of the \\'ar of Rebellion. The charge of all matters relating to national defense and seacoast fortifica- tion, army ordnance, river and harbor improvements, the pre- vention of obstruction to navigation, and the establishment of harbor lines, and all plans and locations of bridges author- ized by Congress to be constructed over the navigable waters of the United States require its approval. The charge of the establishment or abandonment of military posts, and of all matters relating to leases, revocable licenses, and other privi- leges upon lands under its control." The publications of ,the War Department are more numerous than those of the Navy Department and are more widely distributed, i, 2, 3. American National Red Cross. The American National Red Cross was established in 1881 and placed under the supervision of the War Depart- ment in 1905. The Society not only is intended to relieve the sick and wounded during times of war, but also extends its aid to suflferers from famine, floods, pestilence, or fire. Annual Reports numbered and submitted to Congress since 1900 are brief administrative accounts. In the Serial Documents. iqs handbook of public documents General Publications consist of certain memorials, records of foreign relations, and matter on general routine. Usual!}- in the Serial Documents. 7, 14, 15, 20. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Commission. The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Commission, appointed since 1890 by the Secretary of War, has immediate charge of the Park. Annual Reports issued since 1897 are brief accounts of the condition of the Park and its needs. Included in the Depart- ment Report and in most cases issued separately in paper. General Publications consist of reports of battles and cam- paigns in the vicinity, an atlas, and routine details. Usually in paper. 14, 15, 19, 21. Cuba, Provisional Governor. The Provisional Governor of Cuba was appointed from 1906 to 1909 to protect life and property and to restore order in the Island. Annual Reports issued since 1907 were accounts of admin- istration and included the reports of the several government departments. In paper. 22. General Staff Corps. The General Staff Corps was established in 1903 "to pre- pare plans for the national defense and for the mobilization of the military forces in time of war; to investigate and re- port upon all questions affecting the efficiency of the Army and its state of preparation for military operations ; to render professional aid and assistance to the Secretary of War and to general oiificers and other superior commanders, and to act as their agents in informing and coordinating the, action of all the different officers who are subject under the terms of this Act to the supervision of the Chief of Staff; and to per- form such other military duties not otherwise assigned by law, WAR DEPARTMENT 199 as may be from time to time prescribed by the President." It has the supervision of all troops of the line of the Adjutant- General's Department in matters relating to the command, discipline, and administration of the existing military estab- lishment, and of the Inspector-General's, Judge-Advocate- General's, Quartermaster's, Subsistence, and Ordnance De- partments, and of the Engineer and Signal Corps. Annual Reports made by the Chief of Staff are interesting accounts of military operations and manoeuvres. Issued separately and also included in the Department Report. General Publications consist of memoranda, drill regula- tions, circulars, exercises, general orders, grammars of the Mindanao and Tagalog languages, etc. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. Adjutant-General's Department. The Adjutant-General's Department was authorized in 1799 and in 1904 was combined with the Record and Pension OiEce to form the Military Secretary's Department, which in 1907 was abandoned, the Adjutant-General's Department taking its place. This Department is "charged with the duty of recording, authenticating, and communicating to troops and individuals in the military service all orders, instruc- tions, and regulations issued by the Secretary of ^A'ar through the Chief of Staff ; of preparing and distributing commissions ; of compiling and issuing the Army Register and the Army List and Directory; of consolidating the general returns of the Army ; of arranging and preserving the reports of officers detailed to visit encampments of militia ; of preparing the annual returns of the militia required by law to be submitted to Congress ; of managing the recruiting service ; and of re- cording' and issuing orders from the A\'ar Department, remit- ting or mitigating sentences of general prisoners who have been discharged from the military service. ''' * "'' Is vest- ed by law with the charge, under the Secretary of AVar, of the military and hospital records of the volunteer armies and the pension and other business of the AVar Department con- 200 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS nected therewith and the publication and the distribution of the Official Records of the War of Rebellion. Also, the charge of the historical records and business of the permanent military establishment; including all pensions, pay, bounty, and other business pertaining to or based upon the military or medical histories of former officers and enlisted men. The archives * * *• include all military records of the Revo- lutionary AVar; the records of all organizations, * * * officers, and enlisted men that have been in the military serv- ice of the United States since the Revolutionary War, the records of the movements and operations of troops; the med- ical and hospital records of the Army; all reports of physical examination of recruits and all identification cards ; the rec- ords of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau; the records of the Refugees, Freedmen's and Abandoned Lands Bureau ; the Confederate records including those pertaining to the legisla- tive, executive, and judicial branches of the Confederate gov- ernment." Annual Reports are as a rule brief accounts of the year's work, with statistical tables and other tabulations of results accomplished. In paper and also included in the Department Report. Army List and Directory numbered and issued monthly as a continuation of the United States Army Directory, since 1899, contains the names of all officers in the Army. In paper. Army Recruiting Circulars have been issued as occasion requires since 1895. In paper. Army Register has been issued annually since 1802, with a few exceptions. This is a complete guide and directory to the enlisted officers and men and their location, with informa- tion bearing thereon. It corresponds to the Navy Register (see page 145) and since 1896 is bound with it as a Serial Document. It is also issued separately in paper. Artillery Circulars are a series of lettered monographs is- sued since 1893, O'^ technical subjects, such as pertain to bal- listics, explosives, meteorological instruments, etc. In paper. WAR DEPARTMENT 2or Artillery Memoranda numbered for each year and issued since 1893 are brief notes on technical subjects such as range tables and the like. In paper. Military Commands and Posts issued annually, excepting 1898, since 1895 shows the location of posts with postoffices, telegraph stations, etc. In paper and until 1897 also included in the Adjutant-General's Department Report. General Publications consist of orders, special orders, gen- eral orders, circulars, lists of medals of honor, vacancies at the Military Academy, etc. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. Alaska Road Commission. The Alaska Road Commission consists of an engineer of- ficer and two other officers of the Army appointed by the Secretary of War since 1905, whose duties are to "locate, lay out, construct, and maintain wagon roads and pack trails" in Alaska. Annual Reports are brief accounts of work accomplished. In paper and also included in the War Department Report. Army of Cuban Pacification. "In the Fall of 1906, it became necessary for the United States of America to intervene in Cuba, and plans were pre- pared for the organization and transportation of an expedition- ary force to this island." This force arrived in Havana on September 19th, and on September 29th a provisional gov- ernment was established which terminated in 1909. (See page 198.) Annual Reports issued since 1907 are summaries of the military government and its conditions and needs. Included in the War Department Report. Atlantic Division. The Atlantic Division created in 1904 includes the De- partments of the East and of the Gulf. The Division is in charge of a Commanding General who has supervision of the 202 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS two Departments and the administration of military affairs within their provinces. Annual Reports are concerned with administrative duties, giving accounts of mihtary posts, officers, and routine duties and containing the reports of the two Departments. Inchid- ed in the War Department Report. Cavalry and Field Artillery School. The Cavalry and Field Artillery School was authorized in 1887 and fairl}' established in 1893 ^s the Cavalry and Light Artillery Practice School at Fort Riley, Kansas, for the in- struction of officers. In 1901 the name was changed to the present designation. Annual Reports issued since 1893 are accounts of instrnc- tion and progress of students. In paper and also included in the War Department Report. General Publications consist of orders and routine detail. Usually in paper. Coast Artillery School. The Coast Artillery School is located at Fort Monroe, Virginia and was re-established in 1900, having been first es- tablished in 1824, discontinued, then revived in 1858 and 1867, after other discontinuations. Before 1907 it was known as the Artillery School. It is intended for the instruction of officers and enlisted men. Annual Reports give accounts of courses, standing of stu- dents, and general information. In paper and also included in the \A^ar Department Report. Journal of United States Artillery has been issued bi- monthly in numbered volumes since 1893. It is a technical periodical of military science and contains an important In- dex to Current Military Literature. In paper. Cuba Department. The Cuba Department was established in 1898 as a Divi- sion, becoming a Department in 1900 when it absorbed the WAR DEPART.^[EXT 203 Department of \\'estern Cuba, and was discontinued in 1902. Annual Reports issued from 1899 to 1902 were records of the military government and its subdivisions, giving full ac- counts of the condition of the people and the reports of the officers in command of the military departments. The re- ports for 1899 and 1900 were published as a whole in the War Department Reports for those years ; but those for igor and 1902 were published separately and duplicated in the AVar Department Report, omitting appendixes. Civil Reports issued by the ]\Iilitary Governors from 1899 to 1902 were exhaustive records of the government of Cuba. The first report, made by Major-(jeneral John R. Brooke in 1899, was in one volume and also contained the reports of the division commanders. Issued separately and also included in the AA'ar Department Report. j\Iajor-"General Leonard \A'ood made three reports : the first for 1899-1900 being in twelve volumes (English and Spanish) ; the second for 1901 in fifteen volumes (English and Spanish) ; the third for 1902 in six volumes was published in Baltimore in 1903. These reports were exceptionally valuable records of the government of the island, containing accounts from the various branches of the military government and re- sembled the Philippine Commission Reports (see page 222) in scope. Issued separately, only the English edition of the first report being included in the War Department Report. Cuba, Western Department. The Department of Western Cuba was established in 1898 as the Department of Province of Plavana; being changed in 1899 to the Department of Province of Havana and Pinar del Rio; in May 1900, it became the Department of Havana and Pinar del Rio; in July 1900, the Department of Western Cuba; and in November 1900 it was merged into the Cuba Department. Annual Reports issued for 1899 and 1900 were records of the military government and operations, with reports of the chiefs of stafT departments. Issued separately and, omitting 204 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS appendixes of the reports of the first two, also included in the War Department Reports; the final report, consisting of two pages, for July to November 1900, was included in the War Department Report for 1901. Special Report was issued in 1899 on the industrial, eco- nomic, and social condition of Cuba. Included in the AVar Department Report. Infantry and Cavalry School. The Infantry and Cavalry School was organized in 1881 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for the instruction of officers ; in 1901 it became the General Service and Staff College; and in 1904 it resumed its original name. Annual Reports issued since 1882 are accounts of courses and the progress of students. In paper and also included in the War Department Report. Northern Division. The Northern Division created in 1904 includes the De- partments of the Lakes, Missouri, and Dakota. Annual Reports correspond to those of the Atlantic Divi- sion. (See page 202.) Pacific Division. The Pacific Division created in 1904 includes the Depart- ments of California and of the Columbia. Annual Reports correspond to those of the Atlantic Divi- vision. (See page 202.) Philippines Division. The Philippines Division created in 1904 includes the De- partments of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Annual Reports correspond to those of the Atlantic Di- \ision. (See page 202.) Signal School. The Signal School was established in 1905 at Fort Lea- venworth, Kansas for the instruction of officers. WAR DEPARTMENT 205 Annual Reports are brief accounts of courses and prog- ress of students. In paper and also included in the War Department Report. Southwestern Division. The Southwestern Division created in 1904 includes the Departments of Texas and the Colorado. Annual Reports correspond to those of the Atlantic Di- vision. (See page 202.) Staff College. In 1904 the duties of the General Service and Staff College were relegated to the Infantry and Cavalry School (see page 204), and to a Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for the instruction of officers, in military, law, languages, and engineering. Annual Reports are brief accounts of courses and progress of students. In paper and also included in the War Depart- ment Report. Submarine Defense School. The Submarine Defense School was established in 1901 at Fort Totten, New York, for the instruction of officers and enlisted men. Annual Reports are accounts of results accomplished. In paper and, omitting appendixes, also included in the War De- partment Report. Army War College. The Army War College for which plans were outlined in the Secretary of War's Report in 1899, began operations at Washington in 1903. Being a postgraduate school, it cor- responds to the Naval War College, with which it cooperates. Publications. — As yet none are issued except as epitomized in the War Department Report. 2o6 IIAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Artillery Corps. The Artiller}' Corps was first organized in 1799, but was discontinued as a regimental organization in 1901. It was re- organized in 1907, and beginning with July 1908 it will be composed of the two corps of Field and Coast Artillery. Annual Reports consist of brief accounts of practice duties, boat and other service, fire control, artillery school opera- tions, etc. In paper and also included in the War Depart- ment Report. General Publications cuver technical and routine details. Usuall}^ in paper or in the Serial Documents. Engineer Department. The Engineer Department was established in 1802 as the Engineer Corps; but since 1895 it has been known as the Engineer Department. The Chief of Engineers "commands the Corps of Engineers which is charged with all duties re- lating to construction and repair of fortifications whether permanent or temporary ; with all works of defense, with all military roads and bridges, and with such surveys as may be required for these objects, or the movement of armies in the field. It is also charged with the river and harbor improve- ments, with military and geographical surveys, with the sur- ^•ey of the lakes, and with any other engineer work especially assigned to the Corps by acts of Congress or orders of the Secretary of War." Annual Reports are very lengthy and record in detail all the engineering operations of the year. They embrace re- ports from individual engineers, divisions, and officers, as well as legislation afl'ecting the Engineer Department. In size the Report varies from one to seven volumes, which are issued in paper and also in the Serial Documents as part of the War Department Report; excepting the Report for 1906, the administrative section only being included in the War Department Report; while, with the appendixes, this admin- istrative report formed a separate Serial Document. WAR DEPARTMENT 207 Abstracts of Proposals for Material have been issued since 1901. In the Serial Documents. List of Civilian Engineers emplo3ed on river and harbor work, is an annual directory issued since 1886. In the Serial Documents. Professional Papers numbered and issued since 1841, are monographs on mihtary science. In paper or cloth. River and Harbor Improvements showing the results ac- complished during the year is issued as part of the Engineer Department Report. Statement showing rank, duties, and addresses of officers of the Corps has been issued quarterly since 1899. I''^ paper. General Publications consist of yearly numbered order,-, general orders, and special circulars ; instructions, regulations, indexes, maps, surve3^s, notes on cement, bridge construction, reports from the Engineer Depots at New York City, Fort Leavenworth, and Washington Barracks, Engineer Troops, Engineers Board, Rivers and Harbors Board, Northern and Northwestern Lakes Survey, and ^^'ashington Barracks. Calif o7'nia Debris Commission. The California Debris Commission was created in 1893 to regulate hydraulic mining in the territory drained by the Sac- ramento and San Joaquin River systems in the state of Cali- fornia, by requiring the operators of hydraulic mines to im- pound and restrain debris resulting from their operations, so that such debris would be prevented from being carried into the river systems above mentioned ; and to devise means for hydraulic mining that will not injure other interests in the state. Annual Reports are brief accounts of licenses granted, im- provements, protection rendered, and operations in general. In paper and also included in the Engineer Department Re- port. General Publications are rarely issued and consist of regu- lations and routine. In paper or in the Serial Documents. 2o8 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Engineer School. The Engineer School organized in 1885 at Willets Point. New York, and in 1901 moved to Washington Barracks, is intended for the instruction of officers and enlisted men. For a time it was called the Engineer School of Application. Annual Reports are brief and are included in the War De- partment Report. Occasional Papers numbered and issued since 1902 are monographs on military engineering. In paper. Geographical Surveys West of the looth Meridian. The Geographical Surveys West of the lOoth Meridian, also known as the Wheeler Survey, were engaged in investiga- tions from 1869 to 1878, and were supplanted by the Geologi- cal Survey in 1879. Annual Reports issued with the exception of 1870, from 1869 to 1874 were concerned with reports on the territory surveyed, with accounts of geological formations, astronom- ical investigations, and other scientific data. In cloth. Final Reports or Monographs were in seven numbered volumes, each consisting of several parts, and issued from 187s to 1889; the volumes coming out as soon as completed — the date of the first being 1889, the second, 1877, the third, 187s, etc. These were highly scientific and dealt with geog- raphy, geology, paleontology, astronomy, botany, zoology, archaeology, and barometric hypsometry. In cloth. General Publications consisted of maps and a few miscel- laneous reports. In paper or cloth. Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel. The Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel, also as the King Survey, was engaged in investigations from 1868 to 1872. Annual Reports issued from 1871 to 1878 were accounts of geological research. Included in the Engineer Department Report. WAR DEPARTMENT 209 Final Reports or Monographs, in seven numbered volumes, issued from 1878 to 1880 wqtq devoted to geological subjects and were published as Professional Paper 18 of the Engineer Department. (See page 207.) In cloth. General Publications consisted of an atlas and a list of col- lected plants. In paper. Mississippi River Commission. The Mississippi River Commission created in 1879 is com- posed of seven presidential appointees whose duty it is to "di- rect and complete such survej's of said river, between the Head of the Passes near its mouth to its headways, as may be in progress, and to make such additional surveys, examina- tions, and investigations, topographic, hydrographic, and liy- drometrical of said river and its tributaries as may be deemed necessary by said Commission to carry out the objects of this Act. * * * To take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently lo- cate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi River; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof; promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and the postal service." Annual Reports were first issued irregularly, but now come out once a year. They consist mainly of maps with explan- atory text. In paper and also included in the Engineer De- partment Report. General Publications treat of river stages and other de- tails bearing on the duties of the Commission. In paper or in the Serial Documents. Public Buildings and Grounds Office. A Superintendent was first appointed by the President in 1802; in 1816 this ofifice was abolished and a Commissioner appointed, who, in 1849, was placed under the supervision of the Secretary of Interior ; in 1867 this office was discontinued and its duties transferred to the chief Engineer of the Army; 210 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUiMEXTS finally in 1873 the present Office was established. It has charge of the buildings occupied by the War Department in the District of Columbia, excepting the State, War, and Navy lUiilding, the GoA'ernment telegraph line, some historical build- ings, statues, parks, grounds, the executive mansion, etc. Annual Reports cover . itemized accounts of v^rork done with numerous illustrations. In paper and also included in the Engineer Department Report. General Publications consist mainly of estimates for re- pairs and similar accounts. In paper or in the Serial Docu- ments. Gettysburg National Military Park Commission. The Gettysburg National Military Park Commission has been in charge of the Park in Pennsylvania since 1893. Annual Reports are brief accounts of the condition of the Park, improvements, and general information. Included in the A\'ar Departrnent Report. Inspector-General's Department. The Inspector-General's Department was authorized in 1799, but first regularly organized in 1874, with subsequent legislation until 1901, when it was established on its present basis. This Department "inspects all military commands and stations, the schools of application, the military department of all colleges and schools at which of- ficers of the Army are detailed, all depots, rendez- vous, arsenals, armories, fortifications, and public works of e\'ery kind under charge of or carried on by officers of the Army, and also the money accounts of all disbursing officers of the Army." Annual Reports regularly issued since 1866 are records of existing conditions in the Army showing the results of in- spection of the numerous divisions of the War Department. In paper and also included in the War Department Report. General Publications are rarely published and embrace strictly routine matter. In paper or in the Serial Documents. WAR DEPARTMENT 211 National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was called the National Asylum from 1866 to 1872. The Home is an independent institution, subordinate to Congress only; its connection with the War Department consists entirely in its being required since 1894 to undergo an annual inspec- tion by the Inspector-General. However, on account of its military connection it is placed here rather than in Part Three. The following Branches constitute the Home : Eastern at Togus, Maine; Central at Dayton, Ohio; Marion at Marion, Indiana; Northwestern at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Pacific at Santa Monica, California; W^estern at Leavenworth, Kansas; Danville at Danville, Illinois ; Mountain at Johnson City, Ten- nessee ; Southern at Hampton, Virginia; and the Battle Mountain Sanitarium at Hot Springs, South Dakota. Annual Reports include those of the Board of Managers, their proceedings, and the reports of the Secretary and Treas- urer. Issued separately and duplicated in the Serial Docu- ments. Annual Reports of the Inspector-General issued since 1894 are briefer than the preceding and give accounts of the con- dition of the Horne in its branches. Issued separatel}'' and duplicated in the Serial Documents ; as well as included in the War Department Report with omissions. Judge- Advocate-General's Department. The Judge-Advocate-General's Department was first or- ganized in 1799 as the Military Justice Bureau; in 1874 the Bureau was reorganized; in 1884 it became the Judge- Advocate-General's Department, Army; and finally in 1901 the Department was reorganized on its present basis. "The Judge-Advocate-General is directed by law 'to receive, review, and cause to be recorded the proceedings of all courts mar- tial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions.' He also furnishes the Secretary of War information and advice relat- ing to lands under control of the War Department, and re- 212 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTS ports and gives opinions upon legal questions arising under the laws, regulations, and customs pertaining to the Army, and upon questions arising under the civil law; reports upon applications for clemency in the cases of military prisoners ; examines and prepares legal papers relating to the erection of bridges over navigable waters ; drafts bonds and examines those given to the United States by disbursing officers, col- leges, and others; examines, revises, and drafts charges and specifications against officers and soldiers; and also drafts and examines deeds, contracts, licenses, leases, and legal pa- pers generally." Annual Reports are brief accounts of military trials and administration. In paper and also included in the War De- partment Report. General Publications embrace many important documents, such as Manuals for Courts Martial, and other procedure un- der military law. Military reservations and parks, national cemeteries, military law, digests, estimates, regulations, are some of the subjects covered. In paper, cloth, sheep, or in the Serial Documents. Medical Department. The ^Medical Department was authorized in 1799 with sub- sequent legislation. It is under the control of the Surgeon- General who has charge of the "disbursement of its appro- priations ; the designation of the stations of medical officers, and the issuing of all orders and instructions relating to their professional duties; the recruitment, instruction, and control of the Hospital Corps and the Army Nurse Corps. He directs as to the selection, purchase, and distribution of the ^Medical Museum, the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, and the general hospitals are under his control." Annual Reports give accounts of the health of the Army, sanitation, and medical and surgical cases. In paper and also, with occasional omissions, included in the War De- partment Report. WAR DEPARTMENT 213 Index-Catalogue of the Surgeon-General's Library is in two series, each consisting of numbered volumes. Series One is composed of sixteen volumes published from 1880 to 1895; and Series Two begun in 1896 is not yet complete. This is the most extensive medical bibliography in any lan- guage, and is very simply arranged, being alphabetical by author and subject. It embraces all medical books, pam- phlets, and periodicals, domestic and foreign. In cloth. General Publications consist of important investigations on such subjects as typhoid fever, medical and surgical cases, specifications, estimates, circulars of information, lists of offi- cers, manuals, emergency diets, and reports on the Army General Hospital at San Francisco. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. Army Medical School. The Army Medical School was established at Washington in 1893 "for the purpose of giving special instruction to ap- proved candidates for admission to the Medical Corps of the Army in their duties as medical officers." Annual Reports issued since 1905 are concerned with the school administration and are very brief. Included in the A\'ar Department Report. Military Academy. The Military Academy was established at West Point in 1794. It is a training school, corresponding to the Naval Academy, and equips men to serve as officers in the Army. Annual Reports of the Superintendent are brief outlines, with accounts of the personnel, discipline, health, and gen- eral administration of the Academy. In paper and also in- cluded in the AA'ar Department Report. Annual Reports of the Board of Visitors, appointed since 1817, have been issued since 1825. These cover the inspection bearing on the fiscal affairs, buildings and grounds, instruc- ->i4 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS lion, discipline, hygiene, arms, and equipment of the Academy. In paper and also included in the War Department Report. Official Register of officers and cadets is an annual di- rectory and handbook of the students and Academy issued since 1818. In paper. General Publications are as a rule unimportant, relating to estimates, certain recommendations, and routine detail. In paper or in the Serial Documents. Military Information Division. The Military Information Division was created in 1886 and reorganized in 1892. Its duties are the obtaining, systematiz- ing, and arranging of information that may be of use in time of war. Publications numbered and issued since 1893 are mono- graphs on foreign army organization, manoeuvres, and notes of military interests. In paper. General Publications consist of maps, indexes of special military subjects, and miscellaneous reports. Usually in pa- per. Ordnance and Fortification Board. The Ordnance and Fortification Board was established in 1888 to "provide suitable regulations for the inspection of guns and materials at all stages of manufacture to the extent necessary to protect fully the interests of the United States, and generally to provide such regulations concerning mat- ters within said Board's operations as shall be necessary to carry out to the best advantage all duties committed to its charge." Annual Reports numbered and issued since 1891 give brief accoimts of general operations, personnel, and inspec- tion. In paper and also included in the War Department Re- port. General Publications pertaining to routine duties are issued infrequently, and are usually in the Serial Documents. WAR DEPARTMENT 215 Ordnance Department. The Ordnance Department was first authorized in 1799, with subsequent legislation, and headed by the Chief of Ord- nance whose duties consist "in providing, preserving, dis- tributing, and accounting for every description of artillery, small arms, and all the munitions of war which may be re- quired for the fortresses of the country, the armies in the field, or for the whole body of the militia of the Union. In these duties are comprised that of determining the general principles of construction and of prescribing in detail the models and forms of all military weapons employed in war. They comprise also the duty of prescribing the regulations for the proof and inspection of all these weapons, for main- taining uniformity and economy in their fabrication, for in- suring their good quality, and for their preservation and dis- tribution." Annual Reports are exhaustive, covering results of inves- tigations relating to ordnance and extensive description of the same, as well as records of operations at the Augusta, Benecia, Frankford, New York, Rock Island, Watertown, and Watervliet Arsenals; at the Havana and Manila Ordnance Depots; and accounts of the Ordnance Board, Ordnance In- spectors, Powder Inspector, Powders and High Explosives Board, Sandy Hook Proving Ground, and the Springfield Ar- mory. In paper, cloth, and included in the War Department Report. Notes on Construction of Ordnance in numbered volumes issued since 1884, are monographs on ammunition, weapons of war, etc., and highly technical in character. In paper. Tests of Metals contains annual reports issued since 1881 the AYatertown Arsenal on the "results of experiments made by the Government in testing the strength of iron, steel, and other metals in their various structural forms; stone, brick, cement, wood, and other building materials; rope, cordage, cables, etc. They are numerously illustrated with plates, figures, etc., and each volume contains a good index." In cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents. 2i6 ITAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUAFEXTS General Publications consist of reports on designs of in- struments, explosi\es, fortifications, manuals, primers, hand- books, machine guns, submarine mines, construction, projec- tiles, rifles, sights, range tables, estimates, orders, directories, and miscellaneous reports. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. Pay Department. The Pay Department first authorized in 1799, with sub- sequent legislation, is headed by the Paymaster-General who is charged "with the payment of officers and enlisted men of the Army and civil employees of the Department; with fur- nishing funds to his officers and seeing that they account duly for the same, and with a preliminary examination of their accounts ; also with the payments of allotments made by en- listed men of the Army for the benefit of their families." Annual Reports consist of annotated and tabulated ac- counts of expenditures. In paper and also included in the A\'ar Department Report. Circulars, numbered and issued since 1875, "contain regu- lations, decisions, and announcements pertaining exclusively to accounts, disbursements, and allowances of pay of Army." In paper. Stoppage Circulars, issued monthly since 1872, show stop- pages against Army officers and are published for Department use. In paper. Official Tables of Distances issued at irregular intervals since 1886 for the "guidance of disbursing officers of the Army charged with the payment of money allowances for travel." In paper. Distance Circulars serve as amendments to the Official Tables of Distances and for each new edition are separately numbered. In paper. Manuals issued irregularly since 1863 contain pay tables, rules, and other information for officials of the Pay Depart- ment. In cloth. WAR DEPARTMENT 217 Station List was issued monthly from 1869 to 1876; then quarterly until January 1899, when it resumed its original pe- riod of publication. This is a directory of the Pay Depart- ment and its officials. In paper. General Publications are of little general interest, being concerned with routine matter. In paper or in the Serial Documents. Quartermaster's Department. The Quartermaster's Department was first authorized in 1799j with subsequent legislation. The Quartermaster-Gen- eral heads this Department and "aided by assistants pro- vides transportation for the Army ; also clothing and equi- page, horses, mules, and wagons, vessels, forage, stationery, and other miscellaneous quartermaster stores and property for the Army; and of clothing and equipage for the militia; constructs necessar^r buildings, wharves, roads, and bridges at military posts, and repairs the same ; furnishes water, heat- ing, and lighting apparatus ; pays guides, spies, and inter- preters; and is in charge of national cemeteries." Annual Reports are concerned with the administration and personnel of the Department. In paper and also included in the War Department Report. Roster, issued monthly, gives names of officials, their grade, rank, etc., and is intended for Department use. In paper. General Publications consist of manuals, proposals, in- structions, specifications, circulars, and miscellaneous reports. Usually in paper or in the Serial Documents. Signal Office. In 1799 provision was made for a Chief Signal Officer; in 1880 the Signal Service was further organized; and in 1890 the civilian duties of the Signal Corps were transferred to the Agriculture Department under the ^^'eather Bureau (see page 72). The Chief Signal Officer is "charged with the super- 2i8 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS vision of all military signal duties, and of books, papers, and devices connected therewith ; including telegraph and tele- phone apparatus and the necessary meteorological instru- ments for use of military telegraph lines and cables, and for the duty of collecting and transmitting- information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, and all other duties usually pertaining to military signalling." Annual Reports issued regularly since 1865 are concerned with the personnnel, equipment, and progress of the Office. Issued separately and also included, with omissions, in the War Department Report. Roster issued annual!}' since 1898, is a directory of the Service. In paper. Manuals numbered and issued since 1902 are concerned with telegraphy, telephony, instruments, submarine cables, and other technical subjects connected with the various branches of signalling. In cloth. General Publications consist of instructions, circulars, codes, and routine detail. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. Subsistence Department. The Subsistence Department was first authorized in 1799, with subsequent legislation, and headed by the Commissary- General of Subsistence, who "has administrative control of the Subsistence Department; the disbursement of its appro- priations; the providing of rations and their issue to the Army ; the purchase and distribution of articles, authorized to be kept for sale to officers and enlisted men; the admin- istrative examination of accounts of subsistence funds pre- liminary to their settlement by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury; and the examination and settlement of re- turns of subsistence supplies." Annual Reports outline the work of the year with refer- ence to military stores, such as vegetables, meats, and other foods. In paper and also included in the War Department Report. WAR DEPART^IEXT 219 General Publications consist of handbooks, circulars, man- uals for cooks, army ration lists, lists of employees, recipes used in Army cooking schools, estimates, etc. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. 1-54. Insular Affairs Bureau. The Insular Affairs Bureau was established in 1898 as the Customs and Insular Affairs Division ; in 1900 it became the Insular Affairs Division ; and in 1902 it was made a Bu- reau. "To the Chief of the Insular Affairs Bureau, under the immediate direction of the Secretary of War, is assigned all matters pertaining to civil government in the island posses- sions of the United States subject to the jurisdiction of the War Department, the Philippines being the onl}'- ones so sub- ject at the present time." These duties also comprise the tabu- lation of records co^-ering the administration and condition of the country represented and the collection of commercial data. Annual Reports issued since 1901 are brief records of the organization, personnel, and condition of the Bureau. In paper and also included in the War Department Report and in that of the Philippine Commission when issued in cloth. Circulars numbered and issued since 1898 pertain to rou- tine affairs of the Bureau. In paper. Monthly Summary of Commerce of Cuba, numbered for each year and issued from 1899 to 1902, dealt with statistical matter on imports, exports, and other commercial data of the Island. In paper. Monthly Summary of Commerce of Porto Rico, numbered for each year and issued from 1899 to 1900, was of the same character as the preceding. In paper. Quarterly Summary of Commerce of Philippine Islands was issued monthly from 1899 to 1905, and in 1906 it became a quarterly. It gives statistics of imports and exports, duties collected, number and tonnage of vessels entered and cleared, and other reports on the commercial condition of the islands. In paper. 220 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMEXTTS General Publications consist of compilations of laws, notes on foreign possessions, immigration regulations, commercial reports, and general routine. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. 3, 6, 14, 15, 19, 55, 56, 57. International Waterways Commission. The International Waterways Commission has been ap- pointed since 1902 to "investigate and report upon the con- ditions and uses of the waters adjacent to the boundary lines between the United States and Canada." It has also in view the preservation of Niagara Falls. General Publications consist of reports on progress, appro- priations needed, preservation of Niagara Falls, and other details connected with the duties of the Commission. In pa- per or in the Serial Documents. 8, 28, 58. Isthmian Canal Commission. The Isthmian Canal Commission established in 1899 under the State Department and in 1904 transferred to the War De- partment, has charge of the construction, administration, gov- ernment, sanitary condition, and other matters relating to the; Isthmian Canal. Annual Reports, the first embracing the years from 1899 to 1901, succeeding issues representing one year each, are elaborate records of operations, giving engineering, commer- cial, sanitary, economic, industrial, and other topics bearing on the Canal. On a slightly smaller scale these reports re- semble those of the Philippine Commission, as they include reports of subordinate officials concerned with the admin- istration of affairs in the Isthmus. The Reports are issued separately and are duplicated in the Serial Documents. Minutes are quarterly records of the proceedings and meet- ings of the Commission and of the engineering committee. In paper. General Publications consist of laws, speeches, contracts, orders, codes, circulars, manuals of information, and general miscellany. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. WAR DEPART;\1ENT 221 Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama. The Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama is in charge of a Governor; and since 1905 under the reorganization of the Commission it includes the department of government and sanitation. The following departments constitute the present government: Executive Office, Sanitation Department (form- erly Health Department), Revenues Department, Justice De- partment, Police and Prisons Department, Treasurer, and Auditor. Annual Reports are administrative giving particular at- tention to health and sanitation. Included in the Commission Report. Annual Reports of Sanitation Department issued since 1906 give full accounts of diseases, especially yellow fever, malaria, plague, and other tropical complaints. In paper. Canal Record is a weekly newspaper issued since Septem- ber 1907. Monthly Reports of Sanitation Department have been is- sued since 1905 and were first known as the Alonthly Reports of the Health Department; but in 1907 the title was changed to the present designation. In paper. General Publications consist mainly of routine detail and a few bulletins relating to sanitary conditions. Usually in paper. Consulting Engineers Board. The Consulting Engineers Board was composed of eight members, American and foreign, appointed in 1905 for the "purpose of considering the various plans proposed to and by the Isthmian Canal Commission for the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, between Cristobal and La Boca." Report issued in 1905 contained a summary of proceedings and an exhaustive account of the plans for the Canal by the different members of the Board. In the Serial Documents. 7, 28, 34. 59, 60, 61, 62, 63. 222 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Militia Affairs Division. The ]\Iilitia Affairs Division was created in 1908 "for the transaction of business pertaining to the organized and un- organized mihtia, except militia in the military service of the United States, and . . . the records, books, files, documents, cards, and papers pertaining to the militia." . . . Annual Reports issued since 1908 relate to the organized militia. In paper. Circulars numbered for each year and issued since 1908 deal with instructions and other routine matters. In paper. Rosters were issued from 1893 to 1898 by the Military In- formation Division; then by the Adjutant-General's Depart- ment; and since 1909 by the present Division. In paper. Panama Railroad Commissioner, Special. The Special Panama Railroad Commissioner was ap- pointed l)_v the President in 1905 for the purpose of 'Visiting ports of the Pacific Coast, the Isthmus of Panama, New York, and such other ports as may be necessary to make an investigation into the present trade conditions and freight rates between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, across the Isthmus of Panama and between the west coast of South America and the east coast of the United States and Europe, for the purpose of determining the best policy to be pursued in the management of the Panama Railroad Company." Report issued in 1905 was an exhaustive account of the ac- complishment of the foregoing duties, including records of complaints, expenses of operation, steamship lines, and nu- merous other statistics. In the Serial Documents. 7, 64. Philippine Commission. The Philippine Commission was first appointed in 1899 and known as the Schurman Commission ; in 1900 the Taft Commission was appointed, this following the same lines as the earlier body ; both of these commissions were also called the Philippine Commission, \vhich since 1901 is the generally WAR DEPARTlMENT 223 accepted designation. The Commission has the supervision of the government of the Islands and all duties relating thereto. Annual Reports include what might be called the prelim- inary report of the Schurman Commission made in 1899, then the report of the Taft Cominission in 1900 begins the present series of numbered reports. These are interesting descrip- tions of the Islands, being accounts of the government and present condition of the people, as well as records of their history and customs. The reports of the various subordinate departments are included. In cloth and duplicated in the War Department Report, except the Schurman Report and its accompanying atlas, and the Taft Report, which were issued as separate Serial Documents. Acts numbered individually have been issued annually since 1900 in numbered volumes. Volume One was entitled Public Laws and Resolutions; with Volume Two the present designation began. These are records of public acts, reso- lutions, and legislation in general of the Commission. In cloth and also included in the AVar Department Report. Public Laws passed by the Commission are issued quar- terly in numbered volumes since 1900 in English and Spanish and contain the Acts which are subsequently issued in the preceding form. The first volume, in English only with addi- tions and corrections, was duplicated in the Commission Re- port for 1900. AVith the exception of the last volume includ- ing the public laws from September 1904 to August 1905, which was published at AA'ashington, the rest were published at Manila. In cloth. Official Gazette is a weekly newspaper published in Eng- lish and Spanish at Manila since September 1902. "It is intended that the Gazette should constitute a faithful record of all governmental activities, legislative, executive, and ju- dicial." General Publications consist of numerous reports and oth- er documents published at Manila or AA^ashington and relat- 224 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUiMENTS ing to the administration of affairs in tlie Islands. In paper or in the Serial Documents. Philippine Islands, Commerce and Police Department. The Commerce and Police Department of the Philippine Islands was established in 1901 under the civil government which succeeded the military government of 1900. It super- vises commerce, the Constabulary Bureau, railroads, Public Works Bureau, Consulting Architect, Posts Bureau, Naviga- tion Bureau, Coast Surveys Bureau, corporations, and the Director of Posts. Annual Reports are accounts of the year's proceedings and contain the reports of the subordinate bureaus. In paper and also included in the Commission Report. Philippine Islands, Finance and Justice Department. The Finance and Justice Department of the Philippine Islands established in 1901, is composed of the following Bu- reaus : Justice, Customs, Treasury, and Internal Revenue. Annual Reports corresj^ond to those of the Commerce and Police Department. Philippine Islands, Go\'erxor-Gexeral. The Governor-General of the Philippine Islands succeeded in 1901 the Military Governor, who, on the organization of the central government, was appointed in 1900. At present his office is composed of the following: Civil Service, Executive, and Audits Bureaus; and the Municipal Board of the City of Manila. Annual Reports are complete accounts of the duties in- volved in the government of the Islands and also include the reports of the subordinate divisions. The report of the Governor-General as well as some of the subordinate reports are issued separately in paper and as a whole included in the Commission Report ; while the report of the Alilitary Gover- nor was included in the ^^'ar Department Report. WAR DEPARTMENT 225 Philippine Islands, Interior Department. The Interior Department of the Philippine Islands, estab- lished in 1901, is composed of the following Bureaus: Health, Quarantine Service, Forestry, Science, Lands, Agriculture, and \\eather. Annual Reports are accounts of affairs coming within the province of the Department and include reports of the Bureaus. In paper and also included in the Commission Re- port. Philippine Islands, Public Instruction Department. The Public Instruction Department of the Philippine Is- lands, established in 1901, is composed of the following Bu- reaus : Education, Supply, Prisons, and Printing. Annual Reports correspond to those issued by the Inte- rior Department. 14, 15, 65, 66, 67. Porto Rico Census Office. The Porto Rico Census Office in 1899 was charged with the compilation of a census of the Island. Bulletins consisted of 3 numbered and issued in English and Spanish in 1900. In paper. Report, in two editions, English and Spanish, containing the census of Porto Rico, was issued in 1899 and 1900. In cloth. 14. 31, 32. Record and Pension Office. The Record and Pension Office, established in 1892, was preceded by the Record and Pension Division which was or- ganized in 1890. In 1899 it absorbed the War Records Office and in 1904 it was discontinued, when, with the Adjutant- General's Department, it became the Military Secretary's Department. (See page 199.) Annual Reports were brief administrative accounts. In paper and also included in the War Department Report. War of Rebellion Records are in four series each consisting 226 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS of numbered volumes and parts, and the whole serially num- bered. The entire work covers 130 volumes, supplemented by two atlas volumes, and was issued from 1880 to 1901. These records embrace "the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field; with correspondence, orders, and returns." Each vol- ume is separately indexed, there being also a general index to the whole work which was published as the final volume. However, the individual indexes of each volume must be used in connection with the general index. The atlas illus- trates not only by maps, but also by excellent photographic plates, battlefields, landmarks, and scenes of operations. When the Naval War Records are completed (see page 144), with the War of Rebellion Records they will form the com- plete official history of the Civil War. In cloth and dupli- cated in the Serial Documents. In the latter case the series is broken on account of the non-consecutive issue of the Rec- ords. I, 4, 6, 7, 14, 45, 68. Secretary. The Secretary appointed since 1789 has entire supervision of the War Department and the carrying out of all its duties. Annual Reports have been issued since 1789, but did not form a separate volume until 1849. Fo"" reports prior to 1825, consult the American State Papers. The report of the Secretary is administrative, outlining the military opera- tions of the year. A\'ith the reports of the subordinate di- visions of the Department it forms the largest annual report submitted to Congress : the issue for 1905 covering fourteen volumes. The Secretary's report and the subordinate reports are issued separately in paper or cloth, and later, when com- bined, they are published as a Serial Document. Army Regulations were first issued under the Continental Congress in 1775 and 1779. They have been issued under the present government since 1792 and 1794. They deal with the government of the Army and its duties. In cloth. WAR DEPARTMENT 227 General Orders issued since 1809 are concerned with in- structions and regulations. In paper. Leases Granted, issued annually since 1893, is a brief list of leases granted on public property. In the Serial Docu- ments. General Publications include many important documents. Among these are the Historical Register and Dictionary of the Arm}^ 1789-1903, by Heitman, which is particularly valuable for genealogical research ; the Journals of the Con- federate Congress, 1861-1865 ; Handbook of Electrical Ma- chinery; and manuals, regulations, drill regulations, estimates, lists of officers, financial accounts, special orders, circulars, and reports on the Army and Navy Joint Board, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Commission, Church Claims Board, Deep Waterways Board, Rifle Practice Promotion Board, the Sup- ply Division, and the War Department Library. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents. 2, 4, 7, 15, 16, 52, 69, 70, 73. Shiloh National Military Park Commission. The Shiloh National Military Park Commission appointed since 1895 has charge of the Park which was established in December 1894. Annual Reports issued since 1897 are brief administrative accounts. Included in the AVar Department Report. 19, 71, 72. Soldiers' Home. The Soldiers' Plome has been established in the District of Columbia since 185 1 for disabled and needy Army officers and men. Until 1876 it was called the Military Asylum. Annual Reports of the Commissioners, issued with occa- sional lapses since 1858, are entirely administrative and em- brace the reports of the Governor, Attending Surgeon, Treas- urer, and that of the Inspector-General which has been issued since 1883. Issued separately and also included in the War 328 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Department Report until 1906, since when it is in pamphlet form only. Vicksburg National Military Park Commission. The Vicksburg National Military Park Commission ap- pointed since 1899 has charge of the Park in Mississippi. Annual Reports are brief administrative accounts. In- cluded in the ^^^ar Department Report. 10, 31. AUTHORITIES. I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Executive Departments, Organization. Documents Office — Checklist (2nd edition). Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume i. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume 3. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Supplement, 1905. Documents Office — Bulletin 9. War Department — Report, 1907. Documents Office — Tables. Document Catalogues. ]\Ionthly Catalogue — December 1907. Document Catalogue — Volume i. Document Catalogue — Volume 2. Document Catalogue — Volume 5. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. Poore — Descriptive Catalogue. ^Monthly Catalogue — January 1908. Document Indexes. Document Catalogue — Volume 4. New International Encyclodaedia — Volume 16. War Department — Report, 1891. Cuba, Governor — Report, 1907. Document Index it. WAR DEPARTMENT 229 24. Adjutant-General's Department— Publications. 25. Monthly Catalogue — May 1907. 26. War Department — Report, 1893. ^■J. A^'ar Department — Report, 1894. 28. Monthly Catalogues. 29. New International Encyclopaedia — \'olume 2. 30. AVar Department — Report, 1906. 31. War Department — Report, 1899. 2,2. AA'ar Department — Report, 1900. 33. AA^ar Department — Report, 1905. 34. A\'ar Department — Report, 1904. 35. AA'ar Department — Report, 1882. 36. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 7. 37. 47th Congress ist Session — Senate Executive Docu- ment 47 (Serial Number, 1987). 38. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue— Volume i. 39. Geological Survey — Bulletin 227. 40. Geological Survey — Bulletin 222. 41. Engineer Department — Publications. 42. Engineer Department — Report, 1878. 43. Universal Cyclopaedia — A-^olnme 12. 44. Document Index 12. 45. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — ^Volume 2. 46. Inspector-General — Report, 1905. 47. AVar Department — Report, 1883, 48. Index-Catalogue of the Surgeon-General's Library. 49. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 13. 50. War Department — Report, 1892. 51. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume 2. 52. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 53. Ordnance Department — Publications. 54. Ordnance Department — Tests of Metals, 1884. 55. Insular Affairs Bureau — Publications. 56. War Department — Report, 1901. 57. Monthly Catalogue — September 1906. 58. International AA'aterways Commission — 2nd Progress Report. 230 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 59. Isthmian Canal Commission — Publications. 60. Isthmian Canal Commission — Reports. 61. ^Monthly Catalogue — May 1906. 62. Monthly Catalogue — September 1907. 63. Board of Consulting Engineers — Report, 1905. 64. Panama Railroad Commissioner, Special — Report, 1905. 65. Philippine Commission — Publications. 66. Philippine Commission — Reports. 67. ]\Ionthly Catalogue — April 1906. 6S. War of Rebellion Records. 69. W'ar Department — Publications. 70. Journals of the Confederate Congress. 71. Official Register — 1895. ~2. War Department — Report, 1896. 73. 53rd Congress 2nd Session — House Executive Docu- ment 89 (Serial Number 3223). PART THREE PUBLICATIONS OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING OFFICES OF THE GOVERNMENT. Under this division are grouped the pubhcations of those branches of the Government that are not subordinate to any of the nine Executive Departments. Though in numbers in- ferior to the documents treated of in Part Two, the following publications are equally as important and valuable. Their duplication in the Serial Documents corresponds to that of the publications of the Executive Departments. (See page 40.) CHAPTER I. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION DISTRICT OF CO- LUMBIA FREEDMEN'S SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY GEOGRAPHIC BOARD GOV- ERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. American Republics Bureau. See page 163. Civil Service Commission. This was established in 1883 "to regulate and improve the Civil Service of the United States. The law provides for the appointment of three Commissioners, not more than two of whom shall be adherents of the same political party, and makes it the duty of the Commission to aid the President, as he may request, in providing suitable rules for carrying the Act into effect. The Act requires that the rules shall provide, among other things, for open competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for the classified service, the making of appointments from among those passing with highest grades, an apportionment of appointments in the Departments at Washington, among the States and Territories, a period of probation before absolute appointment, and the prohibition of the use of official authority to coerce the political action of any person or body. The Act also provides for investigations touching the enforcement of the rules, and forbids, under pen- alty of fine or imprisonment, or both, the solicitation by any person in the service of the United States of contributions to be used for political purposes from persons in such service, or the collection of such contributions by any person in a Gov- ernment building." 2,34 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Annual Reports give accounts of administration, examina- tions, appointments, rules, acts, regulations, and progress. Is- sued separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Manuals of Examinations issued since 1898 give full in- formation in regard to application, qualification, character, and place of examinations. In paper. General Publications consist of Ci^'il Service acts, laws, rules, and executive orders ; regulations and information for applicants; lists of employees, and routine detail. Usually in paper and occasionally in the Serial Documents, i, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, 7, 8, 9. District of Columbia. The District was governed directly by Congress until 1871, when it became subject to a territorial form of government. In 1874 this government was placed under the supervision of three commissioners, appointed by the President, with the approval of the Senate. Annual Reports of the Commissioners are lengthy ac- counts of the administration of affairs and records of opera- tions with statistics relating thereto. These include the re- ports of subordinate offices of the government, corresponding to the divisions of a large municipality. The individual re- ports are issued often in pamphlet form and combined are bound in cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Excise Board Reports, issued annually since 1894, are very brief and deal with accounts of the "regulation and sale of intoxicating liquors." In the Serial Documents. General Publications consist of reports from street rail- roads and other corporations in the District of Columbia, ac- counts of expenditures, and other financial affairs, and a mis- cellany of administrative detail. Usually in the Serial Doc- uments, with occasional pamphlet issues. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company. This company was authorized by Congress in 1865. At first it was not a Government institution, but was authorized GEOGRAPHIC BOARD 2,35 by Congress in order to enable certain citizens to aid the ne- groes, freed since the Civil War, by the establishment of a bank. After its failure in 1874, it was reorganized in the same year by Congress and brought under the control of the Govern- ment. Annual Reports of the Commissioner are brief financial accounts showing the condition of the Company, and have been issued since 1874. In paper and duplicated in the Serial Documents. 16, 17, 18, 19. Geographic Board. This Avas established in 1890 as the Geographic Names Board, but in 1906 it became the Geographic Board. It "passes on all unsettled questions concerning geographic names which arise in the Departments, as well as determining, changing, and fixing names within the United States and its insular possessions, and all names hereafter shall be referred to the Board before publication. The decisions of the Board are to be accepted by all the Departments of the Government as standard authority. Advisory powers were granted to the Board concerning the preparation of maps compiled, or to be compiled, in the various offices and bureaus of the Govern- ment, with a special view to the avoidance of unnecessary duplications of work ; and for the unification and improvement of the scales of maps, of the signals and conventions used upon them, and of the methods of representing relief. Here- after all such projects as are of importance shall be submitted to this board for advice before being undertaken." Reports, issued irregularly take the place of Annual Re- ports. So far only three have been published: the first in 1891, the second in 1900, and the last in 1906. Be- sides administrative detail, the Reports consist mainly of De- cisions, each containing the Decisions made since 1890. Thus the first covers the Decisions from 1890 to 1892 ; the second those from 1890 to 1900; and the third those from 1890 to 1906. Published separately and duplicated in the Serial Doc- uments. 236 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Bulletins numbered and issued since 1890 contain deci- sions and other matter of current interest. In paper. Decisions issued at frequent intervals since 1890 are copies of exact form in which geographic names should be spelled. The correct forms are indicated by heavy type, and the re- jected forms by italics. These pertain to place names throughout the world. In paper, later cumulating in the Re- ports. General Publications are rarely issued and pertain to rou- tine. In the Serial Documents. 2, 6, 7, 9, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. Government Printing Office. In 1819 a Printer to each House of Congress was provided for, with subsequent legislation until 1852 when a Public Printer was authorized ; in i860 the Government Printing Office was authorized and placed under the Superintendent of Public Printing, who had been appointed since 1852 ; in 1867 he was succeeded by the Congressional Printer, who be- came in 1874 the Public Printer. Finally, in 1895, the Gov- ernment Printing Office was organized on its present basis. It is charged with the printing, binding, free distribution, sale, cataloguing, and general manipulation of the United States Public Documents ; with the supervision of the several branch printing offices belonging to the Treasury, War, Navy, Agri- culture, State, Interior, and Commerce and Labor Depart- ments, and to the Library of Congress. Besides the Public Printer, the Office is composed of a Deputy Public Printer, a Superintendent of Manufacture, a Chief Inspector and Pur- chasing Agent, a Statistician and Accountant, an Appoint- ment and Correspondence Officer, and the Superintendent of Documents. The Public Printer is required to "purchase all materials and machiner}^ which may be necessary for the Government Printing Office ; to take charge of all matter which is to be printed, engraved, lithographed, or bound ; to keep an account thereof in the order in which received, and to cause the work GOVERN]\IENT PRINTING OFFICE 237 to be promptly executed, to superintend all printing and bind- ing done at the Government Printing Office, and to see that the sheets or volumes are promptly delivered to the officer who is authorized to receive them." Annual Reports issued from 1853 to 1866 by the Superin- tendent of Public Printing; from 1867 to 1875 by the Con- gressional Printer; and since 1876 by the Public Printer, are administrative, embracing the duties outlined above and con- sisting of numerous tables of expenditures, output, etc. They also include the report of the Superintendent of Documents since 1895. Issued separately and published as a whole in the Serial Documents. General Publications consist of estimates, current reports, special publications such as those on simplified spelling, and routine miscellany. In paper or in the Serial Documents. 2, II, 18, 27, 28, 29, 30. Documents Office. The Documents Office, also known as the Public Doc- uments Division or the Office of the Superintendent of Docu- ments, was established in 1895, with- the Superintendent of Documents at its head. He has "general supervision of the distribution of all public documents, excepting those printed for the use of the two Houses of Congress and the Executive Departments. He is required to prepare a comprehensive in- dex of public documents and a consolidated index of Congres- sional documents, and is authorized to sell at cost any public document in his charge the distribution of which is not spe- cifically directed." It is with this official that libraries and the public at large hold communication in regard to the United States Public Documents. The Documents Office is composed of two divisions : Administrative, which includes the Book- keeping, Correspondence and Filing, Stock, and Shipping Sec- tions; Bibliographical which includes the Catalogue, Check- lists and Index. Reference and Compiling, and Library Sec- tions. 238 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Annual Reports are records of the office in its relation to libraries and other administrati\e duties, showing tables of sale, distribution to libraries, accounts of catalogues, and gen- eral routine. In paper and also included in the Government Printing Office Report. Bulletins have been numbered and issued since 1896. The first six were unnumbered, but Bulletin 7 issued in 1907. assigned numbers to those preceding. These give lists of cer- tain documents, proper author headings for public docu- ments, methods of publication, and miscellaneous information. In paper. Circulars numbered and issued since 1902 relate to depos- itory libraries, want lists and minor topics. In paper. Free Lists numbered and issued since 1907 tabulate the publications of the Government offered to public libraries free of cost. In paper. Price Lists numbered and issued since 1898, Price List 8 assigning numbers to the se\'en preceding issues, give the prices of publications on various subjects, such as those on labor, birds, food and diet, law, water, Army and Navy, Amer- icana, agriculture, etc. In paper. Checklists are in three editions : the first published in 1892 by the Superintendent of Documents of the Interior Depart- ment (see page 121), and known as Ames' List of Congressional Documents, was superseded by the second published from the Documents Office in 1895. This contains the ''debates and proceedings of Congress, from the First to the Fifty-third Congress, together with miscellaneous lists of documents, and historical and bibliographical notes," and a list of the Congressional Documents with corresponding Serial Numbers; this last is not to be relied upon when the Revised Checklist is at hand. (See page 243.) The third edi- tion, of which some preliminary sheets only have as yet been published, lists the departmental publications under the classi- iication assigned by the Documents Office and gives the doc- uments "originating from the subordinate divisions as well as those published by the main offices of the Government. The GOVERN iMENT PRINT! XG OFFICE 239 first Checklist was issued as part of the Superintendent of Documents' Report and also in pamphlet form ; while the sec- ond is in paper only. Department Lists of which only the first has been com- pleted, have been numbered and issued since 1904. This is the List of Publications of the Agriculture Department from 1862 to 1902, and forms the first part of Volume 3 of the projected series of which the Revised Checklist is Volume 2. The ar- rangement of this List is in two parts : Part i being a checklist according to publishing office of all the Department's issues, these being grouped chronologicall)^ and numerically and arranged under the classification adopted by the Documents Office, with brief explanatory annotations ; Part 2 is the index by author, title, and subject, the last predominating, to all the publications listed in Part i. Reference is, rather in- conveniently, by classification numbers assigned in Part i. In paper. Monthly Catalogues have been numbered and issued since January 1895. The title of the issues from January to March 189s, was Catalogue of Publications Issued by Government of United States ; beginning with April 1895 , it became the Catalogue of United States Public Documents; and in July 1907, the Monthly Catalogue, which had long been its pop- ular title. It is intended to show the documents printed dur- ing the month, where they ma)- be obtained, at what cost, and the corresponding Library of Congress cards. In Janu- ary 1906, entry was made under issuing office direct, in- stead of under main department as hitherto ; beginning with July 1907, the Catalogue was arranged according to subject principally, with author entries, and ample cross references; since July 1908, the plan has been changed again to Depart- ment entry" with a monthly cumulative index, until July 1909, when the index was omitted to be issued later in separate form for each quarter and cumulating for half yearly periods. From December 1897 to May 1904 indexes were supplied, but from June 1904 to June 1908, were omitted. In paper. Leaflets numbered and issued since 1907 are notices of particularly important public documents. In paper. 240 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Schedules of Volumes have been issued for both sessions of the 56th and 59th Congresses and. for the 60th Congress 1st Session, being tables of Serial Documents followed by their numbers. The issue for the 59th Congress 2d Session was called Numerical Tables and Schedule of Volumes and in- cluded beside the Schedule a numerical tabulation, with their titles, of all Senate and House Documents and Reports. These serve as temporary substitutes for the delayed issues of the Document Indexes. In paper. Indexes. — In order to preserve a logical sequence and to make the explanation of their several characteristics more clear and connected, all the indexes, which may be termed general, of the United States Public Documents are grouped below. Besides the issues originating from the Documents Office are the two catalogues of Poore and Ames. Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States. — Its object was to cover all documents, Congressional and departmental, from September 5th, 1774 to Alarch 4th, 1881. It was compiled by Benjamin Perley Poore and published in 1885. On account of incompleteness and poor arrangement this work is not to be depended upon for general reference; however, it contains valuable entries of early de- partmental publications that would otherwise be unrecorded. The arrangement is chronological, giving under each date the documents issued, listing them by author official and individ- ual, with title, contents, paging, date, publisher, abstract, and occasional annotation. The index is by author and subject and is the only means of locating matter in the body of the work, unless the exact day, month, and year is known of the issue of the desired document. As regards subject heads and oc- casional inaccuracies this index is sometimes unsatisfactory, but, at the present time, it is the only guide to documents other than Congressional, preceding the year 1881. In cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the United States Government. — This was compiled by John G. Ames and issued from the Document Division of the Interior Depart- GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 241 ment, in 1905 in two volumes. It was intended to include all the Public Documents published from 1881 to 1893. The pres- ent work is the successor to a one-volume catalogue of the same title compiled by Dr. Ames which was issued in 1894 and indexed the Public Documents published from 1889 to 1893. As a consequence between the Poore Catalogue and the first Ames compilation there was a vancanc}^ of eight years; so by act of Congress the earlier Ames Catalogue was replaced by the two-volume edition which covers the intervening years. For both editions the arrangement is identical, being alphabet- ical by subject and author, with excellent descriptive and ex- planatory annotations, and frequent cross references. Each page is divided into three columns ; that on the left giving Gov- ernment author; that in the center giving the subject or author, with title, full imprint, location, and references to the Statutes at Large (see page 169) ; that on the right the Doc- ument, Congress, Session, and Volume number, when the listed publication occurs in the Serial Documents. By turn- ing to the subject: Congressional Documents, the correspond- ing Serial Number may be found. Volume 2 contains a per- sonal index giving the number of times and the location of in- dividuals mentioned in the body of the work. Issued sepa- rately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Document Catalogues. — These are in numbered volumes issued since 1896, being the Comprehensive Indexes provid- ed for by the law of 1895. So far seven volumes have been issued. With the exception of Volumes 2 and 3, both of which represent one Congress, each indexing the publica- tions issued during a session, the rest are issued one for a Congress, consequently biennially. These Catalogues are very satisfactory on account of their completeness, covering Congressional and departmental documents ; as well as on ac- count of their accuracy and simplicity of arrangement. Entry is that of a dictionary catalogue, being by author, title, and subject, the first predominating, with frequent annotations and cross references. Publications listed are fully described, giving author, title, paging, dates, location, different forms -'4^ HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS in which they appeared, illustrations, contents, and explana- tory notes. Although consistent in arrangement there a few minor differences which are outlined below. Volume I issued in 1896 covers the documents published during the 53rd Congress (1893-1895). For matter in the Serial Documents it refers by Document Number, Session, and Volume, the 53rd Congress being understood. There is an appendix of government authors. Volume 2 issued in 1898 covers the documents published during the 54th Congress 1st Session (1895-1896). For en- tries occurring in the Serial Documents, there is given the Congress, Session, and Volume number so that by turning to the subject : Congressional Documents, the corresponding Se- rial Numbers may be found. With this exception there is no variation from Volume i. Volume 3 issued in 1899 covers the documents published during the 54th Congress (1896-1897) and, with the exception of an added appendix, which gives a classified list of depart- ments and their subordinate divisions, it is similar to Vol- ume 2. Volume 4 issued in 1901 covers the documents published during the 55th Congress (1897-1899) and does not vary from \'olume 3. Voume 5 issued in 1903 covers the documents published during the 56th Congress (1899-1901), and under entries located in the Serial Documents, gives the Serial Number direct. Otherwise it is the same as Volume 4. Volumes 6 and 7 issued in 1905 and in 1908 cover the documents published during the 57th and 58th Congresses re- spectively (1901-1905), and are similar to Volume 5. All of the volumes are issued separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Document Indexes. — These began with the 54th Congress and have been issued since 1897, being the Consolidated In- dexes provided for by act of Congress in 1895. They index Con- gressional Documents only and are published at the end of every session, whose documents they index according to sub- GOVERNiMENT PRINTING OFFICE 243 ject. The arrangement is strictly alphabetical with no anno- tations nor imprint, giving subject only, author and title fol- lowing, and the location in the Serial Documents according to Congress, Session, Document, or Report, and Volume Number. The Document Index for the 58th Congress 3rd Session (1904-1905) is numbered 11, consequently for con- venience the preceding issues are numbered i to 10. Each volume of the Index gives a schedule of volumes indexed, beginning with Number 2 there are numerical tables of docu- ments and reports, and beginning with Number 3 Serial Numbers are added to documents listed in the Schedule. Thus since this issue corresponding Se- rial Numbers may be found for references in the body of the work. The Document Indexes are of temporary value only as they are entirely superseded by the Document Catalogues, the former being of use only in the intervals be- tween the publication of the volumes of the latter; and then only for Congressional Documents. Issued separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Tables of and Annotated Index to the Congressional Series of United States Public Documents. — This is more popularly known as the Revised Checklist. It was published in 1902 and indexes Serial Documents only from the 15th to the 52nd Congress (1817-1893) ; as well as the American State Papers (1789-1838) (see page 13) which are considered as Serial Documents. This Revised Checklist is the second of a projected series of three volumes of which Volume I is to contain an index and list of documents from the 1st to the 14th Congress, (1789-1817) ; and the third an index and list of the miscellaneous publications of the Execu- tive Departments and other branches of the Government. So far the second is the only volume completed. This con- tains a checklist (Tables) of the Congressional Documents, giving Serial Numbers from the 15th to the 52nd Congress, the American State Papers being assigned numbers 01 to 038, Serial Number i beginning with the 15th- Congress. For as- signing Serial Numbers to unnumbered documents before 244 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 1895, this checklist is invaluable and supersedes the 2nd edi- tion of the Checklist in which there are a few wrong assign- ments. The Index follows the Tables, and is alphabetically arranged by subject and author, with cross references, and oc- casional annotations. The form of entry is commendably simple, reference being made directly to Serial and Document Number. In three-quarter morocco. For convenience a summary of the scope of the above mentioned indexes and catalogues is outlined: for indexes to all United States Public Documents from 1774 to 1905, use Poore, Ames, and the Document Catalogues; for indexes to the Serial Documents only from 1817 use the Revised Check- list, the Document Catalogues, and the subsequent Document Indexes. Other Indexes. — Besides those outlined above, there are numerous other indexes published by various branches of the Government for many years before the Government Printing Office was established as well as many that have been issued recentl}-. These cover certain House and Senate Journals, Claims, Education Reports, ^\^ater Supply and Irrigation Pa- pers, Engineer Department Reports, Labor Reports, Farm- ers' Bulletins, and many others. Issued separately and often duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications relate to legislation for the Govern- ment Printing Office, circulars, lists of documents, a few bib- liographies, tables, and routine detail. In paper or in the Serial Documents. 2, 6, 7. 8, 9, 11, 18, 22, 27, 28, 31-46. AUTHORITIES. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). Official Congressional Directory— April 1908. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume i. Ci\il Service Commission — Publications. Civil Service Commission — Reports. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 245 6. Monthly Catalogues. 7. Document Catalogues. 8. Document Catalogue — Volume 4. 9. Documents Office — Bulletin 7. 10. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 6. 11. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 12. District of Columbia — Report, 1906. 13. Document Catalogue — -Volume i. 14. SSi'd Congress 2nd Session — House Miscellaneous Docu- ment 117 (Serial Number 3229). 15. District of Columbia — Reports. 16. 6oth Congress ist Session — House Report 1637, Part 2. 17. Congressional Record — December 4, 1907. 18. Documents Office — Tables. 19. Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company — Reports. 20. Geographic Board — Reports. 21. Documents Office — Bulletin 9. 22. Document Catalogue — Volume 5. 23. Monthly Catalogue — October 1906. 24. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — A'olume i. 25. Document Indexes. 26. Monthly Catalogue — April 1906. 27. Government Printing Office — Reports. 28. Statutes at Large — Volume 28. 29. Government Printing Office — Report, 1906. 30. Executive Departments, Organization. 31. Documents Office — Bulletin 8. 32. Monthly Catalogue — July 1907. 33. Monthly Catalogue — June 1908. 34. Superintendent of Documents — Reports. 35. Superintendent of Documents — Report, 1907. 36. Docimients Office — Publications. 37. Document Catalogue — -Volume 2. 38. Monthly Catalogue — June 1907. 39. Government Printing Office — Report, 1904. 40. Government Printing Office — Report, 1905. 41. Poore — Descriptive Catalogue. 246 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 42. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue — Volume 2. 43. Document Indexes. 44. Public Libraries — Volume 7. 45. Documents Office — Department List i. 46. Documents Office — Checklists. 47. Monthh^ Catalogue — August 1907. 48. Superintendent of Documents — Report, 189T. CHAPTER II. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION JUDICIARY. Interstate Commerce Commission. This Commission, composed of seven members, was estab- lished in 1887. It has "jurisdiction on complaint and after full hearing, to determine and prescribe reasonable rates, reg- ulations, and practice, and order reparation to injured ship- pers; to require any carriers to cease and desist from unjust discrimination or undue or unreasonable preference, and to institute and carry on proceedings for the enforcement of the law. The Commission may also inquire into the manage- ment of the business of all common carriers subject to the provisions of the regulating statutes, and it may prescribe the accounts, records, and memoranda which shall be kept by the carriers, and from time to time inspect the same. Va- rious other powers are conferred upon the Commission. Car- riers failing to publish and file all rates and charges, as re- quired by law, are prohibited in engaging in interstate trans- portation, and penalties are provided in the statute for fail- ure on the part of carriers or shippers to observe the rates specified in the published tariffs." All railroads and tele- graph companies to which the United States has granted subsidies are under supervision of the Commission. The equipment of cars with safety appliances; arbitration in strikes, acting with the Commissioner of Labor; a monthly report of wrecks and casualties ; and the regulation of hours of employees, are among the requirements of the Commission. Annual Reports numbered and issued since 1887 give the decisions and rulings of the Commission, court decisions, pre- liminary statistics, accounts of safety appliances and acci- 248 HANDBOOK dents, and otlier records of the j-ear. In cloth and, combined with the Statistics of Railways, form a Serial Document. Accident Bulletins numbered and issued quarterly since July 1901, show the number of collisions, derailments, casual- ties to persons, and accompanying tables. In paper. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1908 consist of con- ference rulings made by the Commission. In paper. Reports are in numbered volumes issued since 1887; Vol- umes I to II being private publications, the publishing of the Reports by the Government beginning with Volume 12. These record all the decisions made by the Commission, the cases being" serially numbered, Avith full accounts relating thereto. In sheep. General Publications deal with safety appliances, legisla- tion, lists of organizations, rates, accidents, and routine detail. In paper or in the Serial Documents, i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Block Signal and Train Control Board. The Block Signal and Train Control Board appointed since 1907 is concerned with the investigation of signals and "other devices designed to promote the protection of railroad operation." Annual Reports have been issued since 1908; a preliminary report in 1907, being informal, was not printed. In paper and also included in the Commission Report. 33, 34. National Association of Railway Commissioners. The National Association of Railway Commissioners was lirst convened in 1889 at Washington as the Convention of Railroad Commissioners; in 1897 it became the National Convention of Railroad Commissioners; and in 1901 the Na- tional Association of Railway Commissioners. With the coop- ation of the Interstate Commerce Commission, these repre- sentatives of the several states are concerned with railroad regulation, inspection, and reform. Proceedings issued annually are records of the yearly meetings, and are concerned entirely with business relating to railroads. In cloth, i, 5, 9. JUDICIARY 249 Statistics and Accounts Bureau. The Statistics and Accounts Bureau was established in 1888 as the Statistician's Office ; in 1893 it became the Statis- tics Division ; and in 1907 it was made a Bureau with the pres- ent designation. Its duties cover the compilation of railroad statistics. Annual Reports on the Statistics of Railways, give first an administrative outline of the Statistician's work ; then follow statistical tables of railroads showing mileage, classification, capital, income, earnings, expenditures, and payments on cap- ital taxation. In cloth and duplicated in the Serial Docu- ments, where it forms part of the Commission Report. Special Reports numbered and issued since 1908, deal with topics of current interest and importance relating to railroads. In paper. General Publications are preliminary reports, classification of expenditures, etc. Issued separately or in the Serial Docu- ments. 5, 8, 10, II, 12, 13, 14. Judiciary. The Judiciary is composed of all Federal courts, including the Circuit and District Courts, the Court of Claims, the Court of Private Land Claims (discontinued), the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court, the last being the highest in authority. The publications are mainly private, the Gov- ernment issues being restricted to administrative routine and federal afifairs. 15, 16. Circuit Courts of Appeals. Circuit Courts of Appeals were established in 1891 in the nine judicial circuits, each court being required to convene annually. Their jurisdiction is entirely appellate and "in- cludes the right of review by appeal or writ of error of final decisions in the district courts and the existing circuit courts in all cases other than those in which the same act provides an appeal or writ of error direct to the Supreme Court." Reports are private publications. 250 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Digests are private publications. Rules are private publications. General Publications relate to amendatory acts for the es- tal)lishment of courts, occasional decisions, and routine affairs. In the Serial Documents. 5, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Court of Claims. The Court of Claims, established in 1855, consists of a Chief Justice and four judges. "It has jurisdiction of all claims founded upon the constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions or upon any regula- tion of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, ex- pressed or implied with the Government of the United States, or for damages liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sound- ing in tort, in respect of which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States either in a court of law, equity, or admiralty, if the United States were suable, except claims growing out of the late Civil War and common- ly known as War Claims, and certain rejected claims. It has jurisdiction also of claims of like character which may be re- ferred to it by any Executive Department, involving disputed facts or controverted questions of law, where the amount in controversy exceeds $3000, or where the decision will affect a class of cases or furnish a precedent for the future action of any Executive Department in the adjustment of a class of cases, or where any authority, right, privilege, or exemption is claimed or denied under the Constitution. In all the above mentioned cases, the Court when it finds for the claimant, may enter judgment against the United States payable out of the public Treasury, An appeal only upon questions of law, lies to the Supreme Court on the part of the defendants in all cases and on the part of the claimants when the amount exceeds $3000. The findings of fact by the Court of Claims are final and are not subject to review by the Supreme Court." The Court of Claims is required to convene annually. Reports (a) to the House of Representatives were issued in 296 numbers from 1855 to 1862; Numbers i to 81 being also JUDICIARY 2SI numbered as Volumes i to 3 ; (b) to the Senate were un- numbered and were issued during the 35th Congress 1st Ses- sion (1857-1858). In the Serial Documents. Cases Decided are known on cover title as Court of Claims Reports. The cases are serially numbered from the first and are in numbered volumes issued since 1863, annually; the first volume, however, covers the years from 1863 to 1865. These include abstracts of decisions made by the Supreme Court in appealed cases giving also the statements, opinions, argu- ments, judgments, etc. of all cases decided in the Court of Claims. Each volume is well indexed. In sheep. Judgments Rendered are published annually in accordance with an order of Congress made in 1866. These contain judg- ments since 1863 and are brief tabulations giving name of claimant, number of case, amounts claimed and awarded, date of judgment, and nature of claim. Issued separately and du- plicated in the Serial Documents. Findings are generally two pages in length giving the na- ture of the case, statement, and findings of facts. In the Serial Documents. General Publications consist of accounts of cases, early digests, and general routine. In paper or in the Serial Docu- ments. Attorney-G eneral, Assistant. See page 131. Indian Depredation Claims. Indian Depredation Claims is a separate division under the Court of Claims established in 1891 for the settlement of all claims made by the citizens of the United States against any Indian belonging to a tribe in amity with the Government, who has wantonly injured or destroyed property belonging to those citizens. Attorney-General, Assistant. See page 131. 4, 5, i5, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. 252 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Court of Private Land Claims. The Court of Private Land Claims established in 1891 was discontinued in 1904. It was composed of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices who had charge of all private land claims. General Publications were few and consisted of estimates, Spanish and Mexican land laws, and routine. Issued sepa- rately or in the Serial Documents. 6, 16, 2^. Attorney. See page 129. Courts of United States. The United States Courts consist of: (a) Circuit Courts established in 1789 and located in each of the nine judicial circuits, each court being composed of a Circuit Justice and as many Circuit Judges as occasion may require. The courts are concerned with "i. Cases aris- ing under the constitution of the United States, or its laws, or treaties made or which shall be made under their author- ity. 2. Those in which the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners. 3. In which there is a controversy between citizens of different states. 4. Those between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states. 5. Cases between citizens of a state and foreign states, citi- zens or subjects. 6. Cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, except as otherwise provided by law; and concurrent jurisdiction with the district courts of the crimes and offences cognizable by them." Their appellate jurisdiction was abolished in 1891. (b) District Courts were established in 1789 in the vari- ous judicial districts of each State and are composed of a Dis- trict Judge, a District Clerk, and one or more Deputy Clerks. The District Courts have jurisdiction "i. Of all crimes cognizable under the authority of the United States, commit- ted within their respective districts, or upon the high seas, the JUDICIARY 253 punishment of which is not capital. 2. Of all suits for penal- ties and forfeitures incurred under any law of the United States. 3. Of all suits at common law brought by the United States, or any officer thereof, authorized by law to sue. 4. Of all cases of action arising under the postal laws of the United States. 5. Of all suits in equity to enforce the lien of the United States upon any real estate for any internal revenue tax, or to subject to the payment of any such tax, any real estate owned by the delinquent, or in which he has any right, title, or interest. 6. Of all civil cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; and of all seizures on land and on waters not within admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; and of all prizes brought into the United States. 7. Of all suits brought by any lien for a tort 'only' in violation of the law of nations, or of a treaty of the United States. 8. The District Courts are constituted courts of bankruptcy, and shall have in their respective districts original jurisdiction in all matters and proceedings in bankruptcy." Reports are private publications. Federal Anti-Trust Decisions. See page 131. Federal Reporter is a private publication. Digests are private publications. General Publications are few in number and consist of reports dealing with the administration of the courts, occasion- al opinions and accounts of cases, and special compilations. Usually in the Serial Documents. 5, 6, 15, 16, 17, 28, 29, 30, 31- Supreme Court. The Supreme Court established in 1789 is a constitutional court. It is the head of the national judiciary and at present consists of a Chief Justice, eight Associate Justices, a Clerk, a Marshall, and a Reporter. Reports are private publications. Digests are private publications. Supreme Court Reporter is a private publication. General Publications are concerned with administration. 254 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS accounts of special cases, rules of practice, etc. Usually in the Serial Documents. 3, 6, 15, 23, 31, 32. AUTHORITIES. 1. Interstate Commerce Commission — Reports. 2. Interstate Commerce Commission — Publications. 3. Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. 4. Documents Office — Tables. 5. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 6. Document Catalogues. 7. United States Catalogue — 1897. 8. Monthly Catalogue — April 1908. 9. National Association of Railway Commissioners — Pro- ceedings. 10. Statistics of Railways — 1888. 11. Statistics of Railways — 1892. 12. Statistics of Railways — 1893. 13. Monthly Catalogue — March 1906. 14. Monthly Catalogue — January 1907. 15. Bouvier — Law Dictionary — Volume 2. 16. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume i. 17. American Catalogue — Volume 4. 18. Document Catalogue — Volume 4. 19. Document Catalogue — Volume 5. 20. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 4. 21. Official Congressional Directory — January 1907. 22. Court of Claims — Reports. 23. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 24. 57th Congress ist Session — House Document 26 (Serial Number 4322). 25. 59th Congress ist Session — House Document 100 (Serial Number 4985). 26. Attorney-General — Report, 1901. 27. Attorney-General — Report, 1904. JUDICIARY 255 28. Documents Office — Bulletin g. 29. Library of Congress — Catalogue of Subjects — Volume i. 30. Library of Congress — Card. 31. United States Catalogue — 1902-1905. 32. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 18. 33. Interstate Commerce Commission — Report, 1908. 34. Monthly Catalogue — January 1909. CHAPTER III. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. The Library of Congress was established in 1800; its pur- pose being "originally for the use merely of Congress. It aids with research and loan of books all branches of the Fed- eral Government, the Supreme Court, the Executive Depart- ments, and the various scientific bureaus which are main- tained by the Federal Government and whose investigations constantly require a reference to books. Though still carry- ing the title Library of Congress, it is also now a general pub- lic library, open as freely for reference use as any in the world. Since its removal to the new building its collections and its service have so extended that it is now familiarly called the National Library. * * * "Of late the library has also lent books to other libraries in various parts of the United States for the convenience of investigators engaged in research calculated to advance the boundaries of knowledge. ''■ * * The Library also aids investigators by publications exhibiting material in its collec- tions upon topics under current discussion, or within fields of special research. It answers inquiries addressed to it by mail in so far as they can be answered by bibliographic informa- tion that is, by a reference to printed authorities." Since 1832 the Library of Congress has been divided into two de- partments : the general library and the Law Library, the lat- ter containing the entire legal collection. Annual Reports issued regularly since 1866 consist of gen- eral administrative accounts, bibliographic matter, and reports on the subordinate divisions. In cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Catalogues of the Library were issued from 1802 to 1880. These were supplemented by occasional lists of additions or of special collections. In cloth. 2S8 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Bibliographies issued since 1892 now consist ol brief lists published in the Annual Report and as reprints. Earlier lists were more extensive, embracing general and periodical liter- ature, American and foreign, and referring to present day is- sues and events. These were published separately and occa- sionally duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications embrace not only administrative de- tail, but also many important documents such as catalogues and lists of special collections, the recent A. L. A. Catalogue and the A. L. A. Portrait Index, and miscellaneous accounts. In paper, cloth, or in the Serial Documents, i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Bibliography Division. The Bibliography Division was established in 1900. Its duties are to deal with inquiries involving bibliographical re- search, to compile lists of references on current topics partic- ularly those under discussion by Congress, to edit the Library of Congress publications ; to recommend important works to the Library; and to represent the Library in cooperative bib- liographical undertakings. Bibliographies are called Lists or Select Lists according to their scope and have been issued since 1900. They follow the same plan of arrangement as those formerly originating from the Library direct, and embrace political, economic, his- torical, and sociological topics of interest to the student and also to the general inquirer. Occasionally in cloth, though generally in paper, with occasional duplication in the Serial Documents. 6, 10. Card Section. The Card Section was established in 1901 as part of the Catalogue Division and in 1904 became independent. It has entire charge of the cards which the Library has been printing for its catalogues since 1898. Since 1901 the Library of Congress, through its Card Section, "has been supplying copies of its printed catalogue cards to other libraries, institu- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 259 tions, and individuals for use in cataloguing or bibliographical purposes." At present the general practice among libraries is to purchase copies of these cards for books copyrighted since 1898 and for a few other miscellaneous works. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1902 are supplements to the Handbooks and are concerned with the description and scope of stock, and distribution of cards. In paper. Circulars numbered and issued since 1901 are guides for the ordering of cards and the scope of stock. In paper. Handbooks issued since 1902 give specific information for ordering the catalogue cards, methods of distribution, and oth- er details. In paper. 2, g, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Catalogue Division. The Catalogue Division established in 1897 has charge of the cataloguing and classification of the Library. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1902 are on technical matters such as travelling catalogues, scope of Library of Congress cards, notes, etc. In paper. General Publications consist of cataloguing rules supple- menting the A. L. A. Rules, the classification of the Library of Congress, and other technical and routine matter. Usually in paper. 4, 11, 12, 13. Copyright Office. The first copyright law was enacted in 1790. Until 1870 copyright protection was enforced by the registration of titles in the office of the Clerk of the District Court in which sec- tion the author resided. Then in 1870 copyright protection was transferred to the Librarian of Congress and finally in 1897 the Copyright Office in charge of the Register of Copy- rights was established under the direction and supervision of the Librarian of Congress. "The duties of the Office are (i) To receive, record, and index (a) titles of articles reproduced by mechanical means — books, periodicals, musical compositions, dramatic compositions, maps or charts, engrav- 26o HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS ings, cuts or prints, chromos or lithographs, and pho- tographs; (b) descriptions of original works of art — paint- ings, drawings, sculpture, and models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts ; (2) to receive and prop- erly credit the copies required to be deposited, viz., photo- graphs of original works of art and two copies of all articles multiplied by mechanical means ; (3) to prepare the Catalogue of Title Entries; * * (4) to carry on such administra- tive work as is involved in the accomplishment of the duties stated above." Annual Reports issued since 1898 are brief administrative accounts and are included in the Library of Congress Re- port. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1898 give copyright law and enactments, directions for registration, and other im- portant information. In paper or cloth. Circulars also called Information Circulars have been numbered and issued since 1899. These are concerned with copyright business and current c|uestions relating thereto. Usually published as circular letters. Catalogue of Copyright Entries in numbered volumes has been issued weekly since 1891. Until June 1906 it was sold by subscription from customs collectors' offices, since July it has been distributed free to libraries by the Register. At the present time each number consists of four parts: Part i, Books, Dramatic Compositions, Maps, and Charts; Part 2, Periodicals ; Part 3, Musical Compositions ; Part 4, Engrav- ings, Cuts and Prints, Chromos and Lithographs, Photo- graphs, Fine Arts. In paper. General Publications are concerned with routine. Usually in paper or in the Serial Documents. 6, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. Documents Division. The Documents Division was organized in 1900. Its duties are to "acquire, arrange, and make available for use the publications of the Governments, national, local, and munic- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 261 ipal and of quasi-public bodies, such as commercial organi- zations and the like, also the general supervision over the works in economics, politics, and sociology." It also dis- tributes the documents issued from the Library of Congress and its subordinate divisions, as well as a few sets of federal documents placed at its disposal for international exchange. Lists known as Want Lists and Lists of Books for Ex- change have been issued since 1903 and distributed to various institutions to show the books and periodicals wanted by the Library of Congress and those it ofifers for exchange. In the form of broadsides. 6, 11, 29, 30. Law Division. The Law Division, generally known as the Law Library, was established in 1832. (See page 257.) Index Analysis of Federal Statutes, arranged according to subjects, covers minutely all laws of the United States and includes a table of repeals and amendments, as well as a list of popular names of statutes. The work when completed will embrace three or four volumes. In cloth. General Publications are rare and consist of routine mis- cellany, reprints, catalogues, and want lists. Published sep- arately. 3, 6, 24, 38. Library Building and Grounds Superintendent. The Library Building and Grounds Superintendent, ap- pointed since 1897, is in charge of the building, its repair, maintenance, and general supervision, with the care of the surrounding grounds. Annual Reports are very brief, being concerned with es- timates of expenses, and general routine. Issued from 1898 to 1904 in the Serial Documents, and since 1905 as part of the Library of Congress Report. 4, 11. Manuscripts Division. The Manuscripts Division was established in 1897, "with the purpose of creating one central place of deposit in which 262 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS there should be every precaution taken for the safety of the manuscripts and where there should be a force adequate to listing and making the documents accessible to the general public." The most important collections are the : Peter Force, cov- ering Colonial and Revolutionary History (see page ii); Rochambeau Papers; Spanish Possessions in America, i6th and 17th centuries; Naval Papers; Robert Morris Papers; Presidential Papers; Continental Congress Papers; Papers of Public Men; Confederate Papers; Halliwell-Phillips, consist- ing of English papers and bills of the 17th century; Vernon- W^ager Manuscripts; Orientalia; Americana; etc. General Publications include lists, reprints, and calendars of historical documents issued since 1901. Some of the most valuable are reprints of the Records of the Virginia Company, 1619-1624, Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 (see page 12), Naval Records of the American Revolution, 1775-1788. The calendars and lists include Washington, John Paul Jones, Vernon-Wager and other manuscripts and papers. In cloth. 7, 29, 31, 32. Maps and Charts Division. The Maps and Charts Division established in 1897 has the largest collection of maps in America. Its purpose is to make this material accessible and to guard and preserve it for future use. Lists of maps and other cartographic works have been issued since 1898. In cloth. 6, 25. Music Division. The Music Division established in 1897 "has in its custody all the music and books on music acquired by the Library of Congress." General Publications thus far consist of a catalogue issued in 1908 of full scores of dramatic music. In cloth. 2, 6, 33. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 263 Order Division. The Order Division organized in 1900 attends to the pur- cliase of books as well as the receipt of material by gift, ex- change, deposit, and copyright. General Publications consist of an account of the Library of Congress and its work and a list of its publications. In paper. 6, 34. Periodical Division. The Periodical Division established in 1897 has charge of periodicals, newspapers, and society and other transactions. Checklists consist of one of American newspapers issued in 1901, and one of foreign newspapers in 1904. In cloth. 4, 6, 9, 35- Prints Division. The Prints Division established in 1897 has charge of the collection of prints, photographs, engravings, etc., and books bearing on the fine arts. General Publications include the Catalogue of the Gardi- ner Greene Hubbard Collection issued in 1905 and a reprint issued in 1906 from the Library of Congress Report of the Noyes Collection of Japanese prints, drawings, etc. Issued separately. 6, 36, 37. AUTHORITIES. Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. Library of Congress and its Work. Johnston— History of the Library of Congress. Mallory — Compiled Statutes — Volume i. Documents Office — Tables. Library of Congress^Report, 190 1. Library of Congress — Reports. 264 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCU.MENTS 8. Library of Congress — Catalogues. 9. Library of Congress^Publications. 10. Bibliography Division — Publications. 11. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 12. ^Monthly Catalogue — May 1906. 13. Monthly Catalogues. 14. Library of Congress — Report, 1902. 15. Card Section — Publications. 16. Library of Congress — Report, 1904. 17. Librar}^ of Congress — Report, 1905. 18. 3.Ionthly Catalogue — June 1906. 19. Library of Congress — Report, 1903. 20. Documents Office — Bulletin 9. 21. Copyright Office — Publications. 22. Liljrary of Congress — Report, 1897. 23. Library of Congress — Report, 1899. 24. Document Catalogues. 25. Document Catalogue — Volume 4. 26. Document Catalogue — Volume 5. 27. Document Catalogue — Volume i. 28. ^lonthly Catalogue — June 1908. 29. Documents Office — Bulletin 7. 30. Documents Division — Lists. 31. Document Index 12. 32. Manuscripts Division — Publications. T,T,. 2iIonthly Catalogue — April 1908. 34. Library of Congress — Report, 1907. 35. Periodicals Division — Publications. 36. Catalogue of Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. T,7. Library of Congress — Report, 1906. 38. Library of Congress — Report, 1908. CHAPTER IV. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PRESIDENT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION. National Academy of Sciences. This was incorporated in 1863 "to investigate, experiment, and report on any subject of science or art, when called upon to do. so by any Department of the United States Government." The Academy consists of about one hundred members, not including foreign and associate members; and the follow- ing committees : — Mathematics and Astronomy, Physics and Engineering, Chemistry, Geology and Paleontology, Biology, and Anthropology. Annual Reports outline the investigations carried on dur- ing the year, and record interesting experiments and discov- eries. Some of the early reports also contained valuable monographs. Published separately and, omitting a few ear- lier reports, duplicated in the Serial Documents. Memoirs issued in numbered volumes since 1866 are mono- graphs of a highly scientific character arising from the work of the Academy. With the exception of Volume I, which was issued separately only, the rest are duplicated in the Serial Documents. Biographical Memoirs issued in numbered volumes since 1877 are compilations of obituary addresses made before the Academy on its deceased members. In paper. General Publications are rarely issued and are concerned with administrative routine. Usually in the Serial Docu- ments. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 266 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. See page 211. President. Since George Washington's administration begun in 1789, the Chief Executive of the United States has issued certain reports, addresses, and messages, pertaining to the welfare of the country and the proper conduct of affairs. He also transmits to Congress the Annual Reports of the Executive Departments and of certain other branches of the Government. Messages inaugural and special dating from 1789, annual, from 1790, and veto from 1792, contain the opinions of the Presidents on the conduct of aiifairs, the needs of the nation on matters of particular moment, occasional addresses, and their disapproval of certain Congressional legislation. These messages are issued in pamphlet form and duplicated in nu- merous documents : in the Congressional Record and its predecessors, in the Senate and House Journals, in the Foreign Relations, in the Abridgment of Messages and Doc- uments, and formerly in the cloth edition of Messages and Documents. However, for the messages and other papers of the Presidents from \A'ashington to Cleveland (1789 to 1897), the compilation by James D. Richardson, published in 1899, in ten volumes, by authority of Congress, and duplicated in the Serial Documents, is the most satisfactory work for immediate reference. There is also a compilation of veto messages from 1792 to 1886, prepared by Benjamin Perley Poore, and issued in 1886 as a Serial Document. For later messages the documents above mentioned or separate pam- phlet issues must be used. Proclamations issued since 1789 refer to special holidays and matters of special importance demanding immediate ac- tion. Issued separately and duplicated in the Statutes at Large. For proclamations issiied from Washington's to Cleveland's administration (1789 to 1897), consult Richard- son's ^Messages and Papers. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 267 Messages and Documents issued for each session of Con- gress included the Presidents' Messages and the Annual Re- ports of the Executive Departments, with accompanying pa- pers. From the 5th to the 54th Congress (1797-1897), these were issued in cloth as well as duplicated in the Serial Doc- uments, in which latter form they still continue. Abridgment of Messages and Documents issued for each session of Congress since 1858 is intended to be a convenient handbook for easy reference. The documents accompanying the Annual Reports are abridged and lengthy statistical tables are omitted. In cloth. General Publications are on passports, pardons, forests, elections, diplomatic afifairs, and numerous questions arising from time to time. Usually in paper or in the Serial Docu- ments. 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, II, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Smithsonian Institution. This was established in 1846 by Congress, after preliminary legislation, as a result of the generosity of James Smithson. Its object is "to first increase knowledge by original in- vestigations and study in science or literature; and second to dififuse knowledge not only through the United States, but everywhere especially by promoting an interchange of thought among those prominent in learning among all nations. No restriction is made in favor of any one branch of knowledge." The institution is "by law an Establishment composed of the President of the United States, the Vice-President, the Chief Justice, and the heads of the Executive Departments. It is governed by a Board of Regents consisting of the Vice-Presi- dent, the Chief Justice, ex officio, three members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate, three members of the House appointed by the Speaker of the House, and six citizens of the United States appointed by Act of Congress, two of whom are residents of the city of Washington and four of States of the Union, but no two of the same State. The Secre- tary of the Establishment and of the Board of Regents is the Secretary of the institution and director of its activities." 268 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Annual Reports have been issued since 1846; however the report for 1853 which embraces the essential parts of the earlier reports is considered the first of the set. These may be termed popular scientific year-books, as they illustrate, ex- plain, and describe all current matters relating to science and adapted to the average reader. They contain the report of the Executive Committee, the proceedings of the Board of Regents, legislation relating to the Institution, and the re- port of the Secretary embracing the reports of the subordi- nate divisions. This preliminary matter is followed by brief articles by eminent authorities on original discoveries and new developments in science and literature. A few selections from the 1906 Report will illustrate the character of their contents : — Modern Theories of Electricity and ^Matter, by Mme. Curie; Radioactivity, by Franz Himstedt; Wireless Telegraph}^ by G. IMarconi; Electrolysis, by H. S. Carhart; -Astronomical Research, by C. G. Abbot; Problem of Metal- liferous Veins, by J. F Kemp; Eruption of Vesuvius in 1906, by A. Lacroix ; To the North Magnetic Pole and through the Northwest Passage, by R. Amundsen ; Iceland, Its History and Inhabitants, by J. Stefansson ; Heredity, by L. Cuenot ; Role of Chemistry in Painting, by E. Lemaire; Origin of the Slavs, by Prof. Zaborowski ; etc. Since 1884 the Report has been in two parts, the second being that of the National Museum bearing the same rela- tion to the first as the Agriculture Yearbook does to the Agriculture Report. (See page 66.) The Annual Report is the only publication of the Institution which is a Public Document, the others are paid for out of private funds. In cloth and duplicated in the Serial Documents ; and, omitting scientific appendixes, in paper. Contributions to Knowledge issued in numbered volumes since 1848, each volume consisting of one or more parts, con- tain original memoirs on scientific subjects of wide range and include all the quarto publications issued from the Institu- tion direct. These cover nearly every branch of science, and in character are very technical appealing to the student SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 269 rather than to the average reader as they are restricted to the record of "positive additions to human knowledge." In paper or cloth. Miscellaneous Collections has been issued in numbered volumes since 1862, each volume consisting of one or more parts. This series is "designed to contain reports on the present state of our knowledge of particular branches of science, instructions for collecting and digesting facts and materials for research, list and synopses of species of the or- ganic and inorganic world, museum catalogues, reports of explorations, aids to bibliographical investigations, etc." In paper or cloth. Miscellaneous Collections, Quarterly in numbered volumes has been issued since 1903 with the purpose of affording an earlier report on the results of researches than can be had by the regular issues of the jNIiscellaneous Collections. How- ever, the Quarterly is merely preliminary and, consisting of abstracts and outlines, does not interfere with the later and authoritative publication. In paper. General Publications consist of reports on scientific topics of current interest, catalogues of publications, price lists, ac- counts of the Institution, and routine. Issued separately or in the Serial Documents. 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. American Historical Association. The American Historical Association was incorporated by Act of Congress in 1889 "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manu- scripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history and history in America. * * Said Association shall report annually to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- tion concerning its proceedings and the condition of historical study in America. * * The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to permit said Association to de- posit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other material for history in the Smithsonian Institution or in the 270 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS National Museum at their discretion, upon such conditions or under such rules as they shall prescribe." Annual Reports contain the proceedings of the Associa- tion and consist mainly of important monographs pertaining to American history in its various phases, bibliographies, and other pertinent matter. These reports from an historical standpoint are invaluable and are distinguished by accuracy and excellent treatment of the subjects chosen. Issued sep- arately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. 25, 26. ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY. The Astrophysical Observatory was established in 1891. Its object is the study of the physical condition of the celestial bodies. Annual Reports on the year's work are very brief and are issued as part of the Smithsonian Report. Annals issued at rare intervals in numbered volumes since 1900 are highly scientific monographs resulting from investi- gations made at observatories. In paper and duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications consist mainly of routine detail and finance. Usually in the Serial Documents. 5, 19, 20, 27. Ethnology Bureau. Ethnological research began in 1872 in response to a re- quest made by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and in 1879 the Ethnology Bureau was established by the transfer of the work formerly carried on by the Interior Department. It is concerned with investigations mainly of American Indians and Eskimos, their history, manners, customs, languages, and industries. Annual Reports contain a brief administrative account and consist mostly of important monographs on such subjects as Indian pottery, games, excavations, manners, calendars, etc. These are beautifully illustrated by colored and pho- tographic plates. In cloth and, excepting the first, duplicated SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 271 in the Serial Documents; with frequent reprints of mono- graphs. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1887 include descrip- tions of the languages, fabrics, mounds, etc. One of the most useful is Bulletin 30 entitled a Handbook of Indians North of Mexico. This is a two-volume dictionary of all mat- ters connected with the American Indians, giving accounts, with full bibliographical reference, of their manners, cus- toms, history, language, important events, noted characters, place names, with derivation, meaning, and pronunciation, and other topics. This is by far the most satisfactory work of the kind published. In cloth and, beginning with Bulletin 25, duplicated in the Serial Documents. General Publications are on ethnological subjects and gen- eral administration. Issued separately or in the Serial Doc- uments. 5, 15, 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. International Exchange Service. The International Exchange Service was begun as ear- ly as 1850, but not until 1881 did Congress make appropriation for its support. It is the medium of exchange for the official publications of the United States government with those of foreign countries and a like interchange of the publications of the Smithsonian Institution and of the principal scientific societies of this country with those of scientific bodies throughout the world. Annual Reports are entirel}- statistical and are issued as part of the Smithsonian Report. 4, 5, 19, 31, 33, 34. National Museum. The National Museum has been an organic part of the Institution since 1846. Though for many years a scientific collection had accumulated, it was not until 1880 that Con- gress made provision that "all collections of rocks, minerals, fossils, and objects of natural history, archaeology, and eth- nology, made by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Geologi- 272 HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUiMEXTS cal Survey, or by any other parties for the government of the United States, when no longer needed for investigations in progress, shall be deposited in the National Museum." Annual Reports have been issued from 1881 to 1883 as part of the Smithsonian Report and since 1884 in a separate volume. From 1884 to 1904 they contained "reports of the curators of its several departments, special papers based up- on collections in the Museum, bibliographies, etc." Since 1905 the Report has been entirely administrative, omitting the scientific papers. Issued separately and duplicated in the Serial Documents. Bulletins numbered and issued since 1875 are intended to "illustrate the collections of natural history and ethnology in the United States National Museum." Recent subjects treat- ed are on Birds of North America, Families and Genera of Rats, and the Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States. In paper, with occasional pamphlet reprints. Special Bulletins numbered and issued at infrequent inter- vals since 1892 include on a larger scale topics similar to those treated in Bulletins. In paper. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium since Volume 8, 1902, have been issued from the National Museum, earlier volumes were published by the Botany Divi- sion (see page 46). In paper with occasional pamphlet re- prints. Proceedings issued annually in numbered volumes since 1878 are the "medium for announcing descriptions of speci- mens received by the Museum, as well as other interesting facts relative to natural history, furnished by its correspond- ents." There are also "original papers based on the collec- tions of the National Museum, setting forth newly acquired facts in biology, anthropology, and geology derived therefrom or containing descriptions of new forms and revisions of lim- ited groups." In cloth, with occasional pamphlet reprints. General Publications consist of circulars and administra- tive routine. In paper or in the Serial Documents. 2, 4, 22, 35. 36, 37. 38, 39- SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION 273 National Society of Daughters of American Revolution. The National Society of Daughters of American Revolu- tion v^fas organized in 1890 and in 1896 incorporated by Con- gress with the provision that it report annually to the Secre- tar}' of the Smithsonian Institution concerning its proceedings. Annual Reports have been numbered and issued since 1899, the first covering the years from 1890 to 1897. They contain beside administrative detail much valuable material of genealogical importance. Issued separatelj^ and duplicated in the Serial Documents. 8, 15. 29, 40, 41. National Zoological Park. The National Zoological Park established at Washington in 1890 has a large collection of domesticated, indigenous, and foreign mammals, birds, and reptiles. One of the main ob- jects of the Park is the preservation of the great animals of our country, particularly those of the North and West, which are in danger of extinction. Annual Reports of the Superintendent are entirely ad- ministrative and are included in the Smithsonian Report. 5, 19, 20. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. This Commission was established in 1901 and is composed cf five members, a clerk, and special counsel whose duty it is to "receive, examine, and adjudicate all claims of citizens of the United States against Spain." , Opinions numbered and issued since 1901 are the legal decisions made by the Commission. In paper. General Publications consist of accounts of cases, statis- tics of expenditures, claims settled, and documents on the leoal routine of the Commission. In paper or in the Serial Documents. Attorney-General, Assistant. See page 132. 15, 42, 43, 44, 45. 274 HAXDBOOK OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Miscellaneous Branches of the Government. These embrace ephemeral and administrative divisions, whose publications are infrequent or of little interest. Some of those now in operation are the: Department Methods Committee; Ellis Island, Grant Statue or Memorial, Hawaiian, and House of Representatives Construction of Building Com- missions ; Inter-Departmental Board on Wireless Telegraphy ; Jefferson Statue Commission; National Coast Defense Board; Naturalization Commission ; Naval Training Station Loca- tion on Great Lakes Board ; Peace Commission ; Philippine Islands Scientific Surveys Board; Porto Rico Laws Commis- sion; Porto Rico Legislative Assembly and its two branches; Public Lands Commission ; Spanish War Claims Board ; State, ^^'ar, and Navy Department Building Office. 45. AUTHORITIES. 1. New International Encyclopaedia — Volume 14. 2. Documents Office — Table. 3. Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Senate (1908). 4. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue Volume 2. 5. Document Catalogues. 6. Library of Congress — Card. 7. National Academy of Sciences — Publications. 8. Document Catalogue — Volume 4. 9. Richardson — Messages and Papers. 10. Poore — Descriptive Catalogue. 11. 53rd Congress 2nd Session — House Miscellaneous Doc- ument 210 (Serial Number 3265). 12. Greely — Public Documents of the First Fourteen Con- gresses. 13. Document Catalogue — Volume 3. 14. Document Office — Checklist (2nd edition). 15. Document Catalogue — Volume 6. 16. Abridgment of Messages and Documents. MISCELLANEOUS BRANCHES 275 17. Smithsonian Institution — Publications. 18. Smithsonian Institution — Reports. 19. Smithsonian Institution — Report, 1906. 20. Account of the Smithsonian Institution. 21. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections — Volume 17, 42, 43- 22. Documents Office — Department List i. 23. Pittsburgh Carnegie Library — Catalogue ist Series Vol- ume I. 24. Smithsonian Institution — Report, 1903. 25. American Historical Association — Reports. 26. American Historical Association — Report, 1905. 27. Astrophysical Observatory — Publications. 28. Ethnology Bureau — Publications. 29. Document Catalogue — Volume 5. 30. Monthly Catalogue — July 1907. 31. Ames — Comprehensive Catalogue Volume i. 32. Ethnology Bureau — Reports. 33. Smithsonian Institution — Report, 1901. 34. Smithsonian Institution — Report, i88r. 35. National Museum — Report, 1906. Xr 36. National Museum — Report, 1905. 37. National Museum — Reports. 38. National Museum — Publications. 39. National Museum — Report, 1907. 40. National Society of Daughters of American Revolution — Report, 1904-1905. 41. National Society of Daughters of American Revolution — Reports. 42. Mallory — Compiled Statutes Supplement 1905. 43. Attorney-General — Report, 1901. 44. Official Congressional Directory — April 1908. 45. Documents Office — Bulletin 9. ANALYTICAL INDEX A. L. A Catalogue 258 A. L. A. Portrait Index 258 A. L. A. Rules 259 Abandoned Lands 200 Abbot, C. G 268 Aberration, Sun and Moon.... 140 Abrasives no Abridgment of Debates 28 y\bridgment of Messages and Documents 266, 267 Abstracts of Emoluments 17S Abstracts of Proposals for Ma- terials 207 Abstracts of the Census 83 Abstracts (see also under pub- lishing division) Academies in Accessions to Agriculture De- partment Library 61 Accident Bulletins 248 Accidents 99 Accountant, Government Print- ing Office 236 Accounting, Municipal 84 Accounts and Disbursements Division 43 Annual Reports 42 General Publications 43 Accounts, Bureau 163 Accounts, Division 73, 130 Accounts, Navy Department. . 151 Accounts, Public 173 Acts 3i> 130, 169 Acts, Philippine Commission . .223 Addresses of the Presidents .. .266 Adjutant-General's Depart- ment 199, 225 Annual Reports 200 Army Recruiting Circulars ..200 Army Register 200 Artillery Circulars 200 Artillery Memoranda 201 Military Commands 201 General Publications 201 Admeasurement 94 Administrative Division 237 Admission of States 168 Adulterants 47 Adulteration 41, 47 Adventures, Fishing 88 Agent (see under title). Agricultural Bibliography 61 Agricultural Botany 53 Agricultural Catalogue Cards . . 61 Agricultural Chemistry 47, 53 Agricultural Colleges ■. 52, 53, 61, loi, 103 Agricultural Conventions ..52, 53 Agricultural Development .... 57 Agricultural Division 41 Agricultural Education ..52, 54, 70 Agricultural Experiment Sta- tions 52 Agricultural Exports 57 Agricultural Institutes 51 Agricultural Lectures 54 Agricultural Periodicals S3 Agricultural Products 47 Agricultural Schools 51 Agricultural Soils Division .... 69 Agriculture 22 Agriculture Bureau 225 Agriculture Department 41, 60, 61, 108 Agriculture Department, Ap- propriations 42 Agriculture Department, Branch Printing Office.... 236 Agriculture Department, Fi- nance 42, 48, 17s Agriculture Department, List 65, 239 Agriculture Department, Publi- cations 64, 239 Agriculture Division 41 Agriculture, Statistics 41, 57, 82, 98 Agriculture Yearbook. .. .64, 66, (>y Agrostology Division 42, 62 Annual Reports 42 Bulletins 42 Circulars 43 General Publications 43 Agrotechny 53 Air-Compressors 149 Aitken, R 12 Alabama Claims 21 .78 AXALYTICAL INDEX Alaska 103, 104 Alaska Agricultural Experiment stations 51, 54 Annual Reports 54 Bulletins 54 Alaska, Education 103 Alaska, Fisheries 80 Alaska, Governor loi Alaska, Indians 114 Alaska, Reindeer 103, 104 Alaska Road Commission 201 Alaska Annual Reports 201 Alaskan Boundary Tribunal ...170 Alaskan Fisheries Division.... 80 Annual Reports 81 General Publications 81 Alaskan Fur-Seals 80 Alaskan Salmon Fisheries .... 80 Alcoholic Liquors 181 Alcoholism 188 Alien Arrivals 89 Alien Law 89 Aliens 80 Aliens, Medical Inspection .... 187 Alkali Resisting Plants 62 Alkali Soils 69 Allowance Lists 136 Allowance Scales 143 Alloys 151 Almanacs 140 American Archives 11 American Constitutions 164 American Ephemeris and Nau- tical Almanac 140 American Historical Associa- tion 22, 269 Annual Reports 270 American National Red Cross.. 197 Annual Reports 197 General Publications 198 American Nautical Almanac. 140 American Newspapers 263 American Practical Navigator .. 138 American Republics Bureau. . . . 163 Annual Reports 164 Bulletins 164 Additions 164 American Constitutions 164 Commercial Directories .... 164 Handbooks 164 International Sanitary' Con- vention, Proceedings 164 IMonthlv Bulletins 164 General Publications 167 American Revolution II American State Papers .... 10, 13, 21, 22, 105, 150, 168, 226, 243 American Wines 47 Americana 262 Ames, J. G 12, 17, 240 Ammunition 149, 215 Ammunition Hoists 135, 149 Amundsen, R 268 Analysis of Soils 69 Anchors 137 Andrews' Digest 130 Animal Husbandry Division.... 43 Animal Industry Bureau . . . .43, 45 Annual Reports 43 Bulletins 43 Circulars 44 Maps of Infected Districts.. 44 Orders 44 Press Bulletins 44 Rules 44 Service Announcements 44 General Publications 44 Animal Parasites 49 Animal Production S3 Annals 270 Annals of Congress . .21, 22, 27, 28 Annual Consular Reports .._. . 93 Annual Messages '..266 Annual Naval Register 145 Annual Register 147' Annual Reports (see under publishing division). Anthropology 265, 272 Antitoxins 188 Anti-Trust Decisions 131 Anti-Trust Law 87 Apparatus, Standards 95 Appealed Cases 95 Appellate Courts 249 Appellate Jurisdiction 247 Appleton, Publisher 28 Appointment and Correspond- ence Officer 236 Appointment Clerk (Agricul- ture Department) 45, 66 Annual Reports 4S Appointment Clerk (Justice De- partment) 130 Appointments Bureau 163 Appointments Division (Com- merce and Labor Depart- ment) 94 Appointments Division (Treas- ury Department) 173 General Publications 173 ANALYTICAL INDEX 279 Appraisements for duty 173 Appraisers 173 Annual Reports 174 Reappraisements 174 General Publications 174 Appropriations 22, 29, 31, 173, 176, 191 Appropriations (see also under publishing division). Aquatic Animals 88 Arbitration 21, 247 Arbor Day 41 Archaeology 208, 271 Architect of the Capitol 102 Architect, Supervising 192 Architects 102, 192, 224 Archives (see under title). Arctic Exploration 268 Area of the United States 98 Arid Lands 108, 112, 174 Arizona, Casa Grande Ruins... 102 Arizona, Governor loi Arkansas, Hot Springs Reserva- tion 113 Arlington Experimental Farm.. 62 Armament 135, 149 Armies 206 Armor 13S. 149 Armor Plate 151 Armories I97. 21S Armory, Springfield 215 Arms 21S Army 197 Army and Navy Joint Board.. 151, 227 Army Buildings 217 Army Cooking Schools 219 Army Directory 200 Army Equipage 217 Army General Hospital 213 Army, History of 227 Army List and Directory 200 Army Medical School 213 Annual Reports 213 Army Nurse Corps 212 Army of Cuban Pacification .. .201 Reports 201 Army Rations 218 Army Recruiting Circulars ....200 Army Register 200 Army Regulations 226 Army Returns 199 Army Supplies 217 Army Transportation 217 Army Uniforms 217 Army War College 205 Publications 20.^ Arsenals 215 Art 21, 263, 26s Artesian Wells 60, 108, 109 Articles of Confederation 35 Artillery 202, 215 Artillery Circulars 200 Artillery Corps 206 Annual Reports 2o5 General Publications 206 Artillery Memoranda 201 Artillery Schools 202 Asiatic Station 151 Assay Commission 184 Proceedings 184 Assay Laboratory 183 Assay Offices 183- Assistant Attorneys-General .. 130, 131 Assistant Postmasters-General . 156, 157 Assistant Secretaries of 'ireas- ury igo Assistant Secretary of Agricul- ture 66 Assistant Treasurers 193 Associate Justices 253 Astronomical and Meterologi- cal Observations 139 Astronomical Investigations . . 139 Astronomical', Magnetic, and Meteorological Observa- tions 139 Astronomical Observations ... 85 Astronomical Papers 140 Astronomy ..22, 139, 140, 208, 265, 268, 270 Astrophysical Observatory ....270 Annual Reports 270 Annals 270 General Publications 270 Atlantic Coast 86 Atlantic Coaster's Nautical Al- manac 141 Atlantic Division 201 Annual Reports 202 Atlas, Civil War 226 .Atlas, Philippine Islands 223 Atlases 84, iii, 209 Attorney, Court of Private Land Claims 129 Annual Reports 129 Attorney-General ..22, 39, 129, 142 Annua! Reports 130 ^-So AXALYTICAL IXDEX Official Opinions 130 Digests 13U Register 130 General Publications 131 Attorney-General, Assistant, Court of Claims 131 Annual Reports 131 Attorney-General, Assistant, Interior Department 102, 106, 131 Attorney-General, Assistant, Post Olifice Department ..155 Annual Reports IS5 Attorney-General, Assistant, Spanish Treaty Claims Commission 132 Annual Reports 13- Attorney-General, Porto Rico.. 131 Annual Reports 131 Attorneys 119 Attorneys, Disqualified i2u Attorneys-General, Assistant .. 129, 131 Auditor, Canal Zone 221 Auditor, Interior Department .. 174 Annual Reports I74 General Publications 174 Auditor, Navy Department .... 174 Annual Reports 175 Digests 175 General Publications 175 Auditor of Railroad Accounts. 121 Auditor, Post Office Depart- ment 15s, I7S Annual Reports IS5 General Publications 156 Auditor, State and Other De- partments 175 Annual Reports I75 General Publications I7S Auditor, Treasury Department. 175 Annual Reports 175 Abstracts i75 General Publications 176 Auditor, War Department ....176 Annual Reports 176 General Publications 176 Auditors 174, I7S. 176, 178, 185, 221 Audits Bureau 224 Augusta Arsenal 215 Author Headings 238 Autopsies 187 Azimuths 8S, 200 B. A. I. Orders 44 Bache, B. F ^^ Bacteriological Chemistry .... 47 Bacteriology 62, I6d Bailey, George 2ii Balances, Government 17b Ballistics 200 Baltimore Subtreasury 193 Bank Notes 180, 183 Bankruptcy 130, 2S3 Banks 177, 192, 23s Barometric Hypsometry 208 Barometric Pressure 75 Base Measure 85 Baths 90 Bats 272 Battle Mountain Sanitarium ..211 Battle Order Transmitters .... 149 Battlefields 197, 226 Battles 120, 148 Beacons 91, 141 Beef Industry 87 Beet Sugar 62 Benevolent Institutions 84 Benicia Arsenal 215 Benton, T. H 28 Bibliographical Division 237 Bibliography 21, 237, 258, 269, 270, 271 Bibliography, Diplomatic 167 Bibliography, Division ..-. 258 Bibliographies 258 Bibliography, Entomological . . 50 Bibliography, Geological 109 Bibliography, Medical 213 Bills 19, 30, 33 Binding 4, 7, 236 Binnacles 137 Biochemic Division 43 Biographical Memoirs 265 Biological Survey Bureau .... 45 Annual Reports 45 Bulletins 45 Circulars 45 North American Fauna 46 General Publications 46 Biology 45, 265, 272 Bioren Edition 169 Birds 45. 272 Blair and Rives 28, 168 Block Signal and Train Control Board 248 Annual Reports 24S Blount Impeachment Trial .... 27 Blowers 1-56 Blue Book 81 Board of Regents 268 Board of Visitors 139, 146 ANALYTICAL INDEX 281 Board (see also under title). Boat Cranes 136 Bolivia, War in 148 Bonds 180, 183, 189, 193, 194, 212 Book Inventories 34 Bookkeeping and Warrants Di- vision 176 Combined Statements 175 Comparative Statements ....176 Digests 176 Statements 176 Statement of Treasury 176 General Publications 177 Bookkeeping Section 237 Boston Subtreasury 193 Botany 41, 46, 53, 208 Botany Division 46, 56, 62, 68, 72, 272 Annual Reports 46 Bulletins 46 Circulars 46 Contributions 46 Inventories 46 General Publications 46 Boundaries iii Boundary Commissions 170 Boundary Disputes 22 Boundary Waterways 220 Bounty Lands lOi, 119 Bowditch, Nathaniel 138 Branch Printing Offices 236 Breadstuffs 97 Brick Tests 215 Bridges 197, 206, 207, 217 Brooke, J. R 203 Brovirn-Tail Moth 49 Browne no Building Materials 215 Building Superintendent 163 Buildings, Army 217 Buildings, Government 192 Buildings, Naval ....144, 149, 152 Buildings, Public 173, 209 Buildings, War Department ... .210 Bulletins (see under publishing division). Buoys 91. 138 Bureau (see under title). Bureau Circulars 99 Burr, Aaron, Trial 27 Business Directories 164 Butter 43 Cabinet Officers 36 Cable Tests 215 Cables 137 Cables, Military 215 Cadwalader Digest 130 Calendars 33, 167, 202 Calendars, Indian 275 Calibration 95 California Debris Commission 207 Annual Reports 207 General Publications 207 California, Department of 204 California, Sequoia and General Grant National Parks ....122 California, Yosemite National Park 124 Canal Record 221 Canal Zone, Isthmus of Pana- ma 221 Annual Reports 221 Canal Record 221 Monthly Reports 221 General Publications 221 Canals ..21, III, 115, 170, 220, 221, 227 Canned Vegetables 47 Canneries 81 Capital 90 Capital of Railroads 248 Capitol 35 Capitol Building and Grounds Superintendent 102 Annual Reports 102 Capstans 13S, 136 Captured Property 184 Card Section 258 Bulletins 259 Circulars 259 Handbooks 259 Cards for Agriculture Depart- ment Publications 61 Cards Issued by the Library of Congress 258 Cards, Playing 181 Carey, Editor 169 Cargo of Vessels 80 Carhart, H. S 268 Carriage Industry 83 Cars 155 Casa Grande Ruins 102 Annual Reports 102 Cases 129, 130 Cases, Appealed 95 Cases, Courts Martial 141 Cases in Federal Courts 240 Cases, Interstate Commerce Commission 248 2ii2 AXALYTICAL INDEX Cases, Navy Department 142 Cases, Patent 117, 118 Cases, Pension 119 Cashier, Treasurer 193 Castor Oil Plant 67 Casualtic-, 99, 1IS2, 24S Catalogue Cards 61, 258 Catalogue Division 259 Bulletins 259 General Publications 259 Catalogue of Charts, Coast Pi- lots, and Tide Tables 86 Catalogue of Copyright Entries 260 Catalogue of Entomological Exhibits SO Catalogue of Publications ....239 Catalogue of Senate Library. . . . ^i, 15 Catalogue of United States Pub- lic Documents 239 Catalogue Rules 259 Catalogue Section 257 Catalogues (see under publish- ing division). Cataloging of Documents 236, 237 Cattle 43, 97 Cattle Diseases 65, 67 Cattle Quarantine Stations .... 65 Cattle Ships 65 Causes of Death 84 Cautionarj- Signals 141 Cavalry and Field Artillery School 202 Annual Reports 202 General Publications 202 Cavalry and Light Artillery Practice School 202 Cavalr\- School 204 Caveat Lists 183 Celestial Phenomena ..138, 140, 270 Cement 207 Cement Tests 215 Cemeteries 212, 217 Census 79 Census PjuHetins 82 Census Bureau 79, 8r Annual Reports 8t Bulletins 82 Decennial Reports 82 Abstracts 82 Compendiums 83 ^lonographs 83 INIortalitv Statistics 83 Official Register 84 Philippine Census Bulletins.. 84 Philippine Census Report.... 84 Special Reports 84 Statistical Atlas 84 General Publications 84 Census of Philippine Islands.. 84 Census of Porto Rico 225 Census of United States 81 Census Office 79, Si Census Reports 81 Centering Turrets 136 Central America 163, 164 Central Branch 211 Central Electric Stations 84 Certificates 180 Certificates, .Medical 187 Certificates, Spanish Indemnity . 193 Charitable Institutions 84, loi, 105, 112, 123, 147 Charities Board 123 Charities, Porto Rico 166 Charters 21 Charts 74, 85, 87, 138, 262 Chase Impeachment Trial .... 27 Checklist and Index Section .. .237 Checklists 238, 239, 263 Checks, Interest 189 Checks, Treasury 180 Cheese 43 Chemical Investigations 47 Chemical Tests 63 Chemistry ..41, 53, 96, no, 265, 268 Chemistry Bureau 47, 57 Annual Reports 47 Bulletins 47 Circulars 48 Food Inspection Decisions . . 48 General Publications 48 Chemistry Division 47, 188 Cherokees 105 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Commission 227 Chicago Subtreasury 193 Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Parks Commission 198 Annual Reports 198 General Publications 198 Chickasaws 105 Chief Clerk (Agriculture De- partment) 48, 66 General Publications 48 Chief Clerk (Commerce and La- bor Department) 94 ANALYTICAL INDEX 283 Chief Clerk (Justice Depart- ment) Chief Clerk (State Department) Chief Clerk (Treasury Depart- ment) 190, Chief Examiner Chief Lispector Chief Lispector, and Purchasing Agent Chief Lispector's Office Chief Justices 250, Chief of Lisular Affairs Chief of Ordnance Chief of Staff Chief of the Weather Bureau.. Chief Signal Officer 72, Child Labor Children's Hospital Chile, War in Chilean Revolution Chinese Exclusion 80, Chinese Translations ChoCtaws Chronometers Church Claims Board Cincinnati Subtreasury Cipher Codes Circuit Courts 249, Circuit Court of Appeals General Publications Circuit Judges Circuit Justice Circuits, Judicial Circulars of Information Circulars (see also under pub- lishing division). Circulation Statements Cities Cities, Statistics Citizenship Bureau City Delivery City of Manila Bonds Civil Reports Civil Service 45, 84, 233, Civil Service Applicants ..233, Civil Service Apointments . . . . Civil Service Apportionments.. Civil Service Bureau . Civil Service Commission Annual Reports iSIanuals General Publications Civil Service Commission, Fi- nance Civil Service Examinations . . . . 130 163 193 131 15S 236 47 25^ 215 198 05 217 90 1^3 148 148 ,89 55 105 139 227 193 145 252 249 250 252 252 252 104 183 III 82 163 157 189 203 234 234 234 233 233 234 234 234 175 234 Civil Service Laws 234 Civil War 21, 22 Ci\il War Atlas 226 Civil War, Negroes Freed by.. 235 Civil War Records 144, 197, 200, 225 Civilian Engineers 207 Civilized Tribes 105 Claims 13, 21, 105, iig, 129, 170, 184, 227, 250, 252, 273 Claims, Index 244 Clarke, Matthew St. Clair.. 11, 13 Classilication Bulletins 118 Classitication for Duty 173 Classification of Commodities. 98 Classification of Documents... • ••.•■. :-238, 239 Classification of Inventions. .. 118 Classilication of Library of Congress 259 Classification of Mails ....15s, 158 Classification of Public Lands. 108 Classification of Railroads ... .249 Classified Civil Service 233 Claypole, D. C 12 Clearance of Vessels 80 ClerK of the House 33 Clerk, Pardon 132 Clerk (see also under title). Climate 74. 75 Climate and Crop Bulletin 75 Climate and Health 74 Climate of the Philippine Islands 84 Climatic Conditions 59, 73 Clinical Thermometers 96 Clothing 151 Coal Land Laws 106 Coal Mine Labor 91 Coal Mines 116 Coaling Stations 148 Coast and Geodetic Survey.... 79, 8s, 92, 95, 186, 271 Annual Reports 85 Bulletins 86 Catalogues 86 "Maps and Charts 86 Notices to Mariners 86 PhilipDine Islands Notices to Mariners 86 Philippine Islands Sailing Di- rections 86 Tide Tables 86 Coast Pilots 86, 87 General Publications 87 Coast Artillery Corps 206 -'84 ANALYTICAL INDEX 86 I»2, lOI, 104, III, Coast Artillery School . . . Annual Reports Journal Coast Defense Coast Pilots Coast Survey Coast Surveys Bureau . . . Codes 138, 145, Coeducation Coercion Coffee Cold Waves Collectors of Customs . . . College Libraries Colleges . .51, 63 Collisions at Sea Colonial History Color Blindness Colorado, Department of Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park Columbia, Department of Columbia, Institution 102, Annual Reports Columbia Railway Company.. Columbus Memorial Library . . Colvin, J. B Combinations Combined Statements Command, ililitary Commandant, Marine Corps . . Commerce • ■..57, 70, 71, 72, 79, 92, 96, Commerce and Labor Depart- ment 39; Commerce and Labor Depart- ment, Branch Printing Of- fice Commerce and Labor Depart- ment, Finance Commerce and Navigation ..13 Commerce and Police Depart- ment Annual Reports Commerce, Cuba Philippine Islands. Porto Rico Directories Fertilizers Fisheries Marine News Nomenclature . . . . Publications Relations . .92, 93, Reports Commerce Commerce, Commercial Commercial Commercial Commercial Commercial Commercial Commercial Commercial Commercial 202 202 202 274 , «7 84 224 220 104 233 55 74 179 104 113 141 261 186 205 115 204 174 102 122 164 169 87 176 199 143 98 ■, 79 236 175 , 97 224 224 219 219 219 164 47 88 94 98 i6s 261 163 Commercial Standards 95 Commercial Statistics 82, 83, 97, 219 Commercial Summaries 219 Commissary-General 218 Commission (see under titlej. Commissioned Ofticers 146 Commissioner-General of Immi- gration 79 Commissioner of Agriculture 65, 72 Commissioner of Education . . 103 Commissioner of Fish and Fish- eries 79, 87 Commissioner of Indian Aiifairs 114, 270 Commissioner of Labor 247 Commissioner of Labor on Ha- waii 91 Commissioners of Immigration. 79 Committees, House 20 Committees, Senate 20 Committees (see also under ti- tle). Commodities 97, 98 Common Carriers 87, 247 Communities 90 Comparati\'e Statements 176 Comparison of Standards 95 Compass Office 137, 140 Annual Reports 140 Compendiums 83 Competition 87 Competitive Designs 192 Competitive Examinations 233, 234 Compilations of Decisions, Inte- rior Department 181 Compilations of Laws.... 131, 169 Compilations (see also under publishing division). Comprehensive Index ....237, 240 Comptroller of Currency 177 Annual Reports 177 Abstracts 177 Bulletins 177 National Bank Act 177 Digests 177 General Publications 177 Comptroller of Treasury 178 Annual Reports 178 Decisions 179 Digest 179 General Publications 170 Comptrollers 177, 178 Compulsory Education 104 Compulsory Insurance 9T Concurrent Resolutions 20, 32, 34, 169 ANALYTICAL INDEX 28; Condemned Property 36 Condition of Treasury 176 Confederate Congress 227 Confederate Papers 2(32 Confederate Records 200 Confederation Articles 35 Conferences 170 Conferences of Health Officers 186, 188 Congress, Duration 17 Congress, History of 27 Congress (see also under title). Congressional Binding 4 Congressional Debates ..27, 28, 29 Congressional Debates and Pro- ceedings 27, 29 Congressional Directory ....21, 32 Congressional Distribution ...3, 4 Congressional District Libraries 6 Congressional Documents 3, 17, 31 Congressional Documents, Schedules 240, 243 Congressional Globe 28, 29 Congressional Legislation .... 170 Congressional Library 257 Congressional Printer 236 Congressional Printing 236 Congressional Record 9, 29, 32. 266 Congressional Seed Distribution 62 Congressional Series 17, 243 Congressional Speeches ..27, 28, 29 Congressmen 31 Consolidated Index 237, 242 Constabulary Bureau 224 Constants 95 Constitution of the United States 34, 35, 167 Constitutions 21, 131 Construction and Repair Bu- reau 135, 153 Annual Reports 136 General Publications 136 Construction Board 151 Construction, Equipment, and Repair Bureau 13S Construction of Ordnance ....215 Construction of Tarifif, Naviga- tion, and Other Laws 192 Consular Bureau 163 Consular Officers 32 Consular Reports 93 Consular Service ....163, 167, 169 Consulting Architect 224 Consulting Engineers Board ..221 Report 221 Contagious Diseases ...43, 187, 188 Contents of Vaults 194 Continental Congress .191, 226, 262 Continental Congress, Journals 12 Contingent Expenses 33, 191 Contingent Stores 152 Contract Labor 8g Contracts Laboratory 47 Contracts, Postal 158 Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 46, 272 Contributions to Knowledge . .268 Contributions to North Amer- ican Ethnology 107 Controversies 79, 90 Conventions ..21, 52, 157, 164, 170 Cooking Recipes 219 Cooking Schools 219 Cooking Utensils 137 Cooperative Bibliography ....258 Cooperative Work 62 Copper Alloys 151 Copyright Enactments 260 Copyright Entries 260 Copyright Legislation 260 Copyright Office 259 Annual Reports 260 Bulletins 260 Circulars 260 Catalog^ue of Copyright En- tries 260 General Publications 260 Copyright Protection 259 Cordage Tests 215 Corn 62 Corporations 79, 87, 177, 224 Corporations Bureau 79, 87 Annual Reports 87 General Publications 87 Corporations in District of Co- lumbia 234 Corps (see under title). Correspondence and Filing Section 237 Cost of Living 98 Cost of Production 90 Cotton 62, 73, 97 Cotton Ginning 84 Cotton Region Weather Crop Bulletin 74 Cotton Statistics 82 Counterfeiting 190 Country Life 70 Coupon Bonds 189 286 ANALYTICAL INDEX Coupons 189 Court Decisions 247 Court of Claims 131, 249, 250 Reports 250 Cases 251 Judgments Rendered 251 l<"indings 251 General Publications 251 Court of Private Land Claims. 129, 249, 252 General Publications 252 Courthouses 192 Courts ilartial 142, 211, 221 Courts, Naval 142 Courts of Inquiry 141,211 Courts of United States ..249, 252 General Publications 253 Courts, Porto Rico 131 Cranes 136, 152 Crater Lake National Park... 102 Annual Reports 102 Creeks 105 Crime, Statistics 83 Criminals 129 Crop Circulars 71 Crop Reporter 71 Crop Reporting Board 70 Crop Reports 57 Crop Statistics 71 Crops 49, S3. 62, 67 Cruises 190 Cuba, Arm3' of 201 Cuba, Commerce 219 Cuba, Department 202 Annual Reports 203 Civil Reports 203 Cuba, Description 203 Cuba, Division 202 Cuba, Provisional Governor .198 Annual Reports 198 Cuba, Western Department.... 203 Annual Reports 203 Special Reports 204 Cucumbers 68 Cuenot, L 268 Cultural Features iii Curie, Mme 268 Currency 183, 184, 189, 194 Currency Bureau 177 Currency Division 183 Current Catalogues 239 Currents 86, 109 Custody of Standards 95 Customs 176, 192 Customs and Insular Affairs Division 219 Customs Bureau 224 Customs Collectors 179, 200 Customs Commissioner .-•.•: 17s, 178, 179 Customs Division 179 Annual Reports 179 General Publications 179 Customs Houses 192 Customs, Indian 271 Customs Laws 192 Customs Officers 176 Customs, Philippine Islands. .. .223 Customs Revenue 190 Customs Service 179 General Publications 179 Customs Stamps 180, 189 Cyclones 141 D. A. R 273 Daily Bulletins 159 Daily Consular and Trade Re- ports 93 Daily River Stages 74 Daily Weather Reports 72 Dairy Laboratory 47 Dairy Products 97 Dairy Schools 43 Dairying 53 Dakota, Department of 204 Dakota, Governor 103 Dangers to Navigation 137 Danville, Illinois Branch 211 Dawes Commission 105 Dayton, Ohio Branch 211 Dead Letter Office 156 Annual Reports 156 Deaf 102 Death, Causes of 84 Debates 27, 28, 29 Debris from jNIines 207 Debt, Funded 194 Decennial Reports 82 Decisions against Trusts 131 Decisions, Comptroller of Treasury 178, 179 Decisions, General Land Office 106 Decisions, Geographic Board.. 236 Decisions, Internal Revenue.. 181 Decisions, Interstate Commerce Commission 247 Decisions, National Bank 177 Decisions, Patent Office 118 Decisions, Pension Bureau ....119 ANALYTICAL INDEX 287 Decisions, Secretary of Com- merce and Labor 95 Decisions under Tariff, Immi- gration, and Naturalization Laws 192 Decisions (see also under pub- lishing division). Deck Winches 136 Declaration of Independence 11, 35 Decrease of Fishes 88 Deep Waterways Board 227 Deep Wells 109 Defective Classes 84 Defense 206 Deficiency Estimates 191 Definition i Delinquent Officers igi Demonstration Work 62 Department Lists 239 Department ^lethods Commit- tee 274 Department Reports . .21, 22, 29, 66 Department (see under title). Departmental Appropriations . . 191, 192 Departmental Documents 3 Departmental Duties 32 Departmental Publications .... 39 Depositaries 188, 192 Depositories 193 Depository Libraries 5, 6, 238 Deposits in National Banks.... 193 Deposits of Minerals no Deposits of Precious Metals.. 184 Depredations by Indians 131 Depredations, ^lail 158 Depression, Industrial 90 Deputy Assistant Treasurer . . 193 Deputy Public Printer 236 Deputy (see also under publish- ing division). Derailments 248 Derricks 152 Descriptive Catalogue 240 Descriptive Geology no Desertion Mark 14- Designated Depository Libra- ries . . 5 Designs ii7 Detached Interest Coupons . . . . i8g Development of Industries.... 92 Dictionary of Indians 271 Dictionary of the Army 227 Dickens, Asbury 13 Dietetics 41, 47, 5^, 213 Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice 34 Digest, Comptroller of Treasury 179 Digests, Attorney-General ....130 Digests, Circuit Courts of Ap- peals 250 Digests, Courts of the United States 253 Digests, General Land Office.. 106 Digests, Internal Revenue ....181 Digests, International Law.... 91 Digests, Labor Laws 91 Digests, Military Laws 2x2 Digests, National Bank Deci- sions 177 Digests, Naval Appropriations 175 Digests of Appropriations 176, 191 Digests, Pension Decisions ...120 Digests, Treasury Decisions ..192 Digests (see also under pub- lishing division). Diplomatic Affairs 167, 267 Diplomatic and Consular Serv- ice 169 Diplomatic Bureau 163 Diplomatic Correspondence ..168 Diplomatic List 169 Diplomatic Officers 32 Diplomatic Service 163, 169 Directions for Navigators ..86, 87 Director of Posts 224 Director of Statistics Bureau... 97 Director of the Census 81 Director of the Mint 183 Directories ..21, 32, 44, 54, 83, 122, 130, 146, 157, 164, 169, 182, 200, 207, 214, 217, 219 Disabled Seamen 186, 188 Disabled Soldiers 211, 227 Disasters, Marine 182 Disbursement of Moneys 193 Disbursements of the Govern- ment 173 Disbursing Clerk, Commerce and Labor Department ... 94 Disbursing Clerk, Justice De- partment 130 Disbursing Clerks, Treasurj' Department 190 Disbursing Officers ..178, 180, 216 Discipline, Military 198 Discipline, Naval 142 Disclaimers 117 Discoveries 117 288 AXALYTICAL INDEX Discovery of America ii Disease 41, 49, 186 Diseases, Contagious 187 Diseases of Cattle 43, 65, 67 Diseases of Fishes 88 Diseases of Fruit 59, 62, 72 Diseases of Plants 53, yi Diseases of Sheep 67 Diseases of the Horse 43 Diseases of Vegetables 59, "Ji. Disinfectants 188 Dispensaries 143 Disqualified Attorneys 120 Distance Circulars 216 Distances, Table of 216 Distilled Liquors 181 Distilleries 181 Distribution of Animals 45 Distribution of Documents .... 61, loi, 118, 121, 132, 183, 191, 237, 238 Distribution of Library of Congress Cards 259 Distribution of Seed 68 Distribution of Seeds and Plants 4[ District Clerks 252 District Courts 249, 252, 259 District Courts, Porto Rico... 131 District Judges 252 District of Columbia ..loi, 112, 234 Annual Reports 234 Exise Board Reports 234 General Publications 234 District of Columbia Bonds.... i8g District of Columbia Charities Board 123 District of Columbia, Finance. 175 District of Columbia, Funded Debt 194 District of Columbia, Sinking Fund 193, 194 District Superintendents 182 Districts, Life-Saving 182 Districts, Light-House 91 Districts, Quadrangular 11 1 Ditches iii Divorce 91 Docks 136, 148, 152 Document Catalogues 24, 241 Document Checklists - •; •. 238, 239, 243 Document Division 240 Document Indexes. .. .24, 237, 242 Document Rooms 33 Documentary History of the American Revolution 11 Documentary History of the Constitution 167 Documentary History of the English Colonies 11 Documents Division 260 Lists 261 Documents, House ... 18, 20, 22, 23 Documents Oflice 236 Annual Reports 238 Bulletins 238 Circulars 238 Free Lists 238 Price Lists 238 Checklists 238 Department Lists 239 Monthly Catalogues 239 Leaflets 239 Numerical Tables 240 Indexes 240 General Publications 244 Documents, Senate ....18, 21, 240 Documents (see also under pub- lishing division). Domain, Public 105 Domestic Afifairs loi Domestic Animals 41, 43, 45 Domestic Commerce 79 Domestic Crop Reports Divi- sion 70 Domestic Exports 97 Domestic Labor 90 Domestic Quarantine Division •••,••••■. 187 Domestic Reindeer 103, 104 Doorkeeper, House 34 Drafts, Treasury 180 Drainage 52, 69 Dramatic Music 262 Dredging 88, 152 Drill Regulations fsee under publishing division). Drought-Resisting Plants 62 Drowned, Restoration of 182 Drug Laws 47 Drug Plants . , 62 Drugs 47, 66 Dry Docks 136, 152 Dry Land Agriculture 66 Duane, Editor 169 Dumb 102 Dunlap, J T2 Duplicates, Lists of 61 Duplication of Documents .... 7 ANALYTICAL INDEX 280 Duties 93, 163, 173, 176 Duties, Departmental 32 Early Documents 11 Early History of America .... 11 Earnings of Labor 90 Eastern Branch 211 Eclipses 140 Ecliptic, Obliquity 140 Economic Geology no Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy 45 Economic Zoology 53 Economics 22, 90 Economics, Rural 54 Economics, Statistics 81 Edible Mushrooms 61 Editor, Agriculture Depart- ment 64 Editorial Divisions, Agriculture Department 43, 70 Education 21, 101, 103 Education Bureau loi, 103 Annual Reports 103 Bulletins 104 Circulars 104 Introduction of Reindeer .... 104 Special Reports 104 General Publications 104 Education Bureau, Philippine Islands 225 Education, Indian 114 Education, Industrial 90 Education, Military I97 Education, Naval 140, 146 Eaucation, Porto Rico 120 Education Reports, Inde.K 244 Education, Statistics 82 Educational Folios in Educational Institutions 95, 103, 104 Egypt, Naval and Military Oper- ations in 148 1895 Printing Law 2 Elections 21, 267 Electric Blowers 136 Electric Fans 136 Electric Launches 136 Electric Lights I37 Electric Machinery 149. 227 Electric Railways 84 Electric Range Finders I49 Electric Turret Turning Ma- chinery 136 Electrical Standards 96 Electrically Operated Hoists... 136 Electricity 96, 26S Electrolysis 2bii Elevating Gear 149 Elevators 193 Ellis Island Commission 274 Ellsworth, Henry L 41 Emergency Diets 213 Emigration of Indians 21 Emoluments, Abstracts of ....175 Encampments 199 Endowment Fund 103 Engineer Corps 199, 206 Engineer Department ....108, 206 Annual Reports 206. Abstracts 207 List 207 Professional Papers 207 River and Harbor Improve- ments 207 Statement 207 General Publications 207 Engineer Depots 207 Engineer of Light-Houses .... 91 Engineer Reports, Inde.x..207, 244 Engineer School 208 Annual Reports 208 Occasional Papers 208 Engineer School of Application 208 Engineer Troops 207 Engineering 21, 96, 112, 220, 221, 265 Engineering, Highway 63 Engineering, Military 205, 207 Engineering Standards 95 Engineering, Steam 151 Engineers Board 207, 221 English Colonies n English Papers and Bills 262 Engraving and Printing Bureau 179 Annual Reports 180 General Publications 180 Engravings 263 Enological Technology 47 Entomological Commission 48, 107 Annual Reports 48, 108 Bulletins 49, 108 Circulars 49, 108 Entomological Exhibits 50 Entomology 49, S3, 55 Entomology, Bibliography 50 Entomologv Bureau 40, 68 Annual Reports 50 Bulletins 50 Circulars 50 Insect Life 50 290 ANALYTICAL INDEX Technical Series 50 General Publications 50 Entomology Division 49 Entries for Copyright 260 Ephemeris 140 Epidemics 1S7 Equipment and Recruiting Bu- reau 136 Equipment Bureau 136 Annual Reports 137 General Publications 137 Erection of Government Build- mgs 192 Erosion of Soils 6^ Eruption of Vesuvius 268 Eskimos 270 Estimates of Appropriations ..191 Estimates (see also under pub- lishing division). Ethnology 22, 107, 270, 271 Ethnology Bureau 270 Annual Reports 270 Bulletins 271 General Publications 271 Eulogies 22, 31, 265 European Stations 151 Examination of Seamen 186 Examination, Civil Service.... ■•.•••■. 233, 234 Examinations, Naval Academy. 147 Examiner of Titles 130 Examiners of Naval Academy. 146 Excavations 270 Exchange Lists 61, 261 E.xcise Board 234 Exclusion of Chinese 80,89 Executive Bureau 224 Executive Departments .... 18, 39 Executive Departments, Li- braries 6 Executive Documents, House 19, 22 Executive Documents, Senate.. 21 Executive Mansion 2ro Executive Office 221 Executive Papers, House 22 Exequaturs 167 Exhibits, Entomological 50 Exhibits (see also under pub- lishing division). Expedition to Japan 157 Expenditures, Government T76, 178 Expenditures, Railroads ..222, 240 Expenses, Contingent 191 Expenses, House 33 Expenses of Living.... 98 Experiment Station Division . . 43 lixperiment Station for Lepro- sy 187 Experiment Station Record ... 53 Experiment Station Work . . 54, 67 Experiment Stations ....51, bi, 65 Experiment Stations, Einance. . 51 Experiment Stations, Oiifice . . 51 Annual Reports 52 Bulletins 52 Circulars 52 Miscellaneous Bulletins 53 Eood and Diet Charts 53 Irrigation Investigation Sched- ules 53 Experiment Station Record.. 53 Experiment Station Work... 54 Farmers' Institute Lectures.'. 54 General Publications 54 Experimental Farm 62 Experimental Gardens 62 Experimental Gardens and Grounds 59 Explorations 17, 269 Explosives 149, 200, 215, 216 Exportation of Cattle 44 Exports 93, 96, 97, 98 Exports, Cuba 219 Exports, Philippine Islands .. .219 Exports, Porto Rico 2J9 Expositions 22 Extraditions 167, 170 .48, F. I. D F. P. L J'actory Systems Famine Sufifererg Fans Far Eastern Affairs Division.. Farm Animals Farm Animals, Statistics ...70, Farm Management Farmers' Bulletins 64, Farmers' Bulletins, Index . . . Farmers' Cooperative Demon stration Work Farmers' Institute Lectures . Farmers' Institutes Federal .^nti-Trust Decisions. Federal Buildings Federal Courts 118, Federal Documents i. Federal Reporter Feeble Minded Fertilizers 47 Fiber Investigations Office... Annual Reports 56 58 83 197 136 163 67 /' 62 66 244 62 54 51 131 192 249 236 253 84 53 56 ■:;6 ANALYTICAL INDEX 29J Reports 56 General Publications 56 Fiber Plants 62 l^'ibers 55, 56 Fibfine 62 Field Artillery Corps 206 Field Crops 49, 53 Field Operations 69 Field Programs 58 Field Service 70 Fifth Auditor 175 Files, Treasury Department. ... 183 Final Reports 107, 209 Finance 13, 98, 173, 185 Finance (see also under pub- lishing division). Finance and Justice Depart- ment 224 Annual Reports 224 Finance, Government 178 Finance Reports 190 Financial Reports ..21, 34, 35, 113 Financial Statistics 82 Findings 251 Fire Sufferers 197 First Assistant Postmaster- General 157 First Auditor 175 First Comptroller 178 Fish and Fisheries Commis- sioner 79. 87 Fish Commission 79, 81 Fish Culture 88 Fish, Statistics 88 Fisheries 21, 79, 80, 190 Fisheries, Bureau 87 Annual Reports 88 Bulletins 88 Statistical Bulletins 88 General Publications 88 Fisheries, Special Agent 192 Fishing Adventures 88 Fishing Grounds 88 Fishing Industry 88 Five Civilized Tribes Commis- sion lOS Annual Reports 105 Flags 137 Flax 56 Fleets, Naval i45 Floating Lights 141 Flood Sufferers I97 Floods (>7. 72 Fluctuation of Rivers log Fog Signals 91, 138 Folding Rooms 34 Folios ,.,... Ill Folwell, Richard .,..,.,.,13 Folwell Edition ,...,. 169 I'^ood 47, 52;,'53y 65 Food Adulteration ..,.., .y,,.;4i Food and Diet Charts ...,...,.,,,,;. .53 Food and Drug Inspf ijtioii > Board 1,48, 56, 66 Food and Drugs Act. ..;.,. .,..47, 57 Food Animals ,.>..,..,., ,97 P'ood Fishes ,./..,.,,. 8^ Food Habits of Birds and Aip-, ,.| mals ,( i . • •' 45 Food Inspection ...,,,, j ..65 Food Inspection Decisions , .48,, 5^ Food Products ,...;. ...41, 62 Food Research .....[., ^ ,.; . 47 Foods Division ......:..;<. ,t,.i.,. 47 Forage Plants .....42, 55, 62 Force Collection ...,,;,..-... 12,, ,262 Force, Peter •>•:•-•,• .i.-u.; 11 Ford, Worthington ChavHicey,. . 12 Forecast Division . t-. ..)... .,.,. Ti Forecasts ,.,•.,. ; 72,- 75 Foreign Affairs ... 1, , ... j 267 Foreign Affairs Department ... 163 Foreign Agricultural,! ,Institu- , tions , .,.,,„.,. .;. ...i.6f Foreign Agricultural Statist iiC.s.,. 57 F'oreign and Insular, ,Qnwanf tine Division ...... ..^.,j,|.;i .187 Foreign Animals .... .._.,,,.,<, ,1. .45 Foreign Armies ^.,. .;. . 1,1', .214 P'oreign Birds ..,..,,..■;....,. ,j. ' 45 Foreign Coins .........,...,.,, 184 Foreign Commerce ,■,;■;■,■■,••:■):. . > ■. &7, 79, 92, 93. 97 Foreign Commerce Bureau 79 Foreign Consuls :. . . 163,, 167 Foreign Crop Statistics ....70,, 71 Foreign Decorations, , , . 170 Foreign Deper!d?ncie,s, '3J Foreign Diplomats ■ • 163, 167 Foreign Distrilju-tion of Docu-,, | ments ,.....;. .5, 261, 271 Foreign Education^. . .y . . . . .i: . . 104 Foreign Engineers ji:,, ... ,' . . ., . . .221 Foreign Governments. ,. -• ; 167 Foreign Immigration .,....,.,. 89 Foreign Industries ......... ..92, ,93 Foreign Insects .,........;,, .49 Foreia:n Labor ,...,.,..,:.,,.., 00 Foreign Life-SaV|i.ng Apparatus. 182 Foreign Mail Spryice 136, 158 Annual Reports ..,.■.,,. ...:.i. .. J56 General Publications , ..IS$ 2g2 ANALYTICAL INDEX Foreign IManufactures 92 Foreign Markets 92 Foreign Markets Division ..57, 70 Annual Reports 57 Bulletins 57 Circulars 57 General Publications 57 Foreign Markets Section 57 Foreign Military Science 214 Foreign Naval Operations ....148 Foreign Navigation 92 l''oreign Newspapers 263 Foreign Orders 170 F'oreign Patents 119 Foreign Population 83 Foreign Production of Precious Metals 184 Foreign Relations 13, 21, 163, 168, 266 Foreign Shipping 93 F'oreign Statistics 96 Foreign Surveys 137 Foreign Tariffs 97 I'"oreign Trade 57, 93, 95, 96 Forest Pathology 62 Forest Planting Leaflets 58 Forest Products 83 Forest Reserves ....58, 59, 66, 108 Forest Service 57 Annual Reports 58 Bulletins 58 Circulars 58 Field Programs 58 Forest Planting Leaflets.... 58 Reports 59 General Publications 59 Forester'^ Office 58 Forestry 53, 57, no Forestry Bureau 57, 225 Forests 41, 49, 57, 267 Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 204, 205 Fort Leavenworth Engineer Depot 207 Fort Monroe, Virginia 202 Fort Riley, Kansas 202 Fort Totten, New York 205 Fortieth Parallel 208 Fortifications 148, 197, 206, 2T2, 214, 215, 216 Fossils 271 Foundlings 123 Fourth Auditor 174 Fractional Currency 189 Frankford Arsenal 215 Franklin, Walter S 13 Fravidulent Naturalization 109 Free Delivery IS5 F'ree Distribution of Docu- ments 236, 238 Free Lists 238 Freedmen 200 Freedmen's Hospital 105 Annual Reports 105 Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company 234 Annual Report.s 235 Freight Rates 222 F'rench Navy 148 French Translations 165 Frost 72 Fruits 49, 59, 63 Fruits, Diseases 62, •^z Fuel 137 Fulton's Pamphlet on the Tor- pedo 13 Funded Debt 194 F'ungicides 72 Fungous Diseases 49 Fur-Seal and Salmon Fisheries of Alaska 80 Fur-Seals 80 Gales and Seaton 13, 27 Gales' Debates 27 Galleys 137 Game Laws 66 Game Protection 41, 45, 66 Games, Indian 271 Gardens and Grounds Divi- sion 59, 62 Annual Reports 59 Circulars 59 Gardiner Greene Hubbard Col- lection 263 Gas Engines 93 Gangers 181 Ganger's Manual 181 Ganger's Weighing Manual .... 181 Gauging of Rivers T^ Genealogy 82, 227 General Board 151 General Courts Martial 141 General Grant National Park.. loi, 122 General Information Series .... 147 General Land Office 105 Annual Reports 105 Decisions to6 Digests T06 General Publications 106 General Orders fsee under pub- lishing division). ANALYTICAL INDEX ^97, General Post Office 155 General Publications (see un- der publishing division). General Service and Staff Col- lege 204, 205 General Staff Corps 198 Annual Reports 199 General Publications 199 General Storekeeper 152 Geodetic Survey 79, 85 Geographic Board 235 Reports 235 Bulletins 236 Decisions 236 General Publications 236 Geographic Determinations . . 85 Geographic Names 236 Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Moun- tain Region 106, 108 Annual Reports 106 Contributions 107 Geographical Distribution of Animals 49 Geographical Surveys West of the looth Meridian ..108, 208 Annual Reports 208 Final Reports 208 General Publications 208 Geography 92, 107, 108, no, III, 138, 165, 206, 208, 209 Geologic Atlas in Geologic Maps 107, in Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 49, 107, 168 Anntial Reports 107 Final Reports 107 Miscellaneous Publications ..107 Bulletins 107 General Publications 107. Geological Depository Libra- ries 6 Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel 108, 208 Annual Reports 208 Final Reports 209 General Publications 209 Geological Structure 108 Geological Survey ....loi, 106, 108, 174, 208, 272 Annual Reports 109 Bulletins T09 Professional Papers 109 Water Supply and Irrigation Papers 109 Mineral Resources no Monographs ni Topographic Atlas in Topographic Folios in Geologic Atlas in General Publications 112 Geology 22, loi, 106, 109, in, 208, 209, 265, 272 Geology Bibliography log Gettysburg National .Military Park Commission 210 Annual Reports 210 Gideon and Way 12 Gillis, Lieutenant 139 Ginning of Cotton 84 Glasses 137 Gold Certificates 189 Gold Currency 183, 184 Gold Imports 184 Government Actuary 180 Market Prices 180 General Publications 180 Ciovernment Appropriations ..191 Government Buildings ....32, 192 Government Cases in the Su- preme Court 129, 132 Government Documents i, 236, 260 Government Expenditures .... 178 Government Finance ....173, 178 Government Hospital 112, 174 Annual Reports 113 Bulletins 113 Financial Reports 113 Government Mints 183, 184 Government of Cuba.. 201, 202, 203 Government of District of Co- lumbia 234 Government of Philippine Is- lands 223 Government of Porto Rico... 165 Government Printing Office 3, 121, 169, 236 Annual Reports 237 General Publications 237 Government Printing Office, Fi- nance 175 Government Representatives in Indian Reservations 48 Government Standards 95 Government Subsidies 247 Government Telegraph Line ..2io Governor-General, Philippine Islands 224 Annual Reports 224 Governor of Canal Zone 221 Governors of States 52 -''J4 ANALYTICAL INDEX Grain 62 Grammars of Mindanao and Tagalog Languages 199 Grant Statue of Memorial Com- mission 274 Grapes 67 Grasses 42, 47 Gravity 85 Grazing 58 Great Lakes 74 Great Seal 167 Greely, A. W iS Green, Dufif 14 Greenwich Meridian 140 Guam Agricultural Experiment Station 51 Guam Survey Board 151 Guides 217 Gulf, Department of 201 Gulf Stream 85 Guns ....136, 149, ISO, 214, 215, 216 Gypsy Moth 49 Halliwell-Phillips ]\Ianuscripts.262 Hampton, Virginia Branch ... .211 Handbook of Indians 271 Handbooks of American Repub- lics 164 Handbooks (see also under pub- lishing division). Handpumps 136 Harbor Improvements 197, 206, 207 Harbor Lines 197 Hatch Act 51 Havana and Pinar del Rio De- partment 203 Havana Ordnance Depot 215 Hawaii Agricultural Experi- ment Stations 51, 55 Annual Reports SS Bulletins 55 Press Bulletins 55 Hawaii, Commissioner on La- bor 91 Hawaii, Governor 113 Hawaii, Leprosy Experiment Station ..187 Hawaii, Sugar Planters Associa- tion 55 Hawaiian CdijirnJsSion ■ 274 Hawaiian' I Islands :!.:... : . .>.-■!<.,. .(:;.,ii3 Hawaiian Translations ..'..1.,.!. 5S Hayden Survey v.. 107 H-eads of Families .'. . i', . j-.n).- ;.., .83 Health and Climate 74 Health Bureau 225 Health, Charities, and Correc- tion Department 121, 166 Annual Reports 166 Health Department 221 Health, National Board of.... 184 Health Officers 186, 188 Health, Superior Board of 121, 166 Pleat Measurements 96 Heating Apparatus 193, 217 Heights 85 Heitman's Register 227 Hemp 56 Herbarium, National 46, 272 Heredity 268 liickej', William 13 High Explosives 215, 216 High Schools Ill Highway Engineering 63 Hills Ill Himstedt, Franz 268 Historic Buildings 210 Historical Manuscripts ...262, 269 Historical Papers 167 Historical Records 197, 200 Historical Register, Army ....227 History 22, 269 History of Agriculture Depart- ment 65 History of Army 227 History of Bills 29 History of Congress 27 History of Currency 189 History of Philippine Islands.. 223 History of State Department. . 170 History of United States 11 Hoisting Systems 193 Hoists 136, 149 Homestead Rights 106 Horse, Diseases 4? Horse Radish 68 Horticulture 53, 67 Hospital Corps 212 Hospital Records 200 Hospitals loi, 105, 112, 123, 144, 152, 173, 186, 192, 221 Hot Springs Reservation 101, 113, 174 Annual Reports 113 Hot Springs, South Dakota. .. .21 1 Hours of Labor 90, 247 House Bills 19, 30, 33 House Committees 20 House Concurrent ResolvUious. 34 H ourse I Debates ,i ,j:., ,^, . .; ., , .: .• ,28 House Document Room, ,-.,.;. .4, 33 ANALYTICAL INDEX -'95 House Documents i8, 20, 22, 23, 240 House Doorkeeper 34 House Executive Documents.. 20, 22 House Executive Papers 22 House, Finance 175 House Folding Room 34 House Joint Resolutions 19, 30, 34 House Journal ....18, 19, 33, 266 House Journals, Index 244 House Library 20 House jNIanual 34 House Miscellaneous Docu- ments 22 House ^liscellaneous Papers... 22 House of Representatives .... 33 House of Representatives Build- ing Commission 274 House Reports 17, 20, 240 House Resolutions 34 House Rules 19, 34 House Sergeant-at-Arms 36 House State Papers 20, 22 Howard University 113, 174 Annual Reports 113 Hulls 13s. 136, 149 Hvmian Nutrition S3 Humidity 73 Hydraulic Engineering 21 Hydraulic Mines 207 Hydrographic Bulletins 138 Hydrographic Notices 138 Hydrographic Office 5, 137 Annual Reports ....138 American Practical Naviga- tor 138 Hydrographic Bulletins 138 Lists of Lights 13S Notices to Mariners 138 Sailing Directions 138 General Publications 138 Hydrography 85, 108, no, 137. 148, 209 Hydrometers 180 HydrO'inetry 209 Hygienic Laboratory 187, 188 Annual Reports 188 Bulletins 188 General Publications 188 Ice 74 Iceland 268 Idaho, Governor Ii4 Annual Reports ii4 Identification Cards 200 Identification of Insects 49 Illegal Traific 190 Illiteracy 83 Illuminating Oil 137 Illustrations Division 59 Annual Reports 59 Immigrants 89 Immigrants, Medical Inspec- tion 187 Immigration 79, 89 Immigration and Naturalization Bureau 89 Annual Reports 89 Immigration Statement 89 General Publications 89 Immigration Bureau 79, 89 Immigration Commissioner- General 79 Immigration Commissioners . . 79 Immigration Laws 192 Immigration Statement 89 Immigration Statistics 89 Impeachment Trials 27, 35 Importation of Domestic Ani- mals 4r Importation of Noxious Ani- mals 66 Importation of Reindeer 104 Imported Cattle Quarantine.... 65 Imports 96, 98, 164, 174 Imports and Exports 98 Imports, Cuba 219 Imports of Precious Metals .... 184 Imports, Philippine Islands ... .219 Improvement of Rivers and Harbors 197, 206, 207 Improvements of Inventions ..117 Inaugural Messages 266 Incorporation 87 Increase of Navy 142 Independent Ammunition Hoists 13s Independent Branches of the Government 231 Index, Annual Reports of Sec- retary of Senate 35 Index-Catalogue 213 Index, Congressional Globe.... 29 Index, Congressional Record.. 29 Index, Engineer Reports 207 Index, Inventions 118, 119 Index, Military 207, 214 Index, Statutes at Large 169 Indexes and Archives Bureau.. 163 206 AXALYTICAL INDEX Indexes, Public Documents.... 211, 239 Indexes (see also under pub- lishing division). Indian Affairs 13, 174 Indian Affairs Office 114 Annual Reports 114 General Publications 114 Indian Agent 115 Indian Bureau 1 14 Indian Calendars 271 Indian Commissioners Board.. 115 Annual Reports 115 Indian Customs 271 ] ndian Department 114 Indian Depredation Claims ...251 Indian Depredations 131 Indian Education 114 Indian Fabrics 271 Indian Games 269 Indian History 269 Indian Inspector 114 Indian Lands 114 Indian Languages 269 Indian Moneys 114 Indian Mounds 271 Indian Names 271 Indian Office 114 Indian Pottery 270 Indian Religion IIS Indian Reservations 48 Indian Schools 114, 115 Indian Supplies 114 Indian Territory 20, 115 Indian Territory, Piatt National Park 120 Indian Territory, School Fund 193 Indians . . . .21, 81, loi, 105, 114, 270 Indians, Dictionary of 271 Indicators 149 Industrial Arbitration J47 Industrial Colleges 71 Industrial Condition 98 Industrial Depression 90 Industrial Education ...71, 90, 104 Industrial Promotion 92 Industrial Statistics 81, 83 Industries 92 Inefficiency of Statutes 87 Infantry and Cavalry School 204, 203 Annual Reports 204 Infected Districts 44 Infectious Diseases 188 Influence of Environment 47 Information from Abroad 147 Inoculation 188 Inorganic World 269 Insane .*. 84, 112 Insect Life So Insecticide Machinery 49 Insecticides 49, 61 Insects 41, 49 Inspection, Medical 186 Inspection of Cattle 44 Inspection of Food 65 Inspection of Immigrants 89 Inspection of Meat 65 Inspection of Military Estab- lishment 211 Inspection of Ordnance ..213, 214 Inspection of Railroads ... .247, 248 Inspection of Steamboats. . .79, 98 Inspection, Postal 158 Inspector-General 227 Inspector-General's Department 199, 210 Annual Reports 210 General Publications 210 Inspector, Government Printing Office 236 Inspector of Indian Schools. ... 114 Inspector of Light-Houses.... 91 Inspectors 114, 115, 151, 158 Inspector of Mines 122 Instructions for Restoring the Drowned 182 Instructions in Case of Ship- wreck 182 Instructions (see also under publishing division). Instrument Division Circulars.. 74 Instruments, Nautical 137 Instruments, Navigating 139 Instruments, Surgical 144 Insular Affairs Bureau 2ig Annual Reports 219 Circulars 219 Monthly Summaries 219 Quarterly Summaries 219 Cjeneral Publications 220 Insular Laws 220 Insular Police 166 Insular Possessions 219, 220 Insular Quarantine 187 Insurance 93 Insurance Companies 87 Insurance, Compulsory 91 Interchange of Scientific Pub- lications 271 Interdepartmental Board on Wireless Telegraphy 274 ANALYTICAL INDEX 297 Interest Checks 189 Interest Coupons 189 Interest on Bonds 189 Interest on Public Debt 193 Interference Cases 117 Interference Notices 118 ] nterior Department 39, 48, 81, 84 8g, loi, 131, 209, 238, 240, 270 Interior Department, Branch Printing Office 236 Interior Department Finance.. 173 Interior Department, Philippine Islands 225 Annual Reports 225 Interior Department, Porto Rico 120 Internal Affairs 266 Internal Affairs Department ... loi Internal Commerce 79, 97 Internal Revenue 180 Internal Revenue Agents 180 Internal Revenue Bureau 224 Internal Revenue Commission- er 180 Annual Reports .'. 180 Circulars 181 Compilations 181 Digests 181 Internal Revenue Laws 181 Regulations 181 General Publications 181 Internal Revenue Decisions .... 181 Internal Revenue Laws.... 181, 192 Internal Revenue Service 181 Internal Revenue Stamps 180 Internal Revenue Taxes 180 International American Confer- ence 170 International Bureau of Ameri- can Republics 163 International Commissions ...167 International Exchange ..261, 271 International Exchange Com- mission 170 International Exchange Serv- ice -71 Annual Reports 271 International Law ....146, 148, 168 International Prison Commis- sion 170 International Prison Congress. 170 International Sanitary Conven- tion ,-164 International Union of Ameri- can Republics 163 International Waterwaj-s Com- mission General Publications Interoceanic Canals 21, 170, 220, Interpreters Interstate Commerce Act.... Interstate Commerce Commis sion Annual Reports Accident Bulletins Reports General Publications Interstate Commerce Law . . . Interstate Quarantine 65, Interstate Transportation .... Introduction of Domestic Rein deer Introduction of Foreign Insects Inventions loi. Inventions, Index 118, Inventories of Books Inventories of Property Inventories (see also under pub lishing division). Investigations of Navy De partment Investment Values Inward Passenger Movement., Iron Tests ■. Irrigation 53, 60, 93, 109, Irrigation Ditches Irrigation Inquiry Office Annual Reports Bulletins General Publications Irrigation Investigation Sched ules Island Possessions Issue Division Isthmian Canal Commission.. Annual Reports Minutes General Publications Isthmus of Panama 220, 220 220 221 218 87 ^47 247 248 248 248 87 187 247 104 49 117 119 34 34 151 180 89 21. S no III 60 60 60 60 S3 219 177 220 220 220 220 221 Jails 129 Japan, Perry Expedition 151 Japan Stream 83 Japanese Art 263 Japanese Translations S5 Jefferson Statue Commission .. .274 Jefferson, Thomas 85 Jefferson's Manual 34. 3i John Paul Jones Manuscripts . .262 29^ ANALYTICAL INDLX Johnson City, Tennessee Branch 211 Jbint Committee on Printing . . 32 J oint Resolutions .... 19, 29, 32, 169 Joint Stock Companies 87 Journal of Mycology 72 Journal of the Executive Pro- ceedings of the Senate 14 Journal of the House 14 Journal of United States Artil- lery 202 Journals of the American Con- gress 12 Journals of the Confederate Congress 227 Journals of the Continental Congress 12, 262 Journals of the Senate, Legis- lative 14 Journals, Secret 12 Journals (see also under title). Judge-.-Vdvocate-General, Navy 141 Annual Reports 142 General Publications 143 Judge-.A-dvocate-General's De- partment 199, 211 Annual Reports 212 General Publications 212 Judges 250, 252, 253 Judgments Rendered 251 Judicial Circuits 129, 252 Judiciary 249 Judiciary, Finance 175 Justice Bureau 224 Justice Department 39, 129, 141, 142 Justice Department, Canal Zone ; 224 Justice Department, Finance. .. 175 Justices of the Supreme Court.. 35 Jute 56 Kemp. J. F 268 King Survey 208 Knowledge, Promotion of 267 Labels 117 Labor 22, 79, 89, 90 Labor Bureau 79, 89 Annual Reports 90 Bulletins 90 INlonographs 90 Report^; gi Special Reports 91 General Publications 91 Labor Department 79, 90 Labor Employment Board.... 60 General Publications 60 Labor Legislation 90 Laboratory Corps 188 Lace ^ilaking 93 Lacroi.x, A 268 Lake Storm Bulletin 75 Lakes iii Lakes, Department of 204 Lakes Survey 206, 207 Land Claims 21, 129, 252 Land Features iii Land Grant Colleges 51 Land Grant Colleges, Libraries 6 Land Laws 252 Land Office, General 105 Land Purchase Bonds 193 Land Tenure 70 Landings 152 Landmarks of Civil War 226 Lands 114 Lands, Bounty 119 Lands Bureau 225 Landscape Gardening 41 Languages, Indian 270, 271 Languages, Philippine Islands.. 199 Lard 61 Latitude 85, 140 Launches 136 Law 21, 28, 29, 33, 87, 129, 131, 163, 167, 168, 169, 250 Law, Civil Service 234 Law Clerk 163 Law, Coal Land 106 Law, Coinage 184 Law, Copyright 260 Law, Customs 192 Law, Immigration 192 Law, Insular 220 Law, Internal Revenue. ... 181, 192 Law, International ....146, 148, 168 Law, Labor 90 Law Library 257 Law, Marine 148 Law, Merchant ^Marine 94 Law, Military 205, 212 Law, Naturalization 192 Law, Naval 142 Law, Navigation 94, 98, 192 Law, Panama 220 Law, Patent 118, 119 Law, Pension 119 Law, Postal 157 Law, Public Lands 190 Law, Roads 64 Law, Tariff 192 AXALYTICAL IXDJiX 299 Laws Affecting Agriculture De- partment 70 Laws ui Lhilippine islands. .. .223 Leads 137 Leaf Fibers 56 Leadets 239 Leases Granted 227 Leather and Paper Laboratory. 47 Leavenworth, Kansas Branch.. 211 Lectures on Agriculture 54 Legal Affairs 129 Legal Decisions lOO Legislation Affecting Labor.... 90 Legislation by Congress. . 169, 170 Legislation Relating to Docu- ments 2 Lemaire, E 26S Length 96 Leprosy 187 Letters of Vessels 94 Letters of Patent 117 Librarian, Justice Department. 132 Annual Reports 132 Librarian of Congress ... .257, 259 Libraries 104, 137 Libraries Receiving Documents 6 Library, Agriculture Depart- ment 60 Annual Reports 6i Bulletins 61 Catalogue Cards 61 Lists 61 General Publications 61 Library, American Republics Bureau 164 Library, Building and Grounds Superintendent 261 Annual Reports 261 Library, Justice Department ... 132 Library, Medical Department. .212 Library, Navy Department 144, 151 Library of Congress .... 12, 61, 257 Annual Reports 257 Catalogues 257 Bibliographies 258 General Publications 258 Library of Congress, Branch Printing Office 236 Library of Congress Cards 239, 258 Library of Congress, Classifica- tion 259 IJbrary of Congress, Finance.. 17s Library, Patent Office 119 Lilirary Section 237 Lilirarv Series 164 Library, State Department ... 166 Library, Statistics Division.... 70 Library, Surgeon-General's Of- fice 213 Library, War Department 227 Library, Weather Bureau js Licenses 180 Licensing of Vessels 80, 94 Licensing Officers 98 Lile-Saving Apparatus 182 Life-Saving Appliances Board.. 182 Life-Saving Crews 182 Life-Saving Districts 182 Life-Saving Instructions 141 Life-Saving Servce 173, 181, 186, 190 Annual Reports 182 Official Register 182 General Publications 182 Life-Saving Stations 182 Light-House Board 79, S6, 91 Annual Reports 91 Bulletins 92 Circulars 92 Weekly Notices to Mariners. 92 General Publications 92 LigTit-House Depots 91 Light-House Districts 91 Light-House Establishment. .79, 92 Light-House Service '80, 186 Light-Houses 138, 141 Light Vessels 91, 138 Lighting Apparatus 217 Lightning 73 Lights ., 137, 138, 141 Lights of the World 138 Lines 137 Liciuors, Alcoholic 181 Liquors in the District of Co- lumbia 234 List and Station of Navy 146 List of Battles 120 List of Books and Pamphlets .. 167 List of Lights of the World... 138 List of Merchant Vessels.... 94 Lists of Documents on Special Subjects 257 Lists of Duplicates for Ex- change 61 Lists of Property 34 Lists (see also under publish- ing division). Literature 267 Living Expenses 97 Loan Companies I77 Loans and Currency Division .. 183 Caveat Lists 183 300 AXALYTICAL INDEX Circulation Statements 183 General Publications 183 Loans by the Library of Con- gress 257 Loans Division 183, 189 Lobsters 88 Lockouts 90 Locusts 108 Log Books 137 Logs 137 Longitude 85, 140 Lower House 33 Lowrie, Walter 13 Lumber 58 Luzon, Department of 204 Maceration of Securities Machine Guns jNlachinery, Electrical Machinery, Insecticide Machinery, Steam Maclay, William Magazines Magnetic Observations Magnetism Mail Depredations : Mails Mails and Files Division General Publications Malaria 188, Mammalogy Mammals Manila Manila Bonds Manila Municipal Board Manila Ordnance Depot jVIanila Publishing Office Manipulation of Documents.... Manoeuvres 199, Manoeuvring in Cyclones Manuals of Examinations Manuals (see also under title). Manufacture of Foods Manufacturers' Directories .... Manufactures 79, 80, 92, Manufactures Bureau 79, Annual Reports Commercial Relations Consular Reports Review of the World's Com- merce Special Consular Reports.... Tariff Series General Publications Manufactures, Statistics ....82, Manufacturing Standards 189 2I6 227 49 151 28 152 85 139 158 155 183 183 221 45 272 86 109 224 215 223 2 214 141 234 47 164 92 92 93 93 93 93 93 8 + 95 Manuscripts Division 12, 261 General Publications 262 Maps ..75, 86, 87, 108, III, 160, 207, 209, 214, 224, 226, 23s, 262 Maps and Charts Division. .. .262 ]\larconi, G 268 Marine Corps ....135, 143, 146, 152 Annual Reports 143 General Publications 143 Marine Disasters 182 Marine Hospital Service 186 Marine Hospital, Staten Island. 188 Marine Hospitals 186, 192 Marine Hospitals and Relief Di- vision 187 Marine Intelligence 7Z Marine Laws 94 Mariners' Notices ....86, 138, 140 Marion, Indiana Branch 211 Maritime Canal Company 115 Maritime I;iterests 190 Maritime Law 80 Mark of Desertion 142 Market Prices 180 Markets 80, 93 Marriage 91 Marshals 129 Materials 95 Materials, Strength of 215 Mathematics 265 Measurement of Streams. . 108, 109 Measurements 80 Measures .-. 95 Measuring Apparatus 95 Meat 97 jMeat Inspection 45, 65 ^leat Inspection Rulings 44 Mechanical Colleges loi, 103 ^ledals of Honor 201 Medical and Sanitary Features of the Russo-Japanese War 144 Medical Bibliography 213 iVIedical Botany 41 Medical Bulletins 144 Medical Cases 187 Medical Certificates 186 Medical Corps 213 Medical Department 212 Annual Reports 212 Index-Cataloeue 213 General Publications 213 Aledical History 199 Medical Hospitals 213 Medical Museum 212 Medical Officers 187 Medical Schools 144, 213 ANALYTICAL INDEX 301 Medical Stores 144 Medical Zoology 43 Medicine 143, 186, 187, 188, 212 Medicine and Surgery Bureau.. 143. 15^ Annual Reports 144 United States Naval Medical Bulletin 144 General Publications 144 Members of Congress 31 ]\Iembers of the National Board of Health ....184 Members of the Smithsonian Institution 267 Memoirs (see under publishing division). Memorial Addresses ..-..21, 31, 265 Mercantile Marine 137, 184 Merchandise 174 Merchant Marine 98, 137, 184 Merchant Marine Laws 94 Merchant Vessels 80, 94, 186 Meridians 140 Merit Roll 147 Mesa Verde National Park 115 Annual Reports 115 Messages and Documents 266 Messages of the Presidents.... 19, 21, 28, 29, 33, 266 Metalliferous Veins 268 Metals, Precious 184 Metals, Statistics 184 Metals, Tests of 215 Meteorological Chart 74 Meteorological Instruments . . . 74, 200, 218 JNIeteorology 22, 53. 67, 72, 7Z, 74, 75. ii9. I39 Metric Standards 86 Metric System 96 Mexican Boundary Mammals.. 272 Mexican Land Laws 252 Mexican Water Boundary Com- mission 170 Microchemical Laboratory ... 47 Microscopy Division 61 Annual Reports 61 Food Products 61 General Publications 62 Mileage of Railroads 249 Military Academy 197, 201, 213 Annual Reports 213 Official Register 214 General Publications 214 Military Academy, Library 6 Military Affairs 13, 199 Military Archives 200 Military Asylum 227 Military Bonds 212 Military Bridges 206, 207 Military Cables 218 Military Commands and Posts. 201 Alilitary Commissions 211 Military Courses in Schools. . .210 Military Divisions 201, 204 Military Education 197 Military Engineering ..21, 205, 207 Military Establishment . . 197, 199 Military Forces 198 Military Governors ..165, 201, 224 Military Guides 217 Military History 197, 199 Military Information Division. 214 Publicajtions 214 General Publications 214 Military Inspection 210 Military Justice Bureau 2Ti Military Lands 197 Military Law 205, 212 Military Manoeuvres 199 Military Operations 198, 227 Military Operations in Egypt.. 148 Military Orders 199 Military Parks.. 198, 210, 227, 228 Military Posts 197, 201, 217 Military Prisoners 199, 212 Military Procedure 212 Military Records 199 Military Reservations 212 Military Roads 206 Military Schools ....197, 202, 204, 208, 210, 213 Military Science ....202, 207, 213 Military Secretary's Depart- ment 199, 225 Military Signals 218 Military Surveys 206 Military Telegraphs and Tele- phones 201, 218 Military Trials 212 Military Weapons 214, 21=; Militia 151, 199, 215, 217 Militia Returns 199 Milk 188 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Branch. 211 Mindanao, Department of 204 Mindanao Language igg Mine Inspectors 115, 122 Mine Labor 91 Mineral Industry 22, no Mineral Oils 97 ^Mineral Paints no 302 ANALYTICAL INDEX Mineral Resources 107, loS, 109, no Mineral Resources West of the Rocky Mountains no Mineral Springs no IMineral Waters no ^lineralogy no Minerals 107, 108, 109, no, ni, 271 ^Minerals, Statistics no Miners 116 JMines 116 Mines, Debris 207 Mines, Special Agent... 192 i\Iines, Statistics 116 Klines, Submarine 2x6 JMining 79, 184 l^Iining Companies 116 Mining Rules 116 Mining Statistics 83, 98 Alining Trustees 115 Mint Bureau 183 Annual Reports 184 Production of Precious Met- als 184 Values of Foreign Coins.... 184 General Publications 184 Mint Processes 184 jMints, Government 183, 184 Minutes 220 Miscellaneous 67 Miscellaneous Collections ....269 Miscellaneous Division ...184, 187 General Publications 184 Miscellaneous Documents, House 22 Miscellaneous Documents, Sen- ate 21 Miscellaneous Laboratory .... 47 Miscellaneous Libraries 7 ?\Iiscellaneous Papers, House.. 22 Miscellaneous Series Bulletins. 71 Miscellaneous Special Reports. 67 Jilississippi River Commission. 209 .Annual Reports 209 General Publications 209 Mississippi River Flood 67 Mississippi Valley Laboratory. 62 Mississippi, Vicksburg Nation- al Military Park 228 iMissouri, Department of 204 ^lobilization of Troops 198 ^Moisture of Soils 69 i\lolokai, Hawaii 187 Money 156, 158, 173, 192, 193 Money. Indian 114 IMonev Orders 155, 156, 158 Money Orders Division 156 Annual Reports 156 Monograph (see under publish- ing division). Montana, Governor 116 Annual Reports n6 Montana, Yellowstone Nation- al Park 124 Monthly Bulletins 164 Monthly Catalogues S, 239 Monthly Consular and Trade Reports 93 Monthly Crop Reports 70 Monthly Crop Synopsis 71 Monthly Health Reports 221 Monthly Lists 65 Monthly Reports 67, 71, 97 Monthly Statements 98, 194 Monthly Summary of Com- merce and Finance 97 Monthly Summary of Com- merce of Cuba 219 Monthly Summary of Com- merce of Philippine Islands 219 Monthly Summary of Com- merce of Porto Rico 219 Monthly Summary of Finance and Commerce 98 Monthly Summary of Imports and Exports 98 Monthly Weather Review... 73, 74 Moon 139, 140 Moore, J. B 168 Morrill Act 51 Mortality Statistics 83 Mounds 271 Mount Rainier National Park.. 116 Mount Weather Meteorological Research Observatory .... 73 Mountain Branch 211 Mountains in Multiples of Standards 95 Municipal Accounting 84 Municipal Board 224 Municipal Finance 185 Municipal Government 93 Municipal Publications 260 INluscogees 105 Museum Catalogues 269 Aluseums 104 Mushrooms 61 Music Division 262 General Publications 262 Mutiny 190 ^Slycological Section 71 ANALYTICAL INDEX 303 Naphthaline 62 National Academy of Sciences. 265 Annual Reports 2(35 Alemoirs 265 Biographical Jilemoirs 265 General Publications 265 National Association of Railway Cominissioners 248 Proceedings 248 National Asylum 211 National Bank Act 177 National Bank Decisions 177 National Bank Notes.. 180, 183, 193 National Bank Redemption Agency 193 National Banks ..21, 177, 193, 194 National Board of Health 184 Annual Reports 185 Weekly Bulletins 185 General Publications 185 National Bureau of Standards 79, 95 National Cemeteries 212, 217 National Coast Defense Board. 274 National Convention of Rail- road Commissioners 248 National Defense 197, 198, 206, 21S, 274 National Finance 173 National Forests ...58, 66, loi, 108 National Herbarium 46, 272 National Home 211 Annual Reports 211 National Library 257 N ational ]Military Parks 198, 210, 227 National Museum ..46, 49, 268, 271 Annual Reports 272 Bulletins 272 Special Bulletins 272 Contributions 272 Proceedings 272 General Publications 272 National Observatory 139 National Parks loi, 102, 116, 120, 122, 123, 124 National Quarantine 187 National Society of Daughters of American Revolution .. .273 Annual Reports 273 National Weather Bulletin 75 National Zoological Park 273 Annual Reports 273 Natural History 271 Naturalization 89, 190 Naturalization Commission ...274 Naturalization Laws 192 Nautical Almanac Office.. 137, 140 Annual Reports 140 American Ephemeris 140 American Nautical Almanac. 140 Astronomical Papers 140 Atlantic Coaster's Nautical Almanac .■ 141 Pacific Coaster's Nautical Al- manac 141 General Publications 141 Nautical Instruments 136 Nautical Stores 137 Naval Academy 146 Annual Reports 146 Annual Register 147 General Publications 147 Naval Academy, Library 6 Naval Affairs 13 Naval Appropriations 175 Naval Asylum 147 N aval Buildings 152 Naval Courts 142 Naval Crews 14S Naval Dispensaries 143 Naval Education 145, 146 Naval Fleets 145 Naval Gun Factory 150 Naval Home 145, 147 Annual Reports 147 General Publications 147 Naval Hospitals 143 Naval Inspectors 151 Naval Intelligence Office.. 143, 147 Annual Reports . . i47 General Information Series.. 147 War Series 14S War Notes 14*^ General Publications 148 Naval La%v 142 Naval Magazines I49 Naval Medical Bulletins 144 Naval IMedical School 144 Naval Militia 151 Naval Observatory 137, 138 Annual Reports I39 Publications I39 General Publications 139 Naval Observatory and Hydro- graphic Office 138 Naval Operations 147 Naval Papers 262 Naval Prisoners 142 Naval Prisons 142 Naval Progress I47 Naval Proving Grounds. . 149, 150 304 ANALYTICAL INDEX Naval Records of the Civil War 144 Naval Records of the Revolu- tion 262 Naval Rendezvous 145 Naval Schools 145, 146 Naval Science 14!^ Naval Shore Stations 143 Naval Solicitor 141 Naval Stations 146, 152 Naval Stores 137, 152 iVaval Tactics 145, 147 Naval Torpedo Station 149 Naval Training Station, Loca- tion on Great Lakes Board 274 Naval Training Stations 146 Naval Troops 143 Naval Uniforms 151 Naval War College ..145, 148, 151 Naval War Records Office .... 144 Annual Reports 144 Official Racords 144 Navigable Waters 85, 91 Navigating Instruments 139 Nagivatioii ..73, 138, 140, igo, 197 Navigation Bureau, Commerce and Labor Department 79, 94 y\nnual Reports 94 List of Merchant Vessels.... 94 General Publications 94 Navigation Bureau, Navy De- partment 137, 145 Annual Reports 145 Navy Register 145 Xavy ana Marine Corps 146 General Publications 146 Navigation Bureau, Philippine Islands 224 Navigation Laws 94. 98, 192 Navigation Stores 137 Navigators' Publications 138 Navy and Marine Corps 146 Navy Department 39, 85, 135 Navy Department, Branch Printing Office 236 Navy Department, Finance .... 174 Navy Department Investiga- tion Commission 151 Navy Pay Tables 146 Navy Records 145 Navy Register 145, 200 Navy Regulations 150 Navy Yard Buildings 144, 149 Navy Yards 146, 152 Negroes 23,^ Neutrality 190 New Mexico 116 New Offices 31 New Orleans Subtreasury 193 New York Arsenal 215 New York City Engineer De- pot 207 New York Subtreasury 193 Newport, Naval Training Sta- tion 146 Newport, Naval War College.. 148 Newspapers 83, 223, 263 Niagara Falls 220 Nicaragua 115 Nicaragua Canal Commission. . 170 Nitrogen Determinations 47 N omenclature, Commercial .... 165 North America 163 North American Coast 141 North American Ethnology ... .107 North American Fauna 46 North Atlantic Station 151 iNorth Dakota 103 North Pacific Islands Coast.... 141 North Pole 268 Northern and Northwestern Lake Survey 207 Northern Division 204 Annual Reports 204 Northwest Passage 268 Northwestern Branch 211 Notes 180, 183, 189, 193 Notes, Coupons and Currency Division 189 Notes on Construction of Ord- nance 215 Notes on Naval Progress 147 Notes on Spanish-American War 148 Notices of Interference 118 Notices of Judgment 57 Notices to Mariners 86, 92, 138, 140 Notices (see also under publish- ing division). Noxious Animals 66 Noyes Collection 263 Number of Documents Printed 3 Number of Documents Receiv- ed by Libraries 6 Numerical Tables 24, 239, 243 Nurse Corps 212 Nurses 104, 105 Nutrition 52, 53 Nuts . . : 62, 63 Obituary Addresses . Obliquity of Ecliptic .22, 31, 265 140 ANALYTICAL INDEX 305 Observations by Lieutenant Gil- l's 139 Observatories 139, 270 Obstructions to Navigation. .. .197 Occasional Papers 208 Occultations 140 Office (see under title). Officers Delinquent in Accounts igi Officers' Licenses 98 Officers, Medical 186 Officers, Navy 141, 142, 145 Officers, Petty 145 Official Congressional Directo- ry 32 Official Gazette 117, 118 Official Gazette Depositories.. 6 Official List 187 Official Numbers of Vessels... 94 Official Opinions 130 Official Records of the Civil War 197, 200, 226 Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies ..144 Official Register 84 Official Register, Life-Saving Service 182 Official Register, Militar}' Aca- demy 214 Official Reported Debates .... 28 Official Table of Distances ....216 Oil 97, 137 Oklahoma, Governor 117 Oleomargarine i8t One Hundredth Meridian 208 Opinions, Attorney-General .... 130 Opinions, Spanish Treaty Claims Commission 273 Optics 96 Order Division 263 General Publications 263 Order, Questions of 19 Orders of the Senate 35 Orders to Troops 199 Orders (see also under publisli- ing division). Ordinance of 1787 ^S Ordnance 148. 197, 214, 215 Ordnance and Fortification Board 197. 214 Annual Reports 214 General Publications 214 Ordnance and Hydrography Bu- reau 146, 148 Ordnance Board 211 Ordnance Bureau ....135, 136, 118 Annual Reports 150 General Publications 150 Ordnance Department ....199, 215 Annual Reports 215 Notes 215 Tests of Metals 215 General Publications 216 Ordnance Depots 215 Ordnance Inspectors 215 Oregon, Crater Lake National Park 102 Organic World 269 Organization Division 177 Organization Lists 52 Organized Militia 201 Orientalia 262 Ornamental Plants 49 Ornithology and Mammalogy Division 45 Output of Manufactories 98 Outstanding Paper Currency ... 194 Oysters 88 Pacific Branch 211 Pacific Coast 86 Pacific Coasters' Nautical Al- manac 141 Pacific Division 204 Annual Reports ^....204 Pacific Railroad 21 Pacific Station 146 Packing, Fish 81 Painting 268 Paleontology no. 208, 265 Pamphlet Laws 170 Pan-American Exposition 90 Pan-American Railway C o m- mission 170 Panama Canal 220, 221 Panama Railroad Commission- er, Special 222 Report 222 Panama Railroad Company .. ..222 Paper Currency 183, 193 Paper Investigations 47 Papers of the Presidents 266 Parallax, Sun and Moon 140 Parasites 49 Pardon Attorney 132 Annual Reports 132 Pardon Clerk 132 Pardons 132, 267 Parks 273 Parks, Military ..198, 210, 227, 228 Parks, National 102. it6, 120, 122, 123 Parliamentary Law 21 3o6 ANALYTICAL INDEX Passengers 80 Passports 163, 267 Patent Attorneys 119 Patent Cases 117, liS Patent Certificates 180 Patent Laws 118, 119 Patent Office 41, 60, 66, loi, 117, 174 Annnal Reports 117 Classification Bulletins 1 18 Decisions n8 Official Gazette 118 Specifications and Drawings 118 Indexes 119 General Publications 119 Patentees ii7 Patents 101, 117, 118, 119, 165 Patents, Indexes 118, 119 Pathological Division 43 Pathology and Bacteriology Di- vision 188 Pathology, Forest 62 Pathology, Plant 62 Pathology, Vegetable 55 Patterson, J 12 Pauperism 83 Pay Department 216 Annual Keports 216 Circulars 216 Stoppage Circulars 216 Official Tables 216 Distance Circulars 216 Manuals 216 Station List 217 General Publications 217 Pay, Navy 142 Pay Officers' Bonds T42 Pay Tables 146 Paymaster-General, Army ....216 Paymaster-General, Navy T52 Paymaster's Department 152 Peace Commission 274 Pedagogy 103, 104 Penitentiaries 129 Pension Bureau 119 Annual Reports 119 Decisions 119 Digests 120 General Publications 120 Pension Cases 120 Pension Certificates 180 Pension Claims iio Pension Laws 119 Pension Office 119 Pensioners 120, 174 Pensioning Orders 120 Pensions 101, 119, 174, 200, 225 Pensions, Life-Saving Service.. 180 Periodical Division 263 Checklist 263 Perishable Products 41 Permanent Fixtures 13S Perry Expedition 151 Personnel and Accounts Divi- sion 187 Personnel Board ISI Peru, War in 148 Pestilence Sufferers 197 Peter Force Manuscripts 262 Petrography no Petroleum 83 Petty Officers 14S Pharmacology Division 188 Pharmacy Laws 47 Philadelphia Subtreasury 193 Philippine Census Bulletins . . 84 Philippine Census Report .... 84 Philippine Commission 222 Annual Reports 222 Acts 222 Public Laws 222 Official Gazette 222 General Publications 222 Philippine Government Library 6 Philippine Islands 84, 219, 222, 224, 225 Philippine Islands Bonds 193 Philippine Islands, Commerce 219 Philippine Islands, Languages 199 Philippine Islands, Laws 223 Philippine Islands Notices to Mariners 86 Philippine Islands Public Im- provement Bonds 189 Philippine Islands Sailing Di- rections 86 Philippine Islands Scientific Sur- veys Board 274 Philippine Islands Tariff Fund 193 Philippines Division 204 Annual Reports 204 Photographs 263 Physical Constants 95 Physical Examinations .. ..186, 200 Physical Geography in Physical Laboratory 62 Physical Tests 63 Phj-sics 1 10, 265 Physiographic Types in ANALYTICAL INDEX 307 Physiological Chemistry 47 Physiological Experiments .... 47 Pickering Impeachment Trial.. 2-j Piers 152 Pilotage 137 Pinar del Rio 203 Piracy 190 Pirates' War 13 Place Names 109, 271 Plague 221 Planets 139, 140 Plant Diseases 72 Plant Distribution 41 Plant Industry Bureau 4-2, 46, 56, 59. 62, 63, 68 Annual Reports 62 Bulletins 62 Circulars 63 General Publications 63 Plant Introduction 62 Plant Introduction Garden .... 62 Plant Investigations 41 Plant Life History 62 Plant Pathology 62 Plant Propagation 41 Plants 41, 46, 49, 53 Piatt National Park 120 Annual Reports 120 Pleuro-Pneumonia 43 Poisonous Mushrooms 61 Poisonous Plants 62 Polarimetry 96 Police and Prisons Department. 221 Police, Philippine Islands ....224 Police, Porto Rico 166 Political Coercion 233 Political Contributions 233 Political Science 167 Pomology Division 62, 63 Annual Reports 63 Bulletins 63 Circulars 63 General Publications 63 Ponds Ill Poore, B. P 12, 15, 241, 266 Popular Science 268 Population 82, 98 Population, Philippine Islands.. 84 Porto Rico Agricultural Exper- iment Station 51. 55 Annual Reports 55 Bulletins 55 Circulars 5" Porto Rico, Attorney-General. . 131 Porto Rico. Auditor 185 Annual Reports 185 Receipts and Expenditures ..185 Porto Rico Census Office 225 Bulletins 225 Report 225 Porto Rico Coast 87 Porto Rico Commerce 219 Porto Rico Courts 131 Porto Kico Educational Depart- ment 120 Annual Reports 120 Porto Kico, Finance 185 Porto Rico, Governor 165 Annual Reports 165 General Publications 165 Porto Rico, Health, Charities, and Correction Department 166 Annual Reports 166 Porto Rico, Insular Police ....166 Annual Reports 166 Porto Rico, Interior Depart- ment 120 Annual Reports 120 Porto Rico Laws Commission . .274 Porto Rico Legislative Assem- bly 274 Porto Rico Prisons 166 Porto Rico, Secretary 166 Annual Reports 160 Porto Rico, Superior Board of Health 121 Annual Reports 121 Porto Rico, Treasurer 185 Annual Reports 185 Keceipts and Disbursements. 185 Portrait Index 258 Portraits 180 Portuguese Translations ..55. 165 Possessions of the United States 219, 220 Post Office Department ....i,3, 39 Post Office Department, Fi- nance 155. 178 Post Office Directory 157 Post Office Inspectors and Mail Depredations Division ....158 Annual Reports 158 General Publications 158 Post Offices 192 Post Route Maps 160 Postage Stamps . . I55, 158, 180, 189 Postal Classification ....155, 158 Postal Contracts 158 Postal Conventions I57 Postal Equipment 158 Postal Finance 15'^ Postal Guide \^7 Postal Inspection 158 Postal Laws and Regulations .157 3'iS AXALYTICAL INDEX Postal Moiiei' Orders. . 155, 156, 158 Postal Redemption ' 158 Postal Rexenues 178 Postal Service 84 Postal Supplies 155, 158, 159 Postal Treaties 156 Postmaster-General ...39, 155, 156 Annual Reports 157 Postal Guide 157 Postal Laws 157 Register 157 General Publications 157 Postmaster-General, ist Assist- ant 157 Annua! Reports 157 Postmaster-General, 2nd Assist- ant 158 Annual Reports 158 Postmaster-General, 3rd Assist- ant 158 Annual Reports 158 Postmasters 156, 157 Postmasters-General, Assistant 157, 158 Posts Bureau 224 Poultry 43, 61 Powder Inspector 215 Powders and Pligh Explosives Board 215 Powell Survey 106 Practice of the tlouse 34 Precedence in Navy 142 Precedence of Senate 28 Precious ^letals 184 Preparation of Foods 47 Preservation of Foods 47 Preservation of Niagara Falls.. 220 President 81, 119, 266 Messages 266 Proclamations 266 IMessages and Documents ..267 Abridgment 267 General Publications 267 Presidential Appointees ........... .156, 158, 173, 184, 214 Presidential Papers 262, 266 Presidents' Messages 19, 21, 28, 29, 33 Press Bulletins 44, 55, 58 Press Notices 65, g8 Prevention of Disease 41, 186 Price Lists 65, 238, 260 Prices of Commodities 98 Prices of ]\f 'nerals ito Prices of Securities 180 Primer of Forestry 58 Principal Articles of Domestic Exports 97 Printed Cards 258 Printer for Congress 236 Printing and Publications Divi- sion 94 Printing and Stationery Divi- sion 185 General Publications 186 Printing Bureau 225 Printing Division 95 Printing Fund, Agriculture De- partment 64 Printing, Joint Conmiittee on.. 32 Printing Law of 1895 2, S Printing Offices 236 Prints 117 Prints Division 263 General Publications 263 Prisoners 129 Prisoners, Military 199, 212 Prisoners. Navaf 142 Prisons Bureau 225 Prisons, Canal Zone 221 Prisons, Naval ; . 142 Prisons, Porto Rico t66 Prisons, United States 129 Private Acts 31, 169 Private Bills 20, 33 Private Claims 105 Private Land Claims ..21, 129, 252 Private Laws 33 Private Resolutions 32 Private Secretary, Treasury De- partment T90 Procedure, Military 2T2 Proceedings of Congress ... .27, 29 Proceedings (see also under publishing division"). Processes of Mints 184 Proclamations 167, 169, 266 Production and Distribution Division 7° Production, Cost of 90 Production of Precious i\Ietals 184 Professional Papers ..109, 207, 209 Projectiles 216 Promotion of Amity 163 Promotion of Rifle Practice ..227 Promulgation of Laws 167 Propagation of Fish 88 Properties of jMaterials 95 Property, Captured 184 Property of the House 34 Property of the Senate 36 ANALYTICAL INDEX 309 Proposed Constitutions 131 ' Protection of Game 41 Protection of Life and Property 80 Protection of Navigation 91 Province of Havana and Pinar del Rio Department 203 Province of Havana Depart- ment 203 Proving Grounds ....149, 150, 215 Provisional Government of Cuba 201 Provisional Governor of Cuba.. 198 Provisions and Clothing Bu- reau 151 Provost-Marshal-General's Bu- reau 200 Public Accounts 174, 178 Public Acts 31, 169 Public Baths 90 Public Bills 20, 33 Public Buildings ....173, 193, 210 Public Buildings and Grounds Office 209 Annual Reports 210 General Publications 210 Public Cash 192 Public Credit 173 Public Debt 192, i93 Public Documents . .1, 121, 237, 261 Public Documents Division 121, 237 Annual Reports 121 Public Domain 105 Public Health and Marine Hos- pital Service 173, 186 Annual Reports 187 Official Lists 187 Public Healtli Reports 187 Transactions 188 Yellovv Fever Institute Bulle- tins 188 General Publications 188 Public Health Bulletins 187 Public Health Reports .... 185, 187 Public Instruction Department 225 Annual Reports 225 Public Journals, Continental Congress 12 Public Land Laws 190 Public Lands ..•.13, ,=;i. ^y- ioi> 105, 108, 174 Public Lands Comm.ission 274 Public Laws 27, 29, 33 Public Laws and Resolutions. .223 Public Moneys 188, 192, IQ^ Public Moneys Division 188 Annual Reports 189 Public Parks 102, 116, 120, 12-', 123 Public Printer 4, 230 Public Printing 230 Public Property Laws 227 Public Resolutions 32, 169 Public Roads Inquiries 63 Public Koaas Office 63 Annual Reports 64 Bulletins 64 Circulars 64 General Publications 64 Public Works Bureau 224 Publications Division 64 Annual Reports 64 Bulletins (35 Circulars 65 Lists 65 Monthly Lists 65 Press Notices 65 Price Lists 65 General Publications 65 Publications of the Agriculture Department 64, 65, 239 Publications (see also under publishing division). Pumping Water 1 10 Pumps 136, 151 Purchasing Agent's Office.... 156, IS9 Annual Reports IS9 Pure Drugs 66 Pure Food 47, S6, 65 Purification of Water 62 Pyrometry 96 Quadrangular Districts 11 1 Qualification for Civil Service.. 234 Quality of Water 109, no Quantity of Water 109 Quarantine ..185, 186, 187, 188, 190 Quarantine Division 43 Quarantine of Cattle 44 Quarantine Service Bureau ....225 Quarantine Ships 187 Quarantine Stations 187 Quarantine Stations for Cattle. 65 Quarterly Miscellaneous Collec- tions 269 Quarterly Summary of Com- merce 219 Quartermaster-General 217 Quartermaster-General's De- partment 199. 217 Annual Reports 217 Roster 217 General Publications 217 Quasi-Public Documents 261 310 ANALYTICAL INDEX Quay Walls IS2 Questions of Order 19 Radioactivity Railroad Accidents 247, Railroad Commissioner Railroad Expenses Railroad Mileage Railroad Rates 247, Railroad Regulations 247, Railroad Statistics 247, Railroad Transportation Railroads 79, III, 170, 222, 224, Railroads Commissioner Annual Reports Railway Adjustment ISS. Railway Commissioners Railway Mail Service. . 155, 158, Annual Reports Daily Bulletins General Publications Railway Tracks Rainfall 73, Rammers Range Finders Range Tables . 150, 201, Range Transmitters Rare Species Rates, Railroad 247, Rations Raymond Reappraisements of Alerchan- dise Rebellion Records 145, 197, 200, Receipt of Moneys Receipts and Disbursements... Receipts and Expenditures.... Receipts for Sales of Condemn- ed Property Receipts, Government Receiving Ships Recipes 41, Reclamation Fund Reclamation of Arid Lands... Reclamation of Lands Reclamation Service ..loi, 108, Annual Reports General Publications Recognition of Foreign Govern ments Record and Pension Division. Record and Pension Office. 199, Annual Reports General Publications 268 248 222 222 249 248 248 249 247 247 121 121, 158 248 159 159 159 159 152 , 75 149 149 216 149 41 248 218 . no .174 226 .193 .185 .185 . 36 . 176 • 14s 219 .108 .108 174 112 112 112 167 225 225 225 Records and Editing Division.. 64 Records of States and Ter- ritories 167 Records of the Virginia Com- pany 262 Recruiting 136, 143, 200 Recruiting Service 200 Red Cross 197 Redeemed Bonds 189 Redeemed Fractional Currency 189 Redeemed Notes 189 Redemption Division 177 Redemption of National Bank Notes 193 Redemption, Postal 158 Refugees, Freedmen, and Aban- doned Lands Bureau 200 Refund of Tonnage Taxes 94 Register, Army 200 Register, Engineer Corps 207 Register, Interior Department. 122 Register, Justice Department .. 130 Register, Life-Saving Service.. 182 Register, Military Academy ... .214 Register, Naval Academy 147 Register, Navy 145, 200 Register of Copyrights 260 Register of Debates.. 21, 22, 27, 28 Register of Treasury 189 Annual Reports 189 General Publications 189 Register, Pay Department ... .216 Register, Post Office Depart- ment 157 Register, Quartermaster's De- partment 217 Register, Revenue Cutter Serv- ice 190 Register, Signal Office 218 Register, State Department .... 169 Registered Attorneys 119 Registered Bonds 189 Registered Bonds Caveated . . . 183 Registered Mails ....155, 158, 159 Registered Mails Division 159 Annual Reports 159 Registrants 117 Registry System 159 Regulation of Corporations ... 87 Regulation of Liquor 234 Regulation of Railroads 248 Regulations, Internal Revenue 181 Regulations, Postal 157 Regulations fsee also under pub- lishing division). ANALYTICAL INDEX 3" Reindeer 103, 104 Religion of Indians 115 Religious condition of Alaska.. 104 Remainder Libraries 7 Reports Division 177 Reports, House 18, 20 Reports on Forestry 59 Reports, Senate 18, 20 Reports (see also under pub- lishing division). Representatives 33 Reprints (see under publishing division). Republics, American 163, 164 Requirements of Libraries b Reservations 113, 120, 212 Reserve 3, 4 Resolutions 19, 20, 29, 32, 33, 34. 36, 44, 130, 167, 169 Resources 108 Restoration of the Drowned. . 182 Revenue 173, 178, 189 Revenue Appropriations 191 Revenue Bills 33 Revenue Cutter Service. ... 173, 189 Annual Reports 190 General Orders 190 Register 190 General Publications 190 Revenue Inspectors 115 Revenue, Internal 180 Revenue Marine Service. . 181, 189 Revenue Service 186 Revenue Stamps 189 Revenues Department 221 Review of the World's Com- merce 93 Revised Checklist 23, 238, 243 Revised Statutes 169 Revolutionary Archives 167 Revolutionary Diplomatic Cor- respondence 168 Revolutionary History 262 Revolutionary War it, 119 Revolving Turrets I49 Rice 53. 73 Richardson. J. D 266 Rifle Practice Promotion Board 227 Rifles 216 Rigging 137 River and Flood Service 74 River and Harbor Improve- ments 206, 207 River Gauges 73. 74 River Improvements T97 River Stages 73, 74, 209 River Surveys 85 Rivers 74, 75, 109, 1 1 1 Rivers and Harbors Board.... 207 Rives, F. and J 28 Rives, John C 28, 168 Road Improvement 41 Road Inquiry 63 Roads 63, III, 206 Roads of Alaska 20] Robbery 190 Robert Morris Papers 262 Rochambeau Papers 262 Rock Island Arsenal 215 Rocks 271 Rocky ^Mountain Survey 106 Rocky Mountains no Roller Paths 136 Rolls and Library Bureau 31, 32, 166 Bulletins 167 Lists 167 General Publications 167 Rope Tests 215 Ropevvalks 137 Roster, Militia 201 Roster, Quartermaster's De- partment 217 Roster, Signal Office 218 Roster (see also under publish- ing division). Routes, Postal 160 Ruins, Casa Grande 102 Rules, Animal Industry Bu- reau 44 Rules, Cataloguing 259 Rules, House 19, 34 Rules, Senate 35 Rules (see also under publish- ing division). Running Lights 137 Rural Economics 54, 70 Rural Free Delivery ..155. 158, 159 Annual Reports 160 Russo-Japanese War 144 Sacramento River 207 Safes 193 Safety Appliances 247, 248 Sailing Directions 85, 137 Sails 137 Saint George Island 80 St. Louis Subtreasury 193 St. Paul Island 80 3IS AXALVTICx\L INDEX Salaries and Allowances Divi- sion 157, 160 Annual Reports 160 Sale of Condemned Property.. 36 Sale of Documents 5, 121, 237, 238 Sale of Liquor 234 Salmon 80, 81 Sandy Hook Proving Ground.. 215 San Francisco, Army General Hospital 213 San Francisco, Naval Training Station 146 San Francisco, Subtreasury . . 193 San Joaquin River 207 Sanitary Climatology Circulars 74 Sanitary Convention 164 Sanitary Reports and Statistics Division 187 Sanitary Science 74, 144 Sanitation 41, 185 Sanitation Department, Canal Zone 221 Santa Monica, California Branch 21 1 Satellites 140 Schedules of Congressional Documents 240, 243 Schedules (see also under pub- lishing division). School Fund 193 School Libraries 7 Schools 51, 63, 103, III Schools, Dairy 43 Schools, Indian 114, 113 Schools, Miltary .... 197, 202, 204, 208, 210, 213 Schools, Naval 145, 146 Schurman Commission 222 Science 22, 265, 267 Science Bureau 225 Scientific Collections 271 Scientific Publications, Ex- change 271 Scientific Research and Sani- tation Division 187 Scientific Societies 271 bcientific Standards 96 Scientific Surveys 268 Scientific Yearbook 268 Sea Ill Seacoast 85 Seacoast Fortification 197 Seal of the United States 167 Seals 80 Seamen 80, 94 Seamen Disabled 186, 187 Seamen, Physical Examination of 186 Searchlights 137 Second Assistant Postmaster- General 158 Second Auditor 176 Second Comptroller 178 Secret Journals 12 Secret Records 14 Secret Senate Sessions 27 Secret Service Division 190 Annual Reports 190 General Publications 190 Secretaries of Treasury, Assis- tant 190 Secretary, Agriculture Depart- ment 42, 45 48, SI, 56, 57, 64, 65, 66, 69 Annual Reports 66 Circulars 66 Department Reports 66 Farmers' Bulletins 66 ]\riscenaneous Circulars 67 ^Tiscellaneous Special Reports 67 Monthly Reports 67 Special Reports '. . 67 Yearbook 67 General Publications 67 Secretary, Board of Regents ..267 Secretary, Commerce and La- bor Department 94 Annual Reports 95 Circulars 95 Decisions 95 General Publications 95 Secretary, Interior Department 51, 122 .Annual Reports 122 Register 122 General Publications 122 Secretary, Navy Department 119, 150, 174 Annual Reports 150 Navy Regulations 150 General Publications 151 Secretary, Porto Rico 166 SecretarJ^ Senate 35, 36 Secretary, Smithsonian Institu- tion 267 Secretary, State Department ^ 163, 167 Foreign Relations 168 Digests t68 Diplomatic and Consular Service 169 Diplomatic List 169 ANALYTICAL LXDEX 313 Register 169 Statutes at Large 169 Revised Statute 169 Pamphlet Laws 170 General Publications 170 Secretary, Treasury Department 51. 190 Finance Reports 190 Appropriations 191 Circulars 191 Documents Received and Dis- tributed 191 Contingent Expenses 191 Officers, Delinquent 191 Treasury Decisions 191 General Publications 192 Secretary, War Department 119, 226 Annual Reports 226 Army Regulations 226 General Orders 227 Leases Granted 227 General Publications 227 Securities 180, 189, 193 Seed and Plant Introduction Section 62, 68 Circulars 68 Inventories 68 Seed Distribution 41, 62, 68 Seed Division 68 Annual Reports 68 Seed Distribution 68 Seed Introduction 62 Seed Laboratory 62 Seeds 46 Select Lists 258 Seminole War 13 Seminoles 105 Senate 35 Senate Bills 19, 20, 30, 35 Senate Committees 20 Senate Debates 28 Senate Document Room 4, 33 Senate Documents 20, 21, 240 Senate Executive Documents... 21 Senate, Finance i75 Senate Joint Resolutions 19, 3^ Senate Journal 14, 18, 33, 266 Senate Journals, Index 244 Senate Library 20 Senate Manual 35 Senate Miscellaneous Docu- ments 21 Senate Papers 20 Senate Precedence 28 Senate Reports 20, 23 Senate Resolutions 36 benate Rules 35 Senate Sergeant-at-Arms 36 Senate Sessions, Secret 27 Senate Sessions, Special .... 18, 24 Senate State Papers 21 Senate Wing 35 Senators 35 Sequoia and General Grant Na- tional Parks loi, 122 Annual Reports 122 Sergeant-at-Arms, House 34 Sergeant-at-Arms, Senate 30 Serial Documents 9, 17, 24 Serial Numbers ....17, 23, 238, 243 Serially Numbered Department- al Documents 40 Sericulture 49 Service Announcements 44 Session Laws 170 Sessions of Congress 17 Sewers 152 Shears 152 Sheep Bound Reserve 17 Sheep, Diseases 65 Shelf Room 6 Shellfish 88 Shiloh National ISIilitary Park Commission 227 Annual Reports 227 Ship Libraries 13" Shipbuilding 83, 135, 142 Shippers 247 Shipping 79, 93 Shipping Commissioners 79 Shipping Section 237 Ships in Ordinary 136 Ships, Quarantine 187 Shipwreck Instructions 182 Shops 136, ISO Shore Stations I43, 152 Sig-hts 216 Signal Codes 138. I45, 182 Signal Corps 199, 217 Signal Letters 94 Signal Lights 137, 138 Signal Office 73, 74. 75. 217 Annual Reports 218 Roster 218 Manuals 218 General Publications 218 Signal School 204 Annual Reports 205 Signal Service 217 Signals 72, 91, 137, 141, 151. 217 314 AXALYTICAL INDEX Silk Section 68 Annual Reports 68 Bulletins 69 Silkworms 69 Silver Certificates i8g Silver Currency 183, 184 Silver Imports 184 Silviculture S8 Simple Resolutions 20, 34 Simplified Spelling 237 Sinking Fund 193, 194 Sinking Fund and Funded Debt 194 Sinking Fund Commissioners . . 194 Sirups 48 Sites for Government Build- ings 192 Sixth Auditor 155 Sketches of the Debates and Proceedings 29 Skins 88 Slavs 268 Slips 152 Small Arms 215 Small Fruits 49 Small Libraries 7 Small Stores i^- Smithson, James 267 Smithsonian Institution 22, 46, 67, 72, To6, 119, 17s, 267 Annual Reports 268 Contributions 268 Miscellaneous Collections .,.269 General Publications 269 Smuggling 190 Snow and Ice Bulletin 74 Snow and Ice Chart 74 Social Economics 90 Society Publications 262, 263 Sociological Statistics 82 Soil Bacteriology 62 Soil Surveys 69 Soils S3, 69 Soils Bureau 69 Annual Reports 69 Bulletins 69 Circulars 69 Field Operations 69 General Publications 69 Soils Division 69 Soldiers' Home 227 Annual Reports 227 Soldiers' Homes 211, 227 Solicitor, Agriculture Depart- ment 66, 70 Annual Reports 70 Circulars 70 General Publications 70 Solicitor and Naval Judge-Ad- vocate-General 141 Solicitor-General 132 Annual Reports 132 General Publications 133 Solicitor of the Treasury 133 Annual Reports 133 South America 163, 164 South American Coast 141 South Atlantic Station 151 South Carolina Tea Culture.... 59 South Dakota 103 South Dakota, Wind Cave Na- tional Park 123 Soutli Pacific Islands, Coast. . . . 141 South Texas Garden 62 Southern Branch 211 Southwestern Division 205 Annual Reports 205 Space for Documents 6 Spanish-American War 148 Spanish Indemnity Bonds 180 Spanish Indemnity Certificates. 193 Spanish Land Laws 252 Spanis'h Possessions in Amer- ica 262 Spanish Translations 55, 56, 164, 203, 223, 225 Spanish Treaty Claims Com- mission 132, 273 Annual Reports 273 General Publications 273 Spanish War Claims Board.... 274 Sparks, Jared 168 Spars 135 Special Agents Division IQ2 Annual Reports 192 General Publications 192 Special Bulletins 164, 272 Special Consular Reports g'? .Special Field Service 70 Special Investigations 47 Snecial Messages 266 Special Orders (see under pub- lishing division). Special Publications 86 Special Reports (see under pub- lishing divisionV Special River Bulletin 75 Special Senate Sessions ....17. 24 Specifications and Drawings ... 117 Specifications (see also under publishing division). Spectroscopy 96 Speeches 27, 28, 29, 220, 266 ANALYTICAL INDEX 3'3 Spelling, Simplified 237 Spies 217 Spirituous Liquors i8i Splenetic Fever 44 Sponge Culture 88 Springfield Armory 215 Squadrons 145 Staff College 204, 205 Annual Reports 205 Staff Corps, General 198 Stamps 155, 158, 180, 189 Standard Measuring Apparatus 95 Standard Oil Company 87 Standard Time 139 Standard Weights and Meas- ures Oftice 95 Standardization, Grain 62 Standards 79, 86, 95, 96 Standards Bureau 79, 95 Annual Reports 96 Bulletins 96 Circulars 96 General Publications 96 Standing Lights 137 Standing Orders 33 Stars 138, 139, 140 State Banks 177 State Cessions 192 State Constitutions T31 State Department 11, 31, 32, 39, 81, 84, 89, 92, lOi, 117, 163, 220 State Department, Branch Printing Office 236 State Department, Finance ...,175 State Department, History ....170 State Governors 52 State Health Officers ....186, 187 State-Incorporation 87 State Libraries 6 State Papers 28 State Papers and Public Docu- ments 14 State Papers House 20, 22 State Papers, Senate 20 State Publications 260 State Records ^67 State Surveys 85 State, War, and Navy Building. 210 State, War, and Navy Building Office 274 Statements of Balances, Appro- priations, and Expenditures 176 Statements of Circulation 183 Statements of Condition of Treasury 176 Statements of Imports and Exports 97, 98 Statements of Property 36 Statements of Treasury 176 Statements (see also under pub- lishing division). States, Admission of 168 Station List 217 Stationery, Printing, and Blanks Division 185 Stations, Life-Saving 182 Stations, Naval 143 Stations, Quarantine 187 Stations, Weather Bureau 7?-, Statistical Abstract 97, 98 Statistical Atlas 84 Statistical Bulletins 88 Statistical Report 71 Statistical Tables 97, 98 Statistician and Accountant. .. .236 Statistician's Office 249 Statistics 79, 96, 97 Statistics, Agricultural 57, 70 Statistics and Accounts Bureau. 249 Annual Reports 240 Special Reports 249 General Publications 249 Statistics Bureau, Agricultural Department 57, 70 Annual Reports 70 Bulletins 7t Circulars 71 Crop Circulars 7t Crop Reporter 71 Monthly Crop Synopsis .... 71 Statistical Reports 71 Genera! Publications 71 Statistics Bureau, Commerce and Labor Department 79, 89, 92, 96 Annual Reports 97 Bulletins 97 Commerce and Navigation . . 97 Imports and Exports 97 Internal Commerce 97 Monthly Summary 97 Statistical Abstract 98 Schedules 98 General Publications 98 Statistics, Commercial 219 Statistic, Disasters 182 Statistics Division, Agriculture Department 57, 64, 70 Statistics Division, Interstate Commerce 249 3i6 ANALYTICAL LXDEX Statistics, Fishes 88 Statistics, Immigration 89 Statistics, JNletals 184 Statistics, Minerals no Statistics of Railways ....247, 249 Statistics, Sanitary 187 Statutes ay Statutes at Large 31, 32, 169, 241, 266 Steam Engineering Bureau ....151 Annual Reports 151 General Publications 151 Steam Heaters 151 Steam jMachinery 151 Steam Pumps 151 Steamboat Inspection Service 79, 98 Annual Reports 99 Bureau Circulars 99 General Publications 99 Steamers 137 Steamship Lines 222 Steel, Tests 215 Steering Engines 136 Steering Gear 135, 136 Stefansson, J 268 Stock Companies 87 Stock Raising 41 Stock Section 237 Stone, Tests 215 Stoppage Circulars 2i6 Storage of Water no Stored Products 49 Storekeepers 180 Stores, Medical 144 Stores, Military 218 Stores, Naval . , 152 Storm Bulletins 75 Storm Warnings 72 Storms 72, 75, 13S Streams in Street Railroads 84, 234 Strength of Materials 215 Strength of Metals 215 Strikes 90, 247 Submarine Cables 218 Submarine Defense School ....205 Annuals Reports 205 Submarine Mines 216 Subsidized Companies 247 Subsistence Department ..199, 218 Annual Reports 218 General Publications 219 Subtreasuries 193 Subtropical Laboratory and Garden 62 Subtropical Plants 62 Sugar 41. 72 Sugar Beet 62 Sugar Laboratory 47 Sullys Hill National Park 122 Annual Reports 122 Sulphur Springs Reservation ..123 Summaries of Commerce 219 Summary of Indexes 244 Summary Statement 97 Sun 139, 140 Superintendent of Documents . . 4, 5, 227 Superintendent of Documents,. Library 20 Superintendent of Manufacture 236 Superintendent of Public Docu- ments 121 Superintendent of Public Print- ing 236 Superintendent (see also under title). Superior Board of Health.. 121, 166 Annual Reports 121 Supervising Architect 192 Annual Reports 193 General Publications 193 Supplemental Estimates igi Supplies and Accounts Bureau.. 151 Annual Reports 152 General Publications 152 Supplies Division y^ Supplies, Indian 114 Supplies, Afilitary 217 Supplies, Naval 135 Supplies, Postal 155, 158, 159 Supply Bureau 225 Supply Division 227 Supply Division Chief 68 Supreme Court 35, 129, 130, 132, 249, 253 Reports 253 Digests 253 Supreme Court Reporter ....253 General Publications 253 Supreme Court, Porto Rico.... 130 Supreme Court, Reporter 253 Surface Waters 100 Surfmen 186 Surgeon-General, Army 212 Surgeon-General, Na'v^y 143 Surgeon-General, Public Health and ^larine Hospital Serv- ice t86 Surgeon-General's Library ....212 Surgery ....143, 186, 187, 188, 213 AXALYTICAL INDEX 31; Surgical Instruments 144 Surgical Cases 187 Survey of Lak'es 207 Survey of Soils 69 Surveyors-General 122 Surveys 85, 106, 107, 108, III, 206, 207, 274 Sweating System 90 Synopses of Decisions 191 Systematic Geology no Table Sirups 48 Tables 23, 24, 243 Tables of Congressional Docu- ments 243 Tables of Distances 216 Taft Commission 223 Tagalog Language 199 Tariff Fund 193 Tariff Laws 192 Tariff Series 93 Tariffs 93. 97. 165, 247 Tarsney Act 192 Taxation SJ? Taxation, Liquor 181 Taxation, Railroad 249 Taxes 94 Taxes, Internal Revenue 180 Taxonomic Investigations .... 62 Tea Culture 59. 62, 67 Technical Education 21 Technical Series 5° Technology 21 Technology, Statistics 82 Telegraph Companies 247 Telegraph Lines 73 Telegraph Stations 201 Telegraphs 84, 218 Telemeters 136 Telephone Lines 73 Telephones 84, 218 Temperature 73. 75 Tenure of Land 70 Terrestrial Magnetism 85 Territorial Governors loi, 103, 113, 114, 116, 117 Territorial Health Officers 186, 188 Territorial Libraries 6 Territorial Records 167 Territorial Surveys 107 Territories 35. ^ot, 122 Territories, Finance I75 Testing Coins 183, 184 Testing of Standards 95 Tests of Metals 215 Texas, Department of 205 Thermometry 96 Third Assistant Postmaster- General 138 Third Auditor 174 Thirteen States 35 Tide Gauges 80 Tide Tables 86, 141 Tide-Water Navigation 85 Timber 58 Time 139 Time INieasurements 96 Titles 106, 130 Tobacco 55, 62, 69, 71, 181 Togus, Maine Branch 211 Tonnage Movements 96, 97 Tonnage Taxes 94 Topographic Atlas in Topographic Folios m Topographic Maps 108, in Topography 85, HI, 155, 158, 160, 209 Topography Division 160 Annual Reports 160 Post Route Maps 160 General Publications 160 Torpedo, Fulton on 13 Torpedo School 145 Torpedo Station 149, 150 Torpedoes 149 Towers 138 Town-site Commissioner 115 Towns in Trade 93, 95, 96 Trade Conditions 222 Trade, Foreign 57 Trade Marks 117, 165 Trade Relations Bureau 163 Training Schools 104, 105 Training Stations 146 Transactions of State and Ter- ritorial Health Officers 188 Transits 140 Transmitters, Battle Order ..,149 Transport Vessels 217 Transportation 79, 145, 247 Transportation, Agricultural Products 71 Transportation, Army 217 Transportation, Cattle 43, 44 Transportation Statistics 98 Travel Allowances 142, 216 Travelling Catalogues 259 Treasurer 189, 193 Annual Reports 194 Contents of Vaults 194 jNIonthly Statements 194 3i8 ANALYTICAL INDEX Sinking Fund 194 Statements 194 Weekly Statements 194 General Publications 194 Treasurer, Canal Zone 221 Treasurer, Porto Rico 185 Treasurers, Assistant 193 Treasury 176 Treasur3f Bureau 224 Treasury Checks 180 Treasury Circulars 191 Treasury Decisions 181, 191 Treasurj' Department 39. 80, 85, 89, 94, 95, 96, 98, IDS, no, ISS, 173, 2i8 Treasury Department, Branch Printing Office 236 Treasury Department, Finance. 175 Treasury Department, Solicitor 133 Treasury Drafts 180 Treasury Notes 189 Treasury, Washington 193 Treaties 21, 156, 164, 170 Treaty Claims 132, 273 Trees 49, 57, 59 Trials 27, 212 Triangulation 85 Tribes 114 Troops 143, 199, 200, 206, 207 Tropical Diseases 221 Tropical Fruits 49 Tropical Plants 62 Truck Crops 49 Trucks TS2 Trust Companies 177 Trust Funds 193 Trusts 87, 13T Tunis, War with 148 Turret Ammunition Hoists 149 Turret Guns 136, 140 Turret Hoists 136 Turret Mounts T36, 149 Tiirrets 136, 149, 151 Tutuila 1ST Types TTi Typhoid Fever 213 Underground Waters 60, 108, log, I TO TTnfair Competition 87 Uniforms 1ST, 217 Union Agency ITS Unit of Survey iti Up Number 3 Upper House 35 Usual Number 3, 19 Utah, Governor 123 Annual Reports 123 Utah Survey 106 Utilization of the Skins of Aqua- tic Animals 88 Utilization of Soils 69 Valleys -. i n Values of Foreign Coins 184 Values of Investments 180 Variations of Terrestrial Alag- netism 85 Vaults 193 Vegetable Pathology 55 Vegetable Pathology Division.. 71 Vegetable Pathology Section.. 72 Vegetable Physiology and Pa- thology Division 62, 71 Annual Reports 72 Bulletins 72 Circulars 7- Journal of Mycology 72 Vegetables 47, 59, 62 Ventilating Apparatus ....T3S, 136 Vernon- Wager Manuscripts 262 Vessel Tonnage 219 Vessels 80, 84, 96, 97 Vessels Cleared 219 Vessels, Inspection 98 Vessels, Navy 142, 145 Vesuvius 268 Veterinary Medicine 43, 54 Veto Messages 266 Vicksburg National Military Park Commission 228 Annual Reports 228 Vinegar 47 Virginia Company 262 Visayas, Department of 204 Visitors Board, Militarj^ Acad- emy 213 Visitors Board, Naval Academy 146 Visitors Board, Naval Observa- tory T39 A^ital Statistics 82, 83 Volcanoes 84, 268 Volume 96 Volunteer Soldiers 211 Volunteer Troops 199 Votes, Electoral 35 Wages 71, 90 Wait's State Papers 14 Want Lists 238, 261 ANALYTICAL INDEX 3^9 War Claims 274 War Colleges ....145, 148, 151, 197 War Department 39. 85. 102, los, 108, 119 War Department, Branch Print- ing Office 234 War Department, Finance 176 War Notes 148 War of Rebellion Records .... 22, 14s, 197, 200, 226 War Records 144, 226 War Records Office 225 War Series 148 War Vessels 135 Warnings 72 Warrant Officers 146 Warrants 178 Warrants, Estimates, and Ap- propriations Division 176 Wars iig Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company 122 Washington Barracks 207 Washington Gas Light Com- pany 122 Washington, George 31 Washington, Governor 123 Annual Reports 123 Washington Hospital 123 Annual Reports 123 Washington Manuscripts 262 Washington Meridian 140 Washington, Mount Rainier National Park 116 Washington Observations 139 Washington Treasury 193 Waste Lands 108, 112, 174 Water 53 Water Features iii Water Investigations 66 Water Power 109, no Water Purification 62 Water Rights 60 Water Storage no Water Supply 108, 109 Water Supply and Irrigation Papers 109 Water Supply and Irrigation Papers, Index 244 Watertown Arsenal 215 Watervliet Arsenal 215 Waterways 220, 227 Way and Gideon 12 Weapons 214, 215 Weather Bureau 65, 69, 72 Annual Reports 73 Bulletins 73 Cotton Region Weather Crop Bulletin 74 Climate and Health 74 Cold Wave Bulletin 74 Bulletin of ]\Iount Weather Observatory 74 Daily River Stages 74 Instrument Division Circulars 74 Meteorological Chart 74 Monthly Weather Review... 74 River and Flood Service.... 74 Sanitary Climatology Circu- lars 74 Snow and Ice Bulletins 74 Special River Bulletins 75 Storm Bulletins 75 Weather Map 75 National Weather Bulletins.. 75 General Publications 75 Weather Bureau, Philippine Is- lands 225 Weather Crop Bulletin 75 Weather Forecasts 75 Weather !Map 75 Weather Reports 73 Weather Stations 7:^, 75 Weekly Abstract 187 Weekly Bulletins 185 Weekly Notices 86, 92 Weekly Statements 194 Weighing Manual 181 Weightman, Editor i6g Weights 80, 95 West Indies, Coast 87 West Point, Military Acad- emy 197, 213 Western Agricultural Extension 62 Western Branch 211 Wharves 152, 217 Wheeler Survey 208 White House 210 Willets Point, New York 208 Winches 136 Wind 75 Wind Cave National Park 123 Annual Reports 124 Windlasses 135 Wines 48 Wireless Telegraph Conven- tions 137 Wireless Telegraph Stations ... 137 Wireless Telegraphy. .137, 268, 274 Women at Work 84 Wood, Leonard 203 Working Hours 90 ANALYTICAL INDEX Workshops 136 World ^Markets 57 Wrecks gg, 182, 190, 347 Wyoming, Governor 124 Annual Reports 124 W'yoming, Yellowstone Na- tional Park 124 Yards and Docks Bureau 147, 152 Annual Reports 152 General Publications 152 Yearbook, Agriculture 64, 67 Yearbook, Scientific 268 Yellow Fever 221 Yellow Fever Institute. .. .187, 188 Yellow Fever Institute Bulle- tins 188 Y'ellowstone National Park.... loi, 124 Annual Reports 124 Yeomen's Stores 137 Yosemite National Park...ioi, 124 Annual Reports 124 Zaborowski, Prof 268 Zoological Park 273 Zoology Division 44, 188 Zoology 53, 208