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PART VII.-DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

(For location of department and bureaus, see page 189.)

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.

Principal administrative officials.-Secretary of the Interior; First Assistant Secretary; Assistant Secretary; Assistant to the Secretary; Chief Clerk and Superintendent of Buildings; Solicitor; Board of Appeals; First Assistant Attorney; Chiefs: Division of Disbursing, Division of Appointments, Mails, Files, and Archives, Division of Publications, Division of Supplies.

General information and duties.-The Secretary of the Interior is charged with the supervision of public business relating to patents for inventions, pensions and bounty lands, the public lands and surveys, the Indians, the Bureau of Education, the Geological Survey, the Reclamation Service, the Bureau of Mines, National Parks, the Capitol Building and Grounds, distribution of appropriations for agricultural and mechanical colleges in the States and Territories and certain hospitals and eleemosynary institutions in the District of Columbia. By authority of the President the Secretary of the Interior has general supervision over the work of constructing the Government railroad in the Territory of Alaska. He also exercises certain other powers and duties in relation to the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii.

The First Assistant Secretary, in the absence of the Secretary, becomes Acting Secretary. He is especially charged with supervision of the business of the General Land Office, including cases appealed to the Secretary of the Interior from decisions of that bureau involving public lands; applications for easements or rights of way for reservoirs, ditches, railroads, telephone and power-transmission lines; selections of public lands under grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads and wagon roads, for reclamation, and for the benefit of educational and other public institutions, etc. National park matters and Indian affairs affecting the disposal of the public domain are under his supervision. He considers proposed legislation pertaining to matters under his administration. From time to time duties in connection with the affairs of other bureaus of the department are assigned to him.

The Assistant Secretary has general supervision over all matters concerning the Patent Office, the Pension Office (including appeals from the decisions of the Commissioner of Pensions), Indian Office matters with the exception of those involving oil lands, the Bureau of Education, the Capitol building and grounds, the execution of contracts and the approval of vouchers covering expenditures of money for the eleemosynary institutions under the Department of the Interior in the District of Columbia (including St. Elizabeth's Hospital), and various miscellaneous matters over which the department has jurisdiction. He also considers proposed legislation pertaining to matters under his administration. Duties in connection with the affairs of other bureaus are assigned to him from time to time.

The Assistant to the Secretary is charged with the general supervision of matters relating to the Reclamation Service, Bureau of Mines, and Indian Office matters affecting oil lands. He is also in charge of the affairs of the Alaskan Railroad and is the direct representative of the Secretary of the Interior in matters pertaining to the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Alaskan Railroad, and is authorized to receive, pass upon, approve, execute, or disapprove contracts, tariffs, regulations, vouchers, and other papers relating to the railroad. He has supervision of the detailed work relating to the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii under the Department of the Interior. In addition, he considers proposed legislation pertaining to the activities under his administration.

The Chief Clerk, as the chief executive officer of the department and the administrative head of the Office of the Secretary, has supervision over the clerks and other employees of the department (including the watch, mechanical, and labor forces), enforces the general regulations of the department, and

Is superintendent of the several buildings occupied by the department. He also supervises the classification and compilation of all estimates of appropriations, and has general supervision of expenditures from appropriations for contingent expenses for the department, including stationery and postage on mail addressed to postal-union countries. The detailed work relating to corporate sureties on bonds, to eleemosynary institutions in the District of Columbia under the Department of the Interior, the Capitol building and grounds, the admission of attorneys and agents to practice and disbarments from practice, the office of the Returns Clerk, and miscellaneous matters is done in his office. During the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries he may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents.

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General publications.-Planning of Alaskan Ports, 1916, 24 pages, 13 plates. Includes discussion of harbor lines, authoritative control, haphazard and prearranged development, and suggested procedure.

Government Reclamation Work in Foreign Countries, 1909, 115 pages. Includes general discussion of Government participation in land reclamation work in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Prussia, Italy, The Netherlands, Russia. Spain, Switzerland, Algeria, Cape Colony, Egypt, The Transvaal, Argentina, Canada, Dominica, Ceylon, Formosa, India, Java, Siam, Victoria (Australia), New South Wales, South Australia, and New Zealand; Government participation in drainage and unwatering only, in Denmark, Greece, Mexico, Norway, Sweden; reclamation by private enterprise in Brazil, Chile, China, Ecuador, Peru, Salvador, Servia, and Turkey.

Laws Relating to the Protection of the Lives of Coal Miners in the Territories, 1891, 1906, 12 pages. Includes act approved March 3, 1891; act approved July 1, 1902; decisions by the Assistant Attorney General construing the above acts from 1891 to 1906.

Hetch Hetchy Valley. Report of the Advisory Board of Army Engineers to the Secretary of the Interior on Investigations relative to the Sources of Water Supply for San Francisco and Bay Communities, 1913, illustrated, 146 pages. Includes reports by the Advisory Board and H. H. Wadsworth, giving estimates of cost, future development, and possible supplies of water.

Regulations Governing Coal-Land Leases in the Territory of Alaska, 1916, 86 pages with maps. Includes the coal-land leasing act approved October 20, 1914; regulations, information relating to operation and development, and illustrations of leasing units and Government reservations in the Matanuska and Bering River fields.

Coal Lands in the Indian Territory, 1906, 52 pages with map. Includes data in regard to acreage, approximate value, thickness of veins, hearings on coal deposits, segregated lands, and location of Choctaw Nation coal-land leases, prospect drill holes, etc.

Memorandum History of the Department of the Interior, 1912, 20 pages. Includes references to recommendations favoring creation of the department, set of March 3, 1849, and subsequent acts, buildings occupied by the department, and various activities.

General Information regarding Department of the Interior, 1917, 24 pages. Includes a list of the bureaus and other institutions connected with the department and a statement of general information and duties of each. There is also included an enumeration of price lists of publications sold by the Superintendent of Documents, and a list of maps issued by the United States Government with description of each.

General Information regarding Alaska, 1917, 72 pages. Includes in a concise form information in regard to history, geography, climate, government, population, resources, schools, list of newspapers, three maps, and an official directory. Rules of Practice, 1915, 24 pages. Includes 99 rules governing proceedings in the cases involving the public lands, before United States district land offices, the General Land Office, and the Department of the Interior.

Decisions of the Department of the Interior relating to Public Lands, vols. 1 to 45. Includes decisions of the Secretary of the Interior in cases appealed from decisions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon petitions for the exercise of supervisory authority, and upon motions for rehearing of departmental decisions. It also includes regulations governing disposal of public lands and amendments to the Rules of Practice. Sold by Superintendent of Documents.

Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Appealed Pension and BountyLand Claims, vols. 1 to 19. Contains decisions of the Secretary in the above

class of cases appealed from the Commissioner of Pensions. Sold by Superintendent of Documents.

Method of distribution of general publications.--The volumes of Decisions of the Department are sold by the Superintendent of Documents as noted above. All of the other publications are distributed free of charge upon application to the Secretary of the Interior.

Annual and other periodical publications.-Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year to the President of the United States. This includes a statement of the activities of the several bureaus under the department and recommendations for future legislation or other requirements.

Laws relating to the Department of Interior. This volume is compiled and published following each session of Congress, and contains the laws relating to the department which have been enacted.

Reports are made annually to the Secretary of the Interior by the following: Governor of Alaska, Governor of Hawaii, Government Hospital for the Insane, Howard University, Freedmen's Hospital, Columbia Institute for the Deaf, Superintendent of the United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds.

Reports were formerly made by the following officials, the latest report available being for the year indicated: Governor of Oklahoma, 1907; Governor of Arizona, 1911; Governor of New Mexico, 1911; Mine Inspection for the Territory of New Mexico, 1911.

List of publications.-No list of publications is issued by the department. Maps.-A list of maps is included in the pamphlet "General Information regarding the Department of the Interior," and the department publishes a wall map of the United States, 84 by 61 inches in size, with scale of 37 miles to the inch, which is mounted on linen and attached to rollers for hanging. It includes insets showing Alaska, the Canal Zone, and Insular Possessions. At times the secretary has a limited number of these maps for distribution to schools and public libraries (one to each institution). They may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, for $1.

Correspondence.-Correspondence relating to the publications distributed free of charge should be addressed to the Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. Correspondence regarding publications for sale should be addressed to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

ALASKAN ENGINEERING COMMISSION.

Principal administrative officials.—Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior in charge of Alaskan affairs, Commissioners, Chairman and two other members, Purchasing Agent, Examiner of Accounts.

General information and duties.-The Alaskan Engineering Commission was created under the act of March 12, 1914, which empowered, authorized, and directed the President to locate, construct, operate, or lease a railroad, or railroads, to connect the interior of Alaska with one or more of the open navigable ports on the coast. Authority was also granted to purchase existing railroads. to construct, maintain, and operate telegraph and telephone lines, and to make reservations of public lands in Alaska necessary for the purposes of the railroad. For the execution of this work a commission of three engineers was appointed by the President to make the necessary surveys. They were directed to report to the Secretary of the Interior, under whom the President placed the general administration of the work. After the completion of the preliminary surveys, the President by Executive order selected the route for the railway from the coast to the interior, and continued the original commission of engineers in charge of the construction under the general supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.

Annual and other periodical publications.-The commission makes annual reports. The first report, which includes an account of operations from March 12, 1914, to December 31, 1915, was published as House Document No. 610, 64th Congress, 1st session, and may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, for 75 cents. The second report was printed as Senate Document No. 741, 64th Congress, 2d session. No copies of this report are available for distribution.

The commission on November 14, 1916, began the publication, "Alaska Railroad Record," a weekly periodical intended to furnish information as to progress

on the Government Railroad in Alaska. Single copies are furnished to individuals at 5 cents a copy, or $1.50 a year. Copies may be obtained free by libraries, foreign and United States Government departments upon application to the Alaskan Engineering Commission, Anchorage, Alaska.

Mailing lists.-The commission does not maintain a free mailing list for its reports; a mailing list is maintained at Anchorage, Alaska, for persons to whom free copies of the "Alaska Railroad Record " are sent.

Maps. No maps other than those accompanying the Annual Reports are published.

Correspondence.-Requests for publications of this commission should be addressed to the Alaskan Engineering Commission, Washington, D. C.

ST. ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL.

Principal administrative officials.-Superintendent, First Assistant Physician, Chief of Training School for Nurses, Chief Clerk.

General publications.—(a) Intracranial Tumors among the Insane. A Study of Twenty-nine Intracranial Tumors found in Sixteen Hundred and Forty-Two Autopsies in Cases of Mental Disease. By I. W. Blackburn. 1903.

(b) Illustrations of the Gross Morbid Anatomy of the Brain of the Insane. A Selection of Seventy-five Plates showing the Pathological Conditions Found in Post-Mortem Examinations of the Brain in Mental Diseases. By I. W. Blackburn. 1908.

(c) Lessons in Cooking, Theoretical, and Practical, for the Sick and Convalescent. Apply to Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Price 5 cents.

Method of distribution of general publications.-Publication on "Intracranial Tumors" is distributed free. Apply to Superintendent, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D. C. Publication on "Gross Morbid Anatomy of the Brain" is sold. Apply to Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

Annual and other periodical publications.-(a) Report of St. Elizabeth's Hospital to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year. Issued annually (formerly under the name of Government Hospital for the Insane). Contains statement of the condition of the institution, statistical tables regarding the admissions, discharges, diseases, and deaths of patients, the activities of the different departments of the hospital, etc. Distributed free. Apply to Superintendent of St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D. C.

(b) Government Hospital for the Insane, Bulletin. Five numbers published in 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913 contain accounts of scientific work carried on at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in the years preceding publications. Also a bibliography of publications by members of the staff of the hospital since 1902 and up to and inclusive of June 30, 1913. (Bibliographies were begun in the Bulletin for 1911.) The numbers may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. Prices: No. 1, 15 cents; No. 2, 25 cents; No. 3, 20 cents; No. 4, 10 cents; No. 5, 10 cents.

List of publications.-No list of publications is available, except in the Annual Reports and in the Bulletins mentioned above.

Indexes to publications.-No indexes to publications have been issued. Mailing lists. For the Annual Reports and for the Bulletins already published there have been free mailing lists, mainly for other hospitals for the insane in this country and abroad.

Correspondence.-For free publications address: Superintendent, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D. C. For publications on sale address: Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.1

1 Most of the scientific papers of the hospital appear in journals appropriate to the material of publication. Only a small number of the scientific studies are included under annual and periodical publications. The following journals are those in which articles have appeared: Interstate Medical Journal; Journal of the American Medical Association; Journal of Animal Behavior; Journal of Comparative Neurology; Journal of Experimental Psychology; Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases; Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods; Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs; New York Medical Journal; Psychoanalytic Review; Psychological Bulletin; Psychological Monographs; Psychological Review; Science.

COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF.

Principal administrative officials.—Patron ex officio, President of the United States; President; Directors; Secretary; Treasurer.

Annual and other periodical publications.-(a) Annual Report published at Government Printing Office; (b) Catalogue of Gallaudet College (advanced department). Both are distributed free.

Mailing lists.-List of libraries, institutions for the deaf, etc., is maintained. Correspondence.-Requests for publications should be addressed to the President of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, Washington, D. C.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

Principal administrative officials.-Patron ex officio, Secretary of the Interior; President of the Board of Trustees; President; Secretary; Treasurer. Publications.-Annual Report to the Secretary of the Interior. Distributed free on application to the president of the university. Also publishes the Howard University Record, issued seven times a year, including university catalogues and departmental monographs.

FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL.

Principal administrative officials.-Surgeon in Chief, Assistant Surgeon. General publications.-Rules and Regulations of the Freedmen's Hospital. Method of distribution of general publications.-Distributed free.

Annual and other periodical publications.—Annual Report to the Secretary of the Interior. Distributed free.

Correspondence.-Surgeon in Chief, Freedmens' Hospital, Washington, D. C.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE.

Principal administrative officials.-Commissioner; Assistant Commissioner; Chief Clerk; Chief Law Clerk; Appointment Clerk; Receiving Clerk; Recorder; Chiefs of Divisions: Accounts, Contest, Desert and Indian Lands, State Selec tions, etc., Drafting, Field Service, Homestead, Timber, and Stone, Mails and Files, Mineral, Posting and Tract Records, Public Surveys, Railroad Grants and Rights of Way, Reclamation, Lieu Selections, and Special Entries.

General information and duties.-The Commissioner of the General Land Office is charged with the survey, management, and disposition of the public lands, the adjudication of conflicting claims relating thereto, the granting of railroad and other rights of way, easements, the issuance of patents for lands, and with furnishing certified copies of land patents and of records, plats, and papers on file in his office. In national forests he executes all laws relating to surveying, prospecting, locating, appropriating, entering, reconveying, or patenting of public lands, and to the granting of rights of way amounting to easements, General publications.-The following publications are available for distribu tion:

Suggestions to Homesteaders.

Homestead Entries within National Forests.

Homestead Entries in Nebraska under the Kinkaid Act.
Coal Land Laws.

Sunk Lands in Arkansas.

Drainage Entries in Minnesota.

Vacant Public Lands.

Absences from Settlements made on Unsurveyed Lands.

Cutting of Timber by Entrymen on their Homestead Claims.

Soldiers' and Sailors' Homestead Rights.

Second Homestead and Desert land Entries.

Designation of Land under the Enlarged Homestead Acts.

Entries and Proof under the Desert-land Laws.

Relief of Desert-land Entrymen.

Reclamation of Arid Lands by the United States.

Purchase of Land Valuable for Timber and Stone.
Mining Laws of the United States.

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