The law specifically provides for this bureau a chief, one assistant, an accountant, eight clerks, and three copyists; and the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is appropriated for the current fiscal year for labor and expenses of engraving and printing, for the purchase of engravers' tools, dies, rolls, plates, machinery, and for repairs of the same. The bureau accordingly employs a large force of engravers, plate-printers, and transferrers, among whom are some of the best-skilled of the country in this line of art; and it is supplied with superior presses, lathes, and machinery.

It is now engaged in the production of the new four per cent. consuls, loan of 1907, heretofore described in section 414. As the printing of these is completed they are delivered to the Loan and Currency Division of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, where they receive the imprint of the Treasury Department seal, and are there issued. It is also engaged in printing national-bank notes, on the requisition of the Comptroller of the Currency, for new banks, or for use in supplying the place of worn-out and mutilated notes as fast as the same are destroyed, as is hereafter described in treating of the particular division of that office having charge of the destruction of the same. The entire work of printing this class of notes, as likewise all other printing of United States notes, bonds, checks, certificates of deposit, and internal-revenue beer and tobacco stamps, is done in this bureau in the Treasury Department. XVIII. OFFICE OF SUPERVISING SURGEON-GENERAL OF MARINE HOSPITALS.

475. This officer was first provided for by act of June 29, 1870, under the designation of Supervising Surgeon of Marine Hospital Service, subject to appointment by the Secretary of the Treasury. Subsequently, in an appropria

tion act of March 3, 1875, provision was made for the sal ary of the "Supervising Surgeon - General of the United States Marine Hospital Service," to be paid out of the marine hospital fund, and for his appointment by the Presi dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. By act of the same date, entitled "An act to promote economy and efficiency in the marine hospital service," provis ion is also made for the payment of the compensation out of that fund, but the officer is designated as "Supervising Surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital Service."

The operations of this service are placed by law in the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

476. The duties prescribed as those of the "Supervising Surgeon" are the supervision of all matters connected with the marine hospital service, and of disbursements of the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.

477. He is required to make monthly reports to the Secretary of the Treasury.

478. The fund for the support and maintenance of this hospital service is derived from a tax, which the master of every United States vessel is required to pay, of forty cents per month for each and every seaman employed, which sum the master is entitled to collect and retain from the wages of such seamen. The sum annually realized from this tax is about $330,000, which is insufficient, usually, for the payment of the expenses necessarily incurred for the treat ment of from ten to fifteen thousand patients during the year. The deficiency is made up from an appropriation by Congress. Seamen employed on a foreign vessel, sick and disabled in our ports, may receive the benefits of this hospital service under regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, and at such rates as he may prescribe, on the application of the master of such vessel, who is required to pay the charges therefor to the collector of the port before he can receive a clearance.

479. The clerical work of this office is somewhat of a varied character. Returns of hospital dues are received, embracing accounts from numerous customs ports, with their vouchers; also accounts and vouchers pertaining to the disbursement of the funds applicable to the service. These accounts require laborious examination, the necessary corrections and official correspondence with collectors and disbursing agents, and, finally, their transmission to the First Auditor for settlement. Sets of books are kept, showing the receipts of hospital dues and the disbursements made from the fund. This office is also in receipt of numerous requisitions from the several hospitals throughout the country for supplies, including subsistence stores, medicines, surgical appliances, instruments, &c., which requisitions require proper examination, revision, and action. The office also receives medical and surgical returns, official reports relating to the transactions and routine of the service, which require examination, tabulation, and recording; also surgeons' certificates and permits in great numbers, which need to be passed upon. Besides these enumerated items, the general correspondence and miscellaneous business of the office are of considerable magnitude.

XIX. BUREAU OF STATISTICS.

480. This bureau was established by an act of Congress approved July 28, 1866, wherein the Secretary of the Treas ury was authorized to appoint a director to superintend its operations. Subsequently, by act of July 20, 1868, (Stats. 15, p. 99,) it was styled a division in the office of the Secretary, and placed in charge of the Special Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the office of Director of the Bureau of Statistics being thereby abolished. The Revised Statutes, however, recognize the designation of "Bureau of Statistics," but provide for the appointment, by the Secretary

of the Treasury, of a division chief as the superintendent thereof.

The purpose of this bureau is to collect, arrange, and classify such statistical information as may be procured showing or tending to show, each year, the condition of the agriculture, manufactures, domestic trade, currency, and banks of the several States and Territories.

481. The chief of the bureau is required to prepare annually a report on the statistics of commerce and navigation of the United States with foreign countries. In this report he is required to comprehend all goods, wares, and merchandise exported from the United States to other countries, all goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States from other countries, and all navigation employed in the foreign trade of the United States. The topics are to be stated according to the following manner :

First. The kinds, quantities, and values of all articles exported and of all imported are to be distinctly stated, except where it may appear that separate statements of the species, quantities, or values of any particular articles would swell the statement without utility, when in such case the kinds and total value of such articles are to be stated together, or in such classes as the Secretary of the Treasury may think fit.

Second. The exports are to be stated so as to show those to each foreign country and their values; and the imports so as to show the imports from each foreign country and their values.

Third. The exports are to be so stated as to show separately the exports of articles of the production or manufacture of the United States and their values, and the exports of the production and manufacture of foreign countries and their values.

Fourth. The navigation employed in the foreign trade of

the United States is to be stated in such manner as to show the amount of the tonnage of all vessels departing from the United States for foreign countries, and, separately, the amount of such tonnage of the United States and of foreign vessels; also the foreign nations to which such foreign tonnage belongs, with the amount; and in such manner as also to show the tonnage of all vessels departing for every particular foreign country with which the United States has any considerable commerce, with a separate statement as to the tonnage of such vessels of the United States and foreign countries respectively; and in such manner as to show the tonnage of all vessels arriving in the United States from foreign countries, separating the amount of tonnage of United States vessels from that of foreign vessels, and stating the foreign country to which the latter belong, with the tonnage belonging to each foreign nation; and in such manner as to show the tonnage of all vessels from every particular foreign country with which the United States has any considerable commerce, and, separately, the amount of such tonnage of vessels of the United States and the amount of such tonnage of foreign vessels.

Fifth. Such accounts are to comprehend, in tabular form, the quantity, by weight or measure, as well as the amount of value of the several articles of foreign commerce, whether dutiable or otherwise; also a similar and separate statement of the commerce of the United States with the British Provinces under the late so-called reciprocity treaty with Great Britain. (R. S., § 336.)

482. In order to enable the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics to prepare this annual report, the statutes require the observance of certain prescribed regulations on the part of all collectors of customs. (R. S., § 337.)

483. The chief of this bureau is also required to prepare and publish monthly reports of the exports and im