of Customs are required to make quarteryearly reports thereto, showing the kinds, quantities, and values of all imported merchandise free from duty, and subject to duty; the kinds, quantities, and values of all articles exported; the national character and tonnage of all vessels which depart from their respective districts for foreign countries; also of all vessels which enter their districts from foreign countries; also the kinds, quantities, and value of merchandise entered and cleared coastwise into and from their respective collection districts. The Bureau prepares and publishes monthly reports of the exports and imports of the United States, including the quantities and values of the goods warehoused or withdrawn from warehouse, 3 clerks, each...... 5 copyists, each....... 1 laborer...... Per Annum. purpose 900 720 660 480 of 1 female laborer........................................................................... furnishing certain facts and statistics LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. The Light-House Board consists of nine members, three of whom are civilians, three naval officers, and three officers of the Corps of Engineers of the army. The Secretary of the Treasury is exofficio President of the Board, and controls the disbursement of all moneys appropriated for the Light-House Service, and the appointment of all persons employed therein, except the army and navy and such other statistics relative to the The tables in the report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics include statistics in relation to finance, coinage, commerce, immigration, shipping, the postal service, population, railroads, agriculture, coal, iron, etc. Of the other two civilians, one is the The Board elects its own Chairman, The other members of the Board on duty at its office are the Naval Secretary, who is an officer of the navy, and is assigned to duty as such by the Secretary of the Navy, and the Engineer Secretary, who OFFICE FORCE OF THE BUREAU OF is an officer of the army, and is assigned to duty as such by the Secretary of War. Under the regulations adopted the In addition to this he is charged with | nominating them for promotion and transthe supply and maintenance of the lights fer when necessary to the Secretary of and buoyage; with the discipline of the the Treasury, through the Board. personnel of the service; with the care of the vessels belonging to the Establishment; with the conduct of the correspondence relating to these several matters, and with the performance of the duties of the Engineer Secretary in his absence. The Engineer Secretary is charged with the purchase and care of the real estate of the Establishment, with the erection and repair of the light-houses, with the purchase and care of the illuminating apparatus; with the correspondence relative to these matters, and with the performance of the duties of the Naval Secretary in his absence. The other members of the Board serve on its various committees, and make such inspections and perform such other duties as may be assigned to them by the Board through the Chairman. The Board was organized by the act of August 31, 1852, which required it to make a plan for the lighting of the coasts (ocean, lake, and river) of the United States. This report was made and submitted to Congress, by which it was in effect adopted. Since that date appropriations have been made from time to time for carrying the plan into operation. The plan provides, in brief, for lighting the whole coast-lines of the United States, including those of the Atlantic and Pacific, those of the lakes and of the larger rivers. The Atlantic coast-line is about 5000 miles long; that of the Pacific about 1500; that of the lakes about 3000, and that of the rivers about 5500 miles. There are on the coasts, oceans and lakes, 655, and on the rivers, 508 lightstations. In addition to these there are 54 fog-signals, 2955 buoys, 420 day-beacons, and 25 light-ships in position. For this purpose the coasts of the United States are divided into 14 districts. Over each district is an Inspector and an Engineer, who, under executive order, are disbursing officers. The Inspector is an officer of the navy, the Engineer of the Corps of Engineers of the army. It is the duty of the Inspector, under the direction of the Board, to supply the light-houses and light-ships with lighting material and with the rations and fuel for keepers; to inspect the lights quarterly; to enforce the regulations of the Board, and otherwise maintain discipline among the keepers, It is also the duty of the Inspector to obtain, place in position, and keep in condition the buoys of his district, and in the absence of the Engineer to perform the Engineer's duties. It is the duty of the Engineer, under the direction of the Board, to purchase such land as is needed for the LightHouse Establishment; to prepare plans when so directed; to erect new structures, and to keep the old ones in repair; to have charge of the illuminating apparatus of his district, and to perform the duties of the Inspector in his absence. Each Inspector and Engineer has, when necessary, one or more vessels, called light-house tenders, under his orders, with which to perform his duties; the officers of which he nominates and the crews of which he ships. The Secretary of the Treasury is, by law, authorized and required to assign Collectors of Customs as Superintendents of Lights, and it is their duty to nominate, through the Board, to the Treasury Department persons for appointment into the LightHouse Service, and to pay the salaries of such light-keepers as they may be directed to pay. For this service each Superintendent is entitled under the law, where his compensation as Collector does not exceed $3000 a year, to a compensation not to exceed $400 a year, which compensation has heretofore been distributed at the rate of 2 per cent. upon the sums disbursed. chusetts, to include Squan Inlet, New | Grassy Island Light station, Detroit Jersey, and embraces all the aids to navi- River, and includes Lakes St. Clair, gation on the sea and sound coasts of Huron, Michigan, and Superior, and the Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New straits connecting them. York; Narragansett and New York Bays, Providence and Hudson Rivers, Whitehall Narrows, and Lake Champlain. FOURTH DISTRICT. Extends from Squan Inlet, New Jersey, to and including Metomkin Inlet, Virginia. It includes the sea-coast of New Jersey below the Highlands of Navesink; the bay-coasts of New Jersey and Delaware; the sea-coasts of Delaware and Maryland, and part of the sea-coast of Virginia. FIFTH DISTRICT. TWELFTH DISTRICT. Embraces all aids to navigation on the Pacific coast of the United States, between the Mexican frontier and the southern boundary of Oregon, and in cludes the coast of California. THIRTEENTH DISTRICT. Embraces all aids to navigation on the Pacific coast of the United States north of the southern boundary of Oregon. It extends from the forty-first parallel of latitude to British Columbia, and includes the coasts of Oregon and Wash FOURTEENTH DISTRICT. Extends from Metomkin Inlet, Vir-ington Territory. ginia, to include New River Inlet, North Carolina, and embraces part of the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina, Chesapeake Bay, the sounds of North Carolina, and the James and Potomac Rivers. Extends from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, and embraces all the aids to navigation on the Ohio River. It is provided by law that there shall be detailed from the Engineer Corps of the army such officers as may be necessary to superintend the construction and renovation of light-houses. There are employed in the 14 LightHouse Districts, in the different lighthouses, stations, and light-ships,. 995. keepers and assistant keepers, with salaries ranging from $100 to $1000 per annum, the average being limited by law to $600 per annum. There are also employed a number of persons as superintendents of construction, clerks to the several inspectors, and engineers and other employés on board of the light-house tenders, as follows: Per Annum. $720 to $2400 11 superintendents of construction, each, from........ 1200 " 5 draughtsmen, each, from....... 1500" 1000 2400 mediate charge the service is now placed, is by law charged with the supervision, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of all matters connected with the Marine-Hospital Service, and with the disbursement of the fund. The medical inspection of seamen with reference to their seaworthiness previous to shipment is also performed by medical officers of this service when requested by the United States Shipping Commission900" ers, or by the masters or owners of ves360" 840 sels. In addition to the care of the sick 1200" 1800 and disabled of the Mercantile-Marine 360" 1200 and Revenue-Cutter Service, and the physical examination of seamen previ720" ous to shipment, the medical officers of this service are further required to examine into the physical qualifications of officers of the revenue-cutters, and of the keepers and crews of life-saving stations. Original appointments into the medical corps are made to the grade of Assistant Surgeon only, and after a thorough 900 examination into professional qualifica432 tions by an examining board of surgeons 720 of the service, and the medical officers are assigned to duty wherever their services may be required from time to time. There are medical officers of this service on duty at all the principal ocean, lake, and river ports of the United States. The relief-stations of the service at which permanent arrangements have been made for the care of sick and disabled seamen are nearly 100, and the number of patients of the service are from 15,000 to 20,000 each year. 1460 1 superintendent of repairs...... 1460 66 ...... 1440 6 lampists, each, from.............. 1080 " 1 storekeeper.. 1500 13 foremen, each, from............ 1200 " 1 writer and assistant storekeeper....... 1 custodian... 1 porter....... 1 writer... pilot...... copyist........... 1 depot-keeper..... MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE. 1460 1800 600 1500 900 540 The Marine-Hospital Service of the United States was established by act of Congress of July 16, 1798, and as reorganized by acts of Congress of June 29, 1870, and March 3, 1875, is the medical department for the mercantile marine, to which are intrusted the health interests of the officers and crews of American vessels engaged in foreign, coastwise, and inland trade, and of the vessels of the Revenue Marine. The object of the establishment of this service was to encourage fit persons to become seamen, by affording care and treatment to such as may, while following their vocation, become sick or disabled. The service is chiefly supported by a tax of 40 cents per month as hospital-dues upon the wages of the seamen while actually employed. Originally, the disbursement of the fund arising from the hospital-dues was under the immediate charge of the President of the United States, but the administration of the service was soon placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury. The Surgeon-General, under whose im This service is a peculiarly American institution, there being no similar service in any other country. The provisional nomenclature of diseases of the London College of Physicians and Surgeons has been adopted and published by the Treasury Department for use in this service. The Marine-Hospital Service has also, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, adopted the metric system of weights and measures. Under the act of Congress of April 29, 1878, the medical corps of this service was further charged, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, with certain duties in aid of the enforcement of quarantine, so far as any may be enforced by the Government, and the Surgeon-General was required to publish weekly returns showing the sanitary condition of foreign ports with which the United States enjoys commercial intercourse. The duties of the Marine-Hospital Service with reference to quarantine and the public health have recently been OFFICE OF THE SUPERVISING SURGEON- Supervising Surgeon-General. 1 assistant surgeon... 1 medical purveyor.................... 4 clerks, each.... 1 clerk.. 2 clerks, each..... 1 clerk.... 1 steward. 2 copyists, each... 1 messenger... 1 laborer...... 1 laborer....... 1 hospital steward.. Per Annum. office accounts also; thus, in this class of accounts, holding the ultimate power of control in the settlement of all claims on the Treasury. It is also the prerogative of the First Comptroller to countersign all warrants drawn by the Secretary of the Treasury, in conformity with the laws and the appropriations, both for 1600 covering money into the Treasury and 2000 for drawing it therefrom, excepting only 1600 those connected with post-office opera1400 tions. He therefore, necessarily, has cognizance of all revenues, funds, and 900 appropriations, and he has also the nega900 tive power to hold in check all disburse600 ments of the public money. 1200 1000 Of the accounts subject to his revision as aforesaid, he has the right of instruc25 tion as to the time and manner of stating them, and of construction of the laws 50 applicable to their settlement; and in the revision and adjustment thereof, he dePer Annum. cides what is admissible; and he may al$3000 low or reject, or suspend or modify any or all of the items therein, and his cer2000 tificate to the Register of the Treasury of the balances arising thereon is the highest authority in the matter of an account 1800 known to the Department. ............... surgeons, each. 1 66 1600 1200 600 1600 900 840 The First Comptroller has also au1200 thority to superintend the preservation 1000 of said accounts and the recovery of the dues to the United States as thus found and certified, and to direct suits and legal. 600 proceedings for the purpose; and he is 500 the custodian of the bonds and contracts 480 relating to matters coming within his 400 jurisdiction. 800 360 300 240 180 150 100 He has also appellate jurisdiction, only, in the settlement of the accounts arising in the Post-Office Department; and whenever the Postmaster-General, or any person whose account is settled by the Sixth Auditor, is dissatisfied, either can make appeal within twelve months after said settlement to the First Comptroller, whose decision thereon is final. The First Comptroller also passes upon and approves the sufficiency of all bonds of contractors, disbursing agents, Collectors of Internal Revenue, receivers, mar The office of Comptroller of the Treas-shals, consuls, and others giving bonds in connection with revenue and the civil ury (now First Comptroller) was established by the act of Congress of Septem-ment, and takes charge of the same, and diplomatic accounts of the Governber 2, 1789. DUTIES, BUSINESS, ETC. This office is charged with the examination and revision of all civil accounts except those relating to customs and the postal service, and, on appeal, of post which are filed in his office. ACCOUNTS REVISED BY FIRST COMP TROLLER. In pursuance, therefore, of the powers with which the First Comptroller has |