Treasury, Department of the
One of the executive departments of the United States government.
The
chief officer is officially known as the
Secretary of the Treasury, and is charged by law with the management of the national finances.
He prepares plans for the improvement of the revenue and for the support of the public credit; superintends the collection of the revenue, and prescribes the forms of keeping and rendering public accounts and of making returns; grants warrants for all moneys drawn from the treasury in pursuance of appropriations made by law, and for the payment of moneys into the treasury, and annually submits to Congress estimates of the probable revenues and disbursements of the government.
He also controls the construction of public buildings, the coinage and printing of money, the collection of statistics, the administration of the coast and geodetic survey, life-saving, light-house, revenue-cutter, steamboat-inspection, 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 routine work of the
Secretary's office is transacted in the offices of the supervising architect, director of the mint, director of engraving and printing, supervising surgeon-general of the marine-hospital service,
general superintendent of the life-saving service, supervising inspectorgeneral of steamboats, bureau of statistics, light-house board, and in the following divisions: bookkeeping and warrants; appointments; customs; public moneys; loans and currency; revenue-cutter; stationery; printing and blanks; mails and files;
special agents, and miscellaneous.
See
cabinet, President's.
