2d. On the Statistics of Settled Accounts of REVENUE from outstanding balances of OLD INTERNAL DUTIES AND DIRECT TAXES-showing the nett proceeds, according to the quarterly returns of the collectors or marshals, audited by the First Auditor, certified and transmitted by the First Comptroller to the Register-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of other clerical duties relating thereto. See Tables of Details, (C) (▲) 1. 2, 3 : (F) 1. 4: II. 1, 2: (G) IV, 1, 2: VII. 4. 3d. On the Statistics of Settled Accounts of REVENUE FROM LAND SALES-(comprehending the separate statistics on Chickasaw account)-showing the nett proceeds, according to the quarterly accounts of receivers, audited by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, certified and transmitted by the First Comptroller to the Register-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of other clerical duties relating thereto. See Tables of Details, (C) (A) 1. 4: (F) I. 4: 11. 1, 2: (G) V. 1, 2, 3. 4th. On the Statistics of Settled Accounts of REVENUE FROM PATENT FEES-showing the proceeds according to the quarterly accounts of the Commissioner of Patents, audited by the Fifth Auditor, certified and transmitted by the First Comptroller to the Register-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of other clerical duties relating thereto. See Tables of Details, (C) (▲) 1. 5: (F) I. 4: (G) VI. 1. 5th. On the Statistics of Settled Accounts of REVENUE FROM THE PROFITS OF COINAGE at the mint and branches-showing the nett proceeds, according to the quarterly accounts of the treasurers of the mints, audited by the First Auditor, certified and transmitted by the First Comptroller to the Register-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of any other clerical duties relating thereto. See Tables of Details, (C) (^) İ. 6: (F) 1. 4: (G) IX. 1, 2. 6th. On the Statistics of Settled Accounts of REVENUE FROM MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES-comprising loans, treasury notes, and incidental dues, deposited, and covered in the treasury by covering warrant, showing the amount of the respective items, for which an account is simultaneously stated by the First Auditor, (and, in some incidental cases, by the Fifth Auditor,) and transmitted, with the warrant as its basis, by the First Comptroller to the Register-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of any other clerical duties relating thereto. See Tables of Delails, (C) (1) I. 7, and note: (F) I. 4: (G) VII. 1, 2, 3. 4. BUREAU FOR THE REGISTRY OF SETTLED ACCOUNTS OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE CIVIL DEPARTMENT— in two sub-divisions, viz: 1st. On the Statistics of Settled Accounts of EXPENDITURES FOR THE CIVIT LIST, PROPER-comprising the legislative, executive, and judicial departments, officers of territories, and other civil institutions, (except the diplomatic corps and foreign intercourse,) showing their respective amounts, according to the quarterly accounts of disbursing agents or individuals, audited by the First Auditor, certified and transmitted by the First Comptroller to the Register-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of any other clerical duties relating thereto. See Tables of Details, (C) (B) II. 1, 2, 4 : (F) I. 4: Il. 1, 2: (G) IX. 1. 2d. On the Statistics of Settled Accounts of EXPENDITURES FOR THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND FOREIGN INTERCOURSE comprising ministers plenipotentiary, chargés, commissioners, secretaries of legation, consuls, bearers of despatches, &c., &c., showing their respective amounts, according to the quarterly accounts of disbursing agents, &c., audited by the Fifth Auditor, certified and transmitted by the First Comptroller to the Register-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performing of any other clerical duties relating thereto. See Tables of Details, (C) (B) II. 3: (F) I. 4: II. 1, 2: (G) IX. 1. 5. BUREAU FOR THE REGISTRY OF THE EVIDENCES OF PUBLIC DEBT, AND OF THE Expenditures for the REDEMPTION OR PAYMENT THEREOF-in three sub-divisions, viz: 1st. On the Statistics of DEBT CONTRACTED BY LOANS-comprising the covering warrants for the deposite of the loans of 1841, '42, '43, with the operations of issuing certificates of stock therefor, making transfers of stock, &c.; also, the redemption of stock, and dividends of interest-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of any other clerical duties appertaining thereto. See Tables of Details, (C) (c) III. 1, 2, 3: (F) 1. 4: (G) VII. 3, 4. 2d. On the Statistics of DEBT CONTRACTED BY THE ISSUE OF TREASURY NOTES-comprising the covering warrants for the deposits of the respective amounts issued, from time to time, under recent acts of Congress, and the replacement of the cancelled notes reimbursed or paid-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of any other clerical duties relating thereto. See' Tables of Details, (C) (c) IV. 1, 2: (F) I. 4: (G) VIII. 1, 2. 3d. On the Statistics of MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS, accruing quarterly and daily, in the CIVIL AND DIPLOmatic DepartmeNTS-comprising every description of claims accruing in the civil service which require to be audited and awarded before they can be paid; which, being so awarded, are certified by the First Comptroller to the Register, who certifies a copy with the vouchers to the Secretary for his warrant on the Treasurer to pay the same-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of any other clerical duties appertaining thereto. See Tables of Details, (C) (c) V. 1, 2. 3, 4, to 7: (F) 1. 4: II. 1, 2: (G) IX. 2. 6. BUREAU FOR THE REGISTRY OF THE EVIDENCES OF DEBTS DUE TO THE UNITED STATES, from officers and others in connection with the CIVIL DEPARTMENT-Comprising all balances due on settled accounts, or otherwise ascertained to be due, in connection with the civil department, (that is, unconnected with the War, Navy, or Post Office Department,) of which balances "transcripts" are required to be made and certified by the Register for suit-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of any other clerical duties appertaining thereto. See Tables of Details, ( C) (D) VI. 1, 2, 3, 4: (F) 1. 4: II. 1, 2: (G) IX. 1, 2. 7. BUREAU FOR THE REGISTRY OR RECORD OF WARRANT EVIDENCES OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES(being the counterpart, or equivalent, in gross sums, to the foregoing settled accounts of receipts and disbursements in detail)-including the warrant evidences of appropriations, yearly adjusting warrants, and annual estimates of finance and expenditure on which the whole is founded, in six sub-divisions, viz: 1st. On the Statistics of nett Receipts of REVENUE FROM ALL SOURCES, regular and miscellaneous, debited to the Treasurer by covering warrants-comprising quarterly and daily entries from said warrants, of the amounts, respectively, of receipts from customs, land sales, patent fees, old internal revenue, fines, penalties, and forfeitures, surplus emoluments of officers of the customs, and of District Attorneys, and of amounts from other stated and incidental sources, &c., &c.—including the preparation of reports, the keeping the appropriate books, and the performance of any other duties relating thereto. See Tables of Details, (D) Warrants, (▲) 1. 1, 2, 3: (F) Reports, 1. 1, 4: (G) Books, IX. 1, 2, 3. 2d. On the Statistics of yearly APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT-comprising entries under their proper heads, from the "yearly appropriation warrants" of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the several sums appropriated for the different branches of the public service, (except the Post Office Department)—including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of any other clerical duties relating thereto. See Tables of Details, (D) (B) II. 1, 2, 3 : (F) 1. 4: (G) VIII. 1, 2, 3. 3d. On the Statistics of yearly EXPENDITURES FOR THE SERVICE OF THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE GOVERNMENT-comprising entries, under their proper heads, of the respective sums drawn from the Treasury, by pay warrants on the Treasurer, in pursuance of requisitions on the Secretary, based upon appropriations, "specific" or "indefinite," with amounts of (incidental) warrants for adjusting disbursing agents' balances, &c.-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and performing any other clerical duties relating thereto. See Tables of Details, (D) (c) III. 1, 2, 3, 4; (F) 1, 4: (G) IX. 1, 2, 3. 4th. On the Statistics of yearly EXPENDITURES FROM "Indefinite" APPROPRIATIONS, and of the unexpended BALANCES OF "SPECIFIC" APPROPRIATIONS-comprising the entry and adjustment of the former on the books of the Treasury, in pursuance of the yearly appropriation or adjusting warrant issued at the end of the year for that purpose, and the carrying the latter sums to an account called the "surplus fund account," in pursuance of the yearly surplus fund warrant issued for that purpose at the end of the yearincluding the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of any other clerical duties appertaining thereto. See Tables of Details, (D) (D) IV. i, 2: (F) I. 1, 4: (G) VIII. 1, 2, 3: IX. 1, 2, 3. 5th. On the Statistics of yearly ESTIMATES FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT-comprising the arrangement or classification of the various estimates made by the heads of Departments, and others, for the expenditures on account of the public service under their direction for the ensuing fiscal year-including the preparation of reports, the keeping the proper books, and the performance of any other clerical duties relating thereto. See Tables of Details, (E) (a) I. 1, 2, 3: (F) I. 1: (G) VIII. 1, 2, 3 : IX. 1, 2, 3. 6th. On the Biennial Statistics of the OFFICERS OF THE GOVERNMENT-comprising a list of the afficers, contractors, printers, and others, in the employment of the Treasury Department, showing their names, place of birth, where employed, their compensation, &c., for the Biennial Register published by the Secretary of State, &c., &c. See Tables of Details, (E) II. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: (G) VIII. 1, 2, 3: IX. 1, 2, 3. TABLES OF DETAILS. (A)—INSTRUCTIONS AND CALLS FOR CERTAIN RETURNS. [The scope of these instructions is not fully developed, being but partially given, as the instructions on the like subjects, by the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Treasury, have generally been full-except as to the 3d and 4th items, relative to annual estimates and returns for the Biennial Register, wbich are under the direction of the Register alone. In regard to item 1, the very act (of the 10th February, 1820) which required these returns to bo made to the Register, also assigned to the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to give the collectors the proper instructions on the subject, so that the circular instructions of the Register of the 28th June, 1831, on that subject, may be considered as the result of the Secretary's directions, though not so stated. And in regard to the returns of marine papers, which stand first and foremost, both in their origin and their order of affinity to the Register's office, are made under the circular instructions of the Comptroller of the 28th December, 1793, &c., for which see the "Synopsis of Instructions," of which this is a "Supplement."] I. The Register of the Treasury gives instructions and prescribes forms, in relation to Returns, on different subjects, required to be made to his office, viz: 1. He gives instructions to collectors of the customs, and prescribes rules and regulations, for preparing and making their quarterly returns of the foreign and domestic commerce and navigation of the United States, according to forms transmitted, by circular of the 28th June, 1831. 2. He gives instructions, and prescribes rules and regulations, relative to the transfer of certificates of stock for loans made in behalf of the United States, the payment of interest thereon, and the supply of lost certificates. 3. He gives instructions relative to estimates required to be returned to his office by the various Departments of the government, for appropriations to meet the expenses of the ensuing fiscal year. 4. He gives instructions relative to returns required to be made to his office by principal officers of the government, of the names, employment, compensation, birth, and residence, of all persons connected with their respective offices, according to forms transmitted, and intended for the use of the Department of State, to be inserted in the Biennial Register. Evidences of Commerce and Navigation. (B)-RETURNS OF THE EVIDENCES OF THE COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES-in pursuance of the first of the aforesaid instructions of the Register, and of antecedent and other instructions of the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Treasury. (4)—Returns of Marine Papers. I. The Register of the Treasury receives Quarterly Returns of Collectors, relative to Marine Papers issued to, and surrendered by vessels in their respective Districts, and other statements in connection therewith-including the like Returns in relation to Vessels engaged in Steam Navigation, viz: 1. Certificates of permanent registry, issued to vessels during the quarter; and the like certificates surrendered by vessels in the same period. 2. Certificates of temporary registry, issued to vessels during the quarter; and the like certificates surrendered by vessels in the same period. 3. Certificates of record, issued to, or surrendered by vessels, in a quarter-(say, rarely any.) 4. Certificates of permanent enrollment, issued to vessels during the quarter; and the like certificates surrendered by vessels in the same period. 5. Certificates of temporary enrollments, issued to vessels during the quarter; and the like certificates surrendered by vessels in the same period. 6. Permanent licenses to enrolled vessels for the coasting trade, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by coasting vessels in the same period. 4 7. Temporary licenses to enrolled vessels for the coasting trade, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by coasting vessels in the same period. 8. Permanent licenses to enrolled vessels for whale fishing, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by whaling vessels in the same period. 9. Temporary licenses to enrolled vessels for whale fishing, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by whaling vessels in the same period. 10. Permanent licenses to enrolled vessels for cod fishing, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by cod fishing vessels in the same period. 11. Temporary licenses to enrolled vessels for cod fishing, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by cod fishing vessels in the same period. 12. Permanent licenses to enrolled vessels for mackerel fishing, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by mackerel fishing vessels in the same period. 13. Temporary licenses to enrolled vessels for mackerel fishing, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by mackerel fishing vessels in the same period. 14. Permanent licenses to vessels-not enrolled, being under twenty tons-for the coasting trade, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by the like class of vessels in the same period. 15. Temporary licenses to vessels-not enrolled, being under twenty tons-for the coasting trade, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by the like class of vessels in the same period. 16. Permanent licenses to vessels--not enrolled, being under twenty tons-for cod fishing, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by the like class of vessels in the same period. 17. Temporary licenses to vessels-not enrolled, being under twenty tons-for cod fishing, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by the like class of vessels in the same period. 18. Permanent licenses to vessels-not enrolled, being under twenty tons-for mackerel fishing, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by the like class of vessels in the same period. 19. Temporary licenses to vessels-not enrolled, being under twenty tons-for mackerel fishing, issued during the quarter; and the like licenses surrendered by the like class of vessels in the same period. 20. Also quarterly returns of marine papers of all the aforesaid descriptions, surrendered in other districts than those in which they were issued. 21. Also, quarterly returns of marine papers alleged to be lost, mislaid, or destroyed. 22. Also, quarterly statements of changes of masters of vessels, as endorsed on marine papers in obedience to law. 23. Also, the like quarterly returns in every respect, as aforesaid, in relation to vessels employed in steam navigation. 24. Also, quarterly statements of sealed registers, records, enrollments, and licenses, on hand, for issue; and likewise, duplicates of those issued quarterly. (B)-Returns of American and Foreign Tonnage, &c. II. The Register of the Treasury receives Quarterly Returns from Collectors, of all vessels of various classes and countries entered and cleared in their respective districts, in the quarter; and the tonnage thereof, respectively, viz: 1. American vessels entered in a district during the quarter. 3. Foreign vessels entered in a district during the quarter. 9. American tonnage employed in the coasting trade. 10. American tonnage employed in the whale fishery. 11. American tonnage employed in steam navigation, having certificates of registry. 12. American tonnage employed in steam navigation, having enrolments. 13. American tonnage employed in steam navigation, having licenses. (c)-Returns of Imports and Exports, &c. III. The Register of the Treasury receives Quarterly Returns from Collectors, of all Imports and Exports of merchandise into and from their respective Districts, in American and Foreign vessels; with statements in relation to Duties and Drawbacks, viz: 1. Imports in American vessels entered in a district during the quarter, paying duties, or free of duties. 2. Imports in Foreign vessels, entered in a district during the quarter, paying American rates of duties, or free of duties. 3. Imports in Foreign vessels entered in a district during the quarter, paying foreign rates of duties, or free of duties. 4. Imports entered in a district during the quarter, paying compound, or ad valorem and specific duties. 5. Exports of domestic growth or manufacture, &c., in American vessels, during the quarter. 6. Exports of domestic growth or manufacture, &c., in foreign vessels, during the quarter. 7. Exports of foreign articles, for the benefit of drawback, in American vessels, during the quarter. 8. Exports of foreign articles, for the benefit of drawback, in foreign vessels, during the quarter. 9. Exports of foreign articles, for the benefit of drawback, from a district other than that into which they were imported. (Evidences of Receipts and expenditures.) (C)—RETURNS OR TRANSMISSIONS OF ACCOUNTS, SETTLED AND CERTIFIED TO THE REGISTER, REGULARLY-[not in pursuance of any special calls-but as evidences of receipts and expenditures, and of debts due from and to the United States.] (A)-Accounts of Revenue. 1. The Register of the Treasury receives the Quarterly and Incidental Accounts of Revenue from regular and miscellaneous sources, (106) audited and settled by the proper accounting officers, and certified and transmitted to him by the First Comptroller, viz: 1. Quarterly accounts current of revenue from customs, audited and reported to the Comptroller by the First Auditor. 2. Quarterly (or occasional) accounts current of revenue from outstanding balances of old internal duties, audited and reported to the Comptroller by the First Auditor. 3. Quarterly (or occasional) accounts current of revenue from outstanding balances of old direct taxes, audited and reported to the Comptroller by the First Auditor. 4. Quarterly accounts current of revenue from land sales (comprehending a separate account of Chickasaw land sales) audited and reported to the Comptroller by the Commissioner of the Land Office. (106) Items of revenue from miscellaneous sources, are not audited and certified to the Register separately from the action to cover the same in the Treasury by covering warrant, as the ordinary or regolar accounts current of collectors and other receivers of revenue are, but, upon any of said items of miscellaneous revenue being brought to the knowledge of the Treasury, the warrant of the Secretary is issued on the debtor to cover the acknowledged amount in the Treasury; which covering warrant is then passed to the hands of the First Auditor (or the Fifth Auditor, as the case may be; for, such miscellaneous items do occasionally come through consuls, and others falling within the sphere of the Fifth Auditor's accounting) that he may state an account of it, and transmit it along with the warrant, to the Register, to be entered connectedly on the books of his office, and filed together-thus constituting the Register's office the repository of the accounts or evidences of revenue from all sources, except that of the Post Office Department. |