ports of the United States, including the quantities and values of goods warehoused or withdrawn from warehouse, and such other statistics relative to the trade and industry of the country as the Secretary of the Treasury may consider expedient. (R. S., § 339.) 484. Also an annual statement of vessels registered, enrolled, and licensed under the laws of the United States, together with the class, name, tonnage, and place of registry of each vessel, and such other information as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem proper to embody therein. (R. S., § 340.) 485. Also an annual statement of all merchandise in transit through the United States to foreign countries, each description of merchandise, so far as practicable, warehoused, withdrawn for consumption, exportation and transportation to other districts, and remaining in warehouse at the end of each fiscal year. (R. S., § 341.) 486. The chief of this bureau is required to collect, digest, and arrange for the use of Congress the statistics of the manufactures of the United States, their localities, sources of raw material, markets, exchanges with the producing regions of the country, transportation of products, wages, and such other conditions as are found to affect its prosperity. (R. S., § 342.) 487. The Bureau of Statistics has been organized into the following divisions, viz.: Examinations, Compilation, Tonnage and Immigration, Registry of Merchant Marine, Domestic Commerce, &c., Publication and Miscellaneous, Library and Files, Stationery, Pay, &c., Revision and Translation. XX. THE COAST SURVEY. 488. The office of the Coast Survey, like the Light-house Board, because of its close connection, in its labors and purposes, with the interests of commerce and navigation, has become in process of time attached to the Treasury Department. The service was originally provided for by act of February 10, 1807, authorizing the President to cause a survey to be made of the coasts of the United States, designating the islands, shoals, roads, and places of anchorage within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States; also the respective courses and distances between the principal capes or headlands; and including such other matters as he may deem proper for completing an accurate chart of every part of the coasts. In that act he was also directed to cause such an examination and observation to be made, with respect to St. George's bank, and to any other bank or shoal, and the soundings and currents, although beyond the distance of twenty leagues from the shore, to the Gulf Stream, as he may deem especially subservient to the commercial interests of the United States. 489. The act of March 3, 1843, however, provided for an organization of a board to adopt a plan of reorganizing the mode of executing the survey, and that in pursuance of such plan the President should employ as many of the offi cers of the army and navy as he may find compatible with the successful prosecution of the work, the officers of the navy to be employed on the hydrographical parts, and those of the army on the topographical parts of the work. 490. The direction of the law in this respect is still substantially the same, viz., that officers of the army and navy shall, as far as practicable, be employed in the work, whenever and in the manner required by the department having charge thereof. 491. The results of the surveys of the coasts, and of the labors and observations incident thereto, are exhibited in maps and charts prepared and engraved by experienced and skillful draughtsmen and engravers employed for this special purpose. These maps and charts are for the use of mariners, for sale and distribution to them, to foreign gov. ernments, in exchange or otherwise, and to literary and scientific societies. 492. The Coast Survey is required to submit a report to Congress during the month of December in each year, which is to be accompanied by a general chart of the whole coast of the United States, on as large a scale as convenient and practicable, showing as near as practicable the configuration of the coasts, and showing by lines the probable limits of the Gulf Stream; also by lines the probable limits to which the soundings off the coast will extend, and showing by the use of colors and explanations the exact portions of our coasts of which complete charts have been published by the Coast Survey; also showing such other parts of the coasts of which the triangulation, the topography, and the soundings have been completed but not published; and also such parts of the coasts of which the triangulation and topography have, or the triangulation only has, been completed. The officer in charge of these duties is denominated the Superintendent of the Coast Survey. With him are a consulting geometer, an assistant in charge of the office, and numerous assistants and sub-assistants. Besides these, the office is constituted of computers, draughtsmen, clerks, and engravers. XXI. THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. General Superintendent. 493. The act of June 18, 1878, provides for the organization of a Life-saving Service, and places the General Superintendent thereof under the immediate direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. It authorizes the appointment by the latter of an Assistant Superintendent and the detail of officers of the Revenue Marine Service as inspectors, under the direction of the General Superintendent. Although this service is not treated in the statutes as forming a part of the organization of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, yet the duties of the head thereof are brought into such a close relation thereto that it may be appropriately mentioned here in that connection, the same as in the case of the Marine Hospital Service.. The organization of the Life-saving Service, as a part of that organization, consists according to law of the head and one assistant, already named, and such clerks as have been detailed by the Secretary of the Treasury to perform the clerical work. The division as so constituted gives attention to the duties required of the Secretary in his general direction of the service, including those specifically devolving by law on the General Superintendent. They embrace the establishment of life-saving and life-boat stations and houses of refuge at proper points along the coast, for affording aid to shipwrecked vessels thereon, and measures generally calculated to promote the humane purpose of the law; also the selection of sites for the stations and houses of refuge, and the procurement of titles thereto; the preparation of plans and specifications for buildings; the making of contracts for their construction; the testing, selection, and purchase of their apparatus, equipment, and supplies; the organization of the service, and the preparation of regulations for the government of its officers and employees; the employment of crews of experienced surfmen, and the regulation of their wages and duties; the supervision of all expenditures and accounts connected with the service; and the preparation of estimates for the support of the service. They also embrace the award of medals for the saving of life from the perils of the sea; the collection of statistics |