payrolls, or schedules furnished by the Finance Division; the notation and certification of payments upon such vouchers, payrolls, and schedules, and the submission thereof to the Finance Division for administrative examination; the canceling of checks for any proper cause, and reporting such action to the Finance Division; the preparation and approval of indemnifying bonds for lost or destroyed checks and the issuing of duplicate checks in such cases; the preparation of monthly reports showing the amount of payments by classes and the daily and monthly balances; the changing of post office addresses of pensioners; and the carrying on of correspondence. The personnel of this division consists of the Disbursing Clerk and 175 other employees. The work of the division is distributed among the following sub-divisions: Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, Retirement Section, Miscellaneous Section, and Addressograph Section. Sections 1 to 9 are engaged in making payments of pensions, and the Retirement Section in making payment of annuities, refunds, and allowances. The division of work among these sections is purely arbitrary. The Miscellaneous Section receives and distributes mail to the proper sections of the division, and has charge of the general index of pensioners and of the supplies for the division, including stationery, blank checks, etc. The Addressograph Section makes plates for addresses, prints schedules and checks, and arranges mail for delivery to the post office. APPENDIX I OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION EXPLANATORY NOTE The Outlines of Organization in this series of monographs have for their purpose to make known in detail the organization and personnel the several services of the national government to which they relate. They have been prepared in accordance with the plan followed by the President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency in the preparation of its outlines of the organization of the United States Government.' They differ from those outlines, however, in that whereas the Commission's report showed only organization units, the presentation herein has been carried far enough to show the personnel embraced in each organization unit. These outlines are of value not merely as an effective means of making known the organization of the several services. If kept revised to date by the services, they constitute exceedingly important tools of administration. They permit the directing personnel to see at a glance the organization and personnel at their disposition. They establish definitely the line of administrative authority and enable each employee to know his place in the system. They furnish the essential basis for making plans for determining costs by organization division and sub-division. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine the number and location of organization divisions of any particular kind, as, for example, laboratories, libraries, blue-print rooms, or any other kind of plant possessed by the national government, to what services they are attached and where they are located, or to determine what services are maintaining stations at any city or point in the United States. The Institute. 1 1 House Doc. 458, 62d Congress, 2d Session, 1912, 2 vols. hopes that upon the completion of the present series, it will be able to prepare a complete classified statement of the technical and other facilities at the disposal of the government. The present monographs will then furnish the details regarding the organization, equipment, and work of the institutions so listed and classified. " Net, or without the temporary bonus" or additional compensation of 60 per cent on classes below $400, of $240 on classes of $400 to $2500, and of the amount necessary to make the total compensation $2740 on classes of $2500 to $2740. This is subject to minor exceptions in special cases. 1241 52 2 233 I 2,000 1,800 1,800 I 1,740 1,600 1,400 1,200 1,000 1,400 1,200 |