The entire work is now under a Director of Valuation, who has the usual administrative assistants and an engineering and legal assistant. The three sections of the bureau, Engineering, Land, and Accounts, are under officers designated as Supervisor of Engineering, Supervisor of Land Appraisals, and Supervisor of Accounts, respectively. The experts in these sections prepare the underlying valuation reports which are submitted to a socalled "Tentative Valuation Committee consisting of the Director of the bureau, who is chairman of the committee, the solicitor, and a staff of attorneys. This committee issues the tentative valuation reports which, after approval by the commission, are submitted to the carriers for criticism pending final publication as provided in the law.

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 possessed by 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 subdivision. 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

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what services are maintaining stations at any city or point in the United States. The Institute 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.

1

Compiled from Part II of the Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the official Register of the United States, 1921, and The Alternative Budget, 1923.

8

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 an amount necessary to make the total compensation $2740 on classes of $2500 to $2740. This is subject to minor exceptions in special cases.