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Exhibit 1. Regulations governing appointments and promotions in the
Consular Service....
36
Exhibit 2. Extract from regulations governing the Public Health and
Marine-Hospital Service....
38
APPENDIX No. 2.-Consolidation of Bureau of Lighthouses, Department of
Commerce and Labor, and Life-Saving Service, Department of the
Treasury...
43
Page.
General administration
APPENDIX NO. 2.-Consolidation of Bureau of Lighthouses and Life-Saving
Service-Continued.
Life-Saving Service Continued.
Organization-Continued.
Superintendence of construction of lifeboats, apparatus, etc .........
Superintendence of construction and maintenance of telephone
lines...
Light stations and other aids to navigation
Administration of the two services by one bureau
Similarity of the two services
Construction and repair work
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54
Provision of equipment
Maintenance of depots
Distribution of supplies
Field administration and inspection
Recapitulation and general conclusions...
Exhibit 1A. Report of the Joint Committee on the Life-Saving Service and
the Bureau of Lighthouses, 1911....
'Exhibit 2A. Statement showing location of life-saving stations in relation to
nearest lighthouse
Exhibit 3A. History, organization, and activities of the Life-Saving Service.
Exhibit 4A. History, organization, and activities of the Bureau of Light-
houses..
Communication from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to the
President
264
APPENDIX NO. 3.-Revenue-Cutter Service of the Department of the Treasury.
Introduction
267
269
General description of the service, its organization and duties
Exhibit 1B. History, organization, and activities of the Revenue-Cutter
Service.
285
Exhibit 2B. History of efforts looking to the transfer of the service from the
Treasury Department to the Navy Department...
299
Exhibit 3B. Compilation of the laws relating to the Revenue-Cutter
Service..
349
Exhibit 4B. Regulations and general orders of the service (included by
reference only, as they are readily available in printed form)...
Exhibit 5B. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year 1910
regarding the Revenue-Cutter Service..
368
Exhibit 6B. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury giving a statement of
the expenditures of the service, fiscal year 1910..
371
Exhibit 7B. Extract from the legislative, executive, and judicial appro-
priation act for the fiscal year 1912 making appropriations for the service.
APPENDIX No. 3.-Revenue-Cutter Service Continued.
Exhibit 8B. Summary of expenditures of the Revenue-Cutter Service for
the fiscal year 1911 (furnished to the Commission on Economy and Effi-
ciency by the Secretary of the Treasury)..
Exhibit 9B. Bibliography of the Revenue-Cutter Service....
Communication from Secretary of Commerce and Labor to the President..
Communication from Secretary Meyer to the President, inclosing memo-
randum..
Communication from Secretary of the Treasury to the President, inclosing
memorandum
APPENDIX No. 4.-Accounting offices of the Treasury, with recommendations
for the consolidation of the six auditors' offices into one office......
Exhibit 1C. Table showing number of employees and salaries under
appropriation for 1912, and proposed for 1913.
372
373
378
381
382
399
409
Exhibit 2C. History of the accounting system of the Government, 1789
to 1894....
410
Comment of the Dockery Commission
412
Law reorganizing the accounting offices of the Treasury.
415
APPENDIX No. 5.-Returns Office of the Department of the Interior
Report of the commission, with recommendations.
Draft of a bill to provide for publicity of Government contracts..
Exhibit 1D. Report of the special committee on the Returns Office,
Department of the Interior....
421
423
428
430
Exhibit 2D. Letter of the special committee on Government contracts,
with exhibits.....
437
Letter of Secretary of War to the President, transmitting report of War
Department Board on Business Methods..
457
Letter of Samuel Adams, Acting Secretary Department of the Interior, to
the President......
Exhibit 1E. Compilation of acts of Congress relating to mileage allowances
and per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence..
480
Exhibit 2E. Decisions of the Comptroller of the Treasury relating to
travel expenditures..
488
Exhibit 3E. Draft of regulations in relation to travel by Government
employees....
499
Letter of the Secretary of the Navy on travel expenditures..
504
Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting a report on travel expenditures.
Memorandum of Paymaster General of the War Department on travel ex-
penditures..
506
508
Letter of chairman of the Commission on Economy and Efficiency to War
Department on reconsideration of Report No. 17...
511
Letter of Assistant Secretary of War, transmitting report of special com-
mittee of War Department on travel expenditures..
Letter of Assistant Secretary of War, transmitting report of board on busi-
ness methods, War Department, on travel expenditures...
513
APPENDIX No. 7.-Memorandum of conclusions concerning the principles that
should govern in the matter of handling and filing correspondence and
preparing and mailing communications in connection with the work of
the several departments of the Government, together with suggestions
for the use of labor-saving devices in preparing and mailing letters, etc..
Letter of President to heads of departments and independent establish-
ments of the Government....
Introduction-definition and scope of the subject
Recommendations
Plan of the inquiry
Study of methods in branches of the Government service.
Study of methods in outside concerns..
Analysis of reports from executive departments.
Work of the special committees.
Considerations underlying recommendations made
Vertical flat filing..
Briefing.....
Subjective classification of correspondence..
The decimal classification.
Monetary saving possible..
Registers of correspondence.
The press copy versus the carbon copy
The dictation machine
Mailing machinery
The window envelope
Rearrangement of form blanks
Elimination of salutation and complimentary close
(a) Results so far attained..
Conclusion
Exhibit 1F. Report of test of dictation machine in Post Office Department.
Exhibit 2F. Report of Navy Department committee
Exhibit 3F. Report of Treasury Department committee.
Exhibit 4F. Report of Department of Agriculture committee..
Exhibit 5F. Report of Post Office Department committee
Exhibit 6F. Report of Department of Interior committee..
Exhibit 7F. Report of Department of Commerce and Labor committee...
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527
528
529
531
532
534
538
395
539
541
542
544
546
547
548
551
APPENDIX No. 8.-Centralization of the distribution of Government publi-
cations....
555
APPENDIX NO. 9.-The use of the outline of organization of the Government
prepared by the commission as a means for showing currently organization
conditions of the Government.
559
ments of the Government...
561
Use of outline of organization of the Government.
563