Excerpt from Proposed Transfer of Bureaus From Washington to Other Cities: Message From the President of the United States Transmitting in Response to a Senate Resolution of September 6, 1918 Sec. 233. There shall he at the seat of Government an Executive Department to be known as the Department of the Treasury, and a Secretary of the Treas ury, who shall be the head thereof. Sec. 1796. All offices attached to the seat of Government shall be exercised in the District of Columbia, and not elsewhere, except as otherwise expressly provided by law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.