. A bird's eye view of our federal government . rwich, Conn., and still has his residence inthat city. He has been distinguished as president or manager of variousrailroad companies,and has also been once a member of the state senateand was for ten years a bank commissioner of Connecticut. In , he was appointed a national bank examiner for Connecticut aridEhode l««land, and toward the end of the same year was made treasurerof the United States.] The treasury also receives the fands of the postoffice de-partment and disburses the same upon the warrants of thepostmaster general, duly
. A bird's eye view of our federal government . rwich, Conn., and still has his residence inthat city. He has been distinguished as president or manager of variousrailroad companies,and has also been once a member of the state senateand was for ten years a bank commissioner of Connecticut. In , he was appointed a national bank examiner for Connecticut aridEhode l««land, and toward the end of the same year was made treasurerof the United States.] The treasury also receives the fands of the postoffice de-partment and disburses the same upon the warrants of thepostmaster general, duly countersigned by the treasury auditor(the 6th) for postoffice accounts. m CUE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 4a. The Register of the Treasury. This office was established in 1789. It is the duty of theregister to keep a strict account of everj^ receipt and disburse-ment on behalf of the government. He receives the verifiedaccounts from the various comptrollers, and records the same, to-gether with all—or nearly all—warrants for the receipt or pay-. WILLIAM STARKE ROSECRANS, Register of the Treasury. [Gen. Rosecrans is one of the heroes of the late war, wherein he com-manded the army of the Mississippi, and the army of the Cmnberlandin 1862-63. Commanded at Stone River and Chickamauga. Rosecranswas born in 1819 ; giaduated at West Point and entered the army, butresigned in 1854. He re-entered the service in 1861, and resigned again—a major-general—in 1867. m 1868 was minister to Mexico ; from 1881to 1885 a member of congress from California. Was appointed registerin 1885.] OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 37 ment of money. (Warrants drawn by the postmaster-general andthose drawn by the secretary of the treasury on requisitionsfrom the war and navy departments are not registered.) Theregisters office may be considered the final entry account ofthe treasury bookkeeeping; but the register has duties beyondthatof a mere recorder of events. He prepares and sends outstatements of various accou
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