Brief description of duties

STATEMENT 3

List of officers and employees of the War Department receiving compensation at the rate of $5,000 or more per annum

Annual com-
pensation

Name

OFFICE OF THE SECRE-
TARY OF WAR

Hurley, Patrick J.

Secretary of War.

$15,000 $15,000 The Secretary of War is head of the War Department, and performs such duties as are required of him by law
or may be enjoined upon him by the President. He is charged by law with the supervision of all estimates
of appropriations for the expenses of the department, including the Military Establishment; of all pur-
chases of Army supplies; of all expenditures for the support, transportation, and maintenance of the Army;
and of such expenditures of a civil nature as may be placed by Congress under his direction. He is respon-
sible for the proper execution of the provisions of the National Defense Act of 1920. He is held responsible
for the protection of our seacoast harbors and cities; for the development of improved weapons and matériel;
for the proper instruction of all military personnel; for the discipline and morale of the Military Establish-
ment; for the defense of, and the administration of government in, those insular possessions that come
under his jurisdiction. He directs the activities of the Corps of Engineers in the improvement of the
waterways of the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, including examinations, surveys, and
economic studies of harbors and streams for the formation of improvement projects. He recommends to
Congress definite plans for improvement and makes contracts for the execution of the physical works re-
quired to make our waterways capable of meeting the needs of constantly expanding inland, coastwise,
and foreign commerce. He is charged with the formulation and execution of plans for flood control on
inland rivers, power and irrigation development, and the survey and charting of the Great Lakes. He is
responsible for surveys of international boundary waters, the interoceanic survey (Nicaragua Canal route),
and the construction of national monuments and memorials. He is also charged with the establishment
of harbor lines, approval of plans for the construction of bridges and issue of permits for wharves, piers, and
other works upon navigable waters; investigation, in cooperation with the Federal Power Commission, of
water-power projects, the removal of wrecks from navigable waters, the regulation of the operation of
drawbridges, establishment and regulation of anchorage grounds, regulation of the use of navigable waters
of the United States, the preservation of the American Falls of Niagara, and the administration
of matters pertaining to the participation of the United States in the Niagara Control Board.
He is responsible for the defense, maintenance, care, and operation of the Panama Canal. This
responsibility requires that he not only provide for the transit of ships from one ocean to the
other but also for their repair, fueling, supplies and foodstuffs, and the care of hospitalization
of ships' personnel and passengers. The organization under his charge includes public health,
quarantine, and immigration service, customs, post offices, police and fire protection, hydrographic
and meteorological observations, steamboat inspection, aids to navigation, construction and maintenance
of roads, streets, water supply, and sewers. He exercises jurisdiction over the civil affairs of the Philippine
Islands and Puerto Rico. He is president of the National Forest Reservation Commission, which is
authorized to purchase such forested cut-over or denuded lands within the watersheds of navigable steams
as in its judgment may be necessary to the regulation of stream flow or for the production of timber. He
supervises the activities of the Inland Waterways Corporation as authorized by the requirements of the

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s for work do for the Pust comes Department, Federal Reserve Board, Farm Loan Board, Philipine Government, etc.

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of harbor lines, appro

other works upon navigable Watt,

water-power projects, the removal of wrecks from

drawbridges, establishment and regulation of anchorage grounds, regulativ

of the United States, the preservation of the American Falls of Niagara, and the administracion
of matters pertaining to the participation of the United States in the Niagara Control Board.
He is responsible for the defense, maintenance, care, and operation of the Panama Canal. This
responsibility requires that he not only provide for the transit of ships from one ocean to the
other but also for their repair, fueling, supplies and foodstuffs, and the care of hospitalization
of ships' personnel and passengers. The organization under his charge includes public health,
quarantine, and immigration service, customs, post offices, police and fire protection, hydrographic
and meteorological observations, steamboat inspection, aids to navigation, construction and maintenance
of roads, streets, water supply, and sewers. He exercises jurisdiction over the civil affairs of the Philippine
Islands and Puerto Rico. He is president of the National Forest Reservation Commission, which is
authorized to purchase such forested cut-over or denuded lands within the watersheds of navigable steams
as in its judgment may be necessary to the regulation of stream flow or for the production of timber. He
supervises the activities of the Inland Waterways Corporation as authorized by the requirements of the