Excerpt from Official Register, 1911, Vol. 1: Persons in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service of the United States, and List of Vessels, DirectoryThe earliest issue of the Official Register - or Register of Officials and Agents, as it was at first called - was published in 1816. This issue was prepared under the supervision of the Secretary of State, to whom the duty was assigned by a resolution of Congress approved April 27 of that year, and who continued to publish the Register biennially until 1861, when an act of Congress, approved March 2, transferred it to the Department of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior supervised the issue for 1861 and each succeeding issue up to and including that of 1905. The law governing the publication of the Official Register, which had been amended from time to time, was again revised in 1895 and amended in 1902 and 1904.In 1906 an act approved June 7 transferred the duty of publishing the Register to the Director of the Census. This Issue is the third which has been prepared under the act of 1906.The growth of the Register In size and number of names contained was approximately at the rate of 50 per cent in each decade for all Issues previous to 1907. This is illustrated by the following table.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.