947314 FOREWORD The United States Government Organization Manual is the official organization handbook of the Federal Government. It contains sections descriptive of the agencies in the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. Supplemental information following these sections includes (1) brief descriptions of quasi-official agencies and selected international organizations, (2) charts of the more complex agencies, and (3) appendixes relating to abolished or transferred agencies, to governmental publications, and to certain ancillary material. The United States Government Organization Manual is published annually by the Federal Register Division, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, as a special edition of the Federal Register pursuant to part 3 of the regulations of the Administrative Committee, approved by the President on October 11, 1948 (13 F. R. 5935; 1 CFR Part 3). Agencies subject to section 3 of the Administrative Procedure Act (60 Stat. 238; 5 U. S. C. 1002) are required by the provisions thereof to separately state and currently publish in the Federal Register descriptions of the agency organization including delegations of final authority and the established places at which and methods whereby the public may secure information or make submittals or requests. Users interested in these detailed statements should consult the indexes to the daily issues of the Federal Register. WAYNE C. GROVER, Archivist of the United States. EDMUND F. MANSURE, Administrator of General Services. III The mailing address for all Federal agencies located in the District of Columbia is Washington 25, D. C., unless otherwise indicated. Inquiries concerning the United States Government Organization Manual should be directed to: IV FEDERAL REGISTER DIVISION NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. or call From private line: REpublic 7-7500, Branch 6256 We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article I Section 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three. When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall chuse their speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. Section 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote. Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Ap |