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7. Describe the work of the Department of War.

8. What are the chief functions of the Secretary of the Navy?

9. What are the chief duties of the Attorney-General?

10. Describe the work of the Post Office Department.

11. What types of work are the concern of the Department of the Interior?

12. Discuss briefly the work of the Department of Agriculture.

13. What is the function of the Department of Commerce? Of the Department of Labor?

14. Name some of the more important boards and commissions which are independent of the ten executive departments.

REQUIRED READINGS

1. Beard, _American Government and Politics_, chapter ii.

2. Guitteau, _Government and Politics in the United States_, chapter xxvii.

3. Munro, _The Government of the United States_, chapter ix.

4. Reed, _Form and Functions of American Government_, chapter xxiv.

QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS

1. Outline the duties which are common to the heads of all of the executive departments. (Beard, pages 216-218.)

2. Contrast the National administration with the state administration.

(Reed, pages 286-287.)

3. What is the purpose of the Library of Congress? (Reed, pages 298- 299.)

4. Describe the work of the General Land Office under the Department of the Interior. (Guitteau, pages 318-319.)

5. What is the function of the Commissioner of Patents? (Guitteau, page 319.)

6. What are the duties of the Commissioner of Education, under the Secretary of the Interior? (Guitteau, page 320.)

7. Name some of the more important boards and commissions created during the World War. (Guitteau, pages 325-326.)

8. Compare our Department of the Interior with the Department of the Interior in France. (Munro, pages 136-137.)

9. What is meant by the statement that the National administration is decentralized? (Munro, page 142.)

10. Describe briefly the work of the Civil Service Commission. (Beard, pages 222-224.)