ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION 51 
In 1913 the administrative machinery of the 
postal savings system was reorganized and given 
a definite and permanent status in the Post Office 
Department, which it had previously lacked. On 
May 1, 1913, by administrative order of the 
Postmaster-General, such part of the adminis 
trative business of the postal savings system as 
had up to that time been under the immediate 
supervision of the Postmaster-General, together 
with the corps of employees doing the postal sav 
ings work, was transferred to the Bureau of the 
Third Assistant Postmaster-General—the bureau 
in charge of the fiscal affairs of the Post Office 
Department—and a division was created in that 
bureau, to be known as the Division of Postal 
Savings, for the immediate charge of this work. 
Contemporaneously the Third Assistant Post 
master-General was elected Secretary of the 
Board of Trustees and constituted its agent for 
all purposes connected with the administrative 
duties conducted through the central office in 
Washington. 
Thus all postal savings business charged to 
the Post Office Department is performed in the 
Division of Postal Savings under the immediate 
supervision of the Third Assistant Postmaster- 
General as an officer of the Post Office Depart 
ment, and all business of the Board of Trustees