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  administrative ­
  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  savings ­
  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  Postmaster-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  Department, ­
  and  all  business  of  the  Board  of  Trustees