(Signed) "CALVIN COOLIDGE."
These words at the bottom of an executive order were the authority. As a result, on July 1, the Bureau of Mines, all except two sections, will no longer be part of the Department of the Interior under Secretary Work but will be part of the Department of Commerce under Secretary Hoover, himself a mining engineer.
This is step No. 2 in reorganizing the executive branch of the Government. Step No. 1 was the transfer of the Patent Office from the Interior to the Commerce Department....
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