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The Department of the Treasury (DoT) is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Act to Establish the Treasury Department )〕 The Department is administered by the Secretary of the Treasury, who is a member of the Cabinet. Jacob J. Lew is the current Secretary of the Treasury; he was sworn in on February 28, 2013. The first Secretary of the Treasury was Alexander Hamilton, who was sworn into office on September 11, 1789. Hamilton was asked by President George Washington to serve after first having asked Robert Morris (who declined, recommending Hamilton instead). Hamilton almost single-handedly worked out the nation's early financial system, and for several years was a major presence in Washington's administration as well. His portrait is on the obverse of the U.S. ten-dollar bill while the Treasury Department building is shown on the reverse. Besides the Secretary, one of the best-known Treasury officials is the Treasurer of the United States whose signature, along with the Treasury Secretary's, appears on all Federal Reserve notes. The Treasury prints and mints all paper currency and coins in circulation through the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the United States Mint. The Department also collects all federal taxes through the Internal Revenue Service, and manages U.S. government debt instruments. == History == The establishing act of congress passed in 1789, read in part, The current law, , reads as follows (in part): President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton as the first United States Secretary of the Treasury on September 11, 1789. He left office on the last day of January 1795. Much of the structure of the government of the United States was worked out in those five years, beginning with the structure and function of the cabinet itself. In the next two years, Hamilton submitted five reports: * First Report on the Public Credit: Communicated to the House of Representatives, January 14, 1790. * Operations of the Act Laying Duties on Imports: Communicated to the House of Representatives, April 23, 1790. * Second Report on Public Credit – Report on a National Bank. Communicated to the House of Representatives, December 14, 1790. * Report on the Establishment of a Mint: Communicated to the House of Representatives, January 28, 1791. * Report on Manufactures: Communicated to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United States Department of the Treasury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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