Note 539 — Chapter XX
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20 United States Statutes 56 (1878). On June 19, 1878, another act established the office of an “Auditor of Railroad Accounts” with authority to prescribe reports from subsidized railroads west, north, or south of the Missouri River, to examine books, and to furnish information to various government departments as it might be required. (20 United States Statutes 169, [1878].) Name changed to “Commissioner of Railroads” in 1881. (21 United States Statutes 381, 409 [1881].)