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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jamericon, post: 1571309, member: 18294&quot;]Under the 1789 Treasury Act, the register&#039;s and treasurer&#039;s offices were tasked with oversight of the nation&#039;s currency supply: the register was the accountant, and the treasurer, the cashier. The register-treasurer signature combination appeared exclusively on all U.S. currency until 1914.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1914, the Treasury replaced the register&#039;s signatures with that of the secretary&#039;s because of changes made to certain Treasury offices by the 1893 Dockery Commission. The commission reduced the register&#039;s role to a token position and transferred his responsibilities to a new department under direction of the secretary. The secretary, even if only by association, had assumed the register&#039;s responsibilities in regards to currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>Treasury officials made the change to treasurer-secretary signatures when they prepared plates for Series of 1914 Federal Reserve notes late in 1914. The would change the plates for other currency when they prepared small-size plates in 1928.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, national currency always carried register-treasurer signatures because they were required by the 1864 national bank act.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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