The Solicitor of the Treasury served as legal advisor to the department, and examined Treasury officers' official bonds and related legal documents. He also supervised all legal proceedings involving the collection of debts due the United States. In addition, he established regulations to guide customs collectors, issued distress warrants against delinquent revenue collectors or receivers of public money, and administered lands acquired by the United States in payment for debts.[4]
^The United States Government Manual, 2009-2010, published by National Archives and Records Administration, 2009, page 634
^Newspaper article, Prettyman Ousted From Revenue Post; Morgenthau In Revamping Tax Machinery Lets Marylander Go; Post to New Yorker; Secretary Also Asks Congress To Create General Counsel To Treasury, Baltimore Sun, January 31, 1934
^Newspaper article, Congress Aims to Take Back Former Power, The Daily Times (Rochester and Beaver, Pennsylvania), March 29, 1934
^Poore, Benjamin Perley (1878). The political register and congressional directory: a statistical record of the Federal Officials...1776-1878. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company. p. 230.
^Register of the Department of Justice and the Judicial Officers of the United States, by United States Department of Justice, 1885, page 4
^Register of the Department of Justice, published by United States Department of Justice, 1908, page 216
^Biography of Maurice D. O'Connell, from Historical Sketches of Franklin County and its Several Towns, by Frederick J. Seaver, Malone, New York, published by J.B. Lyon Company, Albany, New York, 1918
^Newspaper article, New Solicitor for Treasury, Christian Science Monitor, July 1, 1910
^Bender's Lawyers' Diary and Directory for the State of New York, 1912, published by Matthew Bender (Firm), Albany, New York, 1912, page 21
^Newspaper article, William T. Thompson; Nebraskan Once Solicitor of the United States Treasury, New York Times, June 21, 1939
^"Congress Reasonable with Bank Directors". The Ottawa Daily Republic. December 3, 1914. p. 1. Retrieved October 30, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
^Hammond Mayors Past entry, Lawrence Becker, Hammond, Indiana Online City Guide, accessed June 11, 2011
^Newspaper article, Lawrence F. Becker; Retired Jurist in Indiana Once Mayor of Hammond, New York Times, March 14, 1947
^Prominent Men of West Virginia, by George Wesley Atkinson and Alvaro Franklin Gibbens, 1890, page 699
^State of Iowa Official Register, published by Iowa Secretary of State, 1925, page 572
^State of Iowa Official Register, compiled and published by Iowa Secretary of State, 1927, page 491
^Newspaper article, Robert Mawhinney, Lawyer and Author, New York Times, November 19, 1954