Although some investigative functions were performed under the Department of Justice at an earlier date. on July 26. 1908. Attorney General Bonaparte issued an order that all investigative matters should be referred -to the Chief Examiner of the Department. who would designate appropriate special agents. At that time the personnel of the investigative force of the Departmentincluded 10 to 20 nationalbank examiners from the Treasury Department. 20 agents borrowed from the Secret Service. 50 naturalization investigators. 6 peonage investigators. 7 landfraud investigators. and 12 examiners. In accordance with Attorney General Bonapartes order. nine Secret Service employees of the Treasury Department were appointed special agents of the Department of Justice. whose duty was to perform general investigative service under the Chief Examiner. The Attorney General suggested to President Taft that all "detective duties" directly connected with actual or contemplated Federal. civil. or criminal proceedings should be entrusted to a force organized on the basis of agents of the Bureau of Investigation.
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