Secret Service

A branch of government service concerned with the detection of counterfeiting and other offences, civil or political, committed or threatened by persons who operate in secrecy. It is under the charge of the treasury department Its rules and regulations, promulgated by the department, are laws within It. S. U. S. § 753 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 592), authorizing the issuance by a federal court of the writ of habeas corpus in case of a prisoner in custody for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States; U. S. v. Fuellhart, 10C Fed. 911.