Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-01-12

Sc
and ss,.r,em,uss ,ftAs s.rsstsrs II ass T.
partmsns 5nye become necessxfy inasmscn ~
tine national revenue has swelled to more than
|three times its afnoept at the formation q the
government when the Treasury Department a.
ftpow is wasseonstituted.
+ 4kjs obvious that portion citnese suoJees
Sk6uM and must be transferred 70 tne saPefin-
Haasee Of another individual department. Of
| hal tie numher Of clerks should Dc greatly aug
mrAsed IN those how existing. -
niSsa may be formed OF the business Of
State from the items which Mr.. Clay furnishes,
arrareed asdetthe following heads: -
III. Cv,yespondenc with fourteen AMERICAN
Minis,erSsof both grades, in foreiet cestntfies;
four Cons,zp ~ ~ 1sbary po.eTs, charged
| also with diplomatic duties; fso Agents o.
Claims atPsris and Load0n; and one hundred
and ton C,arssis sbscas and including numer-
Gus ,ransiIaSahS and Htewise an extensive cor.
respondenes sbncerDag claims OF citizens o.
the United States on $reign Governments
I'd. rvssondrsces occasionally treating ana
| frequent Official interviews, Oh business, whh
| foreign Ministers, sccreditrd by this Govern
ment, whose number varies from ten to lour-
teen; and slso correspondence with fofeigH
Censu,s, adAissed in our ports, whose govern
ments have aSsaipbshaih representative :.
Sd The isssing and distributing TO apph'
cants personal passports, and the preparation
and dstfibuq ba OF sea-lstters and Medlterra-
mean passports.
4th. A eoaDila.ion, from official returns, OF
lists OF passengers arriving in the United States,
and of registered seamen, and OF commercial
informaiion.
5th. The Custody of the Great Seal and the
| recording cS 81 commissions to American MI
nisters and Census, and OF foreign Consuls re-
siding in the United States, and the making out
and recording Of their exequaturs.
9th. Examination and liquidation OF accounts
for foreikasand other services under this De-
parsxnent, order TO their payment here OF
passages through the Offices Of the Treasury;
and The application and disbursement OF the
fund for the tslief and projection Of distressed
American Seamen. ~
9TH. Custody and care Of the books and pa
pers belongings to various commissions, waic h
are now dissGked, under the differen, treaties,
including thesf apper,aining 10 the Yszoo Com
mission; and tie occasional exhibition and ma
king extracts from some OF those papers, on the
application Of individuals
9Th. nepot,s 10 Congress, and complying
with calls fo- Information. and other OF ders pi
the Senate aRj lIou,e of Representatives.
9th CORES Ondence i,hGovernors ofSates
and Of Territories, with Judicial Officer, Mar
| shals, and Uaised States District Attorney
10th. ThApresesyalon Of the rolls Of ion-
gress, the recording OF the laws, the direction
Of the printing and distribution Of them, and
Of public documents, and The designation OF
and corresponding with the printers Of the
Laws. ~. =.
/ 18th. The Patent Office and the reception
and preseryatson q books, &c. published 10 tine
Cpited States. saA ri, ing necessary certs6ea-
tiSsss 10 proet1< kcpy 1ght - .,syts
18th. Making ana and recovdfS VI tJsnmis.
| sions which do not pass Though aufy belong
particularly to the other Departments, and com
piiing, &c. Of the biennial Register OF Officers,
&c. sc.
18th. Issuing certificates under the official
seal of the Department for purposes Of authen.
tcation Of records, paper, and documents; and
making GU, and recording Of pardons, remis-
siJns Of fines and penalties,
l4th. Care Of the original manuscript jour
nal, books, documents, and papers belonging to
the Congress Of the Confederation, and of the
Declaration Of Independence; the Constitution
of the United States, and the journal and pro-
ceedmgs OF the Convention.
18th. The periodical superintendent of TAX
ing the census and other matters Of statistic al
information connected with it, and making a
digest thereof.
A cursory glance at the preceding speciGca-
ton OF The duties Of the Department of State,
will, a, once, show their multitude and their
ineongrui,y l, is no, supposed TO be neeessa-
ry to dwell particularly upon each OF the items
IL will be seen that domestic and foreign
branches of the public service, without having
| the smallest connection with each other, are in
discriminatory blended together. What reIa-
ton, for example, is there between the affairs
Of the Patent Office and foreign negotiations!
Between the distribution, and designation of
the printers of the Laws Of Congress, and the
direction Of our foreign correspondence
From the Richmond Compiler Jan. 9.
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE