The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-04


s vbols machinery employed 70 csndue. the busnes.
-nr oUf Of foreign. relations with all the powers
Il III world il FAR more simple than is generally con
n ~ United States is only seventeen oIlows: One See
rstary STATE, Hon William l. Marey,l Assistant
twelve teTh one translator, and one librarian.
gor4sfie BrQaehThis branch a the state Departuepi
La charge EI correspondence between the department and
other diplomatic agents q the United States abroad and
hose Of foreign powers accredited 70 this government In it
n diplomatic Instructions sent fr0m the department and
communications g commissioners under treaties Of bounaa
m &c, prepared copied and recorded; and al 81 Ike
received Registered and fled their contents
being first entered in anaIytic table index.
Casalar BraaeLThis branch has charge Of the CORES
pgndeho &c, between e department end the eonsnls and
commercial agents Of the United States Ia it Instructions
those officers and ansSers 70 their dispatches and
from other persons asking for consular agency or rsa
ting 70 consular affairs, are prepared and recorded.
TIE Disbarsag Agent lie has charge Of all eorresond
ard other matters connected with relating
fund with the disbursement Of which the department
charged.
The Trasalser. His duties are 10 furnish such trasa
lions the department require He also records the
commissions Of oonaus and vice eonsal when not n Eagsh
upon which exeqnaturs are issued.
ClerE of appolAtmcats and coafsaission He makes out
and records commissions letters Of appointment and no-
nations To the senate makes out and records ereguatu
and records When IN English the commissions which they
are issued has charge Of the library.
Clerk 81 tie Ros and Arehipe.e takes charge of The
rolls, enrolled acts and resolutions o Congress- they
received ct the department from the Presidents
the authenticated copies thereof which called fer pre-
for and experiments their publication and 81 rea
ties the newspapers and in book form; attends to their
distribution throughout the United States thar Of all
documents and publications in regard which this duty
assigned 10 the department writing and answering all let
connected herewith Has charge o a Indian treaties
and business relating thereto.
tsrt Of AHfhencaions esd CopyrigAtsffe las charge
the seals Of the United States and the department and
prepares and attaches certificates 10 papers presented for
Identification receives and the fees Has charge
publications transmitted to the department under the laws
relating copyrights records and indexes their titles re-
cords all letters from the department. other than the dplo
matte and consular
Clerk Of Paaoss end PassyortsHe prepares and records
pard0n and rsAsons and registers and tiles the petitions
and papers which they founded Makes ont aud re-
cords passports keeps daily register Of all letters other
than diplomatic and consular received and The dispo
made ofthem; prepares letters relating this business
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE.
Hon. Caleb Cushing, Attorney General Of the United
States; r. H. 6let esq., chief clerk. The ordinary bust
Of this Office may b. classified under the following
heads
ouin opinions the business Of the govern
men called for by the President By any head Of depart
neut, or By the Solicitor Of the Treasury.
Examination OF the titles Of all land purchased as the
~ 81 arsenals, custom houses lighthouses, and al ether
public works Of the United States
Applications for pardons in all Of conviction the
courts Of the United States.
Applications for appointment in al the judicial and legal
business Of the government
The conduct and argument Of all suits in the Supreme
Court Of the United States in which the government
cerned.
To these ordinary heads of the business Of the Office
added al the present time the following, viz;
First. The direction Of all appeals land claims in Cali
brnia.
Second The codcation and revision Of the laws Of the
District Of Columbia.