The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-28
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT..

Secretary Of the Interior Department Hon Robert Nc
.ieaha ~ me state o. Mlehgan- lts clerical force
one disbursng and other rernler clerks and
lie supervision and management committed the following
branches OF the public service:
lst. The Fubc LandsTbe chief this bureau is called the
HCommissiuner Of the General Land 0re The ani Bureau
Wtn the survey management and sae oi the pub
Inc domain and the issuing e titles therefor whether derived
from canfrmatDns of grants made by former governmental
by sales donations, OF grants for schools military bnues
public Improvements and likewise the revision Of
military bounty land claims and the issuing OF scrip lien
thereof The Land Office, also, ands its accounts The
present Commissioner il Hon. T. H. Hendricks, OF In
diana lts principal officers recorder, chief or
principal clerk of public ands principal clerk Of pirate
land claims and principal clerk OF surveysa Of whom
appointed By the President and cuurted by the
besides draughsman assistant drapehsman and LOG
clerks Of various grades
3D. assoas.The present head of ths bureau is the Hon
josiah Mnot, of New Hanpahire The Commissioner is
charged with tine exnmnaton and adudcation Of al claims
g-e granting bounty land pensions for military naval
services IN the revolutionary and subsequent which
eeik, ~. Coe eaq,11 and permanent corps consist
ing oi some seventy other clerks 10 which Congress- TO
enable him to the extraordinary requirements e the
bounyan law has added ten poary force Of about
fifty clsrkahips Of different denominations.
3D. of Indian Afairs, Hon. George
W. Manypenny, Of Ohio. He is provided with q CHIEF
clerk and about fifteen other subordinate clerks.
4th- Patent Q5foe.-To this bureau ia committed the
execution performance Of ali acts and things touching
and respecting the granting and issuing OF patents for
and useful discoveries Inventions and improvements - the
collection Of statistics relating agriculture; the col
has chief cerkwho by law the present tme) tine
Acting Commissioner of Patents the absence Of the Com
missinnerten principal and assistant examiners Of
en besides dozen other subordinate permanent clerks
Besides these four principal branches Of this executive
department, the organic Of ls4s tsnsfered to from
the Treasury Department the supervision of the accounts Of
the United States marsha and attorneys and the clerks of
the United States courts the management Of the lead and
other of the United States and the affairs OF the peni
tentary Of the United States in the District uf Columbia
and from the State Department the duty Of taking and
turning the Of the United States and of supervis
ing and directing the of the Commissioner Of Public
Buildings BY Of Congress- also the hospital for
the insane Of the and naTy and Of the District Of Cau
ba m under the OF this departments and BY
snmeut from the President il has added TO its long list Of
duties the survey and denaroaan of the unsettled boundary
Lines between the States and Territories and bordering
riuus.
This department is at present very iuconvsnieny sepa-
rated and oaigd and should be appropriately ard
nenv provided for The Secretarys ace occupies por
ton Of thenew Patsnt Office building the General Land Office
portion Of the Treasury building and the Psnsi0n Office
portion of N ndeTs baldng, the property OF the
government whilst Indian Office is located premises
not hre-prool, and rented Of their private owners