The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-01

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+rhe Organization OF the Executive Depart
ments of the Government OF the United states.
DEPARrMEsT STATE
The whole machinery employed conduct the business
arising out Of foreign relations with all the powers
m the world Is far simple than is generally con-
Ieyed The number employed in the Department Of State
|reary Of State, (Iion William l.. Marcy, one Assistant
Secretary Of State William Hunter,) chief clerk
Twelve clerks, translator, and one librarian.
Dsoomac BronehThs branch OF the State Department
charge Of all correspondence between the department and
other diplomatic agents OF the United States abroad and
hose Of foreign powers accredited this government In
III diplomatic Instructions sent from iiie deparneni and
Communications TO commissioners under treaties Of bounda
es &c. prepared copied and reeorded and all of like
character received registered and fled their
being first entered in an analytic table or index
Consular BranehThs branch has charge Of the CORES
podence &c between the department and the consu and
commercial agents Of the United States In it instructions
those officers and answers to their dispatches and to let
from other asking for consular agency ea
|ng TO consular affairs, are prepared and recorded.
The Disbursag Agent He has charge of all correspond
and other connected with relating
y fund with the disbursement of which the department
charged.
The Tanslator His duties are 10 furnish such ransla
ons as the department may require. He also records the
commissions Of eonsns end vice conss whom net iu English
rron which exeqnators are issued.
and records commissions letters Of appointment and nom
nations to the Senate makes out and records exequaurs
and records when in English the commissions which they
are issued Has charge Of the library.
Clerk of s Rolls and ArcheesIe takes charge of the
rolls enrolled acts and resolutions of Congress- they
are received at the department the Presden
the authenticated copies thereof which called for pre-
for and superintend their publication and that OF
ties IN the newspapers and IN book FORM attends 10 their
documents and publications in regard to which this duty is
assigned to the department writing and answering all let
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and business relating thereto.
Clerk of Aufhentoaoas and Copyrights.He has charge
the seals Of the United States and of the department and
prepares and attaches certificates to papers presented for
hencaton receives and accounts for the fees Has charge
publications transmitted the department under the
relating copyrights records and indexes their titles
cords all letters from the department. other than the dpo
matte and consular.
Clerk Of Pardons and Passports prepares and records
pardon and remsons and registers and files the petitions
and papers which they founded Makes and
cords passports keeps daily register of all letters other
made them prepares letters relating this business
ATTORNEY GENERALS
Hon. Caleb Gushing, Attorney General of the United
States; r. H. Gllet esq, chief clerk. The ordinary busi
of this Office may be classified under the following
heads
men called for by the President by any head of depart
ment, or by the Solicitor of the Treasury.
Examination OF the titles of all land purchased the
public works of the United States.
Applications Tor pardOns in all cases OF conviction in the
courts OF the United States
Applications for appointment in all the judicial and legal
business Of the government l Itgs44E;s +.
3, The conduct and argument Of ell suits il the Supreme
Court of the United States in which the is con
cerned.
To these ordinary heads of the business of the Office are
added at the present time the following, viz:
First The direction of all appeals land claims in Cali
fornia.
Second The codcaon and revision of the laws of the
District of Columbia
Secretary of the Interior Department, Hon. Robert Nc
Ceand, of the State of Michigan. Its clerical force
consists Of one chief clerk George @. Whiting esq
one dsbursng agent and ten other regular clerks and to
Its supervision ard management committed the following
branches Of the public servicei
1st The Public EandsThe chiefof this bureau is called the
Commissioner Of the General Land Office The Land Bureau
charged with the survey management and sale Of the pub
lie domain and the issuing OF titles therefor, whether derived
rom Of grants made by former governments
by sales donations, Of grants for schools military bounes
or public improvements and likewise the revision Virginia
military bounty land claims, and the issuing scrip lieu
thereof The Land Oce also, audts its accounts The
present Commissioner Mr. John Wilson, of the District Of
Columbia. Its principal officers recorder, chief
principal clerk of public lands principal clerk Of private
land claims. and principal clerk surveysal of whom are
appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate
besides draughtsman assistant draughtsma and some log
clerks of various grades
3D. present head of this bureau the Hon.
Lorn p. Waldo, of Connecticut. The Commissioner is
charged with the examnaton and adjudication OF all claims
arising under the va ous and numerous laws passed by Con-
gress granting bounty land pensions for military naval
services IN the revolutionary and subsequent which
the United States have been engaged He has chief
clerk, IS Cole, esq) and permanent corps consist
ing of seventy other clerks, which Congress-
enable him to meet the extraordinary requirements the
bounty law, has added porary of about
hty clerkships of different denominations.
3d. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Hon. George
". Manypenny, of Ohio. He is provided with chief
clerk and about fifteen other subordinate clerks
ith. Patent Odice.-To this bureau is committed the
execution and performance OF all acts and things touching
and respecting the granting and Issuing of patents for
and useful discoveries Inventions and improvements y the
lection and distribution of seeds plants and cuttings It
has chief cerkwho is by law the present tme) the
Acting Commissioner Of Patents In the absence of the Com
principal and ten assistant examiners of pat
en besides dozen other subordinate permanent clerks
Besides these four principal branches of this executive
the organic act of 1s49 transferred to it from
the Treasury Department the supervision of the of
the United States marshas and attorneys and the clerks Of
other mines OF the United States and the affairs Of the pen
tenary of the United States in the District of Coumba
and from the State Department the duty of taking and
turning the the United States supervis-
ing and directing the of the Commissioner of Public
buildings. BY of Congress- ALSO the hospital for
the insane of the and navy and of the District of Coum
ba under the management of this department. and by
sgnment from the President has added its long list of
duties the survey and demacaon of the unsettled boundary
lines between the States and Territories and bordering
tions.
rated and located and should be appropriately and pera
neny provided for The Secretarys Office occupies por
on Of thenew Patent Office building the General Land Office
portion OF the Treasury building and the Pension Office
government whilst the Indian Office is located in premises
not fre-proof, and rented of their private owners.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The Treasury Department consists Of the offices of the Sec
retary Of Treasury comptroers commissioner of
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