The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-07
rbe Organization OF the Executive Depart
ments OF the Government OF the United states
DEPARrMEsr OF srATE.

TIE whole machinery employed To conduct the business
arising % Guy y ~ Ia & in Is Win !; Az sls powers
seved The number employed in the Department of State
o. @ lne NJ State (Hon william 81 Maroyl one Ssss,Nt
Secretary Of state, (Wrliam Hunter, chief clerk,
taeIys clerks, translator, and one librarian.
Dtosae BraMoIThis branch Of the State Department
has charge Of all correspondence between the department and
other diplomatic agents Of the United STATES abroad and
those foreign powers accredited this government In it
an diplomatic Instructions sent tFom the department and
communications to commissioners under treaties
% prepared, copied, and recorded and all OF like
character received registered aud fled their
being first entered in an analytic table or index.
Conspior Braheh.Ths branch has charge Of the
commercial agents Of the United States In instructions
those officers and to their dispatches and let
TORS from other persons asking consular agencv or rea
ting to consular affairs prepared and recorded
The DisJarsay Agente has charge of all correspond
and other matters connected with relating
any fund with the disbursement OF which the department.
charged.
The 7Fanslator. His duties furnish such
ton q the department may require lie also records the
upon which ezequatnrs are tssued
CLERK of Appointments and Commions.-He makes out
and records commissions letters Of appointment and nomi
and records when English the commissions which they
issued. Has charge of the library.
Clek Of The ols aud ArehipesHe takes charge Of the
rolls enrolled acts and resolutions OF Congress- they
received the department from the Presden prepares
authenticated copies thereof which called for pre-
for and supenends their publication and that Of rea
ties the newspapers and in book form attends TO their
distribution throughout the United States Of all
documents and publications in regard to which this duty
assigned 70 the department writing and answering all let
connected Herewith Has charge OF all Indian treaties
and business relating thereto
Clerk Of AntAeaiicaons and CopyriyhtIIe has charge
Of the seals Of the United States and Of the department and
prepares and attaches certificates papers presented
thentcaon receives and for the fees Has charge
publications transmitted to the department under the laws
relating copyrights records and indexes their tides re-
cords all letters from the department other than the dpo
matte and consular.
CLERK Of Puons and Passports prepares and records
and papers which they founded. Makes and
cords passports keeps daily register Of all letters other
than diplomatic and CONSULAR received and OF the dspos
on made OF them prepares letters relating to this business
ATTORNEY GENERALS
Hon. Caleb Cushing, Attorney General Of the United
States II. H. Glet esq, chief clerk The ordinary busi
Of this Office may be classified under the following
heads
/. Official opinions the business of the govern
mon called for BY the President by any head of depart
Examination of the titles of all land purchased the
sites Of arsenas honses light houses, and all other
public works Of the United States.
Applications for pardon in all of conviction in the
courts Of the United States.
Applications for appointment in all the Judicial and legal
business Of the government.
o. 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 at The present time the following, viz:
First The direction Of all appeals land claims in Cali
fornia.
Second The ooddeaon and revision the laws OF the
District IL Columbia,
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Secretary of the Interior Department Hon. Robert Nc
Geland, Of the State OF Michigan. Its clerical force
consists Of chief clerk, George G. Whiting, esq)
its supervision and management committed the following
branches OF the public service;
1st TIE Public LandThe chefof this called
commissioner Of the General Land 0ce The Land Bureau
is charged with the survey management and sale pub
lie domain and the issuing of titles therefor whether derived
from confrmaons OF grants made by former governments
by sales, donations grants for schools military bounties
public and likewise the revision Virginia
military bounty land claims and the issuing Of scrip in lieu
thereof The Land Office also, auds its accounts. The
present Commissioner is Hon. 7. H. Hendricks Of In
diana. Its principal officers recorder, chief or
principal clerk OF public lands principal clerk Of private
land claims and principal clerk Of of whom
appointed By the President and confirmed by the Senate
besides draughtsman assistant draughman and LOG
clerks of various grades.
3D. present head this bureau the Hon
Josiah Minot, of New hampshire The Commissioner is
charged with the exaunaon and adjudication of all claims
arising under the and numerous laws passed by Con-
granting bounty land pensions for military naval
services in the revolutionary and subsequent in which
the United States have been engaged He has CHIEF
clerk, tS Cole, esq, and permanent corps consist
ing Of seventy other clerks to which Congress,
enable him 70 meet the extraordinary requirements Of the
fifty cierkships OF different denominations.
Sd htdansC Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Hon. George
v. Manypenny, Of Ohio. He is provided with chief
clerk and about fifteen othS subordinate clerks.
4th Patent OGce-To this bureau is committed the
execution and performance Of all acts and things touching
and respecting the granting and Issuing Of patents for new
collection OF statistics relating to agriculture the col
lection and distribution Of seeds plants and cuttings 10
has chief cerkwbo Is by law Gas at the present me) the
Acting Commissioner of Patents the absence Of the Com
missionerten principal and assistant of pat
en besides dozen other subordinate permanent clerks
Besides these four principal branches Of this executive
department, the organic IS49 transferred il
the Treasury Department the supervision Of the of
the United States marsha and attorneys and the clerks Of
the United states the OF the lead and
other mines Of the United States and the affairs Of the pen
tsutiary OF the United States in the District of Columbia
and from the State Department the duty Of taking and
turning the of the United States and Of superys
ing and directing the acts Of the Commissioner of Public
the insane the ARMY and navy and o the District Of Coum
ba under the OF this department and by
sgnment FROM the President it has added to its long list Of
duties the survey and searcaon OF the unsettled boundary
lines between the States and Territories and bordering
tions.
This department present very nconyenienty sepa
rated and located and should be appropriately and perm
neny provided for The Secretarys office occupies por
ton OF thenew Patent Office buidng the General Land Office
portion of the Treasury bniding and the Pension Office
portion of 'winders building" the property the
government, whilst the Indian Office l. located in premises
not 6re-proof and rented Of their private owners.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The Treasury Department consists the offices pf The Sec
retarY Of the Treasury cOmprolers, commissioner Of
The customs six auditors treasurer register solicitor light
house board, and coast survey.
The following Is brief indication OF the duties of these
several offices and Of the force employed therein respectively
Secretary 0fcsIon James Guthrie Secretary Of the
Treasury Hon. Il, q, Washington, Assistant Secretary
engineer charges architect and three daughtsmen
temporarily empoyed and twenty three clerks The Secre
ary Of the Treasury Is charged with the general supervision
cutun Of the concerning the and navigation
Of the United States He supefntends the Of the