The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-26
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\ -. organization OF the Executive Depart
4 n,snts on the Government orthe United states.
pEPARrMEST
,bola machinery employed to conduct the business
- out 81 our foreign relations with all the powers
gtS world 4 far simple than is generally con
sysd The number employed IN the Department o. State
49,, II State (Hon William T. Marey,) Assistant
Scrs,ary II State, (Ion, D. y hann,) chief clerk
IrgSs cerkb, one translator and one librarian.
,,ee BrOneh.--Tls branch Of the State Department
sr or All correspondence between the department and
NO Diplomatic agents of the United States abroad, and
~ n orgn powers accredited 10 this government. Ia 1t
IN omalo Instructions sent from the department, and
Communications 70 eommisksr under treaties 81 bounda
trr received registered and filed, their contents
fDisg first entered in analytic table or index.
ro.,ar Brqnch-This branch has charge Of the
pondsnce &c between the and the consas and
toe officers and 70 their dispatches and to let
m from other persons asking for consular agency or rela
ting 70 consular affairs are prepared ana recorded
ri, DfJarsiag Agent He has charge Of all correspond
mi other matters connected with relating to
ny fund With the disbursement Of which the department
charged.
"a. T,a,sator His duties to furnish such ransla
lions a. he department may require He also records the
mmissons aud vice consns when not In English
upon which exequaturs are issued.
igyk of Appointments and cobmssions.IIe makes out
and records commissions letters Of appointment and non
nations the Senate makes out and records exequaturs
are Issued Has charge OF the library
Clyk ~ ne Rolls and ArehiresHe takes charge Of the
rolls or enrolled and resolutions Of Congress- as they
~ sved AZ the department from the President. prenares
the authenticated copies thereof which called for pre-
par for and superinonds their publication, and that OF
e the newspapers and in book form attends their
distribution throughout the United States that OF all
documents and publications in regard to which this duty
assigned the department writing and answering all let
ers connected herewith Has charge all Indian treaties
and business relating thereto
cs or AuheHtcations and Copyriqifs-He has charge
Of the Of the United States and of the department and
certificates papers presented for a
ecaion receives and accounts for the fees Has charge
publications transmitted to the department under the
relating copyrghs records and indexes their titles re-
cords all letters from the department. other than the dplo
matte and consular.
CrE Of Pdrons and PassportHe prepares and records
paron and remssons and registers and files the petitions
and papers which they founded. Makes out and re-
cords passports keeps daily register of all letters other
than diplomatic and CONSULAR received and of the DISPOSE
ton made clhem prepares letters relating to this business
ATTORNEY oEsERAls OFFICE.
Hon. Caleb Cushing, Attorney General of the United
States X. IA. Gllet esq, chief clerk. The ordinary bust
heads
l. Official opinions the business of the govern
called for by the President by head Of depart
ment, by the Solicitor of the Treasury.
Examination Of the titles Of al land purchased, the
sites Of arsenas custom houses light houses, and ali other
public works of the United States
Applications for pardons in all of conviction in the
Applications for appointment in all 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 con-
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
ornia.
District of Columbia.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Secretary of the Interior Department Hon. Robert Me-
ITS carir torCe
consists Of chief clerk, (George G.. Whiting, esq -
one disburng agent and ten other regular clerks and
It's supervision ard management committed the following
branches OF the public services
let The Public LandThe chief of this bureau 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
from combinations of grants made by former governments
by sales, donations, OF grant for schools military bounes
rpubc improvements and likewise the revision Virginia
military bounty land claims, and the issuing scrip
thereof The Land Oce also audits its own accounts The
present Commissioner is Mr.. John Wilson, of the District
Columbia Its principal officers recorder, chief
principal clerk Of public lands principal clerk Of private
appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate
besides assistant draughtsman and LOG
3D. PensonsThe present head Of this bureau is the Hon
Lorin J. Waldo, Of Connecticut The Commissioner is
charged with the examination and adjudication of all claims
arising under the and laws passed by
granting bounty land pensions military or naval
services in the revolutionary and subsequent which
the United States have been engaged. He has one chief
clerk, Is. Cole, esq,) and permanent corps consist
ing Of seventy other clerks to which Congress- to
enable him TO meet the extraordinary requirements Of the
new bounty land law has added temporary force Of about
hfy clcrkships of different denominations
3D. iadians-Commssone of Indian Affairs, Hon. George
". Manypenny, OF Ohio. He is provided with chief
clerk and about fifteen other subordinate clerks.
ith Patent O4ice.-To this bureau Is committed the
execution and performance of all and things touching
ana respecting the granting and issuing OF patents for
ana useful discoveries inventions and Improvements - the
collection of statistics relating agriculture the col
on and distribution OF seeds plants, and cuttings 1t
1as chief clekwho by law the present tne) the
Aching Commissioner Of Patents the absence the Com
mssloneten principal and ten assistant examiners pat
% besides some dozen other subordinate permanent clerks
besides these four principal branches of this executive
department the organic act Of ls49 transferred it from
e treasury Department the supervision the
ae United States mashals and attorneys and the clerks
the United States courts the the lead and
ner mines of the United States and affairs of the pen
entary OF the United States in the District of Coumba
and from the State Department the duty taking and re-
turning the censues of the United States and supery
ing and directing the acts of the Commissioner Public
Buildings BY recent acts of Congress- Also hospital for
e insane OF the and navy and of the District Of Cou
a Is under the management OF this department; and
sgnment from the President has added 10 ts long M Of
duties the survey and demarcaton of the unsettled
nc between the States and Territories and bordering ma
tons - -
This department present very nconvenienty sepa-
rated and located and should be appropriately and perma
enty provided for The Secretarys office occupies por-
uon 81 thenew Patent Office building the General Land Office
aporon of the Treasury building aud the Pension Office
portion Of 'Winders building" now the property Of the
government, whilst the Indian Office is located in premises
0't hTe-proof and rented Of their private owners
pEpARraESr.
The Treasury Department consists the offices Of tho Sec
atN oi the Treasury, two comptrolers commissioner
s SIX auditors treasurer register solicitor, light
The following is brief indication Of the duties OF these
several Offices and Of the force employed therein respectively
Secre'arys 06oeton. James Guthrie Secretary OF the