The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-04
The Organization OF the Executive Depart
ments or the Government of the United states

The Organization OF the Executive Depart
ments or the Government of the United states.
DErARrmEsT or STATE.
The whole machinery employed conduct the business
arising out Of foreign relations with all the powers
az the world is simple than Is generally
eeged The number empoyed in the Department Of State
retary Of State Chou. William H. Marcy,) Assistant
Secretary OF State tWiIam HQnter one chief clerk,
twelve clerks, one translator, and one librarian
Diplomatic Branch-This branch OF the State Department
has charge correspondence between the department and
other Diplomatic agents Of the United States abroad and
those of foreign powers accredited TO this In it
e plomatic instructions from the department, and
communications commissioners under treaties OF bounda
es &c. prepared copied and reeorded and all OF IKE
character received registered and filed their contents
being first entered in analytic table or index.
Consular BraneaThis branch has charge of the CORES
Commercial agents Of tho United States. In it instructions
those officers ard their dispatches and to let
rs from other persons asking consular agency
ting consular affairs, are prepared and recorded
The Dtsbursiay Agea.He has charge of all correspond
and other matters connected with relating to
charged
The Traasoor His duties furnish such rausla-
tions as the department may require lie also records the
commissions of consn and vice consrl when not in Engh
upon which exequaturs are issued.
Cierk Of Apposntcaen and Co,ngissioas.He makes
and records commissions letters OF appontment and nomi
nations to the Senate makes out and records exeGuatu
and records when in English the which they
are Issued Has charge OF the library.
Clerk Of The Rolls aad ArehresHe takes charge of the
rolls enrolled acts and resolutions of Congress- they
received at the department from the Presidents prepares
the authenticated copies thereof which called for pre-
pes for superinends their publication that trea
ties in the newspapers and in book form attends to their
distribution throughout the United States, and of all
oeunents and publications in regard to which this duty
assigned to the department; writing and answering all let
connected Herewith Has charge Indian treaties
and business relating thereto
Clerk of Authorizations and Copyrqnts has charge
the seals of the United States and the department and
prepares and attaches aates papers presented
publications transmitted the department under the laws
relating to copyrghs records and indexes their titles
cords all letters from the department. other the dpio
matte and consular.
Clerk of Paraons and Passports prepares records
padons and remssons and registers and lilies the petitions
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 etters relating this business
ATTORNEY aENEnAL's OFFICE.
Hon Caleb tm Cushing, Attorney General Of tho United
of this office may be classified under the following
heads
l. Official opinions on the current business of the govern
men called for BY the President by any head Of depart
ment, or by the Solicitor of the Treasury.
2 Examination of the titles of all land purchased, the
sites of arsenas custom honses lighthouses and all other
public works of the United States
Applications for pardons all Of conviction in the
courts Of the United States
Applications for appointment in all the judicial and legal
The conduct argument of all suits in the Supreme
Court of the United States in which the
o. The supervision of all other arising in any of the
departments when referred by the head thereof to the Ao
TO ordinary heads the business of the Office arc
added at the present time the following, viz.
fornia. H.
Second The codifcaion and revision Of the laws OF the
District Of Columbia.
DEPARTMENT..
Secretary Of the Interior Department Hon. Robert Nc
consists of chief clerk, (George c. Whiting, esq)
Its supervision ard management committed the following
branches of the public service:
lst The Puic LnndThe chefof this bureau called the
commissioner OF the General Land Office" The LanI Bureau
charged with the management and sale of this pub
lie domain aud the issuing OF titles therefor whether derived
from combinations Of grants made By former governments
by sales donations, OF gran for schools military bounties
or public ements and likewise the revision of Virginia
military bounty land claims and the issuing of scrip
present Commissioner is Hon. I. II. Hendricks of In
DIANA Its principal officers recorder, chief or
land claims and principal clerk of surveysa Of whom are
appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate
clerks of various grades
I'd present head of this bureau the Hon.
Josiah Mnot OF New Hampshire. The Commissioner is
charged with the examination aid adjudication of all claims
arising under the laws passed BY Con-
gress granting bounty land pensions for military naval
services m the revolutionary and subsequent in which
the United States have been engaged He chief
clerk, IS Cole esq.,) and permanent corps consist
ing OF some seventy other clerks, which Congress
enable him to meet the extraordinary requirements OF the
new bonntland law has added porary force Of about
fifty clerkships of different denominations.
Sd. Of Indian Affairs Hon. George
W. Manypenny, of Ohio. He is provided with chiet
clerk and about fifteen other subordinate clerks.
4th. Patent OHfce.--To this bureau is committed the
execution and performance of a Facts and things touching
ana respecting the granting and issuing of patents for
and usefn discoveries Inventions and improvements " the
collection Of statistics relating agriculture the col
lection and distribution OF Seeds plants and cuttings
bas Chief cierkho by law las at the te) tho
Acting Commissioner OF Patents the absence of the Com
principal and ten assistant examiners Of pat
Besides these four principal branches of this
department. the organic Of ls9 transferred
the Treasury Department the supervision Of the
the United States marsas and attorneys and the clerks
other mines of the United States affairs of the peni
tentiary of the United States in the District Columbia
and from the State Department the duty Of taking and
turning the OF the United States and of
ing and directing the acts of the Commissioner of Public
Buildings. BY of Congress- ALSO hospital
the insane OF the and and of the District of Column
ba Is under the OF this department. and by
sgnment from the President it has added long list
duties the survey and demarcaton of the unsettled boundary
lines between the States and Territories and bordering ma
tions. ses.f st.ys s.
This department Ia at present very sepa-
rated and located and should be appropriately pera
neny provided for The Secretarys oce occupies por
ton Of thenew Patent Office building the General Land Office
aporton of the Treasury building and the Pension Office
portion Of Wnder's building" the property of the
government, whilst the Indian Office located promises
not hre-proof, and rented of their private owners.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The Treasury Department consists of the offices Of the Sec
rctarY OF the Iroaury two comptroers commissioner of
the customs. auditors
house board and coast survey -
The following briet indication Of the duties Of these
several Offices and Of oree employed therein respectively