The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-21
The Organization Of the Executive Deba rtme nts
OF the Government or the United States

The Organization OF the Exc cutive Dcbar artments
oil the Government OF the United States:
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Dspaecp. e STATE q Ne United states only follows
se % John Appleton one chief clerk twelve clerks,
charge q all correspondence bsween the
paa ass%'s M he United states aeoa and those Of foreign
sent from the departpen and
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being arst entered In an analytic table or index.
Consular Brcah This charge thc correspondence
&c. department and eorncrca agents
Of te United States In instructions to tsp officers,
lar agency or Relating 70 affairs prepared
TAe Dssy'ig s has charge all correspondence
disbursement Of which the department Is charged.
The Traiais duties 70 furnish such ransations The
dcpapent require lie nse records the
issued.
g appointments 6nsionsIIc makes out and records,
commissions letters of apntmcn and nominations the snate
makes ont and records exeanrs and records when IN English the
commissions which they charge library
CLERK @ charge the rolls or en-.
roi acts and resolutions Congress- they the
parment from The President prepares authenticated copies thereof
and ana aat Of eat n the aowspaIes and book ,rm attends to
ments and publications regard 10 which this duty assigned the
department writing and answering all letters connected herewith
Has charge Of all Indian treaties and business relating thereto
G'ek q AaAesains ed He has charge Of the
attaches ceaeass to papers presented for auhsnen receives
and and % ne fees g, Has charge qualifications transmitted 70
dexe their ,c records all letters from tho department other
the diplomatic and consular
and remssion and registers and nlcs he petitions papers
daily register d letters other than diplomatic and consular re-
eced and ofthc disposition male Of hem letters relating
70 this business.
GENERALS
Hon. jeremiah Black Attorney States
H. Gilc chief The ordinary
classified under the following heads
Official opnos on The current business Of the government,
called for BY The President by any head Of department or by the So
purchased sites Of
arsca custom houses light houses and all other public works Of
s Applications for pardons all
Applications appointment all the Judicial legal
The act and argucn, Of all suits in the supreme Court q
the United states IN which the government Is concerned
when referred S head ereo is Attorney General ail''
TO these ordinary heads Of the business tho office added
First The direction O. all appeals land claims in California
second The codncaon and revision Of tho laws of the District Of
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son. & ,c sae o sa Is eeral force consists q one chief
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following 4 branhss s ,a the public @ ser, service C
missioner Of the General Land The bureau charged
issuing therefor whether derived from ronnrna,os grants
made BY former by sales donato schools
military boncs public improvements and likewise the revision
Of Virginia military bounty land clnis, scrip
present Commissioner Hon. Hendricks, Of Indiana It's pn
p sss srs s r.Sersr chief Clerk principal s e
2d Tcaso,sThe present head Of this bureau George c
Whiting, Of Virginia. The commissioner charged with The cxami
nation and adjudication Of an claims arising under the various and
laws passed by Congress granting bounty land pensions
for the military or naval in the revolutionary and
chief clerk g. Cole and consisting Of some
seventy o,sG clerks l, eoneres enable him ne
temporary force Of about W ckshps Of different lenonnsiois
Mix ofesose,awn lie isprovcd with chief clerk and about
4ih Ia ocTo this bureau i committed the execution and
performances Of all ct and things touching and respecting the grant
and the collection q statistics relating % agriculture
the collection aud distribution q seeds plants and cuttings has
the absence Of the principal and twelve
clerks, besides considerable temporary employees
Besides these four branches q hia new executive depart
partmen the Of the accounts Of the United States
states,
q the p,cnary q the United s,ae in the District Of conmba aud
from e state Department the duty Of taking and returning the cen
Of the United States and Of supervising and directing the acts Of
The army and navy and Of The District q Columbia + also der the
management Of this departments IN addition to which, by laws re-
sracton Of the rcc roads leading tho Pacific
The department requires additional building nccemmoa
ton repeatedly during
tho last few years for that AZ present tho Tension ONCE
provided with in what known .Windcr Doidng while
the oer branches Of the department including the sccreary Office
building tho whole which
will 10 required at early day for tho of The Pacnt Oc for
which y was originally intended
Tho Treasury Department the Offices Of tho Secretary OF
tho Treasury
diors rec solicitor light house board and coast sur
following brief Indication these
ces, of tho employed therein, respectively:
Seays Howell Cobb, Secretary OF the Treasury
Hon Philip secrcary; In CHARGE
architect and three draehmcn temporarily cmpoce and twenty
and navigation Of the
United States He supertcnd the the coast the house
United the
strucon OF cr,n public buildings for custom houses and other pr
poses
Coprt,oiey ONc-IIon William Medli Comptroller, and
fifteen clerks HI pccrie the mode OF keeping and rendering
well public
rcviscs aud ocrtihcs the balances arising thereon.
Camrsoer's OfccIoln Brsihcaa esq, Comptroller
the mode OF Keeping and render
the and Indian departments OF the
0oe Of Commissioner cf CetopsIIug Anderson esq
clerks c prcbc the mode OF keeping
disbnrsc
mc for the building and repairing custom houses Sc and re-
viscs and certGes the balances arising thereon
Firx Auiaors Thomas l. smith, esq, firs, Auditor and
adjusts the accounts Of The customs
Disbursements appropriations and expenditures on ac
private acts OF Congress and reports
the Customs and the First Comp
trouer respectively, far their decision thereon
ogoThomas j. d. Fuller, Second Andtor and
and nl all accounts relating 70
the pay clothing recruiting the well as ornor
all relating to tho Indian depart
and reports the balances 10 the Second Comptroller for ny drc
sion thereon
Andors OccRober esq., Third Auditor, and
all accounts for sub
Military Academy, military roais
and the department vol for pcnSons Claims
arising military 1876 and for horses and
other property service acts Con
go the balances the second Comptroller Tor MS dc