The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-17

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The Organization OF the Executive Departments
of the Government OF the United States
DEPARTMENT
The ae employed conduct the business arsing out
oar fren reion wh all the pgters of the world is
nr, q sss s1er1 q ~ g States as on s sss = ans a s
Secretary of State n Lewis Assistant Secretary of
iaor, and librarian.
Diplomatic branch es the state Department. Aas
pair as@ns e ,c uned states abroad and those oe foreign
aecreeid % tiR government In all diplomatic instructions
sent from ,he de@rwe ani communication commissioners
DER treaties g boundaries se are prepared copied and recorded and
being first cntcred In an analytic table or index.
csus4ar Charge oorTcspoadence
Sci bsecn e department and the unnnis and eonmerr agents
dispatches and persons asking
bar relating % ars prepared and recorded
Tn B1uig Ae1aHe charge ali correspondence and
otaer relating any
disbursement % whieh the department IA charged
The Tansia;or Ills dir furnish sneh TRANSACTIONS the
department may rrqairc. cousus
and yiac sonsa when not in Eghsh whh
issued
Glen, of A,g.,a,s ana c1arsios
commissions letters q apnntmen aad nominations 20 he Senate
exqnaurs and records when in English, the
commissions which they issued Has charge oS The library
Cs1 n charge q the ros
partnen from he president the auhentle eoes
which called far for and suennts their publication
their buin hroughont United states
and pnbcabnns which assigned
charge Indian treas business retailing thereto
Il Authorizations caggiohtsIc charge 81 the
seaia c the und States and q the department and prepares and
attaches oericas 70 paiers presented for receives
the under the Laws rng cpyght records and in
xes their titles records all letters the department. other than
the diplomatic and consular.
CIert Jadoa and He prepares aud records parons
and remssie and registers and acs the petitions and ers on
daily register q all letters other than diplomatic and consular
eyed and a the disposition made OF them letters relating
n business.
ATTORNEY essKRAls OFFICE
Hon Jerema, Black Attorney General states
II G ESQ., chief clerk The ordinary business o this Office may be
l. oca opinions government
by the President by bead of department. by the so
Esauinaies Of the titles purchased the sites
assnas custom houses light houses and all other public works q
J. Appcaions padons eases the
Applications appointment judicial legal business
s. argument Supreme
the United sates in which the government concerned
nis When referred BY the head thcreof 10 the Atarey
Tothcsc ordinary beads Of the business q the Office added at
The direction q appeals land els California
second The coiaeain and revision d the laws q the District Of
Celumba-
INTERIOR pEsAKrsrxsr
Secretary Department Of the Iesr Hon Jacob Thomp
the State q Mississippi ~ clerical force consists Of one chief
lar supervision committed the
iosns M ga ors,se si u = he pTne T er sers s. m he
,nisslonc the General The charged
issuing shrclr whether grants
me by orner " sales onao grants M schools
Ign military bounty land claims and the issuing Of scrip in
present Commissioner Hon A. Hendricks Of Indiana IL prn
c recorder chief clerk principal clerk of
dranghtuan draughtaman and l5o clerks
whiting Of Virginia. charged rxami
nation and aan o a Claims arising under s ,e various "a ana
fr the military naval services in e revolutionary and subsequent