The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-06-17
The Organization OF the Executive Departments
of the Government Of the United States;

The Organization Of the Executive Departments
of the Government Of the United States;
The whole machinery employed arising
-four foreign relations with all the powers OF the world for
simple than = % ny %Isa sa Inc oD ISSSr y o y ne
cut secretary state on Lewis css one Assistant Secretary Of
s n John Appeon0 one chief clerk twelve clerks Que trans
ger ard one librarian 4
prtonate BrunehThs branch d the state Department
charge Of all between tns aud other d
accredited 10 this government In all diplomatic instructions
the department and communications TO commissioners un
der boundaries &C. prepared copied and recorded and
like character received registered and died. their contents
being entered in an analytic table or index
Consular B,anhTh charge correspondence
&C. the department and the conus and commercial
oCte United those
10 their dispatches persons asking
r agency relating consular affairs, prepared and reSor
Th DiJausfng oae has charge all correspondence
other connected with relating fund with the
disbursement of which the department Is charged
The TruaoIns duties furnish such tranaions the
department require lie also the commissions oosus
and vice onsu when not IN English upon which cxcqnaturs are
issued
commissions letters of appointment and nominations the senaie
out and records exeqaurs and records when IN English the
CLk Of Rolls and Aychirrs charge Of the rolls
rolled acts aud resolutions Congress- they received at the de-
called or for and superntens their publication
and that Of treaties the newspors and book form attends to
and publications regard to which this duty Is assigned to the
department. writing and answering all letters connected herewith
charge all Indian treaties, and business relating thereto
CLERK o Aldheiunons CpyyigsIIe has charge Of the
s ss gss s sna e ns @ Ha Ts Saa
Has charge publications transmitted
department under tho relating copyghts records and in
their titles records all letters from the department. other than
the diplomatic and consular
CLERK of Paaos Passports prepares pardcns
sions and registers and files the petitions and papers
thoy founded Makes passports; keeps
daily register all letters, other than diplomatic and consular
y and Of the disposition madc Of them letters relating
his tusiress.
GENERALS
jeremiah Black Attorney General Of the United States R.
classified under the following heads;
opinions the current business of the
called by the President by head OF department by the SO
Examnaon Of the titles of all land purchased as the sites of
ana custom houses lighthouses and all other public works Of
the United States.
Applications appointment in all the judicial legal business
Tie conduct and Of all suits in the supreme Court Of
the United States in which the government Is concerned.
supervision all ari3ing any depart
when referred by the head thereof to tho Attorney General
To these ordinary heads the business Of the office
the present time the following, viz: ,U.a
Of appeals on land claims in California
Second The codcaton and revision of the laws of the District of
Columbia
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Secretary Department Inee Jacob Tbomp
son. of the state Of Mississippi e clerical orse consist, q % Cne chief
lar Clerks and to is supervision and management committed the
following branches Of the public service;
missioner the General Land Once. The Land Bureau charged
issuing titles iecor whether derived from Combinations grants
made by former by sales donacn for schools
military bounes public improvements and likewise the revision
of Virginia military bounty land claims and the issuing of scrip in
present Commissioner Hendricks, Indiana pn
% officers recorder chief clerk principal clerk Of surveys
besides drauhsma, assistant drarghtman and some 100 clerks
ID Pa,sio,s-The present bureau George c.
nation and adjudication Of all cms arising under the various and
for the military revolutionary subsequent
in which the United States have been engaged He has
seventy other clerks, which Congress- enable him the
extraordinary requirements Of the new bounty law
temporary nf cierksrs
3d. indiansC Commissioner of Indian Affairs ad interim Charles f.
@ mGeorgeown d. G. lie provided with Chief clerk and about
fifteen other subordinate clerks.
performance Of all ac and things touching and respecting the grant
ing and issuing patents for and useful discoveries Inventions
the collection and distribution Of seeds plants cuttings has
chief ocrkwho by law tho acting Commissioner Of Patents in
the absence the principal and twelve
sn examiners Of PATENTS some dozen subordinate permanent
these four principal branches Of this new executive depart
mrn the organic 1919 transferred to from the Treasury De
tmcn the supervision Of the the United States marbas
and attorneys and the clerks Of the United States courts the
the Saa Sua aeT n n nsi g fna be % comS ans
from the State Department the nt Of taking and returning the
the Commissioner Public Buildings The hospital for the
the and navy and Of the District of Columbia also under the
management of this department. addition which, by laws
Gently passed the Secretary of the Interior charged with the con
sucton Of the three roads leading the Pacific
ton and the repeatedly recommended during
provided rooms in what IS known awmder's Bnlng,'
the other branches the including the Sccreay Office
are all crowded into the Patent Office bsng the whole Of which
vi" be required early the Patent Office
which 1t was originally intended.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The Treasury Department consists the offices OF the Secretary OF
the Treasury, compoers the customs, six
u treasurer register solicitor lighthouse board and coast sur
The following brief indication the duties several Off
COS and of the force employed therein, respectively:
s7oays 0GIlon Howell Cobb Secretary of the Treasury;
Hon Philip Clayton Assistant Secretary engineer III charges one
architect and three drnugsmcn temporarily employed and twenty
three clerks The Secretary Of the Treasury charged with the gen
ea supervision OF tho fiscal transactions OF the government and o The
execution OF the the and navigation OF the
United States supcrn,ends survey the the light house
establishment the hospitals the United States and the
non certain public buildings custom houses and other pnr
poses.
FRS Conrroliers OGcc-IIon. William Medi, Comptroller and
ch clerks He prccrbes the mode keeping and rendering ac-
counts for the civil diplomatic well the public ns,
and revises and certhes the balances arising thereon
Srond Copproe's 0aoeJoln Brodhead ESQ., Comptroller,
Ing the army and Indian departments oil the
public rvises cernes the balances arising thereon
Office Of Commissioner Of The CsoDEugh j. Anderson, esq,
Commissioner eleven clerks He pescrbc the mode Of keeping
ana rendering the OF the customs and dsbuse
mn and for the building and repairing custom houses &C. and re-
Wees and ccr,ilcs the balances arising ts2reon
Fs Aufaos o6oeTomas Smith, esq, First Auditor and
nineteen clerks He and adjusts the accounts OF the customs
revenue and disbursements appropriations and expenditures on ac-
count OF tho civil list AM under private acts of Congress- and reports
the balances the the Customs and the First comp
troller, respectively, for their decision thereon.
Second Audd0s 0GcThomas D. Fuller, Second Auditor and
twenty clerks and adjusts all accounts relating 10
acna ordnance all relating the Indian depart
Comptroller for his dcCi