The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-15
The Organization or the Executive Depart
ments OF the Government of the United states.
pEPARrMENr on srArE.


pEPARrMENT OF STATE,
The whole machinery employed to conduct the business
arising out Of oar foreign relations with ell the powers
Of the world is far simple than Is generally LJ-
the United States only seventeen follows One Sec
rotary Of State lHon William T. Marcy,l one Assistant
twelve clerks, one translator, and one librarian.
Diplomatic Braneh-This branch of the State Department
charge all correspondence between the department and
those Of oresn powers accredited 20 ibis i
all diplomatic instructions sent from the department. and
TO commissioners under treaties Of bounda
ries &c. are prepared copied and recorded and like
character received registered and fled their
being first entered in analytic table or index.
Consular Branch branch has chGfge Of the cores
pondence &e between the department and the conuls and
commercial agents of the United States In it instructions
those officers and answers to their dispatches and to let
from other asking for consular agency rea
ting TO consular affairs, are prepared and recorded
The D6arsing has charge of all correspond
any fund with the disbursement of which the depar is
charged
The Tanslaor.His duties to furnish such transa-
lions the department require He also records the
commissions and vice consu when in English
upon which exequaturs are issued.
Clerk of appointments egd cop,mjssions.He makes out
and records commissions letters Of appointment AMI nomi
nations to the Senate makes out and records
and records when English the commissions which they
are issued. Has charge of the library.
Clerk of the Rolls and ArchipeHe takes charge of the
rolls enrolled acts and resolutions Of Congress- as they
received at the department from the Presidents prepares
authenticated copies thereof which called for
psres and superntends their publication and that OF ta
ties the newspapers and in book form attends to their
distribution throughout the United States and that of all
and publications in regard TO which this duty is
assigned to the writing and answering all let
connected herewith Has charge OF all Indian treaties
and business relating thereto.
Clerk Of Amhenneations and CoPyighs,He has charge
Of the seals Of the United States ana Of the ana
henoaon receives and accounts for the fees Has charge
qualifications transmitted to the under the laws
cords all letters from the department other than the dio
matte and consular
CLERK of Pardons Passports. prepares and records
pardon and remon and registers and files the petitions
and papers which they founded Makes out and
cords passports keeps daily register of all letters other
than diplomatic and consular received of the DISPOSE
ton made OF prepares letters relating 70 TINS business
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE,
Hon. Caleb Cushing, Attorney General Of the United
States; r. H. Giet, esq., chief clerk The ordinary bust
Of this office may be classified under the following
l. Official opinions the current business Of the govern
The 81 Solicitors Of hs treasury
a. Examination Of the titles Of all purchased, the
sites arsena custom houses and all other
public works of the United States.
g. Applications for paron in all cases OF conviction in the
courts OF the United States.
A. Applications for appointment in all the Judicial and legal
business OF the government.
s. The conduct and argument of all suits in the Supreme
Court Of the United States in which the
eerned.
g. The supervision of all other suits arising any of the
departments when referred by the head thereof to the Aor
10 these ordinary heads of the business of the office
added at the present time the following, viz:
First. The direction Of all appeals on land claims in Cali
fornia.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT..
Celland of the State of Michigan. Its clerical force
consists of one chief clerk George G. Whiting, esq,)
its superyisios and are committed the following
branches of the public service:
LIST. The Public chefo this bureau called the
Commssioner 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 grants for schools military bounties
public improvements and likewise the revision of Virginia
military bounty land claims and the issuing of scrip in lieu
thereof The Land Office also audits its accounts The
present Commissioner is Hon. 7. II. Hendricks of In
diana. Its principal officers recorder chief or
principal clerk public lands principal clerk of private
land claims and principal clerk Of Of whom are
besides draghtsman assistant draughtsman and some LOG
clerks Of various grades.
3D. present head Of this bureau Hon.
Josiah Minot of New Hampshire. The Commissioner is
charged with the exannaon and adjudication OF all claims
arising under the and numerous laws passed by Con-
gess granting bounty land pensions for military naval
services in the revolutionary and subsequent in which
the United States have been engaged He has chier
ing Of some seventy other clerks which Congress
enable him meet the extraordinary requirement q the
bounty land law has added temporary force of about
fifty clerkships of different denominations
Sd. Indians Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Hon. George
w. Manypenny, OF ONO lie IL PROVIDED with chieI
clerk and about fifteen other subordinate clerks
4th. Patent OGcc.-To this bureau is committed the
execution and performance OF all Facts and things touching
and respecting the granting and issuing of patents for
and useful discoveries Inventions and improvements y the
collection of statistics relating to agriculture the col
lection and distribution of Seeds plants and cuttings 1t
has chief cerkwho is by law Gas at the present te) the
Acting Commissioner of Patents the absence of the Com
principal and ten assistant examiners OF pat
ents besides dozen other subordinate permanent clerks
Besides these four principal branches of this executive
department the organic of l849 transferred to it from
Treasury Department the supervision the accounts OF
the United States COURTS the Of the lead and
other mines the United States and the affairs of the peni
Tertiary Of the United States in the District Of Columbia
and from the State Department the duty of taking and re-
ing and directing the acts of the Commissioner OF Public
Buildings By of Congress- also, the hospital for
the of the army and navy and of the District of Column
ba under the management OF this departments and by
sgnment from the President it has added to its long list of
duties the survey and demacaon Of the unsettled boundary
lines between the States and Territories and bordering
tions.
This department is at present very nconvenienty sepa
rated and located and should be appropriately and perma
nenty provided for The Secretarys Office occupies por
ton Of henew Office building the General Land Office
portion Of ''winders building the property OF the
whilst the Indian Office located in premises
not fire proof, and rented Of their private
TREASURY DEPARTMENT..
The Treasury Department consists OF the Offices of the Sec
rotary the Treasury, two comproer commissioner OF
CUSTOMS six auditors treasurer register SOLICITOR light
house board, and coast survey
The following brief indication Of the duties of these
several the force employed therein respectively
Sccrearys O6ccHon James Guthrie, Secretary of the
Treasury Hon. p g. Washington, Assistant Secretary
engineer charge architect and three
temporarily employed and twenty three clerks The Secre
of the fiscal the and of the