The Washington union., 1858-02-17
The Organization Of the Executive Departments
of the Government Of the United States
STATE DEPARTMENT..


Of the Government Of the United States
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machinery employed the arising
ali powers The
simple than generally conceived The number employed IA the
Secretary OF state ion Lewis C Assistant Secretary Of
State (ion Johu Appeon chief clerk twelve clerks one trans
laior and one librarian
Diplomatic Department
charge Of all correspondence between the department and other a
accredited to this government In all diplomatic Instructions
from the department. and communications TO commissioners u
der treaties 81 boundaries Se are prepared soS, ana
all OF IKE character received are registered and ned hr
being lrst entered In analytic table or index
csaa branch has charge of the correspondence
department commercial agents
dispatches persons asking
agency relating prepared and recorded
Diursg has charge Of all correspondence and
with relating fund with the
disbursement III which the department is charged
The the
He also records the commissions Of consus
and consu when not in English which exeqatnr are
issued
CLERK of Appointments and Cani@a He makes out and records
commissions letters of appointment and nominations the Senate
records exeuaturs and records when English tho
which they issued Has charge the library
Of Rolls Arche takes charge of the rolls
oI "m aa s the authenticated copies thereof
called for and saperntends their publication
their distribution throughout States
nlen publications regard which this duty assigned the
all letters connected herewith
Has charge treaties and relating thereto
ct AAseaios and ca. has charge Of the
certificates presented for receives
Has charge of publications transmitted TO
relating copyrights records and In
titles records all letters from the department other than
the diplomatic and consular.
of Pardos and Pdso'tHs and records padon
remssons registers and files the petitions and
daily register Of all letters other than diplomatic consular
ceved of the disposition made Of hem letters relating
to this business
ArroRsyY
Hon Jeremiah Black Attorney the United States r.
Gc esq chief The ordinary business this office may be
classified under the following heads
l. ORa opinions of the
President by head Of department or by the 70
O. Examination all purchased the sites Of
aena houses light houses and all other public works of
s. Applications pardons the
Applications appointment all the judicial and legal business
The conduct argument Supreme Court Of
the United States in which the government ia concerned
nents by Attorney General
10 these ordinary heads the business Of the Office are added at
First appeals claims in California
Second The codcaton and revision Of the laws Of the District o.
Columbia.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Secretary Department lnterier Hon Jacob Thomp
son Mississippi clerical force consists Of chief
lar clerks and to supervision the
following branches che Of the public @ % ssryoS % m ., ,n Cam
Office The Land Bureau is charged
isung therefor combinations Of grants
by former by sales donations for schools
Of Virginia military bounty land claims issuing scrip
present Hendricks, Of Indiana Its min
opa officers recorder chief clerk principal clerk Of surveys
aughsman assistant draughman and some loo clerks
grades
Whiting Virginia The commissioner charged with the exam
adjudication Of all claims arising under the various and
military the revolutionary and subsequent
wars which the United states have been ENGAGED M mas one
seventy clerks which Congress enable him 10 meet the
extraordinary requirements the bounty land has added
temporary fifty cerkshp Of different denominations
Sd indians Of Indian AaS % ad o,a n, Charles a F.
b,eeu other subordinate clerks
things touching and respecting the
ing and ssuns Of patents @ for new ana ssa
distribution Of seeds plants and cuttings has
the absence Of the principal
ss,an a "G snovp
Besides these four principal branches Oh inns new executive depart
the United States marshals
attorneys clerks of the United sates courts the
of the penientary the District of Columbia and
from e a s.,ss an s % aS sn s % e @
the Commissioner of Public Buildings The hospital for The insane Of
Of this department. in addition to which by laws re-
Gently passed the Secretary OF M .a G m rnsa a oa % the con
The department requires additional building for Its accommoa
@ 10, & sad ~. ' yens @ that eV Al reses, the oo
provided with what known as Wnders Building while
all crowded into the Patent Once building the whole Of which
viii required early day for the use Of the Patent Office for
which ii was originally intended
Of the offices Of the
comptrolers commissioner Of the
register solicitor light house board and
following the duties of these
ces aud of the force employed therein, respectively:
Sec,dn,ys Oceon Howell Cobb Secretary the Treasury
Philip In charge;
draughmen temporarily employed and twenty
Secretary the Treasury charged with the
supervision the fiscal transactions OF the and OF the
the and navigation OF the
Ued supernend the coas the light house
establishment hospitals Of the United States and the
public buildings houses other
First Conproter's ODe--on. William Medi, Comptroller and
tho mode OF rendering
civil diplomatic service well the public lands
aud certines tho balances arising thereon
Secod CoDalxrotes Office W. Cults, esq., Comptroller, and
He pecrbes tho mode OF keeping and render
the and Indian departments OF the
service ccre the balances arising thereon
Office of Of the Ctetooasfugb j. Anderson, esq,
He the keeping
rendering of the and dbue
building repairing custom houses, and
and certiaes the balances arising thereon
Fya Audaor OLlce-Thomas Smith, esq, Auditor,
adjusts the
disbursements appropriations and expenditures
civil list under private OF
OF the Customs the Comp
trolcr, respectively, for their decision thereon.
Sunoid Thomas D. Fuller Auditor,
twenty He and adjusts
arsena ordnance and all relating the Indian depart
Tho