The Washington union., 1858-02-19
The Organization Of the Executive Dcpa rinaents
Of the Government Of the United States
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Of the Government Of the United states
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machinery empoycd tho out
Of foreign relikas with all s Of the world far more
Department the United only seventeen follows
STATE ion John Appeon0 chief clerk twelve elerks one trans
lator and one librarian.
Dilo.@.e sraATts branch Of the State ncpAr,ment
correspondence other d
ponAte agents the and those
department
der treaties of boundaries prepared copied and recorded and
being nrst entered in analytic table or index
Consui charge correspondence
those ofcers
their dispatches aud to letters from other asking for eosa
relating consular Affairs prepared recorded
TIE Dissrsing onHc has charge correspondence
other matters Connected with accounts relating fund with the
disbursement Of which the department charged
TAe Transuo-Iis
may He Ao
and vice consu when not IN English upon which exeqn'urs are
issued.
CLERK of appointments aud CnrmiSi makes and records
commissions letters Of appointment ana nominations 10 he senate
commissions which they Issued Has charge the library
Of Rolls He takes charge the rolls,
from the President the authenticated thereof
and that Of treaties The newspapers form,
distribution throughout the United States and that Of all docu
all Indian treaties and business relating thereto
seals Of the United states department prepares
attaches cerea.ss 70 papers presented for receives
under the laws relating copyght records and In
e titles records s letters from the department. other than
the diplomatic and consular.
of Pardss prepares pardons
and and registers and hs. the and papers on
daily of all letters other than dpsnac and consular
TO this business
Hon Jeremiah Black Attorney United
Get esq clerk Tho ordinary business Of this Office be
classified uud the following heads:
L oaiciaI opinions the
called for by the President by any head Of department or by the 80
2 Examination all purchased the sites Of
g. Applications pardons in all
l. Applications for appointment all Judicial legal
s. argument tho supreme Court Of
the United States in which tho = concerned
when referred by the head thereof tho Attorney General
First The direction Of all appeals on land claims in California
Second The odhcaon and revision Of the laws Of the District
Columbia,
Secretary of the Department Of the Iners Hon Jacob Thomp
CLERK fMose Kelly two dsbusg clerks and regn
clerks and to its and management are committed the
Pu Lands The chief Of this bureau j. called the Com
missioner on the General Land once ne re- lanu % %ana % @ @
issuing therefor whether derived from combinations grants
military public improvements and likewise the revision
O. Virginia military bounty land claims % and T. the issuing Of scrip pin IN
Commissioner s Hon. Hendricks Of Indiana Its pn
% officers recorder chief clerk principal clerk OF surveys
draughman, assistant draugman and $50 clerks
I'd Pc.sios The prescn, head Of this bureau George
Whiting Virginia The commissioner charged with the exAm
laws by Congress granting bounty pensions
for the military or naval in the and
chief clerk g Cole esq and sors consisting mai Of some me
Of
temporary Of about hf cerkshs Of different
Mix oGeorgeown d. lie provided with chief clerk and about
ah Patent GcTo this bureau is committed execution
all and things touching and respecting the grant
and mproy the collection statistics relating arricuturc
collection and distribution Of seeds p and cuttings has
chief
Of the Commissioner principal and twelve
clerks besides a of temporary employees.
Besides these four principal branches q this new executive depart
supervision the Of the United States marsha
asn Of the lead and other mine. Of the United States tho
pcney United States the District Of Cumba and
United and d supervising and directing the acts
tine tine sa the Of also unssr the
this department. In addition TO which, BY laws
s,rucon wagon leading Pacific
The department requires an additional building br It, sccommoa
tho Inst few for that purpose Al esen tho ponson Once Is
tho department including the scrctary occ
crowded into tho Patent Office building the whole Of which
which originally intended.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The Treasury Department Secretary
tho Treasury comprolos commissioner Of the customs
dors register SOLICITOR light house board and
following of the duties Of these
and OF the force employed therein, respectively.
Soay Howell Cobb Secretary Of the Treasury;
Hon. Philip Secretary charge;
three draughtmen temporarily employed and twenty
eral super government
concerning the and navigation Of the
hospitals United States the
certain public buildings for custom houses and other
pOses
First Coaarsrole's Oe-Hon. William Medi Comptroller md
clerks He prescbcs the mode Of keeping and rendering
revises and certaes the balances arising thereon
Second Comrt,oiers Office Cntts ESQ., Comptroller, and
prcscrbes keeping and render
Of the and Indian departments Of tho
public sevc eves and ceres the balances arising thereon
Office Of Commissioner Of Cuaoms-lugh Anderson, esq,
Commissioner and clerks c prcscribe the mode OF keeping
rendering Of the
the building and repairing custom houses
vises and certihcs the balances arising thereon
AudIor 0Gce-Thcmas L. Smith, esq, Auditor
the
and disbursements appropriations and expenditures
Commissioner Of the Customs and the
trolcr, respectively, for their decision thereon.
Second AUDITORS OOsThomas Fuller Second Auditor and
twenty He receives and adjusts all relating
all depart