The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-10
The Organization of the Executive departments
Of the Government OF the United States


The Organization of the Executive t~partments
of the Government Of the United states
srsrs psAxrsssr
The whole machinery employ the business arising od
81 oar aresTp relations ~h All the powers Of iDr
generally conceived The number employed m the
Que secretary state on cs) Assistant Secretary q
in John Appelou chief clerk twelve clerks one trans
lator, librarian.
p,loo nc IruahIi branch Of the STATE Department
q all correspondence between The department and other d.
accredited TO this government In al diplomatic INSTRUCTIONS
department. aud communications commissioners
all Of like character received are registered and nd their contents
being entered In analytic table or index.
osuIy Branaa-f charge orrespondence
and the consas and commercial agents
10 their dispatches asking
agency relating consular Affairs, prepared and recorded
The Didrsino AOno charge Of all and
with relating to fund with the
disbursement . which the department Is charged.
The Tanoiors TRANSACTIONS the
require lie also records the commissions Of consus
Issued
Of appointment. and Commissions makes out and records
commissions appointment aud nominations TO the senate
records whom In Engsh the
which they issued Has charge Of the library
q Rolls He takes charge Of the rolls or en
roa ae and n s I thereof
which called aud superntonds their publication
their distribution throughout States Of all docu
publications regard this duty assigned to The
all letters connected Herewith
charge an treaties relating thereto
ca A,aAr.ealions ard crea has charge o. The
attaches certificates papers presented for receives
The department and
titles records all letters from the department other than
the diplomatic and consular
CLERK Of PaOns Pasore prepares records pardons
registers and s the petitions and
which they passpors Keeps
daily register Of all letters diplomatic and consular, re-
ceye and Of the disposition made Of them prepares letters relating
Arronur
Hon jeremiah Black Attorney General Of the United States
Mcomon chief clerk The ordinary business Of this once may
oea opinions the government
tho President by head of department or by the So
Of all land purchased the sites Of
asena custom houses and all other pubic works
Applications pardous all conviction in the
l. Applications appointment judicial legal
argument of all the Supreme Court Of
the United States which the government, is concerned
supervision arising Of the depart
by head thereof the Attorney General
First The direction Of all appeals nland claims in California
revision of the laws Of the District
Columbia
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Secretary Department Interior, Hon jacob Thomp
Of ne state Of Mississippi M force e sns s a On" ra l
lar clerks and 20 lis and management are committed the
LIST The Puddle Lands called
of the General Land Office The Land Bureau is charged
the public domain, and the
issuing derived from combinations grants
military bounics or public improvements and kew
Virginia military bounty land claims and the issuing Of scrip
Commissioner Hon Hendricks Of Indiana is prn
daughsman assistant draughnan and some $50 clerks
Whiting, OF The commissioner charged viii, The exami
laws passed by Congress granting bounty pensions
for the military or naya services IN the @ ana SUI s en
chief clerk g. Cole esq., aud permanent corps consisting Of some
Sd indians Commissioner Affairs f. Mix
Georgetown He provided with chief clerk and about nieen
4l I'ant 0ceTo execution and
performance Of all acs aud things touching and respecting the grant
ing discoveries
the collection Of statistics relating TO agcuure
the collection seeds plants, cuttings
chief by Commissioner Of Patents
Of the Commissioner twelve principal and twelve
subordinate
clerks considerable number OF employees Hon
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these four principal branches Of this executive depart
parmen supervision the accounts the United states marshas
the clerks Of the United states courts the manage
ment the United States and the Affairs
pentcnary Of the United States in the District Of Coum and
the State Department the duty Of taking and returning .h cen
tho United States and Of and directing the acts OF
The army navy Columbia also under the
Of this department. in addition to which, by laws re-
the three roads leading 70 the Pacific coast
department rcqui additional building for It's accommoda
has been repeatedly recommended during
that At present the Pension Office
branches Of the department including the secreys Office
are Office building, the whole of which
required for the of the Patent Office for
which 1t was originally intended
Treasury Department consists Of the Offices of the Secretary
tho comptroers, customs,
solicitor light house board aud coast
The following s brief of
ces and o the employe therein, respectively
Ssaavs OhceIon Cobb, Secretary Of Treasury,
engineer charge
architect temporarily employed
the Treasury charged with the
era the
the and
United supcrnlcDds the light
hospitals United
siruciOn certain public buildings houses other
poses
First Coa,arollers OEcHon William Scdl, Comptroller
counts for diplomatic well public lands
and certihes the balances arising thereon
Second Copytpoios CFceJ NJ Cuts, esq, Comptroller and
seventeen prescbcs keeping
of the and Indian departments OF the
public and ccres the balances
Office Of Commissioner Of lngbam,
Commissioner clerks pescrbes the keeping
building
vises aud certi1es the balances arising
Frs Audaors O6ceThomas Smith, esq., Auditor and
nineteen He adjusts
disbursements appropriations expenditures
the
rper respectively for their decision thereon.
Second Audlos O1ocIhomas Fuller, Auditor,
all
the pay clothing the army, wol arores
reports the BALANCES the Second Comptroller his
aion thereon
Third OoeRobert Atinsop esq Auditor
seventy clerks. lie