The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-01-27
CITY WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY MORNING,

Of the Government Of the United States
STATE pKpAuAKsr.
The Whole machinery employed conduct the business arising ou,
Of our oreen relations with all the Of the world far more
simple than y generally conceived The number employ ed the
One Secretary of state (ion Assistant Secretary of
state o John Appe'on chief clerk twelve clerks one trans
lsior, and one librarian.
Diplomatic BrancAThs branch Of the State Department nas
a I between the department aud other Oh
accredited 70 this all diplomatic instructions
sent from the department and TO u
% M s i've ch ~ sao sop S as a ,n ,e & , M
being Drst entered in an analytic table or index
Consular charge correspondence
between the department and the and commercial agents
dispatches persona asking
relating consular affairs prepared recorded
other matters connected with relating fund with the
disbursement Of which the department Is charged
may require he also records the comm ons OF cohsu
and vice conus when not in English which ereqaatu
letters the Senate
commissions which they issued Has charge the library
CLERK the charge rolls
President copies
which called for and supernend their publication
throughout states ali
%sn and qualifications regard 70 which @ this duty assigned the
charge all treaties relating thereto
CLERK q aAe",;ealions and cepets He has charge Of the
attaches certificates presented for uthentaon receives
department relating copyrights
their titles records all letters from hedertmen other than
the diplomatic consular.
CLERK Of Pays and Passports prepares and records pardons
and and registers and files the petitions and
daily register of all letters other than diplomatic and consular
ceived and Of the disposition made Of Them letters relating
Black Attorney General of the United R.
H. Gie chief clerk Tho ordinary business of this Office be
Official opinions the business Of the
called for by the Prcsdcn by head Of department by the So
of the titles Of all land purchased the sites of
arsena light houses and all other public works of
Applications pardons
Applications all the judicial and legal business
The argument all in tho Supreme Court of
the United States which the government concerned
when referred by the head thereof to Attorney General
To these ordinary heads of the business of the office added
the present time the following viz;
First The direction Of all appeals on land claims in California
Second The cohcaon and revision the laws Of tho District OF
touRbia.
pErAR1sRs
Secretary the Department the Ines Hon. Jacob Thomp
of the State Of Mississippi rs clerical force consists of one chief
lar clerks aud supervision and committed the
1st The Public Lands The chief bureau called the Com
missioner the General land Office The Land Bureau charged
Of titles therefor whether derived from cendrmaos
military beunes public improvements likewise
Of Virginia military bounty land claims and the issuing of scrpn
pesen. Commissioner Hendricks Of Indiana rrin
% officers recorder chief clerk principal clerk Of
besides draughsman assistant draugtsnan and some 100 clerks
Whiting Of Virginia The commissioner charged with the exam
nation and adjudication Of all claims arising under the various and
for the military naval services in the revolutionary and subsequent
chief Cole
other clerks which Congress to enable him TO meet the
temporary Of about fifty clerksps Of different denominations
3D. Of Indian Afars dd interim Charles
Nix Of D. Q He Is provided with Chief clerk and about
performance OF all ac and things touching and respecting the grant
and the Collection statistics relating to
tho collection and distribution Of seeds plants and cuttings has
the absence of the principal and twelve
srS Of temporary smpos
Besides these four principal branches Of this new executive depart
parmcnt the
and and the clerks the United States courts the
Of the pcnenay Of the United States in the District Columbia
Of tho United states and Of supervising and directing the
the army navy Columbia
of fs department. in addition which by laws
struclon the three roads leading the Pacific
op sn M u one an has Ss
the last few for that present the Pension Once
other branches of the department including tho secey Office
building the whole
viii be required early day for the Of the Patent Office
which originally intended.
Treasury Department Of the Offices of the Secretary
commissioner the
dors solicitor light house board aud
The following these several Off
ces, and Of the force employed therein, respectively
Saa,ys OoIIon Howell Cobb, Secretary Of the Treasury
Hon Philip Clayton Assistant Secretary
temporarily
Secretary the charged
the the
of the laws the and Of the
the the
establishment hospitals the United
public buildings for houses other pur
poses
Conltkrolls OGce-IIon william Medin Comptroller
fifteen clerks Ho the mode
the civil diplomatic well public lands
and revises cerhes the balances arising thereon.
Conr<rot,'s 0GceJ W. Cuts, eaq Comptroller
clerks e pecribc the mode OF keeping
the army departments
public and and crnes the balances
Office Of Con,mironer Of the Cuaon.sIIugh Anderson esa
Commissioner and eleven clerks He presorbes the
and rendering the Of the
and for the building and houses
vises and cerdes the balances arising thereon.
FIs AUDITORS 0Gce-Thomas L. Smith, esq, Auditor and
clerks lio adjusts
OF the civil list and under private OF
the balances TO the Commissioner the
troler, respectively, for their decision thereon.
Second Audlors 00sThomas Fuller Auditor and
clerks He receives adjusts
the clothing and recruiting OF the well
and reports the balances Comptroller
thereon