The national Republican., 1861-02-11
Organization Of the Departments.
STATE DEPARTMENT

STATE DEPARTMENT.
The whole machinery employ ed to conduct the
business arising out of ur foreign relations with
all the Powers Of the world is inr more simple
than is generally conceived. The number en,-
ployed in the Department Of State of the United
States is only twenty eight, as follows: One Sec
retary OF State, Hon. Lewis Cass,) one Assistant
Secretary of State, (Hon. John Appleton,) one
Chief Clerk, one Superintendent Of Statistics,
twenty-five Clerks, one Translator, and one Lii
brarian.
Diplomatic Branch-This branch OF the State
Department has charge Of all correspondence
between the Department and other diplomatic
agents of the United States abroad, and those Of
foreign Powers accredited to this Government
In II all diplomatic instructions sent from the
Department, and communications TO commission
ers under treaties Of boundaries, &C., are pre-
pared copied, and recorded; and all Of like char
acter received are registered and fled their con-
tents being first entered in an analytic table or
index.
Consular Brdnch.-This branch has charge OF
the correspondence, &c, between the Department
and the consuls and commercial agents of the
United States. In II instructions to those officers
and answers to their dispatches and TO letters
from other persons asking for consular agency,
or relating 10 consular affairs, are prepared and
| recorded.
The Disturbing Agent-He has charge of all
correspondence and other matters connected with
accounts relating to any fund with the disburse-
ment of which the Department is charged.
The Trdnslator.-His duties are to furnish such
transations as the Department may require. He
also records the commissions of consuls and vice
consuls, when not in English, upon which exe-
quaturs are issued.
Clerk Of Appointments and Commissions.-Hc
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appointment and nominations to the Senate /;
makes out and records exequaturs, and records,
when in English, the commissions on which they
are issued. Has charge of the library.
Clerk ofthe Rolls and Archives He takes charge
of the rolls, or enrolled acts and resolutions Of
Congress, as they are received at the Department
from the President; prepares the authenticated
copies thereof which are called for; prepares for,
and superintends their publication, and that of
treaties, In the newspapers and in book form;
attends to their distribution throughout the
United States, and that of all documents and pub
locations in regard to which this duty is assigned
to the Department; writing and answering all
letters connected Herewith. Has charge OF all
Indian treaties, and business relating thereto.
Clerk Of Territorial Business-The Seal of the
Department, Sc.-He has charge of the seals of
the United States and of the Department, and
prepares and attaches certificates to papers pre-
sented for authorization has charge of the Ter
ritorial business immigration and registered sea-
men records all letters from the Department,
other than the diplomatic and consular.
Clerk Of Pdrdons and Passports He prepares
and records pardons and remissions; and regis
ters and files the petitions and papers on which
they are founded. Makes out and records pass
ports keeps daily register of all letters, other
than diplomatic and consular, received, and of
shn 40 &c Al
relating to this business.
Superintendent Of Staitsties-He superintends
the preparation of the Annual Report of the
Secretary of State and Foreign Commerce" as
required by the acts of 1912 and 1856.
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE.
Hon. jeremiah s. Black, Attorney General of
the United States; A. B. McCalmont, Esq, Assist
ant. The ordinary business of this Office may be
classified under the following heads:
l. Official opinions on the current business Of
the Government, as called for by the President,
by any head of Department, or by the Solicitor
Of the Treasury.
2. Examination of the titles of all land pur-
chased, as the sites of arsenals, custom houses,
light houses, and all other public works of the
United States.
3. Applications for pardons in all cases of con-
viction in the courts Of the United States.
a. Applications for appointment in all the ju-
dicial and legal business of the Government.
O.. The conduct and argument of all suits in
the Supreme Court of the United States in which
the Government is concerned.
G. The supervision Of all other suits arising in
any Of the Departments, when referred by the
head thereof to the Attorney General
To these ordinary heads Of the business of the
Office Is added at the present time the direction
of all appeals on land claims in California.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Secretary Of the Department of the Interior,
Hon. Jacob Thompson, Of the State of Missis-
sippi. Its clerical force consists of one Chief
Clerk, Moses Kelly, Esq y two Disbursng Clerks,
and ten other regular Clerks; and to its super
vision and management are committed the fol-
lowing branches Of the public service:
lst. The Public Lands. chief of this bu-
reau is called the Commissioner of the General
Land Office. The Land Bureau is charged with
the survey, management, and sale of the public
domain, and the issuing titles therefor whether
derived from confrmations of grant. made by
former Governments, by sales, donations, Of
grante for schools, military bountes, or public
improvements, and likewise the revision Of Vir-
gnia military bounty-land claims, and the issu-
ing of scrip in lieu thereof. The Land Office,
also, audits its own accounts The present Com
missioner Is Joseph s. Wilson. Its principal
officers are Recorder, Chief Clerk, who also
acts as Commissioner ad interim Principal Clerk
Of Surveys, besides a Draughtsman, Assistant
Draughtsman, and some 80 Clerks of various
grades.
Cd. Pensions. present head of this bureau
is George c. Whiting, of Virginia. The Com
missioner is charged with the examinato on and
adjudication of all claims arising under the va
rous and numerous laws passed by Congress
granting bounty land or pensions for the mill
tary or naval services in the revolutionary and
subsequent wars in which the United States have
been engaged. He has one Chief Clerk, John
Robb, Esq., and permanent corps, consisting
of some seventy other Clerks.
Sd. Indians-Commssion of Indian Affairs,
A. B. Greenwood, of Arkansas. lie is provided
with Chief Clerk, and about fifteen other sub
ordinate Clerks.
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