The national Republican., 1861-01-30
Organization of the Departments.
STATE DEP ARTM 4 Mt.

Inc Wpoic hdehiueIy empiOytu 10 COnuuct tn6
business arising out of ur foreign RELATIONS with
all the Powers Of the world Is far 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 Tran nslator, and one Ii
brarian.
Diplomatic Branch.-This branch Of the State
Department has charge of all correspondence
| between the Department and other dipl matte
| agents Of the Unite States abroad, and those of
| foreign Powers accredited TO this Government.
! In 1t all diplomatic instructions sent from the
! Department, and communications to commss SION
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 Depart tment
and the con: uls and commercial agents of the
United States. In 1t instruct ions to t officers
and answers to their dispatches and to letters
from other persons asking for consular agency,
or relating to consular affairs, are prepared and
| recorded.
The Disbursing 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 Trdnsiotor.-His duties are to furnish such
translations as the Department may require He
also records the commissions of consuls and vice
consuls, when not in English, upon which exc.
quaturs are issued
Clerk of appointments and Commissions-He
makes out and records commissions, letters of
appointment, and nominations 10 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 Archires.-He takes charge
of the rolls, or enrolled acts and resolutions of
Congress, as they are received at the Department
from the Presidents prepares the authenticated
copies thereof which ae 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 reg glrd 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. 5c-IIe has charge of the seals of
the United States and Of the Department, and
prepares and att ches certificates to papers pre-
sented for authorization has charge of the Ter
ritorial business; immigration and registered sea-
men records all letters from the Dep rment,
other than the diplomatic and consular.
c ERIK Of PdrdonS and Passports He prepares
and records pardons and remissions; and regis
ters and files the petitions and papers on which
they founded. Makes out aud records pass
ports keeps daily register OF all letters other
than diplomatic and consular, received, and of
the disposition made of them prepares letters
relating to this business.
Superintendent of Statistics.-I1e superntends
the preparati, 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. Z he ordinary business of this Office may be
classified under the following heads
/. 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 t-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-
dical and legal business of the Government.
8. The conduct and argument of all suits in
the Supreme Court of the United States in which
the Government is concerned.
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-
siypi. Its clerical force consists of one Chief
Clerk, Moses Kelly, Esq y two Disburs ng Clerks,
and ten other regular Clerks; and TO its super
vision and management committed u the fol-
lowing branches of the public rvice:
lst. The Public Lands.-The chief of this bu-
reau is called the Commissioner of the General
Land Office. The Land Bur au is charged with
the survey, MANAGEMENT, and sale of the public
domain and the issuing Of titles theref r. whether
derived from ccnfrmations of grants made by
former Governments, by sales, donations, of
gran for schools, M litary bounties, or public
improvements and likewise the revision Of Vir-
ginia mil tary bounty-land claims and the issu-
ing of scrip in leu thereof. The Land Office,
also, audits its own accounts. Ths present Com
missioner is Joseph S. Wilson. Its princij al
officers a Recorder Chief Clerk who also
. acts rs Commissioner ad Interim Priucipal Clerk
Of Surveys, besides Draughtsman, Assistant
Ora Ightsman, aud some $50 Clerks of various
r grades
I'd. Pensions-The present head of this bureau
is George G. Whiting, of Virginia. The Com
missioner is charged with the examinat on AMI
adjudication of all claims arising under the va
rious ard numerous laws passed by Congress
granting bounty land or pensions for the mill
tary or naval services in the revolutionary and
ubsequent 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-Commission of Indian Affairs
| A. b. Greenwood, of Arkansas. He is provided
with Chief G ERIK, and about fifteen other sub
ordinate Clerks.
4th. Patent OGee.-Hon. Philip F. Thomas, of
Maryland, Commissioner of Parents To this