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

STATE DEPARTMENT..
The whole machinery employed to conduct the
business arising out Of tur 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, (Tlon. John Appleton,) one
Chief Clerk, one Superintendent of Statistics
twenty-five Clerks, one Translator, and one Ii
brarian.
Diplomatic Branch.-Tbis branch OF the State
Department has charge of all correspondence
between the Department and other diplomatic
agents of the Unite 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 aud 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 con uls and commercial agents of the
United States. In 1t instructions to those 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 DisJursing 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 Transiator-His duties are to furnish such
translations as the Department may require. He
also records the commission Of consus 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 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 ofMe Rolls and Archipes.-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, 5c.-He has charge of the seals Of
the United States and Of the d. department., and
prepares and att ches certificates to papers pre-
sented for authorization has charge Of the Ter
| ritora business; immigration and registered sea-
men records all letters from the Department,
other than the diplomatic and consular.
Cerk Of Pardons 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
the disposition made Of them; prepares letters
relating to this business.
Superintendent. of Stdtishcs-He superintends
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 8. 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.
@ 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.
8. The conduct and argument of all suits ID
the Supreme Court Of the United States in which
the Government is concerned.
The supervision Of all other suits arising il
any of the Departments, when referred by tn,
head thereof to the Attorney General.
To these ordinary heads Of the business of thu
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 Chic
Clerk, Moses Kelly, Esq y two Disbursing Clerks
and ten other regular Clerks; and to its super
vision and management are committed the fol
lowing branches Of the public ssrvice:
lst. The Public Lands-The chief of this bu
reau is called the Commissioner of the Genera
Land Office. The Land Bur au is charged will
the survey, MANAGEMENT and sale of the publ,
domain, and the issuing of titles theref r. whethe
derived from combinations of grant, made b,
former Governments, by sales, donations, o
grans for schools, IN litary bounties, or public
improvements, and likewise the revision OF Vir
ginia mil tary 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 principa
officers are a Recorder, Chief Clerk, who ais
acts as Comm ssioner dd Interim hcipal Cler
of Surveys, besides a Draughtsman, Assist an
Draughtsman, and some l5O Clerks of variou
grades.
I'd Pensions-The present head of this burea
is George G. Whiting OF Virginia The Com
missioner is charged with the examinat on an
adjudication of all claims arising under the va
rious and numerous laws passed by Congress
granting bounty land or pensions for the mill
tary or naval services in the revolutionary an
ubsequent wars in which the United States hav
been engaged. He has one Chief Clerk, (Joh
Robb, Esq., and a permanent corps, consistin
of some seventy other Clerks.
: Sd. Indians.-Commssion of Indian Affairs