The national Republican., 1861-01-23
Organization Of the Departments.
STATE DEPARTM sNT

The whole machinery employ ed to conduct the
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 StateT Hon. Lewis Cass,) one Assistant
Secretary of State, (Hor. John Appleton,) one
Chief Clerk, one Superintendent of Statistics
twenty-five Clerks one Trap slator, and one Lii
brarian.
Diplomatic Brdnch.-This branch Of the State
Department has charge of all correspond nee
between the Department and other Diplomatic
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 commission
ers under treaties Of boundaries, &C., are pre-
pared, copied, and recorded; and all Of like char
acter received registered and filed, their con-
tents being first entered in an analytic table or
index.
Consular Braneh.-This branch has charge of
the correspondence, &C. between the Department
and the con uls and commercial agents of the
United States. In it instructions to 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 Disturbing Agent-He has charge of all
CORES spondence and other matters connected with
accounts relallnR 10 any lunu Win tne ulsDuTse-
ment of which the Department is charged
The Translator.-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 Comnissions.-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 ofthe Rolls and Archiues.-He takes charge
of the rolls, or enrolled acts and resolutions of
| Congress, as they received at the Department
from the President; prepares the authenticated
copies thereof which a!e 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 ird 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 Emitted 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 Department,
other than the diplomatic and consular.
Cerk Of Pardons and Passports He prepares
and records pardons and remissions; and regis
tiers and files the petitions and papeSs on which
they are founded Makes out and records pass
ports keeps a 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.-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 S. Black, Attorney General Of
the United States; A. B. McCamont, Esq, Assist
ant. 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
lighthouses, and all other public works of the
United States.
3. Applications for pardons in all cases of con-
vcton in the courts Of the United States.
A. Applications for appointment in all the ju-
; dicial and legal business of the Government.
5. 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
J., Hon. Jacob Thompson, of the State of Missis-
a ST ,pi 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 are committee d the fol-
o lowing branches Of the public srvice:
e l,t. The Public Lands-The chief of this tu-
s reau is called the Commissioner of the General
!, Land Office. The Land Bur, au is charged with
u the survey, management, and sale of the public
domain, and the issuing of titles therefJr whether
q derived from combinations of grants made by
a former Governments, by sales, donations, OF
A gran for schools, 'litary bounties, or public
. Improvements, and likewise the revision OF Vr-
gna mil tary bounty-land claims, and the issu-
ing of scrip in leu thereof. The Land Office
also, audits its own accounts. The present Com
missioner is Joseph S. Wilson. Its princr al
I. officers are a Recorder, Chief Clerk, who also
Q acts as Commissioner ad interim, PriL cipal Clerk
!. of Surveys besides Draughtsman, Assis ant
Drau ghtsman and some $50 Clerks of various
f grades.
: I'd. Penstons.-Ihe present head OF thls bureau
y. is George G. Whiting, Of Virginia The Com
- " missioner is charged W tn the examinat on and
y adjudication of all claims arising under the va
y rious and numerous laws passed by Congress
II granting bounty land pensions for the mill
tary naval services in the revolutionary and
d .ubsequent wars in which the United States have
n been engaged. He has one Chief Clerk, (Johr
l, Robb, Esq.,) and a permanent corps, consisting
Of some seventy other Clerks.
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al A. B. Greenwood, of Arkansas. He is provided
e, with Chief Cerk and about fifteen other sub.
ID ordinate Clerks.
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