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Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y commissioners, but in 1789 Congress passed an act creat-ing the Department of State, and authorizing the appointment of achief official with the title of Secretary of State. For a time thedepartment issued all patents and copyrights, had charge of the workof taking the census, and supervised the affairs of the territories. Asnow constituted it has a Diplomatic Bureau, a Consular Bureau, aBureau of Indexes and Archives, a Bureau of Accounts, a Bureau■of Statistics, a Bureau of Rolls, and several minor divisions. Theentire business is carried on in a strictlv confidential manner, and allpersons connected with it are required to maintain the closest secrecyin regard to every matter which comes to their knowledge. The Secretary of State is the first in rank of the members of thePresidents Cabinet, and on account of his office, and from long cus-tom, his relations with the President are very intimate. His com-pensation is $8,000 per year. He has the general supervision of the illlltlli
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THE STATE DEPARTMENT. 169 Department of State, and, under the direction of the President, nego-tiates treaties with foreign powers, decides the various questions aris-ing from the relations of the United States with other countries, andis charged with the execution of all the state business. .There is afirst assistant Secretary of State, who has a compensation of $4,500per year, and there are two other assistant secretaries who have $3,-500 each. The assistant secretaries have the supervision of the dip-lomatic and consular correspondence, and perform other duties as-signed them by the Secretary of State. There is a chief clerk, witha salary of $2,750, who is in charge of the employes of the depart-ment; and there are six chiefs of the bureaus, with salaries of $2,-100, and nearly seventy clerks and employes. Congress annuallyappropriates $113,000 for the compensation of the officials and others,and about $20,000 for the miscellaneous expenses of the department. Since 1875 the departm

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