Names and Offices, I. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. ESTABLISHED JULY 27, 1789. (Revised at the Department of State, Nov. 1863.) Whence appointed. Compensation. WILLIAM H SEWARD. SECRETARY OF STATE...................... New York........................... $8,000 FREDERICK W. SEWARD, Assistant Secretary of State New York................................ 3,000 WILLIAM HUNTER Chief Clerk........... .................. Rhode Island............................. 2,200 GEORGE E BAKER. Disbursing Clerk.. ..................... New York................................. 2,000 JOHN A. JONES, Superintendent of Statistics............ Illinois..................................... 2,000 ALEXANDER H. DERRICK, Diplomatic ureau.......................... Pennsylvania............................. 1,800 ROBERT S. CHILTON, .......................... New York................................. 1,800 Maryland................................. 1,800 JAMES 8. MCKIE, 66 66 66 66 66 ROBERT S. CHEW, Consular Bureau................................... Virginia..... ................................... 46 1,800 ....................................... New Hampshire........................ 1,800 ................................................................ New York............... FERDINAND JEFFERSON, Clerk of Rolls....... 1,800 ............ District of Columbia.................. 1,600 GEORGE BARTLE, Clerk of Commissions and Pardons.............. Virginia.................................... 1,600 ALONZO T. WELCH, Passport Clerk. ................ New York............................... 1,200 [For organization of State Department and distribution of duties, see National Almanac for 1863.] This Department, established July 27, 1789, was with such other matters respecting foreign affairs eriginally styled the Department of Foreign as the President shall assign to the Department. Affairs, but by an Act of Congress approved 15th He is also charged with the duty of receiving and September, 1789, it is denominated the Depart-preserving the Enrolled Acts of Congress, and ment of State, and the principal officer therein is with the publication of printed copies of them. called the Secretary of State. The Secretary is He is made by law the custodian of the seal of charged with all duties relative to correspondences, the United States, and it is his duty to affix the commissions, or instructions to or with our foreign said seal to all civil commissions, and other inministers or consuls; negotiations with public struments and acts, whenever he has the special ministers from foreign states or princes; and warrant of the President therefor. INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS. By the Act of Congress of August 18, 1856, "To regulate the Diplomatic and Consular Systems of the United States," the Ministers and other Diplomatic Agents of the United States in foreign countries are paid by salaries, and the outfit is abolished. MINISTERS AND DIPLOMATIC AGENTS OF THE UNITED STATES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Judges and Arbitrators under Treaty with Great Britain, April 7, 1862, (Suppression of the African Slave-Trade.) Duncan McPherson......V.C. Tasmania........*Hobart Town...... Tasmania....... Geo. H. Leavenworth......C. New Zealand... *Bay of Islands..... New York. Quebec. Francis H. Ruggles.........C. West Indies.... Kingston, Jam...... New York. Seth C. Hawley.......C. John E. Newport....... Winston J. Trowbridge...C. Nassau, N.P... Pennsylvania 66 1,500 Fees New York... George Hogg...... Charles M. Allen........ M. Galody Fees Charles A. Leas Pennsylvania... SOUTH AMERICA. C. South America Demarara .... 1859 2,000 FALKLAND ISLANDS. W. II. Smiley................................C.A. Falkland Isls. *Port Stanley........Rhode Island........ 1850 1,000 AFRICA. Daniel R. B. Upton.........C. Africa............*Bathurst............. New York.......... |