........... 1,600 ROBERT S CHILTON, JAMES S. MCKIE, ROBERT S CHEW, Consular Bureau.... WILLIAM HOGAN, Translator.... New Hampshire... District of Columbia............ GEORGE BARTLE, Clerk of Commissions and Purdons............... Virginia...................... 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 originally styled the Department of Foreign as the President shall assign to the Department. Aff irs, but by an Act of Congress approved 15th He is also charged with the duty of receiving and September, 1783, it is denominated the Depart-preserving the Enrolled Acts of Congress, and ment of State, and the principal officer therein is called the Secretary of State. The Secretary is charged with all duties relative to correspondences, commissions, or instructions to or with our foreign ministers or consuls; negotiations with public ministers from foreign states or princes; and with the publication of printed copies of them. He is made by law the custodian of the seal of the United States, and it is his duty to affix the said seal to all civil commissions, and other intruments and acts, whenever he has the special 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........ NEW ZEALAND. Geo. H. Leavenworth......C. New Zealand... *Bay of Islands..... New York... At liberty to transact business. Those not thus marked are not. + Compensation, $1500 per annum under act of Aug. 2, 1861. Amos S. York................C. Ionian Islands. *Zante..................Zante........... NORTH AMERICA. Joshua R. Giddings, Con- North America Montreal Ohio. 1861 4.000 Jay H. Sherman.... .c.i Picton, N.S. W. H. Smiley..............C.A. Falkland Isls. *Port Stanley........ Rhode Island. |