DEPARTMENT OF STATE, government. The laws of the United States provide that
there shall be an executive department, denominated the department of state;
and a principal officer therein, called the secretary of state. (q.v.) Acts
of July 27, 1789; September 15, 1789, s. 1. There shall be in such
department an inferior officer, to be appointed by the Secretary, and
employed therein, as he shall deem proper, to be called the chief clerk of
the department of state. (q.v.) Act of July 27, 1789, s. 2.
2. He may employ, besides, one chief clerk, whose compensation shall
not exceed two thousand dollars. per annum; two clerks, whose compensation
shall not exceed one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks, whose
compensation shall not exceed one thousand four hundred dollars each; one
clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars; two clerks,
whose compensation shall not exceed eight hundred dollars each; one,
messenger and assistant, at a compensation not exceeding one thousand and
fifty dollars per annum; one superintendent of the patent office, whose
compensation shall not exceed one thousand five hundred dollars; and, in the
patent office, one clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand
dollars; one machinist, at a compensation not exceeding seven hundred
dollars; and one messenger, at a compensation not exceeding four hundred
dollars per annum. Act of May 26, 1824; Act of April 20, 1818, s. 2.
3. By the Act of March 2, 1827, 3 Story's Laws, 2061, he is authorized
to employ, in the state department, one additional clerk, whose compensation
shall not exceed sixteen hundred dollars; two additional clerks, whose
compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars each; and one additional
clerk for the patent office, whose compensation shall not exceed eight
hundred dollars.
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