...Department received no such designation. The Secretaries of State and of War were commanded by the law " to perform and execute such duties as shall, from time to time, be enjoined on or intrusted to them by the President of the United States." The Secretary of the Treasury was not commanded by the...

...denominated the department of foreign affairs [name since changed to department of State], and that there shall be a principal officer therein, to be called the secretary of the department of foreign affairs [since changed to secretary of State], who shall perform and execute...

...principal officer called the secretary for the department of foreign atí'airs placed at its head to •' execute such duties as shall, from time to time, be enjoined on or intrusted to him b}' the president of the United States, agreeable to the constitution, relative to correspondences,...

...for their opinions in writing. In accordance therewith, Congress created the Department of War, and "a principal officer therein, to be called the Secretary for the Department of War." The Act of Congress creating the Department of War and a Secretary thereof, in express terms, confines...

...Appendix A, No. 112. 2 Constitution of the United States, Art. 2, Sec. 3. 8 The Secretary of State is to " perform and execute such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined or entrusted to him by the President of the United States, agreeable to the Constitution, relative...

...State, with a Secretary of State as its head, Congress provided : " The Secretary of State shall perform such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on or intrusted to him by the President relative to correspondences, commissions or instructions to or with public ministers or consuls from...

...State, with a Secretary of State as its head, Congress provided: " The Secretary of State shall perform such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on or intrusted to him by the President relative to correspondences, commissions or instructions to or with public ministers or consuls from...

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...there shall be an executive department to be denominated the department of Foreign affairs: and that there shall be a principal officer therein, to be called the Secretary for the department of foreign affairs, who shall perform and execute such duties, as shall from time to time be enjoined...

...the assistance of the President, at the head of which was a Secretary of War, who was authorized to " perform and execute such duties as shall, from time to time, be enjoined on or entrusted to him by the President of the United States, agreeable to the Constitution" The formation...