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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hichare extensively circulated. A special feature is made of exhibits offoreign school systems, which are exceedingly instructive and inter-esting. The bureau is held in high estimation in Europe, and sev-eral countries have modeled their educational bureaus upon theAmerican system. The statistics collected in reference to educationin foreign countries have a wide range, and are of great value. Anextensive correspondence is carried on, and every year thousands ofletters are written in reply to inquiries from all over the country aboutthe free schools of the South, the education of colored children, thecompulsory school laws of the states, the methods of industrial schoolsin England and France, the organization and management of techni-cal institutes, the normal school and kindergarten systems, the co-education of the sexes, the best training for teachers, and a host ofother matters. The bureau is doing a beneficial work, the extent andvalue of which are hardly realized by the country.
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CHAPTER XV. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE — UNITED STATES COURTS — DEPARTMENT OF AGRI-CULTURE—THE MUSEUM AND PLANT-HOUSES — THE GROWING AND DISTRI-BUTION OF SEEDS — EXPERIMENTS IN AGRICULTURE — THE SMITHSONIANINSTITUTION AND ITS WORK—NATIONAL MUSEUM—THE GREAT COLLECTIONSOF NATURAL AND INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS — GOVERNMENT PRINTING-OFFICE. THE Department of Justice, under the direction of the At-torney-General, has charge of all prosecutions by the gov-ernment, and supervises the United States courts in the judi-cial districts of the country. The office of Attorney-Generalis as old as the present form of government, having been created in1789 ; but the Department of Justice was not created until 1870, whenCongress thought best to combine all the law-officers, and all the lawbusiness of the government in an executive department, with the At-torney-General as its head. This official is a member of the Cabinet,and the law-adviser of the President and the heads of the executivedepartm

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