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 336 RECORDS OF THE FEDEL CONVENTION Monday JOURNAL .4gust 2o be his duty to attend to matters of general police, the state of agriculture and manufactures, the opening of roads and navigations, and the facilitating communications through the United States, and he shall from time to time recommend such measures and establishments as may tend to promote those objects. 3 The Secretary of Commerce and Finance who shall also be appointed by the President during pleasure. It shall be his duty to superintend all matters relating to the public finances, to prepare and report Plans of revenue and for the regulation of expenditures, and also to recommend such things as may in his judgment promote the commercial interests of the United-States. 4. The Secretary of foreign affairs who shall also be appointed by the President during pleasure- It shall be his duty to correspond with all foreign Ministers, prepare plans of Treaties, and consider such as may be transmitted from abroad -- and generally to attend to the Interests of the United States, in their connections with foreign Powers. 5. The Secretary of war who shall also be appointed by the President during pleasure.- It shall be his duty to superin- tend every thing relating to the war Department such as the raising and equipping of Troops, the care of military Stores, public Fortifications, arsenals, and the like m also in time of war to prepare and recommend Plans of offence and defence. 6 The Secretary of the Marine who shall also be appointed by the President during pleasure--It shall be his duty to superintend every thing relating to the marine Department, the public ships, Dock-yards, naval stores and Arsenals- also in time of war to prepare and recommend Plans of offence and defence. The President shall also appoint a Secretary of State to hold his office during pleasure; who shall be Secretary of the Coun- cil of State, and also public Secretary to the President.- It shall be his duty to prepare all public dispatches from the President, which he shall countersign. The President may from time to time submit any matter to the discussion of the Council of State, and he may require

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