Chapter 3. Department of State.Created by State Act of 1789Section 5. Administrator of the United States.
(a) The President shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Administrator of the United States, hereinafter the Administrator, who shall superintend the operations of the Department of State, and who shall serve at the pleasure of the President.
(b) It shall be the duty of the Administrator:
1. to receive any bill or resolution passed by the Congress, any order issued by the President or an officer of the executive, and any decision issued by a court of the United States, and to carefully preserve the original copy of such document, and to record such document into the public record;
2. to establish and maintain a Code of Laws of the United States, to be known as the United States Code, and to keep that code consistently updated;
3. to make available, to any news organization or individual that requests it, a copy of any document of the United States;
4. to make available for public review, at the archives of the United States, a copy of any document of the United States, and of the Confederacy, and of the Continental Congress;
5. to design and maintain a seal of the United States, and to affix that seal to all public records and documents of the United States, including the commissions of officers of the United States;
6. to collect the name, sex, usual place of residence, citizenship status, and eligibility to vote of every resident of the United States of America every tenth year beginning in 1790, and to create a report containing the above information, to deliver that report to the Congress and the President, and to make that report available to the public;
7. to digest and prepare plans for the improvement of the management of the administration of the federal government, and to digest and prepare plans for the improvement of federal record-keeping;
8. to maintain a roster of the employees of the federal government, and of their compensation, and of the regulations existing for employees of the federal government, and of the regulations existing for the operations of the federal government;
9. to suggest to the President the proper compensation for the employees of the various units of the federal government;
6. to suggest to the President regulations to be proscribed for the operations of the various units of the federal government with the goal of ensuring the efficient and proper operation of the federal government;
7. to suggest to the President limitations on the number of employees that the various departments and agencies may employ, so as to ensure that each Department, Office, and Service employes no less and no more than the necessary number of persons for that Department, Office, or Service to perform its duties;
8. to make report, and give information to either brach of the legislature, in person or in writing (as he may be required), respecting all matters referred to him by the Senate or House of Representatives, or which shall appertain to his office;
9. to superintend the business of the Department of State, proscribing such regulations to its employees as he may deem necessary; and
10. to perform and execute such duties as may from time to time be enjoined on or entrusted to him by the President, agreeable to the Constitution.
© The Administrator shall be authorized:
1. to establish an office or offices in the capital of the United States, and in any other locations that the he may deem prudent, and to staff that office or those offices with such assistants, clerks, and other employees as may deem necessary;
2. to establish an archive in the capital of the United States, and annexes in any other locations that he may deem prudent, to contain the official documents of the United States, and the Confederacy, and the Continental Congress, and to staff that archive, and those annexes, with such assistants, archivists, and other employees as he may deem necessary;
3. to levy a charge for the procurement of a bill, order, resolution, or decision of the Congress, executive, or any court of the United States, but he shall not levy any such charge for the first copy requested by a news organization or an officer of the United States, or by an employee of the United States or a state government that is requesting that copy as part of his official duties;
4. to temporarily employ individuals, and to cooperate with the Postal Service, to provide for the decennial enumeration;
5. to proscribe regulations for the employment, dismissal, conduct, discipline, and compensation of federal employees with the goal of ensuring that there is a properly compensated, talented, qualified, and honest federal work force;
6. to proscribe regulations regulating record-making and record-keeping, especially relating to federal moneys;
7. to purchase lands and buildings on behalf of the federal government, and to sell lands and buildings on behalf of the federal government, and to proscribe regulations for the management of federal lands and federal buildings; and
8. to take any other actions necessary, and agreeable to the Constitution, to fulfill his duties.
(d) The President may appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Archivist of the United States to assist the Administrator with his duties, and to act as Administrator whenever there is not an Administrator, or whenever the Administrator is unable to perform his duties.
