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Definition of Interior Department
1. Noun. The United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849.
Generic synonyms: Executive Department
Terms within: Fws, United States Fish And Wildlife Service, Us Fish And Wildlife Service, National Park Service
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interior Department
Literary usage of Interior Department
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington by Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1907)
"The Interior Department was established by the act of March S, 1849 (9 Stat. ...
A list of the publications of the Interior Department to 1881 is printed in ..."
2. Investigation of the Department of the Interior and of the Bureau of by Knute Nelson, United States, Congress (1910)
"The committee met pursuant to the following joint resolution: The Joint Committee
to Investigate the Interior Department and Forestry Service met pursuant ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1909)
"... recommend awards of contracts for the work embraced in the installation of
the electric lighting plant for the buildings of the Interior Department and ..."
4. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"United States—Interior, Department of—Cont. terior by a department of public
works which will include all engineering activities of the government. ..."
5. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"This Interior Department is no joke. FROM BENJAMIN H. BRISTOW LOUISVILLE, KY., April
14, 1877. Personal. I thank you sincerely for your kind invitation to ..."
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