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Interior Department   /ɪntˈɪriər dɪpˈɑrtmənt/   Listen
Interior Department

noun
1.
The United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849.  Synonyms: Department of the Interior, DoI, Interior.






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"Interior Department" Quotes from Famous Books



... Medical Regulations.—The United States Government, through the interior department, regulates and controls the practice of medicine in connection with the hot waters. A local federal medical board passes on the applications of physicians who wish to prescribe the hot waters. All who meet the requirements of the board are ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... pecuniarily has not prevented him from following the duties of the various governmental positions in which he has been placed. No sinecures they either—librarian at different times of the House of Representatives, the War Department, of copyrights in the State Department and of the Interior Department, secretary to Daniel Webster, at the head of the returns of office of the Interior Department, and for the last ten years the American Secretary to the Japanese Legation at Washington. A lover of social intercourse, ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 • Various

... obligations of the government. Such a digest was therefore prepared. It was not completed, however, until after Congress adjourned March 4, 1913. Then, instead of being published, it found its way into the pigeon-holes in the Interior Department and the Civil Service Commission, where the working papers and unpublished reports of the commission were ordered stored. The digest itself would make a document of about ...
— American Indian stories • Zitkala-Sa



Words linked to "Interior Department" :   National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, FWS, executive department, United States Fish and Wildlife Service



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