Definition of Department of the interior

1. Noun. The United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Department Of The Interior

Department of Commerce and Labor
Department of Defense
Department of Defense Laboratory System
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Energy Intelligence
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Justice Canada
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Depokene
Deposition
Der Fuhrer
Derain
Derby
Derbyshire
Derbyshire spar
Dercum's disease
Dereck
Derek
Deric
Derick
Deringer

Literary usage of Department of the interior

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)
"department of the interior. The Interior Department was established by the act of March S, 1849 (9 Stat. L. 395). A brief account of the " History and ..."

2. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson (1915)
"Department of the Interior, 253. The Department of Agriculture and the Weather Bureau, 254. Department of Commerce: the lighthouse service/z^J; ..."

3. Executive Register of the United States, 1789-1902: A List of the Presidents by Robert Brent Mosher (1903)
"a new executive department of the government of the United States, to be called the Department of the Interior; the head of which department shall be called ..."

4. A History and Analysis of the Constitution of the United States: With a Full by Nathaniel Carter Towle (1871)
"department of the interior. An act of Congress approved March 3, 1849 provides, "that there shall be created a new executive department of the government of ..."

5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1908)
"Presented by the Department of the Interior, Ottawa. Canada. Dept. of the Interior, Ottawa. Railway map of the Dominion of Canada. ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1886)
"That the Public Printer shall deliver at the document-rooms of the Department of the Interior 1525 copies of the pamphlet laws of each session, ..."

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