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“IV. A bureau of ordnance and hydrography.

“V. A bureau of medicine and surgery.

"The President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint from the captains in the naval service, a chief for each of the bureaus of navy-yards and docks, and of ordnance and hydrography, who shall each receive a salary of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, in lieu of all other compensation whatever in the naval service. And shall in like manner appoint a chief of the bureau of construction, equipment and repairs, who shall be a skilful naval constructor; who shall receive for his services three thousand dollars per annum; and shall also appoint a chief of the bureau of provision and clothing—a purser of the navy of the United States of not less than ten years standing, . . receiving for his services no compensation except his highest service pay as purser." 5 Stat. 579, and 9 Stat. 290.

"And shall in like manner appoint from the surgeons of the navy, a chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery, who shall receive for his services two thousand five hundred dollars per annum." 9 Stat. 290.

"When a captain of the navy shall be the chief of the bureau [of construction, &c.], he shall receive pay to which he would be entitled if upon other duty.

"The secretary of the navy shall assign and distribute among the said bureaus such of the duties of the navy department as he shall judge to be expedient and proper. And the duties of said bureaus shall be performed under the authority of the secretary of the navy; and their orders shall be considered as emanating from him, and shall have full force and effect as such." 9 Stat. at Large, 579.

The secretary of the navy is required to make an annual report of the expenditures and transactions of the department to Congress.

ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT.

Secretary of the Navy, salary $8,000 per annum.
Chief Clerk, salary $2,200 per annum.

BUREAUS.

Chief of bureau of yards and docks, salary $3,500 per annum.

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provisions and clothing [pay as purser]. ❝ordnance and hydrography, $3,500 per annum. "medicine and surgery, $2,500 per annum.

6 Clerks (class 4), salary $1,800 each per annum.

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The annual appropriation for the support of the department is about $110,000.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1789.

"There shall be established at the seat of the government of the United States, a general post-office, under the direction of the postmaster-general. He shall establish post-offices and appoint postmasters at all such places as shall seem to him expedient, on the post-roads that are or may be established by law." 4 Stat. 102.

"There shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a deputypostmaster for each post-office, at which the commissions allowed to the postmaster amounted to $1,000 or upwards in the year ending 30th June, 1835, or which may in any subsequent year, terminating on the 30th day of June, amount to or exceed that sum; who shall hold his office for the term of four years, unless sooner removed by the President." 5 Stat. 84.

"He (the postmaster-general) shall give his assistants, the postmasters, and all other persons whom he shall employ or who may be employed in any of the departments of the general post

office, instructions relative to their duty. He shall provide for the carriage of the mails on all post-roads, that are or may be established by law, and as often as he, having regard to the productiveness thereof, and other circumstances, shall think proper. He may direct the route or road, where there are more than one, between places designated by law, for a post-road, which route shall be considered the post-road. He shall obtain from the postmasters, their accounts and vouchers for their receipts and expenditures, once in three months, or oftener, with the balance thereon arising, in favor of the general post-office. He shall pay all expenses which may arise in conducting the post-office, and in the conveyance of the mail, and all other necessary expenses arising on the collection of the revenue, and management of the general post-office. He shall prosecute offences against the postoffice establishment. He shall once in three months, render to the secretary of the treasury, a quarterly account of all the receipts and expenditures in the said department, to be adjusted and settled as other public accounts. He shall also superintend the business of the department in all the duties that are or may be assigned to it. Provided, that in case of the death, resignation, or removal from office of the postmaster-general, all his duties shall be performed by his senior assistant (the first assistant postmaster-general), until a successor shall be appointed, and arrive at the general post-office, to perform the business." Stat. 102.

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The annual appropriations required for the payment of salaries and contingent expenses of this department, amount to about one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

"There shall also be appointed, a meet person learned in the law, to act as attorney-general for the United States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law, when required by the President of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments." Act of 1789. 1 Stat. at Large, 93.

By a clause in the general appropriation bill passed March 3, 1859, the attorney-general is allowed to appoint an assistant attorney-general, at a salary of $3,000 per annum; two clerks at $1,600 each, and one clerk at $1,400 per annum.

The annual appropriations for the payment of the salaries and contingent expenses of the attorney-general's office, is about $17,500.

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of S. Carolina.

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