BOARD OF COMISSIONERS FOR THE NAVY. This Board was established by act of 7th February, 1815. It cou sists of three officers of the Navy, in rank not below that of a Post Captain. The officer of the Board holding the oldest Commission, presides. The Board is, by law, attached to the office of the Secretary of the Navy, and under his superintendence, discharges all the ministerial duties of that office relative to the procuremeut of Naval stores and materials, and the construction, armament, equipment, and employment, of vessels of war, as well as other matters connected with the Naval Establishment of the United States. They appoint their own Secretary; and their records are at all times subject to the inspection of the President of the United States and the Secretary of the Navy. COMMISSIONERS OF THF NAVY. JOHN RODGERS, President of the Navy Board...... CLERKS IN THE NAVY COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, WILLIAM G. RIDGLEY, Chief Clerk................ John Green, Clerk............. James Hutton, Clerk...................................... B. S. Randolph, Clerk $1600 00 1150 00 1000 00 .............................. 1000 00 1000 00 Robert Beall, Clerk................. ATTORNEY GENERAL. BENAJMIN F. BUTLER, of N. York, $4,000 per annum. The office of Attorney General of the United States, was created by the act of 24th September, 1789. It is the duty of the Attorney General to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court, in which the United States is concerned; and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law, when required by the President, or when requested by the Heads of any of the Departments, touching any matters that may concern their Departments. The Attorney General is, ex officio, a Commissioner of the Sinking Fund. He is appointed by the President and Senate, and is, by usage, a member of the Cabinet. GENERAL POST OFFICE. WILLIAM T. BARRY, of Kentucky, Postmaster General, $6,000 per annum. CHARLES K. GARDNER Assistant P M. General, (1st Division) $2,500 SELAH R. HOBBIE, Assistant P. M. General, (2nd Division) 2,500 OBADIAH B. BROWN, Treasurer and Chief Clerk, (3d Division) 1,700 P. S. LOUGHBOROUGH, General Agent....... .................. 1,600 This Department is under the superintendence of a Postmaster General, who is aided in the discharge of his duties by two Assistants, appointed by himself. He has the sole appointment of all postmasters throughout the United States, the making of all contracts for carrying the mails, and, in brief, the control, according to law, of every thing relating to the institution. The revenue arising from the General Post Office has, for the most part, been expended upon the extension and improvement of the establishment. CLERKS IN THE GENERAL POST OFFICE, Thomas B. Dyer, Principal Book Keeper...................... ... John Suler, Principal Pay Clerk..... 1400 00 1400 00 1200 00 1200 00 1200 00 1200 00 ......... 1200 00 1200 00 1200 00 1100 00 Michael T. Simpson, Superintendent Dead Letter Office.... Arthur Nelson, Principal Clerk, Northern Division...... William B. Ferguson, Mail Depredations......................................... 1000 00 ......... Thomas Arbuckle, Register's Office.............................................................. 1100 00 Eben L. Childs, Mail Contracts, Northern Division............ 1000 00 ..... J.J. Lehmanowsky, Route Book, Northern Division............ .......... ......... ... C. H W. Wharton, Post Office Blanks................................. J. A. M. Duncanson, Examiner's Office.. 1000 00 900 00 900 00 900 00 ... 900 00 800 00 800 00 800 00 800 00 Alexander H. Mechlin, Mail Contracts, Southern Division.... ........... William Ingle, Examiner's Office........................................................................ .. ............. John Evans, Examiner's Office....... ................................. Drake Hobbie, Examiner's Office............................................................ 4. G. Meriwether, Examiner's Office........ ..... ............... Joseph Borrows, Messenger 700 00 Charles Bell, Watchman.. 250 00 350 00 Henry Johnson, Agent Dead efferson Sessford,. do 350 00 Lette: Office............ 500 00 Fathaniel Herbert, do.. 350 00 Charles Beil,.... .do... 400 00 350 00 William Harvey,. do...... 400 00 Jeremiah Hutchinson, Lab'r 24 00 Chester Bailey,....do...... 400 00 CLERKS IN POST OFFICES. Every Postmaster is required to keep an office, in which one or more persons must attend every day on which a mail arrives. The following is a list of the Clerks, with their annual compensation, employed in such Post Offices as yield a commission of more than $2,000 per annum. Albany, N. Y John Deas......... .. .... Cincinnati, Ohio. 200 00 300 50 50 00 200 00 Robert Elliot.... .........1200 00 Daniel D. Bacot.. K. Van Rensselaer...... 700 00 Abraham Moise, jr 700 00 James Kingwan..... 700 00 700 00 Elam P. Langdon...... 700 00 Robert Puushon.... .... 400 00 525 00 William Ulery.... 350 00 Jame K. McCreary... ..1000 00 ... Van Rensselaer........ A Van Rensselaer.... Arthur H. Coughtry.. John McLachlan, Jr........ R. Van Rensselaer.. Robert Erwin................ ........ 280 00 Nich. B. Van Rensselaer.. 350 00 George Whitamore........ 330 00 R. G. Ross........ 304 57 John T. Dent.. ................................. 176 00 33 33 Patrick McLaughlan.. .... 200 00 John C McCreary...... 158 00 Isaac Fonda.... 150 00 Josiah Boardman.......... 215 00 William Micon, Senr......1000 00 Oliver M Langdon.... 60 00 John R. Kain.... Henry O. Micon George W. Morgan........ 390 00 C. McSpaner Thomas Cumming.. J. Smith........ Baltimore, Md. C. T. Maddox .. Archibald Milloy.. .... 250 0 G. L. Dawson...... .......... 750 00 Duncan MacRae, jr.. ..150 00 457 15 J. L. Wolcott...... Leonard Holmes.... ......1200 00 Alfred Wright...... ............ ...... 465 00 Alpheus Grant............ 650 00 Roderick Felter............ 500 00 Thos. W. Bacot, Jr. Asst..i500 00 Norfolk, Va. A. McConnico........ T. B. McConnico......................... 300 00 Thomas B. Leighton.. Neu Bedford, Mass. Richard Williams, Jr 800 00 Portsmouth, N. H 600 00 John Harrat.... .... 400 00 250 00 .... G. Laffenanderiu..........1200 00 William H. Dart........ 400 00 1000 00s. H Branch.............. ................ 400 00 540 00 Robert H. Barton.......... 250 00 83 40 Richmond, Va. 487 50 Edmund Auderson.... .... 800 00 .... 283 00 John M. Anderson... .: 450 00 255 00 Thomas Marshall.......... 450 00 35 50 George W. Marshall.... 300 00 680 00 Savannah, Geo. 100 00 William G. Latimer.. .. .. 800 00 Thomas Durant.................................... ... .... ...... .... St. Louis, Mo. J. D. Deharne.... C. H. Kerk.............................................. 550 00 George Taver..............1100 00 J. H. Joslin.............................................. 112 29 Utica, N. Y. w White....... R. B. Dodson...................................... 300 00 John Reese................ 450 00 C. D Morgan........ ....... 400 00 T. Corcoran.......... .... ..1600 00 G. J. Wilkins.............. 300 00 Thomas L Noyes..........1450 00 |