GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Elijah Hayward, Commissioner, $3.000 per annum. Prior to the 25th of April, 1812, grants of land were issued by Letters Patent from the Department of State. By an act of thai date a General Land Office was established, in which all patents for land are now made out and recorded By the act of 24th of April, 1820, all sales of public lands, made after July 1st of that year are made for cash; and complete payment must be nade on the day of purchase. The minimum price is fixed at $1 25 per acre, below which they cannot be disposed of By the act of 1812, the President was required to sign all land patents, but under a law of the last session, a Secretary has been appointed to Sign them for him. CLERKS IN THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE. JOHN M. MOORE, chief clerk........................... Samuel D King, has in charge the reports of the commissioners on private land claims-attens to all enquiries connected with those claims, and i-sues the patents therefor-attends to the subject of the locations of Indian reserves, with various miscellaneous duties.......................... ..... $1700 00 ..... 1150 00 ................ ... .......... Frede ick Keller, issues the patents for the Virginia military ......... ......... 1150 00 1150 00 1150 00 1150 00 1150 00 1150 00 1150 00 1400 00 1150 00 1000 00 350 00 T. B. Reily.... John Wilson......... Roderick Hampton, assistant messenger.................................................:•• • William Smith, also acts as agent for the payment of salaries, and for the disburse ment of the contingent fund and extra appropriations for clerk hire. +Sackett Reynolds, has also in charge the accounts of the three per cent fund accruing on the nett proceeds of public lands pa able to the States wherein those lands are situated, for which he receives $250 per annum. SECRETARY FOR SIGNING LAND PATENTS. Andrew J. Donelson....... .... $1500 00 The appointment of this officer is authorized, by the act of March 2, 1833, prescribing the mode by which Patents for public lands shall be signed and executed. It is his duty, under the direction of the President, to sign, in his name, and for him, all patents for lands sold or granted under the authority of the United States. COMMISSIONERS OF INSOLVENCY. The Commissioners of Insolvency are appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. For their powers, duties, and compensation, and the manner prescribed for application for relief by an insolvent debtor, together with the form of proceedings on such application, see act of March 2, 1831, Vol. X. p. 124, and act of July 14, 1832, Vol. XI. p 106. William Parmentier, July 1, 1834. Robeson S. Hinman, Aug. 14, 1834 At Baltimore, for the District of Richard B. Cuyler,....July 1, 1834. Kentucky. Alexander K. Depew, July 1, 1834. At Mobile, for the Southern District of Alabama. George W. Owen,.....July 1, 1834. James S Green,......July 1, 1834. At St. Louis, for the District of At Philadelphia, for the Southern New Jersey District of Pennsylvania. James M. Broom,....July 1, 1834. Edw. D. Ingraham,....July 1, 1834 Henry Shoen.aker,....July 1, 1834 At Pittsburg, for the Western Dis Missouri. .... Elliott Lee, trict of Pennsylvania. William G. Hawkins, July 1, 1834. William Hebb,........July 1, 1834. An Act to revive and amend "an Act for the relief of certain Insolvent Debtors of the United States," passed on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and an act in addition thereto, passed on the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty two. [SEC 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act enti tled "An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States," passed on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty one, and an act in addition thereto, passed on the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, which said acts expired on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, be, and the same are hereby, revived, and shall continue in force for three years from and after the passage of this act. SEC. 2 And be it further enacted, That if any surety, or co-surety, of any debtor who is, or shall become, an applicant for relief under the provisions of the acts recited in the preceding section of this act, shall be dead, the consent of the legal representative or representatives of such deceased surety, or co-surety, shall be received, an entitle the applicant to relief, in like manner as the consent of a living surety, or Co-surety, would do by the provisions of the third section of the act of the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; and if the surety, or co-surety, of any such debtor shall be absent in parts unknown, or if the consent of the legal representative or representatives of any deceased surety, or co-surety, cannot be obtained, and the property or estate of any such deceased or absent surety, or co-surety, shall not be sufficient to pay the debt due to the United States, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied by proof, of these facts, he shall be authorized, in all such cases, to grant such relief or discharge as the debtor applying for the same may be entitled to, according to the provisions of the acts which this act is intended to revive and amend, upon the condition that such debtor shall not be discharged thereby from his or her legal ability to such absent surety, or co-surety, or to the estate of such deceased debtor, for any part of the debt due to the United States, which may thereafter be paid by or out of the estate of any such absent or deceased surety, or co-surety. SEC 3 And be it further enacted, That all discharges which have heretofore been granted by the Secretary of the Treasury to any principal debtor, with the consent of the legal representative or representatives of any deceased surety, or co-surety, shall be as valid as though such Surety or co surety, had been alive, and his or her consent obtained, according to the letter of the third section of the act of the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two. SEC. 4 And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized to cause satisfaction to be entered upon all judgments against such insolvents as have heretofore been, or may hereafter be, relieved under the provisions of the acts which this act is intended to revive and amend; or under any other and former act of Congress, for the relief of persons imprisoned for debts due to the United States: Provided, the district judge of the district in which such judgments are on record, shall certify that he is satisfied that the debtor is possessed or entitled to no property liable to be applied to the satisfaction of said judgments, and that the interest of the Government does not require that such judgments should remain unsatisfied In every case of application for such cerificate to a judge at his chambers, ten days potice shall be given to the district attorney for the district, when the application is made. [Approved, June 7th, 1834.] WAR DEPARTMENT. He LEWIS CASS, of Ohio, Secretary, $6,000 per annum. The War Department, as organized under the present constitution, was created by act of 7th August, 1789. The Secretary of War, at first, bad the superintendence of naval affairs. On the 30th of April, 1789, however, a separation took place, and a Navy Department was established. The Secretary of War superintends every branch of the military department; and is, by usage, a member of the cabinet. holds his office at the will of the President. Attached to the War Department, and under the immediate direction of the Secretary, are, a Requisition Bureau, a Bounty Land Bureau, a Pension Office, an Office of Indian Affairs, and an Engineer Office, a Topographical Office, an Ordnance Office, an office for the Commissary General of Subsistence, an office for the Clothing Department, a Paymaster General's Office, and a Surgeon General's Office. All these offices, together with the Head Quarters of the Commanding General, (Major General Macomb,) and the Adjutant General's and Quartermaster General's office, are located at Washington. To this Department belongs the erection of all fortifications, making all topographical surveys; surveying and leasing the national lead mines; and the action (under the laws) of intercourse with Indian tribes. From this bureau all the requisitions of the War Department are made out on the Treasury, and the salaries and contingencies of the Department are paid. CLERKS IN THE BOUNTY LAND BUREAU. WILLIAM GORDON, principal....................... .............................................................................. 1400 00 Edward Stephens, clerk........ ......... 1000 00 The Bounty Land Bureau of the War Department is a bureau in which claims for military bounty lands, originating in the revolutionary and late war, are examined, and from which military bounty Jand war ... 1400 00 Hezekiah Miller, clerk......................................................................................................... Samuel J. Potts, clerk.......................................................................................................... 1000 00 William Ward, clerk...................................................................... 1000 00 Charles Drane, messenger......... ............................... 700 00 This office which had previously been one of the bureaus of the War Department, was created by an act of July 9, 1832, entitled "an act to provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and for other purposes." This act provides that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who shall be appointed by the President and Senate, shall, under the direction of the Secretary of War, and agreeably to such regulations as the President may, from time to time prescribe, have the direction and management of all Indian affairs, and of all matters arising out of Indian relations. All accounts and vouchers for claims and disbursements connected with Indian affairs must be transmitted to the Commissioner for administrative examination, and by him be passed to the Second Auditor of the Treasury for settlement. JAMES L. EDWARDS, Commissioner .... ... PENSION OFFICE. John D) Wilson.....clerk. 1200 00 2500 00 Nathan Rice.........clerk. 1200 00 G. W. Crump, chief clerk. 1600 00 William M Stewart, clerk. 1000 00 800 00 800 00 350 00 The Pension Office was created by an act of Congress, dated March 2, 1833. The claims for pensions had been previously settled by a bureau of the War Department; (see Vol. XI. p. 115 ) In the office, as now established, the Commissioner of Pensions executes, under the direction of the Secretary of War, such duties in relation to the various peusion laws, as may be prescribed by the President of the United States. OFFICES OF THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY. HEAD QUARTERS OF THE ARMY. Major General Alexander Macomb, General-in-Chief. Lieutenant Samuel Cooper, Aid de-Camp, 4th Artillery. The army of the United States is placed under the command of the Major General, who is generally styled, the General-in-Chief. His duties comprise the arrangement of the military force in such manner as to give protection to the maritime frontier and to the interior border. He superintends the recruiting service; the discipline and police of the army; orders general courts martial, and decides on all cases, except when the life of an officer or soldier is affected, or the commission of an officer. It is his province to see that the laws and regulations govan ng the army are enforced, and that justice is done to all concerned. In his duties he is assisted by the adjutant general, through whose office all orders are issued to the army, and returns of its strength made, as well as the general military correspondence in relation to the details of service. He is also assisted by the two inspectors generals, who, under his orders, inspect the condition of the several regiments, corps, and posts, and inquire minutely into every subject relating to the welfare of the army; and recommend such improvements as may add to the comfort 0 the officers and men; they also report on the general condition of corps, and the individual character of its members. The General-in |