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NOTE. One ration per day only is allowed to each officer when attached to vessels for sea service, since the passage of the law of the 3d of March, 1835, regulating the pay of the navy. Teachers receive two rations per day, at 20 cents each.

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7. VESSELS OF WAR OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. - August 5, 1850. [The officers marked thus (*) have the rank of Commanders; thus (†), Lieutenants ; the rest are Captains.]

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THE marine corps has the organization of a brigade. The pay and allowances of the officers of the marine corps are the same as those of officers of the same grades in the infantry of the army, except the adjutant and inspector, who have the same pay and allowances as the paymaster of the marines. The marine corps is subject to the laws and regulations of the navy, except when detached for service with the army by the order of the President of the United States. The head-quarters of the corps are at Washington.*

† Archibald Henderson, Colonel-Commandant.

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*Those officers who were dropped from the roster of the corps on the 18th of August, 1848, under the act of March 24, 1847, were restored to their former rank and pay by the act of March 3d, 1849.

↑ Brigadier General by brevet. With the rank of Major. With the rank of Captain.

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THE Congress of the United States consists of a Senate and House of Representatives, and must assemble at least once every year, on the first Monday of December, unless it is otherwise provided by law.

The Senate is composed of two members from each State; and, of course, the regular number is now 62. They are chosen by the Legislatures of the several States, for the term of six years, one third of them being elected biennially.

The Vice-President of the United States is the President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate.

The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several States, elected by the people, for the term of two years. The Representatives are apportioned among the different States according to population. The 31st Congress is chosen according to the act of Congress of 1842, the ratio being "one Representative for every 70,680 persons in each State, and one additional Representative for each State having a fraction greater than one moiety of the said ratio, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constitution of the United States." The law of 1842 also requires, that the Representatives of each State "shall be elected by districts composed of a contiguous territory, equal in number to the number of Representatives to which said State may be entitled, no one district electing more than one Representative." The present number of Representatives is 232, and there are two Delegates, one each from Oregon and Minesota, who have a right to speak, but not to vote.

Since the 4th of March, 1817, the compensation of each member of the Senate and House of Representatives has been $8 a day, during the period of his attendance in Congress, without deduction in case of sickness; and $8 for every twenty miles' travel, in the usual road, in going to and returning from the seat of government. The compensation of the President of the Senate pro tempore, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is $16 a day.

THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. THE SENATE.
WILLIAM R. KING, Alabama, President.

[The figures denote the expiration of the terms of the Senators.]
Maine.

Hannibal Hamlin, Hampden,
J. W. Bradbury, Augusta,

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Vermont.

1851 Samuel S. Phelps, Middlebury, 1851 1853 William Upham, Montpelier, 1855

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Worcester, 1853

Moses Norris, Jr., Manchester, 1855 John Davis,

Appointed by the Governor to hold office until the Legislature fills the vacancy.

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