heavers (including service with condensing apparatus), shall be paid thirty-three (33) cents per diem, subject to the conditions of the circular of the Navy Department dated June 5, 1871, from and including the day the fires are lighted until and inclusive of the day after they are hauled, in addition to their pay as seamen, ordinary seamen, and landsmen, respectively, provided their monthly pay shall not exceed the regular pay of firemen and coal-heavers. Men enlisted for the engineers' force will be rated first and second class firemen, and be paid accordingly, when serving aboard of sea-going vessels. Men enlisting under continuous-service certificates will be entitled to receive one dollar per month, in addition to the pay of their respective ratings, for each consecutive re-enlistment for three years within three months from the date of their discharge. UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS. This Corps consists of one commandant, Name, Rate, and Class. with the rank of brigadier-general; one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, four majors, one adjutant and inspector, with the rank of major; one paymaster, with 2D RATES. Florida...... Java.. the rank of major; one quartermaster, Connecticut, and class.... Screw... 21 2869 4450 with the rank of major; two assistant quartermasters, with the rank of captain; Tennessee... 20 captains, 30 first lieutenants, 20 second Antietam... lieutenants, 1 sergeant-major, 1 quarter- New York.. master sergeant, 1 drum-major, 1 prin- Pennsylvania... cipal musician, 200 sergeants, 220 porals, 30 musicians for a band, 60 drummers, 60 fifers, and 2500 privates. Enlistments are for five years. cor It is provided by law that the members of the "Marine Band" shall receive four dollars a month, each, in addition to the regular pay, for performing on the Capitol Grounds, and the grounds attached to the Executive Mansion. Marines are entitled to the navy ration, and they may be detached for service on board the armed vessels of the United States; they are also liable for duty in the forts and garrisons, on the sea-coasts, and other duty on shore. They are subject to the laws and regulations of the navy, except when detached for service with the army by order of the President, when they are subject to the Rules and Articles of War for the army. Officers of the Marine Corps are retired in the same manner and on the same conditions as officers of the army. Vessels of the United States Navy. Name, Rate, and Class. Susquehanna...... Lancaster, and class... Brooklyn........ Hartford.... Richmond. Congress.... Powhatan, and class...... Benicia..... Screw... 12 2135 4220 Screw... 23 2019 4000 Screw... 23 2840 4840 Screw... 21 2490 4000 Lackawanna, and class... Screw... 10 Shenandoah 3D RATES. Juniata..... Quinnebaug. Marion......... Galena...... Screw... Screw... Screw... Mohican... Screw... Screw... Adams........... ප ප ප ප පස Screw... 6 615 1375 Screw... 6 615 1375 Alliance....... Paddle. Monocacy.. Narragansett.. Paddle. Screw... Alert*. Screw... 410 900 3 410 900 3 410 900 3 410 900 Paddle. 8 450 685 496 Fourth. Screw... 550 Mahopac...... Monadnock Montauk..... Nantucket. Fourth. Screw... Fourth. Screw... Nahant. 22224+4222422242 Roanoke.... Second.. Screw... 6 550 2127 1091 496 496 496 .... Per Annum. ....$3500 3500 3000 2500 1800 Captain and assistant quartermaster...... 2000 1400 NOTE. All officers below the rank of Brigadier-General are entitled to ten per centum in addition to their current yearly pay as given 1225 above, for each and every period of five years' service, provided the total amount of such increase shall not exceed forty per centum of their current yearly pay; and provided further, that the pay of a Colonel shall not exceed $4500 per annum, and that of a Lieutenant-Colonel $4000 per annum. Officers on the retired list are entitled to seventy-five per centum of pay (salary and increase) of their rank, but no increase accrues for time subsequent to date of retirement. 2127 496 1870 2260 550 1085 550 Pay Table of Non-Commissioned Officers, Musicians, and Privates of the United Grade. States Marine Corps. All enlisted men, except musicians of the band, serving on a first period of five years' service, are entitled to $1 per month for the third year, $2 per month for the fourth year, and $3 per month for the fifth year's service, in addition to the sums given in the first column above, which additional amounts are retained until expiration of service, and paid only upon final settlement and honorable discharge. One dollar per month is retained from all enlisted men (except the Marine Band) serving under a re-enlistment. This retained pay is not included in the above table, and is to be credited and paid only upon final settlement and honorable discharge from service. NAVY-YARDS AND SHORE STATIONS. Portsmouth, New Hampshire.-NavyYard and Marine Barracks. Boston, Massachusetts. -Navy-Yard, Marine Barracks, and Receiving-Ship Wabash. Malden, Massachusetts.-Nitre Depot. Chelsea, Massachusetts.-Naval Hospital. New York City.-Navy Yard, Receiving-Ship Colorado, Naval Laboratory, Naval Hospital, and Marine Barracks (Brooklyn). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-(League Island) Navy-Yard, Naval Asylum, Receiving-Ship St. Louis, Naval Hospital, INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. This Department was established by act | uted to such incorporated bodies, instiof Congress of March 3, 1849. The Secretary of the Interior is the head of the Interior Department. There is one Assistant Secretary. tutions, and associations within the States and Territories as may be designated to the Secretary by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress. He is required to transmit one copy each of the public journals of the Senate DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF THE and House of Representatives to the INTERIOR. The Secretary of the Interior is charged with the supervision of public business relating to the following subjects: The public lands, including mines; the Indians; pensions and bounty lands; patents for inventions; the custody and distribution of publications; education; the census; Government Hospital for the Insane; Columbia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb; and Territories of the United States. He makes reports to Congress of his operations annually. He is charged with the receiving, arranging, and safe-keeping for distribution to the persons entitled by law to receive them, all printed journals of the two houses of Congress, and all books and documents printed or purchased for use of the Government, except such as are printed or purchased for the particular use of Congress, or of the Executive Departments. Governor of each State and Territory, to each branch of the State and Territorial Legislatures, one to every university and college in each State, and one to the Historical Society incorporated in each State; and fifty copies of the documents ordered by Congress shall be used for exchange with foreign Governments. Such public documents as are ordered by the Secretary of State are supplied to legations and consulates of the United States. It is the duty of the Superintendent of Public Documents, subject to the general direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to collect, arrange, preserve, pack, and distribute the publications received at the Department of the Interior for distribution. The Secretary is charged with the compilation and printing, in each year in which a new Congress assembles, of the Biennial Register or Blue Book of the United States, which contains the lists of all officers, clerks, employés, and agents, He is required to furnish to the Depart- civil, military, and naval, in the employ ment of Justice a sufficient number of of the United States on the 30th of June the statutes of the United States, and the of that year; which exhibits the amount decisions of the Supreme Court of the of compensation, pay, and emoluments United States, for distribution to the allowed to each, the State or country in officers of the Courts of the United States. which each person was born, the State or A register of all publications received Territory from which appointed to office, must be kept, and an account of all issues and where employed; also a list of all ships made. Publications are issued only on belonging to the United States, all conthe written requisition of the heads of tractors with the Government for carryDepartments, Secretary of the Senate, ing the mail, printers of United States Clerk of the House of Representatives, laws and all printers employed by Conthe Librarian of Congress, or such other gress or by any department, and other officers as are authorized by law to re- matters. An edition of only 750 copies ceive the same. Copies of journals, of this book is printed for the use of Conbooks, and public documents are distrib-gress, heads of Departments, and a few chief officers of the Government. This book is compiled under the direction of the Superintendent of Public Documents. The Secretary must provide a suitable apartment, to be called the "Return Office," in which are filed the returns of contracts made by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Interior, to be attended to by a clerk. Copies of such returns are furnished to any person, paying therefor, at the rate of five cents per 100 words. He is directed by law to prevent the improper appropriation of any public street, avenue, square, or reservation in the city of Washington belonging to the United States. He has exclusive control of the public park established near the head-waters of the Yellowstone River, in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming. He must cause to be published, at the close of each session of Congress, 11,000 copies of the acts and resolutions passed by Congress, the amendments to the Constitution adopted, and the public treaties and postal conventions made and ratified. The business of the office of the Secretary of the Interior is distributed between the following divisions: APPOINTMENT DIVISION. This Division has charge of corre As its name implies, this Division has charge of all matters relating to appoint-spondence relating to public lands and ments, removals, official misconduct of all persons in the service of the Interior Department, employed at Washington or elsewhere, and all subjects that pertain to or grow out of those branches of business, including absence of employés, and | lands. of the bonds of officers. DISBURSEMENT DIVISION. This Division is in charge of the Disbursing Clerk of the Interior Department, whose duty consists in making all the disbursements for the following objects: Salaries of officers and employés of the Department. Contingent expenses. Repairs of the United States Capitol and the grounds thereof. Expenses of Freedmen's Hospital. Expenses of Smithsonian Institution. Requisitions for funds by the Secretary of the Interior upon the Secretary of the Treasury are prepared in this Division, for the following objects: Support and maintenance of Indian tribes. land-grant railroads; appeals to the Secretary of the Interior from the decisions of the General Land Office, and prepares lists of swamp, railroad, internal improvement, and other selections of PENSION DIVISION. This Division has charge of pension lands and bounty lands; matters relating to the Government Hospital for the Insane, Freedmen's Hospital, Columbia Hospital for Women, Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb, National Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, and District of Columbia Jail. PUBLIC DOCUMENT DIVISION. This Division has the care of all public documents issued by the Government which by law are distributed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and attends to the distribution of the same; also the management of the Department Library, and the publication of the United States Biennial Register. |