Grades. FLEET ENGINEERS.. ENGINEERS-Chief Engineer, (on duty)-For first five years after date of commission. After fifteen years from date of commission.. On leave or waiting orders-For first five years after date of commission.. For second five years after date of commission... For third five years after date of commission.. After fifteen years from date of commission.. Retired Chief Engineers-Chief engineers ranking with captains.. Chief engineers ranking with commanders.... Chief engineers ranking with lieutenant commanders. First Assistant Engineers-On duty . On leave or waiting orders..... Retired First Assistant Engineers.. Second Assistant Engineers-On duty.. On leave or waiting orders... Retired Second Assistant Engineers. Third Assistant Engineers-On duty.... Pay per annu. . $3,500 .2,200 .2,500 .2,800 .3,000 .1,500 .1,600 .1,700 .1,800 ..1,600 .1,400 ..1,300 ..1,500 ..1,100 800 .1,200 900 500 .1,000 On leave or waiting orders..... 800 SECRETARY TO ADMIRAL AND VICE-ADMIRAL-Sea pay and allowance to each of a lieutenant. ..1,500 CLERKS, APOTHECARIES, &c.-To commanders of squadrons and commanders of vessels.. 500 To paymasters at Boston, New York, Washington, and Philadelphia stations. .1,200 .1,000 To inspectors in charge of provisions and clothing at Boston, New York and Phila..1,200 To receiving ships at Boston and New York.. .1,000 ...1,200 In other receiving ships, and in vessels of the first rate, and at the Naval Academy..1,000 Paymaster's writers, first class, (at navy-yards, receiving-ships, and Naval Academy)... The List of Vessels in the Navy was corrected at the Navy Department, October, 1868. From that time to December, several changes were made by which the naval force was still further reduced. The changes in the squadrons are as follows: The Gettysburg of 9 guns, and the Nipsic of 6 guns, have at different times been in Haytien waters, connected with the North Atlantic Squadron. The Shamokin, from the South Atlantic Squadron; the Canandaigua, from the European Squadron, and the Shenandoah, from the Asiatic Squadron, have returned, or have been ordered home, and the Idaho, (store and hospital ship) of 7 guns, is attached to the Asiatic Squadron. Exhibit of the Naval Force, December, 1868. The number of vessels in squadron service, as cruisers, storeships and returning is 42, carrying 411 guns-a reduction during the year of 14 Vessels, carrying 96 guns. The number of vessels of all descriptions in use as cruisers, storeships, receiving ships, tugs, &c., is 81, carrying 693 guns-a reduction from last year of 22 vessels, carrying 205 guns. The total number of vessels borne upon the navy list is 206, carrying 1,743 guns-a reduction during the year of 32 vessels, carrying 126 guns. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.* The ordinary business of this office may be classified under the following heads: 1. Official opinions on the current business of the government, as called for by the President, by any head of department, or by the Solicitor of the Treasury. 2. Examination of the titles of all land purchased, as the sites of arsenals, custom-houses, light-houses, and all other public works of the United States. 3. Applications for pardons in all cases of conviction in the courts of the United States. 4. Application for appointment in all the judicial and legal business of the government. 5. The conduct and argument of all suits in the Supreme Court of the United States in which the government is concerned. 6. The supervision of all other suits arising in any of the departments, when referred by the head thereof to the Attorney General. To these ordinary heads of the business of the office is added at the present time the direction of all appeals on land claims in California. The Constitution provides that the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, hold their offices during good behavior; and at stated times receive for their services a compensation, which is not to be diminished during their continuance in office. The judicial power extends to all cases in law and equity arising under this constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more states; between a state and citizens of another state, between citizens of different states, between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and of foreign states, citizens or subjects. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party, the supreme court has original juris diction. In all other cases before mentioned, the supreme court has appellate *Corrected by Clerk of Supreme Court, October, 1868. jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such obligations as congress shall make. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Chief Justice, Salmon P. Chase, Ohio. Associate Justices, Samuel Nelson, New York; Robert C. Grier, Pennsylvania; Nathan Clifford, Maine; Noah H. Swayne, Ohio; Samuel F. Miller, Iowa; David Davis, Illinois; Stephen J. Field, California. Clerk, D. W. Middleton; Marshal, R. C. Parsons; Reporter, John Wm. Wallace. Salary of Chief Justice, $6,500; of each Associate Justice, $6,000. CIRCUIT COURTS.* This country is divided into nine Judicial Circuits, in each of which a Circuit Court is held twice every year, for each State within the Circuit, by a Justice of the Supreme Court, assigned to the Circuit, and by the District Judge of the State or district in which the Court sits. The Circuit Courts have both original and appellate jurisdiction. They have concurrent jurisdiction with the State Courts, where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of $500, and the United States are plaintiffs; or where an alien is a party; or where the suit is between citizens of different States. They have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases of crimes against the laws of the United States, except where the law especially confers the power on other Courts. The District Courts have exclusive original jurisdiction in all admiralty and maritime causes. 1st Circuit-Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island....... 4th Circuit-Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North and South Carolina... 5th Circuit-Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas... 6th Circuit-Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee.. 7th Circuit-Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin... JUDGE CLIFFORD. CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE. JUDGE SWAYNE, 8th Circuit-Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Nebraska....JUDGE MILLER. 9th Circuit-California, Oregon and Nevada.. COURT OF CLAIMS. JUDGE FIELD. The Court of Claims was established in 1855; it hears and determines all claims founded upon a law of Congress, or regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract with the government of the United States. Chief Justice, Joseph Casey. Judges, Edward J. Loring, Ebenezer Peck, Charles C. Nott, Samuel Milligan. Chief Clerk, Samuel H. Huntington. Assistant Clerk, John Randolph. Bailiff, Stark B. Taylor. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Chief Justice, David K. Cartter. Associate Justices, Abraham B. Olin, George P. Fisher, Andrew Wylie. Attorney, Edward C. Carrington; Marshal, David S. Gooding; Clerk, Return J. Meigs; Reg ister of Deeds, F. P. Cuppy. Salary of Chief Justice, $4,500; of each Associate Justice, $4,000. *For District Courts and Officers see the different states. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. The management of the Post Office Department is assigned by the Constitution and laws to the Postmaster General. The Appointment Office, at the head of which is the First Assistant Postmaster General, attends to the establishment and discontinuance of post offices, changes of sites and names, appointment and removal of postmasters and route of local agents, and giving of instructions to postmasters. It provides marking and rating stamps and letter balances for postmasters, and blanks and stationery for the use of the department, and superintends the several agencies established for supplying postmasters with blanks, wrapping paper and twine. It has the supervision of the ocean mail steamship lines and of the foreign and international postal arrangements. The Contract Office, at the head of which is the Second Assistant Postmaster General, arranges the mail service, and places the same under contract, corresponds and acts respecting the trips, conveyance, departures and arrivals on all the routes, the course of the mail between the different sections of the country, the points of distribution, and the regulations for the government of the domestic mail service. It prepares the advertisements, receives the bids, and takes charge of the annual and occasional mail lettings; the adjustment and execution of the contracts; application for the establishment or alteration of mail arrangements, and the appointment of mail messengers. All claims for transportation service not under contract are to be recognized by the Contract Office as authority for the proper credits at the Auditor's Office. Postmasters at the end of routes receive from it the statement of mail arrangements prescribed for the respective routes. It reports weekly to the Auditor all contracts executed, and all orders affecting accounts for mail transportation; prepares the statistical exhibits of the mail service, and the reports of the mail lettings, giving a statement of each bid; also, of the contracts made, the new service originated, the curtailments ordered, and the additional allowances granted within the year. To the Inspection Division of this Office, is assigned the duty of receiving and examining the registers of the arrivals and departures of the mails, certificates of the service of route agents, and reports of mail failures; of noting the delinquencies of contractors, and preparing cases thercon for the action of the Postmaster General; furnishing blanks for mail registers, and reports of mail failures; providing and sending out mail-bags and mail locks and keys; the suppression of all cases of mail depredation, of violation of law by private express, or by the forging or illegal use of postage stamps. All communications respecting lost money, lost letters, mail depredations, or other violations of laws should be directed to this division. The Finance Office, the head of which is the Third Assistant Postmaster General, supervises the financial business of the department not devolved by law upon the Auditor, embracing accounts with the draft officers and other depositaries of the department, the issuing of warrants and drafts in payment of balances reported by the Auditor to be due to mail contractors |