Hunter. WASHINGTON-Roger S. Greene. WYOMING-James B. Sener. DISTRIOT OF COLUMBIA-David K. Cartter, Chief Justice, $4,500. Alexander B. Hagner, Walter S. Cox, Charles P. James, Andrew Wylie, Arthur McArthur, Associates, $4,000 each. 1 Commissioner of Agriculture-GEORGE B. LORING, of Massachusetts. $3,000 Superintendent of Botanical Gardens-Wm. Saunders, of Pennsylvania. Superintendent of Seed Room-A. Glass, of Dist. of Columbia. Commissioner of Education—Gen. JOHN EATON, Jr., of Tenn... $3,000 1,800 THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT. THE National Legislature consists of a Senate of two members from each State, making the full Senate now consist of seventy-six members, and a House of Representatives, now having two hundred and ninety-three members. The Senators are chosen by the Legislatures of their several States, for a term of six years, either by concurrent vote or by joint ballot, as the State may prescribe. The members of the House of Representatives are usually elected by a plurality vote in districts of each State, whose bounds are prescribed by the Legislature, for the term of two years. In a few instances they have been elected at large: i. e., by the plurality vote of the entire State. The Constitution requires nine years' citizenship to qualify for admission to the Senate, and seven years to the House of Representatives. An act approved July 26, 1866, requires the Legislature of each State which shall be chosen next preceding the expiration of any Senatorial term, on the second Tuesday after its first meeting, to elect a successor, each House nominating viva voce, and then convening in Joint Assembly to compare nominations. In case of agreement, such person shall be declared duly elected; and if they do not agree, then balloting to continue from day to day at 12 M. during the session until choice has been made. Vacancies are to be filled in like manner. The members of each House receive a salary of $5,000 per annum, and actual mileage at twenty cents per mile. For each day's absence, except when caused by sickness, $8 per diem is deducted from the salary. The Speaker of the House of Representatives receives $10,000. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. The House of Representatives of the United States is composed of members elected by Districts. The number apportioned to the States has varied at each decennial census, as shown by the following Table: Death July 9-1850 14. Franklin Pierce, of N. Hampshire Mar. 4-1853 15. James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania Mar. 4-1857 16. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois.. 17. Andrew Johnson, Vice-President,| succeeded President Lincoln, who was assassinated April 14, 1865. 1. George Washington, of Virginia.. 2. John Adams, of Massachusetts 3. Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia. 4. James Madison, of Virginia 5. James Monroe, of Virginia 6. John Quincy Adams, of Mass.. 7. Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee.. 8. Martin Van Buren, of New York 9. William Henry Harrison, of Ohio. 10. John Tyler, of Virginia, Vice-President, succeeded President Harrison, who died April 4, 1841... 11. James K. Polk, of Tennessee 12. Zachary Taylor, of Louisiana.. 13. Millard Fillmore, of N. Y., VicePresident, succeeded Pres. Taylor, who died July 9, 1850.... Mar. 4-1861 Apr. 15-1865 1808 18. Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois Mar. 4-1869 1822 Mar. 4-1877 1822 1 Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1873 Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. (Continued.) Be it enacted, &c., That after the 3d of March, 1883, the House of Representatives shall be composed of 325 members, to be apportioned among the several States as follows: 20 Massachusetts.. 12 | New Jersey.... 7 South Carolina 7 18 Michigan... 11 New York... 84 Tennessee..... 10 6 lowa 11 Minnesota 11 1 Kansas.. 7 Mississippi. 7 Ohio... Connecticut 4 Kentucky 11 Missouri 14 Oregon. 1 1 Louisiana. 6 Nebraska 3 Pennsylvania 28 4 | Nevada 1 Rhode Island... 2 6 New Hampshire 2 Delaware Florida.... Georgia......... 10 Maryland. SEO. 2. That whenever a new State is admitted to the Union, the Representative or Representatives assigned to it shall be in addition to the number, 325. SEO. 3. That in each State entitled under this apportionment, the number to which such State may be entitled in the Forty-eighth and each subsequent Congress, shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants, and equal in number to the Representatives to which such State may be entitled in Congress, no one dis trict electing more than one Representative; provided, that unless the Legislature of such State shall otherwise provide, before the election of such Representatives shall take place as provided by law, where no change shall be hereby made in the representation of a State, the Representatives thereof to the Forty-eighth Congress shall be elected therein as now provided by law. If the number as hereby provided for shall be larger than it was before this change, then the additional Representative or Representatives allowed to said State, under this apportionment may be elected by the State at large, and the other Represe tatives to which the State is entitled by the districts as now prescribed by law in said State, and if the number hereby provided for shall in any State be less than it was before the change hereby made, then the whole number to such State hereby provided for shall be elected at large, unless the Legislatures of said States have provided or shall otherwise provide before the time ixed by law for the next election of Representatives therein. Expense of maintaining the government, not including the interest on the bonds, for each year from 1861 to 1880: |