Edgar Patterson, keeps the impost book-merchandise and tonnage, and duties thereon-all the receipts and expenditures of each collection district-also takes off the drawbacks, by which the net revenue on merchandise and tonnage is ascertained.......... 1000 00 Joseph Brewer, keeps the leger for accounts of sales of pub lic lands, the entries of which are made from the quarterly settlements at the Treasury of the accounts of Receivers' of public moneys-keeps the closing accounts of direct taxcopies revenue accounts for suit-and performs various other services of a miscellaneous nature......................................................... 1000 00 John B. Blake, records and registers the warrants upon the requisitions of the Secretary of War and Navy-aids in preparing statements and in copying documents in relation to the receipts and expenditures....... ....... 1000 00 James D. Woodside, Copying Clerk, and prepares statements of a miscellaneous character-records drafts drawn on banks. by the Treasurer of the United States and the receipts given by him for patent fees......................................................... .......... 1000 00 French Evans, assists in that branch of business which relates to the tonnage of the U. S.-transmits certificates and lists of crews to the several collectors-and has charge of the Congressional documents................. John Nourse, keeps the books of domestic produce exported in American and foreign vessels, and makes out the annual statements thereof for Congress.... 1000 00 800 00 P. W. Gallaudel, prepares various statements, and keeps the records in relation to unclaimed dividends, and the Marine 800 00 Alexander McDonald, messenger..................................................................... 700 00 350 00 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 that date, a General Land Office was established, in which all patents for land are now made out and recorded. It is a subordinate branch of the Treasury Department, with which it is closely connected by the accountability of the receivers of public moneys arising from the sale of the national lands. CLERKS IN THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE. ............. ........... JOHN M. MOORE, Chief Clerk, attends to the correspondence on mis cellaneous subjects, and to the preparations of statements connected with the subject of the public lands....... 1700 00 Robert Mills, Draughtsman, prepares connected maps of the United States' land districts, from the Surveyor's returns.... 1150 00 Samuel D. King, has in charge the reports of the Commis. sioners on private laud claims-attends to all enquiries con 1150 00 nected with those claims, and issues patents therefor-acts as agent for paying salaries, and attends to the settlement of printers' accounts for advertising land sales............................................... Frederick Keller, issues the patents for the Virginia military lands, and examines warrants preparatory to the issuing of Scrip therefor-and attends to miscellaneous enquiries and correspondence connected with the foregoing subjects........ 1150 00 George Wood, Recorder of letters..... Charles Tyler... William Simmons.... Sterling Gresham.... า Their duties are J. R. M. Bryant.....Purchasers of Public Lands, and William Olis......... ......... 1000 00 Accountants. 1400 00 to keep the individual accounts of 1150 00 1150 00 to examine and report on the quar 1150 00 William S. Smith.... Sackett Reynolds.... terly accounts of the Receivers of 1150 00 1150 00 1150 00 Joseph S. Collins.... 1000 00 * Charles Tyler has also in charge the account of the three per cent. fund payable to the States. WATCHMEN EMPLOYED AT THE STATE AND TREASURY BUILDINGS. William H. Prentiss........$300 00 | Alexander R. Watson....300 00 John N. Lovejoy.......... .... 300 00 John Kennedy............300 00 COMMISSIONERS OF INSOLVENCY. The Commissioners of Insolvency are appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, under anthority of the act of March 2, 1831, "for the Relief of certain Insolvent Debtors of the United States." 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 the act annexed. District of Maine. District of Connecticul. Joseph Sewall........ April 1st, 1831 John Beach............ April 9, 1831 John D. McCrate........do....do.. William Richardson......do....da.. Southern District of New York. Hector Craig........March 22, 1831 District of New Hampshire. John W. Mulligan........do....do.. Samuel Cushman...March 30, 1831 Charles G. Dewitt........do....do.. Daniel P. Drowne.......do....do.. Jotham Lawrence........do... do.. District of New Jersey. James S. Green...... April 25, 1831 District of Massachuset's. Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Alden Bradford.....March 29, 1831 James M. Broom....March 22, 1831 William Parmentier......do....do.. Edward D. Ingraham....do....do.. Samuel S. Lewis..........................do..........do.. Henry Shoemaker....April 26, 1831 District of Maryland. Southern District of Alabama. Beale Randall......March 22, 1331 George W. Owen......June 1, 183 Alexander Cheves........do....do... McClintock Young......to....do.. Eastern District of Louisiana. ....do....do.. Martin Stroble. District of Georgia. Eastern District of Florida. John A. Duncan..........do....do.. District of Missouri. District of Ohio. John A. Bryan........ April 25, 1831] Au act for the Relief of certain Insolvent Debtors of the United States. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who was an insolvent debtor on or before the first day of January last, and who is indebted to the United States for any sum of money then due, which he is unable to pay, unless such person be indebted as the principal in an official bond, or for public money received by him, and not paid over or accounted for according to law, or for any fine, forfeiture, or penalty, incurred by the violation of any law of the United States, may make application in writing, under oath or affirmation, to the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of obtaining a release or discharge of the said debt; which application shall state, as near as may be, the time when the applicant became insolvent, how soon thereafter he made known his insolvency to his creditors, the cause or causes, and the amount of such insolvency; and, also, all the estate, real and personal, which the said applicant owned at the time of his insolvency, and the manner in which such estate has been disposed of; and what estate, if any, he has since owned and still owns. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to transmit to the District Attorney of the United States for the District or Territory within which the said applicant shall reside, a certificate copy of the said application, with such instructions as he may think proper; and it shall be the duty of the said District Attorney to lay the said copy of such application before the Commissioner or Commissioners of insolveney, to he appointed by virtue of this act, and to appear and act before them as counsel in behalf of the United States. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to appoint any number of Commissioners of Insolvency he may think proper, not exceeding three in each Judicial District or Territory of the United States, who, before they enter upon, the du ties of their appointment, shall severally take an oath or affirmation before one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, or before any Judge of a District Court of the United States, that they will faithfully execute the trust committed to them; and it shall be the duty of the said Commissioner or Commissioners to proceed publicly to examine the books, papers, and vouchers of each of the said applicants; and they or either of them, shall also be authorized to examine each of the said applicants, or any other person or persons, upon oath or affirmation, touching the said application; and it shall be the duty of the said Commissioner or Commissioners, to make a report, fin writing, to the said Secretary, of the result of their examination in each case, therein particularly stating, as near as may be, the time when the applicant became insolvent, how soon thereafter he made known his insolvency to his creditors, the cause or causes, and the amount of such insolvency; and, also, all the estate, real and personal, which the said applicant owned at the time of his insolvency, and the manner in which such estate has been disposed of and what estate, if any, he has since owned, and still owns. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, after he shall have received the report of the said Commissioner or Commissioners, shall proceed to examine the circumstances of each case; and if it shall have been proved to his satisfaction that the said debtor is unable to pay the said debt or debts which he owes to the United States; that he hath done no act fraudulently to deprive the United States of their legal priority; that he has not been guilty of any fraud, nor made any conveyance of his estate, real or personal, in trust for himself, or with an intent to defraud the United States, or whereby to expect any benefit or advantage to himself or family; then and in that case, the said Secretary may compromise with the said debtor, upon such terms and conditions as he may think reasonable and proper, under all the circumstances of the case and may execute a release to him or her for the amount of the said debt or debts which he or she may owe to the United States; which said release shall contain a recital that the foregoing particulars have been satisfactorily proyed to the said Secretary: Provided, however, That the said release shall be rendered null and void, if it shall at any time be as ertained that the said insolvent debtor hath obtained the same upon false suggestions SEC 5 And be it further enacted, That if the said insolvent debtor, or any other person, shall falsely take an oath or affirmation under this act, he or she shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall suffer the pains and penalties in that case provided. SEC. 6 And be it further enacted, That each of the said Commissioners of Insolvency shall receite five dollars per day for each day they shall be actuaily employed in the performance of their duty under this act; which sum, together with the actual expense incurred for office rent and all other contingencies, provided the same shall not, in the whole, exceed two dollars per day, shall be apportioned anyong the several applicants by the said Commis sioner or Commissioners, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, according to the time occupied in the investigation of each case; and each of the said applicants, immediately after the investigation of his or her case shall be completed, by the Commissioner or Commissioners, and before the report shall be transmitted to the said Secretary, shall pay his or her respective proportions of the same; and it shall be the duty of the said Commissioner or Commissioners to transmit with his or their report, in each case, a statement, under oath or affirmation, to the said Secretary, of the time actually occupied in the investigation thereof, and the amount which they shall have received from the said applicant. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the compensation to be paid to the District Attorney of each District and Territory shall be five dollars for each day he shall be actually employed under the provisions of this act. SEC. 8 And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to report annually to Congress the names of the applicants under this act, and the nature and amount of the debt or debts due from each to the United States; and also the names of those who shall have obtained re eases, together with the terms of compromise in each case. SEC. 9 And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act SEC 10 And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force for three years and ou longer. [Approved, March 2, 1831.] WAR DEPARTMENT, LEWIS CASS, of Ohio, Secretary, $6,000 per annum. The War Department was created by act of 7th August, 1789. The Secretary of War, at first, had the superintendence of Naval Affairs. On the 30th of April, 1798, however, a separation took place, and a Navy Department was established. The Secretary of War superin-[ tends every branch of the Military Department; and is, by usage, a member of the Cabinet. He 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 Bureau, and a Bureau of Indian Affairs; and an Engineer Office, a Topographical Office, an Ordnance Office, an Office for the Comnissary General of Subsistence, a Paymaster General's Office, and a Surgeon General's Office. All these offices, together with the Head Quar ters of the Commanding General, (Major General Macomb) and the Adjutant General's and Quartermaster General's Offices, 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 direction (under the laws) of intercourse with Indian tribes. CLERKS IN THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE. 2000 00 JOHN ROBB, Chief Clerk..... .......... William Markward, messenger...................................................................... CLERKS IN THE REQUISITION BUREAU. LAWRENCE L. VAN KLEECK, Principal................................... 1000 00 650 00 400 00 1600 00 .......... 1400 00 From this, Bureau all the requisitions of the War Department are made out on the Treasury, and salaries and the contingencies of the Department paid. The Pension Bureau of the War Department is a Bureau in which all claims for pensions, properly so called, are settled, except such as arise under the laws respecting persons disabled in the Navy since 1799. To pay such pensions, a fund has been set apart, from prize money, &c. and the business in relation to those claims is under the control of a Board of Commissioners appointed for that purpose. Widows of militia men and volunteers are allowed five years half pay in certain cases.Such claims are settled at the Treasury Department; as are the claims under the act of May 15, 1828, which makes certain allowances to officers who served to the end of the revolutionary war. |