I. PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. II. EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT. THE 18th Presidential term of four years, since the establishment of the government of the United States under the Constitution, began on the 4th of March, 1857; and it will expire on the 3d of March, 1861. An election in each State throughout the United States for Electors of President and Vice-President, for the 19th Presidential term of four years from the 4th of March, 1861, will be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, 1860 (November 6th). JAMES BUCHANAN, of Pennsylvania, THE CABINET. President, Salary. $25,000 8,000 The following are the principal officers in the executive department of the government, who form the Cabinet, and who hold their offices at the will DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Lewis Cass, Secretary. John Appleton, Assistant Secretary, salary, $3,000. Salary. William Hunter, Chief Clerk, $ 2,200 Hugh C. McLaughlin, Super- TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Howell Cobb, Secretary. Philip Clayton, Assistant Secretary, salary, $ 3,000. Gilbert Rodman, Chief Clerk Geo. F. Emery, of the Treasury Department, $2,200 Moses F. Odell, Comptrollers. William Medill, 1st Comp., W. H. Jones, Chief Clerk, Chas. V. Hagner, Appraisers at Large. J. W. Baughman, Salary. $2,000 3,500 Richard Roman, Appraiser-General James M. Cutts, 2d Comp., Thos. J. Cathcart, Chief Clerk, Auditors. Thos. L. Smith, 1st Auditor, Thos. M. Smith, Chief Clerk, Thomas M. Tate, Auditor of Treasury for P. O. Depart., H. St. Geo. Offutt, Chief Clerk, 2,000 for the Pacific Coast, $6,000 3,000 2,000 Samuel Casey, Treasurer, W. B. Randolph, Chief Clerk, 3,000 Assistant Treasurers. 2,000 Edward C. Pratt, Boston, 3,000 John J. Cisco, 2,000 Jas. H. Walton, 3,000 B. C. Pressly, 2,000 Ant. J. Guirot, 3,000 Isaac H. Sturgeon, St. Louis, 2,000 Jacob R. Snyder, California. Register's Office. 2,000 Finley Bigger, Register, 3,000 3,000 Commissioner of Customs. Jeremiah S. Black, Alfred B. McCalmont, Attorney-General. Assistant,* Salary, $3,000. * For the act creating the Assistant Attorney-General, see "Titles and Abstracts of Public Laws," No. 33, post, p. 136. Thomas Lawson, Brev. Brig. Gen., Surg.-Gen. Robert C. Wood, Surgeon Assist ant to the Surgeon-General. R. Johnson, Principal Clerk, $1,800 Engineer Bureau. Joseph G. Totten, Brev. Brig. Gen., Chief Engineer. H. G. Wright, Capt., Assistant. Topographical Bureau. John J. Abert, Col., Chief Top. Benj. F. Larned, Col., Paymaster-Gen. I. C. Woodruff, Capt., Assistant. Subsistence Office. Joseph P. Taylor, Col., Acting Com.-Gen. of Subsistence. A. E. Shiras, Capt., Assistant. Ordnance Bureau. Henry K. Craig, Col., Chief of Ordnance. W. Maynadier, Capt., Assist. Richard Gott, Principal Clerk, 1,800 Geo. Bender, Principal Clerk, 1,800 NAVY DEPARTMENT. Isaac Toucey, Secretary. Charles W. Welsh, Chief Clerk, 2,200 Joseph Smith, Chief of the Bureau of Docks and Navy-Yards, 3,500 Commander M. F. Maury, Super. of Observatory at Washington, Samuel Archbold, Engineer in Chief, 3,000 3,000 |