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. Widows of militia inen 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. CLERKS IN THE BOUNTY LAND BUREAU. ..... .1400 00 William Gordon, Principal........ ....1000 00 The Bounty Land Bureau of the War Department is a Bureau in which claims for military bounty lands, originating in the revolutionary and late war, are examined, and from which military bounty land war. rants issue. OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. : .................. ................. ......................... ............... ELBERT HERRING, Commissioner.. ......3000 00 Daniel Kurlz, Clerk ........... 1400 00 Hezekiah Miller, Clerk.. ..: 1000 00 Samuel J, Polls, Clerk.... ... 800 00 William Ward, Clerk ................................. ..........800.00 This office which had previously been one of the Bureaus of the War Department, was created by an act passed at the last Session of Congress, entit.ed "an act 10 provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and for other purposes." Approved July 9, 1832.This act provides that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who shall be appointed by the President and Senate, shall, under the direction of he Secretary of War, and agreeably to such regulations as the President may, from time to time prescribe, have the direction and management of all Indian Affairs, and of all matters arising out of lodian relations. All accounts and vouchers for clajins and disbursements connected with Andian-affairs :ust be transmitted to the Commissioner for administrative examination, and by him be passed to the secund Auditor of the Treasuty for seltleinent. OFFICES OF THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY. HEAD QUARTERS OP THE ARMY. Major General Alexander Macomb, General-in Chief. Lieutenaut Samuel Cooper, Aid-de-Camp, 4th Artillery. Lieutenant Abraham Van Buren, Aid de Camp, ad Infantry, The Army of the United States is placed under the command of the Major General, who is generally styled, the General in (hief. His duties comprise the arrangement of the military force in such mannei as to give protection to the maritime frontier and to the interior bor. der. He superintends the recruiting service; the discipline and police of the arvny; orders general courts martial, and decides on all cases, except When the life of an officer or soldier is affected, or the commission of an officer. It is his province to see that the laws and regulations governing the army are enforces, and that justice is done to all concerned. In his duties he is assisted by the Adjutant General, through whose office all orders are issued to the army, and returns of its strength made, as well as the general military correspondence in relation to the details of servire. He is also assisted by the iwo Inspectors Generals, who, under his orders, inspect the condition of the several regiments, corps, and posts, and inquire minutely into every subject relating to the welfare of the army; and recommend such improvements as may add to the comfort of the officers and men; they also report on the general condition of corps, and the individual character of its members. The General in Chief has iwo Aides-de-Cainp who assist him in his correspondence and in the recording of it, and who also perform the duties of assistant adjutants general, There are no clerks attached to the head quarters of the army, the correspondence and duties being of a delicate and confidential nature, in a great degree, it is entrusted only to those who, by previous education anů experience, can properly appreciate and understand its object. ..................... ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. ....................................... 1150 00 John H. Hepburn, Clerk....... 1000 00 James L. Addison, Clerk.......... 800 001 This office is the repository of the records which refer to the personnel of the Army, in war, as well as in time of peace, and of the military history of every offices and soldier, from the earliest period of the government, so far as these may bave been preserved. It is here where all military appointments and conimissions are made out and registered, where the names of all enlisted soldiers are entered, and their size, roll, and enlistments, recorded and filed, &c. It is in this office where the monthly returns of the troops, and muster rolls of companies, required hy the 13th and 19th Articles of War, are received and preserved; where the original proceedings of General Courts Martial are deposited and entered, where the inventory of the effects of deceased officers and soldiers are for: warded and recorded. [90th and 94th Articles of War ] The Adjuiant General of the Army is charged with the registery of all commissioned officers, and with the distribution of their commissions; with the record of all appointments in the Army, promotions, resignations, deaths, &c. All orders which emanate from General Head Quarters of the Army, and all regulations and general orders from the War Office, are communicated to the troops by the Adjutant General. In this office, the annual returns of the Militia of the several States and Territories are deposited for safe kerping, as well as arms, munitions, and accoutrements pertaining to the same, required by law to be made to the President of the United States. The general returns of the militia of the United States, required for the use of Congress, pursuant to the act of March 20, 1803, are consolidered in this office. Here all appointments and commissions of the officers of the militia of the District of Columnbia, are registered and distributed, ........... .......................................... ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. Brevet Brig. Gen. Charles Gratiot, Corps of Engineers, Chief Engineer. Lieutenant W. H. C. Bartlett, of the Corps of Engineers, Assistant. Benjamin Fowler, Clerk.......... ..1150 00 J. C. Wilson, Clerk ..1000 00 Willis Fawcett, Clerk... ...800 00 The chief of the Corps of Engineers is stationed at the seat of Government, and directs and regulates the duties of the Corps of Engineers, and those also of such of the Topographical Engineers as may be attached to the Engineer Department; and also is the Inspector of the Military Acad. emy, and is charged with its correspondence. The duties of the Engineer Department comprise-reconnoitring and surveying for military purposes and for internal improvements, together with the collection and preservation of topographical and geographical memoirs and drawings, referring to those objects--the selection of sites, the formation of plans and estimates, the construction, repair, and inspection of fortifications, and the disbursements of the sums appropriated for tbe fulfilment of those objecte sererally, comprising those of the Mili. sary Academy. Also, the superintendence of the execution of the acts of Congress in relation to internal improvements by roads, canals, the wavi. gation of rivers, and the repairs and improvements connected with the harbours of the United States, or the entrance into the same, which may be authorized by acts of Congress, with the execution of which the War Department may be charged. Brevet Lt. Col. John J. Abert, Topographical Engineers, Superintendent. Assistants. 800 00 This Bureau has charge of all topographical operations and surveys for military purposes, and for purposes of internal improvements, and of all maps, drawings and documents in relation to those duties. The funotion of the engineers being generally confined to the most elevated branch of military science, they do not assuine, nor are they subject to be ordered on any duty beyond the line of their immediate profession, except by specia} authority through the War Departmentand when so arranged to other duties, either on detachment or otherwise, they have precedence according to their commissions, which, at all times, entitle them to every mark of military respect. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. George Bomford, Colonel of Ordnance. A D·Lagnell, Lieutevant, 2d Regiment of Artillery. 1000 00 Morris Adler, Clerk..... 800 00 ....................................... ........................................... The Ordnance Department which had been abolished and merged in the Artillery, by the act of 2d March, 1821, has been re-organized under at act passed at the last session of Congress, entitled, "An act to pronik for the organization of the Ordnance Department," approved, April boy 1832. Under this law it consists of one Colonel, one Lieutenant Coir nel, two Majors, and ten Captains, and as many enlisted men, as a public service may require, not exceeding two hundred and fifty. It is the duty of the Colonel of the Ordnance Department to direct the inspection and proving of all pioces of ordnance, cannon balls, shot, sheile. small arms and side arms, and equipments procured for the use of "* armies of the United States; and to direct the construction of all canna and carriages, and every implement and apparatus for ordnance, and ei ainmunition wagons, travelling forges, and artificers' wagons, the inspec: tion and proving of powder, and the preparation of all kinds of amox nition aud ordnance stores. It is also his duty to furnish estimate under the direction of the Secretary of War, to make contracts and pur chaves for procuring the necessary supplies of arms, equipments, ont nance, and ordnance stores. The general denomination of ordnance and ordnance stores, compare hends all cannon, howitzers, mortars, cannon balls, and shells for 24 and service, all gun carriages, caissons, travelling forges and pouton with all their equipments, and all other apparatus and machine requiret for the service and maneuvres of artillery in garrison, sieges, or in field, together with the materials for their construction and repairAlso, all smallarms, side arms and accoutrements for the artillery ; ct airy, infantry, and riflemen-all ammunition for cannon and small arms. and all stores of @penditures for the service of the artillery ; inaterials utensils and stores for laboratories; all intreuching and miner's 100k for the attack or defence of piaces; armourer's tuols for tire repair of arou and artificers' tools of every description, required for the construction or repair of gun carriages and artillery equipmonts. The ordinary articles of camp equipage, such as axes, spades, shovels, mattocks, &c. are se included. : QUARTER MASTER'S DEPARTMENT. General Thonis S. Jesup, Quarter Master General. Major Trueman Cross, 7th Infantry, Quartermaster. Captain Thomas F Hunt, 5th lufantry, Assistant Quartermaster. William A. Gordon, Clerk.. ............................ 1150 € Levio Belt, Clerk.......... The objects of this department are, to insure an efficient systen supply, and to give facility and effect to the movements and operations ......... 900 09 of the army The Quartermaster General is stationed at the City of Washington, but occasionally visits the several stations of the subordinate officers on his department. He has, under the direction of the Secretary of Wax , the exclusive control of all thr quartermasters, and assistant quarter.. masters; and of all officers and agents acting in, or making disburse nents on account of the department; in every thing relating to the ad ministrative branch of their duties, and their accountability. He has like control of all regimental and company officers, in every thing relat! to barracks or quarters, and to the accountability for supplies of the quartermaster's and purchasing departments. One assistant quartermas ter is attache' to the office of the quartermaster general, who in addition to his other duties is charged, with the disbursements at Washington, and in the absence of the quartermaster general, has the direction of the office. There is also attached to the office, as many subaltern officers, &c. as the service from time to time requires. All communications relating to the duties of the department, or to any branch or officer thereof, except from commanding generals of divisions departments of armies, must be addressed to the quartermaster general le is the duty of the Quartermaster general to make himself acquainted with the frontiers, both maritime ant interior, and with the avenues leading to the contiguous Indian and foreign territories, with the resources of tbe country, in military supplies, and the means of transportation, particularly of the districts on the frontiers, with the most eligible points for concentrating troops and collecting supplies, whether in relation to foffensive or defensive operations, with the relative expenses of concentrafrog at particular positions, and the adva ulages of those positions. It is al-o his duty to designate the routes of communication between different posts and armies--the course of military roads—and the sites for perma. Dept and temporary depots of provisions and military stores. The officers of the quartermaster's department are requested to collect information in relation to all these points, and to make themselves acquainted with the state of the roads, the course and descrip.ion of the rivers, and the most direct routes between the different military posts within their respective departments. The quartermaster general can assign the officers of his department to such stations as he may think proper, and officers so assigned cannot be removed from their stations, nor be subject to detail, nor be employed upon any other duties than those of their department, except by his order or that of the Secretary of War. The officers of this department must provide qua:ters and transportation for the troops, and transportation for all military stores, provisions, camp and garrison equipage, and artillery, and provide for opening and repairing roads, and constructing and repairing bridges, which may be necessary to the n.ovements of ang part of the army. They must provide good and sufficient store houses for all military supplies, and for all provisions deposited by the commissary general and bis assistants, or under contracts between individuals and the government, and appoint storekeepors, when necessary, for the custody of such Hores or provisions, or any other property of the government placed there. They purchase all forage, fuel, straw and stationary, for the use of che troops, and have the same transported and issued agreeably to the regulations. They purchase dragoon aud artillery horses, and horses, oxen, wagons, carls and boats, for the transportation of the baggage, and for garrison purposes ; and provide materials for constructing and repairing barracks, hospitals, stables and bridges. No purchase can be made on public account, in time of peace, by any officer of the quartermaster's department, but of the articles above enu mera ted, except by special authority from the Secretary of War, communicated through the quartermaster general, or at the risk of the officer lordoring the supplies. |