Benjamin E. Payne.............................................. $800 00 James W. Hanson.............................................. 800 00 Edward Lehmanowsky... 600 00 In the Register's Office, all accounts with thein are prepared for the Treasury, with a general quarterly account curreut. ...................................... MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION. This division, which is under the superintendence of the chief clerk, embraces mail depredations, the duties appertaining 10 dead letters, the delineation of maps, the transmission of blaoks, and of mail locks and keys, the messengers, the superintendent of the building, and such otber persons as may be employed to render any service not falling within either of the foregoing divisions. PRESTON S. LouGHBOROUGH, chief clerk......... $1700 00 George Plitt..... Office of mail depredations.. S 1000 00 J. Guest.... 2 800 00 Joseph Perry, receiver of accounts.... .......................... 1000 00 Mallhias Ross, assistant..................................... 1000 00 C. H. W. Wharlon, assistant.............................. 800 00 Drake Hobbie, assistant..................................... 800 00 Chesler Bailey, assistant, and opens dead letters.......... 600 00 Waller D. Addison, records letters of the Postmaster General and chief clerk....... 1000 00 Joseph Carler, for mail bags, locks, keys, and stamps......... 1000 00 Joseph Borrows, post office blauks....... 300 00 Alexander Kyle, paper warehouse, and superintendent of the building.. 600_00 John Hunter, registers Poslinaster General's orders in journal, &C........ 800 001 David H. Burr, topographer........ 1000 00 ........................... Dead Leller Office. Michael T. Simpson, superintendent.... $1200 00 Estwick Evans, compares dead letters with posi bills.... 900 00 Henry Johnston, assists in registering, and opens dead letters. 600 00 William Harrey, opens dead letters.... 500 00 In the Dead Letter Office, all dead letters are opened, and such as contain money, or valuable papers, are registered and sent to the writers. More than half a million of dead letters are returned every year. Thomas Williams ..............messenger............ $700 00 Willian W. Cox............ assistant messenger. 400 00 Patrick Sweeney....................do............ 350 00 Nathaniel Herbert ...................do.......... 350 00 Jeremiah Hulchinson........laborer....... 240 00 Joshua Piles....... ........do.......... 240 00 ...... ..80.... .................... .............................. 189 ........ POSTAGE. Rales of Postage, as established by act of Congress 314 March, 1825, and the amendalory ucl of 2d March, 1827. For single lellers, composed of one piece of paper Miles. Cents Any distance not exceeding. ..30.... 6 Over 30 and not exceeding. . 10 Over 80........do.... 150, .123 Over 150.......do...... .400 Over 400....... 25 Double letters, or those composed of two pieces of paper, are charged with double those rales. Triple lellers, or those composed of three pieces of paper, are charged with triple those rates. Quadruple lellers, or those composed of four pieces of paper, are charged with quadruple those rates. One or more pieces of paper, mailed as a letter, weighing one ounce, are charged with quadruple postage, and at the same rate should the weight be greater ; and quadruple postage is charged on all packets containing four pieces of paper. The postage on Ship lelters, is delivered at the office where the vessel arrives, is six cents if conveyed by post, two cents iu addition to the ordinary postage. Newspaper Postage.—For each newspaper, not carried out of the State in which it is published, or is carried out of the State, but carried not over 100 miles...... .................1 cent. Over 100 miles, and out of the State in which it is published.... 1cents. Magazines and Pamphlels.-If published periodically, distance not exceeding 100 miles...... ...........1$ cents per sheet, Ditto..........do ........over 100 miles ................. ............do...... If not published periodically, distance not exceeding 100 miles...... ...........4..........do...... Ditto..........do........over 100 miles..............6..........do Sniall pamphlets printed on a hall or quarter sheet of royal, or less size, are charged with hall those rates. Eight pages quarto are rated as one sheet, and all other sizes in the same proportion. The number of sheets which it contains, must be printed or written ou one of the outer pages of every pamphlet or magazine to be sent by mail. Where the vuoiber of sheets is not truly stated, double postage is charged. Every thing not coining under the denomination of newspapers oi pamphlets, is charged with letter postage. Letters to Canada ase forwarded through the Agents of the United States at Kingston, Upper Canada, and Montreal, Lower Canada. Any person, other than the Postmaster General, or his authorized agenis, who shall set up a foot or horse post, for the conveyance of letters and packets, upon any post road, which is, or may be established as such, by law, shall incur a penalty of not exceeding fifiy dollars for every letter or packel so carried. ......... Privilege of Franking. Letters and packets to and from the following officers of the Govern. ment, are by law, received and conveyed by post, free of postage : The President and Vice President of the United States ; Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Navy ; Attorney General; Postmaster Geve. ral and Assistant Postmasters General ; Comptrollers, Auditors, Register, and Solicitor of the Treasury ; Treasurer ; Commissioner of General Land Office ; Commissioners of Navy Board ; Commissary General; Adjutant General ; Inspectors General; Quarterinaster General ; Paymaster General; Superintendent of l’alent Office ; Commissioner of Indian Affairs ; Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives, and Secretary of the Senate ; and such individual who shall have been, os may hereafter be President of the United States; and each may receive newspapers by post, free of postage. Each Meinber of the Senate, and each Member and Delegate of the House of Representatives, may senil and receive, free of postage, newspapers, letters, and packels, weighing not more than two ounces, (in case of excess of weight, excess alone to be paid for,) and all documents (printed by order of either House, from the period of sixty days before he takes his seat in Congress, until the cominencement of the next Congress. Governors of the several States may transmit by mail, free of postage, all laws and reports, whether bound or unbound, and all records and documents of their respective States, which may be directed by the Legislature of the several States to be transinitted to the Executives of other States. Postmasters may send and receive free of postage, letters and packets not exceeding half an ounce in weight; and they inay receive one daily newspaper, each, or what is equivalent thereto. Printers of newspapers may send one paper to each and every other Printer of a newspaper within the United States, free of postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may provide. Violation of Franking Pri age. Any person who shall frank any letter or letters, other than those written by himself, or by his order, in the business of his office, shall, on conviction thereof, pay a fine of ten dollars; and it is made the especial duty of Postmasters to prosecute for such offence. The law provides, however, that the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Navy, and Postmaster General, may frank letters or packets ou official business, prepared in any other public office in the absence of the principal thereof. If any person, having the right to receive letters free of postage, shall receive, enclosed to him, any letter or packet addressed to a person noi having that right, it is his duiy to return the same to the Post Office, inarking thereon the place from whence it came, that it may be charged with postage. Any person who shall counterfeit the hand writing or frank of any person, or cause the same to be done, in order to avoid the payment of postage, shall, for each offence, pay five hundred dollars. No Postmaster, assistant Postmaster, or clerk employed in any Post Office, can be a contractor, or concerned in any contract for carrying the mail. .... 600 00 ............. CLERKS IN POST OFFICES. Every Postmaster is required to keep an office, in which one or more persons must attend every day on which a mail arrives. The following is a list of the Clerks, with their annual compensation, employed in such Post Offices as yield a commission of more than 82,000 per annum. Albany, N. Y. C.C. Bailey.. 650 00 600 00 Robert Elliot.............$1400 00 Horatio Dawes..... 550 00 R. Van Rensselaer..........1350 00 George Emery.... William Kehoe... 284 00 A. Van Rensselaer.......... 1350 00 Edward White............. 200 00 A. H Coughtry.... 27 00 Sch’r Van Rensselaer...... 650 00 George Grant...... John McLacklen........ 600 00 Buffalo, N. Y. N. v. R. Wilbeck .......... 600 00 Harlow Case..... 991 79 N. B. Van Rensselaer...... 400 00 George Walker.... 596 03 Robert Erwio...... 400 00 Charles D. Ferris.... 596 03 R. G. Ross....... 389 59 William B. Leonard ......... 596 03 William Per Lee.... 400 00 William A. Rennington.... 218 33 G. Potts...... 200 00 141 66 John W. Orr.............. 42 00 Augusla Georgia. A. H. Tucker.............. 25 00 Benjamin Hall.............. 800 00 J. T. Lovejoy.... 12 75 A. S. Washburn............ 400 00 George W. Morgan...... 625 00 Cincinnati, Ohio. H. D. Leitner... 459 00 Elam P. Langdon.......... 1000 00 Samuel C. Mustin.... 296 00 Robert Punshon........... 600 00 Jobu A. Hall............... 175 00 Joseph Boardman....... 300 00 C. E. Micon.............. 117 00 Williain W. Burke........ 700 00 William E. Sawyer.. 20 00 Solomon Langilon.......... 530 00 Bultimore, Nd. Oliver M. Langdon......... 120 00 Anthony Andrews......... 176 00 J. S. Smith................. .. 1000 00 C. T. Maddon.............. 1000 00 Columbus, Georgia. G. D. Dawson............ 950 00 Erwio E. Bissell.......... 750 00 R. T. Jacobs............... 500 00 John J. Moon.... ro........... 600 00 William H. Daws01)....... 500 00 William A. Douglas...... 375 00 J. McCarrick.......... .............., 400 00 Thomas 0. Douglas....... 300 00 A. Maridou.................. 400 00 Calvin Stratton)...... 65 00 IV. H. Lawrenson .......... 350 00 G. F. Miller.... 100 00 Delroil, M. T. 262 50 262 50 Leonard Holmes...... . 1200 CO Michael Fisk... 87 50 Calvin Young............. 900 00 J. H. Norvell.............. 350 00 Nathaniel Melcher........ 800 00 Erie, Penn. ........... 243 00 W.C. Barin................ 700 00 Frederick Nicholls......... 475 00 c. N. Maynard............ 700 00 John Scott................... 166 00 Alpheus Grant............ 700 00/H. J. Walters............. 50 00 ............... ............ ....... 666 67 .......... 600 00 Fayelleville, N. C. Mobile, Alabama. Archibald Milloy.... 750 00 F. M. Alexander.......... 900 00) Duncan McRae...... 300 00 Blyden Vanbaur....... Jackson Johnson......... 300 00 John A. Cook.............. Nashrille, Tenn. 248 80 Charles L. Sanders.........1000 00 Florence, Alabama. Edwin M. Yerger.......... 700 00 A. M. Latham .............. 233 33 William W. Boyd......... 700 00 W. Baugh.................. 250 00 J. S. Golladay...... ............ 500 00 E. M. Ward.................. 30 00 J. T. Haraway.. 35 00 Natches, Miss. R. McConnell............... 376 00 Charles Doumax............. 376 00 Edinund Mcllheny... ........... 200 00 L. Easton.................. 33 00 Newark, N. J. E. S. Graham.............. 450 00 400 00 J. J. Clendennin...... F. K. Boas.................. 450 00 New Orleans, Lou. B. G. Peacock...... 400 00 J. Lafferanrlerie..... ...... 1000 00 C. Hetzel...... 200 00 H. R. Ramsay... Croghan Ker....... ..1000 001 150 00 E, S. Lewis................ 900 001 Harlfurd, Conn. J. D. Lambert............. 600 00 George C. King........... 650 00 J. L. Wolcott...... 455 00 C. F. James.................. 600 00 J. R. Pease.. 675 00 Edward Generally......... 480 00 George Collier... 340 00 T. L. Pease, Jr...... 550 00 J. R. Curez..............., 165 00 Niles Griswold............. 550 00 45 00 Binca Sperrys............... 550 00 Edwin Bolles.............. 229 00 New York City, N. Y. 1700 00 John R. Bailey 1400 00 J. M. Read........... 76 25 W. B. Taylor.. 1483 32 Thomas Byrne............. 51 00 C. Goodwin.... 1366 66 William 11. Miller.......... 689 33 Josephi Benedict.. 1366 66 Z. H. Tannehill.... ............ 565 00 W. S. Dunham............1366 66 Andrew J. Campbell....... 189 33 G. S Bibby ... 1000 00 J. M. Campbell............ 319 00 D. Brown.................,1000 00 William R. Oldham ........ 455 66 E. Lynch...... ................ 800 00 R. W. Fetter...... 683 00 E. Haineken............... 525 00 Macon, Georgia. J. G Bibby...... 600 00 H. Van Dalsel)............ 600 00 John Hunter............... 500 00G. W. McPherson..... ......... 291 66 . S. Wallis............... 400 00 Thomas Gahagen ..... 600 T. P. Durlee...... 500 00 Maysville, Ky. D. Noelli...... 250 00 J. C. Coleman.............. 250 00 E. B. Brown.............. 600 00 B. T. David................ 200 00 Joseph Lyon.. 451 37 L. R. Coleman.... 200 00 J. J. B. Rowan............. 500 001 600 00 M T, Stribliog. ................ .... ..... ........... ...... ... |