ܪ WAR DEPARTMENT. The War Department, as organized under the present constitution, 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 Departinent was established. The Secretary of War superintends every branch of the military department; aud 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, äre, a Requisition Bureau, a Bounty Land Bureau, a Pension Office, an Office of Indian Affairs, and an Engineer Office, a Topographical Office, an Ordnance Office, an office for the Commissary General of Subsistence, an office for the Clothing Department, a Paymaster General's Office, an Adjutant General's Office, a Quartermaster General's Office, and a Surgeon General's Office. All these offices, together with the Head Quarters of the Commanding General, (General Macomb,) are located at Washington. The Office of the Commissary General of Purchases, a branch of the War Department, is located at Philadelphia. To this Department belongs the direction and government of the Army, in all its diversified relations ; The purchase and preservation of the arms and munitions of war; the erection of all fortifications ; the execution of all topographical surveys; the payment of pensions for military ser vices; the surveying and leasing the national lead mives ; and the direction (under the laws) or intercourse with Indian tribes. SECRETART'S OFFICE. CARY A. HARR15,..........chief clerk.. $2000 CO John T. Cochran............. ...clerk.... .......................... 1400 00 IVillian Ward,..,. .....do...... 1400 00 William Robinson,............do......., ......... 1000 00 Joseph D. Websler,............do...... .............. 1000 00 Charles Calverl, ...............do................................ 800 00 William Markward,.. ..........messenger......... 650,00 Francis i)alcher.............. assistant messenger, 400 00 CLERK IN THE REQUISITION BUREAU. LAWRENCE L. VAN KLEECK, ....... $ 1600 00 From this bureau, all the requisitions of the War Department are made uut on the Treasury, and the salaries and contingencies of the Department are paid. CLERKS IN THE BOUNTY LAND BUREAU. WILLIAM GORDon, principal............ •81400 000 Edward Stephens, clerk.......................................... 1000 001 The Bounty Land Bureau of the War Department is a bureau in which claims for military bounty lands, originating in the revolutionary and late wars, are examined, and froin which military bounty land warrants issue. ................... .......... ............. .......... OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ELBERT HERRING, ........Commissioner.. 83000 00 Daniel Kurls,.. ..............chief clerk......................., 1600 00 Hezekiah Miller,.. ............clerk.............................. 1400 00 Samuel J. Potls,.. ...do..... ............................ 1000.00 John Lillle,....... ...do................................... 1000 00 Charles Drane,............messenger.......................... 700 00 This office which had previously been one of the bureaus of the War Department, was created by an act of July 9, 1832, entitled “an act to provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and for other purposes.” This act provides that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who shall be appointed by the President and Senate, shall, under the direction of the Secretary of War, and agreeably to such regulations as the President may, from tine to time prescribe, have the direction and management of all Indian affairs, oud of all niatters arising out of Indian relations. All accounts and vouchers for claims and disbursements convected with Indian affairs must be transniitted to the Commissioner for administrative examination, and by him be passed to the Second Auditor of the Treasury for settlement. .... ..... ........................... ....................... ... .......... PENSION OFFICE JAMES L. EDWARDS, Commissioner.. 82500 00 George W. Crump,..... ..chief clerk.. 1600 00 William S. Allison, . ..clerk....... 1400 00 French S. Erans,. ..do..... 1400 00 Henry H. Sylvesler, .do..... 1400 00 John D, Wilson,. ..do...... i 200 00 Vinal Luce, ..do...... 1200 00 Nathan Rice, ....... ..do.... 1 200 00 William M. Stewart,.. ..............do............................. 1000 00 Daniel Brown,.. ...do...... • ..................... 1000 00 Daniel D. Addison,.. .........do....... 1000 OU Daniel Boyd,.. .do....... 1000 00 George Taylor, .....do........ 1000 00 Reuben Burdine,. ....do........ 1000 00 Erasmus D. Bullock, .........ooc 1000 00 John B. Wearer, peseuger 450 00 John Brannan, .do....... 400 00 F. S. Dorselt, ..do......... 400 00 The Pension Office was created by an act of Congress, dated March f2, 1833, and its duration limited to two years. By an act of March 3, 1835, it was “continued for the term of two years, from and after the fourth day of March next, and no longer.” The same act transfers from the Treasury to the War Department, the duties required to be performed under the act of May 15, 1828, granting allowances to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, and in relation to Virginia claims for revolutionary services, and deficiency of commutation. The Commissioner of Pensions executes, under the direction of the Secretary of War, such duties in relation to the various pension laws, as may be prescribed by the President of the United States. .. OFFICES OF THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY. HEAD QUARTERS OF THR ARMY. Lieutenant Abraham Van Buren...A id-de-camp, 211 Infantry. His duties comprise the arrangement of the military force in such man. ner as to give protection to the maritime frontier and lo the interior border, He superintends the recruiting service ; the discipline and police of the army; orders general courts martial, and decides on all cases, excepe when the life of an officer or soldier is affected, or the commission of an officer. It his provitice to see that the laws and regulations go. verning the army are enforcer, 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 service. He is also assisted by the two inspectors general, who, under his orders, inspect the condition of the several regiinents, corps, and posts, and inquire minutely into every subject relating to the welfare of the army, and recommend such improvements as may add in the comfort of the officers and mev; they also report on the general condition of corps, and the individual character of its inembers. The General inChief has two aids-de camp, who assist him in his correspondence, and in the recording of it, and who also perform the duties of assistant ad. jutants 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 ellucation and experience, can properly appreciate and understand its object. ...... ................ ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. ........ Alljutant General. 416 Torantry. Lieulenant E. Schriver... ..2d Artillery. Brooke Williams ..............clerk..... .$1150 000 John H. Hepburn...... ......clerk...... 1000 00 James L. Addison.............clerk........ 800 00 This ofice 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 officer and soldier, from the earliest period of the Govern. inent, so far as these may have been preserved. It is here where all military appointments and commissions are made out and registered, where the names of all enlisted soldiers are entered, and their size, roll, and enlisinients, recorded and filed, &c. It is in this office where the nonthly returns of the iroops, and muster rolls of all companies, required by 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 forwarded and recorded. [901h and 94th articles of war.] The Adjutant General of the army is charged with the registery of all coinmissioned 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 keeping, as well as arnis, munitions, and accoutrements, pertaining to the same, required by law to be niade 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 2, 1803; are consolidated in this office. Here all appoinements and commissions of the officers of the militia of the District of Columbia, are registered and distributed. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. } Brevet Brig. Gen. Charles Graliot, Corps of Engineers, Chief Engineer. Assistants. $1150 00 J. C. Wilson, ...... .....................clerk........................ 1000 00 James Eveleth,. ....................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 Departnient; and also is the Inspector of the Military Academy, and is charged with its correspondence. The duties of the Engineer Department comprise-reconnoitering and surveying for military purposes and for internal improvements, 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 the fulfilment of these objects severally, comprising those of the Military Academy. Also, the superintendence of the execution of the acts of Congress in relation to internal improvements by roads, canals, the navigation of rivers, and the repairs and improvements connected with the harbors of the United States, or the entrance into the same, which inay be authorized by acts of Congress, with the execution of which the War Departınent may be charged. The function of the engineers being generally confined to the most elevated branch of military science, they do not assume, nor are they subject to be ordered on any duty beyond the line of their immediate profession, except by special authority, through the War Department--and when so arranged to other duties, either on detachment or otherwise, they have precedence according to their commissions, which, at all times, entitle thein to every mark military respect. en TOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU. ers all S; OS, of Brevet Lt. Col. John J. Abert, Topographical Engineers, Superintend't. Assistant. $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. ce, od 38. de ja ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. ............................ George Bomford...............Colonel of Ordnance. William H. Bell.............. Captain of Ordnance. $1150 00 Anthony G. Glynn............clerk..... 1000 00 Samuel 1). Langtree.. .. .. .s ..clerk.. 1000 00 George Welsh...... .........clerk... 800 00 800 00 MILITARY STOREKEEPERS AND PAYMASTERS. MILITARY STOREKEEPERS. Absent on leave........) ..Pittsburgh, Penn...... Pay, &c. of captain of infantry. .Detroit, Mich. Ter..... MASTER ARMORERS. ........ Elisur Bates............ Springfield, Mass....... $50 per month, and ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS, UNITED STATES J.EAD MINES. $1000 00 William Marlin............do...... do............ 1000 00 John H. Webber...........do.......do............ 800 00 The Ordnance Department which had been abolished and merged in the Artillery, by the act of 20 March, 1821, was re-organized under the |