LOSSES BY SHIPWRECK AND IN BATTLE. Steamer R. B. Forbes, 3 guns, 329 tons, wrecked February, 1862, coast of North Carolina. Frigate Congress, 50 guns, 1,867 tons, in action with Merrimac, March 8, 1862. Sloop-of-war Cumberland, 24 guns, 1,726 tons, in action with Merrimac, March 8, 1862. Steamer Whitehall, 4 guns, 323 tons, at Old Point, March 9, 1862, by fire. Mortar schooner M. J. Carlton, 3 guns, 178 tons, attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April 19, 1862. Steamer Varuna,9 guns,1,300 tons, in action with rebel gunboats below New Orleans, April 24, 1862. Mortar schooner Sidney C. Jones, 3 guns, 245 tons, grounded below Vicksburg, and burned to prevent falling into the hands of the enemy. Steamer Island Belle, 2 guns, 123 tons, grounded in Appomattox River. June, 1862, and burned to prevent falling into the hands of the enemy. Screw sloop Adirondack, 9 guns, 1,240 tons, wrecked near Abaco, August 23, 1862. Steamer Henry Andrew, 3 guns, 177 tons, wrecked in a gale near Cape Henry, August 24, 1862 Steam ram Sumter, 2 guns, 400 tons, grounded in Mississippi River and abandoned. Total, 112 guns and 7908 tons. Marine Corps. The Marine Corps has the organization of a brigade. It is subject to the laws and regulations of the Navy, except when detached for service with the Army by the order of the President of the United States. The head-quarters of the corps are at Washington. All commissioned officers in the Marine Corps are entitled to one additional ration for every five years' service. The pay and subsistence allowed for each servant to staff-officers is $23 50 per month. All commissioned officers of the Marine Corps below the grade of Major are entitled to an allowance of $10 per month for responsibility of clothing, arms, and accoutrements, when commanding guards of vessels in commission the complement of the guard of which is forty men or upward, and at the several naval stations on shore. Commutation for forage is only allowed when the Government cannot furnish it in kind. There are in the corps, besides the above officers, twenty Captains, whose compensation is $1428 each, thirty First Lieutenants, whose compensation is $1308 each, and twenty-nine Second Lieutenants, whose compensation is $1248 each. The number of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates belonging to the corps is about 1650. Secretary. H. L. Whiting, Fourth Assistant............. 2,100 Benj. U. Keyser, Chief Clerk.... 2,000 *Also Assistant Treasurer. ORGANIZATION OF THE Secretary's Office.-The Secretary of the Treasury is charged with the general supervision of the fiscal transactions of the government, and the execution of the laws concerning commerce and navigation; the survey of the coast; the lighthouse establishment; the marine hospitals of the United States, and the construction of certain public buildings for custom-houses and other purposes, and the signing, stamping, and issuing of treasury notes, bonds, &c. The First Comptroller prescribes the mode of keeping and rendering accounts for the civil and diplomatic service, as well as the public lands, and revises and certifies the balances arising thereon. The Second Comptroller prescribes the mode of keeping and rendering the accounts of the Army, Navy, and Indian departments of the public service, and revises and certifies the balances arising thereon. The Commissioner of the Customs prescribes the mode of keeping and rendering the accounts of the customs revenue and disbursements, and for the building and repairing custom-houses, &c., and revises and certifies the balances arising thereon. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue superintends the collection of the excise and other internal taxes, prescribes the mode of keeping and rendering account of the revenues and disbursements connected therewith, decides upon the interpretation of the provisions of the tax law, approves or disapproves of the appointment of deputy collectors and assistant assessors, and pronounces upon the sufficiency of the bonds of the collectors and their deputies. The First Auditor receives and adjusts the accounts of the customs revenue and disbursements, appropriations and expenditures on account of the civil list and under private acts of Congress, and reports the balances to the Commissioner of the Customs and the First Comptroller, respectively, for their decision thereon. The Second Auditor receives and adjusts all accounts relating to the pay, clothing, and recruiting of the army, as well as the armories, arsenals, and ordnance, and all accounts relating to the Indian Department, and reports the balances to the Second Comptroller for his decision thereon. The Third Auditor receives and adjusts all accounts for subsistence of the army, fortifications, military academy, military roads, and the quartermaster's department, pension claims arising from military services previous to 1816, and for horses and other property lost in the military service, and reports the balances to the Second Comptroller for his decision thereon. The Fourth Auditor adjusts all accounts for the service of the Navy Department, and reports the balances to the Second Comptroller for his decision thereon. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. matic and similar services performed under the direction of the State Department, and reports the balances to the First Comptroller for his decision thereon. The Sixth Auditor adjusts all accounts arising from the service of the Post-Office Department. His decisions are final, unless an appeal be taken in twelve months to the First Comptroller. He superintends the collection of all debts due the Post-Office Department, and all penalties imposed on postmasters and mail-contractors for failing to do their duty; he directs suits and legal proceedings, civil and criminal, and takes legal measures to enforce the prompt payment of moneys due to the department, instructing attorneys, marshals, and clerks relative thereto; and receives returns from each term of the United States courts of the condition and progress of such suits and legal proceedings; has charge of all lands and other property assigned to the United States in payment of debts due the Post-Office Department, and has power to sell and dispose of the same for the benefit of the United States. The Treasurer receives and keeps the moneys of the United States in his own office and that of the depositories, and pays out the same upon warrants drawn by the Secretary of the Treasury, countersigned by the First Comptroller, and upon warrants drawn by the Postmaster-General, and countersigned by the Sixth Auditor, and recorded by the Register. He also holds public moneys advanced by warrant to disbursing officers, and pays out the same upon their checks. The Register keeps the accounts of public receipts and expenditures; receives the returns and makes out the official statement of commerce and navigation of the United States; and receives from the First Comptroller and Commissioner of Customs all accounts and vouchers decided by them, and is charged by law with their safe-keeping. The Solicitor superintends all civil suits commenced by the United States (except those arising in the Post-Office Department), and instructs the United States attorneys, marshals, and clerks in all matters relating to them and their results. He receives returns from each term of the United States courts, showing the progress and condition of such suits; has superintendence of the collection of outstanding direct and internal duties; has charge of all lands and other property assigned, set off, or conveyed to the United States in payment of debts, all trusts created for use of the United States in payment of debts, power to sell and dispose of lands so assigned, &c., and power to release lands when payment is made in money. United States Coast Survey.-The Coast Survey Office is charged with the superintendence of the survey of the coast of the United States, and its Superintendent is the Superintendent of Weights The Fifth Auditor adjusts all accounts for diplo- and Measures. There are also attached to the Revenue Service 15 First Lieutenants, whose annual compensation is $1400; 15 Second Lieutenants, compensation $1200 per annum; and 19 Third Lieutenants, compensation $900 per annum. LIGHT-HOUSE INSPECTORS. Appointed in conformity with the act of Congress of August 31, 1852, which provides that "an officer of the army or navy be assigned to each district as a light-house inspector, subject to and under the orders of the Light-House Board, who shall receive for such service the same pay that he would be entitled to by law for the performance of duty in the regular line of his profession, and no other, except the legal allowance per mile when travelling under orders connected with his duties." Districts. Names of Inspectors. Corps. Where Born. Geographical limits of the Districts. From N.E. boundary of Maine to Hampton From Hampton Harbor, N.H., to Gooseberry From Gooseberry Point, Mass., to Squan In- Capt. John Rudd...... Navy Rhode Island.. From Squan Inlet, N.J., to Metompkin Inlet, [ 4th 5th Va., and Delaware Bay. From Metompkin Inlet, Va., to New River In let, N.C.,including Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. From New River Inlet, N.C., to Mosquito Inlet. Florida. From Mosquito Inlet to Egmont Key, Florida. From Mouths of Mississippi, inclusive, to the On Lakes Erie and Ontario, with St. Law- On Lakes St. Clair, Huron, Michigan, Superior, and their tributaries. Pacific Coast, California, Oregon and Washington. Under the charge of these inspectors there are 467 light-houses, light-ships, and beacons, of which 128 are on the New England coast, 81 on the Atlantic coast of the Middle States, 91 on the Atlantic coast of the Southern States, 56 on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, 16 on the Pacific coast, and 101 on the Lakes and their tributary rivers. The Superintendents of these light-houses are the Collectors of the districts in which they are situated. Each light-house has a keeper, and the more important ones, one or more assistants. The compensation of the keepers ranges from $300 to $1000, except on the lakes, where, navigation being obstructed for half the year, their compensation ranges from $100 to $500. (For Steamboat Inspectors, see p. 157.) |