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and Assistant Secretaries of the Departments, the Attorney-General, the Postmaster-General and his assistants, the Comptrollers, Auditors, Treasurer, Register and Solicitor of the Treasury, the Commissioners of the different offices and bureaus, Chiefs of Bureaus in the War, Navy, and Interior Departments, the General-in-Chief and AdjutantGeneral, and the Superintendent of the Coast Survey and his assistants, may send and receive free all letters and packages upon official business, but not their private letters or papers.

The chief clerks in all the Departments may send free public official letters and documents. Deputy-postmasters may send free all such letters and packages as relate exclusively to the business of their respective offices; and those whose compensation did not exceed $200 for the year ending June 30, 1846, may also send free through the mails letters written by themselves, and receive free all written communications on their own private business, not weighing over half an ounce, but not transient newspapers, handbills, or circulars.

Exchange newspapers, magazines, and periodicals between editors pass free. The publishers of weekly newspapers may send to each actual subscriber in the county where their papers are printed and published, one copy free from postage.

The postage must be prepaid by postage-stamps on all letters mailed at one office in the United

States and addressed to another office in the United States, except on free letters and on duly certified soldiers' or sailors' letters, written by them, but not including letters written by commissioned officers. The postage on such certified soldiers' or sailors' letters must be collected at the office of delivery. The postage on letters written to soldiers or sailors must be prepaid at the mailing-office, as heretofore.

Postmasters at or near any camp or point occupied by the United States forces will mail, without prepayment of postage, any letter written by a soldier in the service of the United States, and certified to be such by the major or acting major of the regiment to which the writer is attached, or by any acting field or staff officer in the service of the United States. At hospitals or detached posts, this certificate may be made by the chaplain or surgeon stationed thereat.

The envelope should have plainly stamped or written on its face the certificate "soldier's letter" signed in writing by one of the officers aforesaid, describing his regiment by its number and its State, or his official position.

Prepaid letters to soldiers in any regiment in the service of the United States, and directed to them at a point where they have been stationed, may be forwarded, whenever practicable, to any other point to which they may have been ordered, without further charge thereon for forwarding.

From the Annual Report of the Postmaster-General, 1862.
Expenditures for 1862..
Revenues for 1862......

THE gross revenue of the Department for this fiscal year, including the standing Treasury credit for free mail matter, and a small amount appropriated for the relief of individuals, was $9,012,349 13. The expenditures for the same year amounted to $11,125,314 13. The regular postal revenue for 1862 is only $4,947,550 less than it was for the fiscal year 1861, during a large part of which year revenue was paid in from all the States of the Union. This fact shows a large increase in the correspondence of the loyal States. While the revenues have been so nearly sustained at the highest standard, the expenses have been largely reduced. For the preceding year the expenditure was $2,481,394 98 greater than last year. The following comparison of figures is interesting:

Expenditure for 1860, for service in
all the States..............
$14,874,772 89
Revenue for the same year............. 9,218,067 40

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3,749,408

2,481,394

The whole number of post-offices in the United States remaining established on the 30th of June, 1862, was 28,875, of which there were in the loyal States and districts 19,973, and in the insurrectionary States and districts there were 8902. The net increase in the established offices over last year was 121. The number of cases acted upon by the appointment office during the year was 7785.

The total postage accrued on the United States and European mails during the year amounts to $1,144,095 52, being a reduction from the amount of the previous year of $217,940 88. Of the total $5,656,705 49 amount collected, the excess collected in the United States was $212,607 36, which constitutes the ba13,606,759 11 lance paid to the several foreign departments, the

cost of exchanges being paid by the United States. 9,049,296 40 The Postmaster-General objects to the cost as inequitable, and proposes, if possible, to relieve the $4,557,462 71 Department from this burden.

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George C. Whiting......... Superintendent..............Virginia............ Virginia...............

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

Commissioner..............

Disbursing Clerk.....
Statistical Clerk..

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Ph.D., M.D., Chemist.......

New Jersey........ Pennsylvania.....
New York...... New York
Virginia........... Maryland...
Massachusetts.... Massachusetts....
Pennsylvania!.... Indiana.....

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* In addition to the list of Chief Examiners, and Examiners of Patents, here given, there are seven Assistant Examiners, at a salary of $1800 each.

To the supervision and management of the In- | cuttings, the preparation of an agricultural reterior Department are committed the following port, and the publication of intelligence of inbranches of the public service:terest and value to those engaged in the cultivation of the soil.

1st. The Public Lands.-Its head is the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The Land Bureau is charged with the survey, management, and sale of the public domain, the revision of Virginia military bounty-land claims, and the issuing of scrip in lieu thereof.

2d. Pensions.-The commissioner is charged with the examination and adjudication of all claims arising under the various and numerous laws passed by Congress granting bounty-land or pensions for the military or naval service in the Revolutionary and subsequent wars.

3d. The Indian Office-has charge of all matters connected with the Indians.

4th. The Patent Office-is charged with the performance of all "acts and things touching and respecting the granting and issuing of patents for new and useful discoveries, inventions, and improvements."

5th. The Department of Agriculture, organized in 1862, and which is charged with the collection of statistics concerning agriculture, the exchange, collection, and distribution of seeds, plants, and

There is also an office for the suppression of the African Slave-Trade, and one for the Commissioner of Public Buildings; and the superintendency of Public Printing is a Bureau of this De partment.

The Department of the Interior has, besides the supervision of the accounts of the United States marshals and attorneys, the clerks of the United States courts, the management of the lead and other mines of the United States; the affairs of the penitentiary of the United States in the District of Columbia; the taking and returning of the censuses of the United States, and of supervising and directing the acts of the Commissioner of Public Buildings; the management of the hospital for the insane of the army and navy and of the District of Columbia, and the construction of the three wagon-roads leading to the Pacific coast; the charge of publications transmitted to the Department under the laws relating to copyrights, records, indexes, titles, &c.

SUPERINTENDENTS AND AGENTS OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Name of Officer.

Office.

Where employed. Whence appointed.

Compensation.

Delos E. Sill..........agent. New York Agency.......... Ellicottville, N.Y...... New York..

De Witt C. Leach...

Moses M. Davis......

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Michigan Agency

Green Bay Agency.

Detroit, Mich..

Michigan...

Portage City, Wis..... Wisconsin

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Clark W. Thompson........ Superintendent..

Abel L. Foster..........agent. Agency for the Chippe-Fort Ripley, Minn.... Virginia....

Geo. F. Townsend....phys.

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Luther E. Webb....Agent. Agency for the Chippe

Vespasian Smith.....phys.

Thos. J. Galbraith..agent. Agency for the Sioux, Min Yellow Medicine, Min Minnesota...
J. L. Wakefield.......phys.

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Fort Laramie, N.T.... Indiana.....
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John A. Burbank...

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Great Nemaha Agency.... Nohart, Brown Co., K. Nebraska....

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Pawnee Agency.

Shawnee & Wyandott Ag. Lexington, Kan.....
Pottawatomie Agency..... St. Mary's Mission, K.

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John Evans.

Gov. and ex officio Supt... Denver, C.T... Colorado Ter'y...
Samuel G. Colley....agent. Upper Arkansas Agency.. Fort Wise, C.T.
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New Mexico......

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SURVEYORS-GENERAL OF THE PUBLIC LANDS AND THEIR CHIEF CLERKS, Nov. 1, 1862.

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Minnesota...

Illinois and Missouri... William Cuddy......

Iowa and Wisconsin.... Thomas J. Townsend. Dubuque

Wm. D. Washburn... St. Paul

California and Nevada.. E. F. Beale.......

$2,000 Thomas Cuddy...
2,000 J. N. Higbee......
2,000 John D. Brown...
4,500 Edward Conway.

$1,400

1,500

4,500

2,000

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John Clark

Santa Fé..

3,000 David J. Miller...

2,000

Dakota.........

George D. Hill.........

Francis M. Case......

Washington....
Utah.

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Colorado.....
Oregon

Bynon J. Pengra...... Eugene City..

Kansas and Nebraska.. Mark W. Delahay..... Leavenworth City..

Anson G. Henry....... Olympia.....
Samuel R. Fox......... Salt Lake City......

Recorder of Land Titles, St. Louis, Mo., J. S. Nelson.

3,500 Geo. H. Belden...
2,000 G. C. Van Zandt..
3,000 E. Giddings........
4,000 Vacant.
Salary, $500.

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REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS OF THE LAND OFFICE.

Salaries of registers and receivers (excepting in California, Oregon, Washington Territory, and Territory of New Mexico), $500 per annum, and 1 per cent. commission on moneys entered and accounted for respectively at their offices. They are also each authorized to charge for their services in the location of military land-warrants the following fees, to be paid by the holder of the warrant,-viz.: for a 40-acre warrant, 50 cents;

a 60-acre warrant, 75 cents; an 80-acre warrant, $1; a 120-acre warrant, $1.50; and a warrant for 160 acres, $2. Should the commission and fees exceed $2500 per annum, the excess is paid into the treasury. An allowance of $5 per diem is made them for superintending public sales, and in the case of receivers, mileage going to and returning from depositing the public moneys re

ceived.

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