Foreign Affairs. Messrs. Banks (chairman), Orth, Cullom, Washburn, (Wis.), McCarthy, Blair, Myers, Robinson, and Morgan.

Territories. Messrs. Ashley (Ohio,) (chairman), Cullom, Marvin, Hunter, Taylor, Mullins, Taffe, Wood, and Hotchkiss.

Revolutionary Pensions and of the War of 1812.

Messrs. Loan (chairman), Mullins, Price,

Washburn, (Mass.), Miller, Selye, Washburn, (Ind.), Burr, and Morrisey.

Invalid Pensions. Messrs. Perham (chairman), Van Aernam, Benjamin, Nunn, Miller, Polsley, Burr, and Fox.

Roads and Canals. Messrs. Cook (chairman), Cornell, Wilson, (Ohio,) Cake, Newcomb, Dodge, McCarthy, Kerr, and Barnum.

Mines and Mining. Messrs. Higby (chairman), Ashley, (Nevada,) Driggs, Ashley, (Ohio,) Ferriss, Hunter, Mallory, Woodward, and Knott.

Freedmen's Affairs. Messrs. Eliot (chairman), Trimble, (Tenn.), Loan, Paine, Ela, Morrell, Baker, Adams, and Hotchkiss.

Education and Labor. Messrs. Baker (chairman), Cary, Julian, Boutwell, Wilson, (Penn.,) Cornell, Gravely, Barnes, and Stone.

Coinage, Weights and Measures. Messrs. Kelly (chairman), Judd, Smith, Ferris, Hill, Cary, and Axtell.

Patents. Messrs. Jenckes (chairman), Myers, Chanler, Bromwell, and Peters.

Public Grounds and Buildings. Messrs. Covode (chairman), Van Horn, (N. Y.), Cobb, Moore, and Jones.

Revisal and Unfinished Business. Messrs. Poland (chairman), Wilson, (Iowa,) Pomeroy, Windom, and Marshall.

Mileage. Messrs. Anderson (chairman), Plants, Van Aernam, Raum, and Getz.
Accounts. Messrs. Broomall (chairman), Eckley, Arnell, Fields, and McCullough.

Expenditures in the State Department. Messrs. Arnell (chairman), Pike, Finney, Clarke, (Ohio,) and Humphrey.

Expenditures in the Treasury Department. Messrs. Marvin (chairman), Starkweather, Taylor, Kitchen, and Robinson.

Expenditures in the War Department. Messrs. Williams (Ind.), (chairman), Williams, (Penn.), Garfield, Phelps, and Golladay.

Expenditures in the Navy Department. Thomas, and Glossbrenner.

Messrs. Upson (chairman), Dawes, Van Wyck,

Expenditures in the Post-Office Department. Messrs. Pile (chairman), Eggleston, O'Neill, Ketcham, and Hubbard, (Conn.)

Expenditures in the Interior Department. Messrs. Hubbard (W. Va.), (chairman), Koontz, Bailey, Twichell, and Morgan.

Expenditures on the Public Buildings. Messrs. Washburn (Wis.), (chairman), Dixon, Van Horn, (Mo.,) Archer, and Grover.

SELECT COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE.

Rules. The Speaker (chairman), Messrs. Washburne, (Ill.), Banks, Blaine, and Brooks. Southern Railroads. Messrs. McClurg (chairman), Mercur, Washburn, (Ind.), Chanler, and Sawyer.

Education in the District of Columbia. Messrs. Van Aernam, (chairman), Williams, (Ind.), Loughridge, and Archer.

Soldiers' and Sailors' Bounties. Messrs. Washburn (Ind.), (chairman), Paine, and Getz. Reconstruction. Messrs. Boutwell, (chairman), Bingham, Farnsworth, Hulburd, Beaman, Paine, Brooks, and Beck.

Revision of Laws of the United States. Messrs. Poland (chairman), Spalding, Jenckes, Ferris, and Woodward.

JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE.

Printing. Messrs. Laflin (chairman), Ela, and Cake.

Library. Messrs. Baldwin (chairman), Pruyn, and Spalding.

Enrolled Bills. Messrs. Wilson (Penn.), (chairman), Hopkins, and Holman.

JOINT SELECT COMMITTEES ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE.

Retrenchment. Messrs. Van Wyck (chairman), Randall, Welker, Halsey, Jenckes, Benjamin, and Benton.

Revise and Fix the Pay of the Officers of the two Houses. Messrs. Woodbridge (chairman), Eckley, and McCullough,

Examine the Accounts for Furnishing the Executive Mansion. Messrs. Spalding (chairman), Beaman, and Glossbrenner.

Ordnance. Messrs. Logan (chairman), Butler, (Mass.), and Schenck.

*For additional names of new members, 3d Session, see page 261.

The President is chosen by Electors, each State having as many as it has Senators and Representatives in Congress. He holds office four years; is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States; has power to grant pardons and reprieves for offenses against the United States; makes treaties by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; nominates, and with the consent of the Senate, appoints all Cabinet, Diplomatic, Judicial, and Executive officers; has power to convene Congress, or the Senate only; communicates to Congress by message at every session, the condition of the Union, and recommends such measures as he deems expedient; receives all Foreign Ministers; takes care that the laws are faithfully executed, and the public business transacted.

The Vice-President is chosen by the Electors at the same time and in the same manner as the President; is President of the Senate, and has the casting vote therein. In case of the death, resignation, disability, or removal of the President, his powers and duties devolve upon the Vice-President for the residue of his term. In case of the death of both the President and VicePresident, or if those offices for any reason become vacant, the President pro tempore of the Senate acts as President of the United States, or if there be none, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, until a new election can be had, which must take place within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December following, provided the space of two months intervenes between the date of the notice of such special election and said first Wednesday in December; if such period does not intervene, then the election is to be held during the same period in the year ensuing, provided the term of office does not expire prior thereto. The notice of election is to be issued by the Secretary of State, and addressed to the respective Governors. In

cases of vacancy, where the Vice-President succeeds to the Presidential office, the President of the Senate becomes ex officio Vice-President.

President of the United States, ANDREW JOHNSON, Salary, $25,000

Private Secretary,

Vice-President (acting),

ROBERT JOHNSON,

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3,500

The following are the principal officers in the Executive Department of the Government, who form the Cabinet:

This Department, established July 27th, 1789, was originally styled the Department of Foreign Affairs, but its name was changed by an Act of Congress to the Department of State. The Secretary, who is the principal officer of the Department, is charged with all duties relative to correspondences, commissions, or instructions to or with our foreign ministers or consuls; negotiations with public ministers from foreign states or princes; and with such other matters respecting foreign affairs as the President shall assign to the Department. He is also charged with the duty of receiving and preserving the Enrolled Acts of Congress, and with the publication of printed copies of them. He is made by law the custodian of the seal of the United States, and it is his duty to affix the said seal to all civil commissions, and other instruments and acts, whenever he has the special warrant of the President therefor.

The Diplomatic Branch has charge of all correspondence between the Department and other diplomatic agents of the United States abroad, and those of foreign powers accredited to this government.

The Consular Branch has charge of the correspondence, etc., between the department and the consuls and commercial agents of the United States.

The Disbursing Agent has charge of all matters connected with accounts relating to any fund disbursed by the department.

The Translator furnishes such translations as the department may require, and records the commissions of consuls and vice-consuls, when not in English, upon which exequaturs are issued.

The Clerk of Appointments and Commissions makes out and records commissions, letters of appointment, nominations to the Senate, exequaturs, and records, when in English, the commissions on which they are issued; and has charge of the Library.

The Clerk of Rolls and Archives takes charge of the enrolled acts and resolutions of Congress, as they are received from the President; prepares authenticated copies thereof; superintends their publication, and that of treaties; attends to their distribution, and that of all documents and publications in regard to which this duty is assigned to the department; writing and answering all letters connected therewith; and has charge of all Indian treaties, and business relating thereto.

The Clerk of Authentications has charge of the seals of the United States and of the department, and prepares and attaches certificates to papers presented for authentication; receives and accounts for the fees; and records all letters from the department, other than the diplomatic and consular.

The Clerk of Pardons and Passports prepares and records pardons and remissions, and registers and files the papers on which they are founded, and makes out and records passports.

INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.*

Ministers and other Diplomatic Agents of the United States in Foreign Countries are paid by salaries, and the outfit is abolished. Secretaries of Legation are authorized in each country where there is a Minister Plenipotentiary or Minister Resident. Assistant Secretaries are authorized at London and Paris.

*Corrected at State Department, October, 1868.