Commis-
sioners.

3,500 Robert A. Slye,

do.

1,000

D. T. Patterson,

3,500

B. S. Randolph, C. W. Goldsborough, Secretary, 2,000 C. Schwartz, Wm. G. Ridgely, Chief Clerk, 1,600 | R. Elliott,

GENERAL POST OFFICE.

This Department is under the superintendence of the Post Master General, who has two Assistants.

The Post Master General has the sole appointment of all the Post Masters throughout the United States, the making of all contracts for carrying the mails, and the direction of every thing relating to the Department.

The revenue arising from the General Post Office has been principally expended upon the extension and improvement of the establishment, by which means the regular conveyance, by mail, of letters, newspapers, pamphlets, &c., has been extended to the inhabitants of every part of the Union, even to the remotest territorial settlements.

William T. Barry, Post Master General.

Charles K. Gardner, Assistant Post Masters General,

Salary.

$2,500

Selah R. Hobbie,

2,500

NOTE.-The information relating to the Executive government has been derived principally from the "National Calendar," the "Register of Officers and Agents in the Service of the United States," and the "Directory of the Twenty-first Congress."

VII. THE LEGISLATURE OR CONGRESS OF THE

UNITED STATES.

THE Congress of the United States consists of a Senate and House of Representatives, and must assemble, at least, once every year, on the first Monday of December, unless it is otherwise provided by law.

The Senate is composed of two members from each state; and of course the present regular number is 48. They are chosen by the legislatures of the several states, for the term of six years, one third of them being elected biennially.

The Vice-President of the United States is the President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate.

The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several states, elected by the people for the term of two years. The representatives are apportioned among the different states according to population; and in accordance with an act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1823, one representative is now returned for every 40,000 persons, computed according to the Constitution. The present number is 216, including 3 delegates.

Since the 4th of March, 1807, the compensation of each member of the Senate and House of Representatives, has been $8 a day, during the period of his attendance in Congress, without deduction in case of sickness; and $8 for every twenty miles' travel, in the usual road, in going to and returning from the seat of government. The compensation of the President of the Senate, pro tempore, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is $16 a day.

THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS.-THE SENATE.

John C. Calhoun, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.

The Senators with the expiration of their respective terms.

John Holmes,

1833,

Alfred.

N. R. Knight, 1835, Providence. Peleg Sprague, 1835, Hallowell. Asher Robbins, 1833, Newport.

Isaac D. Barnard, 1833, W. Chester. Powhatan Ellis, 1833, Winchester. William Marks, 1831, Pittsburg. George Adams, deceased.

Delaware.

John M. Clayton, 1835, Dover.

Louisiana.

Josiah S. Johnson, 1831, Alexandria.

Arnold Naudain, 1833, Wilmington. Edward Livingston, 1833, N. Orleans.

E. F. Chambers, 1831, Chestertown. Hugh L. White, 1835, Knoxville.
Samuel Smith, 1833, Baltimore.
Felix Grundy, 1833, Nashville.

1833, Charles City. George M. Bibb, 1835, Yellow Banks.

John Tyler,
Litt. W. Tazewell, 1835, Norfolk.

North Carolina.

James Iredell, 1831, Raleigh.
Bedford Brown, 1835, Milton.

South Carolina.

Robert Y. Hayne, 1835, Charleston.
William Smith, 1831, York.

Georgia.

George M. Troup, 1835, Dublin.
John Forsyth, 1831, Augusta.

John Rowan,

1831, Bardstown.

Ohio.

Jacob Burnet, 1831, Cincinnati.
Benj. Ruggles, 1833, St. Clairsville.
Indiana.

William Hendricks, 1831, Madison.
James Noble, 1833, Brookville.

Illinois.

John K. Kane, 1831, Kaskaskia.
John McLean, 1833, Shawneetown.

Alabama.

William R. King, 1835, Selma.
John McKinley,

Missouri.

David Barton,

1831, St. Louis.

1831, Florence. Thomas H. Benton, 1833, St. Louis,

THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS.-THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA

TIVES.

The term of the 21st Congress will expire on the 3d of March, 1831.

Andrew Stephenson, of Virginia, Speaker.

Henry A. Muhlenburg, Reading.

William Ramsay,