List showing the names of the clerks and messenger employed in the office of the Quartermaster General during the year ending on the 31st of December, 1857, the compensation received by each, and the State in Wm. A. Gordon, 4th class. Messenger. George Phelps. --- The persons named on this list have been usefully employed. It is not considered that the removal of any of them, and the appointment of others in their stead, is necessary to the proper discharge of the duties of the office. TH. S. JESUP, List of the "clerks and other persons" employed in the office of the Adjutant General of the army during the year 1857; furnished in compliance with the 11th section of the act of August 26, 1842, and the resolution of the House of Representatives of January 13, 1846. The business of the Adjutant General's office will not justify a reduction of the number of clerks as now authorized by law. The persons above named have been usefully and efficiently employed, and no changes are recommended. Respectfully submitted, in duplicate, S. COOPER, Adjutant General. List of persons employed in the office of the Surgeon General during the year 1857, their occupation, time employed, and compensation; and State or Territory of their residence at the time of their appointment. The clerks and messengers in the Surgeon General's office "have been usefully employed," and no person in this office "can be dispensed with without detriment to the public service," and the prompt despatch of business does not require the removal of any of them and the appointment of others in their stead. TH. LAWSON, Surgeon General. RECEIPTS, EXPENDITURES, AND APPROPRIATIONS FROM 1789 to 1857. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, IN RELATION TO The receipts, expenditures, and appropriations from 1789 to 1857. FEBRUARY 10, 1858.-Laid upon the table. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, SIR I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement from the Register of the Treasury, exhibiting yearly, and in aggregate, the receipts, expenditures, and appropriations from 1789 to June 30, 1857, the expiration of the last fiscal year. When printed it is intended for insertion in the annual statement of receipts and expenditures recently submitted to the House of Representatives, to come next after the statement of the estimates and the appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857, which forms a portion of said document. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. JAMES L. ORR, HOWELL COBB, Secretary of the Treasury. Speaker of the House of Representatives. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Office, February 4, 1858. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement of the receipts, expenditures, and appropriations from 1789 to June 30, 1857. This document has heretofore been printed every four years, with the annual statement of receipts and expenditures, but not sent to Congress at the time of the annual statement, the printing having been executed from the copy on file in this office, and received by the printer from the proof reader. Having understood that some extra copies of the enclosed document have been ordered by Congress, I have the honor to request that you will transmit it to the House, asking that it be printed with the annual statement of receipts and expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1857, after the "Statement of the amount of estimates transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, and of the appropriations made by Congress for the service of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857," which forms a part of said document. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, F. BIGGER, Register. Hon. HOWELL COBB, Secretary of the Treasury. |