For twelve years' service and upwards......... 1,450 per annum On leave, or waiting orders-for twelve years' sea service and upwards........ CHIEF ENGINEERS. 1,000 " " ..$1,800 per annum On duty-for first five years after date of ............ 1,500 " when not on duty... At Navy Yard-Mare Island..... Officers of the Navy on Foreign Stations......$1,500 per annum Engineer-in-Chief........... Naval Constructors...... Secretaries to commanders of squadrons. Clerks to commanders of squadrons and com- At Navy Yards-Boston and New York....... 1,200 At Navy Yards-Portsmouth, N. H., and ........ 3,000 Surgeons', where ship's complement is 400 and over... Surgeons', where ship's complement is 200 and under 400........ Surgeons', where ship's complement is under 200...... Paymaster's, where ship's complement is 240 and over...... Assistant Paymaster's, where complement is ... 100 and over....... Assistant Paymaster's, where complement is under 100..... NURSES. Where complement is less than 200, one nurse.$14 00 per month Where complement is over 200, two nurses, each....... 14 00 66 Adjutant and Inspector, with rank of Quartermaster, with rank of Major......... 2,154 00 Captain.... .......... Colonel.. 2,529 00 Lieutenant Colonel.. Major........ NOTE.-By a late act of Congress, the monthly pay of private soldiers has been increased three dollars, that of non-commissioned officers being proportionately advanced And a tax of five per cent. was imposed on the salaries of commissioned officers, thus, indirectly reducing their pay. SCHEDULE OF STAMP DUTIES. Acknowledgment of deeds.......... แ .......exempt. in suits or legal proceedings...... Agreement or Appraisement, (for each sheet, or piece of paper on which the same is written)......... 5 cts. Assignment or transfer of mortgage, lease, or policy of insurance, the same duty as the original instrument. "" of patent right..... Bank Checks, drafts or orders, &c., at sight or on demand Bills of Exchange, (Foreign,) drawn in, but payable out of, the United States, each bill of three or more, must be stamped. For 5 cts. 2 cts. every bill of each set, where the sum made payable does not exceed one hundred dollars, or the equivalent thereof in any foreign currency in which such bills may be expressed, according to the standard of value fixed by the United States... 2 cts For every additional hundred dollars, or fractional part thereof in excess of one hundred dollars. ..... 2 cta (Foreign,) drawn in, but made payable out of, the United States, (if drawn singly or in duplicate,) pay the same duty as Inland Bills of Exchange. [The acceptor or acceptors of any Bill of Exchange, or order for the payment of any sum of money drawn, or purporting to be drawn, in any foreign country, but payable in the United States, must, before paying or accepting the same, place thereon a stamp indicating the duty.] Bills of Exchange, (Inland,) draft or order, payable otherwise than at sight or on demand, and any promissory note, whether payable on demand or at a time designated, (except |