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

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..$1,800 per annum

On duty-for first five years after date of
commission....
After fifteen years from date of commission... 2,600
On leave, or waiting orders, after fifteen years
from date of commission.....

On duty........

FIRST ASSISTANT ENGINEERS.

On leave, or waiting orders......

1,500

At Navy Yard-Mare Island.........

Officers of the Navy on Foreign Stations......$1,500 per annum Engineer-in-Chief..........

Naval Constructors.....

when not on duty.......... 1,800 Secretaries to commanders of squadrons.

Clerks to commanders of squadrons and coin-
manders of vessels.......

At Navy Yards-Boston and New York....... 1,200
At Navy Yard-Washington......

At Navy Yards-Portsmouth, N. H., and
Philadelphia........

3,000

1,200

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1,500

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.....

$30 00 per mont】 20 00 46

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NURSES.

Where complement is less than 200, one nurse.$14 00
Where complement is over 200, two nurses,

each.....

14 00 "6

Paymaster, with rank of Major.........................

.$3,186 00 per annum 2,154 00

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Major..........

Adjutant and Inspector, with rank of

Quartermaster, with rank of Major:........ 2,154 00
Assistant Quartermaster, with rank of

2,154 00

Captain.....

Colonel.....

Lieutenant Colonel.......

Major.........

1,752 00

2,529 00

2,239 50

2,010 00

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........
Affidavit......

....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.

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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.

5 cts.

2 cts.

For every bill of each set, where the sum
made payable does not exceed one hun-
dred dollars, or the equivalent thereof in
any foreign currency in which such bills
may be expressed, according to the stand-
ard of value fixed by the United States... 2 cts
For every additional hundred dollars, or
fractional part thereof in excess of one
hundred dollars....
(Foreign,) drawn in, but made payable out
of, the United States, (if drawn singly or
in duplicate,) pay the same duty as In-
land 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

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