4. RANK, GRADE, AND PAY OF THE ARMY. Rank and classification of Officers. Pay per Month. Number of rations per day. No. of No. of servants allowed. Major General, $200 15 104 12 Aid-de-Camp, in addition to pay &c., of Lieut., 24 Aid-de Camp, in addition to pay &c., of Lieut., 20 Inspector General-Colonel, Quartermaster General-Brig. General, Assistant Quartermaster General-Colonel, Deputy Quartermaster General-Lt. Colonel, 75 90 60 50 90 104 12 Quartermaster-Major, Assistant Quartermaster-Captain, Commissary Gen. of Subsistence-Colonel, Surgeons of ten years' service, Surgeons of less than ten years' service, Assist. Surg'ns, of less than five years service, 33 33 Officers of the Corps of Engineers-Corps of Top. Engineers,-Ordnance Department. Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, 33 33 33 33 90 75 60 50 33 33 33 33 Second Lieutenant, Adjutant, in addition to pay, &c., of Lieut., 5. MILITARY GEOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENTS. The order districting the United States into nine military departments is rescinded, and the country is hereby divided into two military geographical divisions, the boundaries of which will be the same as those established at the reduction of the army in 1821, with the exception of the present 4th and 9th military departments, which will not be included in either division. Western Division. -The country west of a line drawn from Fond du Lac, Lake Superior, to Cape Sable, Florida, and embracing the part of Wisconsin Territory west of said line, Iowa Territory, the States of Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, West Florida, and the Indian country West of the Mississippi river. Eastern Division. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. 4th Military Department. - The States of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, and that part of Wisconsin Territory not included in the Western Division. 9th Military Department.- East and Middle Florida. Until otherwise directed, the present arrangement of Military Departments Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8, [See Almanac for 1844, page 129,] will be continued, and the senior officer in each will report to and receive instructions from the commanders of divisions. Brevet Major General Gaines is assigned to the command of the Western, and Brigadier General Wool to the command of the Eastern division, and will, for the present, establish their head quarters, respectively, at New Orleans, La., and Troy, N. Y. The head quarters of departments will remain as now established, except the head quarters of the 5th department, which will be at Fort Columbus, N. Y. The regular force, as now authorized by law, consists of 716 commissioned officers, 17 storekeepers, 40 sergeants, 250 enlisted men for the ordnance service, and 7,590 non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates; making an aggregate of 6,613 men. West Point Academy. A statement transmitted to Congress shows, that the number of cadets admitted into the institution since its establishment, is 2,942 33 11 147 542 Of those now in service, there are 4 colonels, 6 lieutenant colonels, 13 majors, 173 captains, 170 first lieutenants, 131 second lieutenants, 70 brevet second lieutenants, 5 paymasters, and 1 military storekeeper. The amount appropriated for the institution, since its establishment, for buildings, library, apparatus, &c., is, For salaries, pay, subsistence, &c, $711,399 88 3,291,501 27 $4,002,901 15 VII. POST-OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT. 1. Table of Mail Service for the Year preceding the 1st of July, 1843, as stated by the First Assistant Postmaster General. Additional expenses of mail agencies incident to the railroad and steamboat mails, and payable under the head of transportation, $28,965.(c) A change has been adopted in the preparation of this table, to make it conform to the mode of keeping the accounts in the Auditor's office, and occasional reports furnished from time to time. The entire service and pay of the route is set down to the State under which it is numbered, though extending into other States, instead of being divided among the States in which each portion of it lies. This change is necessary to prevent the seeming discrepancies that must appear in every instance, and are liable to be taken as evidence of gross error in the state ment. (a) The steamboat route on Lake Champlain is under a New York number. (b) The Baltimore, Wilmington & Philadelphia railroad is under a Maryland number. (c) The other expenditures incident to transportation, such as amounts paid for ship, steamboat, and way letters, locks, &c., are not included in this table, because they are the subjects of separate appropriation and account. From a report transmitted to the Senate by the Postmaster General, of the number of paid and unpaid letters, free letters, drop letters for delivery; regular newspapers subject to postage; do. free of postage; do. occasional or irregular; pamphlets and magazines, periodical; do. not periodical, which passed through the post offices in the United States during the month of October, 1843, and an estimate for the year based thereon, with other information in the possession of the Department, we have compiled the following abstract: 2. Post-Office Statistics for the year ending June 30, 1843. 3. Number of Post Offices, Extent of Post Roads, and Revenue and Expenditures of the Post-Office Department; with the amount paid to Postmasters and for transportation of the Mail.* *The Revenue of the Post-Office Department is derived chiefly from postage; a trifling amount is received from penalties for violations of the post-office laws. The Expenditures of the Department consist of the items for compensation of postmasters, transportation of the mail, and certain other miscellaneous expenses. |