Fort Morgan, Alabama, Fort Pike, Louisiana, Fort Wood, do. N. Orl's Barracks, do. Baton Rouge Bar'ks, do. Fort Jesup, do. Fort Towson, Fort Washita, Fort Gibson, Fort Smith, Fort Leavenworth, Jefferson Barracks, Fort Crawford, Fort Snelling, Fort Winnebago, Fort Brady, Fort Mackinac, Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans, Arkansas Ter. Fort Towson, Fort Gratiot, do. Detroit Barracks, do. Buffalo Barracks, New York, Buffalo, Fort Niagara, do. Fort Ontario do. Youngstown, Newport, New London, Fort Independence, Massachusetts, Boston, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Carlisle Barracks, do. Carlisle, Hancock Barracks, Maine, Houlton, Fort Sullivan, do. Eastport, Fort Preble, do. Portland, Fort Constitution, N. Hampshire, Portsmouth, Fort McHenry, Maryland, Baltimore, Fort Severn, do. Annapolis, Fort Washington, do. Fort Monroe, Fort Johnston, Fort Caswell, do. Fort Macon, Beaufort, Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, Ogleth'rpe Barracks, Georgia, Fort Marion, Florida, Key West, do. Fort Brooke, do. Virginia, N. Carolina, do. do. Charleston Permanent Com- Regiment mauders. and Corps. Maj.Jacob Brown, 7th infantry. Capt. Fran. Lee, 7th infantry. Lt. Col. Pierce, 1st artillery. Lt. Col. Payne, 4th artillery. Fort Washingt'n, Not garrisoned. Savannah, 4. RANK, GRADE, AND PAY OF THE ARMY. Rank and classification of Officers. Pay per Month. Number per day. No. of servants Major General, $200 15 Aid-de-Camp, in addition to pay &c., of Lieut., 24 104 12 Aid-de Camp, in addition to pay &c., of Lieut., 20 Assistant Adjutant General-Major, Assistant Adjutant General-Captain, Inspector General-Colonel, 90 60 50 90 104 90 90 Paymaster General, $2,500 per annum. Surgeon General, $2,500 per annum. 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. 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 The order districting the United States into nine military departments is rescinded, and the country is hereby divided into two military geographical divisions, the boundaries of which will be the same as those established at the reduction of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 Of which have graduated, Declined commisions, 1,206 Disbanded, or dismissed, 61 Killed in service, 6 Died in service, 2,942 33 11 147 542 Resigned before graduation, Resigned, 323 Now in service, 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 statement. (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. cost. the year. |