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GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AT WASHINGTON. 



War Department have the rank of brigadier- 

 general. Salary, $5,500. They are : 



Adjutant- General, has 5 assistants. Pro- 

 mulgates orders of the President and the gen- 

 eral of the army, conducts correspondence, has 

 charge of enlistment, recruiting service and 

 muster-rolls, and general discipline. Office 

 force, 590; staff corps, 17. 



Inspector- General, has one assistant. Reports 

 upon personnel and material of the army, in- 

 spects posts, stations, depots, etc., and accounts 

 of disbursing officers. Force of office, 5 ; staff 

 corps, 7; detailed officers of the line, 4. 



Quartermaster - General, has 5 assistants. 

 Provides transportation, quarters, clothing, 

 etc , for the army, la charge of national 

 cemeteries. Force of office, 164; staff corps, 

 61. Number of civilian employes at military 

 departments outside of Washington, 1,563. 



Commissary- General, has 2 assistants. In 

 charge of Subsistence Department. Force of 

 office, 40; staff corps, 26. 



Surgeon- General, lias 6 assistants. Force of 

 office, 437; staff corps, 195. Number of civil- 

 ian employes in various places, 313. 



Paymaster - General, has 1 assistant. Pays 

 the army. Force of office, 48 ; staff corps, 48. 

 Number of army paymasters, rank of major, 

 42. 



Chief of Engineers, has 3 assistants. Has di- 

 rection of all fortifications, survey, and improve- 

 ments of rivers and harbors, engineers' work 

 in the field, bridges, etc. Force of office, 64 ; 

 staff corps , 109 ; engineer battalion, 450. 



Chief of Ordinance, has 3 assistants. In 

 care of arsenals, artillery service, and all weap- 

 ons and munitions of war. Force of office, 40 ; 

 staff corps. 59. 



Judge- Advocate- General, has 1 assistant. He 

 is chief of the Bureau of Military Justice. 

 Force of office, 13; staff corps. 8. 



Chief Signal Officer. Superintends Signal 

 Service. Number of stations, 182 ; force of of- 

 fice, 227 ; staff corps, 17 ; signal corps of the ar- 

 my, 487. The first systematic synchronous me- 

 teoric reports were taken in the United States 

 Nov. 1, 1870. Cautionary signals on the At- 

 lantic and Gulf coast were established in Octo- 

 ber, 1871. 



Office of Publication of War Records, corner 

 of G and Twentieth Streets, N. W. Force of 

 office, 26. 



The Army Medical Library and Museum, in 

 the National Museum, employs 46 persons. 



The appropriation for the Military Acade- 

 my at West Point, N. Y., for 1888, was $419,- 

 936.93. 



Navy Department. Established April 30. 1798. 

 It occupies the south half of the east connect- 

 ing wing of the State, War, and Navy Depart- 

 ment Building. Total number in service, in- 

 cluding United States Navy and Marine Corps, 

 15,429; in the department proper, 257. The 

 Secretary of the Navy has general direction of 

 the construction, equipment, manning, arma- 

 ment, and employment of all vessels of war of 



the United States. The office of the Admiral 

 of the Navy is in Washington; salary, 13,000. 

 The total number on the active list of the navy 

 is 9,006 ; on the active lu-t of the Marine Corps, 

 1,992. The total number of pay-clerks, cadets, 

 etc., at navy yards and stations is 3,770. The 

 navy appropriation for the fiscal year 1888 was 

 $25,767,348.19. The following are the bureaus, 

 organized in 1862, the chiefs of which receive 

 salaries of $5,000 : Bureau of Yards and Docks; 

 Navigation (the judge-advocate-general sala- 

 ry, $4,500 is attached to this bureau) ; Ord- 

 nance ; Equipment and Recruiting ; Provisions 

 and Clothing; Medicine and Surgery; Construc- 

 tion and Repair; Steam-Engineering. There 

 are also the Naval Observatory at Washington, 

 Twenty-third and E Streets, N. W., ; superin- 

 tendent's salary, $5,000. Hydrographic Of- 

 fice, hydrographer's salary, $3,000. Office of 

 the Nautical Almanac, superintendent's salary, 

 $3,500. 



Interior Department Established March 3, 

 1849. occupies the building known as the Pat- 

 ent-Office, covering two squares between Sev- 

 enth and Ninth and F and G Streets, N. W. ; style, 

 Doric. The total number employed in the serv- 

 ice is 9,154; number appointed by the President 

 and secretary, 3,600. The legal organization of 

 the department places under the supervision of 

 the Secretary of the Interior all business of pub- 

 lic lands and surveys, Indians, pensions, patents, 

 railroads, education, the commissions of inter- 

 state commerce and the United States Pacific 

 Railway, the architect of the Caoitol, and cer- 

 tain hospitals in the District of Columbia. He 

 lias also the direction of the census, and is 

 invested with certain powers and duties in the 

 Territories. There are two assistant secreta- 

 ries ; salary, $4,000 each. The following offi- 

 cers are heads of bureaus: 



Commissioner of Patents, ealary,$5.000, has 



1 assistant. Prior to the organization of the 

 Interior Department, patents were issued by 

 the Secretaries of State and War and the At- 

 torney-General. The number of employes is 

 578. The receipts of the office in six months 

 ending June 30, 1888, were $508,091.26. 



Commissioner of Pensions, salary $5,000, has 



2 deputies and 1 medical referee. Office estab- 

 lished March 2, 1833. under the Secretary of 

 War ; transferred to the Interior Department 

 March 3, 1849'. The Pension building is in 

 Judiciary Square. The number of employes is 

 1.554; number of pension agencies, 18; ap- 

 propriation for 1888, $83,152,500. 



Commissioner of the General Land- Office 

 (in the Patent Office building), salary $4,000, 

 has 1 assistant ; office established April 25, 

 1812, in the Treasury Department. The num- 

 ber of employes is 468. The Land-Office au- 

 dits its own accounts. The number of land- 

 offices, is 111 ; surveyor-generals, 15. 



Commissioner of Indian Affairs (Second Na- 

 tional Bank building, Seventh Street, N. W.), 

 salary 4,000; has 1 assistant. Office estab- 

 lished July 9, 1832. The number of employes 



