MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND FIGURES. 



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ARMY PAY TABLE. 



* The maximum pay of Colonels is limited to $4,500, and of Lieutenant-Colonels to $4,000. 



The pay of non-commissioned officers is from $18 to $34 per month, and of privates $13 per month. 



United States National and Inter- 

 national Salutes, with Cannon. Salute 

 to the Union. - This is one gun for each state, 

 and is commemorative of the Declaration of In- 

 dependence. It is fired at noon of the Fourth 

 of July, at every military post, and on board 

 commissioned naval vessels belonging to the 

 United States. 



The National Salute, 21 guns. This is the 

 salute for the national flag, the President of 

 the United States, presidents of foreign repub- 

 lics, or sovereigns of foreign states, visiting the 

 United States. 



Vice-President of the United States, Amer- 

 ican and foreign ambassadors, 19 guns. 



The President of the Senate, Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives, Members of the 

 Cabinet, the Chief Justice, a Congressional 

 Committee, Governors within their respective 

 states or territories, Viceroy or Governor Gen- 

 eral of provinces belonging to foreign states, 

 General of the Army, Admiral of the Navy, 

 and same ranks in foreign armies and navies, 

 17 guns. 



American or foreign Envoys, or Ministers 

 Plenipotentiary, Assistant Secretaries of the 

 Navy or War, Lieutenant General, or a Major 

 General commanding the army, and correspond- 

 ing ranks in the navy, and foreign armies and 

 navies, 15 guns. 



Ministers-Resident accredited to the United 

 States, Major General, Rear Admiral, and cor- 



responding ranks of foreign armies and navies, 

 13 guns. 



Charges d'Affaires, Brigadier General, Com- 

 modore, and corresponding ranks in foreign 

 armies and navies, 11 guns. 



Consul Generals accredited to the United 

 States, 9 guns. 



Salutes are only fired between sunrise and 

 sunset, and not on Sundays, except in interna- 

 tional courtesies. The national colors are al- 

 ways displayed at the time of saluting. The 

 salute of the flag is the only salute which is 

 returned, and this must be done within twenty- 

 four hours. United States vessels do not return 

 salute to the flag in United States waters if 

 there is any fort or battery there to do it, 

 nor do United States vessels salute United 

 States forts or posts. 



If there are several batteries or forts within 

 sight or six miles of each other, one of them 

 is designated as the saluting fort, and returns 

 all salutes of foreign men-of-war. In New 

 York, Castle William, on Governor's Island, 

 is the saluting fort. 



Washington Monument. Notwith- 

 standing the fact that the plan of a monument 

 to General Washington was approved by Con- 

 gress in- the latter part of December, 1799, 

 nothing was done in the matter until 1833, 

 when an association of prominent persons un- 

 dertook the raising of the needed funds by sub- 

 scription, and on July 4, 1848, had so far UC' 



