ag the public Stores. Of these, Connecticut was directed to furnish 165, New York, 165, New Jersey, 110, and Pennsylvania, 220.* The Secretary of War was directed to form the whole, when raised, into one regiment, consisting of eight companies of Infantry, and two of artillery; and when formed they were declared to be subject to the rules and regulations for the government of the late Army. Previous to the expiration of the term of service for which these troops were engaged, Congress resolved on the 3d of October, 1787, that the same number should be furnished, in similar proportions by the same States, for another term of three years, unless sooner discharged. These troops remained in service till after the adoption of the Federal Constitution, and were by act of September 29, 1789, "recognised in be the establishment for the troops in the service of the United States." The War Department, as organized under the present Constitution, was created by act of 7th August, 1789. The Secretary of War, at first, had the superintendence of Naval Affairs. On the 30th of April, 1798, however a separation took place, and a Navy Departmen: was established. The Secretary of War superintends every branch of the Military Department; and is, by usage, a member of the Cabinet. He holds his office at the will of the President. Attached to the War Department, and under the immediate direction of the Secretary, are, a Requisition Bureau, a Bounty Land Bureau, a Pension Bureau, an office of Indian Affairs; and an Engineer Office, a Topographical Office, an Ordnance Office, an Office for the Commissary General of Subsistence, an office for the Clothing Department, a Faymaster General's Office, and a Surgeon General's Office. All these offices, together with the Head Quarters of the Commanding General, (major General Macomb) and the adjutant General's and Quartermaeter General's Offices, are located at Washington. To this Department belongs the erection of all fortifications; making all topographical surveys; surveying and leasing the national lead mines; and the direction (under the laws) of intercourse with Indian tribes. CLERKS IN THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE. JOHN ROBB, Chief Clerk..... Gideon Davis, Clerk..... Charles L Latle. Clerk... ••••••••• 2000 00 .........1400 00 1000 00 .....650 00 William Markward, messenger................................................................. LAWRENCE L. VAN KLEECK................ ........ ....... ..... .400 00 .......1600 00 From this Bureau all the requisitions of the War Department are made out on the Treasury, and salaries and the contingencies of the Departjment paid. *About 400 recruits were engaged in 1785, and about 180 in 1786, and marched to the Ohio, except a small garrison of one officer, on sergeant, and fifteen privates stationed at West Point. The further completion of the establishment was prevented by a deficiency the publie finances. The Pension Bureau of the War Department is a Bureau in which all claims for Pensions, properly so called, are settled, except such as arise under the laws respecting persons disabled in the Navy since 1799. Widows of militia inen and volunteers are allowed five years half pay in certain cases -Such claims are settled at the Treasury Department; as are the claims under the act of May 15, 1828, which makes certain allowances to officers who served to the end of the revolutionary war. CLERKS IN THE BOUNTY LAND BUREAU. The Bounty Land Bureau of the War Department is a Bureau in which claims for military bounty lands, originating in the revolutionary and late war, are examined, and from which military bounty land war rants issue. OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ELBERT HERRING, Commissioner.. ......3000 00 .1400 00 This office which had previously been one of the Bureaus of the War Department, was created by an act passed at the last Session of Congress, entit.ed "an act to provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and for other purposes." "9 Approved July 9, 1832This act provides that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who shall be appointed by the President and Senate, shall, under the direction of the Secretary of War, and agreeably to such regulations as the President may, from time to time prescribe, have the direction and management of all Indian Affairs, and of all matters arising out of Indian relations.All accounts and vouchers for claims and disbursements connected with Indian affairs must be transmitted to the Commissioner for administrative examination, and by him be passed to the second Auditor of the Treasury for settlement. OFFICES OF THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY. HEAD QUARTERS OF THE ARMY. Major General Alexander Macomb, General-in Chief. The Army of the United States is placed under the command of the Major General, who is generally styled, the General in (hief. His duties comprise the arrangement of the military force in such manner as to give protection to the maritime frontier and to the interior border. He superintends the recruiting service; the disci line and police of the army; orders general courts martial, and decides on all cases, except when the life of an officer or soldier is affected, or the commission of an officer. It is his province to see that the laws and regulations governing the army are enforced, and that justice is done to all concerned. In his duties he is assisted by the Adjutant General, through whose office all orders are issued to the army, and returns of its strength made, as well as the general military correspondence in relation to the details of service. He is also assisted by the two Inspectors Generals, who, under his orders, inspect the condition of the several regiments, corps, and posts, and inquire minutely into every subject relating to the welfare of the army; and recommend such improvements as may add to the comfort of the officers and men; they also report on the general condition of corps, and the individual character of its members. The General in Chief has two Ardes-de-Camp who assist him in his correspondence and in the recording of it, and who also perform the duties of assistant adjutants general. There are no clerks attached to the head quarters of the army, the correspondence and duties being of a delicate and confidential nature, in a great degree, it is entrusted only to those who, by previous education and experience, can properly appreciate and understand its object. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. Colonel R. Jones, Adjutant General. Lieutenant William B. Davidson. 3d Artillery. Brooke Williams, Clerk...... John H. Hepburn, Clerk........ .... This office is the repository of the records which refer to the personnel of the Army, in war, as well as in time of peace, and of the military history of every officer and soldier, from the earliest period of the government, so far as these may have been preserved. It is here where all military appointments and commissions are made out and registered, where the names of all enlisted soldiers are entered, and their size, roll, and enlistments, recorded and filed, &c. It is in this office where the monthly returns of the troops, and muster rolls of companies, required by the 13th and 19th Articles of War are received and preserved; where the origiual proceedings of General Courts Martial are deposited and entered, where the nventory of the effects of deceased officers and soldiers are forwarded and recorded. [90th and 94th Articles of War.] The Adjutant General of the Army is charged with the registery of all commissioned officers, and with the distribution of their commissions; with the record of all appointments in the Army, promotions, resignations, deaths, &c. All orders which emanate from General Head Quarters of the Army, and all regulations and general orders from the War Office, are communicated to the troops by the Adjutant General. In this office, the annual returns of the Militia of the several States and Territories are deposited for safe keeping, as well as arms, munitions, and accoutrements pertaining to the same, required by law to be made to the President of the United States The general returns of the militia of the United States, required for the use of Congress, pursuant to the act of March 2d. 1803, are consolideted in this office. Here all appointments and commissions of the officers of the militia of the District of Columbia. are registered and distributed. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. .... ..... Brevet Brig. Gen. Charles Gratiot, Corps of Engineers, Chief Engineer. Lieutenant W. H. C. Bartlett, of the Corps of Engineers, Assistant. Benjamin Fowler, Clerk.... ...................................1150 00 J. C. Wilson, Clerk ...1000 00 Willis Fawcett, Clerk....................................................................................................... ....800 00 The chief of the Corps of Engineers is stationed at the seat of Government, and directs and regulates the duties of the Corps of Engineers, and those also of such of the Topographical Engineers as may be attached to the Engineer Department; and also is the Inspector of the Military Academy, and is charged with its correspondence. The duties of the Engineer Department comprise-reconnoitring and surveying for military purposes and for internal improvements, together with the collection and preservation of topographical and geographical memoirs and drawings, referring to those objects--the selection of sites, the formation of plans and estimates, the construction, repair, aud inspection of fortifications, and the disbursements of the sums appropriated for the fulfilment of those objects severally, comprising those of the Military Academy. Also, the superintendence of the execution of the acts of Congress in relation to internal improvements by roads, canals, the navigation of rivers, and the repairs and improvements connected with the harbours of the United States, or the entrance into the same, which may be authorized by acts of Congress, with the execution of which the War Department may be charged. TOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU. Brevet Lt. Col. John J. Abert, Topographical Engineers, Superintendent. Lieut. George D Ramsay. 1st Artillery, Lieut. W. G. Williams, 7th Infantry, Lieut. A. D. Mackay, 1st Artillery, Robert Fowler, Clerk........ Assistants. 800 00 This Bureau has charge of all topographical operations and surveys for military purposes, and for purposes of internal improvements, and of all maps, drawings and documents in relation to those duties. The function of the engineers being generally confined to the most elevated branch of military science, they do not assume, nor are they subject to be ordered on any duty beyond the line of their immediate profession, except by special authority through the War Departmentand when so arranged to other duties, either on detachment or otherwise, they have precedence according to their commissions, which, at all times, entitle them to every mark of military respect. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. George Bomford, Colonel of Ordnance. William H. Bell, Captain of Ordnance. JA D'Lagnell, Lieutenant, 2d Regiment of Artillery. J. L. Locke, Lieutenant, 2d Regiment of Artillery. William Riddall, Clerk......... A G Glynn, Clerk............ ............ The Ordnance Department which had been abolished and merged in the Artillery, by the act of 2d March, 1821, has been re-organized under an act passed at the last session of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for the organization of the Ordnance Department," approved, April 5, $1832. Under this law it consists of one Colonel, one Lieutenant Colonel, two Majors, and ten Captains, and as many enlisted men, as the public service may require, not exceeding two hundred and fifty. It is the duty of the Colonel of the Ordnance Department to direct the inspection and proving of all pieces of ordnance, cannon balls, shot, shells, small arms and side arms, and equipments procured for the use of the armies of the United States; and to direct the construction of all cannon and carriages, and every implement and apparatus for ordnance, and all ammunition wagons, travelling forges, ahd artificers' wagons, the inspection and proving of powder, and the preparation of all kinds of ammunition aud ordnance stores. It is also his duty to furnish estimates, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to make contracts and purchases for procuring the necessary supplies of arms, equipments, ordnance, and ordnance stores. The general denomination of ordnance and ordnance stores, comprehends all cannon, howitzers, mortars, cannon balls, and shells for the land service, all gun carriages, caissons, travelling forges and poutons, with all their equipments, and all other apparatus and machine required for the service and manœuvres of artillery in garrison, sieges, or in the field, together with the materials for their construction and repair.Also, all small arms, side arms and accoutrements for the artillery; cavalry, infantry, and riflemen-all ammunition for cannon and small arms; and all stores of expenditures for the service of the artillery; materials, utensils and stores for laboratories; all intrenching and miner's tools, for the attack or defence of places; armourer's tools for the repair of arms, and artificers' tools of every description, required for the construction or repair of gun carriages and artillery equipments. The ordinary articles of camp equipage, such as axes, spades, shovels, mattocks, &c. are not included. QUARTER MASTER'S DEPARTMENT. General Thoms S. Jesup, Quarter Master General. Major Trueman Cross, 7th Infantry, Quartermaster. Captain Thomas F Hunt, 5th Infantry, Assistant Quartermaster. William A. Gordon, Clerk.. Levin Belt, Clerk...... The objects of this department are, to insure an efficient system of supply, and to give facility and effect to the movements and operations of the army. The Quartermaster General is stationed at the City of Washington, but occasionally visits the several stations of the subordinate officers of his department He has, under the direction of the Secretary of War, the exclusive control of all the quartermasters, and assistant quarter-1 masters; and of all officers and agents acting in, or making disbursements on account of the department; in every thing relating to the administrative branch of their duties, and their accountability. He has a like control of all regimental and company officers, in every thing relating |