The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-01
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Clerk and seventeen clerks. To this office is assigned
the duty of receiving and examining the registers OF
the arrivals and departures ofthe mails, certhcaes OF
the service of route agents. and reports OF mail fail
ures of noting the delnquences of contractors, and
preparing cases thereon for the action of the Post
master General; furnishing blanks for mail registers
and reports of mail failures; providing and sending
out MALL bags and ma-locks and KEYS, and doing all
other things which may be necessary to secure
faithful and exact performance of all mail contracts
All cases of mail depreciation, of violation OF
law by private expresses, or by the forging lille
gal use of postage stamps under the supervision
of this office, and should be reported to it.
All communications respecting lost money, let
ters, mail depredatiOns, other violations of law,
or mail locks and keys should be directed " Chief
Clerk, Post Office Department"
All registers of the arrivals and departures of the
mails certificates Of the service of route agents,
ports OF mail agents, applications for blank regis
! ters, and reports Of failures and all complaints
against contractors for irregular or imperfect ser
! vice. should be directed, "lnspection Office, Post
! Office Department.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.
The Navy Department consists of the Navy De-
partment proper, being the Office of the Secretary
and five bureaus attached thereto viz: Bureau OF
! Navy Yards and Docks Bureau of Construction,
| Equipment and Repair; Bureau of Provisions and
! Clothing; Bureau of Ordnance and HydrOgraphy,
and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
The following is Il statement OF the duties OF
each of these offices and Of the force employed
| therein:
Secretary'q O6icc.-Hon. Isaac Toucey, Secretary
of the Navy: Charles w. Welsh, Esq, Chief Clerk,
and eleven clerks. The Secretary of the Navy has
charge Of every thing connected with the naval es-
tablishment and the execution of all laws related
thereto is intrusted to him, under the general drec
tion of the President of the United States, who, by
the Constitution, is Commander inChiefOf the Army
! and Navy. All instructions to commanders of
| squadrOns and commanders of vessels. all orders
of officers, commissions of officers, both in the
! Navy and the Marine Corps, appointments of
! commissioned and warrant officers orders for the
! enlistment and discharge of seamen, emanate
from the Secretary's office. All the duties of the
different bureaus are performed under the authority
| of the Secretary, and their orders considered
as emanating from him. The general superinten-
! dence of the Marine Corps FORMS also, part of
the duties of the Secretary, and all the orders OF
! the commandant of that corps should be approved
/ by him.
B,ream of N,try Yards and DocEs.-C Commodore
Joseph Smith, chief of the bureau four clerks,
civil engineer, and one draughtsman. All the navy
yards, docks, and wharves buildings and machinery
in the navy wards, and every thing Immediately
connected with them, under the superintendent
of this bureau. 1t is also charged with the manage
| ment of the Naval ASYLUM.
Bureau Of Construction. Equipment, and Repair
John Lenthall, Esq, chief of the bureau, eight
clerks and one draughtsman. The Office of the
engineer-in-chief of the Navy, Dan'l B. Martin,
Esq, is attached to this bureau who is assisted by
thrse assistant engineers. This bureau has charge
of the building and repairs of all vessels-ot-war,
purchase of materials, and the providing of all
vessels with their equipments, as sails, anchors,
tends the construction of all marine steam engines
for the Navy and, with the approval of the Secre-
tarv decides upon plans for their construction
Bureau of Prorisions and Clothmg--H. Bridge.
= Purser United States Navy. chief of bureau, and
four clerks. All provisions for the of the Navy,
and clothing, together with the making of contracts
for furnishing the same, come under the charge OF
this bureau.
Barea, Of Ordinance aud Hylrograpdy.- Captain
Duncan lngraham, chief of bureau, four clerks
and one draughtsman. This bureau has charge OF
| all ordnance and ordnance stores the manufacture
K or purchase of cannon, guns, powder shot shells
&c., and the equipment Of yesselS-ot-war with ey
e erything connected Herewith. 1t also provides
them with maps. charts, chronometers, barometers
f &c. together with such books as are furnished
, ships-of war. ''The United States Naval Observa
tory and Photographed Office" at Washington
D., and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, are under the
p general superintendence of the cheto this bureau
: Bureo, of Medicine and S"rgry-Dr. Wm.Whe
e Ian, Surgeon United States Navy, chief of bureau
Il one passed assistant surgeon United States Navy
=, and two clerks. Everything relating to medicine
5 and medical stores treatment of sick and wounded
h and management of hospitals, comes within tn
3 superintendent of this bureau.
:, WAR DEPARTMENT.
'' Hon. j. i. Floyd Secretary of War; W. r
nrinkard. Chief Clerk seven subordinate clerks
= two messengers, and four watchmen. The follow
ing bureaus attached to this department.
: Commanding Geaerni's Ofice.-This office, at tn
l. head of which is Lieutenant General Scott, is a
: New York.
, er, Adutant General. Assstants-Brevet Maio
. +. D. Townsend Brevet Captain 5. Williams, an
y, Brevet Captain j. P. Garesche. Judge Advocate
4 Brevet Major John F. Lee; nine clerks and on
- messenger. In this Office kept all the record
which refer to the personnel Of the Army, the rolls
- &c: it is here where all military commissions al
made out
Quartorn,aster Generals OHce-Brevet Maic
! General 7. :. Jesup, Quartermaster General. A
u sistants-Colonel c. Thomas, Captain NJ. 5. Mile
. and Brevet Major j. Belgcr; eleven clerks and OF
" messenger.
Payaoster Generals Ofce.-Colonel B. F. Larne
Paymaster General; Major T. J. Leslie, distr
- paymaster; eight clerks and one messenger.
y Conmissoyy Generals Departmen-Gen'l GeOrg
-, Gibson, Commissary General; assistant, Captain
!" d. l.. Simpson,; six clerks and one messenger.
a. Surgeon Generals Otice.-General Thomas Law
II SON. Surgeon General; assistants, DR.. X. c. Woo
:; and DR.. G. X. Wood three clerks.
III Engineer's Ofce.-General Joseph G.. TOtte
:, Chief Engineer; Assistant, Captain II. G. Wrigh
!" five clerks and one messenger.
Topogrdphic0l BUrean.-C Colonel J. }. Alber
Colonel of the Corps assistant, Captain j. c. Woo
g ruff four clerks and one messenger.
Vi Ordinance Borea.-Colonel H. X. Craig, Colon
of Ordinance; assistant, Captain William Maynadie
eight clerks and one messenger.