The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-22
OUK NAVY.
what we Pay Omcers in the Service.

What We Pay Officers in the SerVIce.
The highest officer in the service Is
Admiral David g. Farragut, who had
spent fifty-six years in the Navy when
he received his present commission.
His pay is SlO, 600 year. .......
Next in grade is the vice-admiral,
now David D. Porter. His presentser-
vice is as Superintendent of the Naval
Academy. Pay on sea duty, $1,000; on
shore duty, 5000; on leave, s, 900.
OF frear-admirals there are ten on the
active list-Admirals Goldsborough,
Davis, Dahlgren, Bell, Thatcher,
GOdon, Palmer, Radtord, Rowan and
Craven. Pay at sea, 5000; on shore
duty $500. On the retired list there
are seventeen--Adnirals Stewart, Shu-
brick, Smith, Stringham, Breese,
PauIding, Sloat, MervIne, Crabbe,
Pearson, Wilkes, Baily and Lardner.
Pay S2,OOO.
There are twenty-four commodotes
on the active list, who receive when on
sea duty $1,000, and on shore duty
s., 200. On the retired list there are also
twenty-four, whose pay is 81 800.
The captains number forty-six on the
active list, and twelve on the retired
list. The former receive s., 500 at sea,
and S2,SOO when on shore duty, and the
latter are paid $500. There is also a
reserved list which numbers seven.
The commanders are ninety in num-
ber on the uctive list, twenty-seven on
the retired list, and eleven on the re-
served list. The first are paid 50, 800
when at sea, and 2,240 on shore duty.
The others receive 81 400,
The tieutenant-Commande on the
active list are one hundred and sixty
five, and on the retired list are four in
number. The first receive 81, ,343 at sea,
aud 81, ,S75 on shore duty. The pay OF
the latter Is 81 300.
Oflieutenants who are next highest.
the service contains twenty-five on the
active list, eight on the retired list, and
nine on the reserved list. Pay of the
first, at sea, 81 1870; on shore duty, ST.
500; of the others, 81 900. -..,--.
The masters number on the active list
6fty-three, and on the reserved list
seven. Pay of the former, at sea,
81 800; on shore duty, 81, 200; of the lat
ter, $500.
The ensigns are fifty-four in number
on the active list, and two on the re-
served list. Pay of the former, at sea,
81 200; and on'shore duty, $3.50; of the
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The midshipmen are seventy-two in
service, besides those not yet graduated,
four hundred and twenty.one in n1m.
Der. The first are paid $500, and the
others $500.
THE SURGICAL DEPARTMENT
is composed of surgeons, who rank
with captains, commanders, and lieut.
enant-commanders, according to the
length of their service; passed assistant
surgeons ranking with lieutenants, and
assistant surgeons rank with masters.
or the first there one hundred OF whom
seventy-nine are on the active list
The pay of these is s., 200 for the first
five years. and increases 500 with
each Succeeding i've years OF service.
Passed assistant surgeons receive 81 $50
and assistant surgeon XSl. .25O.
IFs- -t THE PAY DEPARTMENT 1v
Is composed of paymasters, whose pay
begins with 81, 600 and increases as fol-
lows with each succeeding five years
81, 400, 81, 600, 81. 900 and s., 100; assistant
paymasters 1890 for the first five years
! and 81 500 thereafter.