GENERAL LAND OFFICE, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement of clerks and other persons employed in this office during the year 1851, with the amount paid each, &c., as required by the eleventh section of the act of August 26, 1842, entitled "An act legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law," &c. The services of none of the clerks can be dispensed with, the present number being insufficient to keep up the increased business consequent on the legislation of Congress, as particularly set forth in my special report to you of September 13, 1851. With great respect, J. BUTTERFIELD, HoD. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. Commissioner. Statement of clerks and other persons employed in the General Land Office in the year 1851, showing the compensation paid to each, and the State or Territory of which a resident at the time of appointment. |