Statement of the finances of the Post Office Department for the c. year end ing June 30, 1851, in conformity with the 22d section of the act of July 2, 1836. The amount of balances due to the department and to the credit of the revenue account July 1, 1850, was.. $893,078 11 340 00 6,410,604 33 7,303,682 44 $1,781,686 34 34,581 50 3,538,063 54 3,570,658 12 34,105 54 104,005 34 32,353 15 4,978 64 75,070 22 40,855 46 35,588 42 Mail locks, keys, and stamps. 7,964 54 Mail depredations and special agents. 37,193 71 Clerks for offices 859,098 45 Miscellaneous payments.. 85,626 74 Payments on account British mails.. 233,285 40 Leaving this amount of balances to the credit of the reve nue account, and due to the department July 1, 1851. 1,024,972 73 AUDITOR'S OFFICE, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, March 24, 1852. Respectfully submitted: Hon. NATHAN K. HALL, Postmaster General. J. W. FARRELLY, Auditor. 1st Session. No. 110. CLERKS, ETC.-DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, TRANSMITTING A LIST OF CLERKS. MAY 3, 1852. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, SIR: In obedience to the requirements of the eleventh section of the act of August 26, 1842, 1 have the honor to transmit herewith lists of the clerks and other persons employed in this department and its bureaus during the last year, or any part thereof, showing the time employed, and the amount paid to each. These officers have all been usefully employed, and the services of none of them can be dispensed with without detriment to the public service, and I am not aware that the removal of any of them and the appointment of others in their stead at present is required for the better despatch of busi ness. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. LINN BOYD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Secretary. 1 A list of clerks and other persons employed in the Department of the Interior during the year 1851. January 1 to October 1, 1851, at $3 334 per day. $780 00 October 1, 1851, to January 1, 1852, at $1,000 per annum. 250 00 1,030 00 December 2, 1851 to January 1, 1852.. 1,200 00 97 82 January 1, 1851 to March 31, 1851, at $96 per annum. W. E. Moran.. ..do.. October 1, 1851 to January 1, 1852, at $180 per annum. 45 00 700 00 116 03 January 1, 1851 to October 31, 1851... M. Reidy. .do. November 22, 1851 to January 1, 1852. Total. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Office of Indian Affairs, February 7, 1852. SIR: I have the honor herewith, in accordance with the eleventh section of "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., approved August 26, 1842, to transmit duplicate lists of clerks and other persons employed during the year 1851, or any part thereof, in this office, the time they were employed, the amount paid to each, and the place of his residence at the time of appointment. With regard to the other requirements of the section referred to, I have to state that the clerks of this office have generally been usefully employed; that the services of the present number are indispensable, and that the removal of no individual is at this time required for the better despatch of business. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. A. H. H. STUART, L. LEA, Commissioner. List of clerks and other persons employed in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs during the year 1851, the residence of each at the time of appointment, the period of employment and amount paid. H. R. Schoolcraft, and M. Schoolcraft, his copyist, are employed specially under fifth article of act of March 3, 1847, requiring census and statistics of Indian tribes, and making appropriation for the same. |