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14Th CONGRESS.] Enable Him to Form Such Register, He, for His Own 1816.] REGISTER OF OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES. 307 JANUARYn 9, 1816. With every expedient of economy that I find possible, I am living at an expense which, at the end of two years from my arrival in this country, would more than absorb the whole salary for those two yeaLs, even with tile allow- ance for the outfit. A very few years' residence here must involve my own affairs beyond all power of redemption. Extracts of a letterfrom Mr. Adams to thte Secretary of State, dated JANUARY 4, 1816. It is very desirable that some general revision of the consular establishments should be made, and some regular system concerning them be sanctioned by law. For the port of London a provision for the compensation of the consul must be made, or the office must be given to some wealthy merchant established in the city, to whom it may be acceptable for the facilities of business which le may derive from it. Colonel Aspinwall cannot hold it long without a salary, or without forming a commercial establishment connected with it, and upon which alone he must rely for support. In one of his late letters to me, (a copy of which has been transmitted to you,) Mr. Beasley expresses the convic- tion that the provision made by the laws of the United States for the relief of indigent and destitute seamen in foreign ports is liable to great abuse. The late and present excessive numbers of persons claiming the benefit of it, both at London and Liverpool, afford confirmations of that opinion; but, on the other hand, it is obvious that, with the increase of our commerce and navigation, the casualties incident to them must have proportionably multiplied. Tile opportunities and the chances of imposition must also be much greater, and require more caution to be guarded against in England than in any other country; and I believe it will be uniformly found, in a time of general Eu- ropean peace, that the duty of affording relief to the objects of this class really entitled to it, and that of discrim- inating between them and the impostors who would prey upon the fund allotted to this honorable purpose, will be the most arduous and important obligation of an American consul. * * * Mr. Bourne, the consul at Amsterdam, has also lately written to me on the same subject, and complains of similar charges. His claims for particular compensation to himself for his long services there, have been often made known to the Government. The direct commerce between the United States and the port of London is comparatively small. The number of American vessels which come to it is inconsiderable. Tie official emoluments from year's end to year's end will not pay office rent and the wages of a single clerk. If the support and reconveyance to the United States of destitute seamen be made the duty of tile consul, some provision for the payment of the of this service must be made. necessary expenses 14th CONGRESS.] No. 410. [2d SESSION. REGISTER OF TIlE OFFICERS AND AGENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TIE FORCE AND CONDITION OF THE NAVY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1816. COMMUNICATED TO CONGRESS BY TIE SECRETARY OF STATE, ON THlE 2u OF DECEMBER, 1816. Resolution requiring the Secretary of State to compile and print, once in every two years, a register of all officers and civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States. agents, Resolved by the Senate and Hoiuse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress That, once in two years, a correct lists of all the officers and assembled, in register containing agents, civil, military, and naval, the service of the United States, made up to the last day of September of each year in which a new Congress is to assemble, be compiled and printed under the direction of the Secretary for the Department of State. And, to enable him to form such register, he, for his own Department, and the heads of the other Departments, respectively, shall, in due time, cause such lists as aforesaid of all officers and agents in their respective Departments, including clerks, cadets, and midshipmen, to be made and lodged in the office of the Department of State; and the said lists shall exhibit the amount of compensation, pay, and emoluments allowed to each officer, agent, clerk, cadet, and midshipman, the state or country in which he was born, and where employed. 2. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy subjoin to the list of the persons employed in his Department the names, force, and condition of all the ships and vessels belonging to the United States, and when and where built. 3. Resolved, That five hundred copies of the said register be printed; and that, on the first Monday in January in each year when a new Congress shall be assembled, there be delivered to the President, the Vice President, each head of a Department, each member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, one copy of such register, and to the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, each, ten copies, for the use of the respective Houses; that twenty-five copies shall be deposited in the library of the United States at the seat of Government, to be used like other books in that library; and that the residue of the said be dis- posed of in such manner as Congress shall from time to time direct. copies 4. Resolved, That, for the information ofthe present Congress, such register as aforesaid be and dis- tributed as aforesaid on the first day of its Vext session. prepared Approved: April 27, 1816. Table: CIVIL DEPARTMENT--Executive 308 MISCELLANEOUS. [No. 410. CIVIL DEPARTMENT-ExECUTIVE. _ __ ___ Compensation I Names and offices. pay, and emol State or country Where employed. uiments per an where born. num. James Madison, President o tlhe United States, $25,000 Virginia, United States. (Vacant) Vice President of the United States, 5,000 Do. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. James Monroe, Secretary, 5,000 Virginia, Washington City. John Graham, chiel clerk, 2,000 Do. Stephen Pleasonton, clerk, 1,500 Delaware, Do.1)o. Daniel Brent, do. 1,350 Virginia, Do. Richard Forrest, do. 1,150 Maryland, Do. John B. Colvin, do. 1,150 Do. I)o.Do. Josiah W. King, do. 1,150 Do. Do. J. 11. Purviance, do. 1,150 Pennsylvania, Do. John P. Maul, messenger, 410 Germany, 1)o. Joseph Warren, assistant messenger, 264 Maryland, - Do. William Thornton, Patent Office, 1,400 Tortola, Do. William Elliot, clerk in Patent Office, 500 England, Do. Benjamin Fenwick, messenger, 72 Maryland, Do. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. SECRETARY'S OFFICE. Alexander J. Dallas, Secretary, 5,000 Do. Edward Jones, chief clerk, - 2,000 New York, Do. James N. Taylor, clerk, 1,650 Ireland, Do. Janes L. Anthony, do. - - 1,500 New York, Do. Samuel McKean, lo. 1,500 Pennsylvania, I)o. Edward Fox, jun., (o. 1,400 Do. Do. Thomas Dungan, do. 1,300 I)o. I)o. William Gibson, do. 950 Maryland, Do. John Connell, messenger, 410 Do. Io. William Eisenbeck, assistant messenger, 300 Germany, Do. COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE. Joseph Anderson, Comptroller, - 3,500 Pennsylvania, I)o. William G. I). Worthington, clerk, 1,500 laryland, Do. John Laub, (o. 1,500 Pennsylvania, Andrew Ros3, (do. 1,300 Ireland, Do. Samuel Hanson, of Samuel, do. 1,300 Maryland, )o. Charles P. Polk, do. 1,100 Do. Do. John Woodside, 1o. 1,088 Pennsylvania, Do. Lund Washington, do. 1,088 Virginia, Do. Richard H. Briscoe, do. 1,000 Maryland, D)o. William Williamson, (lo. 1,000 Pennsylvania, I)o. James Larned, do. 900 Masmachusetts, I)o. Benjamin Hlarrison, do. 850 Maryland, - 1)o. John Knapp, do. 850 Ireland, Io. Pontius D. Stelle, (1o. 850 New Jersey, Do. David P. Polk, (do. 800 Maryland, Dlo. John N. Lovejoy, messenger, - 410 Do. Do. John N. Lovejoy, assistant clerk, 450 Do. AUDITOR' OFFICE. Richard Harrison, Auditor, 3,000 Maryland, - Do. Patrick Ferrall, principal clerk, 1,600 Ireland, - I)o. William Parker, clerk, - 1,300 England, I)o. William Morton, do. 1,175 Maryland, - I)o. Ezekiel King, do. 1,150 England, Do. John Coyle, (1o. 1,150 Pennsylvania, Do. James Watson, do, 1,150 Maryland, Dlo. William Felch, do. 1,150 Connecticut, I)o. I)avid Easton, (do. 1,100 Scotland, Do. Thomas G. Slye, do. 1,100- Maryland, Io. Jeremiah Williams, do. 1,100 15o. I)o. John Coyle, jun., do. 1,000 Pennsylvania, Do. John Underwood, do, 850 Do. Do. James D. King, do. 800 Marylan(d, I)o. James Glodard. do. 850 Io. Do.I)o. Thomras Barclay, do. 800 9 Ireland, Do. Charles B. Davis, messenger, 410 Maryland, Do. REGIBTERR8 OFYICE. Joseph Nourse, Register, 3,000 England, Io, Joshua Dawson, clerk, 1,766 66 Ireland Do. Joseph Stretch, do. 1,516 06CG Pennsygvania, I)o. Michael Nourse, do. 1,450 Virginia, Do. 9.869604064 460406968.9 1816.] REGISTER OF OFFICERS OF TIE UNITED STATES. 309 CIVIL DEPARTMAENT-ExECUTrIVE-Continued. - -~ ~ ~ ~ ~ S w ~~~~- Compensation I! Names and offices. pay, and emol State or country Where employed. uments per an where born. num. James McClery, clerk, $1,450 Ireland, Washington City. James Laurie, do. 1,400 Scotland, Do. William Mackey, do. 1,075 Delaware, Do. John S. Haw, do. 1,075 Maryland, Do. Charles l)awson, do. 1,000 Pennsylvania, Do. John D. Barclay, do. 1,066 66 Dist.Columbia, Do. John C. Steincr, do. 928 Pennsylvania, Henry M. Steiner, do. 900 Do. Do.1)o. W. D. Randolph, do. 1,000 Virginia, Do.
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