Post or Station. North Fork of Canadian River, camp on, In dian Territory.. Post-Office. ......via Wichita, Kansas. North Platte Station, Nebraska...................... North Platte, Nebraska. Oglethorpe Barracks (see Savannah) Georgia...Savannah, Georgia. Omaha, Fort, Nebraska Ontario, Fort, New York......... ........... Pinckney, Castle, South Carolina...... ..Omaha, Nebraska. .Pembina, Dakota. .....via New Orleans, Louisiana. Portland Head, battery on, Maine. .................. Presidio of San Francisco, California.. Priest's Rapids, Washington.... Pulaski, Fort, Georgia. Randall, Fort, Dakota.......... Reno, Fort, Indian Territory.... Riley, Fort, Kansas...... ...............................Savannah, Georgia. Ringgold, Fort, Texas........................................................ Rock Island Armory and Arsenal, Illinois.. San Antonio, Texas..... San Antonio Arsenal, Texas....................................................... Fort Randall, Dakota. .Fort Robinson, Nebraska, .San Antonio, Texas. .San Antonio, Texas. San Diego Barracks, California.............................San Diego, California. St. Augustine (St. Francis Barracks), Florida...St. Augustine, Florida. St. Louis Barracks, Missouri...... .St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis Powder Depot, Missouri..................Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. St. Philip, Fort, Louisiana.. Sullivan, Fort, Maine........ Taylor, Fort, Florida........... ..via New Orleans, Louisiana. .Eastport, Maine. ...Fort Sully, Dakota. .Charleston, South Carolina. ...Fort Supply, Indian Territory. .Key West, Florida. .Port Townsend, Washington. ...New London, Connecticut. Vancouver, Fort, Washington.... Verde, Fort, Arizona.... Wadsworth, Fort, New York... Walla-Walla, Fort, Washington................ Washington Arsenal, District of Columbia.. Washington, Fort, Maryland.... Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts... Watervliet Arsenal, New York........... Vancouver, Washington. ....Stapleton, New York. West Point Military Academy, New York........ West Point, New York. Whipple, Fort, Virginia......................... Wayne, Fort, Michigan.......... Whipple Barracks, Arizona.... Prescott, Arizona. Georgetown, District of Columbia. Boston, Massachusetts. ....Newport, Rhode Island. ................... .New York City, New York. Yates, Fort, Dakota....... Yerba Buena Island, California Yuma, Fort, California.... .Fort Yates, Dakota. NAVY DEPARTMENT. The Navy Department was established | by the act of Congress of April 30, 1798, and went into practical operation in the month of June following, the charge of naval affairs prior to that date having been in the War Department. The Secretary of the Navy is the head of this Department. The Department is divided into the following bureaus : Bureau of Yards and Docks; Bureau of Construction and Repairs; POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY. It is the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to provide naval stores and materials for the construction, armament, equipment, and employment of vessels of war, and all other matters connected with the naval establishment. He must cause all flags, standards, and colors taken by the navy from the enemies of the United States to be collected and transmitted to him at the seat of Government. He is authorized to cause to be prepared by the Hydrographic Office maps, charts, and nautical books relating to and required in navigation, and to publish and furnish them to navigators at the cost of printing and paper; and to purchase the plates and copyright of such existing maps, charts, navigators' sailing directions and instructions as he may consider necessary. The Secretary of the Navy must make the following annual reports to Congress: A statement of the appropriations of the preceding fiscal year for the Department of the Navy, showing the amount appropriated under each specific head, the amount expended under each head, and the balance remaining unexpended June 30 preceding; to be accompanied with estimates of the probable demands which remain on each appropriation. A statement of all offers for contracts for supplies and services made during the preceding year, by classes, indicating those which have been accepted. A statement showing the amounts expended during the preceding fiscal year for wages of mechanics and laborers employed in building, repairing, or equipping vessels of the navy, or in receiving and securing stores and materials for those purposes, and for the purchase of material and stores for the same purpose; and showing the cost or estimated value of the stores on hand, under this appropriation, in the navy-yards at the commencement of the preceding fiscal year; and the cost or estimated value of the articles belonging to this appropriation which may be on hand at the navy-yards at the close of the preceding fiscal year. The Secretary of the Navy may cause persons in the naval service or Marine Corps, who become insane while in service, to be placed in such hospital as will be most convenient and best calculated to promise a restoration of reason. He may establish, at such places as he may deem necessary, suitable depots of coal, and other fuel, for the supply of steam ships of war. He is authorized and directed to sell at public sale such vessels and materials of the navy as, in his judgment, cannot be advantageously used, repaired, or fitted out; and he must report the sales of such vessels or materials, the names of the parties buying the same, the amount realized therefrom, and all other facts connected therewith to Congress, annually. He is authorized, under the direction of the President, to cause such vacant and unappropriated lands of the United States as produce the live-oak and red-cedar timbers to be explored, and selection to be made of such tracts or portions thereof, when the principal growth is of either of such timbers, as in his judgment may be necessary to furnish the navy a sufficient supply of the same. The Secretary must annually submit to Congress estimates of the claims and demands chargeable upon and payable out of the Naval Pension Fund. He is trustee of that fund. All appropriations for specific, general, and contingent expenses of the Navy Department are under the control and expended by direction of the Secretary of the Navy, and the appropriation for each bureau is kept separate in the Treasury Department. All appropriations made for the preparation or publication of foreign hydrographic surveys are only applicable to their object upon the approval by the Secretary of the Navy, after a report from three competent naval officers to the effect that the original data for posed charts are such as to justify their publication. pro All provisions, clothing, hemp, and other materials of every name and nature for the use of the navy, and the transportation thereof, when time will permit, must be furnished by contract by the lowest bidder, after due advertisement for proposals to furnish the provisions and materials wanted. All ransom-money, salvage, bounty, or proceeds of condemned property, accruing or awarded to any vessel of the navy, must be distributed and paid to the officers and men entitled thereto in the same manner as prize-money. NAVY PENSION FUND. All money accruing and which has accrued to the United States from the sale of prizes shall be and remain forever a fund for the payment of pensions to the officers, seamen, and marines who may be entitled to receive the same; and if such fund be insufficient for the purpose, the public faith is pledged to make up the deficiency; but if it should be more than sufficient, the surplus shall be applied to the making of future provision for the comfort of the disabled officers, seamen, and marines. The surplus fund, after paying the pensions due, is invested in the registered securities of the United States; and it draws interest at the rate of three per centum per annum. PRIVATEER PENSION FUND. The Secretary is also trustee of the Privateer Pension Fund. Two per centum of the net amount of the prize-money arising from captured vessels and cargoes, and on the net amount of salvage of vessels and cargoes recaptured by the private armed vessels of the United States, must be paid over to the Collector of Customs at the port at which the captured vessel may arrive, or to the Consul residing at the port, not within the United States, at which such vessel may arrive; and the moneys arising therefrom are pledged by the Government of the United States as a fund for the support and maintenance of the widows and orphans of such persons as may be slain, and of such persons as may be wounded and disabled on board of the private armed vessels of the United States in any engagement with the enemy, to be assigned and distributed in such manner as may be provided by law. The Collectors and Consuls must deposit the said two per centum in the Treasury Department. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. Per Annum. ...$2500 Chief clerk... 1 disbursing clerk.... 4 clerks, each..... 1 stenographer........ 2 clerks, each....... 1 clerk..... 4 clerks, each...... 2000 1800 .................................... 1600 1600 1400 1200 1000 840 660 2 messengers, each.................. 2 laborers, each.......... The Chief Clerk has the general charge, subject to the direction of the Secretary, of this office, conducts the correspondence, and supervises the duties of the other clerks. The chiefs of the several bureaus have charge and custody of the books, records, and accounts pertaining to their respective duties, and all of the duties of the bureau chiefs are performed under the authority of the Secretary, and their orders are considered as emanating from him, and they have full force and effect as such. All estimates for specific, gen'eral, and contingent expenses of the De |