Board of Navy Commissioners.

Salary.

Commissioner, and President of the Board, $3,500
Commissioner,.

Charles Stewart,

Daniel T. Patterson,

do.

WILLIAM T. BARRY, Post-Master General,

Charles K. Gardner, Senior Assistant Post-Master General,

Selah R. Hobbie,

Junior Assistant

do.

do.

3,500

Obadiah B. Brown, Chief Clerk and Superintendent of the Office} 1,700

of Mail

Estimated increase of Post-Roads for 1832, 2,200 miles.

**The duties of the principal officers in the several Departments of the Executive Government, with the exception of the officers of the General Staff of the Army, are defined in the American Almanac for 1832.

III. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

The Congress of the United States consists of a Senate and House of Representatives, and must assemble, at least, once every year, on the first Monday of December, unless it is otherwise provided by law.

The Senate is composed of two members from each state; and of course the present regular number is 48. They are chosen by the legislatures of the several states, for the term of six years, one third of them being elected biennially.

The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several states, elected by the people for the term of two years. The representatives are apportioned among the different states according to population; and the 22d Congress was elected in accordance with an act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1823, one representative being returned for every 40,000 persons, computed according to the Constitution. The present regular number is 213 representatives and 3 delegates.

The pay of the members of both houses is $8 for every twenty miles' travel in going to and returning from the seat of government.

THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.

THE SENATE.

John C. Calhoun, Vice-President of the United States and President of

the Senate.

Senators, with the expiration of their respective terms.

Horatio Seymour, 1833, Middlebury. *George M. Troup, 1835, Dublin. Samuel Prentiss, 1837, Montpelier. *John Forsyth, 1837, Augusta.

Massachusetts.

Daniel Webster, 1833, Boston.
Nathaniel Silsbee, 1835, Salem.

Rhode Island.

Asher Robbins,

1833, Newport.

Alabama.

William R. King, 1835, Selma,
*Gabriel Moore, 1837, Huntsville.
Mississippi.

*George Poindexter, 1835, Natchez. *Nehem.K.Knight, 1835, Providence. One Vacancy. Connecticut.

Samuel A. Foot, 1833, Cheshire.
*Gideon Tomlinson, 1837, Fairfield.
New York.

Charles E. Dudley, 1833, Albany.
William L. Marcy, 1837, Albany.

New Jersey.

*Mahlon Dickerson, 1833,Suckasunna. Th. Frelinghuysen, 1835, Newark.

Pennsylvania.

Louisiana.

Geo. A. Waggaman, 1835, N. Orleans.
Josiah S. Johnston, 1837, Alexandria.
Tennessee.

Felix Grundy, 1833, Nashville.
Hugh L. White, 1835, Knoxville.
Kentucky.

George M. Bibb, 1835, Yellow Banks.
Henry Clay, 1837, Lexington.

Ohio.

George M. Dallas, 1833, Philadelphia. Benj. Ruggles, 1833, St. Clairsville. William Wilkins, 1837, Pittsburg.

Delaware.

Thomas Ewing, 1837, Fairfield.

Arnold Naudain, 1833, Wilmington. John Tipton,
John M. Clayton, 1835, Dover.

Maryland.

Indiana.

1833,

*William Hendricks, 1837, Madison.

Illinois.

Samuel Smith, 1833, Baltimore Jno. M. Robinson, 1835, Jacksonville. Ezek.F.Chambers, 1837,Chestertown. Elias K. Kane, 1837, Kaskaskia.

*John Tyler, 1833, Charles City. Thomas H. Benton, 1833, St. Louis. Litt. W. Tazewell,1835, Norfolk. Alex. Buckner, 1837, Cape Girardeau, Officers of the Senate.

Walter Lowrie, (Penn.) Secretary,

Rev. William Durbin, Chaplain,

Salary.

Salary.

1500

Mountjoy Bayley, Sergeant at $3000 Arms and Door-keeper, 500 John Shackford, Assistant Doorkeeper, 1450

*Those marked thus (*) have been governors of their respective States.

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Representatives of the 22d Congress, with the names of the Post Offices near which they reside, and the Counties in which their places of residence are situated.

Andrew Stevenson, of Virginia, Speaker.