Dates of the First Settlement of the several Colonies. Amount of Money expended in each State and Territory, by the United States, upon Works of Internal Improvement, from the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, to the 1st Day of October, 1828. Maine Massachusetts .$ 11,724 22 | Tennessee. .June 29. ..1776 .July 2.. ..1776 August 14. .1776 .September.. .1776 .September. ..1776 December ..1776 ..1777 .March .... ..1780 ..1786 ...... .1789 .$4,200 00 104,042 46 Ohio. .390,159 03 .108,123 88 Rhode Island. 195 19 Mississippi. 49,385 52 Illinois. .8,000 00 .81,762 78 Missouri .22,702 24' .44,690 00 Virginia.. .150,000 00 Michigan. .48,607 95 North Carolina.. ..1,000 00 .90,000 00 Florida. .799,002 01 United States Mint. Officers of the Mint at Philadelphia. Salary. R. M. Patterson, Director. $3,500 J. R. McClintock, Melt Wm. Findlay, Treasurer.. 2,000 er and Refiner. Salary. $2,000 Franklin Peale, Chief Coiner 2,000 William Kneas, Engraver.1,500 2d Engraver.1,500 J. R. Eckfeldt, Assayer....2,000 J. J. Singleton, Superin. .$2,000 David M. Mason, Coiner.. 1,500 J. W. Farnham, Assayer.. 1,500 Officers of the Branch at Charlotte, N. C. Salary. Salary. J. H. Wheeler, Superin. . $2,000 | John R. Bolton, Coiner ..$1,500 J. H. Gibbon, Assayer.....1,500 Number of Post Offices on the 1st of May, 1840....13,376. Privilege of Franking. Letters and packets to and from the following officers of the government, are by law received and conveyed by post, free of postage: The President and Vice-President of the United States, Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Navy; Attorney-General; Postmasters-General, and Assistant Postmasters-General; Comptrollers, Auditors, Register, and Solicitor of the Treasury; Treasurer; Commissioner of the General Land Office; Commissioners of the Navy Board; Commissary-General; Inspectors-General; Quartermaster-General; Paymaster-General; Superintendent of Patent Office; Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representa tives; President and Secretary of the Senate; and any individual who shall have been, or may hereafter be, President of the United States; and each may receive newspapers by post, free of postage. Each member of the Senate, and each member and delegate of the House of Representatives, may send and receive, free of postage, newspapers, letters, and packets, weighing not more than two ounces, (in case of excess of weight, excess alone to be paid for,) and all documents printed by order of either house, from the period of sixty days before he takes his seat in Congress, till the next meeting of the next Congress. Postmasters may send and receive, free of postage, letters and packets not exceeding half an ounce in weight; and they may receive one daily newspaper each, or what is equivalent thereto. Printers of newspapers may send one paper to each and every other printer of newspapers within the United States, free of postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may provide. United States Executive Government. The fourteenth presidential_term of four years, since the establishment of the government of the United States under the constitution, began on the 4th of March, 1841, and it will expire on the 3d of March, 1845. William H. Harrison, Ohio, President. Salary. .$25,000 Va., Vice-President, and President by the death of General Harrison. THE CABINET. The following are the principal officers in the executive department of the government, who form the cabinet, and who hold their offices at the will of the President: Samuel L. Southard, New Jersey, acting Vice-President. $3,000 Second Engrossing Clerk.$1,500 1,800 Sergeant at Arms and Chief Clerk. Executive Clerk .1,500 Doorkeeper, Assistant Doorkeeper Second do. .1,500 Messenger .1,450 .700 First Engrossing Clerk. .... .1,500 Librarian LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Salary. Salary. .$1,500 Assistant Librarian...... $1,150 Salaries in the different Departments of the General Government. The Supreme Court is held in the city of Washington, and has one session annually, commencing on the 2d Monday of January. Congress. The Congress of the United States consists of a Senate and House of Representatives, and must assemble, at least, once every year, on the 1st Monday of December, unless it is otherwise provided by law. The Senate is composed of two members from each state; and of course the regular number is now 52. They are chosen by the legislatures of the several states, for the term of six years, one third of them being elected biennially. The Vice-President of the United States is the President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators. absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate. In his 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 ac |