Warsaw (b). SAMOA. Apía... SANTO DOMINGO. Puerto Plata (b).. Somana... Name and title. or appointment.. Date of commission Whence appointed. Anthony Godbe, V. C... Mex. 1890 Fees. 201 18 James Viosca, V. C... Mex. 1891 Fees. 317 32 Vacant, C.. [1894 1,500| 403 12 Arthur de Cima, C. Cal. 1894) Fees. 1,033] 88 R. L. Oliver, C. Ga. [1895 1,500 1,617 115 Thomas T. Crittenden, C Mo. 1893 4,000 898 622 R. Hughes Long, C.... Ala. 1896 1,500 3,185 137 J. G. Donnelly, C. G. Wis. 1893 2,500 1,759 1895 2,500 1,972) 2,000 1,368 Tex. 1886 Fees. 597 1893 2,000 1,360] 854 Louis M. Buford, C..... Ill. John Woessner, C.... Edward Downes, C..... Ala. S. C....1886) Fees. 1893) 3,000 4,121 Conn. Eli Van Praag, V. C... Guiana (1894 Fees. Iowa 609 [1893| 1,500| 7,219 2,054 1892 1,000 1,970 Md. 1895 Fees. 2,509) Padang 1893 Fees. 370 709 1893 2,000 7,672 235 P. Wiesike, C.... Samuel W. Thorne, C... Penn, 1895 1,500 15 1893 5,000 2 La. 1893 3,500] 669 Colin C. Manning, C.... J. C. Chambers, C.... 1893 1,500 341 N. Y... 1893 Fees. 1,565) N. Y... 1890 Fees.1 SALVADOR-San Salvador. O. Munchmeyer, C..... W. Va. 1895 2,000 3,929 Wm. Churchill, C. G... N. Y... 1896 3,000 Ohio Minn. .[1885 2,000 Rus. 1890 Fees. 1894 3,000| 1875 Fees. St. D..|1885] Fees.1 123 1894) 1,500 1,596| 141 75 244 11873) Fees. 175 475 19 590 2 540 191 49 2 361 4 11895) 1,500 1,097 [1896] 6,000|17,896| 3,173 CIRCUIT JUDGES OF THE UNITED STATES. 1. Le Baron B. Colt, Rhode Island; Wil- 2. William J. Wallace and E, Henry Lacombe, New-York; Nathaniel Shipman, Connecticut. 3. Marcus W. Acheson and George M. Dallas, Pennsylvania. 4. Nathan Goff, West Virginia; C. H. Simonton, South Carolina. 6. William H. Taft, Ohio; Horace H. Lurton, Tennessee. 7. W. A. Woods, Indiana; James G. Jenkins, Wisconsin; John W. Showalter, Illinois. 8. Henry C. Caldwell, Arkansas; Walter H. Sanborn, Minnesota; Amos M. Thayer, Missouri. 9. Joseph McKenna, California; William B. Gilbert, Oregon; Erskine M. Ross, California. 5. Don A. Pardee, Louisiana; A. P. Mc- DISTRICT JUDGES. ANNUAL SALARY $5,000. State. (S.D.)-Jas. W. Locke......Key West .Goshen ....Portland (W.D.)-Aleck Boarman....Shreveport (W.D.)-Henry F. Severens. Kalamazoo Helena State. Name. (S.D.)-George R. Sage.....Cincinnati Oregon-Charles B. Bellinger....Portland Pennsylvania (E.D.)-Wm. Butler. Phila. (W.D.)-Jos. Buffington....Kittanning Rhode Island-Vacant. (W.D.)-Eli S. Hammond....Memphis Texas (N.D.)-John B. Rector.....Dallas (E.D.)-David E. Bryant.....Sherman (W.D.)-Thomas S. Maxey.....Austin Utah-John A. Marshall...Salt Lake City Vermont-Hoyt H. Wheeler... Brattleboro Virginia (E.D.)-R. W. Hughes..Norfolk (W.D.)J. Paul.. Harrisonburg Washington-Cornelius H. Hanford. Seattle Va.-J. J. Jackson.... Parkersburg Wisc'n (E.D.)-W. H. Seaman..Sheboygan (W.D.)-R. Bunn. Madison Wyoming-John A. Riner.......Cheyenne West Retired District Judges-Samuel Treat, Missouri; Martin Welker, Ohio; Robert A. Hill, Mississippl; Henry W. Blodgett, Illinois. Salaries of A. R. Hill and of H. W. Blodgett, $5,000; of all the other retired judges, $3,500. UNITED STATES COURTS IN THE TERRITORIES.* Alaska-Judge-Arthur K. Delaney, Sitka. Arizona-Chief Justice-A. C. Baker. New-Mexico-Chief Justice-Thos. Smith. Na poleon B. Laughlin, Humphrey B. Hamilton, Gideon B. Bantz, Indian Territory-Judge U. S. Courtf(N.D.), Wm. M. Springer; (S.D.), Constantine B. Kilgore; (C.D.), Yancey Lewis. Oklahoma-Chief Justice-Frank Dale. Associates-A. G. Curtin Bierer, John Annual salary, $3.000. †Annual salary, $3,500. COURT OF CLAIMS, 1,509 PENNSYLVANIA-AVE., WASHINGTON *Chief Justice-William A. Richardson, Massachusetts. (Died Oct. 19, 1896.) Judges-Charles C. Nott, New-York; Lawrence Weldon, Illinois; John Davis, Massachusetts; Stanton J. Peelle, Indiana. Annual salary, $4,500 each. COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. 'Chief Justice-Joseph R. Reed, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Col.; William W. Murray, Huntingdon, Tenn.; Thomas C. Fuller, Raleigh, N. C. Annual salary, $5,000 each. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 'Chief Justice-Edward F. Bingham, Ohio. 'Associate Justices-Alexander B. Hagner, Maryland; Walter S. Cox, Andrew C. Bradley, Louis E. McComas and Charles C. Cole, all of District of Columbia. Annual salary, $5,000. Retired Associate Justices, Andrew Wylle and Charles P. James. each, COURT OF APPEALS. Chief Justice-Richard H. Alvey, Maryland, $6,500. UNITED STATES DISTRICT-ATTORNEYS. Alabama, M. D......... Arkansas, W. D.. Connecticut. District of Columbia. Illinois, N. D. Indian Territory.... lowa S. D.. Kansas.. Kentucky. Louisiana, E. D. Louisiana, W. D. Maine... Maryland.. Massachusetts. Nebraska.. New-Hampshire. New-Jersey. New-York, N. D.. New-York, S. D.. Ohio, S. D.. Oklahoma.. Oregon.. Name. ..O'Neal, Emmet. ... .Resigned Oct. 17, 1896. Miller, Joseph N. .House, Joseph W. Read, James F. .. Bennett, Burton E. Ellinwood, E. E... Garter, Charles A.. ..Denis, George J... Johnson, Henry V Comstock, Charles W. Shutt, William E. Gurley, J. Ward, jr. ... Branch, Oliver E.. Childers, William B. Pennsylvania, E. D. Pennsylvania, W. Rhode Island.. Gorman, Charles E. Salary, $4,000 Fort Dodge, Iowa. Shreveport, La. Baltimore, Md. Madison Station, Miss. Manchester. Portland, Ore. Philadelphia, Penn. Pittsburg, Penn. POSTAL INFORMATION. CLASSES OF MAIL MATTER. Domestic mail matter is divided into four classes: First Class-Letters, postal cards, and matter wholly or partly in writing, whether sealed or unsealed (except manuscript copy accompanying proof-sheets or corrected proof-sheets of the same), and all matter sealed er otherwise closed against inspection. Rates of postageTwo cents per ounce or fraction thereof. Postal cards, one cent each. On "drop" letters two cents per ounce or fraction thereof, when mailed at letter-carrier's office; and one cent per ounce or fraction thereof at other offices. 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