1st Session. No. 98. OF CON LIST OF CLERKS, ETC., EMPLOYED-REPORTS LETTER FROM THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, TRANSMITTING, In compliance with the act of January 8, 1872, to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post Office Department, certain reports. JANUARY 29, 1874.-Referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-roads, and ordered to be printed. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., January 28, 1874. SIR: As required by the 8th and 10th sections of the act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post-Office Department, approved June 8, 1872, I have the honor to transmit herewith the following reports, viz: 1. A report of the clerks and other persons employed in the Department during the year ended December 31, 1873, or any part thereof, giving the names of the persons, the time they were actually employed, and the sum paid each. These persons have all been usefully employed, and the services of none of them can be dispensed with without detriment to the public service. 2. A report of contracts made by the Department, other than for carrying the mail, giving the name of the contractor; the article or thing contracted for; the place where the article was to be delivered or the thing performed; the amount paid therefor; and the date and duration of the contract. 3. An inventory of the property belonging to the United States in the rooms, offices, and buildings used by the Department, for the year ended December 31, 1873. 4. A detailed statement of expenditures from the contingent fund for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1873. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, Postmaster-General. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE, List of clerks and others employed in the Post-Office Department during the year ending December 31, 1873, with the sum paid each. January 1, 1873, to June 30, 1873 *The following named persons received back pay during the year ending December 31, 1873 G. D. C oweth, salary increased from $2,000 to $2.300 per annum, act March 3, 1873; took •fect June 12 $2,000 +$168.96 $2,468.96. W. L. Nicholson, salary increased from $1,200 to $2,500 per asuum, sa R. W. Gurley, received $231.39 back pay, act March 3, 1873. act. do do do 1,663 ..do .do 1,62 1,63 do 1598 1,5 List of clerks and others employed in the Post-Office Department, &c.-Continued. W. E. Matthews. Horatio Bates A. S. Lynch W. C. Tiffany J. B. Lawrence.. C. E. Troutman A. W. Eastlake.. Thomas L. McGee.. H. A. Kelly.. January 16, 1873, to December 31, 1873.. June 2, 1873, to December 31, 1873. September 17, 1873, to November 24, 1873 September 18, 1873, to December 31, 1873. September 17, 1873, to December 31, 1873 October 22, 1873, to December 31, 1873 October 15, 1873, to December 31, 1873 November 25, 1873, to December 31, 1873 January 1, 1873, to December 31, 1973... ..do. ......do 1,20 .do 1,200 00 January 1, 1873, to October 20, 1873. 1,200 00 .....do January 1, 1873, to December 31, 1873. 965 22 1,2000 .....do 1,200 ...do 1,200 0 January 1, 1873, to June 30, 1873.. ......do January 1, 1873, to December 31, 1873. 1,20 30 .....do 1,200 0 .....do 1,200 00 ....do ...do 1,200 00 do January 30, 1873, to December 31, 1873.. do ...do 1,300 1,2-300 900 00 113 1/3@ 138 |