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when it reaches $2 and $2.50 per day. I Plate-printing at piece rates is compensated for at 25 cents per 100 impressions up to 800 impressions, when 50 cents per 100 is paid on the excess of 800 during and after the fourth year.

Class four, miscellaneous, such as boys employed on washing-machines, and girls and women as attendants.

Grade two, Class one, Superintendents of Divisions, at $5, $6, and $8.50 per day, assistant superintendents and clerks, $3.25, $4, and $6 per day.

Class two, clerks, $1.50 to $4 per day. Class three, female employés trained to special work, including counters, examiners, trimmers, separators, perforators, stitchers, pointers, rulers, feeders, needlers, and assorters, paid $1.50 per day, or piece rates; printer's assistants at $1.25 per day; laundry-women at $1 per day.

Class four, helpers and assistants, boys assorting and wetting papers, $1 per day; other helpers and assistants, $1.75, $2, $2.50, and $3 per day.

Class five, firemen, $2 per day, engineers, $3.

Grade three, Class one, experts, female employés of experience and special skill, $2 per day.

Class two, artists and mechanics who have served a regular apprenticeship, to be paid at rates not exceeding those paid in private establishments.

The plate-printers earn, at piece rates, from $2.50 to $8 per day each, the general average of the whole number employed (194 men in November, 1879) being about $4.36 per day, exclusive of the pay of their assistants, which is at the rate of $1.25 per day each, who are paid out of the earnings of the plate-printers.

BUREAU OF THE MINT.

The total value of the bars of gold made at the mints and assay offices during the year 1879 was $12,501,926.23. The nominal value of the silver bars made was $11,854,383.87.

The coinage of 1878 was the largest in value ever executed in one year in the history of the Mint.

The cost of manufacturing silver coin is about four times as great as that of gold, when the gold coinage is in denominations less than ten-dollar pieces. There is a slight difference in the cost of manufacturing a double-eagle from that of a silver dollar.

The production from the mines of the United States and Territories of gold and silver during the fiscal year 1879 is estimated at $79,711,990.

The stock of gold and silver coin and bullion in the country July 1, 1878, is estimated by the Director of the Mint at about $330,000,000.

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The Director is the chief officer, and he is under the general direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

The total coinage of gold and silver during the fiscal year 1878 amounted to 56,118,382 pieces, the nominal value of which was $81,120,499.50. During the year 1879, the number of pieces coined were 39,608,471, of which the nominal value was $68,312,592.50.

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Guthrie, then Secretary of the Treasury, | Treasury; and, receiving his approval, with the title of the Construction Branch were adopted. These regulations and of the Treasury Department. Prior to forms are still in force, with such modithis time the Secretary of the Treasury fications and variations as the growth was charged, by law, with the construc- of the business and changes of system tion of all the Custom-Houses, Marine in the expenditures have necessitated. Hospitals, Branch Mints, Assay Offices, Under this new form plans for public Appraisers' Stores, and Court-Houses, and buildings were prepared in the Bureau almost everything but the amount of the of Construction and reproduced by the appropriation was left to his discretion. lithographic process, and the lithoNo system had been devised for the per- graphic copies were furnished to conformance of these duties, and the man- tractors and builders, upon which they agement of the business was confided to submitted estimates and obtained conno particular branch of the Department. tracts. An architect, Ammi B. Young, was employed, at a salary of $3000 per annum, and travelling expenses allowed when absent inspecting works, etc. He was paid out of the several appropriations according to the time given to each work. The buildings were generally constructed under the supervision of a local commission, appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with local architects and superintendents, who were paid out of the ap-ury Department." propriations. No system of keeping or rendering accounts of the respective works at the buildings or in the Department had been adopted. The plans were obtained through competition, and the successful architect was generally appointed superintendent. At this time the United States owned but 23 CustomHouses and 18 Marine Hospitals, completed and occupied, and 15 CustomHouses were in course of construction. Most of the buildings occupied had been purchased.

With a view to a more efficient management, application was made by Secretary Guthrie to the Secretary of War to detail an engineer officer to take charge of this branch of the service, and Captain Alexander H. Bowman, of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, was detailed and assigned to duty as engineer in charge of the Bureau of Construction. For these services he was allowed a compensation of $8 per diem (less his pay as captain), and his travelling expenses while inspecting buildings. Mr. Young was also retained as Supervising Architect to aid Captain Bowman in his particular branch of work. Captain Bowman, on assuming charge of the office, prescribed certain regulations for the government of the employés, both at the Department and on the different works, and devised certain forms of vouchers, accounts-current, abstracts of disbursements, reports, returns, etc., all of which were submitted to the Secretary of the

Captain Bowman continued in charge until the fall of 1860, when he was relieved from duty, and S. M. Clark assumed the duties as Acting Engineer in charge. This arrangement continued until July 28, 1862, when Isaiah Rogers assumed charge of the office as Supervising Architect, and the designation of the office was then changed to that of "Office of Supervising Architect, Treas

In 1864, Congress recognized the office, and made a specific appropriation for its officers. Mr. Rogers held the position until September 30, 1865. During his administration the use of photography was applied to the reproduction of the plans, and a building for photographic purposes was erected south of the Treasury.

On October 1, 1865, Alfred B. Mullett was placed in charge as Acting Supervising Architect, and on June 1, 1866, he was appointed Supervising Architect. Mr. Mullett held the office until January 1, 1875, when he was succeeded by Win. A. Potter, who, in turn, was succeeded by James G. Hill, who assumed the duties of the office August 11, 1876.

The increase of the work of the office is shown by a comparison of the number of buildings owned or in course of construction under the control of the Treasury Department, with their total cost, June 30, 1853, and the number and cost of such buildings June 30, 1879.

The number of buildings owned or in course of construction June 30, 1853, was 56, and their cost was $8,887,350.88. The number of buildings owned or in course of construction June 30, 1879, was 161, and their total cost to that date was $77,904,649.87. The annual expenditure for the first six years after the organization of the office averaged $2,000,000; the expenditure for the past six years averaged $6,171,044.67.

Of the 56 buildings owned or in course

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