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 Trru: vr.——DEPARTMENT OF WAR. 35 T I T L E V I. THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. 214. Establishment of the Department of { 224. Loss of certilimte of discharge. War. 225. Power to administer oaths. 215. Subordinate officers. 226. Surplus charts may be sold. 216. Management of military affairs. 227. Surplus maps and publication oi Sig— 217. Custody of the departmental records nal-Otiice. and property. 228. Report of unexpended balances to 218. Collecting Bags, Jac. Congress. 219. Purchase an transportation of sup- 229. Annual statement of contracts and plies. purchases. 220. Transportation of troops, &c. 230. Report of bids for works. 221. Meteorological observations, storm- 231. Report of examinations of river and signals. harbor improvements. E. Signal-stations, reports, &c. 232. Abstract of returns of af \Nar, who shall be the head thereof. l ll"' _ _ 7 Aug., 1789, c. 7, s. 1,v. 1, p. 49. Sec. 215. There shall be in the Department of Vi'ar: Subordinateotri- One chief clerk of the Department, at a salary of two thousand five “°”· hundred dollars a year. 3 Ma,-_, 18;,;;, ,,_ One disbursing clerk. au. av. 10, p. 211. One superintendent of the War Department building, at a salary of two 32%) ·]"'"”i 187*, "· hundred and fifty dollars a year. 2;*,},%* pig?.} (_ In the office of the Adjutant-General: 6s,e.19,j{241. ’ ` One chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars a. year. In the office of the Quartermastcr·Genernl: One chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars a year. One superintendent of the building, at a salary of two hundred dollars 3 year, [See §§ 169, 173, 174, 176.] In the office of the Paymaster-General: One chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars a year. One superintendent of the building occupied by the Paymaster-Gem oral, at a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars a year. In the office of the Commissary-Geneml: One chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars a year. One superintendent of building at corner of Seventeenth and F streets, at a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars a year. In the office of the Surgeon—General: One chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars a year. In the office of the Chief of Engineers: One chief clerk, at a. salary of two thousand dollars a year. In the office of the Chief of Ordnance: One chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars a year. In the omce of Military Justice: One chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars a year. "`[There shall be in the said Department an infefrior officer, to beappointed by the said principal officer to be employe therein as he shall deem proper, and to be called the chief clerk in the Department; of War, and who. whenever the said principal officer shall he removed from office b the President of the United States, or in any other case of vacancy, shall during such vacancy, have the charpe and custody of all records, books, and papers, a pertaining to the said Department.] Sec. 216. The Secretary of War shal perform such duties as shall Management of from time to time be enjoined on or intrusted to him by the President m¤l¤*¤¤'>’ ¤“¤¤‘¤·