REPORT

OF

THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY,

IN COMPLIANCE WITH

A resolution of the Senate of the 21st ultimo, calling for information relative to messengers and employés, other than clerks, in that depart

ment.

MARCH 10, 1856.-Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, March 6, 1856.

SIR: In reply to so much of the resolution of the Senate, dated February 21, 1856, as requires the Secretary of the Navy "to report to the Senate, as early as practicable, the number of the messengers and employés, other than clerks, now employed in the several offices and bureaus of this department, and the amount of compensation now paid to each; and also the number of such employés, whether denominated messengers, packers, laborers, watchmen, or otherwise, and each of them respectively, that are required to be employed in said offices and bureaus for the proper dispatch of the public business, with the annual compensation which should be paid for the services of each of the respective classes of said employés, with a view to legislation providing uniform compensation therefor," I have the honor to transmit herewith a table showing the number and names of the messengers and employés, other than clerks, in this department and its bureaus.

I cannot recommend any reduction in the number of those now so employed, and the only change in the compensation that I consider desirable is to raise the pay of the principal messenger in the office of the Secretary of the Navy to $900, and that of the assistant messenger to $576, their duties being more laborious than those of the others.

I am, sir, with great respect, your obedient servant,

Hon. JESSE D. BRIGHT,

President of the United States Senate.

J. C. DOBBIN.

Names of messengers and others than clerks employed in the Navy Department and its several bureaus, with the amount of compensation now paid to each.

* A like amount paid to him by the War Department, making his pay $576.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, March 6, 1856.