C.

Officers and clerks of the Post Office Department removed from office between the 4th March, 1829, and the 4th March, 1841, viz:

Abraham Bradley, Senior Assistant Postmaster General.

Phineas Bradley, Assistant Postmaster General.

Andrew Coyle, chief clerk.
Chauncey Bestor, clerk.

Stephen W. Gray, clerk.

All the foregoing were appointed prior to the 4th of March, 1829, and were removed between that period and the 1st of October, 1829.

The following clerks, appointed subsequent to the 1st January, 1831, were removed between that date and the 1st July, 1836, viz:

Benet A. White, clerk.

John S. Hughes, clerk.
Walter H. Middleton, clerk.

Charles B. Brown, clerk.

Charles Plitt, clerk.

E. B. Sullivan, clerk, was appointed in March, and removed November, 1837.

C. Laurie, special agent, appointed in 1838, and removed in 1839.

The act of Congress of the 2d July, 1836, reorganizing the Post Office Department, and establishing the Auditor's office, made a reduction of fourteen in the number of clerks then employed. This reduction took place on the 5th July, 1836, and embraced the following persons, viz :

John McLeod, clerk,
Arthur Nelson, clerk,
William French, clerk,
Michael T. Simpson, clerk,
Estwick Evans, clerk,

John H. Waggaman, do

Appointed to office prior to March 4, 1829. A. Nelson was afterwards appointed special agent.

Charles S. Williams, do

John Taylor,

do

The dates of removal in the cases stated cannot be ascertained from any records now in this office, and can only be had from the original accounts filed in the Treasury Department. The periods, however, within which the removals took place, are given; and if more specific information be deemed necessary, it will be procured as soon as practicable.