ted to be delivered to such person as is authorised, in the name and on behalf of such foreign Government, to be tried for the crime of which he is so accused. Whenever a person so committed is not delivered up and conveyed out of the United States within two calendar months after his commitment, over and above the time actually required to convey him from the jail by the readiest way out of the United States, it is lawful for any judge of the United States, or of any state, upon application by or on behalf of the prisoner, and on proof of reasonable notice of the application having been given to the Secretary of State, to order the prisoner to be discharged, unless sufficient cause be shown why he should not be discharged. Whenever the executive authority of any state or territory demands any person as a fugitive from justice of the executive authority of any state or territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any state or territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason-felony or other crime, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the state or territory from whence the person so charged has fled, it is the duty of the executive authority of the state or territory to which such person has fled to cause him to be arrested and secured, and to cause notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority, to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he appears. If no such agent appears within six months from the time of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged. All costs or expenses in curred in the apprehending, securing, and transmitting such fugitive to the state or territory making such demand are paid by such state or territory. On application of a consul or viceconsul of any foreign Government having a treaty with the United States stipulating for the restoration of seamen deserting, made in writing, stating that the person therein named has deserted from a vessel of any such Government while in any port of the United States, and on proof by the exhibition of the register of the vessel, ship's roll, or other official document that the person named belonged at the time of desertion to the crew of such vessel, it is the duty of any court, judge, commissioner of any circuit court, justice, or other magistrate having competent power to issue warrants, to cause such person to be arrested for examination. If on examination the facts stated are found to be true, the person arrested, not being a citizen of the United States, is delivered up to the consul or vice-consul, to be sent back to the dominions of any such Government, or, on the request or at the expense of the consul or vice consul, is detained until the consul or vice-consul finds an opportunity to send him back to the dominions of any such Government. No person so arrested is detained more than two months after his arrest; but at the end of that time is set at liberty, and is not again molested for the same cause. If any such deserter is found to have committed any crime or offence, his surrender may be delayed until the tribunal before which the case is depending, or may be cognisable, has pronounced its sentence, and such sentence has been carried into effect. THE UNITED STATES ARMY. By the laws of 1885, chap. 339, an Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and for other purposes, no money appropriated should be paid for recruiting the Army beyond the number of 25,000 enlisted men, including Indian scouts and hospital stewards; "and therefore there shall be no more than 25,000 enlisted men in the Army at any one time, unless otherwise authorised by law." The appropriations for the year 1886-87 state no number, so the total number of enlisted men of all grades may be reckoned at 25,000. By the same Act of 1885, "the whole number of civilian employees including agents, superintendents, mechanics, packers, teamsters, and train-masters-paid from appropriations for transportation of the Army shall not at any one time hereafter exceed 1000, nor shall any of said employees be graded for salary above fourth-class clerks of the Army Regulations; and the grade of sixthclass clerks in the Quartermaster's Department is hereby abolished." The appropriation (1) for the pay of enlisted men for the year 1886-87 was $4,276,588. In addition, $129,500 were appropriated for pay of 125 men enlisted as general service clerks at army, division, department, and district headquarters at the headquarters of the general recruiting service, at recruiting depots, and at West Point, New York, as follows: 10 clerks at $1200 each, 25 clerks at $1100 each, and 90 clerks at $1000 each--said sums to be paid in full for all pay, commutations, and allowances. $32,400 for pay of 45 men enlisted as general service messengers, at the rate of $60 per month each, in full for all pay, commutations, and allowances. (3) $368,784 for pay to en (2) listed men by reason of length of service, in addition to their monthly pay and payable therewith. The number and rank of the officers of the Army are stated in the Appropriation Act, chap. 574, of the laws of 1886, to be as follows:1 lieutenant-general. 3 major-generals. 6 brigadier-generals. 40 colonels. 40 lieutenant-colonels. 130 captains (mounted). 40 adjutants. 40 regimental quartermasters. 140 first lieutenants (mounted). 350 first lieutenants (not mounted). 135 second lieutenants (mounted). 300 second lieutenants (not mounted). The sum of $2,868,000 was appropriated to pay them; and in addition $8000 additional pay for 23 aidsde-camp, 1 military secretary, and officers of foot regiments when mounted by proper authority, in addition to and payable with their current monthly pay; and also in addition $767,791.50 for pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay. GENERAL STAFF. 1. Adjutant-General's Department. -1 brigadier-general, 2 colonels, 4 lieutenant-colonels, 10 majors. Appropriations, $49,500; and additional pay for length of service, $16,000. 2. Inspector-General's Department. -1 brigadier - general, 2 colonels, 2 lieutenant-colonels, 2 majors. Appropriations, $23,500; and additional pay for length of service, $6000. 3. Corps of Engineers. - 1 brigadier-general, 6 colonels, 12 lieuten ant-colonels, 24 majors, 30 captains (mounted), 26 first lieutenants (mounted), 10 second lieutenants (mounted). Appropriations, $239,500, including additional pay to adjutant and quartermaster; and $66,884 additional pay for length of service. STAFF OFFICERS. 1. Ordnance Department.-1 brigadier-general, 3 colonels, 4 lieutenantcolonels, 10 majors, 26 captains (mounted), 5 storekeepers, and 10 first lieutenants. Appropriations, $131,500; and $41,538 additional pay for length of service. 2. Quartermaster's Department.-1 brigadier-general, 4 colonels, 8 lieutenant-colonels, 14 majors, 30 captains (mounted), and 5 storekeepers. Appropriations, $148,500; and $51,870 additional pay for length of service. 3. Subsistence Department.-1 brigadier-general, 2 colonels, 3 lieutenant-colonels, 8 majors, 12 captains (mounted). Appropriations, $79,500,❘ additional pay for 140 acting commissaries; and $22,260 additional pay for length of services. 4. Medical Department.-1 brigadier-general, 6 colonels, 10 lieutenant-colonels, 50 majors, 95 captains (mounted), 3 storekeepers, and 30 first lieutenants (mounted). Appropriations, $425,500; and $116,340 additional pay for length of service. 5. Pay Department.-1 brigadiergeneral, 2 colonels, 3 lieutenant-colonels, and 43 majors. Appropria tions, $129,000; and $38,850 additional pay for length of service. 6. Judge Advocate - General's Department. 1 brigadier - general, 1 colonel, 3 lieutenant-colonels, 3 majors. Appropriations, $24,250, including additional pay for acting judge - advocates; and $7000 additional pay for length of service. In the above enumeration of staff officers in the several departments, their relative ranks with officers of the line are stated, and they respectively receive the pay and emoluments of their respective relative ranks. Their departmental titles are adjutant-general and assistant adjutantsgeneral; inspectors-general, chief of engineers, colonel, &c.; chief of ordnance, colonels, &c. ; quartermastergeneral, assistant quartermasters-general, deputy quartermasters-general; commissary-general, assistant commissaries - general, commissaries of subsistence; surgeon - general, assistant surgeon - general, chief medical purveyor, assistant medical purveyors, surgeons, assistant surgeons; paymaster - general, assistant paymasters-general, paymasters; judgeadvocate - general, judge - advocates, and, upon occasion, acting judgeadvocates. The appropriations of 1886-87 contain items of $111,000 for pay of 65 contract surgeons, 160 hospital matrons, and 14 veterinary surgeons; $88,800 for pay of 46 paymaster's clerks at $1400 each per annum, 30 paymaster's messengers, and travelling expenses of paymaster's clerks actually paid by them; $15,000 for expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, and compensation of witnesses attending the same; $500 additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings, &c., at Washington, District of Columbia; and $1000 additional pay to the officer commanding military prison at Leavenworth, Kansas; $150,000 for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty without troops where there are no public quarters; $800,000 for allowances for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, and for interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men, on discharge; for mileage to officers, when authorised by law, not to exceed $160,000, provided that in disbursing this allowance, the maximum sum to be allowed and paid shall be 4 cents per mile distance to be computed over the shortest usually travelled routes, and in addition thereto, the cost of transportation actually paid, exclusive of sleeping or parlour car fares. The sum of $902,977.38 was appropriated for pay of officers on the retired list; and $245,617.50 for additional pay for length of service. For pay of the enlisted men of the Subsistence of the Army Quartermaster's Department N.B.-Not over $105,000 to be paid to civilian employees. Regular supplies $2,678,000 Incidental expenses 675,000 Purchase of horses. 130,000 N.B.-"No more than $1,500,000 of the sums appropriated by this Act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in the Quartermaster's Department, and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salary more than $150 per month, unless the same shall be specially fixed by law, and no part of any of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel, and for quarters to officers or enlisted men.' Medical Department Medical and Hospital Department N.B.-Not over $36,000 to be paid to civilian employees. Medical Museum and Library $200,000 15,000 215,000 Brought forward $9,332,000 Ordnance Department-Ordnance Service-continued— $100,000 10,000 Ordnance stores 75,000 N.B.-Not more than $60,000 of these appropriations to be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in this department. When the volunteers or militia are called into the service of the United States, and the officers of the paymaster's department are not deemed by the President sufficient for the punctual payment of the troops, he may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and add to said corps as many paymasters, to be called additional paymasters, with the ranks of major, not exceeding one for every two regiments of volunteers or militia, as he may deem necessary. The paymaster-general performs the duties of his office under the direction of the President. The Army shall be paid in such manner that the arrears at no time exceed two months, unless circumstances render further arrears unavoidable. The chief of ordnance may enlist as many master armourers, master carriage-makers, master blacksmiths, artificers, armourers, carriage-makers, blacksmiths, and labourers, as the Secretary of War may direct. Mas ter armourers, master carriage-makers, and master blacksmiths are designated and mustered as sergeants; armourers, carriage-makers, and blacksmiths as corporals; artificers as ordnance enlisted men; and labourers as pivates of the second class. The chef of ordnance may, under the direction of the Secretary of War, establish depots of ordnance and ordnance stores in such parts of the Unitel States, and in such numbers, as may be deemed necessary. Ordnance sergeants, selected by the Secretary of War from the sergeants of the line who have served faithfully eight years, four of them as non-commissioned officers, are assigned by him to their stations. One is assigned to each military post to take care of the ordnance, arms, ammunition, and other military stores at such post, under the direction of the commanding officer, and according to the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War. All officers of the quartermaster's, subsistence, and pay departments, the chief medical purveyor and assistant medical purveyors (who, when not acting as purveyors, are assignable to duty as surgeons by the President), and all storekeepers, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, give good and sufficient bonds to |