A tabular statement of the salaries and payments made to certain persons, and for certain objects, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843.

JUNE 14, 1844.
Read, and laid upon the table.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, June 11, 1844.

SIR: In obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives, adopted on the 13th of January last, directing the Secretary of the Navy to furnish a tabular statement of the salaries and payments made to certain persons, and for certain objects, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843,1 have the honor to transmit, herewith, a copy of a letter from the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, with a statement containing the information called for.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. Y. MASON.

Hon. JOHN W. JONES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Fourth Auditor's Office, May 25, 1844.

SIR: On the 17th of January last, your predecessor addressed a letter to this office, requesting that the information might be furnished, which is called for by the following resolution of the House of Representatives:

"Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to furnish to this House a tabular statement of the salaries and payments made to officers, overseers, superintendents, and laborers, designating the yearly, monthly, and daily salaries or wages of each, and the price of job-work in the several navy-yards, and other public works under his department, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843."

From the day of the receipt of the letter from the department, until the present time, the object of the resolution has been diligently prosecuted, to the necessary neglect of a considerable portion of the current business of the office; and I have now the honor to furnish the required information, which has been gathered, with very great labor, from a multitude of accounts.

The expenses incurred at the naval asylum and the observatory are not included in the statement I transmit, not being considered as within the scope of the resolution. If you should think otherwise, however, I will have them introduced.

It does not appear that there has been any job-work done at any of the navy-yards, or other public works, during the period in question.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. O. DAYTON.

Hon. JOHN Y. MASON,
Secretary of the Navy.