HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON. S3 of grants for schools, military bounties, of public improvements, and likewise the revision of Vir ginia military bounty land claims, and the issuing of scrip in lieu thereof. The Land Office, also, audits its own accounts. Its principal officers are a recorder, chief or principal clerk of public lands* principal clerk of private land claims, and prin cipal clerk of surveys—all of whom are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate—- besides a draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, and some 106 clerks of various grades. 2d. Pensions.—The Commissioner is charged with the examination and adjudication of all claims arising under the various and numerous laws passed by Congress granting bounty land or pen sions for military or naval services in the revolu tionary and subsequent wars in which the United States have been engaged. He has one chief clerk, and a permanent corps consisting of some seventy other clerks, to which Congress, to ena ble him to meet the extraordinary requirements of the new bounty-land law, has added a tempo rary force of about fifty clerkships of different denominations. 3d. Indians.—The Commissioner of Indian Af fairs is provided with a chief clerk and about fifteen other subordinate clerks.