medical stores, treatment of sick and wounded, and management of hospitals, comes within the superintendence of this bureau. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. The direction and management of the Post Office Department are assigned by the constitution and laws to the Postmaster General. That its business may be the more conveniently arranged and prepared for his final action, it is distributed among several bureaus, as follows: The Appoint ment Office, in charge of the First Assistant Postmaster General; the Contract Office, in charge of the Second Assistant Postmaster Gene ral ; the Finance Office, in charge of the Third Assistant Postmaster General; and the Inspection Office, in charge of the chief clerk. Appointment Office.—First Assistant Postmas ter General, and nineteen clerks. To this office are assigned all questions which relate to the establishment and discontinuance of post offices, changes of sites and names, appointment and re moval of postmasters and route and local agents, as, also, the giving of instructions to postmasters. Postmasters are furnished with marking and rating stamps and letter balances by this bureau, which is charged also with providing blanks and station-
