PAYMASTER’S DEPARTMENT. Brig. Gen. George Richards was the Paymaster of the United States Marine Corps, stationed at Headquarters, during the entire period of the war. STRENGTH AND DISTRIBUTION. The commissioned, warranted, appointed, and enlisted personnel of the paymaster’s department, at the beginning of the war, consisted of: Permanent commissioned paymasters 6 Officers of the grade of captain detailed for four years 3 Officers appointed as special disbursing agents under Revised Statutes 3614 4 Permanent pay clerks 9 Civil force 3 Enlisted men 51 -- Total force 76 The above force was distributed as shown in the following table: Key for column headings: PC = Pay clerks. QS = Quartermaster sergeants. S = Sergeants. C = Corporals. P = Privates. T = Total. and lieut. = lieutenant. ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------- | Personnel attached. Pay stations. +--------------------+------+----+----+----+----+--- | Number and rank | PC | QS | S | C | P | T | commissioned | | | | | | | officers. | | | | | | ---------------------+--------------------+------+----+----+----+----+--- _Established offices in United States._ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Headquarters, |1 brigadier general;|} 4 |} 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 28 Washington, D. C. | 1 lieut. colonel; |}[7]3 |} | | | | | 1 major; |} | | | | | | 1 first lieut. |} | | | | | San Francisco, Calif.|1 major | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 New York, N. Y. |1 captain | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | | | | | | | _Outside of United States._ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Peking, China |1 captain[8] | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 Virgin Islands | do.(2) | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 Port au Prince, Haiti|1 first lieut. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 Cape Haitien, Haiti |1 captain(2) | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 3