Clerk in this department brew mi 1875 $1440 and Quarters, and subsequently $1920 without quarters, I consider that the extra $480 may be regarded as allowance of Quarter merely, and not as increase of pay. He may therefore now receive the increase of 20 per cent granted to other officers in a similar position Kry, from $1920 to $2304. I do not think he is of the class of officers for whom the Carper (35 percent) increase was intended, though appointed in England he was originally a Member of