e the duties of the secretary in relation to home affairs?

Sec.5. What are the duties of the secretary of the treasury?

Sec.6. What are his principal assistants?

Sec.7. What are the duties of the secretary of the interior? What is a
_pension_? To what classes of persons are pensions allowed? To whom are
bounties of lands allowed?

Sec.8. To what do the duties of the secretary of war relate?

Sec.9. What is the business of the secretary of the navy? and of the navy
commissioners?

Sec.10. What are the principal duties of the postmaster general? Who are
his principal assistants?

Sec.11. What is the business of postmasters in relation to keeping accounts
of letters, advertising letters, and making returns to the general
post-office? What are _dead_ letters?

Sec.12. How are postmasters paid for their services? State the rates of
commission. To what amount of compensation are postmasters limited? What
postmasters are appointed by the president and senate?

Sec.13. Who are entitled to the franking privilege? and to what extent? How
is franking done? What government officers frank matter on official
business?

Sec.14. What are the duties of the attorney-general?

Chapter XLII.

Sec.1. Was there a national judiciary under the confederation? In what
courts is the judicial power of the U.S. vested?

Sec.2. By whom, and for what term, are the judges appointed? Why is the
term made so long?

Sec.3. How is the independence of the judges further secured? Why should
congress not have power to reduce their salaries?

Sec.4. Cases of what nature are tried in the national courts?

Sec.5. Why is the trial of crimes to be held in the state where committed?

Sec.6. Which are the lowest national courts? How is a district court
constituted? What cases does it try?

Sec.7. How many circuits are there? How is a circuit court constituted?
What cases does it try?

Sec.8. How is the supreme court constituted? Where, and when, does it hold
sessions? What is its principal business?

Sec.9. What important object is so cared by the supreme court? How are
state laws and the decisions of state courts affected by the decisions
of the supreme court of the United States?

Chapter XLIII.

Sec.1. Why was the definition of treason put into the constitution? What is
levying war?

Sec.2. State more particularly what does and what does not constitute
levying war and treason?

Sec.3. What proof is required to convic