ons for signature of the Assistant Secretary and
act as his stenographer. Afterwards transferred to patents and
miscellaneous division of the Secretary's Office. Duties:
Stenographer and typewriting; indexing; in charge of issuing
authorities for open market purchases to the Geological Survey
and to Howard University, and issuance of permits for admission
to the Government Hospital for the Insane, and to Freedmen's
Hospital and Asylum; assistant in abstracting various reports to
be embodied in the Secretary's annual report to the President. A
knowledge of law was of considerable assistance in the work of
the division, and after entering the Government service she took
a three years' course in the Washington College of Law and was
admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the District of
Columbia.

_Library of Congress._--The Library of Congress employs 135
women in a force of 302 persons. The salaries range $1,500 to
$360 a year, and they are employed in almost all the divisions.
None of them, however, rate as laborers.

At $1,500 there is one woman at work in the catalogue division
as an expert reviser of printed catalogue cards and proof
reader. At $1,400 three women serve as assistant readers of
catalogue cards and proof readers in the catalogue division, and
another is the chief reviser in the record division of the
Copyright Office.

At $1,200 there are 11 women employees. Of these, 5 are in the
Copyright Office as translators, indexers, and cataloguers; 5
are in the catalogue division as cataloguers of the first class,
and one is in charge of the reading room for the blind.

_Post-Office Department._--One clerk of class 3, salary $1,600,
prepares correspondence for the signature of the
Postmaster-General and the Chief Clerk reads and refers the
Congressional and Departmental mail addressed to the
Postmaster-General; assists in the compilation of the estimates
of appropriations for the Department and postal service; also
assists in the compilation of the Postal Guides; in charge of
the distribution of the Postal Laws and Regulations and of the
Postal Guide throughout the postal service; stenographer and
typewriter.

One clerk of class 2, salary $1,400, to whom is assigned the
duty of preparing the three lists of post-offices published each
year in