US Presidency
1872

The report of the Secretary of War shows the expenditures of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, to be $ 35,799,991.82, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872, to be $ 35,372,157.20, showing a reduction in favor of the last fiscal year of $ 427,834.62. The estimates for military appropriations for the next fiscal year, ending June 30, 1874, are $ 33,801,378.78. The estimates of the Chief of Engineers are submitted separately for fortifications, river and harbor improvements, and for public buildings and grounds and the Washington Aqueduct. The affairs of the Freedmen's Bureau have all been transferred to the War Department, and regulations have been put into execution for the speedy payment of bounty, pay, etc., due colored soldiers, properly coming under that Bureau. All war accounts, for money and property, prior to 1871 have been examined and transmitted to the Treasury for final settlement.