The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-12-25

Aggregate chargralIe to year
4 ending 30tb June, 1859, 2,2C0,03 Sc
Excess OF present estimate
over the expenditure of
tie year ending June so
1851, 4l6,002 G3
Tins excess embraces the anticipated in
crease of expenditure occasioued by the eX
tension Of the benefits of the Pension laws
and by the administration Of the bounty aOd
law, SO lar as ii devolycs on the Pension or
/ ice
| No further amount is now deemed neces
sary for the Crnsus service, beyond the sun
nf l,ll6,00 dDiiars oElhe last estimate.
The estimates for the United States Courts
Iexceed ;hal Of lasl year 1920 dollars, il
consequence OF lhe increase Of the busincs,
cvrespnud ng with the increase in the pop
Iut tin and business Of Tie country. the
5 cretary. however, contends that owing 10
former difficulties, the estimate is less by
/ 100 doiurs than the expenditure Of the
last In public buildings, pauper lunatics
agricultural statistics, and the penilen'iary
there is no material change in the estima es
The estimate for the Mexican boundary sur
Iyey is $lt0Co0-not enbrAc in the esti'
mates oI last year.
The Secretary then presents few re-
marks in regard to the operations Of encl
bureau, separately.
The whole number Of persons now oil
The pension rolls IS l9.75s--tbe mum
ber drawing pensions during the first anC
second quarters of the present calenda
year s I3o70. The number Of deaths re
ported within the last year is SAG. OF al
the revolutionary pensions granted by the
different acts of Congress, there remain s.
247, ont Of an original number Of 544i5. =
During the FIRST half Of the present callenda
lyear, bui 2.40S have applied for their pen
sions. Under he consecutive acts Of Con
gfess, the number Of widows and orphans o
Revolutionary soldiers, is 2l,54S. of wbicl
number thele are nov on the respective roll
about 5000, OF whom large portion havt
drawn no pensions duting she past year. :
he number OF Invalid pensioners is nov
l4742--an increase during the year Of 627.
The number Of widows and orphans Of sol,
lders, who we're Killed in he Mexican war
or died Of disease contracted in The service
land pens oued under the act Of 2lst July
4 1913, and subsequent acts, 10 l,456. The
Whole amount expended Tor pensions during
The present year is estimated by the Com.
missioner al $I,40o000. The whole mum.
.Iber ofland warrants issued TO commissioned
!ofFicers of be continental army is 1926; q
non.commissoned officers aud p;ivaies and
Iland is sll due 10 Ill officers and 1905
nnn-cammissioned officers and pfiyales. The
whole number 0f warrants issued TO soldiers
i in the war of 1912, under various acts Of
Congress, is 2s.37s The number Of claims
through he Mexican war is 81 1878 doliau
mud fr scrip and miney in lieu of land, B.
332, 100, waking an aggregate Of 8t,7O5,O0
'Fhe nupber Of claims presented unde'
the general bounty lnnd law uf 1850 has all
,eady reached 0.4lS, and is rapidly increas
hg The Whole number Of PERSONS who, 4
living. would be entitled 10 the nenelit Of The
mw, would exceed half a million. ThF
Comm ssoner snpposas, from the best dat
lwihn rs ,.ach that ona half Of The numbei
.fe dead. ienyng no one 10 claim under them
Ir ebesI regulations have betn I'D tpted to
| aevaut ne s,t cess Of spurious clsims snf
Et6iscfIiiaie The ciaiinaof egilimate holders:
Tbosaier N pHalic lands. d,lri0g lhe yea
ls4J, antsin, to'i ,213,g02.17, mad iolsf
asea dispuscI of 10 various ways reaches 81 (.
as1,il1,Di Drug The fhrTe qiir'ees o
1880, tie aggregate augaBl y 2Sl5sf16