Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-04

for which provision needs to be made by legislation
The following tabular statement exhibits the ac-
counts TO whch the payments of the treasurer dur
ing the year are chargeable -
E4eculte department, Governor and
Council, SIS2l6 AZ
Secretarys Department. 24723 Il
Treasurer's Department, $500 SO
Auditors Department b720 9S
Legislative Department 1853 983 OF
Judicial Department 152 IRA on
Attorney Generals Department, and
As sPs Rssi' 6 t''sF@sy; 1857 as 81
State House - 1862 "a
tia, Sc, 93,756 6s
Insurance Commission. 1858 Is
Bank Commission, 9S42 20
Charitable Institutions, 2S9 .492 70
Correctional Institutions, 125 527 rs
Public Buildings 1880 90
Interest, ll6492 9S
Miscellaneous, 645S7 90
Total payments S1,lS0,40S SO
Total revenue RECEIPTS, 1,l27 ,166 62
Deficit, S53242 OF
The floating debt of $500 900 has been funded dur
ing the year agreeably to the act of the last egisla
tnre thereby increasing permanent liabilities by
that amount. They have also been increased during
the year 1851 on account OF the Troy and Greenfield
Railroad, 1927 20S,
The total expenditure for military purposes on ac-
count o. the existing war; authorized by chapter
2lo OF the acts of 1851, amounts, far rendered
at the close of business in the auditors department.
December 81 1861, to $S3S4644 IS, classified in the
one warrant drawn Gn January l, 1892
Miscellaneous, s2es,o47 Al
Arms and Equipments, including camp
eqnipage, horses, harnesses, baggage
and ambulance wagons, l66S, $40 "a
Pay, 1851 as
Clothing, LOIS 93l 40
Subsistence, 2O9, 4S9 SO
Transportation l0I SOP 26
Medical and Hospital, 50. 292 IS
Total, SO ,644 IS
Excluding that warrant, the total amount oi pay
ment on account of military expenses, under chap
ter 2l6 was S3343 1874 A. and the total amount OF re-
cepts ON account of those expenses has been $751;
263 5l which receipts briefly recapitulated in the
following table, and have so accrued to the treasury
that at no time has the net liability OF the common
wealth on account of such expenses reached $3000,
000:-
Receipt in cash from the United States
OF 40 per cent. OF military eXpendi-
lures, to close of September, $4,000 90
Amount returned on account of certain
commssary disbursements, 2S7 SO
arms, s5.84O 90
Sale of steamer Cambridge, 1880 90
Earnings of steamer Cambridge, 20,262 SO
Sale OF steamer Pembroke, 24,735 90
On account OF supplies paid for three
months troops, 1857 26
Sale OF ordnance to state of Maine, 2l005 IS
From United States Quartermaser Gen
erals, Commissary Generals, and
Ordnance Departments, 865l5 Sc
Total, $685., 268 81
There is also due to the commonwealth on account
From the state of Ohio, $40, I27 50
From the state of New Hampshire, 1887 Is
From the United States, 764l IS
Total, s48,657 10
To which should be added the further sum Of 3d.
$50 due from the United States, but not yet recev
ed for the earnings of the steamer Pembroke which
amount settled conference with the United
States quarermaser general that justly due. and
of which payment ought Immediately to be made to
the commonwealth. and is daily expected
Ii we consider cash this of SIG $50, and also
HnmnShipn
the United States on account of sales OF ordnance
which they needed and we were able to supply, these
in addition to the S997 263 81 already stated make
aggregate OF S1050 800 81 of receipts, and deducting
that sum from $3,343 694 A. the amount of the dis
bursements at the close of the year, our net liability,
on account OF military expenditures incurred during
the year 1861 under the provisions Of chapter ZIG OF
the acts of that year, is thus far S2,292 "A.
MILITARY.
For the details of our military conduct and eN-
pendiure, which are impossible of recital here re-
specfuy referto the full report OF the adjutant gem
erai which is already in press, attended by those of
the quartermaster general, the commissary general,
and the surgeon general and the report of the
!nittee of three councillors whom appointed early
iii the year to supervise military contracts, and by
whom nearly all the contracts for quartermaster's
supplies were actually made. The uniform OF one
regiment 1.-THE 18th, Col. Webster will not be found
in the report the committees but will appear in
that OF the quaftermaster general since although it
was paid for as military Expense of the state the
regiment at its own request selected particular un
form and contractor. Certain items belonging TO
bureas not existing at first for that reason do not
from time to time always without premonltlon, sud
denly and after we had been discouraged to expect
more requisitons-it has been impossible to arrange
with satisfactory forecast system OF operations,
such the history OF the year, could have been
foreseen by all parties, would have called for.
But, with aiacrity and zeal, and with unqueshon-
ing submission to the wants of the department of
war, and at its special and repeated requests, we
have devoted ourselves to raising recruiting, train
ing, encamping, subsisting, arming, equipping,
and supplying with all the arms, armament,
and warlike munitions, and with the uni
forms, camp equipage and transportation,
known to the regulations OF the army, the
volunteers demanded of the state. And the en-
deayor has been, far as it could be done, to
form TO such regulations. But we could not avoid
adapting military movements somewhat to our own
militia system, and to the opinions and preoccupa
tions OF the peoples else the great movement would
have been discouraged, and the ranks slowly,
never, filled The state has contributed five regi-
ments of infantry, one battery of artillery, and
battalion OF rifles, her militia, to the three months
service 10 the three years service she has sent
volunteers, twenty-four regiments of infantry, one
of cavalry five batteries of artillery two companies
of SharpshOoers, and an infantry battalion of five
companies. Six companies more became attached
to two re siments from the state of New York. Be-
sides expenditures these objects, are the invest
ments in purchasing and expenses OF running the
steamers Cambridge and Pembroke in the public
servioe. These steamers have been Sold ana their
cost aud expenses covered by the prices ODtalheu,
and by the adjustments made with the federal gov"
ernment for their services as transports ana gun
boats.
BY chapter 81 of the Acts passed at the extra
sion OF Congress the 9th OF July last, provision
was made Tor refunding TO the states the amounts of
their military expenditures in behalf of the United
States; and is under this Act that We have alea,
dy been reimbursed to the amount of S775O0O, and
accounts have been presented to the federal au-
ditors Tor all the balance to that date. Our subse-
quent military expenditures have been made on con-
sutation with and at the request Of the secretary of
war. who asked, TO use his own language under
date of September 5th,--0ur "active cooperation
in the organization OF an army sufficiently powerful
TO crush the southern rebellion and forever set at
rest the question of secession" and stated that in
his opinion "the best method" was for us "to pro-
coed with the organization of regiments as author
lied, the expense of which will be paid from time
TO time by acquisitions from you, accompanied with
proper certificates and original bills" BY an ar
arrangement which have effected with the officers
OF Inc federal treasury department, certified copies
OF Tue bills are received by them instead of the
originals, and our full accounts have accordingly
been prepared and presented for audit upto recent
date
There is also included in these expenses the cost
of three hundred and fifty blankets and suits of
clething sent to Richmond for the use OF our Massa
chuetts men there held as prisoners of war, and
suffering priyations thindecent and inhuman. The
particulars of their necessities were first learned
through letter of the adjutant OF the twentieth
regiment, himself one of the prisoners. Without
delay caused these articles to be sent, and am hap
by TO learn by information from Colonel William
Raymond Lee that they have been received also
established credit In favor of the adjutant for the
use Of these cOpyes to the amount Of one thousand