Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-12-12

has been incurred. During the fiscal
year the amounts of settlements thus
far acted on and adjusted are as fol-
lows: From Second Auditor, $I75, $780,
S96; Third Auditor, $l70, 955, ,764; Fourth
Auditor, $23, 1855, 1862. The above ac-
counts have been duly entered, revised,
| and the balances found thereon certi-
fed to the Secretary of the Department.
in which the expenditure has been in
Cured, viz. Those from the Second and
Third Auditors to the Secretary of
War, excepting the accounts of the In
| dian Agents, which are certified to the
Secretary of the Interior, and those
from the Fourth Auditor to the Secre-
tary of the Navy, which are classified
thus From the Second Auditor, en-
bracing the accounts of disbursing of.
ficers of the War Department for col
lecting, organizing, and drilling volun-
teers, $751, ,448; Paymasters' accounts
for the pay of officers and the pay and
rations of soldiers of the army, $132,-
779, 9,140; special and referred accounts,
SIC, ,051 ,429; accounts of army recruit
ing officers for clothing, equipments,
and bounty to recruits, etc., $262, ,287;
ordnance, embracing the accounts of
disbu1 sing officers of the Ordnance De-
partment for arsenals, armories, arma-
ments for Notifications, armiug militia,
ETC., 81, 742 AS; Indian Department.,
accounts of Indian Agents, including
the pay of Indian annuities, presents to
In 1ians, expenses of holding treaties,
pay Of Interpreters, pay of Indian Agents,
and the settlement of personal claims
for miscellaneous service of ageLts and
others in connection with Indian affairs,
$24, ,042, ,904 medical and hospital aid
accounts, including the purchase of
medicines, drugs, surgical instruments,
hospital stores, the claims of private
physicians for services, and surgeons
employed under contract, $42o, ,816; ex-
penses of the War Department, includ-
ing expenses for military contracts,
secret service, etc., $235, ,729; Freed
mems Bureau, pay and bounty, 50, 49,
2S4 Soldiers Home, 1882, ,694; National
Volunteer Asylum, $417,7I3. Total,
SIG, ,299, ,S96.
From the Third Auditor, Quarter
masters accounts for transportation of
the army and the transportation of all
descriptions of army supplies and ord
nance, and for the settlement of per-
sonal claims for services in the Quarter
masters Department, 1926, $50, ,593; Com
missioners' accounts for rations and
substance of the army and navy, and
for the settlement of personal claims in
the Commissary Department, 7,0l5, l45;
accounts of Pension Agents for the pay
ment of military pensions, including
the entr es of the monthly reports of
new pensioners added to the rolls, and
the statement from TIE Commission er
of Pensions respecting the changes aris-
ing from deaths, transfers, ETC., and for
pension claims presented for adjust
ment, $34, ,327, 1896; accounts of the En-
gineer Department for military surveys,
the construction of Notifications, for.
river and harbor surveys and improve
ments, $3.50, 40; accounts for the
relief of freedmen and refugees, 81, ,561,-
655. Total, $170, ,764.
From the Fourth Auditor, Marine
Corps; first, Quartermasters of the Ma
rine Corps, embracing accounts for the
expenses of officers quarters, fuel, for
age for horses, attendance on courts
martial and courts of inquiry, transpor-
tation of officers, and marines supplies
of provisions, clothing, medical stores
and military stores, Tor barracks, and
incidental supplies for marines on
shore; second, accounts of Paymasters
of the Marine Corps for the pay of the
officers and the pay and rations of the
marines, $609, ,594.
Paymasters OF the navy, accounts for
the pay and rations of officers and crew,
of the ship supplies, of provisions, of
clothing, and repairs of vessels on foreign
stations, 81, 494 161; Paymasters at navy
yards, accounts for the pay of officers on
duty at navy yards, or on leave of alb
sence, and the pay of mechanics and
laborers on the various works, $1O,040,-
264 Paymasters acting as navy agents,
accounts for their advances to Pay
masters, purchases of timber, provisions,
clothing, and naval. stores, 81, ,203, 1866.
Navy Pension Agents accounts for
the pay of pensions of officers and sea-
men, etc, of the navy, and officers and
priVates of the Marine Corps, $341, ,572.
Total, $23, $50 1862.
Naval prize lists, claims revised dur
ing the year, soldiers pay aud bounty,
81 ,2O2, ,754 !; sailors pay and bounty,
$4S2. .O20; prize money, $llO,OO3 Quar-
termasters' stores under the act OF . uIy
4, 1864; property lost, or destroyed, or
captured, etc, under the act of March
3, 1849 rent Of buildings and land for
| the use of the armory, and other mill
tary claims against the War Depart
ment, $1,605 .246.
| Oregon nd Washington Territory war
claims, S12, 157; claims of States for ca
rolling, subsistiDg, clothing, supplyin",
arming, equipping, paying, and trans
porting their troops in defense of the
United States, $239, 643; subsistence,
| $82, ,22S. Total, Sd, ,904 ,2S2.
These settlements have been effected
and requisit,ons for the same, except
for soldiers and sailors pay and bounty,
have been issued by War, Treasury, and
Interior Departments to the number OF
s, ,454
With the Second Comptroller are
filed the contracts of the Quartermaster' S
Department, the Commissary of Sub
sistence, the Navy Departments the
Engineer Department, the Indian De
partment, the Adjutant Generals De
partment, the Frecdmen's Bureau, Ord
nance Department, Surgeon General,
charter parties, contracts and leases
Total during the year, l, ,l3O; also, the
official bonds of dishursing officers OF th'
War and Navy Departments, and the
Indian Department, number 6S.
: The pensions have slightly decreased
from the preceding year, the decrease
being S440, ,224. Total for the last hsca
year, $34, ,76S, ,l20.
, The bounty to soldiers has decreases
: from 81, ,522. 500 in 1871, to 81 ,2O2,7 10
: in 1872.
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