Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-12

counts of disbursing officers O. the.
Ordnance Department for arsenals, ar
morles, ornaments for Notifications.
armjng militia, etc, 81, 742, AS; Indian
Department, accounts of Indian Agents.
including the pay of Indian annuitles,
presents to Indians, expenses OF hold
ing treaties, pay of interpreters, pay OF
Indian Agents, and the settlement of
personal claims for miscellaneous SER
vice of agents 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.
1929, 8l6: expenses of the War Depart
ment, including expenses for military
contracts, secret service, etc, 1926, 729:
treedmen's Bureau, pay and bounsg,
81, l43, 2S4; Soldiers Home, 1882, 6y4:,
National Volunteer Asylum, S417,7l3
Total, SIZE, 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-
sonai claims for services in the Quarter
masters Department, 1926, $50, 593; Com
mlssloners' accounts for ratlons and
subsistence OF the Army and NAVY.
anc Tor the settlement of personal
claims in the Commissary Department,
S7,0l5, l45; accounts of Pension Agents
for the payment of military pensions,
including the entries of the monthly
reports OF new pensioners added to the
rolls, and the statement from the Com
miss oner o. Pensions respecting the
changes arising from deaths, transfers.
ETC., and for pension claims presented
for adjustment, $34,827 1896; accounts of
the Engineer Department for military
surveys, the construction of fortifca-
tlons, for river and harbor surveys and
improvements, $2,670,470; accounts for
the relief of freedmen and refugees.
$l,56l,6 55. Total, Sl70,955.764.
From the Fourth Auditor, Marine
Corps; first, Quartermasters of the Ma
rlne Corps, embracing accounts for the
expenses of officers quarters, fuel, for
age for horses, attendance on courts
martial and courts of inquiry, trans
portsstion OF officers, and marines sun
plies of provisions, clothing, medical
stores ant. military stores, for barracks.
and all incidental supplies for marines
on shore; second, accounts of Paymas-
tiers 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, l6l; Paymasters
at navy yards, accounts for the pay of
officers on duty at navy yards, or on
leave of absence, and the pay of me-
chanics and laborers on the various
works, Sl0,050,264; Paymasters acting
as Navy agents, accounts for their ad-
vances 10 Paymasters, purchases of
timber, provisions, clothing, and naval
stores, 81. 203 500.
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, 1913 6S9, 462.
Naval prize lists, claims revised dur
ing the year, soldiers pay and bounty
81, 2O2, 754 sailors pay and bounty;
S4S2,02U; prize money, Sll0,003; Quar-
masters stores under the act of July f,
1864; property lest, or destroyed, or
captured, etc, under the act Of March
3, 1849; rent of buildings ard land for
the use Of the War Department, $685.
246.
Oregon and Washington Territory
war claims, $l2.157; claims of States for
enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supply
ing, armlng, equipping, paying, and
transporting their troops IN defense OF
the United States, $239 643; subsistence,
49,, 22S. Total, So, 904, $50.
These settlements have been effected
and acquisitions for the same, except for
soldiers and sailors pay and bounty.
have been issued by the War, Treas
ury, and Interior Departments to the
number of S,454
With the Second Comptroller are
fled the contracts Of the Quartermas-
ter's Department, the Commissary of
Subsistence, the Navy Department, the
Engineer Department, the Indian De-
partment, the Adjutant Generals De-
partment, the Freedmen's Bureau, Ord
nance Department, Surgeon General,
charter parties, contracts and leases
Total during the year, 100; also, the
official bonds of discussing officers of
the War and Navy Departments. and
the Indian Department, number 6S.
The pensions have slightly decreased
from the preceding year, the decrease
being $440,224. Total for the last fiscal
year, S34,76S,120.
The bounty 10 soldiers has decreased
from s., 522, $50 in 1871, to 81 ,202 ,754 in
1872