The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-12-13

purchase of medicines, drugs, surgical
instruments, hospital stores, the claims
of private physicians for services. and
surgeons employed under contract,
$429,Sl6; expenses of the War Depart
ment, including expenses for military
contracts, secret service, ETC., $215, 729;
Freedmen's Bureau, pay and bounty,
s., I43,2s4; Soldiers Home, s4S2,694;
National Volunteer Asylum, $4l7,7l3.
Total, Sl76, 299, 1896.
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, $l25,3s0 593; Conn.,
missioner accounts for atoms and
subsistence OF the Army and Navy,
and for the settlement Of personal
claims in the Commissary Department,
$7,Ol5,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
mis- $ OF Pensions respecting the
changes arising from deaths, transfers,
ETC., and for pension claims presented
for adjustment, $34,S27,S 500; accounts of
the Engineer Department for military
surveys, the construction OF fortitica-
tons, for river and harbor surveys and
improvements, ~$2,670,47O; accounts for
the relief of freedmen and refugees,
81, Sc ,655. Total, Sl70,955,764.
From the Fourth Auditor, Marine
Corps; first, QuaItermasters 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, rams.
portation Of officers, and marines sup.
plies of provisions, clothing, medical
store s an,. 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 $780, 94.
Paymasters of the Navy, accounts fer
the pay and rations of officers and
crew, OF the ship supplies, of provisions,
Of clothing, and repairs of vessels on
foreign stations, S4.494, 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, slO,05O,264; Paymasters acting
as Navy agents, accounts for their ad-
vances TO Paymasters, purchases of
timber, provisions, clothing, AMI naval
stores, $7.203, SOC.
Navy Pension Agents accounts for
the pay of pensions OF officers and sea.
men, etc, OF the Navy, and Off and
privstes of the Marine Corps, S34l,572.
Total, s23 CSC, 452.
Naval prize lists, claims revised dur
ing the year, soldiers pay and bounty,
Sl,202,754; sailors pay and bounty;
Sis2 ,O20; prize money, Sll0,OO3; Quar-.
masters stores under the act of July 4,
1864; property lest, Or destroyed, or
captured, ETC., under the act of March
8, 1S49; rent of buildings and land for
the use Of the War Department, $685.
246.
Oregon and Washington Territory
war claims, sl2.l57; claims of States for
enrolling, suosisting, clothing, supply
ing, arming, equipping, paying, and
transporting their troops in defense of
the United States, $3.50, 643; subsistence,
So DDS. Total, S3,9O4,2S2.
These settlements have been effected
and acquisitions for the same, FIX cept for
soldiers and sailors pay and bounty,
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 Departmen the
Engineer Department, the Indian De-
partment, the Adjutant GeIeral's De-
partment, the Freedmen's Bureau, Ord
nance Department, Surgeon General,
parties, contracts and leases. |
Total during the year, 1,l3O; also, the
,ficial bonds of discussing officers of
he Wal and Navy Departments, and
he Indian Department, number 6S.
The pensions have slightly decreased
the preceding year, the decrease
being $40, 224. Total for the last fiscal
rear, $34,76s,l20.
The bounty 10 soldiers has decreased
rom 81 522, 900 in 1871, to Sl,202 ,754 in
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