The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-12-06

counts of disbursing officers O. the
ordnance Department Tor arsehais' ar
mories, ornaments Tor fortincat'ons.
armIng militia, etc, S4,942,4fo; ihuiah
Department, accounts OF Indian Agents,
including the pay OF Indian annuites,
presents to Indians, expenses OF hoio-
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, S24 JAIN medical
and hospital aid accounts, including Inc
purchase of medicines, drugs, surgical
instruments, hospital stores, the claims
of private physicians for services, ana
surgeons employed under contract,
$429,Sl6: expenses of the War Depart
ment, including expenses Tor military
contracts, secret service, etc., SZ3o. rvs
Freedmens Bureau, pay ana bounty,
S2,l43,2St; Soldiers Home, S432,6 94s
National Volunteer Asylum, S4l1,Il
Total, SIG, 299, $50.
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
master Department, sl25, SCI, o93; CON-
missioners' accounts for rations and
subsistence OF the Army and Navy
anG for the settlement OF personal
claims in the Commssary Department,
S7.0l5.l45: accounts OF Pension Agents
for the payment of military pensions,
includ NJ the entries OF the monthly
reports OF new pensioners added to the
! rolls, ana the statement from the Com
miss oner OF Pens ons respecting the
changes arising from deaths, transterS,
etc, and for pension claims presented
for adjustment, S34, S21 1896: accounts OF
the Engineer Department for military
surveys, the construction OF fortinca-
ton, tor river and barbor surveys and
improvements, $2,670,470; accounts for
the relief of freedmen and refugees,
81. SCI ,655. Total, $40 955,764
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, trans
portation of officers, and marines sup
plies of provisions, clothing, medical
stores an,. military stores, Tor 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, S609,594.
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, Si.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; Psymasters acting
as Navy agents, account Tor their ad-
vances 10 PaymasteIs, purchases of
timber, provisions, clothing, ana naval
stores, S7203 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, S34l ,572.
Total, S23 CSC, 462.
Naval prize lists, claims revised dur
ing the year, soldiers pay and bounty,
81 ,202,7j4; sailors pay and bounty;
$4S2 02V; prize money, $ll0,G03; Quar-
masters stores under the act of July 4,
1864; property lest, or destroyed, or
captured, ETC., under the act of March
), lS49; rent of buildings and land for
the use OF the War Department, 81, $685.
246.
Oregon and Washington Territory
war claims, Sl2,lj7; claims of States for
enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supply
ing, armng, equipping, paying, and
trans porting their troops in defense Of
the United States, S239 643 subsistence.
$50 DDS. Total, SO, 9O4, 2S2
These settlements have been effected
ana acquisitions for the same ex ,ept TOR
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
filed the contracts OF the Quartermas.
ters Department, the Commissary of
Subsistence, the Navy Department, the
Engineer Department, the Indian De-
paltment, the Adjutant Gre nerafs De-
partment, the Freedmens Bureau. Ord
nance Department, Surgeon General,
charter parties, contracts and leases.
Total during the year, ,l30; 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 $44O,224 Total FOR the last fiscal
year, S3i,76S, l20.
The bounty 10 soldiers has decreased
from 3, j22 go in 1871, to 81, POP ,754 in
1872
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