1.-Report of Lieut. Col. S. B. Holabird, deputy quartermaster-general. WAR DEPARTMENT, QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE, GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following report of the work of the accounts branch of this office for the last fiscal year: Balances in Treasury July 1, 1881.. 10, 026 75 $94, 510 88 $21, 298 92 35, 000 00 30 41 $74, 728 81 591, 388 13 477 60 141, 473 40 $372, 242 12 $10,987 360 32 830, 332 92 697,981 71 Of the $360,686.56 appropriated by acts approved June 15, 1880, and March 1, 1881, for "claims for quartermaster's stores and commissary supplies," there has been drawn by this office the sum of $337,069.10. Of the $102,180 appropriated by act approved March 3, 1881, for "horses and other property lost in the military service," there has been drawn by this office the sum of $40,895. The balances of appropriations undrawn by the Quartermaster's Department July 1, 1881, were as follows: Military post near the Niobrara River, Northern Nebraska or Dakota Fifty per centum to land-grant railroads. Military post at El Paso, Texas... Statement of the appropriations for the Quartermaster's Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1876. Appropriations for the fiscal year, act approved March 3, 1875. $4, 250, 000 00 $1,200, 000 00 Appropriation for the fiscal year, act approved July 31, 1876 Appropriations for the fiscal year, act approved March 3, 1875. Appropriation for the fiscal year, act approved July 31, 1876 35, 000 00 |