Transportation of United States securities : For transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the To adjust the settled account of the Bureau of Engraving Suppressing counterfeiting and fraud: For payment of claims for services rendered and expenses incurred by different parties in the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, as per letter of the Solicitor of the Treasury, viz: Due James T. Porter Due H. F. Hutchinson Due Western Union Telegraph Company Due Andrew J. Carnes Due Henry Finnegass. Due J. W. Schoenecker Due Louis Delano Total being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1873 of $239.80, and for the fiscal year 1874 of $1,673.88; per act of June 10, 1872, (17 Stats. L., p. 348, sec. 1,) and per act of March 3, 1873, (17 Stats. L., p. 512, sec. 1.) Salaries and traveling-expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska: To pay the salary of Samuel Falconer, special agent at the seal-fisheries in Alaska, for the months of October and November, 1876, at the rate of $2,920 per annum, $184; to pay the salary of William J. McIntyre, special agent at the sealfisheries in Alaska, for the same period, at the rate of 32,190 per annum, $363, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1877 of $847; per act of July 31, 1876, (19 Stats. L., p. 118, sec. 1) .. NOTE. This estimate is made to cover the time necessarily occupied by these agents in returning to their homes and in settling their accounts, after being relieved from their duties, in accordance with the provisions of the act of July 31, 1876. Salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue: For salaries and expenses of collectors, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1877; per act of August 15, 1876, (Stats. at L, 19, page 152, sec. 1). 35,000 00 300, 000 00 25,000 00 200, 000 00 $239 80 Estimates of appropriations, &c.—Continued. Detailed objects of expenditure and explanations. TREASURY DEPARTMENT-Continued. MISCELLANEOUS-Continued. Postage, Treasury Department: For purchase of official postage-stamps, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1877; per act of August 15, 1876, (Stats. at L. 19, page 169, sec. 9) NOTE. This deficiency arises in consequence of the increase l expenses of sending internal-revenue stamps by mail as directed in the act of August 15, 1876, (19 Stats. L., 152.) Total for Treasury Department WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. Contingent expenses, office of Secretary of War: Blank books, stationery, labor, books, maps, and miscella neous items, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1877, (Appropriated, 19 Stats. L., p. 160, sec. 1).. BUREAU OF MILITARY JUSTICE. Salaries, Bureau of Military Justice: To supply a deficiency in salary of chief clerk, being the difference between the amount appropriated for the period from August 15, 1876, to June 30, 1877, and amount ($2,000 per annum) fixed by law, (Rev. Stats., p. 34, sec. 215; act June 20, 1874, 18 Stats. L., p. 101, sec. 1; act August 15, 1876, 19 Stats. L., p. 160, sec. 1). MISCELLANEOUS. Contingent expenses, War Department building: Labor, fuel, light, and miscellaneous items, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1877, (appropriated, 19 Stats. L., p. 161, sec. 1) MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Military Academy. Current and ordinary expenses, Military Academy: For expenses of the board of visitors, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1877, (appropriated, 19 Stats. L., p. 124, sec. 1) NOTE. The amount appropriated ($3,000) for the present fiscal year will not be sufficient to cover the necessary expenses. The expenditure for the year ending June 30, 1876, was $3,597.36, and one member has not yet sent in his bill for traveling-expenses. For transportation of discharged cadets, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1876, (appropriated, 18 Stats. L., p. 467, sec. 1).. NOTE. The deficiency arises from the number of cadets found deficient and discharged, and the distance of their homes from West Point. Miscellaneous items, and incidental expenses, Military For pay of clerk to the officer assigned as quartermaster, Office of Surgeon-General. Medical and hospital department: Purchase of medical and hospital supplies; medical care and treatment of oflicers and soldiers on detached duty; expenses of purveying depots; advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the medical department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1877; per act of July 24, 1876, (19 Stats. L., p. 97, sec. 1) NOTE. This is necessary: 1st. The appropriation for this year is reduced from an estimate for $225,000 to $175,000. 2d. For furnishing artificial limbs or appliances, or commutation therefor, and for transportation, being a deficiency for the year 1877, (Rev. Stats., p. 937, secs. 4787-4791; act of March 23, 1876, 19 Stats. L., p. 8, sec. 1; act of August 15, 1876, 19 Stats. L., p. 203, sec. 1) NOTE-The cost of furnishing artificial limbs or appliances during the two years ending June 30, 1872, was.. Under the five-years' law there have been re-issued of these, during the year ending June 30, 1:76.......... $607, 738 254, 475 Leaving to be provided for Under the act of Congress approved August 15, 1876, cases of amputation at or above the elbow or knee, heretofore debarred by law, are now entitled to limbs or commutation. Quartermaster-General's Office. Barracks and quarters: For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for rent or hire of quarters for troops, and for officers on military duty, &c., being a deficiency for the service of the fiscal year 1871, and prior years; per act July 15, 1870, (16 Stats. L., p. 317, sec. 1).. For payment of amounts that may be certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, for rent or hire of quarters for troops, and for officers on military duty, &c., being a deficiency for the service of the fiscal year 1871, and prior years; per act July 15, 1870, (16 Stats. L., p. 317, sec. 1) Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting. officer of the Treasury Department, for transportation of the Army, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1873; per act June 6, 1872, (17 Stats. L., p. 260, sec. 1). NOTE.-Extract from Third Auditor's letter of December 19, 1876: Under the appropriation for Army transportation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873, I have included the amounts allowed the several Pacific Railroad Companies for transportation during that fiscal year, viz: Union Pacific, $374,976.07; Kansas Pacific, 386,369.40; Central Pacific. $378.25, and Sioux City and Pacific, 81, 105.16-total, 8462 -28,88. "By act of March 3, 1872, (Rev. Stats., s. 5260, 5261,) the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to withhold all payments to those companies for freight and transportation, leaving the Court of Claims to determine the respective rights of the companies and the United States. The amounts for other fiscal years have been paid to the Secretary of the Treasury, and he now withholds them. But in the act of June 22, 1874, making appropriation for Army transportation for that fiscal year, special provision was made excluding the Pacific Railroad Companies from any part of the sum appropriated; hence the Secretary of War has had no fund out of which he could pay over to the Secretary of the Treasury the amounts allowed as above stated. It is desirable that Congress should now make an appropriation which will permit those amounts to be placed on the same footing with amounts for other fiscal years. $2,797 35 401,506 84 WAR DEPARTMENT-Continued. Quartermaster-General's Office-Continued. "The amount now in the surplus-fund under Army transpor tation for that year being only $61,493.04, a large deficiency appropriation will be needed." For payment of amounts that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of the Army, being a deficiency for the service of the fiscal year 1873; per act June 6, 1872, (18 Stats. L., p. 260, sec. 1) Incidental expenses, Quartermaster's Department: For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting. officers of the Treasury Department for incidental expenses of the Army, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1874; per act March 3, 1873, (17 Stats. L, p. 544, sec. 1).. For payment of amounts that may be certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department on claims now pending for incidental expenses of the Army, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1874; per act March 3, 1873, (17 Stats. L., p. 544, sec. 1)........ Horses for cavalry and artillery: For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting. officers of the Treasury Department for purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1871 and prior years; per act March 3, 1869, (15 Stats. L., p. 317, sec. 1). For payment of amounts that may be certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1871 and prior years; per act March 3, 1869, (15 Stats. L., p. 317, sec. 1). National cemeteries: For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting. officers of the Treasury Department for establishing and maintaining national cemeteries, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1871 and prior years of $213 85; per act July 15, 1870, (16 Stats. L.. p. 317, sec. 1,) and a deficiency for the fiscal year 1872 of $76; per act March 3, 1871, (16 Stats. L., p. 523, sec. 1.) Miscellaneous. Support of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting. Military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting. Rock Island arsenal, Rock Island, Ill.: For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting. officers of the Treasury Department to the Chronicle Publishing Company for advertising proposals for stone at Rock Island arsenal, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1871 and prior years; per act July 15, 1870, (16 Stats. L., p. 299, sec. 1) OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS. Contingent expenses, office of Commissioner of Patents: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, being a defi ciency for the fiscal year 1877, (appropriated, 19 Stats. L., p. 164, sec. 1) Copies of drawings, office of Commissioner of Patents: For photolithographing and otherwise producing copies of drawings and back issues for the use of the office and for sale, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1877, (appropriated, 19 Stats. L., p. 164, sec. 1) SURVEYING PUBLIC LANDS. Surveying public lands in Oregon : Amount due Jesse Applegate for surveys executed under contract with the surveyor-general of Oregon, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 1871 and prior years; per act July 15, 1870, (16 Stats. L., p. 305, sec. 1) Amount due Jesse Applegate and D. W. Applegate for sur Amount due W. H. Byars for expenses incurred in examin- Amount due E. P. Henderson for surveys executed under |