REPORT

OF THE

SECRETARY OF WAR;

BEING PART OF

THE MESSAGE AND DOCUMENTS

COMMUNICATED TO THE

TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS

AT THE

BEGINNING OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOLUME III.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1889.

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REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ORDNANCE OFFICE,

Washington, October 10, 1889.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the principal operations of the Ordnance Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889, with such remarks and recommendations as the interests of this branch of the military service seem to require.

The fiscal resources and expenditures of the Department during the year were as follows, viz:

Amount in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriations on June 30,
1888....

Amount in the Treasury not reported to the credit of the appropriations
on June 30, 1888...

Amount in Government depositories to the credit of disbursing officers
and others on June 30, 1888.....

Amount of appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ended June
30, 1889.....

Amounts refunded to ordnance appropriations in settling accounts dur-
ing the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889

Gross amount received during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889, from
sales to officers; from rents; from collections from troops on account
of losses of, or damage to, ordnance stores; from Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railroad Company; from powder and projectiles (proceeds
of sales); from sales of condemned stores; from testing machine, and
from all other sources not before mentioned....

Total....

Amount of expenditures during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889, in-
cluding expenses attending sales of condemned stores, exchange of
powder, etc...

Amount deposited in Treasury during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1889, as proceeds of sales of Government property...
Amount turned into the surplus fund on June 30, 1889
Amount in Government depositories to the credit of disbursing officers
and others on June 30, 1889

$341, 774.57

1,020.48

157,850.89

5, 699, 148. 65.

25, 996. 22

56, 031.80

6, 281, 822. 61

1,537, 836.95

49, 494.85 41,728.89

320, 242. 11

Amount transferred from ordnance appropriations in settling accounts
during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889...

455.86

Amount in the Treasury not reported to the credit of appropriations on
June 30, 1889

Amount in the Treasury to the credit of appropriations on June 30,
1889

Total.

618.97

4,340, 444.98

6, 281, 822.61

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