C.-Abstract from the annual general returns of the Army, showing the number of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates in each year, as reported by the latest returns received at this office, together with the academic staff and cadets of the Military School at West Point. NOTE-A division of the aggregates at the close of 1817 and 1818 will give the average strength of the Army for 1818, 8, 199, and in like manner the average strength of the Army for 1820 will be 9,611. Abstract of the recruiting-returns, showing the number of men enlisted in each of the following years, viz: The number of recruits for this year is taken from the returns of the three first quarters and an estimate for the present quarter. D. PARKER, Adjutant and Inspector General. ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, December 2, 1820. Statement of the annual expenses of the Army proper, consisting of the following appropriations, riz: Pay, subsistence, forage, clothing, bounties and premiums, expenses of recruiting, hospital department, contingencies, Quartermaster's Department, and Military Academy (building excepted), during the years 1818, 1819, and to the 30th of November, 1820, in clusire: The expenditure for the Army in 1818. $2,700,000 00 215, 190 40 $3,748,445 01 Add 7 per cent. on $342,145 (the amount of the appropriations for clothing and for the medical and hospital departments for 1820), being the estimated difference of the prices of the articles of those departments in 1818 and 1820.... Add (excess of recruits in 1818 over 1820) 1,137 men, at $24 per man. Deduct (excess of the aggregate of the Army in 1820 over 1818) 1,412 men, at $195 per man.. The amount that the Army in 1818 would have cost, on the basis of the present expenditure, allowing, as above, for diminution of prices since that period and the excess of recruits made in that year over 1820, and deducting for the excess of the number of men in the latter over the former $23,950 15 27,288 00 2,966, 428 55 275,340 00 Deduct the estimated increased disbursements, under the regular heads of appropriation, on account of the Seminole war.. $2,691,088 55 1,057, 356 46 100,000.00 957,356 46 Reduction in consequence of the improved organization. NOTES. For other items of expenditure than those in the subsistence, purchasing, and medical and hospital departments, see the body of the report. In addition to the appropriation for the service of the militia, the Seminole war caused an increase of disbursements under some of the regular heads of appropriation, the exact amount of which cannot be ascertained without dissecting most of the accounts of the disbursements in that quarter during its operation. The principal increase of disbursements was on account of subsistence. It is believed that the sum proposed to be deducted is ample. The year 1818 is assumed instead of 1817, the year preceding the present organization of the staff of the Army. It would have been desirable to have formed the table on the data to be furnished by that year, but, on examination, it was found that some items of expenditure growing out of the late war were so blended with the current expenditure of that year as to render the separation impossible without great labor and much time. It is believed, however, that could the current expenditure of 1817 be ascertained, the result would be not less favorable. It is proper to observe that although the act modifying the staff, as it is now organized, passed in April, 1818, it did not go into operation so as to produce any material effect on the disbursements until after the termination of that year. The full effect of the present organization, it is believed, is not yet experienced, as it requires considerable time to carry into perfect operation a system which comprehends so great an extent of detail. As far as can be judged by the estimates for 1-21, the disbursements of that year will show a still more favorable result than that of this year. E-- table containing, first, the present organization and force of the Army; second, the proposed organization at its minimum; third, the proposed organization raised to its maximum, but without doubling the battalions or augmenting the number of officers; fourth, the maximum to which it can be raised, in case of necessity, by doubling the battalions and officers of infantry. Proposed organization at its Proposed organization at its Proposed organization, doubling the Battalfons and augmenting the officers of Infantry. Observations on the Artillery. The Artillery cannot, like the Infantry, have the number of its officers and companies augmented on a sudden. Its force, when its 45 companies are raised to their maximum, cannot, therefore, be augmented nor pass the number in the last table. The number of matrosses may be increased, if absolutely required; but, by recurring to the present table, it will be seen that the present 45 companies, at 100 men each, can serve 90 guns in the field and 1,800 in forts and batteries. Sergeant-Majors Quartermaster's Sergeant.. Sergeants. Corporals. Artificers Gunners Matrosses. Drummers and Trumpeters Musicians. Armorers and Workmen. Work of ordnance. Soldiers of train *Exclusive of ordnance. E-Continued. Proposed organization at its Proposed organization at its Proposed organization, doubling the minimum force. maximum. Battalions and augmenting the offi eers of Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonels Lieutenants 9 9 9 9 1 90 1 90 1 1 90 1 90 1! 90 1 Second Lieutenants 4 40 360 ..4 40 360 4 40 80 720 4 40 360 40 360 4 40 80 720 128 files on two ranks, besides 192 files on three ranks, besides 48 files of flank Companies. 32 files of flank Companies. N. B.-It is a received principle in tactics, that the force of a Battalion should never pass 200 files, exclusive of its flank Companies, who act separately. 572 officers, 12,036 privates, exclusive of the Staff, Engineers, and Bombardiers. 544 officers, 6,391 privates, exclusive of Staff and Engineers. 544 officers, 11,261 privates, exclusive of Staff, Engineers, Ordnance workmen, and troops of the Artillery train. 832 officers, 18,200 privates exclusive of Staff, Engineers, troops of the Ordnance, and Artillery train. Privates, 6,391. Privates, 11,261. F-Statement showing the saving of expenditure by the proposed organization of the Army. Pay for officers and men, subsistence for officers, and clothing for officers' servants.... Subsistence Department.. Quartermaster's Department. Clothing Department.. Bounties, premiums, and recruiting. Medical Department............ Total amount of saving by the proposed organization.......... 905,204 46 NOTE.-The estimate of saving is made on the basis of 1820, and on the supposition of the rank and file of the Army, under the existing organization and that which is proposed, not being full by one-sixth. Should a reduction be made as proposed, the actual appropriations of the next fiscal year, under the various heads, must be determined by the principle which has governed in forming the general estimates for that year, and may differ in some respects from the saving above calculated. As the ranks would be nearly full in the first year after the reduction, some allowance would have to be made on that account. |