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876 Series III Volume IV- Serial 125 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports

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Which is made up as follows, viz:

Amount of remittances drawn during the fiscal year, not taken up in the accounts received at this office............ 31,317,806.00

Amount in hands of officers, to be accounted

for hereafter................................... 44,311,512.88

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75,629,318.88

The amounts paid during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864 (including thos for purchases made and services rendered in

the proceeding fiscal year, and not included in the last annual report), as ascertained from the accounts which have passed the required administrative examination of this office, were, viz:

1. For regular supplies, viz:

Feul....................... $3,476,523.48

Forage..................... 38,980,601.24

Straw...................... 164,936.64

Stationery................. 920,409.57

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43,542,470.93

2. For incidental expenses of the Army, viz:

Postage..................... 255,713.23

Expenses of courts-martial... 142,242.33

Express and escorts.......... 43,643.15

Burial expenses.............. 271,642.77

Guides, interpreters,

and spies.................... 249,537.33

Clerks and agents............1,971,674.97

Pay of wagon and

forage-masters............... 6,310.94

Laborers.....................3,893,418.65

Soldiers on constant

labor........................ 851,094.56

Hire of veterinary

surgeons..................... 46,780.52

Office furniture............. 127,621.19

Medicines for horses,

and other animals............ 168,159.12

Forges, blacksmiths"

and shoening tools........... 232,201.85

Horse and mule nails, iron

and steel for shoening....... 1,311,817.35

Picket rope.................. 19,865.72

Apprehension of deserters.... 157,031.21

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9,748,745.89

3. Cavalry and artillery horses.. 26,955,929.53

4. Transportation and supply of prisoners,

&c............................ 489,798.15

5. Telegraph for military, and expenses

in operating the same......... 394,005.42

6. Barracks and quarters, viz:

For rent.....................$1,596,815.49

For repairs and construction. 6,826,794.37

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8,459,609.86

7. Mileage-transportation of officers

and baggage................... 312,805.38

8. Transportation, viz:

Of clothing................... $573,342.00

Of subsistence................3,117,576.55

Of ordnance................... 794,957.86

Of troops and supplies.......87,664,990.82

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92,150,867.23

9. Purchase of stoves............ 357,294.25

10. For material for and amount expended in the purchase and preparation of clothing, camp and

garrison equipage............ 98,239,050.30

11. Collecting, drilling, and

organizing volunteers........ 46,657.13

12. For the construction and maintenance of

the gun-boat fleet proper.... 2,317,071.47

13. For the purchase, constructions, and

maintenance of steam rams...... 350,563.08

14. Special expenditures for other

departments, and under special

appropriations, viz:

For Medical Department........ $347,460.36

For Ordnance Department........ 513,673.97

For Pay Department............. 5,753.38

For Substitence Department..... 36,317.32

For Engineer Department........ 227,872.00

For Adjutant-General's

Department..................... 6,713.85


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