Expended during the year........................... $274,264.52

Transferred to other officer during the year....... 10,000.00

Remaining on hand June 30, 1865.................... 1,887.82

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Total.............................................. 286,252.34

The balance on hand is deposited in my safe.

Statement of property captured and destroyed by the enemy from Captain S. G. Lynch, assistant quartermaster, and its estimated value, during the fiscal year ending june 30, 1865.*

Statement of quartermaster's property for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1865.+

Numbers 85. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, Louisville, Ky., October 19, 1865.

Major General M. G. MEIGS,

Quartermaster-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.:

GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit herewith a retrospective report of the transactions of the department under my direction for the period commencing October 1, 1861, and ending June 30, 1865.++ I regret that I have been unable to make it more complete. I am sensible that it is only an outline, and conveys a very inadequate idea of the actual amount of labor performed.

I inclose, also, a statement of receipts and disbursements of public moneys for the fiscal year ending on the 30th of June, 1865.

Please acknowledge the receipt.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ROBT. ALLEN,

Brevet Major-General and Chief Quartermaster.

Statement of public moneys received and disbursed by Bvt. Major General Robert Allen, quartermaster, U. S. Army, for the yard ending on the 30th of June, 1865.

On hand July 1, 1864................................. $628,003.57

Received from officer during the year................ 1,238,594.28

Received from Treasury Department during the year...37,018,955.25

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Total................................................38,885,553.1 0

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Expended during the year............................. 5,420,101.22

Transferred to other officers during the year........28,513,545.23

Remaining on hand June 30, 1865...................... 4,951,906.65

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Total................................................38,885,553.1 0

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The balance due the United States is deposited as follows:

Central National Bank at New York.................... 1,607,549.28

U. S. depository at Louisville, Ky................... 3,047,837.78

First National Bank in Philadelphia in 7 3/10 bonds.. 291,477.41

Office safe, in gold and Treasury notes.............. 5,042.18

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Total................................................ 4,951,906.65

I certify that the above statement is correct.

ROBT. ALLEN,

Brevet Major-General and Chief Quartermaster, Valley of the Mississippi.

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*Details omitted. The estimated value of the property was $502.

+Omitted.

++See Series I, Vol. LII, Part I, p. 690.

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