TABLEWARE AND KITCHEN UTENSILS.

Total cost of all tableware and kitchen utensils purchased at Philadelphia depot during fiscal year 1897-98 amounted to $19,593.66.

Field ranges, bread ovens, field desks, and paulins purchased from July 1, 1897, to August

31, 1898.

Total number of animals, wagons, harness, etc., purchased during the period from April 1, 1898, to August 31, 1898, inclusive.

Ten thousand tons (more or less, as Government may require) Georges Creek Big Vein Cumberland coal, at $3.75 per ton of 2,240 pounds, delivered as follows:

Ten thousand tons (more or less, as Government may require) Georges Creek Cumberland coal, at $4.05 per ton of 2,240 pounds, delivered as follows:

One thousand two hundred and twenty-five tons Pocahontas coal, at $3.75 per ton of 2,240 pounds, delivered at Port Tampa, Fla. Total for Port Tampa, 1,225 tons.

COAL FOR MANILA, FOR TRANSPORT VESSELS.

Five thousand two hundred tons Seaham, Wallsend, or Pacific Cooperative coal, at $10.50 per ton.

Three thousand to 6,000 tons Seaham, Wallsend, or Pacific Cooperative coal, at $10.50 per ton.

Four thousand eight hundred tons Seaham, Wallsend, or Pacific Cooperative coal, at $10.50 per ton.

Total for Manila, 16,000 tons.

COAL FOR HONOLULU, FOR TRANSPORT VESSELS.

Nine thousand tons Nanaimo coal, at $7.50 per ton.

Three thousand nine hundred tons Wallsend coal, at $9 per ton. Five thousand tons Seaham, Wallsend, or Pacific Cooperative coal, at $9 per ton.

Two thousand nine hundred tons Cooperative Wallsend coal, at $8.25 per ton.

Two thousand seven hundred tons coal equal to Seaham or Wallsend, at $7.50 per ton.

Three thousand tons Wallarah coal, at $7.37 per ton.

Two thousand one hundred tons Seaham, Wallsend, or Pacific Cooperative coal, at $7.50 per ton.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE,

Washington, D. C., October 17, 1898.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the Subsistence Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and subsequently to include the date of September 30, 1898.

RESOURCES AND EXPENDITURES.

The following statement exhibits the aggregate fiscal resources and expenditures of the department, and the balances at the close of the period mentioned:

RESOURCES.

Amounts in the Treasury to the credit of the appropria-
tions of the Subsistence Department on June 30, 1897,
as follows:

Subsistence of the Army, 1896.
Subsistence of the Army, 1897.

Commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel
States and soldiers on furlough-

Certified claims, acts March 2, 1889, and April 4,
1890

Certified claims, 1896, act March 2, 1895
Certified claims, 1897, act June 11, 1896.
Claim for quartermaster stores and commissary sup-
plies, acts July 4, 1864, and March 2, 1895.
Relief of sufferers from overflow of Mississippi River
and its tributaries, and the Red River of the
North (joint resolution approved April 7, 1897)...

Amounts to the credit of officers of the Subsistence
Department and of officers doing duty in the Subsist-
ence Department with the Treasurer, assistant treas-
urers, and designated depositaries, and in their per-
sonal possession on June 30, 1897, as follows:

Subsistence of the Army, 1897..
Commutation of rations to prisoners of war in
rebel States and soldiers on furlough-

Certified claims, 1897, act June 11, 1896.
Relief of sufferers from overflow of Mississippi
River and its tributaries and the Red River of the
North (joint resolution approved April 7, 1897) ..

Amounts refunded to the Treasury near the close of the fiscal year 1897, but not carried to the credit of the appropriation by June 30, 1897, as follows: Subsistence of the Army, 1897

Amounts appropriated for the Subsistence Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and the period ending January 1, 1899, as follows:

$194, 693.89
203,849.89

2, 044. 11
7,586.73
485. 13

.08

108, 685. 11

$517, 344.94

63,893.77

608.20

20,639.62

85, 141.59

Subsistence of the Army, 1898, act of March 2, 1897. 1,650,000.00
Subsistence of the Army, January 1, 1899, act of May

4, 1898, $2,739,643.50; act of June 8, 1898, $5,000,000;
act of July 7, 1898, $15,367,112.28; total..

Subsistence of the Army, 1898

Certified claims, act July 19, 1897..

Commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel
States and soldiers on turlough-

Certified claims, 1898, act June 4, 1897.

Certified claims, 1897, act July 19, 1897

Relief of people in mining regions of Alaska, act of
December 18, 1897.

23, 106, 755. 78

149.38

30,958.76

4,000.00
177.25

200,000.00

24, 961, 082. 41.

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Amounts collected from various sources and refunded
to the appropriations of the Subsistence Department
on the books of the Treasury during the fiscal year
1898, as follows:

Subsistence of the Army, 1895, and prior years.
Subsistence of the Army, 1895, and prior years, trans-
fer account....

Subsistence of the Army, 1896.
Subsistence of the Army, 1897
Subsistence of the Army, 1898.

Amounts received by officers of the Subsistence Depart-
ment and by officers doing duty in the Subsistence
Department from sales of subsistence stores to the
following purchasers during the fiscal year 1898, and
taken up for immediate disbursement under the fol-
lowing appropriations:

Subsistence of the Army, 1897: Sales to officers,
$39.46; refundment, $32.75.

Subsistence of the Army, 1898: Sales to officers,
$250,577.12; to enlisted men, companies, detach-
ments, and hospitals, $331,400.73; to post ex-
changes, $29,953.31; to civilian employees, $10,-
851.45; to Quartermaster's Department, $60.74; to
Indian agents, $2,532.80; to Indian-school teach-
ers, $113; to Indian physician, $276.56; to Indian
Commission, $54.13; to naval officers, $62.88; to
United States Boundary Commission, $232.24; to
Yosemite Park Commission, $19.31; of surplus
and condemned stores and property at auction,
$367.61; of boxes, barrels, etc., $55.02; to Geolog-
ical Survey, $35.85.
Amounts taken up by officers doing duty in the Sub-
sistence Department on account of reclamations for
stores lost, damaged, etc., and in correction of errors
in their accounts, etc., during the fiscal year 1898....
Relief of people in mining regions of Alaska, act of
December 18, 1897: Sales, $7,176.15; refundments,
$54.86....

Amounts charged against officers still in the service on
account of funds and stores alleged to have been lost
by theft, etc., for which relief can only be obtained
in the Court of Claims under sections 1059 and 1062,
Revised Statutes, or from Congress, as follows:
Subsistence of the Army, 1880
Subsistence of the Army, 1889

Total resources

EXPENDITURES.

Amounts expended on the books of the Treasury from the appropriations of the Subsistence Department during the fiscal year 1898, as follows:

Subsistence of the Army, 1895, and prior years, transfer account.

Subsistence of the Army, 1896.

Subsistence of the Army, 1897.

Subsistence of the Army, 1898.

Subsistence of the Army (certified claims) act Janu-
ary 19, 1897....

Commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel
States and soldiers on furlough-

Certified claims, 1897, act June 11, 1897....
Certified claims, 1897, act July 19, 1897...

Relief of sufferers from overflow of Mississippi River
and its tributaries, and the Red River of the
North, joint resolution approved April 7, 1897.

0.14

29.75

1,500. 54

5.00

149.38

4.25 177.25

1, 418. 54

3, 284.85