REPORT OF THE COMMISSARY-GENERAL

OF SUBSISTENCE.

REPORT

OF THE

COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE,

Washington, D. C., September 25, 1894.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the Subsistence Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894:

RESOURCES AND EXPENDITURES.

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

RESOURCES.

Amounts in the Treasury to the credit of appropriations of the Subsistence Department on June 30, 1893, as

follows:

Subsistence of the Army, 1892.

Subsistence of the Army, 1893.

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, 1893, act August 5, 1892..

Amounts to credit of officers of the Subsistence Department and of officers doing duty in the Subsistence Department with the Treasurer, assistant treasurers, and designated depositaries, and in their personal possession on June 30, 1893, as follows:

Subsistence of the Army, 1893.

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

Certified claims, 1893, act August 5, 1892.

Amounts refunded to the Treasury near close of fiscal year 1893, since carried to the credit of the appropriations, as follows:

Subsistence of the Army, 1893..

3,517.20

Amounts appropriated for the Subsistence Department
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, as follows:
Subsistence of the Army, 1894, act of February 27,
1893.
Commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel
States and soldiers on furlough:

Certified claims, 1894, act of March 3, 1893 ....

Amounts collected from various sources and refunded to the appropriations of the Subsistence Department on the books of the Treasury during the fiscal year 1894, as follows:

Subsistence of the Army, 1891, and prior years.... Subsistence of the Army, 1891, and prior years, transfer account

Subsistence of the Army, 1892

Subsistence of the Army, 1892, transfer account..
Subsistence of the Army, 1893.

Subsistence of the Army, 1893, transfer account..
Subsistence of the Army, 1894.

Amounts received by officers of the Subsistence Department, and by officers doing duty in the Subsistence Department, from sales of subsistence stores to the following purchasers during the fiscal year 1894, and taken up for immediate disbursement under the following appropriations:

Subsistence of the Army, 1893: Sales to enlisted men. Subsistence of the Army, 1894: Sales to officers, $290,906.35; to enlisted men, companies, detachments, and hospitals, $425,867.01; to post exchanges, $36,890.25; to civilian employés, $12,713.92; to Leavenworth Military Prison, $3,732.53; to Quartermaster's Department, $1,649.89; to Indian agents and employés, $1,729.37; to naval officers, $439.90; of surplus and condemned stores and property, at auction, $2,096.49; to Princeton College, $20.47; of boxes, barrels, etc., $95.91; of garden seeds, $223.32; total

Amounts taken up by officers doing duty in the Subsist-
ence Department on account of reclamations for stores
lost, damaged, etc., and in correction of errors in their
accounts, etc., during the fiscal year 1894:
Subsistence of the Army, 1893..
Subsistence of the Army, 1894.

Amounts charged against officers still in service on ac-
count 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, 1886.

Subsistence of the Army, 1889.

Subsistence of the Army, 1891.

Total resources..

$1,700,000.00

30,000.00

122.76

1,246. 61 3, 016. 63 34.71 11, 173.52 9.32 4, 641. 40

20.25 29.00

2,750.58

$1,730, 000. 00

20, 294.20

776, 365. 41

779, 115.99

126. 01
780. 21

906. 22

75.92 2,455.82

82.37

41.16

2,655.27

2,786, 747.75