E. SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE, October 27, 1825. SIR: In compliance with your order of the sd instant. I have the honor to report, that the amount of money disbursed in the Medical Department, during the three first quarters of the present year, was $20.245 82; and that the whole has been regularly settled and accounted for, without delay or loss. Of this sum, a small amount was applied to the payment of an old claim; so that the current expenses of the department have been precisely the same as during the previous year. The annual requisitions were received at the stated period, and the supplies immediately put up for the several posts. They were reported to be of the best quality, and were purchased on the most reasonable terms. The returns and reports, required by the regulations, have been duly received. All public property has been satisfactorily accounted for, and the hospitals appear to have been amply supplied in every respect. The number of deaths reported, during the two first quarters, was but fifty-four; of which fifteen were from consumption, four from intemperance, and eleven from casualties; leaving but twenty-four from all other causes, during the six months. The whole number reported, during the same period of the previous year, was fifty-three. All the officers of the Medical Staff are on duty, or under orders for their respective stations, except one assistant surgeon, who is on furlough, in consequence of ill health; and the reports from various sources, official and unofficial, concur with the trifling bill of mortality in showing, that a faithful and diligent attention to duty has been, with scarce an exception, added to no ordinary degree of professional talent and acquirement. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. JAMES BARBOUR, Secretary of War. Surgeon General. F. COMMMISSARY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Philadelphia, November 18, 1825. SIR: In obedience to your instructions, dated on the 3d October, 1825, I have prepared, and now have the honor to enclose, eight statements, as follows, viz. No. 1. Of moneys drawn from the appropriation for the Purchasing Department, during the three first quarters of 1825. No. 2. Of moneys drawn from the appropriation for the purchase. of woollens for 1826, in advance, during the same period. No. 3. Of moneys received and disbursed, during the same period, on account of the Purchasing Department. No. 4. Of moneys received and disbursed, during the same period, on account of the appropriation for the purchase of woollens in advance, for 1826. No. 5. Of moneys drawn from the appropriation for building a brick and stone wall round the Arsenal lot, during the same period. No. 6. Of moneys received and disbursed, during the same period, on account of arsenals. No. 7. Of moneys received and disbursed on account of contingencies, during the same period; and, No. 8. Being a comparative statement of the cost of clothing for the army of the United States, during the years 1824. 1825, and 1826: all of which, I hope, will meet with your approbation. These statements, with the exception of No. 6, have been ready for some days, but I was desirous to have settled and introduced the masons' account therein, which would have accounted for nearly the whole of the money; and, as large advances were made to them previous to 30th September, 1825, the expense of building the wall ought to have been embraced: but, to prevent imposition, I have been under the necessity of having the work inspected, measured, and valued, and will therefore detain the statements no longer on that account, although it exhibits moneys in my hands that have been long since paid to Cromwell, Andrews, & Co. the contractors. With great respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, Commissary General of Purchases. No. 1. STATEMENT of Moneys drawn from the Appropriation for the Purchasing Department," (1825,) during the three first quarters of 1825. 1825. March 1, Received Treasurer's Draft, No. 8,444, $49,536 06 STATEMENT of Moneys drawn from the "Appropriation for the Purchase of Woollens for 1826, in advance," during the three first quarters of 1825. 1825. May 11, Received Treasurer's Draft, (in part) No. 8,553 $10,000 June 14, Received ditto, 10.000 (in part) 8,602 $20.000 COMMISSARY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Philadelphia, November 18, 1825. C. IRVINE, Hon. JAMES BARBOUR, No. 3. STATEMENT of Moneys received and disbursed during the three first quarters of 1825, on account of the Purchasing Department." To amount of sundry warrants issued by the Secretary By amount of purchases during the 1st $34,703 16 74,507 71 $151,979 66 By amount of my account for the third quarter of 1825, before the Second Auditor, for settlement 40,281 83 149.492 70 COMMISSARY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Philadelphia, November 18, 1825. C. IRVINE, Hon. JAMES BARBOUR, Secretary of War |