Amounts estimated for by disbursing-officers of the Quartermaster's Department from the appropriations for the fiscal year 1876-'77-Continued.

Depot at New York

Depot at Chicago...

249, 322 26
317,059 45

86, 473 46
30,846 67

14,889, 478 90

By General Orders No. 112, Adjutant-General's Office, December 8, 1876, form No. 4, "consolidated report of all government troops, stores, &c., transported," and form No. 19, "statement of payments made on account of transportation," were discontinued. Their preparation involved a large amount of labor, and it was believed the information they contained could be obtained at less expense from the accounts of the disbursement of the transportation-fund on their examination in this office.

The examination of these accounts for the fiscal year, only partially completed, shows expenditures from the appropriation for Army transportation as follows:

Nature of service, &c.

For railroad transportation..

For water transportation.

For wagon transportion

For stage transportation

For transportation by express-companies..

Total.

For purchase of transportation-animals

For purchase and repair of means of transportation, &c

For hire of teamsters, blacksmiths, and others connected with transportion

For purchase, repair, and operating vessels

For supply of water, water-rents, and building and repair of wharves

For purchase of miscellaneous stores, smiths' coal, &c.

For expenses of escorts, &c

For traveling expenses of quartermaster's agents, &c.
For drayage

For tolls on bridges and trunpikes, wharfage, &c..

Total..

27,864 25

The following tables exhibit the number of money-accounts and property-returns on hand at the commencement of the fiscal year, the number received and examined during the year, and the number remaining on hand unexamined at the close of the year: