REPORT OF THE SECOND COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, October 15, 1877. SIR: In compliance with your request, I submit herewith a summary statement of business done in this office during the fiscal year which ended on the 30th day of June, 1877. The following table shows the total number of accounts and claims received and adjusted and the amounts allowed thereon, including miscellaneous cases under special acts of Congress : These have been duly revised and entered, and the balances due thereon certified for allowance and payment. The following tables furnish a more detailed statement of the same accounts and claims, showing the number received, the number revised, the character of the same, the amounts allowed, and the source from which they were received: Accounts received and revised during the year. Character of accounts. From the Second Auditor: 1. Of Army recruiting-officers for the regular recruiting-service.... 3. Special accounts settled by the paymasters' division.. 5. Of agents of Indian affairs for the current and contingent ex- 6. Of disbursing-officers of the Medical Department for medical and hospital supplies and medical services. 7. Of disbursements for contingent expenses of the War Depart ment... 8. Of disbursing-officers of the Freedmen's Bureau 9. Of Freedmen's pay and bounty to colored soldiers. 10. Of money received and disbursed for the Soldiers' Home Total....... Accounts received and revised during the year—Continued. Character of accounts. Received. Revised. Amount. 4. Of paymasters of the Navy, acting as navy-agents and disbursingofficers. From the Third Auditor: 1. Of disbursing-officers of the Quartermaster's Department for the regular supplies and incidental expenses 2. Of disbursing-officers of the Subsistence Department... 3. Of disbursing-officers of the Engineer Department for military surveys, the construction of fortifications, river and harbor surveys and improvements 4. Of pension-agents for the payment of pensions, &c Total...... From the Fourth Auditor: 1. Of the disbursing-officers of the Marine Corps.. 2. Of the paymasters of the Navy proper 3. Of paymasters of the Navy Department at the navy-yards 5. Of Navy pension-agents for the payment of pensions to the invalids of the Navy and Marine Corps Clerks at end of the fiscal year.. Temporary clerks, part of the year... Accounts on hand at the commencement of the fiscal year. Accounts on hand at the close of the fiscal year.. Clerks at beginning of the fiscal year.. 122 1,091 871 808 70 52 4 The business of the office, during the whole of the fiscal year reported, was conducted under the direction of my immediate predecessor, and this report is prepared from his records and files. Respectfully, Hon. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. W. W. UPTON, Comptroller. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, Washington City, D. C., October 31, 1877. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith, for your information, a statement of the work performed in this office during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877. The number of accounts on hand July 1, 1876............ The number of accounts received from the First Auditor during the year....... Number of accounts adjusted during the year Number of accounts on hand July 1, 1877 .................. 209 6,529 6,738 6, 435 6, 445 293 There was paid into the Treasury of the United States, from sources the accounts relating to which are settled in this office On account of customs.... On account of marine-hospital tax...... On account of steamboat-inspections.. On account of fines, penalties, and forfeitures... On account of storage, services of officers, &c.... On account of customs-officers and emolument fees.. On account of deceased passengers... And there was paid out of the Treasury On account of expenses of collecting the revenue from customs.. On account of debentures... On account of public buildings. On account of construction and maintenance of lights.. On account of construction and maintenance of revenue-cutters.. On account of marine-hospital service.... On account of life-saving stations.... On account of compensation in lieu of moieties. On account of relief acts On account of admission of foreign goods to Centennial. On account of seal-fisheries in Alaska... On account of metric standard weights and measures.. |