It will be seen from the accompanying statements, that in the paymasters' section there were settled 468 accounts, involving $10,340,451.10; in the Navy-pay-agents' section, 133 accounts, involving $9,583,301.66; in the prize-money section, 427 accounts, involving $80,451.83; in the Navy pension section, 273 accounts, involving $599,195.08; in the general-claims section, 1,500 accounts, involving $225,623.00. In addition to the settlement of the above-mentioned accounts, there were entered 2,317 pay-requisitions, amounting to $18,301,322.45, and 245 refunding-requisitions, amounting to $3,522,176.47. There were 1,111 allotments registered, and 990 discontinued; 15,478 letters were received, and 16,885 written. Reports were made in 427 pension, 29 bounty-land cases, and in 12 applications for admission into the United States Naval Asylum. It gives me pleasure to call attention to the efficiency, capability, and good conduct of all the heads of sections in the office. Their assistance and knowledge have been of great advantage. I can also, with very little exception, bestow the same praise on the clerks who have co-operated with me and their chiefs in performing their work with credit to themselves and to the department. Mr. William B. Moore, the competent and faithful deputy Fourth Auditor, in the last as in previous years, has been a constant aid, help, and assistant. The affairs of the office are in good condition, and the work is kept up as fully and completely as the clerical force allowed by the act of August 15, 1876, will permit. Every effort has been made to attend to all business with promptitude, courtesy, and correctness, and I trust that it is not too much to say that these efforts have been efficiently and satisfactorily accomplished. I shall constantly endeavor, in the performance of my duties, to render you every assistance in my power to make the department all that its vast scope, functions, and necessities demand. I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, STEPHEN J. W. TABOR, Auditor. Hon. JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of the Treasury. REPORT OF THE FIFTH AUDITOR OF THE TREASURY. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, FIFTH AUDITOR'S OFFICE, Washington, October 31, 1877. SIR: I have the honor to transmit here with tabular statements showing the operations of this office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877. There were eleven thousand and forty-two accounts received during the year, and eleven thousand five hundred and seventy-one settled, requiring the examination of two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine vouchers. The amount involved in these accounts was $945,624,519.83. The number of letters written was two thousand five hundred and fifty, and the number of reports recorded ten thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. Very respectfully, Hon. JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of the Treasury. J. H. ELA, Auditor. [The tabular statements referred to are printed in pamphlet form, but for want of space are omitted from this report.] |