ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, November 26, 1851. HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, November 26, 1851. Non-com'd officers, musicians, artificers, and privates. Aggregate. 16 16 512 581 128 139 640 786 R. JONES, Adjutant General U. S. Army. WINFIELD SCOTT. F. Statement showing the whole number of Recruits enlisted in the Army from the 1st of October, 1850, to the 30th of September, 1851. I.—GENERAL RECRUITING SERVICE. Brevet Colonel J. Plympton, Lieut. Colonel 7th Infantry, superintendent. Brevet Lieut. Colonel P. St. G. Cooke, Major 2d Dragoons, superintendent. V.-Amount of recruiting funds in the hands of officers of the army, Sep tember 30th, 1850... $6,374 32. Amount of recruiting funds advanced to recruiting officers from October 1st, 1850, to September 30th, 1851.. 43,742 15 Amount of funds accounted for from October 1st, 1850, to September 30th, 1851... $50,116 47 43,113 66 Balance in the hands of recruiting officers September 30th, 1851.. 7,002 81 Respectfully submitted, R. JONES, Adjutant General United States Army. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, November 26, 1851. MAJOR GENERAL W. SCOTT, Commanding in Chief. No. VII. REPORT OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL. QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington City, November 22, 1851. SIR: In obedience to your order, I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the Quartermaster's Department, during the fiscal year commencing the 1st of July, 1850, and ending the 30th of June, 1851. When I presented my last report, the sums in the hands of the several disbursing officers, and balances in the hands of officers and agents who were no longer in the service, amounted, in the aggregate, from the data then attainable, to the sum of $786,918 29 To which should be added an amount received by the late And an amount received by Maj. Robert Allen from the Making the whole apparent sum to be accounted for at the date of that report, To which are to be added 1. Remittances.-Through the Treasury Department, and by the payment of drafts drawn on this office, amounting, together, under all heads of appropriation during the fiscal year, to 2. Proceeds of the sales of public property, viz :-Prior to the fiscal year, as ascertained by accounts received since last report, And during the fiscal year, 60,000 00 56,791.47 $903,709 76 5,405,899 82 $856 16 139,659 34 140,515 50 $6,450,125 08 618,448 23 $367,888 30 4,721,080 04 5,088,968 34 14,523 51, 5,721,940 08 $728,185 00 Accounts are due from two officers of the Quartermaster's Department, viz: from Captain Reynolds, late principal Assistant Quartermaster in New Mexico, for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year. There is an apparent balance against him of one hundred and three thousand dollars. He was ordered by the commander of the department to accompany him on an expedition against the Navajo Indians, which is probably the cause of his accounts not having been forwarded. He is understood to be now on his way to this city. From Captain Folsom, Assistant Quartermaster at San Francisco, for the third and fourth quarters of the fiscal year. He states as a reason for not forwarding his accounts, that all his papers, public and private, were destroyed in the fires at San Francisco. The apparent balance against him, at the close of the fiscal year, was about one hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars. In compliance with your instructions, he will be ordered to this city to settle his accounts so soon as an officer can be sent to relieve him. Accounts are due from twelve acting Assistant Quartermasters, with three exceptions, generally for small amounts; the three referred to are Lieut. G. W. Hawkins of the rifle regiment, recently acting with that regiment in Oregon. His indebtedness is apparently about seventy thousand dollars; but, as he is known to have made expenditures, and accounts are due from him from 1848 to the close of the last fiscal year, he may not in fact be much indebted to the public. Lieut. Russell, of the same regiment, is accountable for thirty-three thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars, but he is supposed to have made considerable disbursements: both have been ordered hither to settle their accounts. Lieut. C. E. Irvine is accountable for thirty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars. He was serving in Öregon, it is believed, and accounts are due from him for the last two years. Aportion, if not the whole of the sum apparently due, is supposed to have been applied to the public service. The whole expenditure of the quartermaster's department in the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1845, amounted to nine hundred and eightyfive thousand seven hundred and eight dollars and fifty cents. The aggregate force of the army was then about eight thousand six hundred and sixteen officers and men. The aggregate force now authorized is about twelve thousand nine hundred and thirty-four officers and men, being an increase of about one-half, while the expenditures of the last fiscal year, without taking into consideration the accounts yet to be received, which it is estimated will increase them about one-tenth, amount to four millions seven hundred and twenty-one thousand and eighty dollars and four cents. Had the circumstances of the country and of the service remained the same, the increase in the expenditures should have been in about the ratio of the increase of the aggregate force; and such has been the effect in regard to the supply of fuel and straw-articles not materially affected by the positions occupied by the troops; for though wood in California has sometimes cost from twenty to forty-five dollars per cord, yet there are so many stations where the troops have supplied themselves, that the ratio of expenditure for that item has been about in proportion to the increase of the force. The cost of mounts and remounts also, which depends more upon the strength of the mounted force than upon the state of the country occupied, has been in about the ratio of the increase of that force, and the increased price of horses, since the close of the war with Mexico. |