REPORT OF THE FIRST AUDITOR OF THE TREASURY. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, First Auditor's Office, October 28, 1876. SIR: In obedience to the request made in your letter of the 28th ultimo, I have the honor to submit the following statement of the business transactions of this office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876: Accounts adjusted. No. of accounts. Amount. RECEIPTS. Collectors of customs, for duties on merchandise and tonnage received...... 4458 of the Revised Statutes, (S. B.)..... Fines, penalties, and forfeitures.. 543 262, 524 91 Marine-hospital money collected Official emoluments of collectors, naval officers, and surveyors received Moneys received from sale of revenue-cutters 3 1,266 96 Moneys received on account of deceased passengers 29 Moneys received from Pacific Railroad Companies for accrued interest on bonds. 12 630 00 718, 179 96 Duties illegally exacted, fines remitted, judgments satisfied, and net proceeds of unclaimed merchandise paid Judiciary expenses, embracing accounts of United States marshals, district attorneys, commissioners and clerks, rent of court-houses, support of prisoners, &c.. 2,568 Mints and assay-offices... 220 3,880, 767 05 47,907, 731 60 Territorial accounts, embracing contingent expenses of executive offices and expenses of the legislative assemblies Defense of suits and collection and examination of vouchers and records in relation to captured and abandoned property.. 163, 776 34 Salaries and mileage of Members and Delegates of the House of Representatives 46,866 52 21,715 86 951, 919, 540 71 150, 357 75 144, 041 09 205, 268 44 336, 834 38 Salaries of Metropolitan police........ 5 296, 922 25 172,487 17 22, 000 00 15, 117 60 20, 700 00 203, 936 29 Accounts adjusted. DISBURSEMENTS-Continued. No. of accounts. Amounts. Salaries of officers and employés independent treasury. Contingent expenses of independent treasury.... Disbursing-clerks, for salaries of the several Departments of the Govern ment at Washington... Contingent expenses of said Departments.. Standard weights and measures. 5,771,947 66 2, 327, 934 46 9, 294 67 632, 663 31 1, 644, 511 04 19,171 30 1,791, 321 56 4, 262, 486 50 317, 263 44 109, 014 81 86,756 88 1,378, 323 61 8 347,776 38 Construction of subtreasury 12 Construction of new school-building, Georgetown, D. C. 2 Construction of State Department 4 25,650 47 13, 239 99 220, 627 54 Furniture for State Department Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings Heating apparatus for public buildings Furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings. 133,284 61 Repairs and preservation of public buildings. Annual repairs of the Treasury building 57.326 16 Purchase of lands for public buildings.. Vaults, safes, and locks Traveling and incidental expenses of steamboat inspectors. 350 123,322 56 911 70 43,454 92 Salaries steamboat-inspection service. Government Hospital for Insane, current expenses Government Hospital for Insane, erection of buildings. Columbia Hospital for Women, current expenses. Expenses of the board of health, District of Columbia. Expenses of transportation of United States notes, national currency, &c.. 917, 626 63 86, 444 21 571, 117 62 224 79, 997, 793 74 Payment of interest on outstanding public debt. 126 354, 771, 556 37 Re-imbursement of the Treasurer of the United States for legal-tender Acknowledgments of accounts written.. Powers of attorney for collecting interest on the public debt registered and filed Judiciary emolument accounts registered and referred.. 13, 963 2,948 935 508 With the aid of temporary clerks appointed and transferred to this office since the reduction of its clerical force, made in pursuance of the provisions of the legislative and executive appropriation act of August 15, 1876, its business has been kept up with promptness. In conclusion, I beg leave to commend the clerks in the office, generally, for efficiency and fidelity in the discharge of their assigned duties. Respectfully submitted. D. W. MAHON, Auditor. Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. LOT M. MORRILL, |