and to the public stores, the buildings for those purposes were constructed rapidly and at a heavy expense to the United States, caused mainly by the difficulty of obtaining mechanical labor and of procuring building materials. The sum for which an estimate is now made is required to pay the expenses already incurred at that point.

Total..........

QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE,

J. E. JOHNSTON,
Quartermaster General.

Washington, D. C., January 15, 1861.

$709,435

36TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( Ex. Doc. 2d Session. No. 34.

WAR DEPARTMENT-BALANCES, ETC.

LETTER

FROM

THE SECRETARY OF WAR AD INTERIM,

TRANSMITTING

A statement of appropriations applicable to the service of the War Department, &c.

JANUARY 17, 1861.-Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.

WAR DEPARTMENT, January 16, 1861.

SIR: In pursuance of the act of May 1, 1820, I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement of the appropriations applicable to the service of the War Department for the fiscal year 1859-'60, the amount drawn from the treasury by requisitions during the same period, the balances on the 1st July, 1860, and the appropriations carried to the surplus fund.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. JOSEPH HOLT,

Hon. WILLIAM PENNINGTON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

J. HOLT, Secretary of War ad interim.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Second Comptroller's Office, January 12, 1861. . SIR: I have the honor herewith to transmit in duplicate a statement of the appropriations for the War Department for the fiscal year 1859-1860, showing the balances of the appropriations on the 1st of July, 1859, the appropriations made for the fiscal year 1859-1860, the repayments and transfers in the same time, the amounts applicable to the service of the year 1859-1860, the amounts drawn by requisitions from the treasury in the same period, and, finally, the balances on the 30th of June, 1860, with such appropriations as have been carried to the surplus fund; prepared in pursuance of an act of Congress approved the 1st of May, 1820.

Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,

Secretary of War ad interim.

J. MADISON CUTTS,
Second Comptroller.

Statement of the appropriations for the service of the War Department from July 1, 1859, to June 30, 1860, made pursuant to the provisions of the second section of the act of Congress of May 1, 1820, entitled "An act in addition to the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.”.