A great many claims have been rejected by the Committee for causes, the enumeration of which it is unnecessary to embody in this report.

On the 15th day of Aprll, 1862, Mr. Terrell having been appointed Military Secretary to the Governor, W. C. Lupton was appointed to fill the vacancy, who continued to act as Clerk of the Committee until the 19th of June, at which time he was appointed Quartermaster at Camp Morton, and J. J. Hayden appointed Clerk of the Committee, who is still acting as such in the distribution of claims audited by the Committee, taking proper vouchers and receipts for them when delivered, and making up a full and complete record of all the claims audited by the Committee.

There are still many claims outstanding, which are being presented from day to day.

A detailed statement of all the accounts audited by the Committee would make a voluminous report, and we have deemed it sufficient to classify the claims audited so far as the same can be done, and prosent our report in that shape.

We have classified claims under the following headings, with amounts audited to each class, as follows:

In addition to which, at the request of the Governor, we have examined and audited claims on account of the Arsenal, amounting to........

Total

385,978 63

$1,256,593 30

About $16,000 of the amount audited in Arsenal accounts was for other departments, but for convenience was presented with them and allowed and paid directly by the General Government.

Respectfully submitted.

D. C. BRANHAM,

M. L. BRETT,

J. H. MELLETT,

Auditing Committee

January, 1863.

REPORT.

OFFICE OF THE INDIANA SANITARY COMMISSION.

Indianapolis, January 2nd, 1865.

O. P. MORTON, Governor of Indiana,

SIR:-The Sanitary Commission present to your Excellency their report, the object of which is, as far as has been found practicable, to exhibit, by means of detailed statements, what we have received from the people of Indiana, and the mode in which the fruits of their generous devotion, to the comfort and health of our soldiers, have been distributed. The Commission began its career shortly after the bloody battle of Fort Donaldson, and consequently had been in existence two years and nine months, up to the 1st of December, 1864. We submit a statement of receipts and disbursements in money, from which the following results are condensed:

Cash contributions which came to our hands on the organization of the Commission, in February 1862, in which are included moneys received from unknown.

97,035 22

Cash contributions up to December 1st, 1864............

From which it appears, that the total cash contributions have been

one hundred and fifty-five thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six