In obedience to law, statements showing balance of appropriation for the year 1860, and the expenditures of appropriation made for 1861, including amount carried to surplus fund and balance remaining on hand June 30, 1861.

JANUARY 13, 1862.-Read on motion by Mr. Wilson, ordered to lie on the table and be

printed.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

January 11, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith the annual statement required by the act of May 1, 1820, prepared by the Second Comptroller of the Treasury, showing balances of appropriations standing upon the books of his office to the credit of this department on the 1st of July, 1860, the amounts appropriated by Congress for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861, including repayments and transfers of appropriations, and the aggregate amounts applicable to the service of said fiscal year; also the amounts drawn from said appropriations or carried to the surplus fund from July 1, 1860, to June 30, 1861, and the balances remaining in the treasury at the last-named date. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. HANNIBAL HAMLIN,

CALEB B. SMITH, Secretary.

President of the Senate of the United States.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Second Comptroller's Office, January 10, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit, in duplicate, a statement of the appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1860-'61, showing the balances of appropriations on the 1st of July, 1860, the appropriations made for the fiscal year 1860-'61, the repayments and transfers in the same time, the amounts applicable to the service of the year 1860-'61, the amounts drawn by requisitions from the treasury for the same period, and finally, the balances on the 30th June, 1861, with such appropriations as have been carried to the surplus fund, prepared in pursuance of the act of Congress approved May 1, 1820. Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,

Hon. CALEB B. SMITH,

Secretary of the Interior.

J. MADISON CUTTS, Comptroller.