The number of credit and counter requisitions drawn by the Secretaries of War and Interior on sundry persons in favor of the Treasurer of the United States is 1,170, on which repayments into the Treas. ury have been made through the Third Auditor's Office, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1880: Deposits.

Transfer accounts

Total.......

$1,811, 469 28 127,200 40 1,938, 669 68

Number of letters written, 5,417; number of clerks employed, 18; number of vouchers examined, 239,767; number of pages of manuscript written, 10,012

SUBSISTENCE DIVISION.

The transactions of the subsistence and engineer branches for the fiscal year are shown by the following statement, viz:

Number of vouchers examined, 138,851; number of letters written, 1,873; number of difference sheets written, 1,021; number of calls answered, 642; number of clerks employed, 9.

a This is the amount claimed in 11,142 cases, the amount claimed in the other 1,532 cases not being stated.

This is the amount claimed in 2,701 cases, the amount claimed in the other 245 cases not being stated. eThis is the amount claimed in 2,433 cases, the amount claimed in the other 174 cases not being stated. dThis is the amount claimed in 11,410 cases, the amount claimed in the other 1,603 cases not being stated.

e This is the amount claimed in 345 cases, the amount claimed in the other 365 cases not being stated. fThis is the amount claimed in 21 cases, the amount claimed in the other 35 cases not being stated. g This is the amount claimed in 28 cases, the amount claimed in the other 31 eases not being stated. This is the amount claimed in 338 cases, the amount claimed in the other 369 cases not being stated.

Number of letters written during the year, 2,373.

Number of briefs made, SS1. Number of claims examined and suspended, 1,893. Number of letters written, 5,500. Number of letters received and recorded, 5,230. Number of clerks employed, 5.

Work has been continued during the fiscal year in abstracting the names of soldiers of the war of 1812, for the purpose of arrangement in alphabetical registers, with all the clerical force available. Up to date three hundred and forty-six thousand four hundred and thirty-two payments have been abstracted, which is probably one-half of the payments made for services in that war. In order to complete these registers within a period of time that will be available to the old soldiers and their widows, whose applications for pension are now pending in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, but whose service cannot be traced for lack of data to base a search upon, an increase in the clerical force in this division will be necessary. In many cases, of widows, especially, who know the fact by tradition that their former husbands served in the war of 1812, the claimants do not know or have forgotten the names of the officers under whom they served. Until these alphabetical registers are completed this office is unable to trace the service of any soldier without the name of the captain or colonel under whom the soldier served. When these registers shall be completed a knowledge of the name of the soldier will be a sufficient clue to trace his military service. When the

abstract slips are entered upon registers they may be sent to the States from which the soldiers enlisted to become a part of the records of the State. The current work of the collection division has largely increased during the fiscal year, and if the same ratio of increase continues additional clerical force will be required to keep it up.

ARMY PENSION DIVISION.

Amounts refunded to the credit of the following appropriations, dur ing the fiscal year ended June 30, 1880:

Army pensions 1877 and prior years

Army pensions 1878

Army pensions 1878, being amount to credit of appropriation June 30,

1879

The above amounts were carried to the surplus fund.

Balance on hand June 30, 1879, appropriation 1879, being the unexpended part of the $1,800,000 appropriated....

Amount refunded and deposited, appropriation 1879.

Amount paid on settlement of accounts, appropriation 1879...

Balance to credit of appropriation June 30, 1880.....

$23,628 45 2,077 68

1,339,582 06

736, 173 34 596,365 67

1,332, 539 01 89,562 36

1, 242, 976 65

Amount appropriated, acts January 29 and March 3, 1879. $25, 000, 000 00
Amount appropriated, act May 31, 1880

Total........

500,000 00 25, 500, 000 00

The following tabular statement shows the number of accounts received and audited during the fiscal year:

Pension checks verified before payment, 65, amounting to

3,603

Amount appropriated for printing pension checks, act March 3, 1879, "1880”.
Amount paid on settlement of accounts, "1879".
Amount paid on settlement of accounts, "1880".

Settlements for lost checks made, 53, amounting to.
Amount appropriated for printing pension checks, act March 3, 1879, "1879".

The following tabular statement exhibits the number and amount of accounts on hand and unsettled July 1, 1869, together with those received and audited each fiscal year since.