Paymaster, quartermaster, and adjutant and inspector.

Assistant quartermasters......

Captains..................

First lieutenant, (retired)

Musicians of the band.....*********

HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORrs, Paymaster's Office, September 29, 1962.

WM. W. RUSSELL, Paymaster United States Marine Corps.

HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORPS,
Washington, September 23, 1862.

SIR: I enclose to the department triplicate estimates for the supply of the quartermaster's department of the marine corps for one year, commencing the 1st of July, 1863.

I also enclose a letter from the quartermaster to me, explaining the different estimates, which I respectfully submit.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. GIDEON WELLES,

Secretary of the Navy,

JNO. HARRIS,

Colonel Commandant.

HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORPS,

Quartermaster's Office, Washington, September 22, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith triplicate estimates for the support of the quartermaster's department, marine corps, for one year, commencing July 1, 1863, and ending June 30, 1864.

These estimates differ from those submitted by me with my letters dated October 12, 1861, and February 12, 1862, in the following items of appropriation, viz:

The aggregate amount required by the present estimates is $26,592 86 less than the aggregates of the two estimates submitted with my letters above referred to.

The increase in the clothing appropriation is caused by the high prices of the material from which the garments are made, and is based upon data in this office, which shows the average cost of clothing of a marine, for one year, to be $48 94.

The appropriation for provision has been reduced from 25 cents per ration to 20 cents, that sum being, in my opinion, sufficient, in view of the balance in the treasury to the credit of this appropriation.

Fuel has been reduced from $7 to $6 50 per cord for the same reason.

Military stores, transportation and recruiting, and contingencies, have been placed at the amounts asked for previous to the last increase of the corps, and Ten thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-seven cents was asked for in the estimate submitted by me on the 12th October, 1861, for repairs of barracks at Charlestown, Massachusetts, which is omitted from the present estimates.

is believed to be sufficient for these purposes.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Col. JOHN HARRIS,

W. B. SLACK, Quartermaster Marine Corps.

Commandant Marine Corps, Headquarters.

Estimate of the expenses of the quartermaster's department of the marine corps, for one year, from 1st July, 1863, to 30th June, 1864.

There will be required for the support of the quartermaster's department of the marine corps for one year, commencing on the 1st July, 1863, in addition to the balances then remaining on hand, the sum of four hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-one cents.

For provisions

For clothing

For fuel...

For military stores, viz: pay of mechanics, repairs of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments..

For transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and for expenses of recruiting...

For repair of barracks and rent of offices where there are no public buildings

For contingencies, viz: freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, wharfage, purchase and repair of boats, compensation to judges advocate, per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor, house rent in lieu of quarters, burial of deceased marines, printing, stationery, postage, telegraphing, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, gas, repairs of gas and water fixtures, water rent, forage, straw, barrack furniture, furniture for officers' quarters, bed-sacks, spades, shovels, axes, picks, carpenters' tools, keep of a horse for the messenger, pay of matron, washerwoman and porter at hospital headquarters, repairs to fire-engines, purchase and repair of engine hose, purchase of lumber for benches, mess tables, bunks, &c., repairs to public carryall, purchase and repair of harness, scavengering, galleys, cooking stoves, ranges, &c., stoves where there are no grates, gravel, &c., for parade grounds, repair of pumps, furniture for staff and commanding officers' offices, brushes, brooms, buckets, paving, and for other purposes ·

$135,926 00

200,276 76

31,430 75

15,000 00

22,000 00

8,000 00

45,000 00

CLOTHING.

For whom required.

Enlisted men.

Amount.

Non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, at $48 94 per

annum

1,500 watch coats, at $14 30 each..

3,654 $178, 826 76 21,450 00

No. 11.

General estimate for salaries and contingent for Navy Department and bureau and southwest executive building during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864.