Estimates of additional appropriations required to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863, and previous years.

CIVIL, FOREIGN INTERCOURSE, AND MISCELLANEOUS.

STATE DEPARTMENT.

For salary of the marshal of the United States consular court at Bangkok from September 6, 1860, to June 30, 1861, at $1,000 per annum.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

For amount required for additional clerks,
keeper, messenger, watchmen, and fire-
man, or laborer, in the office of the assist-
ant treasurer at New York from January
1 to June 30, 1863..

For amount required for additional clerks
and messenger in the office of the assist-
ant treasurer at Philadelphia from Jan-
uary 1, to June 30, 1863...
For necessary expenses in carrying into
effect the several acts of Congress author-
izing loans and the issue of treasury notes
For expenses incident to carrying into effect

an act for the collection of direct taxes in
insurrectionary districts within the United
States, and for other purposes; for sala-
ries of tax commissioners who have been
or may be appointed in the present fiscal
year, their clerks and contingent ex-
penses, per act of June 7, 1862; Laws,
pages 422 to 426...

$4,350 00

2,750 00

580, 000 00

$817 93

2,000 00
1,000 00

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

For travelling expenses for a special agent
authorized by act of July 14, 1862....
For annual repairs of the President's House
For enabling the Commissioner of Patents

to pay H. S. Davis, for carpenters' work
done in the west wing of the Patent Of
fice building, as per measurement of J.
W. Downing, Job. W. Angus, and S. T.
G. Morsell..

WAR DEPARTMENT.

By the act of July 5, 1862, the following additional clerks were allowed :

In Surgeon General's office :

One clerk of class two

One clerk of class one

Carried forward

5, 720 04

8, 720 04

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT-INDIAN.

Indian service in Colorado Territory: For liquidation of agency debts contracted under late Agents Head and Colley, and for the pay of employés to the close of

1861.

For this amount required to pay the claim of B. Bachman & Co. for goods furnished to Peter Boyce, Indian farm agent at Corn Creek, Utah Territory, in the months of August, September, and December, 1859 For this amount required to reimburse the appropriation under the treaty of Fort Laramie, the amount expended in the purchase of guns and ammunition for the Upper Platte agency in 1861, and seized by order of the government as contraband.

$7,500 00

710 00

2,439 13

10, 649 13

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, November 28, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith estimates of additional appropriations required for the service of this department for the present fiscal year. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury.

Secretary of War.

QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S Office,
Washington City, November 11, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith an estimate for deficiencies in the appropriations of the last session of Congress, arising from the increase of force authorized by an act of Congress approved July 17, 1862, and called into the service of the United States by the President on the 4th of August, 1862, and from the increased price of certain supplies required for the army. The estimate submitted on 23d May last, upon which the appropriation for the fleet of steam rams was made, provided for the maintenance of that fleet until the 30th of September, 1862, only, by which time it was hoped that the Mississippi river would be open and the fleet could be dispensed with. The failure of the attack on Vicksburg, however, has made it necessary to retain this fleet in service, and an item of $450,000 is included in the estimate of deficiencies, in order to provide for the expenses of the fleet during the nine months from 30th September, 1862, to 30th June, 1863.

This estimate is marked D.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

M. C. MEIGS, Quartermaster General.

D.

Estimate of funds required to supply a deficiency in the appropriations for the quartermaster's department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863, caused by the advance in prices of certain articles of supplies, and the increased force called into the service of the United States.

For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's department-
fuel, forage, straw, and stationery.

For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses...
For the transportation of the army and its supplies....

For the erection, hire, and repairs of barracks, quarters, and
hospitals...

For clothing, camp and garrison equipage

For maintenance and support of fleet of steam rams from September 30, 1862, to June 30, 1863...

Total....

QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, D. C., November 11, 1862.

$6,000, 000 00 11, 000, 000 00 25, 000, 000 00

1,730, 000 00 27, 136, 000 00

450, 000 00

71, 316, 000 00

M. C. MEIGS, Quartermaster General.

ORDNANCE OFFICE,

War Department, Washington, November 27, 1862.

SIR: In obedience to the order of 25th instant, I have the honor to submit, herewith an additional estimate of funds which will be required for the service of the Ordnance department during the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. E. M. STANTON,

JAMES W, RIPLEY, Brigadier General, Chief of Ordnance.

Secretary of War.

Estimate of additional appropriations, under the control of the War Department, required for the ordnance service during the first and second quarters of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863.

For the purchase of arms for volunteers and regulars, and ord

nance and ordnance stores...

For the purchase of gunpowder and lead.......

$13,226,788

1,500,000

14,726,788

REMARKS IN EXPLANATION TO THE FOREGOING ESTIMATES.

Purchase of arms for volunteers, &c.-The amount of this item is deduced from the average past expenditure, during the last four months, of the amount appropriated by the act of Congress of July 5, 1862, which will not materially vary, it is supposed, during the remainder of the fiscal year. The estimates for the current fiscal year were not based on the supposition that the army in the field would be as large as it has been deemed necessary to make it, and hence the required additional appropriation for arms, &c.

Purchase of gunpowder and lead.-The same remarks apply to this item as to the previous one. A large quantity of lead and powder has been procured and is in store, but it is deemed advisable to keep up the supply, by purchasing additional quantities to replace that which is consumed.

JAMES W. RIPLEY, Brigadier General, Chief of Ordnance.

ORDNANCE OFFICE,

Washington, D. C., November 27, 1862.

SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington City, D. C., November 26, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to lay before you an estimate of the funds required for the medical and hospital department of the army for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863.

The estimates for this department for the current fiscal year, laid before Congress at its last session, amounted to $6,220,984.

The amount appropriated by the act approved July 5, 1862, was $5,705,984. According to the statement which I had the honor to submit on the 19th instant, the accounts and requisitions approved in this office during the period from July 1 to October 31, 1862, amounted to $5,502,809 02.