Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1877 — The Nary. [ARTICLE]

The Nary.

Washington, Dec. 2. The Secretary of the Navy, in his annual report, says the appropriations available for the. are ♦13,592,932. The whole amount drawn from the Treasury from July 1 to Nov. 1, 1877, is ♦5,343,037. Of this amount there is 'estimated to hare been in the hands of the Paymasters and agents of th? Government, on Nov. 1,1877, $876,528, besides $152,000 refunded, making the total $1,028,528, which, deducted from the amount drawn, will show the -acF' tual expenditure from July Ito Nov. 1, 1877, to have been $4,313,509. T'he estimates for the present fiscal year are $16,233,234, exclusive of $2,314,231 submitted for new buildings, repairs and improvements ot the several navy yards.

In the report of the Secretary of the Navy, Nov. 29,1876, the estimated amount for the pay of the Navy for the present fiscal year was $7,800,000, the computation being based upon the number of officers and men then borne upon the register. Congress, however, by act of March 3, 1877, appropriated only $6,600,000 or $700,000 less than the estimate. This will necessarily produce a deficiency at the end of the fiscal year, unless Congress shall appropriate the ajjove amount, the payment of which to officers and men is so fixed by law that it cannot be evaded. The amount appropriated for deficiency at the extra session of Congress has reference onk to the last fiscal year, ending June 80, 1877, rand was based upon the amount ascertained to be due upon the books of the Fourth Auditor’s office, whereas the deficiency here referred to is estimated for the present fiscal year, ending June 80,1878.