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432 Total amount of cash received from loan commissioners. . . . 1,525.89

Deduct discount on sovereigns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.56

$1,520.38

Amount received from other sources for which commissary's due bills are issued. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,364.69

Total amount of cash received. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,885.02

" " " "paid out per vouchers..... ... 2,811.15½

Charge J. Palmer's private account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 78 .86½

This department has drawn orders on the loan commissioners from No. 1 to No. 207 inclusive.

Cash included. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .516,127.33½

Commissary due bills (outstanding) about. . . . . . . . . 5,301.00

The amount of subsistence when the returns are fully made, will not be far from. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11,464.00

There is remaining in the hands of the commissary»general the following: At Ft. Wascopam about 60 head of spanish cattle; at forts Wascopam and Waters about 25 horses; in the valley about 40 head of cattle, 8 or 10 horses, 6 kegs of powder, 4 large kegs of powder, 1 box caps, 4 rifles, 26 muskets, 1 shot-gun, lead, balls, shot, 1 tent, 5 sickles, 10 hoes, 4 hand-saws, 1 broad-axe, 1 adze, 1 fine saw, 1 cross-cut saw, 1' spade, 16 camp kettles, 2 frying-pans, 8 spoons, 9 tin pans, 10 plates, and 3 coffee pots.

The several accounts of camp equipage, arms, and repairs, and saddling, owing to reports from proper officers not being full on those accounts, and the transactions of the disbursing officers as yet are unsettled, renders it impossible to state the precise amount of articles lost and worn out in the service, consequently prevents at present being stated the amount paid by each. There are vouchers in this office covering the total amount of cost, when added to the amount in hand.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

Joel Palmer,

Per Lot Witcomb, A. C. G.

To A. E. Wilson, Acting Adjutant-General.

(c) The reports of the commissioners on Cayuse war claims are in the form of lists of the names of persons to whom claims have been awarded, with the sum total awarded on the claims of each. They are found in the appendix to the Journal of the House of Representatives during the Fourth Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly, pp. 23-6 (1852); and the appendix to the Journal of the House of Representatives during the Fifth Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly, pp. 12-14 (1853.)