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AEMY, UNITED STATES. 



CLASSES OF BONDS. 



Principal. Interest. Total. 



Six per cent funding bonds, 1S70, exclusive of those issued on account of Holford 777,000 205,020 982,020 



Untoput^'indebtedne'sVonaccounVofHoltopdlwnds 121,887 j 108,257 229,594 



Aggregate $2,014^37 j $1,003,086 $3,022,423 



correspondingly larger, in order to secure the The actual strength of the Regular Army, 

 surrender of the entire amount, which is about according to returns received by the Adjutant- 

 Ill, 474,501. This proposal, as thus construed, General, October 12, 1877, was as follows: 



was accepted by the Board of Finance, subject General officers 11 



to ratification by the Legislature, which does General staff-officers 566 



not meet until January, 1879, unless a special gjJBISfc:::: 199 



session is called. Regarding the legal Status Ordnance enlisted men 846 



of the disputed bonds, it should be stated that 



'..,,-,,, i j | j Enlisted men of staff corps 781 



the Supreme Court ot the state has declared Ten regiments of cavalry: 



the act under which the Railroad bonds were Officers 439 



issued unconstitutional, and the United States B * toa men 7 - 911 



Circuit has decided that the Levee bonds were Cavalry... 8,850 



lawfully issued. The arrangement for securing Fi^ere^ments of artillery: ^ 



the surrender of these bonds is altogether in Enlisted men.....' .'.'.........'.'.......'.*..'.'.'.'.' 2,321 



the hands of the creditors, who propose the 



plan of settlement. This plan of settlement Twenty-flve^gimentsofin'faii'by:' 



failed at the end of the year, owing to the re- Officers 877 



fusal of certain bondholders of the most ques- ^listed men 8,778 



tionable class of the indebtedness to accede to infantry 9,C55 



the proposition, and not to the opposition of Besides which there are reported as non-commissioned 



\ T , ., T . i . /fi n -i staff, unattached to regiments, Military Academy, 



a majonty Of the Legislature or Of the people. recruits unassigned, Indian scouts, and prison-guard, 



There was no State election this year, and amounting to -men 1,877 



no political action by the parties. The sessions Eetir^ffieere --"''.."-- 801 



of the Legislature being biennial, no official And captain United States' AiinyVby act of Congress!! 1 



reports covering the operations of the year Aggregating officers and men "2^0! 



have been submitted. 



ARMY, UNITED STATES. Pursuant to The force available for war is made up of 

 the act of Congress of August 15, 1876, the the cavalry, artillery, and infantry regiments, 

 Army has been reduced to a maximum of amounting to 20,610 officers and men, to 

 25,000 men. As this act provided that no w hich should be added the 11 general officers, 

 reduction should be made in the cavalry, it an <j the officers of the general staff serving 

 became necessary to reduce the other arms of w jth them, together with 570 Indian scouts, 

 the service to very scant dimensions. By Gen- The country is divided into 10 military de- 

 eral Orders issued May 19, 1877, the maximum partments, each of which is commanded by a 

 strength of all organizations, excepting cav- brigadier general or by the senior colonel 

 airy, was fixed as follows : serving in the department, specially em- 

 Enlisted men of engineers 200 powered by the President of the United States. 



8SS55S^y.:;:::::: S These departments.are then grouped into three 



Commissary-sergeants at posts. 148 geographical divisions, commanded by the 



WeK^Shm^:::::::. i::::: :::: :::: loo lieutenant-general and by two of the major- 



Recruiting-parties 800 generals. 



Indian scouts.... 600 The Military Division of the Mi ssonri, Lieu- 



ita^4f^aM^^^itf^teTl^t'tatMM tenant -General Sheridan commanding, em- 



of artillery 825 braces the Departments of Dakota, Platte, 



> *f3nt2!* IM " *" battei7 for 5 batteries at 9*n Missouri, and Texas, commanded respectively 



W)l --V _ , ' , ' __ , -. s , 



Thirty-eight enlisted men per battery for 50 batteries by Brigadier -Generals Terry, Crook, rope, and 



of artillery, and 5 enlisted men for non-commissioned Ord 



staff at each of 5 regimental headquarters of artillery 1,925 rrTi ir-Vi -r\- f *v. A *i * 



Thirty-seven enlisted men per company for 250 com- The Military Division Of the Atlantic, 



panies of infantry, and 5 for non-commissioned staff Major-General Hancock commanding, COm- 



ate 5 hof25regimentalh e adquartersofinfantry.... 9,875 prige8 thfi Department of the East, commanded 



In order to effect the necessary reduction, by General Hancock ; of the South, by Colonel 



there was ordered a suspension of recruiting, T. H. Ruger ; and of the Gulf, by Brigadier- 



and^tlie discharge of all soldiers whose terms General Augur. 



of enlistoent would expire before October 31, The Military Division of the Pacific, Ma- 



1877. Since July 1st, recruiting has not been jor-General McDowell commanding, includes 



resumed, excepting to a limited extent. the Department of California, commanded by 



