Detailed statement of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882. Dry goods and clothing, books and stationery, and miscella Engineers' department Farm and garden; includes also hauling stones and coal, keeping roads in order, drivers of patients' carriages, 61 82 1,436 07 20 50 78 70 2,158 26 11,607 74 23, 186 63 4,280 58 12, 848 57 750 00 7,600 60 $14,831 75 1,660 09 2,755 45 73, 012 67 3.95 235,972 27 Total 1881. July Aug. Sept. Itemized receipts. 11. Board paid for D. W. Garst 25. Board paid for Charles K. Yancey 91.00 45.00 50 00 167 15 12.00 65250 17 05 65.00 90 75 10.00 32 00 65 00 46.00 65.00 37 14 32 00 91 00 10 000 00 27 00 91 00 63 00 65 00 52.00 80 16 178 15 91 00 30. Board paid by Soldiers' Home 65 00 1881. Oct. Nov. Dec. 24. Board paid for Sarah C. Wood $273 00 30 00 25.00 31 00 105 00 130 00 60 00 65 00 52 00 91 00 91 00 10 00 65 00 91 00 65 00 30 00 10,000 00 647 35 31. Board paid for E. C. Carrington.. 31. Board paid by District of Columbia 31. Board paid by Marine Hospital Service. 31. Board paid for Sarah R. Cox. 31. Board paid for H. Buchlers 31. Special attendance paid for Rollin Perkins 31. Board paid for S. C. Wood. 65 00 164 00 Feb. 14. Board paid for Adolph Berger 1. Board paid for E. C. Carrington 2. Board paid for Henry Price 75.00 91 00 65 00 65 00 10 00 70.00 112 50 144 10 91 00 130 00 65 00 12 86 31 00 20 00 65 00 16. Board paid for P. H. Key 20 00 16. Board paid for Charles K. Yancey 91 00 18. Board paid for H. Claude 10 00 25. Special attendance paid for D. A. Dow 20 00 20 00 2. Board paid for E. C. Carrington.. 30 00 8. Board paid for Angelina Reeves 24.00 Apr. May June 1882. 13. Board paid for Adolph Berger.. 19. Clothing paid for G. F. Morrison. 2. Board paid for E. C. Carrington. 30. Board paid by District of Columbia Total $65 00 20 00 50 00 14 29 31 00 65 00 40.00 40.00 10 00 30 00 91 00 2.00 20 00 91 00 10 00 91 00 20 00 10 00 40 00 91 00 28.00 10.00 10,000 00 50,179 76 REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. SIR: I have the honor to transmit my annual report for the year endHOT SPRINGS, October 1, 1882. ing the 30th of June, 1882. time since, by which you will learn that my collections of water rent My financial report was forwarded some amounted to $3,535.61; ground rent, $1,000; disbursements, $1,066.91; deposited in the Merchants' National Bank, Little Rock, $3,468.70. Í also inclose the report of J. L. Barnes, who has charge of the Mudhole bath pool, by which you will learn that 37,690 free baths were given during the year, and 6,313 paid baths. The amount collected for the paid baths is applied to defray the expenses of salaries of attendants and other necessary expenses, as you will see by the account rendered. Martin Burrett, who has charge of the free pools on the south side of the mountain, reports that there are at least 100 baths taken every day in the two pools for men and women. Since my last annual report I have constructed, by order of the Secretary, another brick tank, in which the water of several of the elevated springs is conveyed by pipes. It stands on the side of the mountain above the Arlington Hotel. It holds 20,000 gallons. Several bathhouses draw hot water from this tank. Capt. T. H. Handbury, United States engineer, has completed the survey of the creek, and, I presume, has forwarded his report. I respectfully but most earnestly recommend that the portion of the creek from the forks down to the Arlington Hotel be improved at once, as the street is dangerous and in places almost impassable. I suggest that Congress be asked to appropriate a sufficient amount to complete the entire work as proposed by Captain Handbury. I must again urge upon the Secretary the policy, and, indeed, the necessity of giving the Federal court jurisdiction over this reservation The local magistrates are elected by popular vote. The gamblers, fakirs, robbers, and bummers constitute a large element of the voting population, and consequently the local magistrates, in many instances, are in sympathy with them, if not of the same character. Therefore it is almost an impossibility to convict this class of trespassers upon the reservation. If the authority was given to the Federal court I would have little trouble, as this class of men have, as indeed most of the people of the South, a very healthy fear of the United States court. By direction of the Secretary, I selected one hundred lots on the original reservation, which were sold at Little Rock by the land officers in July. As I predicted in my report to the Secretary, the lots sold for prices largely over the valuation by the late commissioners, and would have brought much more had it not been for a combination formed on the last day of the sale, by which no bids above the valuation were to be made. I therefore recommend that no more of public lots be sold 63 INT |