Average cost of the ration: Services, $0.052; supplies, $0.33; total, $0.382. Purchases: Contracts formal No. 130, $531,645.07; L. of A. No. 367, $64,439.60; open market No. 537, $66,039.99.

NOTE. Average cost per capita obtained by eliminating from "general expenditures," "sales, etc.," "effects of deceased members," and including T. A. P. members in the average present. Average cost per ration obtained by adding value of farm products transferred to subsistence to the expenditure under subsistence for service and supplies (less sales), figured on the average subsisted, including members, T. A. P. members and civilians.

1, 522, 421. 37

Of the above balance $61,797.89 is standing to the credit of deceased members.

The rate and number of pensioners

Actual number of pensioners cared for (from total deduct the number gained by change of rate), 3,627.