REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE RECORD AND PENSION OFFICE. RECORD AND PENSION OFFICE, War Department, October 1, 1901. SIR: It has been the custom, for purposes of comparison and for convenience of reference, to introduce into the annual reports of the Record and Pension Office a statistical table showing the number of cases received and disposed of during the fiscal year. In conformity with this practice, the following statement for the year ended June 30, 1901, is submit.ed: These statistics, as compared with those for the preceding fiscal year, show a considerable reduction in the number of cases received and disposed of. As was to be expected from the large influx of cases immediately following the muster out of the Spanish war volunteers, the reduction is largely in the number of calls from the Commissioner of Pensions and the Auditor for the War Department for information from the records for use in the adjudication of claims on account of service during the war with Spain. Of the 103,916 pension cases referred to in the statistical table 84,235 were calls from the Commissioner of Pensions for the military histories of officers and enlisted men in service during the civil war or other wars preceding the war with Spain, or for specific information relative to their service or that of the organizations to which they belonged, and 19,681 were calls from the same official for similar reports relative to officers and soldiers of the Spanish war and the organizations in which they served. The cases received from the Auditor for the War Department embraced 17,388 calls for military histories or for information relating to service preceding the war with Spain, and 15,138 relating to service in that war. Although the number of cases received during the year was less than the receipts for the fiscal year 1900, the number was fully up to |