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War Department
Washington City
May 11, 1865

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

The order of this Department dated September 17 1864, requiring bills for job printing to be submitted to the assistant Secretary of War to be audited prior to being paid, applies to all bills outstanding and unpaid at the date of the order as well as those accruing afterwards. The same construction is put upon the order of April 8, 1864, relative to advertising. That is to say -
From and after April 8 1864, no officer had authority to pay any bill for advertising that had not been endorsed, approved at the War Department, nor, after September 17 1864, any bill for job printing not so endorsed.