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the following reasons: Major Elderkin furnished me duplicate vouchers only of that purchase instead of triplicates; he supposing the same was required in our Bureau as in the Commissary Department. The two furnished me, I forwarded to Washington with my accounts for that month, Major E. promising to procure a triplicate, which he has not yet done. There is now a deposit in New York, of the funds set apart for these purchases, $11,169.78: and in my hands $3.75. Very Respectfully, Edwin Beecher, Dirg Officer, &c.