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making...$37,000
I also counted upon ten thousand dollars $10,000.00 that a decision of the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury for repairs of the Marine Hospital at New Orleans, La.; and also upon about twelve thousand dollars, $12,000.- that a decision of the Court of Claims, not anticipated, required to pay imoluments to retain officers.
I may add that Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of the regional appropriation was reappropriated previously, to the Agricultural Department.
Again:- a regular appropriation for the salaries of agents and clerks to pay bounties and claims to colored soldiers, sailors and marines, amounting to upwards of one hundred thousand dolars. ($100,000.00) and the regular supplies for the hospitals and asylums, of seventy five thousand dollars ($75,000.00) were not asked for, on account of pending legislation which would