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man to have discontinued them. Col. Eaton directed Dr. McCord to report in person to the Adjutant General of the Army and ask instructions, which he did. The Adjutant General referred him to the Surgeon General & the Surgeon General to the Secretary  of the Treasury, and finally Dr. McCord was referred to Mr. Risiley, Special Supervising Agent of the Treasury Dep't who agreed that the Freedmens Department should be allowed ten thousand dollars ($10.000) per. month to supply hospitals with medicines and to pay Surgeons and Attendants, & twenty thousand dollars ($20.000) to pay indebtedness which had accrued since payment had been suspended; these payments to be made from the funds accruing from the special tax on the products of freedmens labor. With this understanding General Thomas issued General Orders No. One dated at Louisville, Ky. January 1st 1865. Upon this order a small supply of Medicines were procured for the most important points, but Surgeons and Attendants were not paid as the order was revoked by the Secretary of War in about a month after its issue.

Since the payment of Surgeons and hospital Attendants ceased on the part of the Government, the freedmens Dep't has been paying all the funds that could be spared for that purpose. It was not possible to cancel the whole indebtedness, there was not sufficient money in the Treasury.

Since the first of March 1865 there has been expended about three thousand dollars ($3000.00) pr. month in purchasing medicines and in paying Surgeons and hospital Stewards