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cool pleasant [[preprinted]] TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1865. [[preprinted]]
Box of books arrived from Paris Large number of plants for Dr Gray - -
Called at Riggs' has sold the gold reserved for the payment of the half yearly interest on S. I. income for 43 1/2 percent
- has deposited $15,000 with the secretary of the Treasury on interest and the remainder to the account of the S. I. on the books of the house.
Took to the printer the very last part of the Report for 1864 - will have a reviso of the whole volume on Thursday.
Accident to Mary. Bust of Washington from the top of clothes press fell upon her head and piece broke one of the side bones of her nose
Large amounts of the dry wood carried off by Negroes from the S. I. the [[reffuce/refuse?]] from the interior of the tower.
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cool [[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1865. [[/preprinted]]
Directed cellers to be cleaned up worthless boxes to be broken up for fire wood The wood put in our place.
Found that the architect was having free stone cut for the windows of the front tower I do not think this necessary The fronts can be filled with lattes work
Gave orders that all the wood in the seller should closely piled up 
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