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[[note in top margin]] [[underline]]  year ending June 30, 1888 [[/underline]] [[/note in top margin]]

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    Art Industry Dept 
Collections of Historical & Personal Relics,
coins, medals, [[/strikethrough]] & &
           A. Howard Clerk Curator
    Among the principal accessions may be noted [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] the War saddle of General Grant, deposited by General [[double underline]] A. H. Markland. [[/double underline]].  This was used by General Grant in all of the battles in which he participated from February 1862 to April 1865. [[strikethrough]] This [[/strikethrough]] It is a valuable addition to the large collection of Grant relics received last year. 
   [[strikethrough]] Other accessions [[/strikethrough]]
   From the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was received a series of proofs on India paper, showing the backs and faces of all the [[strikethrough]] [[illegible]] [[/strikethrough]] current bonds and currency notes issued by the United States, illustrating each denomination of the Treasury notes and gold and silver certificates from one dollar to ten thousand dollars and coupon and registered bonds from ten dollars to fifty thousand dollars.
[[strikethrough]] These are deposited by ^[[were [[illegible]] ]] the Bureau of Engraving & Printing [[/strikethrough]]