Excerpt from Executive Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives During the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress, 1868-'69: In Fourteen Volumes
In his last report the Secretary referred to the condition of the t1 eas ury at the close of the wa1, and at some subsequent periods, alluding especially to the emergency in the spring of 1865, arising f1 om the verxr large requisitions which were waiting for payment, and the still large1 requisitions that were to be provided for, to enable the War Department to pay arrearages due to the army, and other expenses which had already been incurred in the Suppression of the rebellion. In briefly renewing the administration of the treasury from April, 1865, he did not think it necessary to state how much of the large revenue receipts had been expended in the payment of debts incurred during-the war; and he would not undertake to do it now did not misapprehension exist in the public mindin regard to the expenditures of the government since the conclu sion of hostilities, prejudicial to both the law-making and law-executing branches of the government.
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