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practice of the the Survey

other

Officers making

to ascertain the corredives

the

arr

mounts

ca

stuted to be

before them by the Treasury officers.

After

the

-survey

I directed the

monthly payments to be made

to the Departments: I heard

~~~

rothing touching any deficiency until about 1 P. M. on

the End

bctober when the Castner Ur

Curvalho made

known

tr

to me

deficiency of --

that there

cres a

$ 3255 in the

Balance in the

Tuasury

Chest. the

businer told

me that he did not know how

had arisen but it

the deficiency had.

evas

surmised that

of the