REPORT
or THE CHIEF CLERK
PRODUCE LOAN OFFICE.
Treasury Department, C. S. A., )
Produce Loan Office, November 30, 1863. \
Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report, for your in-
formation, concerning the cperations of this office:
Under the act of Congress, approved May 1st, 1863, entitled " An
act to amend an act to organize the clerical force of the Treasury
Department," the principal clerk of the produce , loan was raised to
the grade of chief clerk, and charged, under your direction, with the
duty of superintending and conducting the business of said office.
This business has become very much enlarged since the first organi-
zation of the office, and now pertains to three distinct classes, viz:
I. The collection of subscriptions to the produce loan proper.
II. The purchase of cotton and tobacco under the act of April 21y
1862.
III. The collection of cotton and tobacco in kind under the tax
act of April 24, 1863.
It will be most convenient to report operations under each head
separately.
I. The total amount of original subscriptions to the produce loan,,
as stated in my report of January 9th, 1863, is $23,070,905, co'n-
sisting of bales of cotton, 431,347; clsh $608,375; miscellaneous
$895,180. In that report, cotton was estimated at $50 per bale, which
was a fair valuation at the time, but it is altogether too low for the
market rates current during the past six or eight months. It is proper,
then, to add for subscriptions paid during that period, and for those
still remaining unpaid, say $5,000,000, for under estimate of valua-
tion. The total amount of original subscriptions with this addition, is
$28,070,905. Besides collecting the original subscriptions, the pro-
duce loan agents were authorized to receive and collect new subscrip-
tions, whether of produce or money. The total amount of such sub-
scriptions, or in other words, the amount of treasury notes funded by
produce loan agents is $16,956,050. This added to the amount abover
gives $45,026,955, as the total of subscriptions, original and new.
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The subscriptions to the produce loan were the proceeds of the
sale of the articles subscribed, not the articles themselves in kind, so
that all payments made to agents were payments in cash.
The following statements will show the amounts collected up to this
time:
Original Subscriptions.
Amount collected in Alabama, $5,142,500
" " " Georgia, 4,574,400
" " " South Carolina, 3,493,350
" " " Texas, 723,050
" " " Louisiana and Mississippi, 583,950
" " ' " Florida, 343,800
" " " North Carolina, 59,700
" " " Virginia, 20,200
$14,940,950
New Subscriptions.
Amount collected in South Carolina, $11,171,250
" " " Alabama, 3,457,500
" " " Florida, 1,217,200
" " " Georgia, 1,110,100
16,956,050
Total, $31,897,000
To show the entire amounts of payments, it will be proper to add
to the above, the cotton sold to the government by original subscri-
hers to the loan. The number of bales thus sold, as nearly as can be
estimated from the reports received at this office, is 17,825, averaging
$75 each, or $861,875 for the whole. This added to the amount pre-
viously stated, gives $32,758,875 as the grand total of collections,
leaving unpaid $12,268,080.
„• Until the exhaustion of the one hundred million loan, and the pas-
fiage of the currency act of March 23, 1863, eight per cent, bonds
were issued alike to old and new subscribers on payment of their sub-
scriptions, but since then, under the authority of the act of February
20, 1863. This discription of bonds has been issued to original sub-
scribers only, in order to comply with the terms on which the govern-
ment receive these subscriptions. Notice was given to these sub-
scribers that the privilege of receiving eight per cent, bonds would
expire on the 31st day of July then ending, and since that time bonds
have been issued to them according to the currency in which they
have made their payments.- Inducements of self-interest having
ceased, collections have fallen off very considerably, and it is not
likely, unless some energetic measure of compulsion be adopted, that
a great deal more will be collected. It might have a good effect to
publish in each State a list of delinquent subscribers.
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It is proper to mention that many of the original subscribers are
in the army, have moved from their former homes, and some have
died and their families, in a few instances, are unable to make pay-
ment. In several cases the subscriptions of these classes have been
assumed and paid by other parties.
Cotton and Tobacco Purchases.
II. The amount of cotton purchased during the past year has not
been so large as was anticipated. This is owing to several causes,
the principal of which are the encroachment of the. enemy upon
some of our largest cotton growing regions, as in Louisiana, Arkan-
sas and Mississippi, the exhaustion of the one hundred million loan
and the unwillingness, at first, of planters and other holders of cotton
to sell for seven per cent, bonds, and the requirement of the act of
April 30th, 1863, that future purchases of cotton and tobacco should
be made with the proceeds of the sale of cotton bonds, the unavoida-
ble delay in the preparation of these bonds and afterwards, delay in
realizing cash from their sale, making it necessary to suspend
purchases altogether for several months. This last obstacle having
been removed., the agents have been furnished with funds and in-
structed to resume purchases. The statements below will show the
total amount of purchases up to this time, so far as reports from
agents have been received.
Purchases in Alabama, 126,838 bales, costing $11,879,465 07
" " Mississippi, 120,459 " " 6,899,965 19
" " Louisiana, 106,793 " " 6,739,762 13
" " South Carolina, 18,888 " " 3,081,756 38
" " Georgia, 15,028 " " 1,066,676 38
" " Arkansas, 11,697 " 643,270 64
" " Florida, 50 " " 3,873 61
399,753 " " $30,314,769 40
No reports have been received from the agent in Texas, but the
amount purchased for this department in that State is probably very
small, owing to the fact that the War Department has an agent there,
and it was deemed advisable to surrender the greater part of the
State for his operations, that there might be no enhancement of prices
from the competition of different sets of government agents.
The average price paid per pound is as follows, for the different
States, viz: in Arkansas, 12} cents, in Mississippi 12.39 cents, in
Florida, 13 cents, in Louisiana 14 cents, in Georgia, 15} cents, in>
Alabama, 21 cents, and in South Carolina, 36 } cents. The average is
highest in South Carolina, because a portion of the purchases con-
sisted of sea island cotton. The total average for all the States, is
16.85 cents. The highest price paid, exclusive of sea island cotton,
is 37 cents per pound, and the lowest is 6} cents per pound, for a
small lot purchased by Mr. DeBow, in 1862. The general average:
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is low, because a considerable portion of tbe cotton was purchased
before the recent extraordinary inflation of prices. All the latter
purchases, east of the Mississippi river, have been made at the cur-
rent high rates, but prices in the trans-Mississippi States are still
comparatively low.
By far the greater portion of the cotton purchased thus far, has
been paid for with bonds, but as settlements have not yet been made
in numerous instances, it is impossible to state with accuracy, the
proportion of bonds and cash expended. It is safe, however, to as-
sume that more than five sixths of the purchases have been paid for
with the first. The earlier purchases were made almost, exclusively
with bonds.
I regreat that I am unable to give you any precise information as to the
quantity of Government cotton lost by falling into the hands of the ene-
my or destroyed to prevent capture. Soon after the fall of Yicksburg
and Port Hudson, orders were given to the produce loan agents in
Mississippi and Louisiana to organize a system with the approbation
and co-operation of the military authorities in those States, to remove
such cotton as could be preserved, to safe localities, and to destroy
such as would be likely to fall into possession of the enemy, but
avoiding distruction from mere panic, and directions were given to
make detailed reports to this office, showing the amounts thus lost and
preserved. These reports have not yet been received. Letters, how-
ever, have come to hand, giving general estimates of losses. Mr.
McKe', the agent in Louisana, writes, on the 30th August, last, that
his losses will not exceed 1500 bales. Mr. DeBow, in Mississippi,
estimates that 30,000 bales will cover the entire amount of his losses.
Both of these gentleman have matured plans, and are, at this time,
energetically engaged in removing cotton from exposed districts of
eountry. In addition to the above losses, several thousand bales have
been used for military and naval purposes, in the construction of forts
and in the protecting and strengthening of gunboats. I think that
it would be safe to estimate, that the total losses thus far, will not
execed 50,000 bales.
In ordet to show the amount of cotton now on hand, it will be neces-
sary to deduct, besides the above losses, 4,628 bales, turned over to
the Ordnance Bureau for shipment abroad, 15,000 bales recently
■ordered to be turned over to the Quartermaster General's office, to
satisfy an executed contract for army supplies, and 574 bales shipped
abroad on account of the Treasury Department. Making these
deductions, amounting in all to 70,202 bales, there will remain on
•hand at the present time, according to reports received, 329,551 bales.
The agents in most of the States have reported to this office that the
rope and bagging on bales of cotton, in some instances,'have begun to
•decay and that it will be necessary in order to preserve the cotton to
make repairs. They have been instructed to appoint travelling sub-
agents to look after this, and, as far practicable to put and keep the
cotton in good condition. In view of the uncertain duration of the
war, I think that it would be well to make some arrangement for the
importation of rope and bagging in large quantities for the purpose
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of repairing and rebaling or else the Government will be exposed to
the hazard of suffering very heavy losses. It is impossible to make
any specific estimate of the amount which will be required, but any
surplus which the Government might have could easily be disposed of
to planters in exchange or in part payment for cotton.
The appropriation of thirty-five millions of dollars by the act cf
April 21, 1863, for the purchase of cotton and tobacco is nearly
exhausted, and if it is contemplated to continue purchases, it will be
necessary that another appropriation be made, but for obvious rea-
sons, I make no suggestions as to the amount. Seven per cent, bonds
can still be used to a considerable extent in making purchases, and it
would probably be best to have authority to u?e both bonds and
Treasury notes, as one or either, or bpth together could be used to the
best advantage.
About 30,U00 bales of the cotton purchased by this department
are stored iri.warehouses in cities and the remainder on plantations
in the respective States where it was purchased.
The amount of tobacco purchased i3 2,090 hogsheads, costing
$772,846 82, and the average price paid per pound is twenty-nine
cents. The whole of it was purchased in Virginia. '
III. Cotton and Tobacco to be Collected under the Tax Act.
Under the requirements of the act of April 21st, the cotton and
tobacco collected in kind by the post quartermasters is to be deliv-
ered to the agents of the Secretary of the Treasury, and you have
deemed it most conducive to the public interest to place the superin-
tendence over these collections in this office. As the law does not
require the delivery of the cotton and tobacco until next March,
nothing has been done as yet, and nothing can be done, except to
appoint general agents and to prepare "Regulations," copies of which
will be found appended to this report, marked A and B. Cotton requir-
ing no special treatment, the agents of the produce loan can easily te-
ceive and take care of it, for which they will be entitled to some addition
to their present compensation, and you have accordingly authorized a
per centage to be paid them for this service, limited by a maximum,
which has not yet been fixed. In view of the scarcity of rope and
bagging and the difficulty of procuring it, it may be necessary to
receive this tithe cotton put up in boards or to get authority from
Congress to purchase rope and bagging and furnish it to planters free
of charge or at cost price.
The many processes required to place tobacco in merchantable con-
dition, has rendered it necessary to appoint special agents to look
after and preserve it. These agents have been instructed to district
the States where it is grown; and appoint skillful sub-agents to
receive it from the'producers only in proper condition, to assort,
order and prize it, and then put it in boxes or hogsheads suitable for
market. The exercise of skill is required in the selection of the
proper time for each of these processes, as well as the performance of
the processes themselves. I have been informed by many persens
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familiar with the cultivation and preservation of tobacco that it can-
not be delivered in proper condition for handling before May or June,
and it will, therefore, be necessary to modify the provisions of the
law requiring its delivery before the first of March next. This is a
matter of the utmost importance, and I invite your special attention
to it that you may make suitable recommendation to Congress.
It would also, I have been informed, conduce greatly to conve-
nience in making collections and promote the public interest, if some
other slight changes be made in the law according to the memorandum
herewith inclosed.
The clerks in this office during the past year have been prompt,
faithful, and deligent in the performance of their respective duties.
I am, very respectfully,
A. ROANE,
Chief Clerk in charge of Produce Loan Office.
lion. C. G. Memminger,
Secretary of the Treasury.
[A.]
Treasury Department, C. S. A., )
Richmond, Nov. 16, 1863. J
The following regulations will be observed by Produce I*oan
Agents:
1. The general agent of the produce loan in each State, shall
receive from the post quartermasters, appointed to collect the tax in
kind, under section thirteen, of the act of April 24, 1863, all the cotton
collected by them from time to time, receipting for the same in dupli-
cate, one of which receipts shall be transmitted to the Secretary of
the Treasury.
2. The cotton collected as above, shall be marked, weighed, classified
and stored, subject to the order of the general agents, in the quar-
termaster's depot, if it can be kept there safely and conveniently;
otherwise, it shall be stored in some warehouse or covered building,
in a safe locality, in a town, village, or at a railroad depot, or upon
some neighboring plantation.
3. The general agents shall, make monthly reports at the end of
each month, to the Produce Loan Office, setting forth the number of
bales of cotton collected during said month, together with their
weights, marks, numbers and quality, and the places where they are
stored.
4. The general agents shall make such regulations as may be
necessary and proper to carry out the foregoing, subject to the
approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.
5. The general agents, in addition to their present compensation,
shall be allowed — per cent, on the value of the cotton collected, the
said commissions not to. exceed $— per annum for their services,
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under thcsp regulations. The compensation of sub-agents will be
fixed hereafter, according to the amount and nature of the services
required from them.
6. All expenses incurred in. the execution of these regulations,
shall be paid by the general agents, out of the funds to be transmit-
ted to them from this department, on the requisition and estimate, for
the disbursement of which they shall render a separate account.
C. G.' MEMMINGER,
Secretary of Treasury.
LB-]
Treasury Department, C. S. A.,)
November 16, 1863. )
Regulations concerning the Tobacco collected as " tax in kind," under the
act of April 24, 1863.
1. There shall be appointed a general agent in each of the States
of Virginia and North Carolina, to receive and preserve the tobacco
collected by the post quartermasters, under the provisions of section
thirteen, of the tax act, approved April 24, 1863.
2. The said general agents shall be authorized to appoint as many
sub-agents, and to make such regulations, subject to the approval of
the Secretary of the Treasury, as may be necessary to enable them
to perform efficiently the duties entrusted to them.
3. The general agents shall receive from the quartermasters the
tobacco collected from time to time, and give receipts in duplicate to
them for the same, one of which receipts shall be transmitted to the
Secretary of the Treasury by the said quartermaster.
4. The tobacco collected and received as above, shall be assorted,
ordered, prized, and, when put in suitable condition for market, shall
be weighed, marked, and stored in boxes or hogsheads, in some safe
and convenient warehouse by the general agent, or some of his sub-
agents.
5. The general agents shall make monthly reports at the end of
each month to the Produce Loan Office, setting forth the number of
hogsheads or boxes of tobacco collected during said month, together
with their weights, marks, numbers and quality, and the places where
they are stored.
6. The general agents shall receive for their services under these
regulations, a compensation of — per cent, on the market value of all
tobacco made ready for market, said compensation, however, not to
exceed $4,000 in any one year. .The compensation of sub-agents
will be fixed hereafter, according to the amount and nature of the ser-
vices required of them.
7. All expenses incurred in the execution of these regulations,
shall be paid by the general agents, out of the funds which will be
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transmitted to them from this department, on estimate and requisition,
for the disbursement of which they shall render a quarterly account.
8. The General Agents shall he required to file a bond with tho
Comptroller of the Treasury, with two sureties, in the sum of five
thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of their duties, said
sureties to be approved by the Confederate judge of the district, or
by any judge of the suprome court of the State, in which such Gene-
ral Agont shall reside.
C. G. MEMINGER.
Secretary rf Treasury.
ESTIMATES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Clerk's Office, }
Souse of Representatives, >
Richmond, November 11, 1863. )
Hon. C. G. Memminger,
Secretary of the Treasury:
Sir : I have the honor to submit the following estimates for ap-
propriations, which will be necessary for the House of Representatives,
for the period from the 1st of January to the 30th of June, 1864:
Compensation and mileage of members and delegates of the House
of Representatives, two hundred thousand dollars, ($200,000).
Compensation of officers, clerks, &c., of the House of Representa-
tives, five thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars, ($5,625).
Contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, forty thou-
sand dollars, ($40,000).
Contingencies of the clerk's office, five hundred dollars, ($500).
Making a total of two hundred and forty-six thousand one hundred
and twenty-five dollars.
The last item in the above estimate may require a little explana-
tion. No similar item has ever before been submitted in the estimates
from this office, and, consequently, no such appropriation has been
made. The contingent fund of the House is expended under the di-
rection of the Committee on Accounts. No bills are paid by the clerk,
out of that appropriation, until-they are approved by the committee.
The functions of all the committees cease with the adjournment of
Congress, and hence no accounts can be paid from the fund in ques-
tion during the Congressional vacation. In consequence of this ar-
rangement, the clerk's office has been subjected to some inconvenience
since the last adjournment of Congress. An appropriation of a small
sum, for " contingencies of the clerk's office," would remedy this in-
convenience.
It is, therefore, respectfully recommended that this item be em-
braced in the estimates from your department.
Very respectfully,
A. R. LAMAR,
Clerk and Disbursing Officer,
Per De Louis I)alton, Assistant.
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SENATE.
Office Sergeant at Arms,
Richmond, Nov. 12, 1863
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Sir : I respectfully submit the following as showing the amount«re-
quired for the expenses of the Senate of the Confederate States, for
the six months ending June 30, 1863, to wit:
For compensation and mileage of Senators, $47,880 00
For compensation and mileage of officers and clerks of the
Senate, 8,000 00
For incidental and contingent expense.of the Senate, 7,000 00
$62,880 00
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
L. II. FITZ HUGH,
Sergehnt at Arms G. S. Senate.
Hon. C: G. Memminger,
Secretary of the Treasury.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Confederate States of America, }
Executive Department, >
Richmond, Va., Nov. 5, 1863. )
To the Hon. Secrerarv of the Treasury :
Sir : In reply to your communication of the 28th ult., I have the
honor to submit the following estimate of the sum to be appropriated
by Congress, at the next session, for the " telegraphic and contingent
expenses of the Executive Department," i. e.:
Thirty-five thousand dollars.
Of this amount, probably twenty thousand dollars will be required
to pay for advertising the President's proclamations, already issued, and
for which all the bills have not yet been sent in. I have never before
estimated for tjiis expense, as it has, until recently, been borne by the
State Department.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed,) BURTON N. HARRISON,
Disbursing Agent.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT^
ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION required for compensation of the
Secretary of the Treasury, Assistant Secretary, Comptroller, Auditors,
Treasurer and Register, and Clerks and Messengers in the Treasury
Department for six months, ending June 30, 1834.
For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, $3,000 00
For Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1,500 00
One chief-clerk, at $1,750 per annum, 875 00
One disbursing clerk, at $2UO per annum, 100 00
Six clerks, at $1,500 per annum, 4,500 00
One messenger, at $750 per annum, 375 00
One superintendent, at $975 per annum, 487 50
One chief clerk, treasury note division, at $2,500 per
annum*, 1,250 00
Four clerks, at $1,500 per annum, 3,000 00
One chief clerk, Produce Loan Office, at $2,500 per
annum, 1,250 00
Six clerks, at $1,500 per annum, 4,500 00
Commissioner of Taxes, at $3,01)0 per annum, 1,500 00
One disbursing clerk of war tax, at $1,750 per annum, 875 00
Twenty clerk, at $1,500 per annum, 15,000 00
Comptroller, at $3,000 per annum, 1,500 00
One chief clerk, at $1,750 per annum, 875 00
Twenty-four clerks, at $1,500 per annum, 18,000 00
One messenger, at $751) per annum, 375 00
First Auditor, at $3,000 per annum, 1,500 00
One chief clerk, at $1,750 per annum, 87>r 00
Sixty-four clerks, at $1,500 per annum, t 48,000 00
One messenger, at $750 per annum; 375 00
One assistant messenger, at $375 per annum, 187 50
Second Auditor, at $3,000 per annum, 1,500 00
Two chief clerks, at $1,750 per annum, 1,750 00
One hundred and twenty clerks, at $1,500 per annum, 90,000 00
One messenger, at $750 per annum, • 375 00
Treasurer, at $3,000 per annum, 1,500 00
One chief clerk, (treasurer,) at $1,750 per annum, 875 00
Ninety-six clerks, (treasurer,) at $1,500 per annum, 72,000 00
Seventy-two female clerks, at $900 per annum, 32,400 00
One messenger, at $750 per annum, 375 00
One assistant messenger, at $450 per annum, 225 00
Register, at $3,000 per annum, 1,500 00
One chief clerk, at $1,750 per annum, 875 00
Forty clerks, at $1,500 per annum, 30,000 00
Sixty eight female clerks, at $900 per annum, 30,600 00
One messenger, at $750 per annum, 375 00
Carried forward, $374,250 00
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Brought forward, $374,250 00
Two clerks, Light House Bureau, at $ 1,500 per annum, 1,500 00
One chief clerk, treasury note division at Columbia, S.
C., at $2,500 per annum, 1,250 00
Five clerks, at $1,500 per annum, 3,750 00
Twenty-one female clerks, at $900 per annum, 9,450, 00
$390,200 00
Three hundred and ninety thousand two hundred dollars,
Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.
ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION required for incidental and
contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, for the six months
ending June 30, 1864.
Fuel and gas, $1,500 per month, for January, February,
March and April, $6,000 00
Postage on soldiers' claims and other matters, 3,000 00
Telegrams, $300 per month, 1,800 00
Servant hire, $1,000 per month, 6,000 00
Washing, $100 per month, 600 00
Stationery, including ledgers, paper, blanks, pens, en-
velopes, ink, &c., 20,000 00
$37,400 00
Thirty-seven thousand four hundred dollars.
Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.
. JOHN M. STROTHER,
Disbursing Clerk, Treasury Department.
November 7, 1863.
ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS, under the control of the
Treasury Department, required from, January 1 st, to June 30 th, 1864.
For the payment of interest oil the public debt, $20,000,000 00
For engraving and printing treasury notes, bonds
and certificates for stock, and for paper for the
same, 800,000 00
Carri^i forward, $20,800,000 00
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Brought forward, $20,800,000 00
For compensation Secretary of Treasury, assistant
secretary, comptroller, auditors treasurer, and
register, and clerks, and messengers in the
Treasury Department, 390,200 00
For incidental and contingent expenses of the
Treasury Department, 37,400 00
For rent of executive buildings and President's
house, 15,000 00
To defray expense's incurred in the safe-keeping
and transportation of coin belonging to New
Orleans banks, • 559 00
For the payment of principal, under loan of Au-
gust 19th, 1861, this sum being amount due
and payable on the 1st of July, 1864, 1,340,200 00
$22,583,359 00
C. G. MEMMINGER,
Secretary of Treasury.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
APPROPRIATIONS required by the Department of State, for the six
months, ending 30th June, 1864.
For Foreign Intercourse.
Salaries of four Commissioners, $24,000 00
And three Secretaries, 5,400 00 29,400 00
(As per secret acts of Prov. Congress of 13th
and 27th Feb., 1861,(Nos. 7 and 39,)and
act No. 226, of Aug. 20, 1881.)
Salaries of commercial agents and consuls,
' (per act No. 74 of March 15, 1861,) 5,000 00
For secret service, f. e.t necessities and
exigencies, under laws already passed, or
which may be passed, or from causes which
now exist, or may hereafter arise, and un-
foreseen emergencies, to be expended un-
der direction of the President, 500,000 00.
For purchase of books, 3,000 00
For salary of Secretary of State, (per acts
Nos. 23 and 24 of Feb. 21st, 1861, 3,000 00
Carried forward,
$537,400 00
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Brought forward, $537,400 00
For salary of chief clerk, (per acts No! 53, of
March 7th, 1861, and ch. 47, of Oct. 13,
1862, 875 00
For salary of one clerk (same references,) 750 00
And compensation as Disbursing officer,
(per acts of May 16, 1861, (No. 130,) and
of April 29, 1863, (ch. 49,) 100 00
For salary of two clerks, (per act of March
7, 1861, (No. 53,) and of Oct. 13, 1862,
(ch. 47,) 1,500 00
For salary of one messenger, (same re-
ferences,) 375 00
For salary of one laborer, (same refer-
ences and ch. 49, of 29th April, 1863, 409 50
$4,009 50
$541,409 50
J. P. BENJAMIN,
Secretary of State.
Department of State, )
Richmond, Nov. 7th, 1863; 5
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
Department of Justice, )
Richmond} Nov. 5th, 1863. J
Hon. C. G. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury :
Sir : In compliance with the act of Congress, approve'd, 9th of
April, 1862, I have the honor to submit the following estimates for
this Department, from the 1st day of January, 1S64, to the 30th of
June, 1864, inclusive:
1. For salaries of Attorney General, Assistant At-
torney General, clerks and messenger, $4,324 89.
2. For contingent expenses of'department, 1,500 00
3. For salaries of judges and attorneys, 24,200 00
4. For contingent expenses of courts, 40,429 22
5. For salaries of commissioners under the seques-
tration act, 2,358 15
6. For salary of clerk of said commissioners, 875 00
7. For salaries of Governor and Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, of Secretary, and of Judges, At-
torney and Mar&hal of Arizona Territory, 4,650 00
Carried forward,
$78,337 26
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Brought forward, $73,337 ^3
8. For contingent expenses of said territory, to be
expended by the Governor, 500 00
9. For salaries of superintendent of public printing,
bis clerks and messenger, 3,750 70
10. For printing, ruling and binding for tbe several
executive departments, 100,000 00
11. For printing, ruling and binding for botb bouses
of Congress, including tbe printing of tbe laws in
tbe authorized fqrm, 10,000 00
12. For purchase of paper for tbe several executive
department and Congress, 30,000 00
$222,587.96
Your obedient servant,
WADE KEYES,
Attorrey General, ad interim,..
WAR DEPARTMENT.
CoNFEDERATS STATES OF AMERICA. \
War Department. £
Richmond, Va., Nov. 6, 1863. )
I estimate that there will be required for the contingent and
incidental expenses of the army, for the six months from January 1st
to June 30, 1864, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars.
JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War.
Note.—The estimates for the expenses of the Bureau of Conscription will be made the
matter of a special communication hereafter, as the length of time neces3ary to procure
the proper data precludes its entering into the general estimates.
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ESTIMATE OF FUNDS required for the fscal year ending June
' SOth, 1864, for the Adjutant and Inspector Generals Office, C. S. A.
Postage*
Tflegiaphing
Stationery
Furniture
Cai |>enier'« Ro| aits, Ac.
Porter's Hire
Laborer'* Hire
Kxprees Freight
lKduet amount on hand
Total
,V»Thole amount required for the fiscal year ending June 3"th, 18'64,
fifty thousand dollars, ($50,(M O,) for the contingent expenses of the-
Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, C. S. A., at Richmondy
Wa.
I certify that the above Estimate is correct, and that the amount
above mentioned is necessary to me^t the expenses of this office, (as
• per in Tease since Januaiy, 1863,) for the fiscal year ending June
•30th, 1864.
S. COOPER,
Adft. and Insp. Gen. C. S. A.
Adj't. anJ Insp. Gen. Office, )
Richmond, Oct. 1863. 5
Confederate States of America, *
War Department. Engineer Bureau, >
Richmond, Va., Nov. 4, 1864. )
ESTIMATE for Engineer Service, Conf derate States,
.For the six..months, commencing 1st January, 1864, and ending
.30th June, 1864, ten million dollars, ($10,000,0(10 )
A L. RIVES,
Eiesdeneznt Colonel and Acting Chief Bureau.
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ESTIMATE OF FUN OS required by the Ordnance Department, C.
S. A., from lrf January, 1864, to 3{)th June, 1864.
Ordnance service in all its branches, 'twenty-three million dollars,
viz:
Service of arsenals and depots, $5,000,(100
Purchase and manufacture of artillery and small arms, 6,000,000
Purchase of ordnance stores, including powder, mate-
rials and equipments of all kinds, 6,00 »,000
Making cartridges, harness, equipments, ammunition
wagons, &c., • 2,500,000
Purchase of ordnance stores abroad, 3,500,000
$23,000,000
J. GORGAS,
Col.ntl, Chief of Ordnance.
Confederate States of Amertca, )
War Department, Nitre and Aliti ng Bureau \
ESTIMATE OF FUNDS required hy the Nitre and Mining Bureau,
during the months of January, February, Alarch, April, May, aud
June, 1864.
Nitre and mining service, nine million five hundred thousand
dollars.
Purchase and manufacture of Nitre, $4,000,000.
Purchase of lead, copper, zinc, &c., 2,000,000
Purchase of pig and rolled iron, 3,500,000
$9,500,000
It is desired that the respective amounts required be made under
one appropriation; and it is suggested that it be for nitre and mining '
service.
II. F. REARDON,
Lieutenant and Disbursing Officer.
Approved, upon the basis of present price.
J. M. St. John, Lieutenant Colonel and Chief Bureau.
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Confederate States of America, )
Surgeon General's Office., >
Richmond, Ya., Oct. 29, 1863. )
Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va. :
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following estimate for funds
required for the Medical Department of theC. S. Array, for the period
of six months, commencing December 31st, 1863, and ending Juno
30th, 1S64:
For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies from December
31st, 1863. to June 30th, 1864.
Medicines, $6,000,000
Instruments, 100,000
Books for hospital and reg't records, 200,000
Hospital stores, 2,000,000
Bedding, 1,000,000
Furniture, Dressing, &c.t 2,000,000
$11,300,000
For hospital clothing, required hy act of Congress, «.p-
proved September 27th, 1862, entitled an act to
bettor provide for the sick and wounded of the army
in hospitals, 1,000,000
For three hundred and twelve thousand gallons alco-
holic stimulants required for Medical Department for
medical and hospital purposes for an army of five
hundred thousand men, 3,120,000
For establishment and support <f military hospitals,
from December 31st, 1863, to June 30th, 1864, 250,000
For pay of private physicians, employed by contract
from December 31st,. 18G3, to June 30th, 1864, 200,000
For pay of nurses and cooks not enlisted or Volunteers,
from December 31st, 1863, to Juno 30th, 1864, 350,000
For pay of hospital Stewarts, from December 31st,
1863, to June 30, 1S64, 100,000
For pay of matrons, assistant matrons, and ward matrons,
from December 31st, 1863, to June 30th, 1864, 350,000
For pay of ward masters, from "December 31st, 1863, to
June 30th, 1864, 200,000
For pay of hospital laundresses, from December 31st,
1863, to June 30th, 1864, 150,000
Total, * $17,020,000
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
S. P. MOORE,
Surgeon General, C. S. Army.
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COST OF RATION BY ESTIMATED COST OF ONE HUNDRED RATIONS.
Rations.
Article
Quantity.
Price.
Amount.
80
Bacon.
40 lbs.
$1 00 .
$10 00
20
Beef.
20 "
. 40
8 00
80
Flour.
120 "
13
15 00
20
Meal.
00 "
9
2 70
10
Beans.
0 sjills.
4 00
00
90
Rico.
9 lbs.
* 20
1 80
100
Vinegar.
lgal.
50
50
100
Candles.
H lbs.
1 00
1 60
100
Soap.
4 "
1 00
4 00
100
Salt.
3 qts.
2 50
20
i
|
74 45 ■
Remarks.
Cost of Ration 71 45
ESTIMATE OF FUNDS required for the Subsistence of 400,000 men,
from January 1, 1864, to June 3U, 1864, (one hundred und eighty-
two days,) making 72,800,000 rations:
72.800,000 rations, at 75 cents per ration, $54,600,000
25,000,000 lbs. sugar, at $1 per lb., 25,000,000
1,000,000 gallons of inolasses, at $5.50 per gallon, 5,500,000
1,000,000 gallons of whiskey, at $5 per gallon, 5,000,001)
Purchase of weights, scales and measures, 250,000
Provisions for employees in Quartermaster's Depart-
ment, rndlaborers under charge of Engineer and
Nitre Bureau, 7,821,000
$98,171,000
Add 10 per cent, for wastage, 9,817,100
$107,988,100
Estimated amount unexpended of appropriations for cur-
rent year, 50,000,000
^Amount needed, 57,988,000
Quartermaster General's Office, )
Richmond, Oct. 26, 1863. J
Sir : I have the honor to submit herewith an estimate of the
amount that will be required for the pay, transportation, and other
$8
allowances, provided through the Department, for the army, for six
months, from January 1st to June 30", 1864,viz:
Field and Staff.
Pay for 200 generals, for six months, $361,200
Pay for 400 aids de camps, for six months, 324,000
Forge for generals' and aids' horses, for six months, 367,920
Tents for generals and staff, 25,000
Wagons and harness, (two to each,) 120,000
Horses and mules, (purchased for teams,) 280,000
Hire of teamsters, 96,000
Fuel for generals and staff, 60,000
Forage for horses and mules, (teams,) 288,000
Horse shoes, nails, iron, &c., 9,600
Stationery, 3,600
Pay for brigade quartermasters, 153,436
Pay for brigade commissaries, 154,548
Pay for chaplains, 240,000
Pay for cadets, 39,420
Straw for animals, 18,396
Fuel for commissaries and quartermasters, 43,470
Forage for horses for cadets, 13,140
$2,602,^730
One Corps of Artillery, as Light Artillery, 40 Companies.
Pay for officers and men, for six months, $432,144
Pay for mechanics, laborers and. teamsters, for six months, 44,160
Pay for tents, for officers and men, 10,336
Pay for forage for animals, 813,600**
Tay for fuel for officers and men, 47/20
Pay for purchase of horses and mules, 711,200
Pay for camp and garrison equipage, 1,600
Pay for travelling forges, complete, 16,000
Pay for wagons and harness, 33,800
ray for stationery for officers, 2,400
Pay for horse shoes, nails, iron, steel, &c., 24,000
Pay for straw for bedding for men and animals, 40,680
Pay for leather, thread, &c., repairing harness, 9,000
Pay for hire of wagon and forage masters, 8,400
Pay for clothing for non-commissioned officers and men, 297,900
Pay for purchase of horse medicines, 3,000
$2,495,440
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One Regiment of Cavalry, (733 strong,) for six months.
Pay of officers and men, including 40 cents risk of horses, for six
mouths, $141,048
Pay of Mechanics and teamsters, 1 l,O40
Pay of wagon and forage masters, 2,100
Pay for tents for officers and men, 2.272
Pay for camp and garrison equipage, 1,600
Pay for travelling forges, complete, 4,000
Pay for horses, mules, wagons and harness, 37,050
Pay for stationery for officers, 2,400
Pay for horse shoes, nails, iron, steel, &c., 4,800
Pay for straw for bedding, for men and animals, 9,854
Pay for leather, thread, &c., repairing harness, 4,800
Pay for forage for animals, 181,260
Pay for fuel for officers and men, 9,970
Pay for clothing for enlisted men, 54,975
Pay for horse medicines, 1,200
$468,369
One Regiment of Infantry, (733 strong}) for six months.
Pay of officers and men, for six months, $ 80,280
Pay of mechanics and teamsters, 11,1140
Pay of wagon and forage masters, 2,100
Pay for tents for officers and men, 2,160
Pay for camp and garrison equipage, 1,600
Pay for mules, wagons and harness, $?»050
Pay for forage for animals, 32,220
Pay for horse shoes, nails, iron, &c., 4,800
Pay for straw for bedding, 2,500
Pay for stationery for officers, 2,400
Pay for fuel for officers and men, 9,600
Pay for clothing for enlisted men, 53,475
$239,225
Signal Corps, for six months.
Pay of one major, $ 900
Pay of ten captains, 7 8 00
Pay of ten 1st lieutenants, 5,400
Pay of ten 2d lieutenants, 4,800
Pay of thirty sergeants, 3,060
Pay of sergeants, extra duty pay, 2,160
Amount carried forward, $24,120
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Amount brought forward, $24,120
Pay for clothing for enlisted men, 2,250
Pay for fuel for officers and men, 2,970
Pay for tents for officers and men, 850
Pay for stationery for use of corps in the field, 1,500
Pay for horses for sergeants, (purchased,) 5,250
Pay for forage for animals,* 10,980
$47,920
Tax Act, see Sec. 13.
Pay of eleven majors, for 12 months from 1st July, 1863, to 1st July,
1864, $ 21.384
Pay of seventy.four captains, for 12 months from 1st Jnly,
1863, to 1st July, 1864, 124,320
Pay for fuel and quarters for officers, for 12 months from
1st July, 1863, to 1st July, 1864, 67,500
Pay of 1,440 agents, at $1,000 each, 1,440,000
Pay of eighty-five clerks, at $1,000 each, 85,000
Pay for transportation on railroads, &c., 1,500,000
Pay for purchase of wagons, teams, &c., 2,160,000
Pay of laborers, one for each depot, 691,200
Pay for hire of teamsters, 518,400
Pay for material and labor for building store-houses, 720,000
Pay for rent of offices, &c., 432,000
Pay for grain bags, 30,000 to each depot, equal to 2,160,000
bags, at $1.50 each, 3,240,000
Pay for incidental expenses, 1,213,400
$12,213,204
JRecapitulation.
Field and staff, . $2,602,730
8 corps of artillery, each $2,495,440, 19,963,520
175 regiments of cavalry, each $468,369, 81,964,575
547 regiments of infantry, •each $239,225, 130,856,075
1 signal corps, 47,920
$235,434,820
Officers, &c., for collection of tax in kind, 12,213,204
Amount carried forward, $247,648,024
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Amount brought forward, $247,648,024
To which add:
For the transportation of troops and their baggage, of
quarterraasters's subsistence, ordnance and ordnance
stores, from place of purchase to troops in the field;
the purchase of horses, mules, wagons and harness;
the purchase of lumber, nails, iron and steel, for erect-
ing store-houses, quarters for troops, and other re-
pairs, hire of teamsters, laborers, &c., at 30 per cent,
•on $235,434,820 70,630,446
To pay for horses of volunteers killed in battle, under
act No. 48, section 7, and for which provision is to be
made, 100,000
To pay for property pressed into the service of the Con-N
federate States, under appraisement, and said property
having been either lost or applied to the public ser-
vice, 200,000
For the sustenance of prisoners of war, under act No.
181, section 1, and the hire of the necessary prisons,
guard-houses, &c., for the safe-keeping of the same, or
so much thereof as may be necessary, 1,000,000
For the pay of the officers on duty in the offices of the Ad-
jutant and Inspector General's Department, the Quar-
termaster General's, Medical, Engineer, Ordnance,
and Subsistence Departments, in Richmond, 450,275
Total, $320,028,745
Respectfully submitted,
A. R. LAWTON,
Quartermaster General.
Confederate States of America, }
TFar Department, >
Richmond, Va., November 5th, 1863. )
Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War :
Sir : I have the honor to submit the following estimate of funds
for the use of this department, and its several bureaus, for the period
embraced between the 1st January, 1864, and 30th June, 1861,
inclusive:
For compensation of Secretary of "War, Assistant Sec-
retary, Chief Bureau, clerks, messengers, &c., &c., $150,000 00
For incidental and contingent expenses, 90,000 00
For salary of Commissioner, Chief Clerk, &c., Bureau
of Indian Affairs, 2,125 00
Total,
$242,125 00
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The estimates "for the pay of Secretary- of Wat, &cr., and for the
contingent expenses of the department are only approximate, and I
have swelled the amount to some extent beyond what has formerly
been asked for, in consequence of the increase of price of all articles
required for use, and of the steady increase of clerical force needed
by the several bureaus.
' Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
ALFRED CHAPMAN,
Disbursing Clerk War Department..
Confederate States of America, i
War Department, >
Richmond, Ya., 186 . )
Abstract of Estimates.
Quartermaster General, $320,028,745
Commissary General, 57,988,000
Surgeon General, 17,020,000
Engineer Bureau, 10,000,000
Ordnance Bureau, 23,000,000
Nitre and Mining Bureau, 9,500,000
Adjutant General's office, 50,000
Bureau of War, 242,125
Cod script service,
Contingent fund, 250,000
BANK CONVENTION.
At a convention held in Augusta, Ga., on the 16th an 1 ITtlr. of
November, 1863, the following banks of the Confederate States were
represented, viz.:
Bank of the State of Georgia, Anthony.Porter, J. Davidson.
Union Bank of Augusta, Ga., Edward Thomas.
City Bank of Augusta, Ga., Thomas Barrett.
Bank of Augusta, Ga., John Bones.
Mechanics' Bank of Augusta, Thomas Metcalf, Josiah Sibley.
Augusta Insurance and Banking Company, L. A. Dugas.
Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, Augusta, John P. King.
Central Railroad and Banking Company, Savannah, R. R. Cuyler.
Planters' Bank of State of Georgia, Savannah, R. R. Cuyler.
Bank of Commerce, Savannah, G. B Lamar.
Bank of Savannah, Savannah, W. C 0 Driscoll.
Merchants' and Planters' Bank, Savannah, Iliram Roberts.
Manufacturers' Bank, Macon, B. B. Lewis.
Bank of Columbus, Columbus, Daniel Griffin.
Bank of Fulton, Atlanta, S. Root.
Atlantic Insurance and Banking Company, Atlanta, S. Root.
Commercial Bank of Wilmington, N. C., 0. S. Parsley.
Bank of Cape Fear, Wilmington, W. A. Wright.
Bank of Tennessee, G. C. Torbett, J. A. Fisher.
Northern Bank of Tennessee, D. N. Kennedy.
Branch Bank of Tennessee, Knoxville, J. G. M. Ramsey.
Bank of Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Wm. Williams.
Bank of Memphis, Memphis, W. C. McClure.
Branch Planters' Bank of Memphis, D. A. Shephard.
Bank of Scottsville, Va., J. W. Mason.
Bank of Chaileston, Charleston, S. C., J. K. Sass, G. A. Tren-
holm, C. T. Lowndes, Henry Gourdin.
Bank of the State of South Carolina, C. M. Freeman.
Bank of South Carolina, Charleston, G. B. Reid.
Planters' and Mechanics' Bank, Charleston, G. W. Williams, A, S.
Johnston, J. J. McCarter.
Union Bank of South Carolina, W. B Smith.
State Bank of South Carolina, Edward Sebring.
Farmers' and Exchange Bank of S>uth Carolina, Wm. Whaley.
Southwestern Railroad Bank, Charleston, James Rose, J. G.
Holmes.
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Exchange Bank of Columbia, S. C., R M. Johnson, W. Johnson.
Bank of Chester, S. C., G. S. Cameron.
Bank of Hamburg, S. C., J. W. Stokes, William Gregg, A. C.
DeCotts.
There were also present:
Gen. L. M. Ayer, member of Congress from South Carolina.
lion: Benjamin Hill, member of Congress from Georgia.
Hon. Philip M. Clayton, of Georgia.
Hon. M. C. Mordecai, of South Caroling.
Col. Ryan, of South Carolina.
R. II. Maury, Esq., of Richmond.
Mr. Baylor, Georgia.
Anthony Porter, of the Bank of the State of Georgia was called
to the chair, antl W. B. Smith, of the Union Bank of South Carolina,
requested to act as secretary.
The following report and resolutions were adopted by the conven-
tion, ordered to be printed and a copy sent to the Secretary of the
Treasury of the Confederate States, at Richmond': *
Whereas, experience has demonstrated that the dues to be col-
lected by the Government, and for which Treasury notes are made
receivable, are inadequate to absorb a sufficient amount of the notes
to prevent the evils of an excessive paper currency, and it is deemed
essential to the interests of the people and the Government that
measures be adopted by the Government to reduce or fund the entire
amount of the said issues, or so much thereof as shall reduce the sum
of the currency to two hundred millions ($200,000,000) of dollars,
or less. For the accomplishment of this object the following mea-
sures are recommended to the country and the Government by this
convention:
1st. That a new issue of coupon bonds be made to the amount of
one thousand millions of dollars ($1,01)0,000,000.) The bonds bear-
ing six per cent, interest, the coupons payable annually, in coin, and
that, in future, to meet the wants of the Confederate Government,
the policy of issuing treasury notes b£ abandoned, as far as possible,
and a tax sufficient for all requirements be adopted as the true policy
to sustain the credit of the Confederacy.
2d. That an act be passed levying a tax of sixy millions of dollars,
($60,000,000,) to be collected annually, during the whole period of
said loan, for the payment of the interest on the above bonds, and
that the good faith of the Government be pledged for the continuance
of such tax until the maturity of said loan. And that the said tax
shall be paid in coin, and that the coupons of the above bonds be
received in payment of the tax in lieu of coin.
3d. That before the said bonds shall be offered for sale in any other
manner, or at a price above par, they shall first be apportioned amofig
the States of the Confederacy, and that a commissioner shall be
appointed for each State, to make known to the tax payers in each
collection district, the necessity of providing themselves with a
sufficient amount of bonds to pay this specific tax, and who shall sell,
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at par, to the tax payers in each district, the amount of bonds*
required to provide coupons for the payment of thoir taxes7 and, that
all bonds heretofore issued by the Government and treasury notes, of
all issues, be received in payment for the said bonds, and that the
said payment shall be required in convenient instalments to suit the
circumstances of persons of moderate means, but the privilege of pay-
ing in full, at any time, shall be accorded to all.
4th. That all existing distinctions between treasury notes of dif-
ferent issues and dates be abolished.
5th. That the interest on the stock of the fifteen million loan be
paid by checks on the treasury, and that the said checks be received
in payment of the export duty on cotton, in the same manner as the
coupons on the bonds of the same loan. ,
6th. That a five per cent, call loan be established similar to the
first or original call loan, and that all treasury notes be received at
the treasury therefor, and that the present five per cent-and four per
cent, call loans be abolished.
7th. That the right of the holders of treasury notes, which, upon
their face are fundable in eight per cent, stock, ought to be recognized,
and an eight per cent, stock, at a short period, be provided for that
purpose, aud, also, that all the privileges attached to the original six
per cent, call loan be restored to the holders of all outstanding certifi-
cates <4 that loan.
8th. That an increased duty be levied on all imports and exports,
during the continuance of th°. war, and that ihe same be collected in
coin, or approved bills on England or France, or in the interest on
the fifteen million loan.
9th. That an issue department be created by the Government, and
kept separate fiom the Treasury Department, whose duty it shall be
to supply a new issue of treasury notes in exchange for the amount
that may remain in circulation of the present issues, and that the
new issues shall express on the face of the bills that the same are
receivable in payment of all public dues except such as are specifically
required to be paid in coin.
litth. That there shall be an issue of bills of a large denomination,
viz: ft51H), $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 sufficient to facilitate the
transmission of funds and the settlement of balances.
(Signed,) ' A. PORTER,
Chairman.
W. B Smith, Secretary.
The following resolution was also adopted :
Rtsnlved, That tl e proceedings of this convention be published in
the city papers, and a copy of the same transmitted by the presiding
officer of this cont ention to the Secretary of the Treasury, with a
requestjthat he will communicate the same to Congress at its next
meeting
(Signed,) A. PORTER,
Chairman.