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It will also appear by Statement "K," that the total
amount disbursed under the different Acts of Assembly on
this account, to the 30th September 1866, is $3,771,286.69.

Between that time and the 1st of January, 1867, the further
sum of $94,820.11 was paid.

The total amount of unliquidated claims, on the 1st Janua-
ry, 1867, will appear by the following statement carefully
made up from the certified rolls, returned to this Department:
For final bounty to 720 white Volunteers,

averaged at $65.................... $46,800 00

" full bounty to 190 white Volunteers, at

$300............................. 57,000 00

" final bounty to 1220 colored Volunteers,

" at $50............................ 61,000 00

" full bounty to 282 colored Volunteers,

(free or slave,) averaged at $250..... 70,500 00

" full bounty to 1650 former slaves, at .
$100...................... 165,000 00

" Masters' claims, 389 at ,$100.......... 38,900 00

$439,200 .00
Estimated for rolls not yet returned,......; 20,800 00

Total amount of claims outstanding and un-
paid on the 1st January, 1867........... $460,000 00

This aggregate will be largely reduced by the forfeiture of
the right of some of the Volunteers to bounty, through deser-
tion, and by the death of others without heirs, entitled under
the law.

But few of the white Volunteers included in the aforegoing
statement, although they were discharged from service more
than eighteen months ago, have filed claims to bounty. The
fact is the same with reference to some of the colored regi-
ments. If these Volunteers had not forfeited their right to
bounty, or being dead, if there is any relative entitled, it is
more than probable that application for the same would have
been made long since.