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It also shows in detail, the total amount paid for Bounties
less the sums refunded since the passage of the first Bounty
Act in 1864, which is.................................$4,844,925 00

For salaries of Officers and other expenses...... $18,679 87

For monies refunded by Bounty and County
Commissioners, and for claims paid in
error................................................ $102,230 60

Total number of men paid Bounty.......17,339

Total number of claims of owners paid.. 3,583

There were on file in this office at the close of the Fiscal
Year, bounty claims to the number of 6,485, exclusive of the
claims paid, which, upon examination, arc found to be as fol-
lows :
Claims undoubtedly good and entitled to bounty.........1,880

" for which no official rolls are returned............ 1,510

" contested, (principally for heirs of dec'd soldiers) 530
" certainly not good....................................... 662

11 of drafted men and others, who furnished substi-
tutes, not credited to the call of Decem-
ber, 19th, 1864..................................1,903

Total......................6,485

Probably out of the number without rolls, contested, &c.,
enough may be found entitled, to swell the aggregate of good
claims to 2,500, and should the Courts decide that men who
enlisted for one and two years are entitled under the Act of
1867, the number of good claims may reach 2,800, which,
with those already paid, will make about two-fifths of the
entire credits to the State during the war.

Quite a number of claims have been sent in since Septem-
ber 1, 1868, which, owing to the limit for making applica-
tion, under Sec. 9, Chap. 235 of 1868, cannot be examined
with the claims filed prior to that date for payment.

The impression seemed to prevail that under the Act of
1867, Chap. 372, all men who furnished substitutes, between
April 1, and December 18, 1864, were entitled to bounty,

but the Attorney General sustains me in the opinion, that
unless they were credited of the President for