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[1] NH, VIII, 87. Secretary Chase replied on November 26: ``Secretary Smiths amount is probably right---the amount given by me certainly is.
``The discrepancy arises from the fact that the Treasury Statement is of moneys actually paid into the Treasury, and may include moneys received by officers of the Interior Department in the fiscal year 1861 & exclude moneys received in the fiscal year 1862, while the Interior Statement, is of moneys received by these
Officers in the fiscal year 1862 only, excluding nothing received in that year & including nothing received in the preceding year'' (DLC-RTL).
The figures referred to were in the reports of the Treasury and Department of Interior for the Annual Message to Congress, December 1, infra.