:

REPORT

OF

MR. JENCKES, OF RHODE ISLAND,

FROM THE

JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON RETRENCHMENT,

MADE TO THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, MAY 14, 1868.

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1868.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

GRENVILLE H. NORCROSS

Dec 9.1935′′

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.

APPENDIX A.-Extract from Parton's Life of Jackson..

APPENDIX B.-Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment

Interrogatories by the committee...

APPENDIX C.-Extract from replies of public officers to interrogatories by the com-

mittee:

William Hunter, Assistant Secretary of State..

J. F. Hartley, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

N. Sargent, Commissioner of Customs..

J. M. Brodhead, Second Comptroller of the Treasury.

Thomas L. Smith, First Auditor.

John Wilson, Second Auditor....

Stephen J. W. Tabor, Fourth Auditor.

C. M. Walker, Fifth Auditor

H. J. Anderson, Sixth Auditor..

E. A. Rollins, Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

H. R. Hulburd, Comptroller of the Currency.

F. E. Spinner, Treasurer of the United States.

N. L. Jeffries, Register of the Treasury.

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St. John B. L. Spinner, First Assistant Postmaster General.

Suggestions present by instructions from, and uuder the authority of, Attorney
General Stanbery.

S. M. Clark. chief of printing division, national currency bureau

A. B. Mullett, supervising architect, Treasury Department..

Benjamin Pierre, superintendent coast survey.

I. M. Binckley, acting attorney general

A. A. Harwood, superintendent light-house board.

Joseph H. Barrett, Commissioner of Pensions....

W. S. Otto, Assistant Secretary of the Interior..

Horatio Bridge, chief of Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.

A. B. Eaton, Commissary General of Subsistence..

H. B. Spofford, Librarian of Congress

Henry Barnard, Commissioner of Education.

Letter of A. T. Stewart, esq., of New York

Letter of W. A. Wellman, Boston, Mass...

George F. Deming, superintendent United States assay office, New York.

A. Loudon Snowden, chief coiner United States Mint, Philadelphia..

David, Howe, collector of internal revenue, Lincolnville, Maine..

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George P. Sewall, assessor of internal revenue, Oldtown, Maine..

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S. H. Devereux, collector of internal revenue, Castine, Maine..

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E. S. J. Nealley, collector of customs, Bath, Maine...

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Isaac W. Smith, assessor of internal revenue, Manchester, New Hampshire...

W. C. Kittredge, assessor of internal revenue, Fairhaven, Vermont..

W. L. Burt, Postmaster, Boston, Mass..

A. B. Underwood, surveyor, Boston, Mass.

Amasa Norcross, assessor of internal revenue, Fitchburg, Mass..

Charles G. Davis, assessor of internal Revenue, Plymouth, Mass

John Nesmith, collector of internal revenue, Lowell, Mass

W. H. McCartney, collector of internal revenue, Boston, Mass.

Thomas Russell, collector of customs, Boston, Mass

E. R. Tinker, collector of internal revenue, North Adam, Mass.

Francis Osborn, naval officer, Boston...

John Sargent, collector of internal revenue, Boston, Mass..

Alphonse C. Crosby, assessor of internal revenue, Rockville, Conn

David F. Hollister, collector of internal revenue, Bridgeport, Conn.

John B. Wright, assessor of internal revenue, Clinton, Conn..

Henry A. Grant, collector of internal revenue, Hartford, Conn

R. H. Avery, collector of internal revenue, Canastota, New York..

M. B. Field, collector of internal revenue, New York, N. Y.

C. S. Franklin, acting naval officer, New York

John S. Walton, United States treasurer, New York..

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