law of July 2, 1862, they will not be allowed to discharge any official functions until the disability has been removed by the Congress of the United States, or unless the oath of office required by the ninth section of the above cited law shall have previously been dispensed with by law, or unless the said ninth section shall have become inoperative by the fact that the people of the State have been declared by law to be entitled to representation in the Congress of the United States. LETTER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, COMMUNICATING, In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 27th of January last, information in relation to sales of captured and abandoned cotton. MAY 18, 1868.-Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 11, 1868. SIR: In accordance with the resolution adopted in the Senate on the 17th of January last, requiring certain information in relation to sales of captured and abandoned cotton, I have the honor to transmit herewith three tabular statements, marked respectively A, B, and C, which, it is believed, furnish all the information desired by the resolution concerning the sales of such property and the disposition of the proceeds thereof. Statement A relates to the operations of Simeon Draper, late United States cotton agent at New York; statement B, to those of William P. Mellen, late supervising special agent at Cincinnati; and statement C, to sales of cotton made by all other agents of the department. According to the understanding in the department of the meaning of the final clause and inquiry of the resolution, it is supposed that Senate Executive Document No. 22, 40th Congress, 2d session, hereto annexed and marked D, supplies the information desired. There is also annexed an additional statement marked E, which, although not called for by the resolution, I have deemed it advisable to transmit as an amended statement of the entire receipts and disbursements on account of captured and abandoned property, compiled from fuller and more accurate reports and other papers received by the department since the transmission of the statement of the Commissioner of Customs of November 16, 1866, to be found on page 12 of Executive Document No. 97, 39th Congress, 2d session. With great respect, your obedient servant, The PRESIDENT of the United States Senate H. McCULLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury. A.-Statement of sales of captured and abandoned cotton, by Simeon Draper, United States cotton agent at New York. and other ex- Net proceeds of sale. Temporary disposition of proceeds. When covered into the treasury. B.-Statement of sales of captured and abandoned cotton, by William P. Mellen, supervising special agent of the Treasury Department at Cincinnati, Ohio, and St. Louis, Mo.; disposition of proceeds, &c. (Not including cotton the proceeds of which were of the Secretaries of the Treasury.) [All temporary deposits were made on the days of sale.] released to claimants by direction 5 .do. 1, 196 16 58 93 84 24 10.38 1,042 61 1, 656 78 44.32 5.37 518 76 262 09 32 53 2,919 72 359 65 6 .do.. 859 54 8 do.. 1,770 72 15.19 39 55 98 33 12 18 128 25 15.81 1,519 22 1,587 11 23, 828 44 28,080 61 370 92 Deposited with U. S. depositary, Cincinnati. 423 32 398 97 49 58 1,506 39 232 52 479 92 59 23 5, 354 94 30 29 92 74 11 46 933 47 37 81 92 48 11 48 762-27 722 59 89 17 3.80 21.69 546 73 7,699 13 Deposited with U. S. ass't treasurer, St. Louis. 3:22 06 77 ..do.. 18,049 14 4,487 76 549 10 1,285 60 158 45 11,568 23 10, 452 72 Temporary disposition of proceeds. |