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War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D.C. January 19. 1874 Major A.P. Howe, 4th artillery, Disbursing officer, donisville, Sir. Major: I have the honor to enclose herewith an account Current exhibiting a correct statement of your account with the Elnited States, and to request that you will sign and return the same to this office in substitution for that (herewith acturned) forwarded with your letter of the 14th inst, which though purporting to be arrech, is in slight degree inaccurate. This inaccuracy is the result of having taken into account in certain cases the fractional parts of a cent, a anatter that has been the result of recent correspondence with the view to the correction of the errors comprises in your accounts. Following is a statement of the cases involved in the existing discrepancies, with instructions as to the action to be had by you in each case in order to effect a recomalement.

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