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priation bill provided for the following expenditures: For ordnance service, $2,500,000; pay of the army, $18,660,189; transportation of troops, etc, $7,404,075; subsistence of prisoners of war $200,000; bounty of $50 to soldiers $3,000,000; medical and hospital supplies $400,000; deficit in postoffice department $800,000; deficit in quartermaster s department $39,000,000; interest on the public debt $2,500,000; subsistence of the army $6,571,672.91. The total appropriation was $85,000,000. Having been in laborious session during two months of great excitement Congress adjourned October 13, 1862.
