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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
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jected was: survivors, 3,93; widows, 2,082; total, 6,015. Total disposals: survivors, 7,119; widows, 4,324; aggregate, 11,443; leaving the following number of claims pending at the close of the year, viz: survivors, 1,487; widows, 1,523; total, 3,004. The following table shows the entire receipts of claims, and the disposal thereof, under the act in question, since its passage for a period up to October 1,1873:

Total recipts Survivors 29, 510
Widows 10,471
39, 981
Total admissions Survivors 21,108
Widows 5,630
26,738
Total rejections Survivors 7,048
Widows 3,448
10,496
Total disposals Survivors 28,156
Widows 9,078
37,234
Claims pending Survivors 1,354
Widows 1,393
2,747

Statement allowing oause for rejection of claims filed under act of February 14 1871, for the fiscal your ending June 30, 1873

Cause Surviv'rs Widows. Total.
Insufficient service 2,834 844 3,678
Marriage subsequent to treaty of peace 410 410
Remarriage after death of soldier 28 28
Consilidation and transfer 59 15 74
Miscellaneous 1,040 785 1,825
3,933 2,082 6,015

As foreshadowed in my last report, the work of this division has been substantially brought to a close; nearly the whole of the large force that has heretofore been engaged thereon having either been dropped or assigned to other duties.

The claims yet pending are principally those not proven, and which for various reasons are incapable of being satisfactorily sustained by evidence.

New claims are being received at the average rate of 120 per month, and, as will be observed in the foregoing tabular statement, the total of claims received (40,041) is but ninety-two less than the number of persons estimated by this office as probably entitled at the date of the passage of the original act, viz, 40,133.

BOUNTY-LAND.

The whole number of bounty-land warrants issued during the year ending June 30, 1873, was 340, representing 52,160 acres, as follows:

Act of February 11 1847-1 warrant, 80 acres 80 acres.
Act of September 2§, 1850-1 warrant, 160 acres 160 acres.
Act of March 3, 1855-301 warrants, 160 acres 48, 160 acres.
Act of Merch 3, 1855-21 warrants, 120 acres 2, 520 acres.
Act of March 3, 1855-15 warrants, 80 acres 1,200 acres.
Act of March 3, 1855-1 warrant, 80 acres 40 acres.