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At the request of Quartermaster-General Meigs, the Paymaster-General has stopped the pay of nearly one hundred officers of the Quartermaster's Department until they shall have rendered to the Quartermaster-General the returns and accounts required of them by the law and regulations of the Department.
The commerce of the world is estimated to require three million six hundred thousand able-bodied men to be constantly traversing the ocean, of whom seven thousand five hun