Date.

B.-Statement of cotton received and disposed of from May, 1863, to May, 1864.

Disposed of.

Cotton shipped to Boston:

Per steamship United States.

1863. May 18 June 1

Per steamship McClellan

May 21

..do...

.do.

..do.

....do

.do

Total..

1864.

To Captain Mahler, sold at auction, to be by him ac-
counted for:

April 30 By Montgomery & Bros..

.do.

Total.....

To Captain M. M. Hawes, sold at auction, to be by
him accounted for:

Bales.

522

650

200

1,372

300

530

480

1,310

347

338

243

155

116

8

1,207

11
16

27

Parts of
bales.

C.-Statement showing the quantity of cotton sold by Col. S. B. Holabird, the amount received therefor, and the amount refunded for illegal sales, accounted for in his money

Mar. -
To Mrs. M. R. Belvins, for 89 bales cotton seized..
June. To B. F. Flanders, Treasury agent, for 11 bales

July
July

seized for Lieutenant La Crosse..

To E. H. Martindale, for 6 bales seized.

To Dennis Sullivan, for 9 bales seized.

H. Ex. 235-35

50,000 00

50,000 00

50,000 00

18,582 40

SIR: In your statement of the amount of cotton passing through your command while at New Orleans, you state a balance of $834,529.34, but you do not state to what officer of the Treasury you turned over said amount or the manner of its adjustment.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Col. S. B. HOLABIRD,

M. C. MEIGS, Quartermaster-General, Brevet Major-General.

Late Chief Quartermaster, Department of the Gulf,
Now in Washington, D. C.

WASHINGTON, D. C., September 26, 1866. GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of September 22, 1866, calling attention to the omission to state in my report upon the cotton that passed through the command to which I belonged, "to what officers of the Treasury I transferred the $834,529.34, balance of its proceeds." This amount was used in the Quartermaster's Department as if belonging to the regular funds of that appropriation, as shown by the vouchers rendered with my accounts in that department, having been directed thus to use and report it by the major-general commanding the Department of the Gulf.

With great respect, your obedient servant,

Maj. Gen. M. C. MEIGS,

Quartermaster-General.

S. B. HOLABIRD,

Brevet Colonel, A. Q. M.

same.

OFFICE OF ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER,
New Orleans, La., June 18, 1863.

SIR: I have the honor to inclose to you bill of lading and invoices for 530 bales of cotton and samples. Please send me, at your earliest convenience, receipts for the And I have to request that the same be sold at auction, and the net proceeds be deposited in the United States subtreasury at New York to the credit of Col. S. B. Holabird, chief quartermaster, Department of the Gulf.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

JACOB MAHLER,
Captain and A. Q. M. for Col. S. B. Holabird,
Chief Quartermaster, Department of the Gulf.

Maj. STEWART Van Vliet,
Quartermaster, U. S. A., New York.

Report of General S. Van Vliet, Quartermaster, U. S. A. (From House Ex. Doc. No. 97 Thirty-ninth Congress, second session, pages 24 and 25.)

QUARTERMASTER's Office,
New York, October 11, 1866.

GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit herewith a condensed statement of all the cotton received by me during the war, and the disposition made of it.

I had no cotton in my hands at the close of the war.

I beg, while on this subject, to call attention to the large amount of money due our department for the transportation of cotton, and which should have been paid from the proceeds of 300 cotton. I frequently called Mr. Barney's attention to it, but could never bring, 300 bajettlement.