[A.] STATEMENT showing the differences between the claims of Benjamin and the allowances of the Committee on

Singerly, printer for the Convention, in his first account, (May 15, 1873,) Accounts and Expenditures of the Convention.

1,717 71

130 10

627 00

604 20

60 42

2,250 00

22 50

200 00

1,689 25

572 00

551 20

55 12

200 00

1,654 70

5, 254 Copies.

57 Forms.

2, 862, 860 Ems, minion, at sixty cents per 1,000 ems.... 216, 832 Ems, minion, at sixty cents per 1,000 ems..

1,254 Tokens, at fifty cents per token.........

Folding at twenty cents per 100 sheeets....

Dry pressing, at two cents per 100 sheets...... 4,500 Copies, binding, at fifty cents per volume............

450 Copies, marbling, (no extra lettering,) at five cts.
per volume.....

Indexing Vol. 1, price fixed by committee on print-
ing and binding..

572 00

551 20

55 12

724 84
242 00

233 20

23 321

[This delay in waiting for proof, so far as made
known to your committee, was not by authority
of the Convention, or any of its committees, and
was in direct contravention of the positive reso-
Jution of the Convention, that its Debates should
be furnished the day after their delivery.]

[There was nothing before the committee to show
that these forms were cancelled for the fault, or
by the order, of any other person than the prin-
ter himself.]

[This is an expense for which the Convention can-
not be justly held responsible; and can only be
regarded as a matter of private arrangement
and agreement between the printer and such
delegates as he may have accommodated by this
extra care.]