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MESSAGK OF THE TRESIDENT. 
 
 • Richmond, Va, May 18, 1864. 
 
 To the Senate and House of Representatives : 
 
 I herewith transmit for your consideration a communication from 
 the Attorney General, submitting estimates of additional appropria- 
 tions required for the support of the Gorernment. 
 
 JEFFERSON DAVIS. 
 
 COMMUNICATION FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL. 
 
 C. S. A., Department of Justice, ) 
 Richmond, Fa., May 17, 1864. 5 
 
 To the President : 
 
 Sir : I have the honor to transmit the enclosed report of the Super- 
 intendent of Public Printing, containing additional estimates for the 
 expenditures of that bureau. 
 
 GEO. DAVIS, 
 
 Attorney General, 
 
C. S. A., Department of Justice, j 
 
 Brirenu of Public Printing., \ 
 
 Richmond, Va., May 12, 1864. ) 
 
 Hon. George Davis, 
 
 Attorney General : 
 
 Sir : In my estsmatcs of the 20th of April lasf I overlooked the fact 
 that at the last session of Congress a resolution was passed authorizing 
 the Joint Committee on Public Printing to make a tariff of prices for 
 •work done by the Publ?fc Printer ; and, also, the passage of a law for 
 the publication of four thousand copies of a digest of tht5 laws of 
 the provisional and permanent Government. The joint committee 
 increased the prices to be paid the Public Printer from seventy cents 
 per thousand ems to two dollars and fifty cents, and for press work, 
 from seventy cents to three dollars per token. 
 
 To meet this increase in prices, I submit the following additional 
 estimates for this bureau from the 30th of June to the 31st of Decem- 
 ber ensuing : 
 
 For printing, ruling, and binding for both Houses of Congress, 
 including the printing of the laws in the authorized form, and 
 the journals, thirty thousand dollars, $30,000 
 
 For printing and the digest of the laws, ten thousand dol- 
 lars, 10,000 
 For the purcase of paper for the digest of the laws, twenty 
 
 thousand dollars, 20,000 
 
 I have the honor, sir, to be, 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 GEO. E. W. NELSON, 
 Superintendent of Public Printing. 
 
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