Little Rock, April fifth, l833-2tf

Treasury Department,
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 N the late conf1agration of the Treasury

 B building, nearly all the correspondence of the Secretary of the Treasury, from the 1 establishment ofthe Departmentto to the 31st March, 1883, was destroyed, including, as well the original letters and communlca- tions addressed to the Secretary of the l Treasury, as the records of the letters and communications written by him. With a view to repair the loss, as far as 1t may be practicable, all officers of the United States, are requested to cause copies to be prepared, and authenticated by them, of any letters (excepting those hereinafteral- 1 lude to1 which they may at any time have written to, or received from, the Secretary of the Treasury and allthose who may have been ii oiiea, and other individuals throughout the United States, and else where, are invited to do the same. That this correspondence may be arranged into appropriate books, it is requested that 1t be copied on folio fools cap paper, with a sufficient margin on all sides to admit of bindiDg--no more than one letter to be contained on leaf It is also requested, that the copies be written in plain dis tinct or expressing hand. Where the ori- ginal can be spared, 1t would be preferred. The reasonable expense incurred in. copy ing the papers now requested, not exceed ing the rate often cents for every hundred words, will be defrayed by the Depart ment.

 The correspondence which has been saved, and of which, therefore, no copies are desired, are the records of the letters written by the Secretary of the Treasury to Presidents and Cashiers of banks, from the lst October, 1919, to the 20th Februa- ", 1885, all the correspondence relating to the Revolutionary claims of Virginia officers to half pay, under the act of 9th July, 1882; and to applications for the benefits of the acts of the 2d March, 1881, and 14th July, 1892, for the relief of cer- tain insolvent debtors ofthe United States. Copies of some circular letters and in- structions, written by the Secretary, have also been preserved; and it is requested that before 2 copy be made ofany circular letter or instruction, written by the Secre- taiy of the Treasury, the date and object of the circular be first stated to the De- partment, and its wishes on the subject as- certained. LOUIS McLANE,

 Secretary of the Treasury.

 June l, 1888. 13-l3w