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The amount of one-half of the same accounts, which has not been paid to the companies, but withheld under provision of section 2 of the act approved March 3, 1873, whereby the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to withhold all payments, &amp;c, and also under a stipulation entered into as regards the Union Pacific Railroad Company, whereby the judgment against the United States in case No. 571, October term, 1875, of the Supreme Court, was not to be collected until after final judgment in the suit to recover sums claimed to be due to the United States as the five per cent. of net earnings, and which has been applied by the government to the payment of their indebtedness and covered into the Treasury for that purpose, is as follows, viz:

In addition to this sum, the amount of transportation-accounts rendered by the companies for services performed, and which remained unpaid October 31, 1877, for lack of proper appropriations or for reason that they were in process of settlement, is quite large, and, from the best information to be obtained, is as follows, viz:

Total amount paid and to be paid as one-half of transportation-accounts to October 31, 1877, is, on above basis, $7,703,697.34.

The indebtedness of the companies to the government to October 31, 1877, is as follows, viz: