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On the recordJanuary 31, 1865
He wished the reunion of all the States perfected and so effected as to remove all causes of disturbance in the future;
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Feb 5, 1865

Now, in order to determine all controversies in respect thereto and to avoid any delay in filling up the armies, it is ordered that the Attorney-General, Brigadier-General Richard Delafield, and Colonel C. W. Foster be, and they are hereby, constituted a board to examine into the proper quotas and credits of the respective States and districts under the call of December 19, 1864

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Feb 5, 1865

The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done after the 15th of this month.

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Jan 4, 1865

The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bill for this purpose.

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Feb 7, 1865

These three thousand five hundred and two thousand five hundred make precisely six thousand, which the supposed case requires from the two States, and it is just equal for Vermont to furnish one thousand more now than New Hampshire.

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