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Charles H. Ballard correspondence, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 1872-1874
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had been -- that no payment to the amount of a single dollar had ever been made by or through this office -- with the possible exception of some small sums for transportation of [some?] of it here, (+ that in only two or three instances) on account of any Locomotive or cars of any description, saving of [some?] such expenditures as may have been made to keep them in running order. The point was made against me that I had made affidavits to 2 or more annual Reports to the State, in which there was given the "amount expended for" Locomotives + other items of rolling Stocks - the answer I made was that
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had been -- that no payment to the amount of a single dollar had ever been made by or through this office -- with the possible exception of some small sums for transportation of [some?] of it here, (+ that in only two or three instances) on account of any Locomotive or cars of any description, saving of [some?] such expenditures as may have been made to keep them in running order. The point was made against me that I had made affidavits to 2 or more annual Reports to the State, in which there was given the "amount expended for" Locomotives + other items of rolling Stocks - the answer I made was that
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