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Hazard versus Thomas C. Durant legal draft report, Providence, R.I., September, 1880
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should be allowed to him. But to this claim (with the exception of the $13000, - July 15 - 1868 lumber for shanties &c) I cannot agree - The first two items, the $49176.86 and $74542.49, are plainly the same amounts allowed in the adjustment account of the Railway Bureau, as having been actually expended upon the Rail Road work - the former for money expended by the Rail-Road Company, - and which Cisco's treasurer's receipt annexed to Mr Durants testimony shows was repaid to that Company by the "Contractors"; and the latter as for work done or assumed "by assignees of contract," that is as Mr. Durant says (x237) "the assignees under the $1600000 subscription"; - and I think the other evidence confirms that these amounts had been actually expended; and from the evidence they must have been expended by Mr. Durant either from his own moneys or from the moneys received by him upon the $1600000. subscription; and if from either they are properly allowed to him here as I charge him with the
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should be allowed to him. But to this claim (with the exception of the $13000, - July 15 - 1868 lumber for shanties &c) I cannot agree - The first two items, the $49176.86 and $74542.49, are plainly the same amounts allowed in the adjustment account of the Railway Bureau, as having been actually expended upon the Rail Road work - the former for money expended by the Rail-Road Company, - and which Cisco's treasurer's receipt annexed to Mr Durants testimony shows was repaid to that Company by the "Contractors"; and the latter as for work done or assumed "by assignees of contract," that is as Mr. Durant says (x237) "the assignees under the $1600000 subscription"; - and I think the other evidence confirms that these amounts had been actually expended; and from the evidence they must have been expended by Mr. Durant either from his own moneys or from the moneys received by him upon the $1600000. subscription; and if from either they are properly allowed to him here as I charge him with the
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