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Excerpt from Soldiers' Adjusted Compensation, Vol. 3: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate
The forces on the other side amounted to something above men, so that would leave a residue in the United States of practically men. If all the men who were on the other side were found to have served 300 days, and were paid at the rate of a day, as contemplated by the proposed bill, it makes an average of $375 for each man who served. Multiplying that by the outside estimate of men, would involve an expenditure of $7 That would take care of the men who comprised the forces overseas, and would leave not over men on this side, who, according to the terms of the proposed legislation would be paid at the rate of $1 a day, or $300. Three hundred dollars multiplied by men would make a total of and the and the would aggregate if the cash features of this bill are put into effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
