NOTES TO EXHIBIT CC, ON PAGES 26 AND 27. This table is only an approximate exhibit of the bankrupt business for the year, owing partly to failures of clerks, marshals, registers, and assignees to make report, but chiefly to the incompleteness of reports from assignees. In a large number of instances assignees have made no reports at all, while in many others they seem not to have understood the requirements of the law, and have submitted reports that are either unintelligible or very defective. For these reasons the columns devoted to "Fees" and to "Assets," "Liabilities," Receipts," "Disbursements," and "Dividends," in cases dis posed of, are very far, it is manifest, from being a full and correct exhibit. The apparently large number of "Reports of assignees as compared with the showing in the columns of "Assets," "Liabilities," "Receipts," "Disbursements," and "Dividends," is accounted for by the fact that, while some of the clerks have reported the numbers of only annual reports received by them from assignees, others have included all annual, monthly, and special reports, without designating the respective numbers of each. This results, in some instances, in presenting a large aggregate of as signees' reports, when, in fact, the clerks had received but few annual reports; the only class which the law contemplates shall be included in the clerks' reports to this Department. The exhibit in the column of "Dividends," in "Cases disposed of," is also incomplete and inaccu rate, because many of the clerks, instead of reporting the amounts of the dividends, as required by the law, have reported merely the per cent. Under the head of "Marshals' fees" are shown only their fees, charges, emoluments, &c., exclusive of actual disbursements. EXHIBIT E.-Statement showing the number of assistants to the United States attorneys, their employment, and compensation. EXHIBIT E.-Statement showing the number of assistants to the United States attorneys, &c.-Continued. Special assistant, whisky cases, also cotton cases.. Charles G. B. Drummond. Special assistant, cases against Generals Sheridan, Emory, $2,000 per annum... Special assistant, to collect old judgments standing in Not exceeding 15 per cent. on the gross .do Special assistant, United States against Jordan Marsh et al. $750 on account do. ..do. $2,500 per annum Special assistant, prosecutor of J. C. Terry and Charles C. Undetermined Special assistant, collection of old judgments.. 20 per cent. of all col lected. Remarks. Services dispensed with July 28, |