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9th.—That the outlay of money from their regular pay incurred on reaching their State, over and above the amount allowed them by the Government as traveling expenses, In consequence of their election to be mustered out and paid hi Utah, was caused by an improper inducement held out to them.
10th.—That, in consequence of the non-compliance with General Pope's order of September 1st, on the part of those whose duty it was to have carried it into effect, the men intended to have been discharged under it were placed hi a section of the country, at the time of their discharge, so distant from their own State, and so far removed from the common avenues of transportation, and in which the expenses of travel are so enormously exorbitant, that many of them will never raise money sufficient to enable them to reach their homes.
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